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WOW that is truly gorgeous. Enjoy and have fun. Dave

This smells like preventative maintenance to me. Nah, I'd be inclined to ignore this.

This example is a T1 for me - it's going on a bass pedalboard. It's being used with a bass. There is a certain "spirit" to this challenge which should be upheld, and use case is an important factor otherwise we'd have everyone claiming that every pedal which is not specifically marketed as a "bass" pedal is a T2. Nah, I'm not having it. People gotta be honest with themselves. If you fire bass signals through it, it's a bass pedal. Come on, you're fooling no-one I know this is a bit of fun, but that is a principle I am going to stick to in any of my adjudications. Yes, Neep is the mean judge, the one you hope you don't get, the one with the gavel worn down to almost the handle...

On an unrelated point - I seem to be getting loud crackles and pops coming through my home RCF monitors when the set up has been left on and unattended for a couple of hours. It's now happened on a several different occasions over a period of weeks and occurs when it's just the desk connected up to the monitors, which pinpoints it as being a desk issue (or possibly a monitor issue, but I would have thought less likely). Any particular reasons why this might be occurring, or just likely to be a fault with the desk which needs checking out under warranty? In which case I'll get it checked out with Andertons whom I got the desk from 15 months back.

That gets very expensive very quickly. Fine if it's your own money, but the record companies aren't going to live with that if it's taking months to record an album.

He does cover that aspect in the SBL podcast. He seemed genuinely concerned about exposing someone wrongly, whether he was doing the right thing, and checking and double checking the facts over several days.

Still really happy with my steal of a used buy of my LTD (ESP) B4-JR. Just 28.5" scale length, maple neck, with rosewood fretboard and a basswood body, 24 frets. Perfect for A standard, tenor bass, tuning (that is as in the 4 upper strings of a 6 string bass in regular B standard tuning). Strung with Elixir Nonoweb guitar strings, which got the perfect length, of the gauges .068 - .052 - .038 - .028. Sounds no short of amazing with the stock pickup swapped for an EMG Geezer Butler P.

Have the Guyker clones and also the genuine East knobs, there's not much in them and the Guykers feel great. FWIW I did try to buy the genuine ones but there's never stock so clones it is.

I recently acquired one of these, a Tribute version, and I wonder if anyone has a spec setup for it, there doesn't seem to be one on G&Ls site and a quick search on the Guitars by Leo site just brings up a spec from Ed Friedland for his M or is it L 2500 which isn't directly comparable being long scale, 5 string, and twin pickup. Just asking because the MFD pickup is a bit different to the single coils I am familiar with. I'm planning on popping some Nylon Tapewounds on, as I don't play roundwounds (too clanky and hard on the fingers for me) that are on it. I'll figure it out but always useful to have a base spec to start from. Thank you for reading

I think I am out. I just dropped my fretless TRB of at a luthier to have the fingerboard coated. Or does that count as maintenance?

Hi i I have just purchased a Stingray Special with a compensated nut. i believe they ship with a 45-100, I’m wondering if I can fit a 45-105 with out any nut adjustments. I don’t want any strings binding Thanks for your help

In the studio stitch together my guitar, bass and keyboard parts all the time. Live it doesn't matter if I play some bum notes or the timing and/or pitch of a few notes is too loose, it's all over in the next instant, never to be heard again, and besides the energy of the gig normally overshadows any errors. If it's being recorded for people to listen to over and over again I want it to be without mistakes. That doesn't mean quantised and autotuned to "perfection". I simply want what is committed to tape or DAW to match what I hear in my head when I'm playing it so that I, and other people, can enjoy listening to the song without noticing any errors. If that means dropping in to correct dodgy phrases or individual notes so be it. I recently discovered when recording an 8 bar riff for a song that my timing was a lot better for the last 2 to 3 bars of the riff than it was for the first few. Therefore I played each bar 16 times in succession and used the best 3-4 bars from each take, usually from the second half) to assemble enough instances of the riff to use throughout the song, so that each time to riff come in it has the correct feel but each instance is subtly different. For me it's all about getting the right sounding end result. Getting there in a single take is not even remotely important to me.

Yes it’s a Status neck and I love it 🙂 I have one coming from Kiwi’s graphite venture that I was going to put on the Hard Puncher but Ihaving played that a bit I like the original on that so it’s going onto a bitsa in planning

Before basschat I had never heard of the guy. Now I have and I have watched his channel and Youtube just keeps feeding me more. He has obviously found a winning formula. If he is making a living from it then good luck to him. Is the content any good? Personally this TikTok style, short clip, grab my attention and move quickly onto something new and shiny does my head in. It’s just so completely inane and ridiculous. I suspect my parents thought the same about whatever rubbish I was watching in the ‘80s.

Just released as a remaster is the Thunder Live album on Spotify. This must've been from Chris' first coupeleof years in the band. It's beautifully recorded and Chris' bass sit's nicely in the mix with a great tone. There're so many fills to plunder on this recording.

He does make some great pick-ups ! Love your custom Gibson builds too!

Wow great selection, especially like that 64P

My p Basses now 58 p original 64 p original 78 p original Moollon crazy Finish

How can you play Allright Now or Bad Case of Loving You without a g-string?

Bright College Days - Tom Lehrer

Splitting hairs is part of the game. Let's make some analogies: A new tuner plugged into the bass pedalboard. T2 as an accessory unless a replacement for a failed unit? The mechanical footswitch add-on to my amp that can either switch between EQ in and Out, or (more usefully) mute the amp, depending on which socket it's pluggged into. Probably T2 accessory as well as it makes life easier? This is a very fancy equivalent of that pedal, so probably T2 as well? Either way a very cool piece of kit 👍

78mm left to right, 122mm back to front (as you say). about 37mm high at the highest point, not including the knob.