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Wow, great read, learnt a few things tonight re my old bass, big thanks to all the previous posters and information! Here's some pics of my Encore E83 bought from Mr Music guitar shop in Glasgow very early 90s, (I know I bought it there as the strap still pristine, the bass never left my flat as I was a guitarist/programmer and not a bass player). Cannot be sure of the year, looks like an earlier one as the Encore logo is higher up on headstock above string trees, the string trees are chunkier and the headstock style is older version? Might have read some of this wrong. I had a Roland W-30 sampling workstation and a Yamaha MT-3X 4-track with 6 channel mixer and I used get the guys I was in a band with round to flat to record demos (guitar band stooges/bunnymen etc, our own stuff, we supported The Primitives early 90s for Scottish gig). Drummer lived 30miles away so I prgrammed all the drums on W-30/Cubase. Bass player lived in east-end and only turned up for practices/gigs so it was me and singer/guitarist who did most of demos. I used to prgram the bass using Cubase on Atari 1040ST triggering W-30 samples, sounded great most of time but.... I bought the Encore as some songs needed a real bass on them and slides (being a guitarist), and you cannot beat a driving bass line, right, think Lucretia My Refecltion heavy-duty. Took me hrs and usually aching bleeding fingers to get a good take... 😉 My own fault, got better at bass when kept it simple. It's all stock (even the strings are factory as I do not ever remember changing them when I found out how much a new set was back in day 😉 ), not really an issue if it's only ever picked up now again. Having said that I set it up last Christmas as I'd set up my other guitars over holidays and felt bad for leaving it out, truss rod is a pain as need to remove neck however it plays way better now than it ever did back in 90s 😉

I'm not sure about the UK but this phenomenon is known in NZ planning as 'reverse sensitivity' and is not generally recognised as a valid objection to nuisance.

Are you SURE they were ladies though...? We've been down that path already.

They've released a couple of limited edition American Standard/Professional PJ basses in recent years, including a "roasted blues" version which was kinda the inspiration for this bass, and then of course...

Excellent work, I'm looking forward to seeing how this turns out!

Btw, Audacity (free software) let you do a plenty of stuff to the song.. In the Effect drop down menu there is a section ,,EQ & Filters,, -> LOW or HIGH Pass filter. Can't remember which i used but happy with the result.. Can loop too. Audacity

For years, I coud sing, or I could play bass. I could do these things individually quite well, but putting them together was a different story. For me, it's all about subdividing rhythms. Learning which beats the vocal parts and the bass fall on. If you're just plugging straight eighths on a simple progression, you should have no problem since there's a bass note on every beat, but, once you start making it a bit more rhythmically complex, with gaps and different length notes, you have to start thinking about where the bass part and vocal intersect and diverge, and you practice the hell out of those bits. Just to get the basics down, play ham-fisted, thumb around the neck, and use a pick since it's a bit easier to keep the rhythm. Then refine from there - put your fretting hand into the proper position, drop the pick (unless you don't want to), and start putting the gaps in, while keeping the vocal part consistent. Don't be afraid to look at the neck, but not all the time as your head won't be in a good position to sing (chin up, loosen that jaw!). I'm not there yet, and I'm still far from Geddy territory, but I'm much better at it than I used to be, and this is what's helped for me.

I guess we should never underestimate the 'density' of some humans...

Perhaps it's on the basis that it's not exactly rectangular, but does it say in the T&C that all sides must be parallel? It's not exactly wildly away from being a rectangle.

In March I sent a bass via Interparcel/Parcelforce and used a heavy duty bicycle box (130cm x 40cm x 20cm if I remember correctly) with no extra charges.

I think it depends on your ears and the style of earplug. I have no issue getting a good seal with ordinary 'three cup' earplugs.

I fitted plain washers to my B2 about 40 years ago, and more recently to my Jack V. Still a bit of annoying stiction when you first turn the tuners (although these are the only bases I've ever encountered that can stay in tune for over a year!) You've inspired me, so I've ordered ten thrust bearings for £6 from eBay, that will leave me one spare!

Anyone reading this needs to get proper moulded ones. Saving 100 quid to use plugs which are not guaranteed to seal is asking for trouble. Every one of us who has tinnitus/top end loss/hyperacusis (sp?)/something else would spend that 100 quid without blinking to make their hearing right. Most of us would spend 10 or 20 times that. But we cannot. Once the damage is done, it is game over. No one sits there listening to their ears whine/grumble/rumble or just not work and thinks "so glad I saved the cost of 3 sets of strings". Do it right first time. I am not pointing at anyone who is using anything else.

Every single interaction I’ve had with ParcelFarce has been negative. Wouldn’t use them if it was free to do so.

Lignite my fire. The Doors

When our band kicked off a couple of years ago, the premise was that every member ( 5 of us ) had to sing lead vocals on various tracks, mainly because we didnt have a front man. Only 3 members had sung lead before. I wasnt one of then, so i had to get stuck in. Not easy so i found out, and it depended on what bass line i was paying at the time. But it worked out ok cos i kept at it, and had around 5 tracks to sing lead on. Just practice , there's no magic.