Woodinblack

Like anything, its familiarity. If you go to a download site and download a guitar pro tab (normally scroll to the bottom for that), then when you see the notes you can just select them and move them up or down a string and it goes up/down by 5. I had to do quite a bit when I was looking at son of a preacher man, as the tab sites have crazy fingering for it.

That certainly wouldn't be tricky and depending on the speed you are playing maybe that is a better way of playing it. The whole point of tab over notation is that it has the fingering. If you don't like the fingering, what is the point of it? I find it very rare that tab is either right or the fingering I would use. GuitarPro lets you move it around flexibly, but it has the advantage of using both tab and notation at the same time (you can export ascii tab though). I have quite a lot of tab around, but it is normally stuff I have done for myself or modified.

I think the idea is that you randomly turn them a bit until you get the sound you want, then write down the setting! Honestly there doesn't seem to be an immediate correlation between the knob positions and the tone, although the switches above the knobs have a bit more of an effect.

Actually one of the odd things about a bass is that you don't often play chords on it. But if you did, a chord is basically the same pattern everywhere, unlike the guitar (the more strings you have the easier this is). It's easier to see the chords by pattern rather than remembering the actual notes or offsets of them. Then slide it round to see where it fits.

I must admit that is the reason I wouldn't go now. It is great to go to a festival and camp somewhere when you are a teenager and live at home, it just sucks when you have to worry about whether your back is going to hurt the next day! Sounds a bit like reverse elitism though. I went 3 years and didn't care in the slightest who was playing. Why should it be different now. Ok, it was a lot cheaper then. So you saw the transition of being a kid running round being excited to be at a festival without your parents to someone older who could look down on them? I can't complain about that. I went to reading at 18, it was great, I was excited to be at a festival without my parents getting off with some girl. If that is what they are doing now, it seems like a good use of their time.

True. It was an odd event. And so hot that year too, but to be fair, I didn't remember much of the music as I had gone with a girl who was not yet my girlfriend but would be by the time we got back.

Well, that is good. I would want a paper map so I could cover myself up if anyone walked past. Oh hang on, thats not naturalist is it? 😮 You get that sort of display in something like guitarpro though don't you? but not easy on ascii text

Strange, I was at reading in 83 and I don't remember seeing you there Mind you, if you ended up in thames valley police station afterwards trying to identify all the stuff that was nicked, then maybe I did!

Trying the 3d thing - haven't go the hang of processing them for facebook yet though:

Obviously but to extend the pedantry a bit, that is because you have just defined it as a music festival and then complained the music isn’t good enough. It isn’t really that, it is a festival that also has music, and because that music is now televised on the beeb, it reinforces the idea that it is a music festival

I didn't really get on with it (I won't say i hate them, love the shape, just sort of gets in the way of how I play), but I sure as hell don't want something that feels plays or sounds like a fender!

Pretty well my childhood.

So chatting on basschat and buying effects pedals it is!

Theres another reason?

Oh yes, there was a time when that worked out as £49 on offer, but I think that was just after the reduction (if you have a LT or full). Annoyingly I can't register my HX effects as I got it second hand, or I would buy native. ETA - By a stroke of luck, now I can and have!

If what you want is available and affordable and anyone is selling one. if the option of getting a bass that feels right but just needs different electronics rather than wait 3 months for something else to come up, it sounds like a no brainer to me.

Isn't it free if you have a full helix?

What has he done with it?

Yeh, I liked it last time I was there (and have a load of points i should really use). Just a real pain to go into poole. Poole is less distance to me than bristol, but I still find it easier to go into bristol (even with the road works).

Yep, that is one of the weird ones, as well as the 2405 (I think).

Because if it feels right, then changing the electronics is easy. If it doesn't feel right you are never going to make it feel right.

Yep, 16.5mm as nature intended, same as (almost all) the other 5 string SRs.

I would hope they would be around an octave higher!

The original strings on these are very light, I think they are 85s or something. There is always an element of buzziness to the strings but it shouldn't be that flappy, probably down to neck relief. They are one of those basses I keep buying and not keeping for long, then wanting another!