Doctor J

Expect to pay 25% extra on everything second -hand and, as mentioned above, sone shops (only some of the biggest ones) will have their accounts set up in a way that they can sell with UK VAT and import duties applied so you don't get the hit once it arrives. Contact the shop before you buy to make sure you don't pay their country's VAT too.

I'd wager most of the general public wouldn't know what a bass guitar looks like, never mind the owner of the fingers playing it.

Dennis Taylor from Duran Duran ... Hulk Hogan

Finally, after all these years, a blue P bass!

I just don't understand why anyone would bother writing something so intentionally derivative. It's utterly pointless music, to me.

The band says... "Due to a continuing pattern of behavior and the mental health difficulties of our singer Perry Farrell, we have come to the conclusion that we have no choice but to discontinue the current US tour. "Our concern for his personal health and safety as well as our own has left us no alternative. We hope that he will find the help he needs. "We deeply regret that we are not able to come through for all our fans who have already bought tickets. We can see no solution that would either ensure a safe environment on stage or reliably allow us to deliver a great performance on a nightly basis. "Our hearts are broken. Dave, Eric and Stephen".

Grand, except Farrell wears in-ear monitors.

Hard luck but well done for having a go 👍🏻

Translated: Hello everyone! I'm an amplifier repairer. I would need the service manual of the Ashdown EVO II 500 ampli equipped with JBT Sanken ends. Thank you all!

And the new one on Spotify too

Yes.

A lot had habits but the real question was whether they used before playing or after to pass the time travelling to the next gig. I recall Dave Mustaine, himself an addict, talking about gigs where the drumming would start slowing down to a stop because Gar Samuelson, a truly gifted drummer, was falling asleep at the kit due to using before they played.

That's the JAN 1. The JAN 2 was dreadful, it had thin tabs at either end which broke if you even thought about them from many miles away. The JAN 3 is in the OP's pics and is like the Alembic adjustable nut but without the feature which allows you to lock it to the baseplate.

Ahhh here it is

I thought we had a thread which recorded all that before? Andy won.

Drugs don't give you ideas, otherwise every junkie would be a sleepy, staggering Bach. They just tend to relax the parts of your brain which shut down ideas. The ideas are already in you, or they are not in you, but drugs don't add anything. Learn to relax and let your creative voice speak up a bit. You don't need drugs to do that, just a bit of control of your own mind.

Drugs only make you better at being an a$shole.

She did attend. That's the point. She says it in her statement. The real purpose of why she was there, well, we'll each believe what we want to, I suppose, but I'd recommend doing some reading on intimidatory tactics used by Scientology, just so know fully understand what you're readily dismissing as "trash".

It's one side of the story. The other, to save people googling https://blabbermouth.net/news/linkin-parks-emily-armstrong-responds-to-danny-masterson-support-claims-i-misjudged-him And for anyone wondering why she was asked to attend, attempts to intimidate witnesses, prosecutors and anyone else who conspires against them in cases against Scientologists are not rare. https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2024-04-04/church-of-scientology-danny-masterson-prosecutor-harassment-allegations

Yes, that's right, it's a JAN 3. It's held on by the downward pressure of the strings.

The one where the new singer supported a celebrity rapist because he was a scientolobuddy? Yeah, that's a messy start. Always found their self-pitying misery-porn lyrics unbearable and the new one is no exception.

First thing is realise you don't really need anything between the bass and the amp. Make sure you fully understand the concept of what the compressor is doing. Where have you put it in your signal chain? Is it after the booster and you're you compressing an already boosted signal? Having had a quick look at that pedal, I think the way they have labelled the amount of compression being applied as "sustain" is going to trick a lot of people. What I would do is set Sustain to 0 and match the volume to your signal with the pedal in bypass. They call this make-up gain (another boost in your chain) but don't say whether this is total post-compression boost or the overall output of the pedal. Either way, try to match the volume of the pedal engaged and the pedal bypassed with the compression turned all the way down. Then gradually apply the sustain knob until you start to hear it having an effect. The more the sustain knob is turned up, the more your signal is being squashed, the lower your output will be. This is where the make-up gain should come in. See if you can match the volumes again engaged and bypassed. Repeat until you find a level of compression you like the sound of where you still can match the volume level bypassed and engaged. If you can't, don't feel sad. If you're using any kind of drive or clipping, you're already compressing the signal, to an extent and maybe you don't need the compressor pedal after all.

The electronics are the important bit, what are they putting in there?

It looks remarkably uncomfortable. Not for me.

Everything has its own tonal stamp, so I generally don't use amp EQ and I don't really use effect pedals. I like sound of the bass I'm playing without a load of crap in the way. I prefer using the onboard EQ as it allows the sound of different basses shine through without a preset change being applied by the amp too. On a two-band EQ, if I want more mid, I turn down the bass and treble and/or often change where my plucking hand is on the string to change tonal properties. Not sure if this is what you're looking for.