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2 out of 3 ain’t bad, as someone, probably Shakespeare himself wrote

Harmonious Monk - that’s very good indeed

Will do, DS. Never heard of them.

I've just started using a five string also for church/gospel music. This last Sunday was the first time it really "clicked" for me, due to having a load of songs in the key of D. I found using the D, E, F# and G# on the fifth string worked really well. Also saving the low D for every now and again just introduced a lovely low end thunder. Although I had my Stingray 4 string on the stand just in case, it didn't get touched for the first time in many years... thus said I still can't slap cleanly on the five string due to the tighter string spacing.

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I quite like: 3 Leaf Audio You’re Doom, which was named for this: Fun: Doc Lloyd Photon Death Ray SS/BS Team Awesome Fuzz Machine JAM Harmonious Monk and Delay Llama Gojira Ants in my Eyes Johnson Accurate: Earthbound Audio Throat Locust Backburner Noise Big Booty Judy Damnation Audio Spite Box Crowther Prunes & Custard I also have a Hercule Poirot-themed OC-2 clone called the POIROC-2 and a Guptech A(((Ole))) pedal called the Ampig(((ole))) (after my wife’s cat Ampigalei).

Check out anything by Phronesis and Jasper Hoiby.

Indeed, big money for those seats.

New York City Serenade - Bruce Springsteen

I'd be more worried if they chop the player's left hand off. 😳

Walking Down Madison - Kirsty MacColl.

VAT is a sales tax and in Europe/UK it is around 20%. It is some while since I was last in the USA but then, individual states levied their own sales tax. Annoyingly, the tickets price was without tax so you got a shock at the checkout. The last time I visited Sales tax was around 5-7%. That would have either been Nevada or Louisiana. 20 years ago. Taxes are higher in the UK than then USA but we generally have better public services. In Scandinavia, where taxes are higher, they have even better public services. Sadly taxation does not subsidise amplifier repairs.

True, but it's a slippery slope. It's only a matter of time before somebody chops the first fret off.

Have any of you tried these strings? If so how can you describe them ? I presently use D'Addario XL170-5 which are OK but the B string maybe lacks a bit in clarity. I would like to get rid of fingering noise and maybe get a little smoother feel - maybe try flats. Then these pop up as pricewise in the middle between consumers rounds and the cheapest quality flats.

I once tried out a bass through a Crush 50, at any volume could only get overdriven tones whatever I did. Later, when I was older and wiser I discovered the 'blend' control effectively pans from a clean channel to a dirt channel. If it's been left dialled to the dirty side, you'll get exactly the symptoms you describe.

Manhattan Project - Rush

FTFY 😜

With Zarbo, Afro ska band: With Adhoc 4tet: contemporary jazz. Dead last july ..

The first photo my brother sent is possibly too disturbing... The second one shows he's already channeling Duck Dunn... He's insistent that if he'd chosen as bass for himself this would be it. Everyone is knocked out by the burgundy mist finish. But he still plays like a guitarist 😁 received_1864114047862136.mp4

OP hasn't been here for 9 years.

I plan to even though I have to be back for a gig that evening!

Well done Stew... that's three years in a row!

Paulownia.

A couple of comments that apply here… 1. much of the additional labor applies to correcting previous repair work, and removal of the PCB for the additional work (including cleaning residue and contamination, which is important to minimize leakage currents) 2. 20% of the total repair cost doesn’t go to the shop, it goes to the all government to pay for the costs of running the country, including social heath programs. The pre-VAT amount is similar to the cost of factory servicing.