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  1. MichaelDean
    Here you go. Feeling a fair bit better today so made it in. Good idea with the rulers @BigRedX. Combustion 5_2 pickguard.pdf
  2. MichaelDean
    Get a coach instead. It'll take longer than the train, but would get you directly to the airport and will be cheaper. You may have to pay a small surcharge for excess luggage depending on their policy though.
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    They all come with a mic. It's just a feature the market has decided everyone wants and I'd be surprised if you found any without.
  4. MichaelDean
    I can the next time I go into the office - I don't have a scanner at home. Slight complication, I've done my back in, so it might not be till next week. I went the other way, Combustion to NG2 configuration!
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    The Mod Dwarf looks really interesting and I've been reading the thread with interest. I'd be keen to take a look!
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    Ok, I'll bring along my Mustang, Dingwall, ABM600, Zilla 212 and Boss GX100 if anyone fancies giving any of that a go.
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    Here you go. I picked it up for £500 on eBay about 15 years ago. It was in a sorry state, so I stripped the paint and refinished it (poorly and not patiently) in a thin layer of white blonde nitro, and added a racing stripe decal. It has been played a lot, so in lockdown I got the frets replaced with stainless steel ones, so I won't have to have it done again, and the old tuners are shot, so replaced them with some Hipshot ultralights. The new hole I drilled would be covered by the old tuners were I ever in the unlikely event of selling it. All mojo is genuine play wear and it even came with me on a short Japanese tour. I'll bring it along to the SW bass bash! 😁
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    I'll take one tomorrow. The light has gone today.
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    Well, I've refinished it (it was a horrible black over the original sunburst), replaced the frets and tuners and fitted a KiOgon loom, but the body shape is as I got it. It's a 1976 model. Maybe it was because of the wood they were getting in at the time that they introduced some contours? 70s Fenders are renowned for being a bit heavy. This is just over 4kg.
  10. MichaelDean
    Not all Mustangs lack contours!
  11. MichaelDean
    As far as I know, there isn't any drop in replacement. It's a good design though. Nothing has gone wrong on the bridge of my 76 'stang. What's made you ask?
  12. MichaelDean
    It's got to have form and function to me. If it doesn't excite me visually or aurally, I won't pick it up to play it. I've sold all of the things I don't like the look of or don't sound good to me. I've also been swayed on the visuals of some basses based on how they play. I've never really liked the Spector/Warwick look, but I played a multiscale Spector the other day out of curiosity and it's really converted me. It was really well put together and I'd have one in a heartbeat. I'm totally sold on multiscale though as a thing I want in any new bass I buy. I can play more intricate bass lines more accurately and more easily on multiscale than I can on straight frets. It can be a bit of a stretch on the money end, depending on the part and especially on a 37" string, but it's a compromise I'm willing to accept.
  13. MichaelDean
    @SteveXFR if you count my Dingwall as a "metal" bass, I'm planning on taking it to the South West Bass Bash later this year, or if you find yourself in South Bristol and fancy a play, drop me a message. I might also be getting a multiscale Spector this week too 😅
  14. MichaelDean
    It's such a pain getting the right inner tubes for a penny farthing...
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    I love my Boss GX-100. It does so many things really well. Still 100% pleased with it and it handles everything I need it to. My issue with it is, why can't they programme a good pitch shifter for it? It's bad on bass and guitar - can't track either well. Or is it tracking too well, detecting tiny pitch changes, and that's what's getting reproduced? I don't need to shift my pitch often and when I do, it's me messing around, but it's really annoying that they just kinda gave up when they got to that. It'd almost be better that they just didn't include that option rather than tease you.
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    Yeah, the GAS struggle is real. I played a multiscale 4 string Spector on my lunch break. That was nice... Good job i didn't succumb else I'd have a very angry wife about now 😅
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    There's also the argument that you may want the one you've played. Say you've been trying out all of the P basses, spending hours looking for "the one", and by jove, you find it! It speaks to you unlike any other and the neck fits your hand perfectly, despite it being the 7th Player range bass you've tried and they should all supposedly be the same. Then they say, "Sorry, no, that's a display model only. Here's one fresh from the box". You'd be peeved, right?
  18. MichaelDean
    It's a post-rock sorta morning...
  19. MichaelDean
    I like lots of reverb and delay for ambient swells. And lots of reverb can be fun for filling stuff out when you've also got mountains of distortion/fuzz on and you want it to be a mushy wall of noise. The level of reverb I've got on at times would be ludicrous for most things 😅
  20. MichaelDean
    To keep them feeling normal, you've just got to keep the 4s in rotation for noodling about at home. I played my Mustang almost exclusively for years. I convinced myself I couldn't do the reaches on a normal scale anymore. Then I joined a new band, needed a 5 string and I adapted back to 34" with the extra string without too much pain. My Mustang suddenly felt a bit like a toy. It took a while to get used to them all again, but these days, my main three are my Dingwall, my 'stang and a p style bass. If I'm not practicing band stuff (for which the Dingwall is the only one set up in drop C), I'll just pick whichever I fancy in the moment. It may even be my tele. I really like having different things to suit my whim.
  21. MichaelDean
    Hmmmm, it depends on that band I'm in at the time. I think at the moment, it would be a 2 pickup combustion (available in 4 and 5 strings), with the pickups in the NG position, but still with an ash body and EMG preamp. Matt purple metallic finish, matt black pickguard, full wenge neck, luminlay side dots, pearl fretboard dots. Black hardware. The 4 string might need to be 37"-34.75" instead of the standard 36.25"-34". I'm ready to talk Sheldon!
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    Hah! I think I saw the same video a few years ago and have the paints in my Amazon wish list (purple is also my jam). Still never got round to ordering it all! I wish you luck and I hope your success brings me closer to doing it myself!
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    If you can orient them this way, this is the left and right ones.
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    I've been in a couple of bands that I wasn't very keen on. I was too polite to say that I didn't want to join and it wasn't said that they didn't want me. So I kept turning up. In hindsight, I should have bailed on those long before I did. I've also been in a few bands of varying genres that I hadn't really explored before, but I found myself really enjoying both the band and the related music. Have you tried starting a band you would enjoy more and could play in with your wife? Or, is it worth getting some recommendations from the rest of the band on what other metal you might like? See if you can get into it a bit. It's a pretty wide genre. Some stoner rock touches a bit on doom metal. Could be a gateway?
  25. MichaelDean
    I did try that. It was better, but still not enough to make me want to listen to more than about 3 songs. And those 3 songs will happily do me for the next few years. The Smiths, Morrisey, and Van Morrison are the only three artists I've blocked from playing on my Spotify account. Van Morrison just doesn't sit right with me. I had to study Tupelo Honey as one of a few pieces that might come up in the exam for my A level in music and explain how it was nice and made you calm because of chord structures, etc. It didn't though. It made me irrationally annoyed. Like the whole song was disengenuous. Thankfully I didn't have to lie about it, as it wasn't one of the pieces chosen. Apparently the exam board don't care that music is subjective!
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