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The guitar demos tend to go from subtle shimmer, to all out madness when you blend the two sides together. I’m very interested in how that relates to bass!

Naked cousin. PJ Harvey

Ah is that right? I only heard of John Giblin after he passed and some of his gear ended up in The Gallery. I tried one of his old Lakland 5 strings. Apparently he was quite the tinkerer.

Out of curiosity, I picked up a very cheap second-hand mini electric: Which is one of these, minus the amp and accessories: https://www.smythstoys.com/uk/en-gb/toys/arts-crafts-and-music/musical-instruments-and-karaoke/musical-instruments/80cm-electric-guitar-with-amp/p/110724. 19 3/4" scale, which makes it somewhere around 80% sized. The bridge was not only off-centre, but also too way close to the neck - hopelessly out of tune with itself, and impossible to intonate. I feel sorry for any child that owned this before me, and for anyone who had to listen to them attempting to get a tune out of it! So I moved the bridge position to the correct spot, and also shortened some of the intonation screws so that the saddles could be moved back far enough without the screws blocking the path of the strings. Put some 11-49 strings on to compensate for the short scale, and it tunes up and plays okay. It needs to be fretted with a light touch due to the low string tension; it's possible these things were intended to be tuned higher than E standard, although there's no mention of that on the product page. The nut is definitely a bit tall, but it's not glued in so that should be easy enough to fix when I get round to it. The neck was unfinished and fairly rough, so that got a good sanding. The frets needed polishing, and although there were no protruding sharp ends, they were a bit blocky and needed a rub down. Paintwork is fine. Tuners are slightly stiff but perfectly functional. The volume pot works. I fully expected the bridge to have no ground wire, but I was wrong. No shielding paint inside. The pickup was probably ok, but I swapped it for a cheap rail humbucker to head off any noise. I've played plenty of cheap Squiers and the like, and they've all been great - this thing is in another category altogether. The fact that there's a cut-out for the bridge in the scratchplate that is even further away from where it's supposed to be tells you something about the attention to detail. But attempting to rescue it was a fun, low-stakes project - and my nephew had a blast bashing away at it through a cranked amp! 😁 I wouldn't recommend buying one of these unless you can find one dirt cheap and you're prepared to work to make it playable.

Nobody's Perfect - Xentrix

It depends on the design and the timber.

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I’m sure it’ll come, though will look a bit different from here and be closer in appearance to the phaser: https://www.matrixsynth.com/2023/03/behringer-introduces-new-moogerfooger.html?m=1

Some of the best lines in the world are simple and just delivered well. And if you can do that then all listeners and musicians and virtuosos will applaud you. That's the joy of it, it doesn't matter how good you are you can still do something epic.

Thanks for all the advice folks. Really appreciated. I’ll give @Happy Jack’s warm up routine a go next gig. In the meantime I am applying ice and hoping it improves before the gig. I’m used to having an aching left hand, left shoulder blade and back after a long gig but this was a new one on me. Things don’t get easier with age! 😏

Mother fooger 🤣 ain’t iPhones great!

It's a lovely pedal. I'll try to record some clips if you like. It's quite subtle but a very polished sound

It is a good size Daryl and must be able to hold 200-250 people i reckon. A decent small concert venue. I like playing it because we have plenty of stage space. Twice we've played it and the audience were great both times. Not sure i've ever played on a concrete stage. To be fair the bass cab was sitting directly on stage with no gramma pad this time and it wasn't boomy in any way at all. I know the drummer was using twin floor toms tuned low and maybe it was down to a lack of damping but not sure why it wasn't noticed at sound check. Dave

Cheers for the input. Noob question but how do you find the visual loop indicator better compared paired to say the basic ditto?

By God! That was a long time ago.

Great to hear there's good news out there.

Weren’t they doing the mother fooger envelope filter? That had been rumoured for a few years now

The room looks big and it looks like you had a good size crowd. I get the hollow wooden stage issue. My issue has always been playing on concrete stages. Very cold and medicinal. Daryl