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I was going to put Fender pure nickels on my 424, but from having them on my P briefly I learnt they're definitely not for me. So, out of curiosity, I've bought a set of Roto Bass I'll try once the GHS Boomers need changing. Youtube doesn't have much in the way of Roto Bass demos so I'm not too sure what I'm expecting. Either adding a little more bite to the P pickup, or thickening up the PJ sound would be a result. But tbh, I am expecting to want to go back to the GHSs afterwards.

A bloke on TB mentioned that restricting himself solely to 3TSB had proved a useful tactic over the years

So the variations in how individual seats vote is just the 14 million tory voters moving house a lot?

If there was a stark binary division between tory voters / the rest of the population, wouldn't the results at elections be a bit more stable?

I was quite dismayed when I discovered I needed a random youtube recommendation to tell me this about the opening I had known since I was a kid

I'm pretty certain that the single coil pickup is even closer to the bridge than on a 70s Jazz – I always presumed that it's there to add a little or a lot to the sound? I do like Ivan's reviews, but I think demoing the bridge solo was a waste of time, it just sounds like a riled bee. I would love to have heard him doing neck ¾ + bridge ¼, or neck full + bridge ½. I'm curious to know how much bridge you can add before the cancellation (or whatever the right term is) starts eating into the core of the tone. PS please do keep us updated with how you find those EXL170s as time goes on. On my TRBX I found them desperately unequal to the task of giving the bass some depth of character. Not a problem they'll be facing on your SB! PPS as soon as I posted that I went to listen to this demo When the caption says "Slap bridge" its actually both pickups – he turns up the second knob without turning down the first (as if he thinks he's turning a blend knob from one extreme to the other) At any rate, it sound great

^^^^ I rewrote this to twist it to my own experiences Funny how things go. I agree that AJFA goes on too long – to get round that, I usually decide to listen to one side or the other. But more usually I listen to Ride The Lightning. One quality of AJFA that I'm surprised doesn't get mentioned more often is just how heavy the influence of Brian May is. When I first got to know it, I already knew Queen II well, and was quite startled by some of the resemblances.

I've always had the mother of all soft spots for the GLC – like the Macc Ladds just cheerfully crude, not actively seeking out the people who would take offence given half a chance

Btw, how did you find the Pro Steels and their slightly looser feel? It's the one thing holding me from giving them a try.

With audible bass it sounds notionally more satisfying, but what is there in this long bleak album to make satisfaction seem relevant?

I think it sounds right. The album is a mausoleum, and it sounds like one. Lars deserves every name he gets called, but his artistic vision is genuine, and he got this right. Absolute masterpiece.

Standard Internet wisdom seems to be that Cliff Williams uses Chromes in the studio

I want what Finbarr Saunders' grave read: Not Sleeping, Just Dead

Is that the same .75" bridge spacing as on the CLF Research Series 750 L-2000?

Oh good, ridicule in exchange for a perfectly valid point about advertising and product placement 🙄

I sometimes wonder, given how many basses are shipped with EXL170s, exactly what price companies like Yamaha and G&L pay for them. It would make sense for Daddario not to bother making any profit on them: being fitted to all but the cheapest TRBX and BB models is more than just good advertising, as I'm sure lots of players will replace like with like as and when. At any rate, I'm sure the figure is very different from, say, the £25 gear4music are asking for them....

The USA ones definitely come strung with Daddario EXL170 and think that's true of the Tributes too though I can't remember where I read that. I had them on my first Yamaha. They age like one long slow turning of the tone knob you don't have

Just need some Rotosounds to complete the terror

This, that, the other, and that too

I think my mistake was that I hadn't appreciated this fact - I knew the nickel core would give a more mellow mids-warm tone, but I thought it still being a hexcore would have qualities I've liked in other roundwounds. I now have had my lesson, and know that they come specifically from the steel core. When I next change the strings on my BB, I will pop the 7150s on it briefly, as I'm curious to see how much they counter the scoop produced by having both pickups on at once. Do the 7150s sound particularly good on a Jazz?

I got someone on TB to take a tape measure into a shop selling these latest LB-100s and take a photo of the nut: definitely still still 1⅝", despite what the G&L website says 😄

I'm afraid I've some sad news about Brian Jones.....