Beedster

Easier than violin is not a fair reference really

Short scale FL is significantly harder to play in tune, and I would not defret, especially the maple board, but buy a new neck In case it doesn’t work out.

How many have you bought Andy

I've seen equally rubbish crap from cultures more consistent with our own. In fact, some of the perpetrators even have their own signature instruments and amplification......

This is one of those threads that will come back to haunt people

Nice tutorial. I really liked the fact that he emphasised using the ears to compress a track, and doing so against the mix in its entirety

Yep, I assumed Barefaced had forgotten to install the driver when I first lifted it, much like when my Super Twin arrived I assumed they'd sent me an empty box. The weight of these cabs is ludicrous! Silly thing is I'm still using an SVT-II, so despite using Barefaced, my whole rig still weighs around the same as a Brontosaurus

I did try a few posts above mate

Apparently not

Yes, very good, but I didn't know that at the time, and going on price assumed them to be not very good. In the context of this thread, I was simply saying "Don't assume the PUPs are not good just because they're not what you expected"

I tend to struggle with the word 'trajectory', scuppered my career in ballistics.

100%, you'll probably spend a while finding and installing the 'original' PUP only to find you preferred the imposter. I bought a bass with a dirt cheap (to my mind) pair of PUPs a couple of years back, I looked at them in disgust, played the bass for a while, was impressed, but wondered just how much better it would sound with some Nordstrands. Two days later, courtesy of Bass Direct, a pair of Nordstrands were in the bass and, f**k me sideways if I didn't prefer the cheapies (Toneriders by the way). So I thought I'd check, reinstalled the Toneriders and yes, for that bass, with those strings, the lovely vintage feel of the Toneriders knocked the socks off their 400% more expensive Scandinavian counterparts, which came across as a little sterile by comparison. Assumption, as they say, is the mother of all pink torpedo-ups

He had it going on, it's easy top praise the Jacos and Stanleys, but Sir Horace's style of tight, precise and 100% necessary bass playing is the bed rock of good live music

For songs with stinky poo loads of repetitive 8ves I alternate in no particular order. Works for me Root Index - 8ve Middle Root Thumb - 8ve Index Root Thumb - 8ve Middle Root Index - 8ve Ring Root Thumb - 8ve Ring

I think we need a thread intermission

If we're going down the B-52s route we're going to be here a while

Legally, if he was not prosecuted, Billy is correct, 'we' didn't, 'they' did?

But whilst we're on science, I doubt Thomas Dolby was ever actually blinded by it, in part because a concept cannot materially affect the function of a sense organ, but also when I met him two years after that song charted it was pretty clear that his vision was fine

You need to read my thesis to realise that it probably would

45 seconds with my 6-year old daughter and her yellow tambourine will suffice

You cannot therefore question it, it is true by definition. Please go to the 'Factually Correct Lyrics' thread.

Not in 1968 it wasn't

Bono, you can't live with me, you can't live without me, and yet you're still alive?

You are actually factually incorrect Skank. Vending machine plum merchandising was a short-lived initiative by the BPGA (British Plum Growers Association, who for legal reasons must not be confused with the Plum Growers Association of Britain), who in 1979, and demonstrating a complete failure to understand the then emergent research into the neuroscience of addiction combined with extraordinarily flawed logic - specifically if addictions to chocolate and nicotine are both widely recognised, and if both are widely sold in vending machines at transport hubs, then the mechanisms of addiction was the location of the machine itself - sought to get the entire nation addicted to plums. Even if the idea itself was daft, any chances of success were of course completely washed away by the great plum crop failure of Spring 1980

The ******** in Canterbury certainly has a smell, my amp picked it up last time we played there, could smell the pub for about a week afterwards