Doctor J

It's still no excuse for a newspaper article to consist of twitter posts. That's not news.

We need to stop teaching people to worship money and coach them to push only towards materialistic goals, we don't need religion to do that, nor should we accept it as the default position in the absence of religion.

The input gain on your amp would control the output of the bass and bring it to a normalised level. It's not as if high output active basses are a new thing, hence the ability to control the input level. Line output is line level. The desk also has an input level control which starts at 0 and goes up from there, so I'm struggling to see where the issue is. Unless you were cranking the bejesus out of the gain and EQ it sounds like the engineer getting it wrong. Even then, though, your amp has a balanced output which can be pre or post. I take it the engineer using the balanced output?

Please share a link for the live stream! 😉

You used to be able to get this stuff direct from Ishibashi and other Japanese retailers but, in the mid-00's, FMIC told them to stop selling to Europe. After they couldn't ship here, I asked a local Fender supplier about a few specific Fender Japan items and the price they were being charged by their Fender-approved European distributor was already more expensive than Ishibashi were charging retail including shipping and import duties, before they even got to add their cut to it. A giant swindle, courtesy of FMIC, to gouge more out of their customers. I can see why they did it. When you could get Fender Japan gear for half the price of Fender USA, why would anyone ever buy USA again? It still stank, though. You can still get this kind of thing from the u_box as the rule meany old Fender imposed applies only to new gear.

The three 2-way switches was reasonably popular in superstrat world in the 80's. There's an 80's BC Rich STIII, which I'm trying to resist, for sale over here with that configuration 😂 They are usually on/off for each pickup. The easiest way to verify is to plug the guitar in with all switches up (off). Turn on the first switch and gently tap each pickup with a screwdriver, see what makes a noise through the amp. Go through each switch in sequence, it'll be fairly clear what each switch is doing. Same with the push/pull, turn on the bridge pickup and tap the front and rear of the pickup with a screwdriver. If it's a coil tap, one side of the pickup will stop sending an output with the knob up.

Before I went back to playing a kit, when I was programming, I used to use a slightly different snare sound (either a different sample or a change in velocity to get something different) to replicate what you're trying to do and avoid the machine gun effect. Never more than two of the same sound in a row.

Depending on the wood underneath, there may not be much to see, no matter how translucent the finish is. Alder can be very plain. Likewise, if they're using basswood.

I always considered Wilkinson parts to be on the extreme budget side of boutique, it never would have thought of them as highly rated in the first place, to be honest.

Three fingers! 😁👌🏻

Install something useful, like a two-way switch to run both pickups in serial. Wire the pickups direct to the switch and from there to your blecnd pot so that you can have your usual parallel Jazz blend (which gives the J it's famous scooped sound) but also run one into the other to give a more middy and aggressive tone, a handy option to have.

I'm in. It took a while to get a usable idea but one came, eventually, which required a full-on riff-fest. The Technical stuff - Drums are birch Yamaha with an oak snare, captured by Thomann's cheapest mics into the cheapest Behringer preamps. Bass is a Bacchus Jazz, guitars are a Tokai 335, all lovingly smoooshed together in Protools. The Song - Eyes are everywhere, everyone is watching everyone else. Especially stalkers. They're really watching hard.

It's always a little sad when a musician on stage feels the need to be seen as being above the song they're performing. If you're not into a song, don't play it.

It's already EQ'd. The serial wiring of the pickup gives it a very musical mid-bias which really doesn't need anything but the most subtle of caressing. Bypass the EQ on you amp and roll off a little high-end to taste.

Let's go 😁

Zappa wasn't playing Sex On Fire down the Dog and Duck, however.

I know I was totally into his screen wife 😁

No harm in adding some of your own flavour but, if the rest of the band start doing this too, it usually sounds like a mess and takes a crap on the song. Remember you're playing a song and be sympathetic to that, be musical, rather than a space filler.

"Described on its Twitter feed as "three pals in a band from Dryburgh" Makes sense. There are four of them.

I believe it was 1606.

Slovenia was decent, too. The bass presence is strong in this one.

This is how you do three minutes of entertainment

Those Aussies just rocked the living sheeeet out of the house. Cap doffed in their direction.

Fact of the day: Ray Winstone pronounces 'cancel' and 'council' in the very same way. Same for 'county' and 'can't he' It's a funny old game.

Yes, just the lead vocals, the backing vocals are pre-recorded, too.