Munurmunuh

Ah, I knew that well, too, back in the day 😒 Back to the thread's central question: Master Of Puppets is Gilbert & Sullivan carefully dressed up for insecure blowhards

Propaganda?

The line "there's such an urgency in everything I need from you" coming with the unprepared key change: this is artistry of the highest level

I wonder what you would make of La Bellas Low Tension Flats!

The tension figures for the 45-65-85-105 set are pretty frightening themselves, the 50-75-95-110 is beyond my comprehension. If your expectations have been set by 45-105 Rotos.... Heavier than the 45-105, LaBella do a 49-109, and then there's the "Original" 52-73-95-110, which I think I read are significantly stiffer as well as heavier. My fingers found a set of 45-60-80-105 Chromes quite enough of a challenge, and are wincing at the thought of any of these sets 😅

The Second Time

New Order did only one good song, which is one fewer than Kim Wilde

The 45-105 Roto 77s, lovely

I just put a fresh set of the 50-65-85-110 Pro Steels on my P, and thought not to cut up the outgoing set, since they're still a fair way from being dead, just thoroughly mellowed. Would you like them so you can see what you think of a 110 downtuned to D Standard?

Never understood this obsession with bumping old threads of mine just to disagree with them

Having just listening to this video... ....I now know that Big Splits would have been the pickups I felt my TRBX was in desperate need of. Ah well

Seeing one of these for sale with Bass Direct, I idly clicked on the demo video.... ....not really expecting to hear much I liked, as neither bass humbuckers, nor pickups in combination usually do much for me. But I really like the sound of these, nicely full and warm, well balanced for my taste. Fano call them Fanobird pickups. (I found an opinion somewhere that they aren't as bass-centric as Thunderbird pickups, does that sound right?) Demoing starts at 3'00", with both on full at first. I especially enjoyed the neck full / bridge half at 3'25". (The moment just before that, when he slowly turns down the bridge volume with the strings still ringing, and the scoop gets filled in.... lovely 😁 )

"She has sold more than 100 million records"

Personally I can't get enough of this groundbreaking trend of tired old men explaining what it is they don't like

Pink Floyd?

Best euphemism for having the painters in, ever 👌

Would the useful word here be "polarisation"? I found watching a demo of the Big Al a bit like watching one of the L-2000: almost uncountable options, and only actually interested in a couple of the sounds. I'm very impressed by / envious of people who have instruments as versatile as this and then enjoy the full breadth of that versatility.

Shaking my head at this argument. The one of you who is really wrong, either stop now, or take a photo of the whole bass, draw a vertical line across the strings, and calculate the proportions of the lengths either side of that point for each string. And then have a good think about making assertions about your assumptions.

Wonder if this will be the moment that David Ellefson finds he needs to join basschat?

For the unaware, the first 40 seconds of this

Anything but natural

Every time I hear the bridge pickup on the MC900, I'm like a rabbit stuck in headlights, what a noise.

Those 45-105 pure nickels will definitely feel firm enough at D standard ..... what you'll think of the sound of them on a Kiloton – and it's a combination my ears are failing to imagine – is another matter..... 😬 Perhaps an MFD humbucker in the Stingray spot is exactly what is needed to rouse them.... or perhaps I'll get a stern PM saying, "Did I ask to have the balls cut off my Kiloton? NO." 😅