JapanAxe

Thanks for doing this @Zoltan Dekany I reckon to know my scales but I'm finding your position shift options really useful. Thanks also for not promoting 1-finger-per-fret - that's a recipe for tendonitis! (EDIT - I meant particularly at the headstock end of the fretboard.)

Er, no!

A guy I know has an SVL Brent-Mason-ish 3-pickup Tele. It’s pretty darned fine.

Ooh I didn’t know Simon was making basses now! Given that all my bass guitars are basically Precisions (see signature) I’ll happily grab any of them. Having said that, my ‘73 P has that ‘comfortable old pair of shoes’ thing going, so that’s my nomination.

I heartily recommend Reaper DAW software. Free for as long as you like, cheap when you buy it, less than 20MB download, massively customisable - Mac or Windows, 32-bit or 64-bit. You can even carry a working copy round on a memory stick.

No shredding of coating from fret wear? Do you still make electrical contact with the strings and thus provide RF screening?

Ooh I was only aware of them as flats. Yes, I've tried half-rounds.

Cheers @Lozz196 I’ve recently changed all my skinny-string guitars over to Elixir Optiweb and they are excellent, but they don’t seem to do an Optiweb bass set.

For at least the last 5 years I have used flat-wound strings exclusively on all my bass guitars. Specifically I favour D’Addario Chromes and Ernie Ball Cobalts for a relatively bright flats sound. There is a certain attack at the start of each note that I think rounds can do but flats don’t. Consequently I am thinking of fitting one of my Precisions with a set of rounds - but which to get? I would probably favour consistency of sound over the life of the strings - they don’t need to be super bright to start with. I have tried half-rounds but didn’t much care for them. What can the BC posse recommend?

It would work as a humbucker in the same way as a Precision pickup or one of those weird-looking staggered G&L guitar pickups.

I like that the 802 has its treble (sorry, ‘Snap’) centred at 2kHz - many such controls are set at frequencies that have little effect on flatwound strings through non-tweeter cabs.

Still some standing tickets left for my gig tonight at the Old Court Arts Centre, Windsor:

The closest I’ve come to touring is the odd double-header where we’ve stayed in a Travel Tavern in between rather than coming home the same night as would normally happen. These have generally been relaxed affairs involving seeking out shops selling musical instruments, used kit, or CDs, and eating chips at the beach. It’s the late nights driving home from remote venues that take their toll on me. And trying to get other band members’ big/heavy kit past drunken eejits in pub doorways...

Love: Demeter VTBP M- 800D Liked a lot: Genz Benz Streamliner 900, TC Classic 450 OK, keep mainly as a backup: Markbass Nano 300 I surprised myself there, I thought I'd had more than that!

The bloke in Music Bay (Herne Bay) suggested we try the Rock Lodge in Whitstable, so after a cheeky ‘Spoons we headed over the road for the first set of the Miles Kingman Band.

Mrs Axe likes the seaside. But I’m not keen on Jazz basses!

Cheers! Just arrived in Whistable, going to spend the afternoon here and in Herne Bay I think.

Anyone playing in the Canterbury area tonight? Mrs Axe and I are having a little city break.

OK here's the poster art from the previous gig instead:

Back by popular demand, and with yours truly once again on bass guitar, Rebel Heroes are at The Old Court, Windsor on Saturday 7th March. Over 2 hours of solid Bowie material, from Space Oddity to Blackstar. We don't do the lookalike thing, we concentrate on reproducing the original recordings to a high level of accuracy. Get your tickets here. We nearly sold out the venue last time we played there (see above) - I'm after filling it this time!

From Wikipedia: “The hedonic treadmill, also known as hedonic adaptation, is the observed tendency of humans to quickly return to a relatively stable level of happiness despite major positive or negative events or life changes.” ...e.g. acquiring new kit!