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Don't forget the amount of human time put into making the videos to try and convince you that the wood makes a difference.

Well, I was hoping it would be about Liz Bonnin or Helena Bonham-Carter, so it was a little disappointing.

Something else to bear in mind is that note timbre will change according to which string you use to play a note. The A on the 10th fret of the B string will sound different to the 5th fret of the E string and to the open A, partly because of the character of the string and partly because of where you're plucking it relative to the speaking length of the string - if you pluck in the same place then the higher you're fretting, the closer you'll be to the centre of the speaking length, hence the less harmonic content you'll get. If you're playing short notes it won't be particularly noticeable but it's worth keeping in mind and experimenting with on sustained notes.

Licensed Hipshot Ultralites? 1/2" and 3/8" available - https://hipshotproducts.com/collections/bass-tuning Used on Cort GB4 and GB5, nice tuners.

I do. And I take them off at the end of the rehearsal/gig and put them back on again at the start of the next one. And occasionally swap them round for fun. However, on the washer front, ISTR somebody suggesting tap washers many many years ago.

The MIDI implementation chart is the same for both old and new. From which I would deduce that the MIDI message that turned the tuner on and off was undocumented on either, and probably works the same on both. You don't want to use the tuner on the Helix then?

A Kay. I wouldn't stake anything more valuable than a Polo mint on it, but I think they were also Teisco, and possibly sold as Top Twenty by Woolies.

Read the definitive work on the physics of the electric guitar (which also covers bass): https://www.researchgate.net/publication/344300656_Translated_Physics_of_the_Electric_Guitar

Exactly. Not Carrick, I know Carrick - https://www.facebook.com/carrickmusic/

Garrick?

I didn't hear anything like that from that video. I have heard ludicrously loud bass drum, generally from cars - when I worked at Tarmac, right by Birmingham airport, there was a car that would pull up to the car park exit barriers with booming bass easily audible in the office through triple glazing which totally silenced the aeroplanes.

Strap locks are a one-off faff. Washer locks are a faff every time you put the strap on or take it off.

I've asked Zoom if they're doing a Windows or Android version of GuitarLab for the MS-60B+, and asked Tonelib if they're adding support for the MS Plus pedals. No reply from Tonelib as yet, Zoom Europe said they'd pass the suggestion on to Zoom Japan.

https://zoomcorp.com/en/gb/multi-effects/multistomp-pedals/ms-60b-plus/ms-60b-support/

Yes. The older MS-60B is the same.

By that reckoning I think I'd need a stack of all the cabs I've ever owned to cope with my 900W amp, which I happily use with a 100W cab.

I was wondering that, but I think "inexpensive" would rule out the Warwicks with brass frets.

Would you like to go and sit with Disco Wave?

Soon to be a presenter on CBeebies.

A broken metacarpal which healed with the knuckle of my index finger somewhat lower than it should be means that alternating first and second fingers consistently at speed doesn't work. Most of the time I can cope, but there's a couple of songs that I need to use a plectrum for. At least it's the same one as I use on guitar.

Certain types of bassline go with certain types of music. Country, for example, is very much root-5th dominated (and is handy for other music forms where you haven't quite worked out what to do but want to add a little variation). "Saw her standing there" uses a variant on a walking bass line, which generally takes the form root-3rd-5th and then either 3rd-root or 6th-flat 7th and back down. Someone has written a treatise on the walking bassline with all the rules about what you can and can't do, and it gets quite mind-boggling, so I just stick with the simple variants. Anyway, that will serve for most blues songs. Note: Folsom Prison Blues is a country song, I've heard it played with the bassist (who is a guitarist who owns a bass) doing a walking bass line and it sounds utterly shit. The basic pentatonic square is a useful device - root, 4th, 5th, flat 7th, octave. Dropping the 9th in after the octave as a passing note can be effective too. Transition from major to relative minor (eg C to Am) - drop in the 7th as a passing note, so C B A in that case. The more strings you have, the more chances you have to look flash by playing the same thing in different places on the fretboard. Sliding up an octave and then doing a fill on the pentatonic square is guaranteed to impress (as long as you hit the octave).

The only MIDI signals that Zoom document are PC, values 0-100.

You could always add a comment to the Youtube video asking her for her settings.

Might be feasible to change it to a 3+3. I'm sure he of the Perfect Balance bass could do it easily. Ideally, of course, the headstock would go entirely. Strip off the paint, slim down the horns a bit as well and you could have quite a good looking bass.

FTFY