Jean-Luc Pickguard

The thing about tort is that some tort looks absolutely brilliant, but others look like puked up tinned tomatoes & scrambled eggs. I'm not so keen on the tort on my 1990 MIJ '62 RI Precision, but I'm wary of getting a replacement that's just as ugly. The tort one I got for my jazz is nice though. Black also looks good on sunburst - my fretless Precision (with unlined ebony fingerboard, TV logo & lollypop tuners) has a black one on at the moment.

Aged white pearloid. White pearl is usually too bright for me, but a nice creamy aged pearl looks classy on vintage colours including sunburst

[quote name='fatback' post='876979' date='Jun 24 2010, 11:26 PM']Talc is out. [i]Anything[/i] smelling of babies is out.[/quote] I have to use talc with my ashborys due to the silicone rubber strings. The oils in scented talc can rot the strings, but unscented talc is perfect. Less perfect is the container it comes in, so I use it in a travel-size johnsons talc container as it allows me to shake out just the amount needed. I'm not recommending the brand I use though, as I emailed them a while ago enquiring about a talc endorsement, mentioning that their product was more suitable than other brands for Ashbory players and I have been recommending it to other players. Miserable b'stards didn't bother replying and just added my email address to their mailing list until I unsubscribed. I used scotchbrite on the back of my japanese mustang neck to take off some of the gloss from it - its much better now.

The real sad thing was how the audience was lapping it up like cloth-eared numpties watching Glee.

[url="http://www.stsanders.com/www/pages/videos/band-shreds/sts-kiss.php"]StSanders[/url] would be able to put up a Joey De Maio Shreds video, but there wouldn't be much point as it would sound more polished than the original

I'd have thought that a compressor would negate the need for a limiter most of the time. At most settings, while its compressing its also limiting isn't it?. I'd use one or the other. I've tried lots, but my cheapo green behringer limiter pedal does what I need.

We only have a small PA, but all cables are coiled neatly and each type (Speaker / mic / power) is in its own supermarket "bag for life" which then all go into a large holdall which also has other bits & bobs - mains extensions, mics (in boxes) etc. When each bag for life wears out after a few gigs you can exchange it for a free replacement.

If they did, it would probably have a stupid inlay with his name on it that looks totally out of place

[quote name='wateroftyne' post='869855' date='Jun 17 2010, 01:02 PM']The upload process is a little laborious... you upload the tune to the phone, then, before you can play it for the first time, it has to re-encode it. Admittedly I have a 3G, but it wasn't a particularly quick process. Basically, you're going to have to know what tunes you want (making sure there are less than 20) and prepare them in advance. It's a shame.[/quote] That makes it a deal-breaker for me. I'm not going to want to go through that - especially as a typical o5b gig is two sets of about 15 songs. Glad I wasn't tempted to preorder an iPhone 4 now

Bugger! That's taken away a lot of my excuses for wanting an iPhone4 now - this was the killer app on my wishlist I have hundreds of songs which could crop up on a set list or I might want to reaquaint myself with or try picking up new songs, so its handy to have immediate access to them. This is why I got rid of the tascam guitar trainer - 1Gb wasn't enough and the faffing about taking songs off & putting them on as needed (& making sure they were in the correct bitrate etc) was a pain in the bum. Lately I've just been using my macbook & guitar rig session I/O to play along with my setlist playlists in iTunes. I hope there is a better way of doing this on the iPhone - I wonder whether the multitasking in iOS4 will help?

I love my short scales. I have a few: 1971 musicmaster bass - the stock pickup was a mustang guitar pickup - like a shallow strat pickup even down to 6 poles. It sounded pretty weak - the E had that unfocussed tone you get with some cheap 5 strings on the B so I replaced it with a kent armstrong enclosed strat cool rails humbucker and it sounds a lot tighter yet looks totally stock. The tulip-shaped tuners do the job and look pretty, but are cheap tat. My Fender Japan mustang is a much classier instrument. Lovely neck shape, perfect tone from the stock pickup - its the default one I take for most gigs.

I'm definitely going to get it. I think I'll get an iPhone first though.

[quote name='Johnston' post='865409' date='Jun 12 2010, 05:59 PM']Bad mood or very good mood the T-bird gets pulled out and cranked up.[/quote] Ha Ha Ha - I was in Foul mood before the acoustic blues jam night on Tuesday, so instead of my tanglewood acoustic bass, fretless precision, NS-upright or an ashbory, I took my thunderbird and a very long strap. Cheered me up a bit. My default bass for most gigs though is the mustang or the tanglewood for acoustic gigs.

Not me - I generally don't care what the pros are using. I wouldn't mind my own signature model though.

IMO its a waste of money to buy a fretted bass specifically to defret it. Different story to already owning a fretted bass and getting it defretted. If budget is tight looking for a secondhand fretless would be the cost effective way & you can see how it plays and sounds as a fretless before shelling out the wonga.

I sold my shell pink squier musicmaster, but I'm keeping my violetburst daisy rock:

I used to use a bit of cheap & cheerful PC software for this: magix audio cleaning lab - you can usually get the latest or previous version cheap whenever PC world have a sale. I wish there was a mac version as it was very easy to use and I could master a wav of an old cassette demo tape into a finished CD much quicker than I can now in Adobe Soundbooth.

[quote name='velvetkevorkian' post='859998' date='Jun 7 2010, 03:37 PM']+1- the one you've linked to is a horrible mess layout wise. It looks like something from 1998, made in Frontpage. Yours is much leaner and cleaner.[/quote] +1 The trouble with myspace is that its always going to look a mess. It is not a substitute for a proper website if you feel you do need something more than a myspace sh*te. The one you linked to uses big blocks of text rendered as a graphic which can look nice, but are totally inaccessible to visually impaired uses (including the google spider).

Perhaps he was a guitarist standing in for the proper bass player

similar concept to prising off with teaspoons, I have removed push-on knobs by looping a shoelace around the pot shaft under the knob and pulling it upwards. Less chance of being cackhanded & making any indentations.

Wen I repositioned the button on my 'snowy-white' epi t-bird, I put a strap button screw in the hole with a nylon washer under it. Looks like a pointless bit of trim, but neater than a hole and possibly slightly less pointless than a non-used strap button. Last time I was asked what it was I said it was a laser and refused to demonstrate it for fear of blinding someone.

Felice Brothers Fantastic Band - love 'em

I hope his next assignment will be locating the Funk Machine for the Jamerson family

I'd have thought everything you NEED to know about a precision/jazz bass could be said on about four pages plus a few pics.

I have d-tuners on four of my basses, but not had this issue. Would a bit of ptfe tape help?