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Hi all, I was just wondering if anybody on here bought a ticket to the advertised event in London called bass day? it was supposed to be on the 1st June. I’ve had an email saying it was being postponed till next year and offering to roll the ticket over till next year or ask for a refund. I’ve asked for a refund but haven’t heard anything back after sending three emails. if anybody has any experience with this please let me know

where on the neck isthe buzz coming from?

If only there were some kind of age verification system in place... The whole problem with the Internet, is you cannot identify the person you are communicating with. Even the banks who have tons of fraud prevention measures in place, cannot be 100% sure.

I quite enjoyed that, had no idea he was a guitar collector mind, amazing 😳 I liked the way he tries to improve his collection by swapping out guitars with dings and dents for a similar model that's in better condition. Safe to say he's not a fan of the relic look then 😆

I'll not get a chance to listen to it until later, but is it more "Looking through Robert Smith's eyes..." or "She's got Robert Smith's eyes"? 😄

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Well they are precision polished, which perhaps suggests that the standard strings aren't precision polished, merely polished imprecisely

This is what it boils down to. If you like the sound of 15s (and don't mind carrying them), the technical arguments are irrelevant, even if they are true. If you are happy with the sound you make, you will be more relaxed and confident and play better.

I've got a lot of time for this guy, even if he has a sign in his workshop which says "I DON'T BUILD BASS GUITARS"

How much better can they be than the tried & tested likes of La Bella etc? Are the silks made from unicorn manes?

Really enjoyed listening to those. Both tracks sound great. 😎

Pure nickel, I would say.

Yep - On PJ Basses, I've always raised the J pickup to be a little closer to the strings than the P pickup for this very reason.

Whole set still cheaper than a single decent DB string But, yeh, they seem really expensive by the standards of electric bass strings, at least with DB strings there really - or usually is - is a noticeable difference in quality and tone as you go up through the price bands, I wonder if the same's true here?

Wow.. thank you!

P pickups generally have more wounds on the coils, increasing DC resistance, which increases output, the two halves are also connected din series, which again, among other things, increases the output. The J pickups only got on coil, and usually with fewer wounds on the coil than your typical P pickup. Finally the strings vibrate more nearer the neck, and less towards the bridge, which effects the strength of the "input" signal to the pickups. The signal the J pickup picks up is simply weaker to begin with than the signal the P pickup picks up. Other than that it is possible that the P pickups got stronger magnets installed, increasing the strength of the magnetic field, which again increases output. It's pretty common by the way that the P in a P/J Bass is louder than the J pickup. But they can be balanced, if one uses a weaker P pickup and a stronger J pickup. Often though in a P/J you just use the J pickup for adding extra upper range flavor to the P pickup, and usually won't solo the J pickup.

Well produced, beautifully played, and arranged. You can get so much from it, but it's not a great song IMO.