joeystrange

I’ve bought a few things from them over the last few years with no problems. I recently bought a pedalboard which they tried to deliver whilst I was out. Didn’t leave a card or anything so I didn’t know they’d been until I check the tracking the next day. All that said was that it had been delivered to a loc Post Office, which wasn’t especially helpful. Of course this is a courier issue but, as I didn’t know who the courier was (tracking site was an unbranded German thing), I contacted DV247 who looked at the info and told me exactly where it was to go and pick up.

I’ve always used a click in the studio as I think it’s the best way to get everything tight. Never used one live but I just started jamming with a new band who are all on IEMs and have some bits on tracks, which includes a click. I haven’t once noticed (apart from breaks where it’s just tracks or maybe one guitar) the click whilst playing and the drummer, who has been doing this in other bands for years, tells me that you’ll only notice the click if you go out of time with it. Which makes sense.

I think it depends on the type of sticker. Paper stickers tend to stick well but can be rubbed off over time. Of course this depends on their position and whether you’ll touch them at all. Heavyweight vinyl stickers stick well but over time the design will wear off. Again, this is based on contact. Thin vinyl or other plastic type stickers are pretty useless and don’t tend to stick for long. The adhesive never seems very tacky to me.

I remember years ago a friend of mine, who was the Ampeg rep at the time, had some that you could use with an 810. It was a flat piece of metal that hooked under the handle on the back of the cab then it had a hanger on the front. Not much help as I have no idea where they were from but they do exist. Edit: This is it. However it looks like basshanger.com no longer exists.

Sorry the pic isn’t great quality…

Recently bought a bass with a high mass bridge, the problem is I’m struggling to intonate it and to lower the action. To get the intonation (almost) right I had to cut down the saddle length screws and springs to get them to come back enough and I get set the action lower as if I loosen the saddle grub screws any further they just come loose. I’ve been looking for others but it also has a string thru config and they seem quite rare. Does anyone know if any good ones exist?

I’m actually not sure. The band already exists but as a 2-piece who want to add a bass player. So I think she’ll be able to write her own lines but will also follow the guitar in parts. I’ll suggest BEAD to her but she almost always plays in drop-D so B F# B E will make more sense to her. Thanks for the suggestion though, I will definitely pass it on.

Mrs. Strange has just been asked to join a new band after a few years of not playing. The new band plays in drop B. Given that she only has 4-string basses, has anyone tuned B F# B E on a 4-string, and what strings would you recommend? Ta

Black. But if I were choosing between these two then the red wins it by a mile for me.

I’ve never heard this before. As far as I knew they played everything in E. On the untitled album the guitars are tuned down (sometimes to C or C#) but I believe the bass is still in standard tuning.

His hair fell out when he had chemotherapy and then grew back white. He was baffled too as he didn’t have any grey hair before. Apparently it isn’t uncommon for that to happen. I think Mark is a better player than he gets credit for. He does a lot of interesting (for the genre, at least) things with chords to fill out the sound of a 1-guitar band. A lot of the time you don’t notice what he’s really doing. I enjoy his playalongs for that reason, you get to see what he actually does.

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There’s Pitchshifter and Six By Seven. More recently there’s also Jake Bugg and Sleaford Mods. Also Bruce Dickinson is from north Notts. Plus Consumed who were on Fat Wreck Chords in the ‘90s.

Can’s argue with this.

Jerry Only. Nobody sounds like Jerry Only.

You’re welcome. As BigRedX says, be careful if you’re selling on there. But if nothing else it’s useful to find a relatively accurate value if you want to sell elsewhere.

I think the best way would be to sign up to Discogs and add them all to your collection by scanning the bar codes. Then for each one you’ll see the cheapest sale, most expensive sale and average sale price. That should give you a decent indication of what’s what.

I have not.

I think this would be a no-brainer for Fender too but it seems like they’re more set on continuing to put out almost identical versions of the same basses but with a different prefix/suffix. And signature models. For years I played Precisions that I had swapped out with Jazz necks and really liked them. Then I got a new P and loved the neck so I left it. Now I struggle to play a Jazz-type neck. My preference is a wide nut with a shallow neck, as opposed to a fat, chunky neck, but either is fine.

This. I also have a Fender Neo 610 that has so much more than the 210, 410 and 212 that I have or have had recently. If I could find one (and had the cash) I’d have the Fender 810 in a heartbeat.

Kimberley had that same taste when they first took over (which is why a lot of people on Kimberley stopped drinking it) so it sounds like this could be the original recipe.

Now when we’re taking ‘Kimberley recipe’ are we talking the original recipe or what Greene King sold as Kimberley when they first took over and changed the recipe, hoping nobody would notice?

Didn’t realise this was the Kimberley recipe. Being born and raised there I feel it’s my birthright to drink many pints of this.