Kiwi

For any of you enjoying Lee's playalongs of Phil Collins and Genesis live, Facebook have hit him with yet another ban. You'll be aware of Lee's vitriolic hatred for Trump and who can blame him? I have lost count of how many bans he has received but this one is particularly inconvenient. Anyways his message to his followers is below. No more playalongs on FB for the time being and that's a shame. I found them fascinating. https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=BE3ZhJqgvcw

What year were the 5s introduced?

I've gassed occasionally for a Thumb 5, I like the look and I like the sound. But when I actually play one they feel dead to me. I can't feel much resonance and I end up feeling disappointed.

A spot of superglue will sort that. We'll have you plonking on a 5er in no time, don't you worry.

Heh, I could actually sell the whole lot off and whittle it down to two...maybe three but those basses would be unicorns. And I would probably end up building more to plug any gaps, as well.

mine is 7 now, I had purges in 2009 and 2015 1) 79 Alembic Series 1 2) 78 Musician Stingray 3) 93 Pedulla Pentabuzz 4) 09 Shuker Headless 6 5) 00 Spector NS5CR 6) 98 Status Series 1 5-string 7) 16 Self built headless semi hollow 5 string

April Fools...for a couple of you at least. :)

Notorious...?! lol

We have accepted an offer from The Fretboard to buy Basschat. It's not a lot of money but Chris and I both have young families and less time than ever to stay on top of stuff. My being in China doesn't help with the financial side of things, either. Not sure what they intend to do with Guitarchat or the other plans, I guess they'll reveal those at some point in the future. Stay tuned for further announcements on hand over.

All the name dropping on their website makes me a bit cynical. Glad you're pleased with your purchase though - any sound clips?

Indeed!

You may want to have a word to him about the terminology he uses.

Empress do a para eq pedal as well. But you can buy onboard para eq - I have two or three loaded into basses by Klaus Noll. Really good quality, if you go for one just ask him to adjust the mid frequency down to 250Hz or so. It's a little high in the standard circuits.

The Shuker is a great bass. Although after playing @Dood's 6 stringer in 2015, I actually preferred his to mine. At the time I spec'd mine, I asked Jon to use my Smith BSR6 as the template. If I were to spec the bass again I would have gone for three pieces of wenge with a few stringers of flame maple in the neck and maybe an ebony or richlite fingerboard and 15mm string spacing, with the neck profile of Dood's bass. Also my bass has needed a lot of time to bed in because of how dense the maple is in the neck. So now it sounds a little mellower sounding now than it did after it first came into my possession. Given I have had it in storage since 2015, perhaps it has mellowed further. But regardless, it has a piano like tone which I'm sure would appeal immensely to some players. It's also superbly made and I guess I've learned quite a bit about wood and construction from it. The bass I made for myself since, under Jon's expert supervision, is a load closer to what I've been looking for but even then there are things I would change. It's proving to be an expensive journey.

thanks, I'll pm you as it could get a little long winded.

Funnily enough, this is exactly what I've been looking for in a para eq...a notch filter with a super narrow bandwidth for boosting around 250Hz. Are you suggesting the narrow bandwidth isn't a good idea?

Mr Blue Sky - ELO

"McGonagall you say...?" "One mention of the Famous Tay Whale and I'll turn you into one. Somewhere high above the surface of a mythical planet."

Yeah, the problem is he's basing musicality on popularity being an anathema to proficiency. It's a polarising position which I'm pretty confident isn't what Victor intended given his rep as a teacher. In any case a simple response to the argument would be for Alan Holdsworth to play 'Good Times' or 'Papa's Got A Brand New Bag'. Debate over. But...oh, he's dead.

I can't see how it makes sense from a fingering point of view. Your fretting thumb is anchored, your fingers move around in an arc as they go from string to string. The idea behind a radiussed fingerboard is to make the stretch for each note relatively consistent...isn't it?

Loved it up until the point where he compared Alan Holdsworth to BB King and then I was like...hmmm. Steve Vai talks about Alan Holdsworth as the only player he couldn't get a fix on musically. The ONLY one. So that makes him a guitarist's guitarist I guess in Victor Wooten's context. It doesn't detract from the point Victor was making but I would chosen someone who wasn't respected and revered. Yngwie for example.