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Thanks everyone. Plenty of food for thought. And an opportunity to buy new kit! The Realist thing is interesting. NS EUBs have a 2-way switch. One way for pizz and the other for arco. If Spiros give you the pizz sound in your head then never change. But they will never bow "well". I am fully aware that that is a strong statement, but it is how it is. Consistently drawing a good sound with the bow is the single hardest thing to do on a DB. We can (and I do) get away with all sorts of inaccuracies with pizz that the bowed note will just not stand for. The bow does not lie. I am using a Full Circle and that is adjustable for different emphasies, but I will not be doing that as we meander towards the coda.

Hi all, I am in the middle of a series of gigs where I am using a bow as well as pizz. I am very happy with my pizz sound, and with my arco sound when amplified APART from the volume discrepancy. With my rig set to amplify pizz, the arco is not cutting through at all. I am going to mess with some compression to see what happens, but I really like having control over dynamics with my right hand. I could put an extra foot-switchable preamp in there to bump it up a bit for the bow. I was just wondering what other people are doing. TIA

I applaud everyone who can solder and deal with bare wires. That is not me

So if the OP ones and the flax ones are suboptimal, what is good?

David credits us with more guile than we have.

I have a 36" Overwater 6 string tuned to bottom F#. Djent for days.

Leo probably got a batch of them at a good price and used them everywhere until the box emptied. We eulogise various aspects of the Fender story, when the reality was that they were just making a product to a price point. Am I happy that my 66J has the special machine heads (and binding and dots)? Obviously, yes

Thanks, this is the stuff. I am there in a fortnight. My students are in no way shape or form ready to hit an open Jam stage. But to get them to visit something like this would superb. We live in rural North Wales. This stuff is like access to another world.

I wholeheartedly endorse this line of thought.

Thanks This is the source of info I need!

I find myself taking a bunch of students to Barcelona. My life is so hard. Can anyone suggest any live music venues or activities there? I will look at listings, but you might just know of a venue where the music is hot etc.

Rocco Prestia also advocated the light touch and it does not get much more funky.

To be fair, slap on a fretless with chorus on is not REAL slap

I have a 3 hour drive to do. This is what I need. Ta.

That was a joke.

I guessed you would not be able to stop yourself. You will probably need some new blades though.

Now we are talking! I polished mine up from years of grime with Chrome polish and a buffing wheel on my drill. I realise this is unorthodox, but it brought it up lovely!

Truth.

What he said. Wires and magnets are just wires and magnets

They are sound.

I was correct.