Doctor J

The Fillers

The Spray Cats

Mister Fister

Rodflesh

Iran Maiden

It's a machine which fits into the criteria of the game.

Nine Inch Sails

The Mangles

UK Pubs

The Hamas and the Papas

Siouxie and the Manshees

20 hours ago, Baloney Balderdash said:

But surely a shim will only raise the neck further, meaning the saddles at the bridge needing to be raised even higher to achieve proper action, also if the shim is placed at the back of the pocket, as it usually would, it would decrease string angle in relation to the fretboard, thereby decreasing the string action at the upper part of the fretboard/upper frets closest to the bridge, which would make any eventual fret caused buzz up there even worse.

 

So I'd say leave the shim out all together, and as otherwise suggested tighten the truss rod to decrease neck relief.

 

When pressing down the low B string at the first and last fret simultaneously you would not want any more than just about a business card (not credit card) thickness gap at about 8th fret.

 

And probably in your case even less, so if above doesn't help, try this:

 

Set your neck relief, adjusting the truss rod, so that pressing down the low E string at the first fret with a finger on your left hand, simultaneously with the little finger of your right hand pressing down the low B string at the 17th fret, and while doing so taping the thumb of your right hand against the low B string on the 12th fret, doing so there should be just exactly enough clearance/relief for you to hear a faint tap sound, nothing more.

 

It's got a Badass bridge, that's why.

13 hours ago, TimR said:

What about the poor bass player who fell on hard times and had to pawn his bass?

 

And now finds out it's worth $80k. 

Maybe he was a nasty individual who got his just desserts?

NoFT

INSS

Greed Day

Paul Hardcattle

10CD

W.A.S.H.

Sadness

Bad Mangers

Spandau Pallet

The Prerenders

The Pooclaimers

derrière pocket always works.

My earliest memory is listening to my Mum's Mother of Invention LPs, specifically Absolutely Free and We're Only In It For The Money. As a result, when it comes to music, anything goes, particularly the more varied and eclectic stuff.
 

I will also call any vegetable, any vegetable at all.

My favourite shim was made from a Callan Veterinary Hospital business card. They closed a few years ago, sadly, so now I use Aldi AAA battery packaging. I haven't checked to see if the AA card has different tonal properties, but some day I might. As for Lidl, let's not open that can of worms.

How do you set the relief? Any bow in the neck adds string clearance for the lower frets only and tends to mean you have the action lower on the higher frets than you really should have, giving you this kind of buzz. The bow is adding behind the fret you're playing at, meaning you've sod all clearance at the higher frets. Loosening the truss rod will only exacerbate this.

First, put the original shim back in at the heel. A Badass bridge maxed out means the strings are a long, long way from the body.

Set the relief so that, when you hold the strings down at the first fret and the last fret, you have a gap about the width of a business card between the bottom of the strings and the top of the frets. No more than that. Once that's done, then set the action.

"Early in ZZ Top's career" = 1969 to 1975 or thereabouts.

Before Reverb and even before eBay and even before ludicrous Fender fetishisation. 

Shaky Hands are not a million miles away from music I would listen to regularly, but I didn't think much of them, to be honest. The songs don't tend to go anywhere and I was losing interest by the end. They're the kind of band I might enjoy more hearing only one song of as, going from one into the next, it all gets very samey very quickly. I didn't hate it but I can't see myself ever listening to it again. There are much better bands ploughing that particular furrow.

As a standalone song, it's nothing special, though I can't say I disliked it. It reflects the restrictions under which it was made. It's ok. As an endeavour by a couple of friends to close a circle, so to speak, honouring another couple of friends, and what they did to finally complete a song using what sounds like little more than 30 seconds of abysmally recorded original material, I found it quite moving.

The Corabi album is the best thing they did by a long, long way. It's a banger.

All of my bands had the sense to call it quits before we ever even got close to being successful. You can't go on the slide when you're still going uphill. 

No, there's some sort of plate.

On 29/10/2023 at 13:43, LITTLEWING said:

I’ve just seen an advert for a neck plate that gives all sorts of improvements like sustain and general liveliness.

First I saw of ferrules was on Ibanez around 87, they made a sculpted heel for the new SR range and a plate simply would not work with that design. I'd imagine Tune or SGC Nanyo possibly beat them to the idea but SRs are where I saw it first. This is the first I've heard of a plate with magic tonal properties but, in the age of unlimited aftermarket parts which make everything "better" I'm not surprised it's now available, probably made of tonegainium.

https://www.thomann.de/gb/helpdesk_shipping.html

"Duty

We take care of the custom declaration so you will not have to pay any customs fees. "

Well done, SH73, top job!

3 hours ago, TimR said:

 

I didn't enjoy it. Not sure what else I can say. I didn't enjoy Metallica either. Saw them in 1987 and they were great, 2009, OK for an hour but just too loud, even with the earplugs. Maiden were loud at Hammersmith Odeon in the 80s but Metallica stupidly loud to a point where it wasn't enjoyable. Another band I'll continue to listen to but don't want to see live again.

Likewise. I last saw Metallica in 92 and knew I would never go to see them again in case they overwrote the memories of seeing them before that. Not that they weren't enjoyable, just that what I wanted from them was no longer there. Lots of people have enjoyed them since, more people than ever seem to enjoy them now. Who am I to say they're wrong? They're simply not for me anymore. More importantly, nothing they have done since diminishes what they meant to me at the time and the enjoyment I still get from the early stuff. We went our separate ways and that's ok.

Saying you no longer like how a performer now performs and should stop is almost like saying your ex isn't as attractive as she was, she should no longer date anyone. Creepy 😂

Link to the magic plate

For anyone heroically taking it upon themselves to feel embarrassed on behalf of another musician, this is all you have to do to relieve yourself of the awkwardness which makes your day cloudy

2 hours ago, TimR said:

 

I decided then I wasn't going to see them again.. 

No. Why should they stop if they still enjoy it? What a ridiculous thing to say. Would you stop doing something you love if some punter came up to you after a gig and gave you a pissy comment? If you don't like what they do, jog on. There's lots of other music out there which might not embarrass you, listen to that.