Jean-Luc Pickguard

I've replaced all my grolsch ones with Shower hose washers - 20 for a quid from screwfix.

Make yourself a nice bacon butty and while the bacon is frying, record the sound. Make a short loop from the recording and overdub it onto your track. Probably won't sound as as good as the isotope plugin, but you do get a bacon butty.

Terrible news and at such a young age. Sincerest condolences to his family.

I used to work with someone who had a collection of fridge magnets on the side of his PC. As I was the IT admin at the time, as soon as I notice this I pointed out to him that it *may* not be the best place to keep them and he totally shot me down in flames insisting that there's no way it could harm anything as they were only fridge magnets and the PC had very solid steel sides. A couple of weeks later he came whining to me that his PC is acting up and it looked like his hard drive was corrupted. Of course there's no way of knowing what actually caused the issue, but I told him there wasn't anything I could do beyond a reformat and reinstall do as some numpty had stuck magnets to it.

I'd try to get the seller of the secondhand one to give the price a bit of a haircut to make it a more attractive deal.

guitar stands are well worth the investment

wrap them in newspaper and bury them in the garden.

That's definitely shop soiled

I could do with one. I'll probably have one on my birthday - like I do most years.

This is a bass forum. Asking a community of bass players how to perform without a bass player but with a karaoke version instead seems a bit weird in my view. Using a backing track is more like to karaoke than live music. There's no substitute for the interaction you get with a decent band playing together and reacting to the vibe.

Get a rhythm section and do it properly. Using backing tracks is half-arsed.

No need to shave anything off. Put a shim under it towards the front of the pocket. That'll bring the height at the bridge down.

I must try to resist the short scale precision.

Nope! Nothing wrong at all. I don't know about roundwounds as I don't use them, but Thomastik jazz flats are very light and low tension. There's nothing wrong with the tone I get out of those and apart from the better tone I find them much easier to play than something like heavy rotosound flats. If anyone thinks any less of me for using low tension strings I couldn't give a flying feck and I envy them that they don't have anything more important to worry about.

I saw a cherry sunburst one on consignment in a shop a few years ago. The lacquer and foto had worn away in a big patch where the previous owner's right arm must have rested, exposing the basswood underneath. It looked like he played close to the bridge. It totally ruined the look of the bass. It would have been beautiful otherwise.

[quote name='BarnacleBob' post='519570' date='Jun 20 2009, 08:32 PM']Not to be confused with a brand new 65 Pre-CBS Precision. BB[/quote] or one with the original fingerboard. I wonder how much that modification will lower the final price by?

[quote name='mrcrow' post='519323' date='Jun 20 2009, 02:36 PM']TI's rule..ok?[/quote] Too right. The tone is in the fingers, but my fingers sound best with TI JF324s on a mustang.

I flogged my akai deep impact for £80

I also play the spoons.

Looks like one of those generic sub-£100 chinese clones that are sold on ebay to unsuspecting beginners.

I think there was a special run of dudepit flats made by LaBella once specifically for string-thru 50s style fenders, where the winding was wound at more of an angle so the windings looked more *diagonal* on the string. I think this was the result of a fair bit of trial & error. LaBella could probably have developed this into a new product line, but I don't think they so perhaps it didnt actually help much. I have TI JF324 on my mustang and they have no problem with the string-thru bridge. I also have a set of TI JF345 on my peavey 5er with string thru with no problems.

[quote name='alexclaber' post='518344' date='Jun 19 2009, 01:17 PM']I would never consider Thomastik 'flats' a replacement for normal flats. Because they're wound with a gap between the square section wire coils on the outside they don't behave like flats in how they vibrate and thus how they sound - they're far too flexible and have much more midrange and much less boom. They really shouldn't even be called flats, maybe squarewounds or something! They're very nice strings if you don't mind the low tension but they're not proper flats. Alex[/quote] I can't see why TI s shouldn't be called flatwounds, but I'd still use them even if they were called bendywounds. I do think Rotosound Jazz flats should be called crapywounds though .

[quote name='Eight' post='518509' date='Jun 19 2009, 04:00 PM']What about O I play bass guitar but own a double bass[/quote] ...Or 'I play double bass, electric upright bass and Ashborys as well as bass geetars'