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Those Deluxe strats have a great reputation as well. I was very tempted by a pearl white metallic one, but I ended up getting a Classic Vibe 60s - an older Chinese one in burgundy mist metallic, which is really more of a lilac, but still looks boss: I actually really like the gloss neck... but then there's very little danger of anyone asking me to play guitar live, so I don't need to worry whether it might be sticky 😆

😮 Bloody hell, you're not kidding! I paid a lot less than that for mine, and even that was absolutely at the top-end of what I think is fair for a pedal. I'm not sorry that I did, mind you; it's definitely a "forever" pedal for me, and works just as well on guitar, keyboard, or anything with a line out. But if I was looking for a limiter today, I don't think it'd even be on my radar at £200 💸 Edit: Though the very similar GC-2 can be had for £50 less... 🤔 https://www.guitarguitar.co.uk/product/14123012412516--keeley-gc-2-limiting-amplifier

Keeley Bassist - simple, effective, transparent.

Check these out: https://www.rockboard.de/en/accessories/led-damper Classier than a bit of sticky tape!

I bought a pedal from Gaz. Well packaged and swiftly despatched; smooth transaction and friendly comms. Everything you could hope for! Thank you Gaz! 😃

Currently reduced from $289 to $199. I love spending other people's money... 😉 Edit: Hmmmmm, I've just seen it suggested that the Carvin is identical to this Harley Benton: https://www.thomann.de/gb/harley_benton_custom_line_thunder_99.htm 🤔

Carvin have a stereo pedal-sized power amp coming out, but at 50W per side it's probably more guitar territory than bass. https://carvinaudio.com/products/mach100-100w-pedal-amplifier

Have a look at Sugar Ray's Vintage Recording Studio in Wickford: http://sugarraysvintagerecordings.co.uk/the-studio/ https://www.facebook.com/SugarRaysStudioUK/ All vintage 50s gear - you can't get much more authentic. Single-track recording can be a bit nerve-wracking, so you've got to be good and tight - or willing to do lots of takes without anyone losing their temper! 😆

5' 9" - strictly average

It's all in the fingers

They're a bit cagey about whether their new "Brick" pedals have these things pre-installed, which is naughty since they're advertising them as "tube guitar preamplifiers". I'm definitely not someone who believes that valves are magical and will never be bettered, but I'd still like to know exactly what I'm getting!

If I wanted something vintage for looks and home usage, a B-15 would be the #1 choice. Or maybe a cream Fender Showman, since I'm spending someone else's money... 😆

Fun fact: Strats, Teles, Jazzmasters and Jaguars all originally had bridge covers. They're probably even rarer than the bass ashtrays, since palm muting is so much more common on guitar.

Ashtrays look great on a Precision. On a Jazz, less so - the bridge cover is gigantic because it has to stretch to the rear pickup. On early-model Jazzes it was also hiding an individual string muting system and a surface-mounted grounding wire between the pickup and bridge. When I was looking a couple of years back, I couldn't find any cheap P pickup covers. Plenty of P bridge / J pickup / J bridge / J sets though! 🤷‍♂️ I ended up paying full whack for a proper Fender P set. The P bridge cover is extremely useful for holding a piece of muting foam - great for pre-1970's sounds! Having the foam above the strings instead of below supposedly also affects the intonation less. I don't have any problem picking close enough to the bridge with the cover on, but I can see how it'd be a totally different situation on a Jazz! I find the P pickup cover mildly irritating for fingerstyle - I miss having the pickup edge to rest my thumb on. If I had a 70's-position thumbrest I don't think it'd bother me at all. The cover makes absolutely no difference when playing with a plectrum.

You should be able to use Audacity to record from Youtube, Spotify, or any other audio stream. Have a look at the options in the dropdown menu next to the microphone icon - you want one that includes "loopback", "what u hear" (sic), or "stereo mix". This treats your audio output as a microphone input, so you end up recording all sounds currently playing on your PC. Start recording in Audacity, go to Youtube, play the video, wait for the song to end, stop recording, save. As others have described, you can then do your looping, speed changing, pitchshifting, EQ, etc. in Audacity as well. Though personally I prefer Transcribe! for this part - it feels a lot less clunky.

My One10's got black cloth instead of silver - looks great! Also the black is slightly less expensive than any other custom cloth.

It's a useful bit of kit! EQ, pre-amp, overdrive... or all of them at once. Great on guitar too. The "cab sim" (really just fixed low- and high-pass filters) helps to tame rumble and fizz. When I'm using it for overdrive, I like to keep a compressor in front to prevent it getting farty - but that's the case for pretty much any bass OD.

No problem. It actually relieved a bit of GAS, by reminding me what I've already got! 😄 I had the bass knob at about 5:00 (edit - I mean 2:00 🤦‍♂️) on both TC pedals, so they are capable of a bit more low end. The SFT does have something nice going on in the low mids as well though. One thing I will say about the SFT is that it's very touch-sensitive - you only have to play a tiny bit harder to go from "slight breakup" to "fart noises". For me, this makes it hard to use without a compressor in front.

I have three of the pedals that have been mentioned to hand, so here are some very quick-n-dirty Motown impressions: TC Electronic Spark: https://picosong.com/wKSre/ Catalinbread SFT: https://picosong.com/wKSdM/ TC Electronic Mojomojo: https://picosong.com/wKSdi/ Not a comparison as such - I reckon you could dial them in to sound pretty much the same. More like an illustration that they can probably all do the job. It's the Precision, flatwounds, and rolling off most of the tone that gets you 80% of the way there. edit: Wait, no-one mentioned the Spark? Try the Spark! 😄

I don't think you're being picky - it feels weird because it is weird. If they don't have a sense of where the downbeat is (especially the drummer!), I'd be wondering what other surprising... interpretations might be in store 😆

https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Fender-Squire-Bass-neck/333172205426 I swear the headstock is half the length of the fretboard! Trick of perspective, maybe? Then there's the odd-looking tuners, and the "I think it was made in Indonesia" when it says "Crafted in China" and has a CY serial number... 😆

Microbass, maybe? I've still got one of these from the 90s - it's loud enough to rehearse with a drummer. They don't make 'em like they used to!

Keeley Bassist is superb. The other day I noticed I'd chipped the paint on mine, and just for a second I thought, "Oh no, the resale value!". Then I realised that this is the only pedal I can't imagine ever wanting to sell 😄

I used to take mine off, thinking it might get in the way. But then a couple of times I forgot - which made me realise that it doesn't make any difference.