tauzero

Laptop. Not quite so bad through the hi-fi.

Pretty wide for a 4-string pickup. With a little more enlargement in both directions you could go for an EMG 45 series, or in one direction and with a couple of slivers of wood each side an EMG 40 series. I've got a pair of MK5CBC in a Cort Space which are fine, well-balanced pickups (TBH the original MK1s seem OK to me too, there was a strange manufacturing fault that I didn't notice when I got the bass).

I noticed when looking at an old thread that somebody on my ignore list with their new username had their old username showing in the thread (in replies to their posts) but when a post by them was ignored, it showed their new username in the "Post by <newusername> has been ignored" message.

You could get this 12-string guitar and then every string would have a spare: https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/166985526466 Octaves are for wimps!

I have the perfect solution.

Mrs Zero was 50% of a duo with the guitarist from a former band a few years ago. She hung the words off her mic stand, and insisted it wouldn't affect her eye contact with the audience. She did backing vocals on "Oh pretty woman" and actually looked at the words for the "ooh ooh" bits.

Nine pages in and nobody has commented on the horrible middy tone of her bass in the initial video.

Try using Freetube.

It's a winding up resolution which would mean the company assets being liquidated.

The rest of Dad's band:

Aha, I never realised that Disco Wave used to be Greaves Bass. That explains so much.

All three of my grandmothers used their middle names rather than their first names.

I don't see the problem. Fender have finally copied the obsolete Cort GB4 Custom, painted it blue, and got an attractive and very capable female to consent to having her name on it. It's not a democracy so opinions on here are really irrelevant.

That's why I have a Hohner B2AV (although they're a tad more expensive than full-on cheap).

I've now also settled on the policy of taking two basses and doing one half with each. One fretted, one fretless, one headed, one headless (as I have basses in all four combinations, that's quite easy).

I'm currently at a friend's wedding reception and the happy couple were outside being photographed when the heavens opened. On the grounds that I'd not long ago said that it raining on your wedding day wasn't ironic, I think rain on their wedding day was probably ironic.

The first would have been my first bass, a Hayman 40/40 that I put together from parts. The next was a somewhat tatty Fender Precision - the cheapest one in Musical Exchange but also the best feeling neck. It was a milestone because it was a Fender and that's what you aspired to. The next was a Warwick JD Thumb - absolutely wonderful neck, I had to have it despite the astronomical cost. There was then a hiatus of about 20 years, and I fancied a 5 string. Tried various ones without finding one that was the equivalent of the Thumb in playability, until I happened across an eBay auction for an Antoniotsai (there were always a few back then) and thought I'd chance it, and it really was a lovely bass to play. The one subsequent milestone was my first Sei, a headless fretless 5. Since then, other basses have matched what came before but nothing has been a real milestone, and I'm not sure that there could be another one.

That sounds like it needs the relief either reducing or increasing (I'm not sure which way round you're using "top" and "last frets"), and possibly shimming. If the strings are close to the frets at the headstock end but far off at the body end, there's either too much relief in the neck or the neck is tilted forwards. If the strings are close to the frets at the body end but far off at the headstock end, there's either too little relief in the neck (possibly a backbow) or the neck is tilted back. Either take it to someone who knows what they're doing to see if it can be set up, or learn to do setups yourself (it's not hard). And you can just paste the URL of the image into your post, as long as it starts "https://" and ends ".jpg", ".png", or ".gif"

The important thing is the ratio of one to the other, so 1x12:2x10 is 144:200 or 18:25 when you factor it. But that omits recognition of the fact that speakers are pistons, so it's not just the bore that counts, it's the stroke too.

I think that of the mods to the neck of my second Warwick Thumb that I got Joe the now retired luthier to do, the reprofiling had significantly less effect on the sound than the defret.

Something someone suggested with my JTV59 guitar with a similar issue is to use a capo to hold the strings in place. Putting it on near the nut works well.

Around the turn of the millennium, I was working as a motorcycle courier for TNT. The van and bike couriers were reasonably conscientious (can't answer for the lorry drivers, they were in a different part) but one of our jobs was to do deliveries that Royal Mail's drivers couldn't be arsed to do.

Since assembling my first bass almost 50 years ago from a load of Hayman parts (all, fortuitously, from a 40/40) I've had sufficient confidence to adjust a truss rod, shim a neck, set action, and do intonation. Refretting I've left to an expert, but I'm just about to do my first fret level and hopefully build my first bass from scratch (it'll be a fretless though).

A nice peaceful open mic night at the Shirley British Legion, as per normal Wednesday. It's possibly the penultimate night there, as Shirley Legion might be shutting up shop due to financial difficulties. Played a couple of my songs, accompanied a couple of people on bass doing a few blues songs. The difference between country music and blues music: Blues songs all sound the same, despite the best efforts of the bass player. Country songs all sound different, despite the best efforts of the bass player. Anyroadup, talking to the barmaid, she said she was having to clean up sick and it was making her feel ill. The guilty party was being rather mouthy and towards the end of the evening he got in one elderly woman's face, a situation which bubbled along for a short while before one of the performers punched him in the face. The two participants were separated, at which point the drunken vomity punchee rang the police and very loudly complained, and said it was racially aggravated (it wasn't, he was being a total dick regardless of race). He said he'd been hit by a bald bloke, at which point I may have upset him slightly by saying "I am Spartacus!" (followed by several other bald blokes also saying "I am Spartacus!". I'm not sure what the outcome was, the performer who'd delivered the punch left before the police (one copper) arrived, the copper had a look at the CCTV, and as I was leaving somebody (I'm not sure if it was the drunken punchee, seems fairly likely) was being escorted to the police car. Well, that was an unusually eventful night.

Is this a little luxury you want for yourself and bandmates, or are you being a bit passive-aggressive to your rhythm guitarist?