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Not sure what came over me but I contacted Ernie Ball for some pickup screws for my Stingray 4 I know, I know, I could've just checked on here etc but alas, I found myself at the checkout and I didn't like what I saw The huge cost is obviously the shipping - now I remember why I haven't bought anything from the US in a while

Yup, Fiebings Leather Dye. Black. Mask off your nut/binding, make sure the fingerboard is finish/varnish-free and clean (I'd already been using lemon oil, the board wasn't grimy). Oh, wear gloves. Apply the dye with a Q-Tip, and do smallish areas, let the dye set up for about 30 seconds and wipe off any excess. I was a little concerned about the inlay dots on the neck as it's almost impossible to go round them...i was easily able to clean off the dye on top of the dots with a Q-Tip dipped in some methylated spirit. Obviously I was concerned. Christ, it was a £4.5k bass. The results were very much what I wanted and there's been little dulling of the board since I did it. Good luck!

Aye... sorry, everyone. Being in an Eagles tribute band will do that to you. I need that bridge pickup for some of the tunes. That's a 2017 American Standard, and it's blummin' lovely! OK - that's four days of rehearsals over... I'm knackered, but so far, so good. It's a great batch of songs, but inevitably the trickiest tune of the lot has had a late-in-the-day key change. As a non-reader, it keeps things spicy. We're in to the Arena tomorrow night to check lines & monitors, and have a couple of run-throughs before a day of full production rehearsals on Saturday. There's 13 in the band: Drummer (founder member of Lindisfarne), Keys (Ex-Dire Straits, Bob Dylan, Eric Clapton), Keys / Violin / MD (Ex-Sting), Guitar #1 (Ex-Tygers of Pan Tang), Guitar #2 (Ex Arctic Monkeys / Last Shadow Puppets), 4x Brass (Including The 1975's sax player), 3x BVs (including the lady who sang 'I'll Do Anything for Love' with Meat Loaf) ...and little 'ol me. I'm on double-duty - I'm also responsible for the content on the video screens, which is nice as I get to make sure the visuals closely match the music. I'm looking forward to it all coming together. There was a segment about the show on the One Show on the BBC this evening if anyone's interested. Here's some more pics!

Mine is a constant noise but if i'm busy or thinking about things i never really notice it. Did notice it when i bought the Volvo car which was a lot more quiet than the Toyota 3L diesel pick up i had for 8 yrs. Something i did find when i'm in a quiet space even bed and i notice it is to put my little finger just in my ear to the point i can hear the change in noise. That distract my brain for a minute and when i remove the finger its as if the ringing type noise has gone. Can't imagine how bad you have it by the sounds of it. With regards riding bikes it was back in 80's and at high motorway speeds too. Not so much these days riding an old 2003 Harley but i put earplugs in if motorway driving but its ok local rides at less than 50mph. Probably gonna sell the bike this year as just not using it much these days. Dave

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My Revolta Duacato arrived today. Unfortunately I had practice tonight so I had very little time with it before I left. I was slightly worried ordering it as although it ticks every box for my needs, I'd never heard of Revolta and never seen or heard anything they've made. There's no reviews as this is the first batch of twelve made. Well the gamble paid off, I'm a fussy bugger but it is beautiful and flawless. Lovely woods, aged cream bound headstock, fretboard and f hole, double bound body with checker binding to the front, slim neck, lightweight, set up nicely, even arrived in tune from the U.S. It sounds great, although the volume control is a touch on the on/off side but that's not a big deal. I'll get some pictures up over the weekend. I'm one very happy bunny!

I always feel that Love Over Gold was never as popular but has always been a favourite of mine. I find the production on Brothers in Arms makes that seem their most dated of all their albums and rarely listen to it now.

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When I read a thread, the '"Go to first unread post" icon next to the subject line changes from being illuminated to being greyed out. So far, so good. The OP then bumps the thread with the bump button. The icon is now re-illuminated, but there is no new unread text, so if I click on the icon I get taken back to to the first post in the thread. This seems counter-intuitive to me. If the thread is just bumped but no new content is added, why is the icon re-illuminated?

Yea I think the 24/5 blocks is enough if there's more flexibility (like four basic delay blocks seems really unnecessary and restrictive, atleast give the option of swapping four for one other FX block) Personally I don't think the inbuilt interface is that big a deal although I assuming after the GX series it'll be updated. The tone studio software could do with some improvement thou. Tbh I don't even think a touch screen is necessarily if Bluetooth is included and the amp is decent. I think a NAM block is a no brainer, it would save having to add new amps or capturing process and give it best in class amp reproductions. I'd probably not complain if there was an option to purchase the plugout FX algorithms too just to get a dimension chorus effect for an extra £10 or even more for the new pitch shifter. If they managed to do some licensing deals with a handful of smaller boutique brands that would never be able to develop their own models of pedals to sell within the roland cloud it would epic. Having more accurate (to real world) controls for all amps and effects rather than, wider frequency range for the crossovers on the dividers. Having more control over the output settings either by having a large online library of amps that could be being played through or a sort of reverse capture/profiling process which takes snapshot of your amp/monitors and then applies it in a neutralising way to the output settings so as to get the most accurate reproduction of the units amp models.

This one is going with a mint green pickguard…

I CNC Slot make my own fretboards & builds, for this you'd be looking at cutting the slots to 0.7mm (so the width of the tangs as finding tangless fretwire is almost impossible) pre radius the fretwire cut to size and then slightly press the frets in with an arbour/fret press + CA/Super/epoxy glue to bond them down (because you wouldn't be able to tap the frets hoz to set the tangs), id set the cutting path for each fret line and cut them one at a time rather than as a single/full job, doing so would reduce any chance the the ordinal lines might be slightly off compared to the calibration of the current CNC vs the original cutting. Have a look at the side dot markers on this because on some fretless basses these can be positioned on the fretting line not in the centre of the fret, if that's the case you'd also need the side dots relocating

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I cannot be the only person who was wondering. https://jp.mercari.com/item/m49617180061?srsltid=AfmBOopwopOvwLm9ct3NXxD1-0kez0V9BMlyuIv7nFNnArr-3_c9rEAr

I've had a a Synq 1K0 stereo power amp to drive my bass rig for about 7 years and last year it packed up on a gig and fortunately my pre-amp was taking a feed to the desk so I was ok. I'm now. looking for a replacement of a similar power rating, not for volume but clean headroom to drive my main gigging cab a 4 ohm big twin II. https://synq-audio.com/digit-1k0 Extremely high power output: 2x 540Wrms @ 4ohms 2x 300Wrms @ 8ohms Output in bridge mode: 1x 1080Wrms @ 8ohms I'm looking for suggestions please must be 1U and preferably class D to fit in this rack. Thanks in advance Jazzyvee

Oh how I envy you Dave. Drives me mental. It's constant, even hear it will driving the old van. Never get a moments peace and it affects my sleep, neighbour upstairs must be pissed off if she can hear the white noise maker going all night. Hell I'm envious of the cause too. Riding bikes can be fun, was a moment's carelessness with a Hilti done me 🙁 Passed a young fella who was struggling, gave his gun a quick check, reload then a test shot. BAM. half the site took to their heels while the other half came running to see what had exploded 😳 Had to be a duff mix at the factory, data sheet says 137dB but it was louder than that. Powder didn't just drive the nail, it vaporised the cartridge.

Everybody's Trying To Be My Baby - Beatles

Yeah, probably do the same application with fretboard. Rosewood has a very open grain, and is a very porous wood, so I will be carefull...... any road up, can't go wrong with black,.... I have a few other dyes, I'll do samples, thanks Steve! your a Star.