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With a pick, the Vintage '62 pickup of the reissue seems slow to sound, dulls the crispness of the attack. The CS '57 on the postmodern seemed much better, as did the Aguilar on the Maruszczyk. For my taste, the fatness of the tone of Quarterpounder seems to come at the expense of clarity, doesn't seem to capture the resonance cleanly. The 1968 seemed perfect! (I was looking forward to seeing how much those thoughts changed when hearing them played unmuted fingerstyle, but the Steve Harris line was a bit too frenetic for that 😅 )

Not totally unrelated:

If bashers want HRB to be a bashee, locating them rather more north and east of Somerset would help attract his attention (The problem with that would be the risk of attracting my attention, too)

Knew I had seen it before https://www.talkbass.com/threads/g-l-custom-shop-pricing.1325846/page-3#post-25447654

I don't get non-euclidian geometry.

As a couple of things about Sunbeams make them Not My Kind Of Thing, so this was good to read

[...blah blah blah...] So now I'm feeling curious, and would like to hear who else has enjoyed Sunbeams, on which instruments, playing what style?

If that's been made for who I think it was made for, a guy on TB and bassesbyleo called bdgotoh, he's not short of opportunities for appreciating the L2k – huuuuge collection of G&Ls.

I thought the coming-sooner-or-later MFD Jazzes were to be newly-designed single-coil pickups, not just a pair of L-2000 humbuckers?

Since Reverb take a slice, The Bass Gallery prices on Reverb are all higher than on their own website

It wasn't considered OK in the 80s and 90s, its just that the ____s don't get a free pass to be ____s without consequences anymore. Poor ____s 😢

I dislike using a foreign word which is merely a corruption of a word from a third language, which is why I prefer to call a pick a plektron.

What is it about the Stingray that makes playing one as a leisure activity increasingly frustrating?

I keep meaning to play with a pick more, but it's easy to forget to do something that you find harder to do 😇

Maybe he's calculated that he's only got enough strength for rehearsals and performances, and that if he had done more preparation he would have given a worse overall performance, or simply not been able to complete the tour? Does becoming a feckless chancer sound in character for him? Seeing the boot being shoved into an old and unfirm man on the grounds of a couple of quotes is uncomfortable reading.

Enjoying seeing this combination 😊

I've just been reading up on Neodyminimyninium magnets, both in themselves and in relation to musical instruments. Some random facts 1. Thanks to their strength, you're unlikely to see them on guitars. Bass strings can take it. 2. An 18v preamp is pretty much essential to control things 3. The sound is naturally a little more scooped relative to Alnico ... so I guess on a Stingray, having a mids control is essential if you want a NeoD to be able to impersonate the old models? Speaking of EQs, I recall that the classic Stingray 2 band EQ has quite idiosyncratic ranges (in my hazy memory, the treble is from zero to lots-of-boost, while the bass goes from cut-it-a-bit to boost-it-a-lot ... have I got that much wrong?) Are the Treble and Bass controls on the Special more standard, simply offering plenty of both cut and boost?

At the time, the idea of it being a Seattle scene was strong, and they were a Seattle band (allowing for the fact that Vedder wasn't from there) Do I remember right that before the term grunge was popularised it was just as much referred to as Seattle Hardcore?

Someone needs to publish their Ten Lists You Need To Read Before You Die

Is dragging a conversation that one takes issue with from a quiet subforum to General Discussion going to be a big thing, too? Exciting times

At the time Trompe Le Monde seemed to take the slight disappointment of Bossanova and build on it. Reading all the praise here, I figure perhaps I should revisit it.

I look at that and daydream of stacking the volumes and turning the 2nd knob into a five way selector: P, P+inner, P+both, P+outer, humbucker alone .... from which we can conclude that I've spent too much time reading about EBMM selector switches this week

I was using Chromes, to make the wrong bass for me a bit more like the right bass. Simply getting the right bass sorted the problem better