Bridgehouse

I’m in the Dominican Republic at the mo - all I can say is Mamjuana. It’s locally called “rise the snake”

Getting a simple and effective unit on a solid body in a position that’s viewable when playing is hard - acoustics have the big slab side to fit them in easily and they are viewable when playing

Does that system work if the battery fails? I’d want a failover - battery failure means passive mode with working passive tone control. John East’s work like that and have a separate passive tone knob - but for it to do failover (in case of battery failure) the passive tone works all the time

That sounded more like an audition and not a Jam. I help run Jam days for another well known guitar forum - I’ll learn about 20 bass lines preagreed and play them on the day a couple of times through. We get ability range from total beginner to very competent (one guy did a cracking job of the guitar solo in Beat It) At the end, without fail, I get 20 or 25 guitarists who are very happy and all personally thank me for coming along, playing, and putting up with their playing. We usually have a good drummer and a keys player so it always holds together. It’s all about expectation I think...

Can he edit it to add some stuff in to make it last more than 30 seconds?

Bam chicca wah wah...

Surely sub cretinous!

To be fair, though, there’s few other bands that will have you with your hurdy gurdy

How far are you prepared to go? My go to is Steve Robinson (Manchester Guitar Tech) - he’s a way away but he is exceptionally good - he would do a setup at the same time and get it playing beautifully

Do you do what my wife does and get them all out over the bed and bedroom floor and then protest that “you just don’t have anything to play”?

Is the fretboard made of cork??!!

I’m guessing nobody is going to post a new guitar day with this one then..

I was bored by the debate right from the start - it’s been raging on guitar forums for years and years.

Actually, I’ve re read my reply to your post that you refer to above. You’ve missed the point I was making. It was suggested that you could recreate the full length StewMac shims at home with aplaying card. I said you couldn’t recreate them or make your own version with a playing card. Yes, you can create the same effect - if you look back through this thread you will see that at no point did I suggest that the StewMac shims are a better solution - or in fact that a normal shim doesn’t do the job. I’ve shimmed many a neck with a bit of card, or fibreboard, or a bit of sandpaper. The point I was making is that you can’t make the StewMac shims at home as they are a wedge which is less than half a mm at one end - up to a maximum of a mm at the other. Good luck trying to do that with a playing card. And before you say anything - no, you don’t need to do that. The shims do a neat job. I have a set. They were given to me. Would I buy them and import them from the US? No. No doubt I’ll get called a pedant, but I think it’s an important point for anyone reading this thread to realise that the StewMac shims aren’t just a massively expensive bag of bits of wood that are exactly the same as a card shim. To be honest, I have neither a positive nor negative view on their effectiveness or whether they are better or worse than a piece of card. They do however *look* better - is that worth the dollar? That’s up to the individual.

Oh, and it wasn’t snowflakery. Frankly I don’t really care if anyone does or doesn’t like the wedges or shims or whatever. It was the tone of the post. That’s not snowflakery, it just came across as rude.

You assumed. And we all know what that does...

Dirty tease. I’d use that cab and head to lay down some chewy thick bass grooves. (And the Katana works best through a nice 4x12 I have discovered - specially with creambacks in)

I’ve heard a few live now, both the head into a decent cab, and the combo. Guitarist in my other band has one too. They are quite simply excellent.

It sounds better too...

I’ll certainly ask. He might even give me the knacked rod to hang on the wall as a trophy

Either way, once Jon has looked at it I’ll be able to report back a full diagnostic. Unless I have done something monumentally stupid, in which case I will go strangely quiet.

It’s effectively loose in the channel (it’s theoretically removable) (Well, not right now!) I actually think either the rod has snapped under tension and kicked out, or it’s bent under tension and kicked out. I don’t know though. Unless I have a strange alien growth in there, I’m certain *some* part of the truss rod has bent out and kicked out the bottom of the neck

Normally neither do I I thought a quick tweak wouldn’t matter and would be quite fine. Mind you, I tried that with Mrs B and got a slap for that too

In a dual action rod there’s a straight bar and a rod underneath that’s under tension.