tauzero

"All Right Now" was used in a Wrigleys advert IIRC. In current adverts, "I can't see me loving nobody but you" is in use in one (showing how effective it is, I have absolutely no idea which advert).

How can I tell what the pickup sounds like with all that distortion over the top of it?

@LukeFRC, you need an equivalent to a John Bull printing outfit for letter stamps so they're all aligned. Or a laser engraver.

https://www.wordhippo.com/what-is/the-opposite-of/bright.html dim, faint, unbright, unbrilliant, dull, lacklustre So faint, dull, and lacklustre.

That depends entirely on which preamp, powered PA speaker, cab, head, and combo you're talking about. Weight is a consideration for me, my 500W combo is under 10kg so that beats any PA speaker. The sound of a particular cab may be preferable to you to the sound of an active cab, for when you're backline only.

I'm not sure who that is a dig at/ What would you describe a "dark" sound as, as you appear to consider yourself an expert in the nuances of language and abstract thinking?

It's worth having a look on Ebay for PMPO in titles and descriptions, just for a laugh. https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/125986388583 Output power: 600 watts PMPO RMS: 2x 2.5W

Lick The Bastard?

It's beautiful. Shame about the price, if it was a tenth of that I'd be tempted.

OK, so not "dull" but "bassy" then. "Dark" conveys absolutely nothing in sonic terms to me.

Can't help directly as I've only got one acoustic bass uke and it's the cheapo Batking (https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/363555959883), but worth having a look on https://www.youtube.com/@UkuleleWales and seeing if she reviews either or both.

So dull, in other words, which would appear more descriptive to me.

I regularly see descriptions of pickups as being "dark sounding". I have absolutely no idea what that means. I can understand "thin" (lacking in bass) and "muddy" or "woolly" (attack not very distinct) but "dark sounding" makes as much sense as "plays like butter" (you finish up with a slimey mess all over your hands?). Is this another mystery to go along with dark matter and dark energy? Can anybody guilty of using the term describe exactly what they mean?

I remember him taking some time out years ago, and then he turned up on (IIRC) OGWT with Roy Harper on a hillside somewhere, saying he was playing better now than he ever had, and then Roy Harper played a song and Page put some excrutiatingly bad guitar over it.

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I was, as I'm in Tamworth and we have had political campaigning up till yesterday I gave up on it when it appeared that most of the other Tamworth Nextdoor participants were a bunch of inhumane fascists.

I've had a few periods of doing buggerall but never thought of giving up. Currently with a covers band which is aiming to do somewhere round 20-30 gigs a year, and playing at an open mic (both guitar and bass). The two key things that define me are music (primarily bass) and motorcycles, and I've had lulls in both but never given either up.

They were in Germany. They could find a Fender but it was £100 while a Hofner was £30 and he could easily get it left-handed (symmetrical body). Anyway, who'd want a Fender?

I chatted with Philippa Forrester at Techno Games 2, and nearly got Jayne Middlemiss onto the back of my bike at Robot Wars.

Hardly the only issue with the description. Number of strings: 5 strings

I checked the MIDI messages coming out of the BCF-2000. I've gone as far as reloading the firmware, but I consistently get completely the wrong MIDI messages. They should be CC messages on channel 1 (for the faders) and they're pitch bend messages on whichever channel the fader is on. To make sure, I connected the XR12 to MIDI-OX and used the tablet to move the faders, and got the expected CC messages.

A finish that makes it look less like it's been in a tumble drier with a sackful of gravel is the ambition.

I was wondering whether the jack socket might have been got fairly close to position by feeding an old bass string through the jack socket hole and the F hole, then threading the jack socket onto it and sliding it down or using something wrapped round the string to pull the jack socket.