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Actually may be better. Scotts course immediately launched into stuff that I had no idea about, so I was lost from the start.

Well, I now have a shuker uberhorn, so I am going to be playing everything with it. Mustang sally? Check. All right now? Check!

Sounds like a win as far as I can see. Now you have to make some music with it

Would love a bass with a white fretboard. Its a shame that fretboards are so rarely coloured. Still kick myself for not getting a fender flip-flop strat.

I couldn't get on with the gary willis fingerboard thing, so I got my money back on that. But the 26 week accelerator course was great, happy I did that one.

You can put it into single note mode, then it never does that.

Mine is pretty good, hadn't had any trouble with recognising certain notes, except doing intonation on the B string at the 19th fret, then it starts getting a bit weird, but for normal tuning no issue.

Yeh, I did that once. The bass amp was on mute

Yeh, the other shuker will go just as soon as I fix the preamp, then I will be back to level!

And that is fine too! We have that almost every gig with the guitarist. As he is using a les paul and a valve amp, it is not a preamp issue! Normally a rubbishy fender lead. He was once annoyed that he cut out at the beginning of dani california and we carried on the song without him, and after the gig someone that has seen us a lot came up and asked what was different as it sounded really good. Very very amused!

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A few things, unless your preamp is defective, it will not be introducing a compression in your bass. Amplifier circuits are very simple and well done. If anything it could be preventing compression, especially when it comes to high frequencies. A preamp sounds "more hifi" because you haven't lost the high frequency in the RC network that is your lead. The organic sound of your pickup is the sound with a decent preamp (and note, that doesn't mean expensive). The sound you may like (the vintage sound) is the sound with the treble trimmed off by the lead, or the capacitor of a passive tone control. It is common to like that sound, that is why you get 'lead simulators' on wireless transmitters (as you are effectively doing the same as a preamp), which simulate the losses in the lead. I am surprised more preamps don't have a 'vintage' setting where it rolls off those tones. If your preamp is colouring your signal, when you have no controls turned up or down, ie, if there is any difference between it on and off in a perfect lead (or an unsimulated wireless), then there is something wrong with your preamp, or it is designed that way (like a tonepump or something).

Indeed. He might not be great but I was happier after seeing the video than before, so that is good enough for me

And just to show I really did want it back then, I mentioned it at the time!

umm.. no? Well, he is enjoying it and I think we can say that that is the most important thing

YP? You mean the YC or am I missing one? I would love the YC. I have one, but its broken, beyond fixing broken sadly. The CP sounds great but you know, piano, electric piano, thanks I am done for piano sounds. having a CP preset on one of the others would work. I dont have space for main keys, or I would gig the roland (or get a Roland VR09), so something small would do. Problem is with the refaces, they are all nearly perfect if they had a crossover with the others. There is alwyas the little ones they do I guess, the toy keyboards.

So that shuker I bought recently isn't right for me, the neck and the string spacing is too big for my hands, and the number of strings is just confusing to me, but one thing I realised is how the quality of the build was. So with quite a bit of talking to Jon, selling my stick and a few other things, and a longing that has been with me since the LBGS in 17, I present something that pretty well everyone who went to the LBGS in 2017 will probably remember. Shuker Uberhorn, 33" neck, 17mm spacing, delano pickups and john east pre. Weighs about nothing!

Well, it is never going to be as good as the MODX, it is not as good as my roland DS, but when I am doing a gig it is the right size and it is good at practices. With the space the big synths are going to win. I still wish there was an 'all of the above', like a reface that had all the other refaces, but was the same size

Love that colour, would be happy with that, and put up with the inlays, as I could just get another scratchplate. Although I have now come to realise that any 4 or 6 string bass I buy will sit around looking pretty until I finally give up and sell it. I need to learn a lesson from that! He certainly played one with those inlays: https://reverb.com/uk/item/17117360-gibson-nikki-sixx-owned-played-signed-thunderbird-bass-with-coa-case-motley-crue?locale=en-GB presumably he just gets them at $1k, plays them at one gig, ships them out for $4k as a nice little earner? Thats not so bad at all. Again, not bothered about the inlays, but like the black and red headstock.

I also wouldn't have called it the danciest thing ever. I only remember the travelogue version - I saw them in 1980, I don't recal it being done much different but I don't remember it well anyway

I saw a program on music, analying the beats, timing and lyrics of music that demonstrated that worldwide, disco was one of the most significant changes of music in the last 50 years, and punk didn't make much of an impact at all, and the difference it made was only temporary in the uk.

Never quite understood the point of an external preamp. The point of an internal preamp is to buffer your signal so you don't get signal losses in your lead. Once you have done that you might as well put tone controls on there but that isn't so much important. What is the point of an external preamp? What is it providing that the preamp in your amplifier is not doing for you? I suppose if you are going straight to the PA there is one, but otherwise? You have already lost your treble in the lead, and got whatever noise is going, so you don't gain anything else.

Has "Every lyric written by Ronnie James Dio" been mentioned yet? Not so much factually incorrect, more totally inconherant. with such gems as "Ride the tiger, You can see his stripes but you know he's clean, Oh don't you see what I mean? " - no Ronnie, we don't. " Race for the morning You can hide in the sun 'till you see the light " " It's like broken glass You get cut before you see it " " You've got wings of steel But they never really move you You only seem to crawl " " Don't hide in doorways You may find the key that opens up your soul "

Its just down to getting comfortable with doing the octaves. I don't really have a problem with those. Hadn't heard the song though. Chorus sounds a bit stones'y

Yeh, ours cost £25 from aliexpress