keefbaker

Hubba

Yeah, pics or go home!

One day I might... But I'm not sure what was around in 73 that I'd want. I'm not big on Fenders, too early for a Stingray. Maybe a Ricky, but I'm not excited by it.

I do love the anodised gold look.

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Put on head or in ears. Done. This whole suing culture can suck a fat one. This is the reason peanut packets say, "warning, contains nuts".

I've definitely got one ear stronger than the other these days. It's what you get from standing next to a drummer.

Gorgeous. Had I not just blasted a couple of grand on basses I'd be breathing down your neck.

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That was a joke by the way.
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But not far off. Back in the day when I read it (20+ years back) it was rammed with misogyny so that's a fair argument.

I have been facinated with the idea of this, especially using it mid=song almost like a bandpass filter. You could probably bet some pretty textural stuff going on but still... there's that whole "needing a third hand or a very stiff gentleman" problem for that.

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Matt Garrison uses a right hand technique that is very similar to a guitar picking technique.
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Also Abraham Laboriel uses that.

I have to admit, I'd have loved to have seen a video of Adrian demonstrating mine the way it was set up when it arrived...
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"And that's the sound!"
*crunch* *buzz* *ping* Buzz* *ffffffffzzzz*

Nice. Your photography skills are much better than mine too.

f*** it. I'll sit there and transcribe it for £500.

WOOOOO!!!!

God... My camera is really smeary. I might have to give the lens a clean and try again.

Oh, you said Dingwall. But my point stands. If they have an Enfield Lionhearted I can severely recommend them too.

Dingwall. /thread

I'm letting it settle till Saturday, then I'll adjust the truss rod, followed by a saddle readjustment.

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Do find that every time you flick the little black switch that is labelled in black on a black background, a little black light lights up black to tell you you've done it?
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It's a push pull pot. There's also a puch pull pot for "crash into the sun", I have to be careful which one I grab.

Oh yeah, there's a couple of other genre-specific mini festivals I'll be playing over the course of the next couple of months. Not all with the same band. It'll be fun, it always is.

I'd never even heard of that... Christ! That's HUGE!

I just played a mini genre-specific one this weekend. I got asked.

It's a looker, that's for sure!

Honestly? Best way to handle this is a micro-project. Write a bunch of stuff, record it in your house, throw it on bandcamp for the hell of it, or have a label bring it out if you can, move onto the next.

That's how I scratch my "I'd like to do X" itches. The only one I can't scratch is the jazz one which I'd like to join a band for but 1) Musicians are like hens teeth where I live and 2) I'm really really not good enough,

As tempting as that is, I find the coated DR strings always feel quite sticky to me.

There's a general active passive switch and the humbucker has a coil tap. Also I was really impressed by the noll preamp. Really tasty bass and treble boost.

I dunno, you wait ages for a New Bass Day and then two come at once.
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Anyway, my Maruszczyk Jake with 3 (count'em) pickups is here at last.
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It's had to travel across the sea so I shouldn't be surprised it needed a little tweaking, but I've raised the saddles for now and I think the truss rod will need a little tweak, but apparently that's fairly par for the course. Other than that the E is slipping out of tune but I blame that more on the strings than the tuners as they seem nice and stable.

Anyway, after my initial grump that it wasn't perfect out of the bag I then started playing and listening to it and... I love it... It's fantastic. Plays and sounds great.

Here's some of the pickup settings, in a rock manner again, to show more than the usual jazz you get to hear. Fingers and pick, no slapping. Sorry my playing is sh*te, especially my muting. Not used to 5ers yet.

https://soundcloud.com/keith-baker-199951586/maruszczyk-jake-disaster-area-various-pickup-sounds

And here it is next to it's NBD friend.

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WOOP!!

DISASTER AREA IS BORN!!
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