Doctor J

Singer left the stage, and the band, halfway through a gig while the stoned guitarist slouched on a stool on stage as he was unable to feel his feet and, more importantly, his hands. Funnily enough, the guitarist wasn't actually the issue.

Being in a band is tough, balancing relationships with a bunch of people. If it's causing you more stress than the enjoyment you get out of it then get yourself out of it. As for giving up playing, there have been times when I haven't felt like playing but, eventually, I come back to why I wanted to play an instrument in the first place. I love music. I don't need to justify having an instrument by being in a band. Dinking around aimlessly on the couch is perfectly valid, if it brings you some joy pr even a distraction from the things in life which can get on top of us. Don't let your band fatigue get muddied up with your love of music. If you think you might get any enjoyment at all out of playing then hold off on quitting totally, even if you leave the band. Best wishes whatever you decide to do.

Ah lads, if you're going to steal, steal from the O.G. 😁😉

This might be a new echo record, @peteb 😂

I have one of the Godlykes, absolutely fabulous bass, used to have a 5er too. That bass is a steal at that price.

It means some rich American clique deemed you worthy of being on their private list where most of your peers are not. So there. The rich Americans approve of both your rocking and your rolling. They might even keep the list in an Excel file. Imagine how proud you would l feel to be named on such a list. Take that, punks, you lost!

Work has begun in earnest on the difficult third album

Cadburys. What is this slop now offered under that name?

Lovely. Why would someone put a bit of card under a just-a-nut, though?

Have played 5s and 6s but prefer the feel of 4 in my hands. I've a 4 with appropriate strings tuned down to B standard when I need the low stuff and the rest in E. No manifesto or drama, just went with what I preferred the feel of.

Before you buy anything Fender Japan, always check the u-box, Ishibashi's used section. Even with shipping and taxes they usually work out substantially cheaper than buy new here. https://www.ishibashi.co.jp/ec/search/?SWD=Fender japan

Corinthians scored loads more than Romans in the first half, but it got close at full time.

Think of them as two mono signals, the mic interface as L and the instrument interface as R. You'll record them as two separate mono tracks at the same time and pan them hard left and hard right in your DAW for playback. You'll need to convert your L phono output to an XLR input and your R phono output to a 1/4" input.

Plus you now have name for your next band - Mysterious Chip

The Bongo is 4-band EQ, I thought? Edit -> Indeed it is. Full specs and plenty of sound samples here https://www.music-man.com/instruments/basses/bongo-4

Consider that you could have paid extra for someone to do it on purpose and call it a "light relic", but you got it for free! Winning! Meanwhile, life goes on.

The stock pickups were AFRs. It also came with a 3-band EQ - Vol, Blend, stacked bass and treble and the stacked vari-mid.

Is it Withnail? I've never seen it so I just picked a root vegetable and went for it. The technical stuff: Yamaha drums through t-bone mics into a Behringer preamp, ESP 400 Series Jazz bass DI'd and an Ibanez RG tuned down to Ab or B, I think. I've no idea why I did this, into a Fryette amp which went into a Palmer speaker emulator. Smooshed together crudely and at speed in Protools

It's the accucast bridge, 100% stock.

Yeah, had one of them too, very nice basses of the usual Fujigen standard and scrub up well with a bit of TLC. They're active EMG pickups, so there is no bypass. They're not the stock pickups either. I did that same mod, swapping out the Ibanez pickups for EMG. @Grooverjr Depending on what they've installed, you've got the following controls 1 - Master volume, pickup blend, bass and treble cut and boost 2 - P Volume, J Volume, bass and treble cut and boost 3 - P Volume, J Volume, P tone, J tone With that in mind, play around and you should be able to figure it out. Yeahm h

Can you post pictures of it? It could be possible to identify the model which would make it much easier to answer your question.

The nut has no influence on the sound of a fretted note, it's all between the bridge and the finger which pushes down on the string. Is it a dead spot you're talking about (usually around the B to D range, frets 4 to 7) or is it every note along the length of the G string? Have you checked the neck relief and string height, that the string isn't choking when you fret it?

And here's All Night Long, the difficult second album. Next stop, Fethard Ballroom!

The one thing this thread has made clear is that it's not a matter of would you... the pros have worked like foooook and been prepared to make huge sacrifices (sometimes economic, sometimes artistic) to be pro. Those who were destined to be pro are pro, the rest of us are not, no matter how much we may like to think that we prefer not to be 🙂

There are very few, if any, dud Stingrays so you can buy any year with confidence you're going to get a good bass. I've had three, an early 90's two-band, a later 90's two-band and a three-band from the early 00's. The shape of the necks and weight were similar on all. The two-bands were both ash bodied though I think the three-band was poplar. I'd say the biggest choice is in EQ and the thing to bear in mind, if choosing the more traditional two-band EQ model, is that the bass control is boost only, whereas the treble cuts and boosts. There is no bass boost taking place only when the bass control is fully wound down. A lot of people think setting it midway is a neutral setting and it is anything but. On the three-band, everything can be cut or boosted. Given the difference, try to play a few and decide which EQ model suits you best, rather than taking a guess based on what different people with different ears say to you on the internet.