Jean-Luc Pickguard

Mother In Law — Ernie K Doe

Leave It — Yes

Frankie's Gun — The Felice Brothers

Oh the humanity

Unlike my vintera mustang, the JMJs make it easy to adjust the truss rod as there is a perfectly sized cutout in both the body and the pickguard. The stewmac tele trussrod tool is perfect for this, no need to take the pickguard or neck off.

In a previous band we played O.V. Wright's 'Eight Men and Four Women.' During the break between sets, one punter felt the need to come up to the singer and tell him it made him want to slash his wrists. We dropped it from the setlist for the next gig.

Before shielding there was noise that came & went as I moved the bass about pointing the headstock in different directions, not much, but it was there. After shielding, the noise was no longer present.

You didn't have to take the neck off the original 50s/60s ones either — they didn't have a truss rod so you had to make do with it how it was.

Hooker With A Peñis — TOOL

The Prince (Andrew) — Madness

This band sounds like a bunch of chumps

I have just tried the stem splitter function LP11 on last night's rehearsal recording. My initial impression is that the resultant stems are as good as or possibly a bit cleaner than those from RipX. Certainly the bass has most of its tone rather than being an indistinct rumble and there is very little of the bass left on the guitar track. The drums and vocals are very clean. RipX does a lot more, but I've found that it is quite time consuming and often confusing to use the editing features so I have only been using it as a simple stem splitter lately, so it looks like yhis is going to speed up my workflow as I can do everything I need to right within Logic Pro.

Sausage In a Bottle — The Police

Chipbuilding — Robert Wyatt

Not had a chance to investigate the new features yet, but the revamped drummer looks awesome on this 'Why Logic Pro Rules' video

Installing it now. The Cory Wong producer pack looks like it will be worth investigating

Still waiting for the upgrade. Have to head out to rehearsal shortly so I'll probably get the upgrade when I get back. If you want to upgrade, but retain the option of being able to roll back to the previous version in case of issues, go to applications in finder, right click on the Logic Pro.app and click on [Compress "Logic Pro.app"] to create a zip archive of your current version. I've almost completely managed to wean myself off using third party plugins so I'm not worried about incompatibilites.

Sit Down And Talk This Over — Wilson Pickett

Gimme A Pigfoot and a Bottle Of Beer — Bessie Smith

Yes, the labella danelectro set are low tension. They don't really pull on the neck much so the truss rod needed to be slackened off pretty much all the way to get any relief.

It looks like it'll start walking towards you as soon as you turn your back on it

The Green Green Grass Of Homeopathy — Tom Jones

Cindy Tells Me — Brian Eno

Just seen this: https://www.soundonsound.com/news/apple-logic-pro-11-incoming Logic pro 11 will be available on Monday — 13 May and will include a few new goodies including Bass & Keyboard equivalents to the drummer track, Stem splitter, and a new saturation plugin. The cost will be £199, but the best part is that it will be a free upgrade for existing users. It looks like the new keyboard player plugin is going to be limited to piano, but I hope it gets extended to include hammond organ styles also as I would probably enjoy playing with that. I already own RipX for splitting songs into stems for remixing old recordings or rehearsal / gig recordings from the zoom H2n, so it will be interesting to see how the Logic splitter compares.

I never solder anything when I shield a bass and I've never had less than perfect results. I ensure there is continuity of the tape, ie a strip of tape betwen the pickup cavity and the control cavity, the bits of tape overlap (the adhesive on most copper tape is conductive) and extend a tag to one of the control plate screw holes so it connects to the control plate — you can see these have been done in the pic I posted above. One further tip, don't be tempted to get the wide tape thinking it'll mean less bits are needed. I've found that the 1" (25mm) wide tape works best, anything wider gets unmanagable and tries to stick to itself before you want it to.