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The Revolution Will Not Be Televized - Gil Scott Heron

the underground in america - pantera

In my experience, once you reduce the volume on the bridge pickup, even by a little bit, it then has no further impact on the overall tone. What you're then hearing is just the neck pickup soloed, which is naturally a bassier sound. The front pickup is usually a lot louder than the rear pickup, as well. This may be due to it's placement on the body.

Not to hand but I recently got a mk2 and the DI out is definitely affected by the master volume

I've known Eli for a good while now and we finally popped his BC feedback cherry here, he's a lovely genuine dude, pays exactly when he says he's going to, treat and trade with confidence folks, he's one of the good ones.

I'm looking for the same thing in that London.

I bought a second hand Squier Jazz bass with passive electronics and I have settled on setting the controls with the neck pickup at max, the bridge pickup down a quarter turn, and the tone down a quarter turn (or a bit more if I want a really mellow tone). What was interesting about this was that backing off the bridge pickup even a tiny bit really boosted the low end. I have been reading a bit about pickup impedance loading so I think I have an idea of what is going on, but this important bit is that I really like the overall tone with this setting. My other bass is a musicman 5 string with a nordstrand MM5.4 quad coil and a John East MMSR pre. It got me wondering what would happen if I added a small resistor to the bridge side of the musicman pickup, would a similar low end boost be achieved?

That GOS track is beautifully put together. I love solo acoustic guitar (as opposed to acoustic guitar solos) but I won't hijack the thread.

Bought a Barefaced One 10 from Andy. He's ace.

Love the look of it, but oof that's a wide pickup spacing! It'd be interesting to hear what kind of tones it can produce. The only bass I have with anything like that sort of spacing is my Hofner, and they're famously rather specific tonewise.

Working in the Coal Mine - Lee Dorsey

Just had an amp repairs by Paul Glazebrook in Ipswich. Took it there at 6pm last night ands it's all fixed and ready to collect. By lunchtime today. The man is a God.

I know there's a lot of love for these on here (and not a lot for the recent Epiphone version - or was that a Ripper?). Anyway, there's a very pretty one up for auction in Cirencester next week - link here: https://www.i-bidder.com/en-gb/auction-catalogues/cotswold/catalogue-id-cotswo10292/lot-483de1ce-d86a-4da4-89e7-b2f900eb6445 Way out of my price range, but the starting price is £1300, with an estimate of £2200 - £2800. Plus all the fees (28.95%). Anyway, if it's your thing, have at it!

Vandolin.

Not to harp on but for context there's a 4 string example on here for £575.

I don't know whether to laugh or cry! Poor mandolin! Silly man for storing it in a van!

Agreed. Slightly frustrating though when it's something that doesn't show up often that I've been waiting on but hey...

Down In A Hole - Alice In Chains

Can You Dig It - The Mock Turtles