paul_5

America loves the Beatles for the same reason as everyone else - because they were innovative pioneers of modern music (well, they knew a bloke who was)...

I'd give them their marching orders fairly pronto - any band is only ever as good as its weakest member. Unless he's getting all the bookings/has his own fan club of thousands who regularly turn up to gigs and drink the place dry/etc...

[quote name='ahpook' timestamp='1455749397' post='2982185'] Aha ! I'll give that a whirl [/quote] Smaller caps will deliver less gain, so you might want to socket and find a value that works for you.

[quote name='ahpook' timestamp='1453827039' post='2963193'] One thought - how does one increase the gain of a JFET boost like the Stratoblaster ? [/quote] Run a capacitor (4.7uf or 10uf) in parallel with the resistor that goes froSource to Groung - that'll get you more gain. Obviously that sort of value will most likely be an electrolytic ! Polarised cap,so make sure that the cathode goes to ground, and Bob's your Mother's brother.

A compressor will help to even the notes out (if you're changing between fingerstyle and slapping), but other than that a lot of it is down to left hand muting. Practice, practice, practice

Earthquaker Devices 'The Warden' is a great optical pedal - tone control too. Not that you need another option….

7/10, so probably some sort of isotope.

There's an acoustic night at the Hark To Towler in Tottington tonight. Don't think I'll be able to go, but they're a friendly bunch.

I went for years without ever touching the tone control on my passive Jazzes, but just recently I've been exploring different sounds from the bass - Tone rolled all the way off, and just the neck pickup for reggae/dub numbers, and then tone at about 60% and just the neck pickup for a P bass sound-a-like. I changed the value of the capacitor when I rewired it a while ago and forgot what I replaced it with - the cut-off frequency is a little bit higher than the 'stock' sound though, so even when it's at minimum I still get a little bit of extra definition.

I'm just down the road in Ramsbottom, but there's a couple of folks on here in Bolton.

[quote name='Roland Rock' timestamp='1454916133' post='2974037'] It was a relief to click on the link and not find lots of fretless mwah mwah melodic soloing. This is my kind of fretless - rhythmic and funky. There is an important lack of sustain with this type of playing that a fretless board adds to nicely. Thanks for the link. [/quote] This. That's my kind of fretless playing.

I've played one too (my brother still uses one for his guitar) and they're brilliant.

I watched it last night and thought it was OK. I thought the direction was a bit clunky in places, but that didn't really detract from the thing as a whole. I think it does a very good job of highlighting what a massive and tragic loss Jaco's death was, and the impact it had not just on the musical world, but the effect it had on his friends and family. The most uncomfortable part is the footage from the instructional film he did with Jerry Jermont - i find that such a difficult watch that I gave my copy away years ago; a unique genius who was really struggling, and seemed to be falling apart on that vhS cassette wasn't something I really wanted to see again. I might give it a bit before I watch the extras DVD.

Live at Leeds [/thread]

I put a set of these on an old squier that I used to have, and the difference was amazing.

[quote name='dood' timestamp='1454318720' post='2968434'] I was expecting to see a two word post when I clicked on the thread. 'Mute Switch'. [/quote] I was expecting just one: Tuner Glad it's a positive outcome for you though.

Great idea, not sure it's strictly legal though. I've got some excellent Zappa biographies in my loft if anyone's interested.

Cheaper than a real Carl Thompson though! I quite like it.

Bryan Adams in Nickelback.

[quote name='BigRedX' timestamp='1454257023' post='2967906'] Who cares? All the interesting new music on the BBC is on 6 Music and occasionally on Radio 3 or 4. [/quote] This.

[quote name='Grangur' timestamp='1454097455' post='2966496'] You mean Radio 1 plays music? [/quote] yup - 6 records* every hour! *the same 6 records

Dunlop straplocks for me. Tried a couple of other brands, but I prefer the Dunlops.

The vast majority of my tone shaping comes from the DHA VT1 EQ on my board - I use the amp to adjust for any 'inconsistencies' in the stage sound. DI feed comes from the DHA too, so I know my feed to FOH is just the way I like it. I tried running an old Laney power amp (bridged to 300W mono instead of 150W per side) this week instead of my usual SWR, and it still sounded great. I might start looking into a small class D power amp...