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I've been telling people for years that oiling your fretboard just makes it pretty, it does nothing to protect it or moisturize it.

1 minute ago, Bill Fitzmaurice said:

You'll never see a proper engineering document

You're probably correct.

Although, I did see many Engineering documents when I was heading up a Document Control center on a refinery construction project, but those were mostly about Piping & Tanks.

6 hours ago, lownote12 said:

ohm-age

Impedance

It's called Impedance instead of Resistance, because it changes due to frequency changes.

Two 8-Ohm cabinets will receive a roughly equal amount of Power from the amp, but how they each respond to that Power will be different.

Don't just go adjusting the truss-rod willy-nilly, check the neck-relief first. Here's a complete guide, follow it step-by-step:

https://www.fmicassets.com/Damroot/Original/10001/OM_leg_bass_2013_Fender_Bass_Guitars_Owners_Manual_English.pdf

I'm not liking the new format for Fender setup guide, the old one was better.

The old link doesn't work anymore:

https://support.fender.com/hc/en-us/articles/214343843-How-do-I-set-up-my-bass-guitar-properly-

3 minutes ago, Bill Fitzmaurice said:

That's not a crossover, it's a high pass filter,

That's exactly what I commented about the MarkBass 'crossover' years ago, but a design engineer told me even if the full spectrum of frequencies were going to the woofer, it would be considered a crossover.

MarkBass claim they are allowing all frequencies to the woofer.

The crossover in my MarkBass cabinet did not split the lows out to the woofer, but it did restrict only highs for the tweeter.

Your tweeter won't be inline (series), it will be in parallel.

However, the Capacitor to discriminate frequencies will be in Series:

It doesn't bode well to me when the company doesn't even know what's in their instruments:

https://www.jacksonguitars.com/gear/shape/spectra-bass/pro-series-spectra-bass-sbp-iv

"Nordstrand® SB4 single-coil soapbar bridge and neck pickups deliver an all-around pulverizing and striking sound"

and then at the bottom of the page:

^ Configuration = HH = Humbucker Humbucker

It's bad enough that the design copied Ibanez Premium Soundgear verbatim.

11 hours ago, Merton said:

a “standard” Jack-Jack guitar cable is NOT the same as a Jack-Jack speaker cable. Do not use an instrument cable for a speaker connection.

Thanks for following up with 'Instrument Cable'.

Guitar-Players are constantly calling them 'guitar cables' & it's irrational, but it gets on my tits.

Pete has you covered, just be over 2 Meters tall:

that's Peter Steele:

Ibanez's latest creation is called the Ergonomic Headless Bass or EHB. I love mine, because it's The Most Comfortable instrument I've ever owned:

https://www.ibanez.com/eu/products/model/ehb

They also introduced short-scale models in 2021.

23 minutes ago, BassmanPaul said:

Using them for a guitar cable is fine.

How about for a bass?

😀

I finally got my left & right hands independent, so that I could use a less forceful touch on the frets, but now it seems I need to use a less forceful strike with the plectrum as well.

I abhor the 0.1" 4th stringsets, the tension is so unbalanced. There's nothing wrong with using another finger to help bend.

2-1/2 steps is one Hell of a bend, I don't think I went that far with a guitar with a double-locking vibrato bridge.

Limitations, there's also the physical.

Not only am I slow, but I can't reach sometimes. That Ghost song 'Pinnacle to the Pit' has a 2nd to 5th fret stretch that I can barely do, & definitely not at tempo.

However, the reason I'm posting today is because of my arm issues. This time last year I couldn't play at all from tennis-elbow.

Visited a physical therapist & learned some exercises & even how to hold my arm when sleeping. Problem solved, for the time.

When people brag about playing for hours I feel envy, I've been able to play for hours only a few times, Saturday was one of those & I suffered for it all day yesterday.

My strumming arm forearm was sore all day & still is just slightly. I tried massaging it, then Diclofenac Sodium, & finally CBD cream & Acetaminophen.

I feel like I'm fighting a losing battle, LOL!

but I'm about to take my chance to play a little before really starting the day

My last guitar was a similar RG with a roasted Maple neck:

I've since forsaken guitar, I was having difficulty enough with just 1 instrument, LOL!

My current two basses:

Here in the U.S. the great unwashed think everyone who plays bass MUST be a slapper.

So if they're feeling saucy, & find out you play bass, they will do the Paul Rudd move from "I Love You Man"

I once was within 4 Meters of Paul Rudd in NYC at Rockefeller Center. I could see him & he could see me, & I wanted to give him the finger, but I also wanted him to know why, so I just smiled & kept moving.

He was waiting to be interviewed on The Today Show by NBC.

Those windows at their back are real. I spent a fair bit of time around TV studios when I was in New York, was at a David Letterman show, Tonight Show (Jimmy Fallon), & saw Saturday Night Live in the studio. Kevin Hart hosted.

More about slap, at Guitar Center, that's all anyone does, it's a cacophony back there in the bass corner.

Painting over that grain would make me cry.

It's possible to do a series/parallel between pickups AND have a 3-way pickup selector, but it is quite complicated.

The pickup selection switch gets right in the way of doing a normal series/parallel switch.

RobbieK in Oz has made a drawing for such a thing, but I'm not sure he's a member here:

Did some Goth today:

Monel should be 'warmer' than Stainless (Chrome):

Cobalts are a far cry from Warm, however.

I guess I did open it up to what others think by making it a poll, but IRL I don't have to worry about what others think, because I'll never be playing in public.

When I'm playing something that I'm just not getting I sometimes get that "WTF am I even doing?!" feeling, like it's time to give up, given all my limitations.

Branching off into Goth is me trying another genre.

Other times, like yesterday, I pick it up & just love how I can make those sounds with so little effort & think it's Romantic somehow, fighting a struggle I can never 'win'. I'm so accustomed to 'winning', that it's just foreign territory for me.

Bach famously stated: "You only have to hit the right notes at the right time"

but timing has never even gotten into the equation for me

I sometimes think truly pitch-perfect people must have a difficult time enjoying Music if there's any pitch issues. If I don't know my timing is off or I'm out of tune, all the merrier.

Today I was watching an interview with one of the ladies from our TV show, Shark Tank. She said that in about 3 months from starting a deal with the entrepreneurs on the show, something has happened, & there are two types. Those who complain, point fingers & feel sorry for themselves & those who look for a solution. I realized immediately that applied in the situation I've been 'crying' about, so I got out my bass & decided to rip through some riffs on AmpliTube 5. Then I took it out onto the back porch to play through my VOX a little louder. Something just feels good about playing, so I stand by my signature & Ian's words of wisdom.

I just updated version 4 & also installed 5, & they're both awful now.

The only reason I used 4 in the past was for Crunch & now I can't get crunch on either of them w/o paying for an amp model or summat.

My USB interface sounds great, but I can only get Clean w/o some sort of software modeling.

I follow both genres:

Black Sabbath

Motörhead