Frank Blank

I hope the dude who runs the place isn’t reading this! You could but I could drive you to the door!

Monty.

Ach well, worth a shot.

Weekends? You could give me you wallet for safekeeping for the duration of our perusal.

I use Audacity for exactly the process you are describing. Slowing down, looping sections, it can do all that stuff.

My new album title, there...

I am, unsurprisingly considering the post title, considering taking a drive up to Bass Direct in the near future. I occurred to me that somewhere along the 143 ml route from my part of Essex to Leamington Spa someone/two/three might want to occupy one of the three spare seats and visit this veritable Aladdin’s Cave of bassology? If anybody fancies the trip then we can sort out dates/times etc. Or is this a stupid idea?

That’s a shame, she’s a great singer.

@Frank Blank‘s Idiotic Facts - #1. I have never knowingly heard a Rush track.

I’ve got one of those, it simply does it’s own thing!

Focus are on tour, definitely having some prog yodelling in a deconsecrated church!

Save me my usual spot next to you dude!

Thing is, the little room was perfect for quieter set ups, then again mine was only audible for a while until more rigs arrived. It’ll be worse this time as I’ve gone FRFR but then at least everyone gets to see it if not hear it. Ignore me, I’ve just talked myself out of my own answer, as you were.

From the Guitar Technical Services site, a luthier I swear by... http://www.guitartechnicalservices.co.uk/acatalog/Bass_Guitar_Restring.pdf

Exactly this...

(F)ucking hell.

Hello!

I play seated without a strap but yes, the bridge is much further from the end pin on the Godin than on the P. Typical me, just looking at specs rather than at the actual bass!

Despite having played bass for (I think) around forty odd years I had, until very recently, not played a Fender Precision although I have had plenty of chances to do so since being on BC. I hadn’t bothered because I assumed that the scale length would be 34” and my Godin A4 has a 34” scale length and the headstock is, frankly, in the distance and subsequently gives me shoulder gyp. However, my bass tutor has a couple of Precisions so I tried his 1971. I was confused, it was lovely but surprisingly short compared with my Godin, short enough to be very comfortable indeed but I think it has a 34” scale. So, my question is (and forgive my utter technical ignorance) just because a bass has a certain scale length, that scale length does not necessarily mean the bass has to be a specific overall length? (As I’m reading this back it’s sounding increasingly stupid). I cannot see an ‘overall length’ spec on the Fender site, is this not something usually taken into consideration? Or am I just missing something really obvious? Naturally I would not buy a bass without trying it but if I measured that 71 Precision I could then compare that overall length with that of other basses in order to at least narrow the field of try outs.

Norwich.

Oh I don’t know, I’m confused.

...which often ends in the posters making a rudd for their own backs. Fixed.