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miles'tone

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  1. 22 hours ago, Thunderpaws said:

    Great stuff. I’m about to join you in Stingray ownership, after thinking about buying one for about 20 years I’ve actually gone and done it now! When you are figuring out the tone controls let us know how you get on as I’ll be on the same journey. 

    A great tip I read on here, possibly by Stingray Pete, is volume up, dial in the right amount of bass that suits your girth/heft/punch requirements, then think of the treble control as a passive tone control and dial in your tone from there. 

    It certainly works and makes easy sense too!

     

    Great, now I've got Stingray gas again! 

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  2. Interesting! I hear the music, new and old, in my head. I've never thought about it in this way before though.

     

    As an add on, I don't have perfect pitch when I hear music being played, but I've noticed that I do have perfect recall pitch when I listen to a song in my head.

    For instance, I can tune my bass to concert pitch by listening to the intro of Around The World by the Chili Peppers in my head as I know that it starts with Flea hitting a big E, so I tune my open E to his by singing that note and holding it, then the rest of my strings off that once I'm in.

    Is this normal? Do you recall songs in your head in the keys they are really in? 

     

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  3. 34 minutes ago, SteveK said:

     

    I did think of Frank, but thought it wouldn't be too long before someone mentioned him🙂

    Incidentally, my band mate (guitarist) played bass with Zappa in the mid 70s, for one show in the US, when his regular bass player busted his hand😬

    You must have some real players in your band. That's very cool!

    It was Tom Fowler who broke his hand. He's the bass player on the live "Roxy..." album I posted above.

    Listen to it and imagine your mate depping with that band for a night 😂 He must be a great reader! 

    Thanks,

    Si

  4. On 11/03/2024 at 18:57, dudewheresmybass said:

    For me, The Harris P bass is quite simply the best p bass I have ever played.

    Granted I'm a bit of a fanboy, but once I played one, I knew that irrespective of the squiggle on the back of the headstock this was THE p bass for me.

     

    Best P bass neck profile (to me). B width at the nut, rest of it chunky as 👌.

    Great sound due to the heavy Ash body but too heavy for me to live with one unfortunately. 

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  5. 12 hours ago, asingardenof said:

    When I played club cricket I was very unhappy at having to get a new bat, having used the old SS Jumbo I'd inherited off my dad (it still had the Viv Richards endorsement on it!) for about 20 years until it shattered from my nicking an inside edge. So I bought a new SS (the Indian brand not the English one) and all went really well for three games until a quick ball jumped at me and in fending it off the ball hit the handle and snapped it. Fortunately there was a shop near me that did repairs and did it quickly and well, and I was able to hit a quickfire 45 with it next game. Alas it's been gathering dust in my wardrobe for almost five years now but I may get it out again in future if I can be bothered seeking out a new club.

    Just had a good laugh at myself and gained some perspective after reading this...

    If I was into cricket then I'd probably be sheepishly admitting that I don't even play for a club anymore, whilst staring at a wall full of bats that I keep hoovering up from the for sale section of BatChat. 

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