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Always take mine off unless I'm just noodling about at home because it clatters up the G-string. I'm not even going to apologise for saying that.

It sits with my car keys at rehearsal, and either with my wife or in my ear plug case which lives in a gig bag pocket at shows.

26 minutes ago, TimR said:

You need to rehearse to a click track before turning up to the studio and expecting everything to just work. 

 

 

Indeed. Its a skill unto itself.

Slight derail....

I only recently discovered that the electronic "beep beep boop beep" type click is trumped by a real marmite tone...cowbell!

It works for me better than an electronic beep because its more percussive. Since to me it doesn't fit, it stands out more.

I've also used a mix of click, drums and in one case I needed the vocal too for some odd reason...

2 hours ago, cheddatom said:

Mix notes/revisions can be good. I once had a band record 4 songs with me. I'd double tracked each of two guitarists' rhythm parts. Guitarist A was hard left and slight right, guitarist B was hard right and slight left. The band sent me a 4 page PDF document of mix revisions, one page per song. For each song, they'd just copied and pasted the same 4 bullet points. One of the points was "The guitars should be stereo". Having explained the concept of "stereo", and after explaining that it's not possible to turn up every component in a mix, I thought we were making real progress. I was pretty happy with the result, then I got another message "Now that you've mixed the instruments correctly, we can concentrate on the vocals. We'd like you to give them more of a hard rock edge"

I probably know some of the bands you are talking about, but I wouldn't even try to guess from your posts...

Do you have your ridiculously tall flag? If not...are you even doing it right?

Found him!

Derek Boyer from Suffocation.

Bass is like a stretched Warlock body, five string headless multiscale...

Just now, lidl e said:

Nah, this guy was using his bass almost like a staff. It had an elongated bottom horn seemingly designed for this stance where he is leaning on it while rocking

That's the guy! Just got to find his name now... 

28 minutes ago, Doctor J said:

DD Verni from Overkill playing a BC Rich Widow?

Nope that's not the guy.

The bloke I am looking for has long hair, and the band is heavier than overkill.

Scrolling through the multitude of mind-numbingly pointless videos on Instrgram a while ago I saw a video of a bass player in a pretty heavy metal / thrash band playing something like a stretched Warlock shape bass, with one of the spikey-horn-bits resting on the floor.

Can't remember the name of the band or the player. I have 'Decapitated' in my head (see what I did there?) but its not them...and the name 'Derek' for some reason.

Anyone know who this is? Fairly sure I didn't dream it...

How do,

I am hoping that someone on here currently owns a Sandberg Cali VM5.

I need a couple of measurements, if you would be so kind:

Distance from 12th fret to centre line of P pickup

Distance from 12th fret to centre line of MM pickup.

The background - I am in the build queue for a custom-build (not Sandberg) using a 35" scale, with the MM / P pickup arrangement and need some dimensions for pickup placement.

Ta kids!

3 hours ago, NJE said:

I’ve used these guys a few times, great cables, loads of options for colour and types of jacks. I had a bright red cable made with a silent Jack that I have been using for years.

 

https://www.designacable.com

I've recently used these folk a couple of times too. No problems at all

I'm lucky enough to own some really nice basses...so in April I joined the 15+ month long build queue of a one-man-luthier in Finland...because one more can't hurt. Right? RIGHT?!??

Hideous design...but what would I know? Most of my basses don't even have parallel frets...

[cough] Dingwall NG series [cough]

All the drop-tune-cool-kids use 'em now

You can argue whether this counts as 'singing' or not...but...Tom Araya from Slayer.

Dug P from King's X perhaps?

I deal with Prop 65 on a nearly daily basis. Its just Californians being a bit sensitive. Sure the 5 or so things on the Prop 65 list are nasty, but its no worse that chemicals on the REACh or TSCA lists of doom.

I view it akin to the "May contain nuts" warning on a Hazelnut Whirl...

Just don't eat it and you will be fine.

Aerosmith, Faith No More, Geoff Tate, Hardline, Alanis Morissette, Dita von Teese, Scott Bradlee's PMJ and several others I can't remember all pushed back by 12 months.

Ozzy pushed back twice (or three times?)...first one wasn't due to Covid though. No idea if this will even happen, I think this was a 2019 show initially.

The UK will get Motley Crue and Def Leppard at the big arenas, but I doubt Poison and Joan Jett will be on the bill.

Not seen Poison but I've got a live album. Does that count?

Motley Crue are fun to watch live with a great stage show - providing you ignore the DIABOLICAL vocals.

Nikki Sixx is working on his fitness in preparation for the tour, so hopefully Vince is doing the same. He needs to seriously up his game.

Having said all that - TAKE MY MONEY!

Seen them three times, and got tickets for later this year. Love that its just a revolving door of talent. Different singers and band each time. Scott Bradlee has only been with them once, but the bass player has been at every show we've seen. Casey Abrams is the man.

Sounds exactly like me. I don't play for the sake of playing, just when I have something to practice for.

I've been trying for TEN MONTHS to get a band working and I've now just given up. If I was in another band on the circuit (aka in the clique) it would be much easier, but local players don't realise I play anymore so I'm effectively retired.

I thought about doing YouTube play-throughs just to keep my playing up to par, but the motivation evades me...

The HIM version of Wicked Game.

Black Label Society - Stillborn

Straight across the neck

I have a 4 string ABZ, a 5 string NG2 and I pick up a 5 string Z2 tomorrow. Safe to say I had no problems making the change to the fanned frets. 

I routinely swap between 4/5 string and parallel / fanned frets without issue.

Biggest issue for me was when moving between strings - for example the 3rd fret on the G string isn't directly below the 3rd fret on the B, so I was playing lots of duff notes for a while until I adjusted.

All,

Does anyone currently own a Warwick Streamer Stage 1 from the 1997 to 2000 era?

If you do, could you please take a photograph of something for me?

I need to see the back of the headstock - specifically the edge between the back face and the sides. It's an odd request I know!

The backstory to my slightly strange request...

I have what I thought was a 2004 model with no serial number (yes, yes I know...no serial number = stolen right?) and something interesting has popped up in conversation with Warwick. I'll go into more detail when I've got my facts straightened out.

Ta droogs!

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if I remember correctly, he said somewhere that he didn't want his kids to hear him swearing so he packed it in
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Makes sense.

Love Trujillo - an excellent bass player, but I have a [b]HUGE[/b] 'man-crush' on Jason. His onstage energy was amazing, and he is one of my biggest influences on how I play. I came to the band long after Cliff passed, so JN was always THE MAN.

One thing that Metallica lack now for me is his aggressive backing vocal.

Did anyone notice the complete lack of profanity from James? Not one single swear word between songs at Manchester.