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On 19/02/2021 at 12:01, Cato said:

I'm very much a believer that in terms of tone, pickup position is the number 1 factor, followed by pickup type and electronics.

Everything else, including body and neck materials has far less impact on overall tone than those three.

I strongly suspect that you could mold a P bass out of concrete and as long as it had the split P pickup in the correct place and the usual passive tone and volume it would still sound very much like a P Bass.

Might weigh less than plywood too.

I would add scale length to that list. 

Matt Berry has produced a few decent albums

Drilling a tube around the screw is the best bet. It's too small for anything else to get purchase on it. If you drill anticlockwise you might be lucky enough for the tube to grab the screw and wind it out

Thanks for the comments. For some reason I only took about 3 pics near the end of the build so I don't think I could do much of a diary. 

Finally managed to make myself something!

I wasn't sure whether to post this in build diarys or gear porn but I've plumped for here. 

Anyway, it's 32"scale which I'm finding really comfortable to play. Although with drop tuning things get a bit flabby so I'm going to try a thicker guage. I was also worried the LP style might suffer from neck dive but it's not an issue at all. 

It has a flamed Ash top and walnut neck and I'm very pleased with it. 

On 16/01/2020 at 10:19, fleabag said:

Saw Crow at the Shepherds Bush Empire , London , a treat from my partner back then for my 40th. Utterly brilliant. Played both guitar and les paul style bass. Clapton - On - Sea came on in the 2nd half

She plays a guild bass quite often

I tune it

I often wonder why the mudbucker isn't put in a less muddy position

On 05/09/2018 at 17:51, howdenspur said:

Smote Reverser by Thee Oh Sees. Awesome stuff!

I saw them at the weekend, amazing!  Along with IDLES which I'm listening to now

it's the same for guitar tab, a waste of time usually. I find youtube a much better option and you can instantly hear if its right or not

I find playing and singing are enough things to be doing at once without adding reading lyrics to the list. I try to run through the song whenever I can whilst driving, cooking or ' working' etc

Amazing. That's more than Jimi Hendrix's fuzz face is expected to get at auction

New order.
Fair enough they have written 3 good tunes and inadvertently broke new ground when they started. But the rest is regurgitated tripe with flat vocals, terrible lyrics and Hookey playing the same stupid bass line on everything. Dreadful live too

I once had an appreciative member of the audience try to hand me a very welcome pint while I was playing and singing! He didn't seem to realize both my hands were otherwise engaged. I just had to nod towards nearest table and thank him later

When playing just f and g throughout 'baby please don't go'(Them), fatigue and lactic acid used to creep in. Eventually I just thought sod it, and I now capo the first fret. Much easier

We do figure it out and out of the Black in my band.
Royal blood have basically taken the bass signal, split it and made one sound like a guitar. We just have one guitarist and he just does the bits that sound like guitar.
I'm not sure what I'd do with another guitar other than playing the same. Play a harmony or different octave maybe?

I watched it and really enjoyed listening to the bass. It sounded nice!

Mike watt

It's hard enough for me to sing and play at the same time. Having to read as well is a step too far for me!

+1 on the ear plug tip. I hated it to begin with but soon got used to the sound.
I'm so glad I always did some backing vox otherwise I'd be deaf in both ears now!
After a while muscle memory will also help and the feel of the notes your aiming for will become familiar

Surely though, the cab is lighter without an amp fixed to it and vise versa, also less cumbersome.
Sorry, I'm not a fan of combos for that reason

Ok thanks. I'll look and see if I can update the drivers and take it from there

I suspect it to be a weird loop. That's what it sounds like to me.
I just have the us122 going into the pc via usb and all inputs and outputs connected to the us122.
I don't know if/ how I can disable the internal soundcard?

Hi all,
I've got an issue with the sound on my computer. Now and again it sounds like it is feeding back on itself and I have to wait a few minutes for a delayed noise to pass
And if I'm recording say a guitar track, what is recorded changes from the guitar to recording internal sounds such as the drums, during these periods.
I wonder if its an issue between the computers soundcard and my audio interface (tascam us122)? As far as I can see I've selected the tascam for everything sound related on my pc.
Any ideas would be gratefully received. Thanks.

P.s I'm using cubase le4 to record and windows 10. Also I didn't have this problem with my previous pc

The into of Tom pettys American girl in the intro of the strokes' last nite.

I used to sing talking heads' road to nowhere' over ' in the morning' by razorlight.