Jean-Luc Pickguard

I bought an iRig acoustic a few years ago and haven't really used it as my 8 string uke already has a pickup, and my other tenor uke has f-holes which are too narrow to clip the iRig onto (D'oh!), but I have an acoustic tenor guitar coming soon and I'd like to try using the iRig for recording it into Logic on the Mac. My plan is to try using the iRig Acoustic clip-on pickup/mic plugged directly in my Mac's headset port as well as into the guitar input of my focusrite Scarlett solo via an appropriate adaptor, and also try both ways using an iPhone with the amplitube acoustic app. Then I can compare the results and see what works best. Does anyone here use an iRig acoustic for recording? If so how do you use it and what gave the best results?

I bought a fair amount of gear from ABC in Surbiton in the 80s including my first bass amp, a secondhand Ohm GA125 which I bought with a 15" Laney cab. I also bought a Yamaha CX5M music computer system when they were first available in 1984 and later a Casio MG-510 midi guitar.

That explains the apparent lack of a carrying handle

I once saw an obvious 'Chibson' Les Paul in the window of Cash Converters labelled & priced as a Gibson. I didn't feel the need to make a documentary about it though.

What no big bottom?

Strange that given the prices of the products offered, the website is hosted on a free online store under a subdomain rather than their own domain name, and with several third-party ads on the product pages.

He's clearly been working on his bass-face as much as his playing

It won't replace me unless it can chuck in the odd bum note here & there

Martin at the gallery once told me it was best to not cut strings so I never cut them unless I absolutely have to - eg if I'm fitting long scale strings to a short scale bass (like Fender do as standard with the JMJ mustang) and there would be about half a mile to wrap around each tuner's capstan if they weren't cut.

Maybe its a parody like those Nirvana tee shirts with a pic of hanson on them?

My playing is like the cafeteria at chernobyl: not great, not terrible

I wonder how the knot is holding up six years on

Whether tort looks right or not depends on the tort - it can look like attack ships on fire off the shoulder of Orion, like a dirt protest, or anything between. The one on the gold ashbird appears to be positioned towards the latter end of that spectrum.

Top Tip: Preempt these scammers by removing the value of what they hold over you. Make your own video of yourself having a barclays and send it to all of your contacts before they have a chance to send theirs.

Not sure. If it is a Squier the curvy headstock point to it being a bottom of the range job like an affinity P bass, although I don't think the affinity was available as early as 1995 but there may have been an equivalent. Whatever it is the whole bass it came off would probably be worth £100 at most so £69 for just the neck is too much in my opinion.

very nice! sounds exactly like a good precision should.

I'll list the main red flags that caught my eye, without having to look too hard: The shape of the headstock is wrong - it looks slightly bigger & more curvy like a 70's strat, but not so exterme. The width at the nut appears to be more like a jazz but this is labelled as a precision - Fender have made some precisions with a jazz-style neck, but I'm not sure whether this is the case for any MiM ones, so this on its own wouldn't necessarily be proof of a fake. The decal is a very poor fake - the letters of 'Precision bass' are distorted in different directions for some unknown reason - Fender never did that. The access hole for the truss rod tool is too wide. On a genuine Fender would have a fillet made of a dark wood (probably walnut) plug with a hole in it. On the back of the headstock the fake 'Made in Mexico' & serial decal looks nothing like it would on a genuine fender - it is using the wrong typeface and dimensions. The tuners look similar to the ones typically used on a MiM but appear to be possibly a cheaper type.

I am very disappointed that not one person so far has made the obvious comment about how much this product sucks. edit: ubit kind of went there but took a slightly different and more risqué direction.

Good for metal?

Here is a tracing of my original 1972 pickguard

Lovely tone & playing on the mustang bass.

I had a coloursound tonebender back in the late 70s/early 80s. I think I sold it for a tenner.

This sounds like a great project. I've recently changed my tenor guitar to 'Chicago' tuning - equivalent to the top 4 of a guitar (or baritone uke). As the scale length is shorter I used heavier strings than I would for a normal six string . You can get a good idea of which strings should work well with the tool at http://chordgen.rattree.co.uk/tensiontool.php eg for a balanced eight string with a 15" scale length (like a tenor uke) using steel strings: