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  1. Your backup bass with the alternative tuning.
  2. IMO it really depends what you want to achieve with your home practice. For me the is no point is practicing at home unless I'm using the same instrument and effects that I will using with the band. I even play standing up, because that's what I do at the gig. The only compromise I make is that I'll be listening on headphones most of the time rather than going through my FRFR cab.
  3. The problem with all music shops is that now we have the internet to see what is available throughout the world they can no longer carry sufficient range of stock whether it be picks and stings, high-tech instruments and effects or anything in between to satisfy anyone other than those with the most mainstream of tastes. And nor should we expect them to. Consumables are easier to buy in bulk on-line where the choice is unlimited and the only real restriction is price. Even the ability to try before you buy IMO is over-rated. In the last 20 years I have tried 2 basses before paying for them. One was fine played sitting down in the shop. Within a week of getting it home and using it with my band I discovered so may short-comings that it was moved on and replaced with something that I bought on the strength of some nice photos and a decent reputation of the brand. The other has had a couple of years of use but has now been relegated to a back-up instrument as a result of buying something else on-line. For me trying in the shop is close to worthless. It's only when I'm playing with my band that I can make any meaningful decisions about an instrument or other piece of musical equipment. The last time I went to my local music shop to get a hands-on demonstration of a pice of musical equipment, the department I wanted to go to was closed and no-one appeared to be interested in opening it to serve me. So I bought something from Amazon on spec alone knowing that if I didn't get on with it, I'd be able to return it for a full refund, no questions asked.
  4. Not only that but IME PSUs with plastic earth pins don't fit as snugly and securely into the mains socket. Mine came out just far enough to kill the power to all the connected devices in my rack case mid-gig. These days I won't entertain any device that doesn't have a standard UK mains plug with metal pins at the end of proper cable for gigging use.
  5. AFAICS most "boutique" pedal builders seem to be content to use artwork produced by their young children.
  6. I didn't see that (hence my comments on lateral thinking) as it's cunningly hidden on the side.
  7. Is it possible to do some lateral thinking with the panning on the HX Stomp so you can use the R input and output as an effects loop?
  8. Remember that the D'Addario string tension calculator is only accurate for D'Adddario strings. Other makes may have different tension due to materials and construction methods being different. Also don't forget that compliance will also have an effect on how stiff a string feels on a given instrument.
  9. The iconic bit is the guitar part and the composer of that gets paid ever time the tune is used. As has been said £600 for a few hours work some 20 years ago re-arranging what was already an iconic tune is pretty good going. Even more so since the rest of the arrangement appears to have been cobbled together using stock samples and loops. Remember the real money is in actually writing the songs themselves.
  10. You know that this one will run and run...
  11. Goth/Post-punk is a niche genre, but IME it's a very we'll supported niche genre, and it's not just people in their 50s and older trying to re-live the glory days of the mid to late 80s. Certainly both bands that I'm in at the very worst break even when gigging. It may help that here in Nottingham we are better placed to take advantage of all the gigs happening further north and as we all know "It's Goth Up North". Hopefully at some point one of my bands will be doing a gig with The InSect and we'll be able to catch up.
  12. Yes and here's how it's worked out.
  13. Looking at the short-scale basses that people are saying exhibit neck dive and my personal experiences, it appears to be mostly down to the design. One of the main problems I am am seeing here is the insistence of having large bass guitar machine heads arranged 4 in line. This means the overall neck is too long and there's too much weight at the end of it. Most of my short scales basses have either had guitar size machine heads, or had them arranged in a 2+2 configuration (or 3+3 for the Bass VIs), or even better are headless. The other issue is the placement of the strap button in relation to the neck position. Also many short scale basses don't sound like the OP's P-Bass. In order to get anywhere close in sound the short scale bass is going to have to have a P-Bass pickup somewhere close (in relative terms) to where it would be on the string length of a 34" scale bass. Basses with different types of pickups in different locations along the string length are simply not going to sound the same.
  14. Does 5.1/surround add anything worthwhile? Especially for an album that was originally mixed for stereo? IME most domestic listening environments are not even set up for decent stereo imaging.
  15. Over the past 45 years I have played basses with all sorts of scale lengths from 27" to 36" and have no problem switching. However I also play guitar, mandolin and balalaika so I'm used to stringed instruments with massively different scale lengths. My first bass was a short scale and my second was a 36" scale. At the moment I play a 34" scale 5-string bass in one band and a 30" Bass VI in another. I think it helps that I play different songs and slightly different styles of music on each type of bass so there is no confusion. If you are struggling with muscle memory, my advice would be, that if you really want to play short scale bass, put your other basses away and only play the short scale or at least don't play the songs that you are using the short scale bass for on basses with different scale lengths. Also I can't say I have noticed any problems with neck dive playing short scales basses apart from a Kramer with a V-shaped body. What basses have you tried that exhibited those problems?
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