Mykesbass

From the description it sounds as if you are not using your thumb to pluck the lower octave note. Is that correct? If so, how about trying that?

Looks great! Worth putting a specific help thread in repairs and technical - a lot the right people may miss this thread. Hope you get it sorted, Mike

[quote name='Cosmo Valdemar' timestamp='1448632187' post='2916999'] Perhaps we should all chip in a fiver and buy one? [/quote] WHAT!!! It costs THAT MUCH!!!

Got to love an artist who does stuff like this: [url="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-yL7VP4-kP4"]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-yL7VP4-kP4[/url]

[quote name='drTStingray' timestamp='1448582169' post='2916699'] I don't share the sentiment of looking down the nose at bargain basement entry level stuff and presuming it will be no good. [/quote] Some of the posts on here (mine included) are completely at odds with this statement, comparing Stagg to other budget brands who are making great instruments at a low price point (obviously not Ibanez though) Also, I have had plenty of first hand experience with Stagg product, the last being a great looking, but completely unplayable SG guitar that had an up bow in the neck and only a single action truss rod. I have realised however that I have mixed some ill advised metaphors, and wouldn't recommend using a polished turd as kindling

[quote name='Bilbo' timestamp='1448563061' post='2916523'] Try not to let it happen again. It will only end in tears. [/quote] And Then There Was One...

For something as niche as this shops do seem to have a better chance of getting a good price. I sold a high end Yamaha SG through Wunjo and then my brother sold a 1964 Epiphone Rivoli bass through them (before they had the bass shop) and both got good prices on commission deals. Got to be worth asking the Gallery or Bass Direct seeing as your based in London & Birmingham.

[quote name='chriswareham' timestamp='1448463254' post='2915635'] Pictures don't do it justice, [/quote] Having just seen the one Naetharu has posted you are right - the publicity shot has proved that you can actually polish a turd! I really struggle to comprehend, now that there are brands like Harley Benton, Revelation and SX all making great budget guitars and basses, how Stagg continue to create next week's kindling.

Love mine - 5 string, fretless P as seen in the avatar. Don't know what else to add to that, apart from I have no desire for another bass guitar (DB is a different story), and I'd never part with it

[quote name='Dad3353' timestamp='1448546939' post='2916333'] The original thinking behind the '3 votes' was, if I recall correctly, to have a wider distribution such that most entrants had at least some recognition of their toil, thus encouraging motivation to continue to contribute, although, as stated above, [/quote] And there's me thinking it was so that you and Bilbo had better chance of avoiding [i]nul points[/i] (p.s. I have voted for both of you in the past)!

[quote name='Dad3353' timestamp='1448496171' post='2915992'] Once again (at midnight, 25th...), the votes don't add up to a multiple of three..! Spooky..! [/quote] [quote name='Skol303' timestamp='1448496535' post='2915994'] Yup. Some people just don't oblige with the whole 'vote for three' thing. Not so much 'spooky' as simply indicative of humankind's perpetual failing to read the small print. We must keep calm and continue [/quote] [quote name='Dad3353' timestamp='1448522706' post='2916047'] I just find it curious (spooky, even..!) that there could be some folks unable to prefer [i]any [/i]of the remaining works, however bad they find them. [/quote] Afternoon all. As a regular voter (missed one month, but otherwise always contribute to the voting, and often the thread and soundcloud comments). Most months I usually have one outright winner and at least two others that I would be happy to vote for. This month there were only two tracks that I liked, and to do as Dad3353 suggests, and add a third vote for the remaining one I disliked least just wouldn't make sense to me at all. Sorry if I've messed up the maths, and I'm sure next month I'll be cursing the fact that I'm going to have to whittle my votes down! Keep up the great work, Mike

Can see some sense in that - if the original player was used to anchoring their thumb on say a Musicman pick-up then that could be the right place. Does look odd though!

Good to see that someone still makes really bad first instruments that today's generation can moan like mad about in 30 years time.

[quote name='TheGreek' timestamp='1448480779' post='2915826'] A load of autographs, including Jim Marshall (somewhere). [/quote] There used to be a joke about unsigned copies of Jim Marshall's book being worth more as they were so rare!! That guy was amazing at trade shows - would draw a bigger crowd than any of the musos.

Live Aid tickets and t-shirt, a couple of proper BPI Certified gold discs and BB King's autograph.

[quote name='RAY AGAINST THE MACHINE' timestamp='1448472934' post='2915743'] Cheers . I'm not one for jam nights . There's only so much blooze I can take mind you , if I play my records backwards I may get my car/ house / baby back . The dog might even recognise me [/quote] That's Country ya'll talkin' bout there! Seriously though, yes, you've had a torrid time of late so perhaps the change will do you good. Get over to the recording section - some great, very supportive folk over there - start a topic up with them for loads of great advice.

[quote name='barneyg42' timestamp='1448186151' post='2913455'] and two drummers??? WTF!! [/quote] Guess it depends on the drummers - currently loving the work of Tedeschi Trucks Band and the way the two drummers work so brilliantly together (and they'r not too loud)!

Alice Cooper at Guildfest - held back all the hits for the encore and didn't believe stage management when they said power would go off at curfew. Finished the main set just on curfew so had to come back out in the dark to take a rather sheepish bow

I had tickets to see Weather Report at Hammersmith (with Jaco) and forgot all about it until I found the ticket the next morning, oops!!

Can't find the thread, but pretty sure Baschatter 51m0n has written chapter and verse on compression. Check his profile [url="http://basschat.co.uk/user/1370-51m0n/"]http://basschat.co.uk/user/1370-51m0n/[/url] and you should be able to find it in his threads, if not, drop him a PM and he should be able to point you to the original link.

[quote name='cheddatom' timestamp='1448295558' post='2914223'] Mykesbass - "live recording" is something I do quite often, if requested. It's always preferable for me to go over the vocals separately so that there's no bleed at all from other instruments, but sometimes that's not what the customer wants. I do whatever it takes to get the best performance 'cos this is way more important than the sound of it IMO [/quote] Let me know when you open your south coast branch

Only thing that is wrong is the way these people manage to get their hands on the tickets in the first place. If it is a ticket the tout has bought of a punter who can no longer go then fine, but when tickets get hoovered up in seconds for a big show you have to wonder from where these guys are sourcing them.

OK, I'll stick my head above the parapet ready for a good pounding! For my band I'd love a studio that will do a live recording. What we have managed on just a tiny little Tascam in a rehearsal room is pretty close to what we need and would like but with just a little bit more control over the mixing, and, a decent vocal capture. Studios seem to want to offer an all or nothing approach - everyone isolated, overdubs etc, which we'd be hopeless at, and which needs hours of expensive mixing. I get the impression that some studios feel that that what we want is not possible. The sceptic in me thinks that this may be because my version won't be as profitable for them as their version