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Some basses have a dummy coil fitted under the scratchplate to do that. It has no pole pieces, I believe, so is set up to just cancel the hum.

I agree, I'm not really keen on the finish I get with my pre shaped one. Might just need more practice though. Crimson Guitars has some nice tutorials on crowning and fretwork, and he recommends a file type, unsurprisingly enough, made by, er, Crimson Guitars.....

The Guild of Stranglers.

Again, the MRS series could do loops, and also had midi, neither of which I ever had the need to use, so never explored those functions. I'm glad to hear it works ok with your DAW, as I may think of going that way sometime.

I've now had a weekend doing stuff on the R24, and have a few thoughts that may be helpful to someone considering one, or moving on from Zoom's MRS series of recorders. 1. The drum machine kits aren't editable (the MRS are) for pan pitch and instrument for each sound. Slight inconvenience. 2. The recording methodology is different. There is no formula assisted song (F.A.S.T) sequencing. Rather than v-takes for each track, recording creates a .wav file. You can subsequently assign this to any other empty track. 3. No dedicated drum track pair, so to create a rhythm song, you need to assign each different drum pattern to a different track and then play them all together using the track sequencer. This is also used to play sample loops too, again each of which need to be assigned to a track. Quite powerful, but a bit of a pain to get going, and far less easy to play the pads along to a song or pattern. 4. The screen is tiny, and many of the patch names need to scroll in the space available, which take more time when you're looking for something 5. Many of the track editing functions available on the MRS have been removed(including my favourite> reverse a section!) 6. The size of the unit is nice, you can sit it on your lap whilst you're doing things on it, and battery operation could let you work outside on a sunny day! Many of the above lead me to think that, although you can do a lot standalone, it really is oriented towards complimenting a DAW. If you aren't interested in looping and samples, just recording a band, the older MRS series may be a better bet, although the USB card (not included in the MRS is well expensive for what it is, it is handy for getting the files off. But even then, you need to run a util to convert v-takes to .wav. I think for the time being, I will keep the MRS1608 alongside the R24, but will unload the smaller 1266 soon. As I said earlier, it is very early days for me, and I'll add thoughts in here, someone sometime might find it useful! Cheers MBA Bear in mind this is initial findings after a few hours of us compared with owning the MRS1266 and 1608 for several years.

I think it helps to know how you think you are going to use it. Some will quantise the loop length so they stay in time with a tempo, others (Ditto)don't, so it's a lot harder to get the end of the loop spot on to a tempo "grid". With practice it does get a bit better, but I often find the little nudge in tempo at the end of a loop can be off-putting. *disclaimer* I've only ever used the Ditto. The actual sound quality is good though, and is true bypass, so won't impair your tone when not active.

Are you going with double ball-end strings?

Perfect excuse to cook something up for the April composition challenge!

Mine will most likely be giant golden sprouting broccoli inspired. I knew those mushrooms didn't taste right....

Or hated it less than most of the others?

Me too! Anything that gets me to do something rather than nothing is great!

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Nice bass, but couldn't agree more with the comment about Reid's playing and tone. Never liked it, even on Defunkt.

I could envisage moving the bridge point to another couple of inches back, carving a radius on the bottom of the bass edge and anchoring the strings round that radius at the back of the bass. This could give a bridge point near the edge of the bass without putting the strings through a right angle bend. Then a 34" scale neck with lightweight tuners might just balance.

I know what you mean. Imagine crowd surfing at one of your jazz soirees though!

5-way tie at the moment! Beats F1 for excitement!

I don't believe it, someone gave me a sympathy vote! That's given me a real lift this morning, I feel like I'm floating off the ground, what's the word? Oh yes, Lev-I-TATE!

Do you know, I almost wrote that very line in my previous post?

[quote name='Dad3353' timestamp='1490654314' post='3266858'] I'll do that, an 'MBA Special'. I've given 'em a short listen just now, and they're worthy of comment. Not this week (our daughter and grandson are coming over for a week's visit...), but it'll maybe help me get back in the saddle. Coming soon, then... [/quote] Eek! I was only kidding! At least there's plenty to criticize, so sharpen your teeth...

Sounds like a baritone would do the job. Scale length shouldn't be a big deal if you're coming from bass.

Hi All I use the round-ish shaped Gibson plectrums (not the Standard, or Wedge shapes) and can't seem to find them anymore. Medium thickness. Any sources? or ones the same shape but in a different material that lasts a bit longer. I find I'm now very picky about the shape and gauge having always used them, but my old stash is getting low. Other shapes and thicknesses just don't do it for me. Cheers MBA

And there's the title for your new prog album!

Saw a bass cube 100 on eBay yesterday around the £100 Mark. Plenty for home and small gigs.

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