NancyJohnson

I've had four operations on different fingers (so far). Left thumb, left middle, right ring, right middle. Just for the record two were done privately, two on the NHS, all by the same consultant (Charles Pailthorpe [url="http://www.circlehealth.co.uk/consultants/charles-pailthorpe"]http://www.circlehealth.co.uk/consultants/charles-pailthorpe[/url]), all were done professionally and without issue.

The procedure is a quick and it's a fairly simple surgery (just look up A1 pulley release on the tube of you); under ten minutes and the fix is [u]instant[/u] and permanent. The first evening after the operation has always been uncomfortable but thereafter recovery time is [b]very [/b]quick. The only reason I didn't play bass for a few days was just as a precaution to pulling open the lesion.

If I can give you one or two bits of advice, it would be to always insist on the surgical procedure. Cortizone injections, acupuncture, snake oil and any other miracle cures will categorically not resolve the issue and it will certainly not 'get better' on its own; the very nature of the condition is growth of the gristley pulley restricting tendon movement...it will not ungrow any more than your fingernails will recede back into their nailbeds. Resting the joint will not make the pulley shrink.

In closing, I'd say get it sorted sooner rather than later. Much as I love the NHS, their slacking and sidestepping on one finger caused the condition to worsen, resulting in damage both to the tendon and the sleeve surrounding it (the evening of that op was [i]very [/i]bad; worse pain I've experienced and it wasn't restricted to the hand). My consultant remarked I would likely experience issues with the finger in later life, but as of yet, it's been fine.

Get it sorted.

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Yes please. I'll bring some Thunderbirds and whatever rig I'm running at the time.
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I honestly thought this was an April Fool. Nope.

I'm a pick player and play fairly hard. I've had Elixirs on a variety of basses over the last couple of years and they last for ages. The strings on my Lull sound pretty much the same as they did when I put them on last September/October, fresh and bright.

Quick question. Is the Streamer a bolt on?

Weezer are a band I've followed since finding the video of Buddy Holly was bundled on my disc of Windows 95 and their CDs occupy about a foot of shelf space here.

They're a great singles band, a fun live band, but I profess (as I've posted previously), I find it very hard to really like them...I purchase the CDs in anticipation of greatness, but always feel a bit cheated. The new White album is just awful.

They tick all my boxes, but there's just something missing.

I don't own any, but I really like the visual impact of the big exposed pole:-pieces.

Bump. I have a pair of these.
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Come to this lateish and granted (as an artist endorsee) I have a bit of bias, but could I suggest Hatrke Hydrives? They're pretty reasonably priced, bombproof and aren't back-breakers.
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I didn't take photos, no. All I was trying to do was to improve the appearance of a big deep dent. Worked fine for purpose, but would think any bigger dings would get a bit messy.

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https://instagram.com/p/BDtiS9puQYu/
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That was what mine looked like, but deeper.

I let it dry totally for a couple of hours and while it's shrunk back a bit, it's amazing really. I've just blobbed a bit more in.

My wife has one of those nail polishing things like this...I'll just cut it back any lumpiness and polish it up.

I've got an old beater (Aria Primary) that picked up a huge ding...about 20mm x 5mm. The bass is covered in damage, but this one was just a little too much. My wife suggested filling it with nail varnish; she dug out an old bottle of black stuff and after two applications, it's pretty much disappeared. Amazing really.
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Well, it's here.

First impressions. It doesn't weigh much, size-wise it's about three inches shorter than the Ashdown it's replacing (I have space in the back of my rack), finish is nice. My 4U rack weighs about half what it used to. It sounds pretty transparent; with the Sansamp RBI as my pre-stage, it sounds more like the tone I get [from the RBI] when I'm recording direct from it, whereas the Ashdown was a bit bassy (I used to go in via the effects return). In parallel mode, it's [i]very [/i]loud.

I've had to rejig my floorboard so I can run two separate (stereo/AB) output streams - into a Morley ABY box, then into a)Sansamp BDDI and VTBassDI. Will experiment with that tomorrow.

Happy so far. Jamming on Thursday.
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'Available today only'

Very good. Sadly, I'll bet there's bass players globally who'd think a 12x10 is something worth having!

Looking for a fuzz/distortion that will return me a really tinny/trebley result. I need to lose the bottom end that comes with bass overdrive pedals. It's for a biamp set up. Guitar based dirtbox?

Suggestions please!

I have a new poweramp incoming, but to be honest I've hardly touched any of my other basses since the Lull arrived, so will have a clearout this year.

Is anti-GAS a condition?

Sorry, I've read through this a couple of times, just to clarify, this is just a case that the nut for truss rod adjustment won't take the hex/allen key?

I'm keen to try and emulate that Dug tone into twin cabinets...route a cleanish/phat signal into channel A and tinny guitarish dirt into channel B.

Fun times ahead.

Have pulled the trigger on a 2U Matrix stereo poweramp. Should allow me a bit of experimentation and routing of different effect streams into each channel.

Looking forward to this.

(My UK Ashdown ABM is up for sale in the for sale section.)

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Just reviewed Spector's Legend Classic 8 - that's a nice bass that should be on your shopping list!
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I didn't know Spector did an eight string. Looks pretty. Where's the review? Any idea of UK price/availability?

£300 bump.

A long time ago I read a thread about a guy who converted an OLP Stingray 5 to a 12-string; it looked pretty good, so would work for an eight string. The main work was plugging the machine head holes/redrilling and cutting a new nut. The bridge was a stock Schaller thing.

*Edit. Search Adam Fogo 12 string bass on Google. You'll find the details easily.

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He also did something very clever with the pickups. He offset the bridge pickup so that the poles were over fundamental strings. The neck pickup poles are over the octaves. It should, in theory, phatten up the octaves a bit and make them less ringy.

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Why, do you have perfect pitch? You'd usually need reference for at least one of the strings to be in tune with everyone else. Plus have you tried tuning a bass in a sweaty rehearsal room full of musicians setting up and getting ready to play? Good luck hearing yourself amongst that car crash.
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I went decades without owning a tuner and in defence of the OP what has perfect pitch got to do with it? If it's just guitars, you tune to each other, you're probably all going to be in the general pitch ballpark anyway, so being slightly off isn't going to be an issue. If you have a fixed tuned instrument (keys), tune to that. Insofar as being in a noisy room, you set aside a few minutes to tune to each other. Band discipline.