PatrickJ

John's been giving me advice on a specific electronics project I'm about to undertake and has even helped supply the components I needed. Delivery was super fast and well packaged. kiOgon is a great asset to the BC community thanks for all the help! Patrick

@Andyjr1515 - who's the lucky recipient, and what's the next project?

Home practice is through an audio interface and either headphones or studio monitors (depending on if the kids are in bed or not).

Perhaps a more obscure song than most but Fear of a Blank Planet (Porcupine Tree, not Public Enemy 😁) causes me severe discomfort to play to the point I just can't hold it together and my playing and timing just go to poop.

oooff. this is the level of attention to detail that gets me excited !!!

Yes, but there's always those little tricks of the trade to be picked up.

@Andyjr1515 - what's the art / trick in getting the foil down so neatly into the cavities. I had to shield a precision shaped pickup cavity on a Sandberg bass and I could not get a neat job done of it like you demonstrate here.

I haven't heard of Blink 182 for years and years but they were very influential in that whole pop punk scene I was into in my 20's - I hope he makes a swift and full recovery.

Thanks @TKenrick. I enjoyed that immensely. So have you transcribed the full 20 mins ?

I'd never heard that song before but it's got to be one of the funkiest tunes I've heard in a looooong time

@Andyjr1515 - I love the birds motif you use! (well they look like birds to me)

Yes, this.

Fairytale of New York is a great example of this.

Me too, but what's the alternative? I don't believe Reverb is much better and sadly the BC community is a limited market.

I had a very similar conversation to this with my drummer friend a while ago. We were talking about what music we are comfortable listening to and playing based on the artist and their antics. I think you need to stay true to what you believe and if you are uncomfortable you should speak up. At least one person in a potential audience will be feeling the same as you.

Thanks for sharing Stew.

Agreed, they sound great. I thought I was managing my GAs but those clips do not help at all.

Have you first hand experience with the Kent Armstrong's stew ?

Not the hand wound custom pickups that he's renowned for but the (Korean??) models for sale at WD Music. Anyone have any experience with this range of pickups? Background to this I'm looking to change the pickups in my Sandberg PJ from the super clean Delano's to something more vintage sounding. Both my Shuker and ACG J basses have handwound pickups from Aaron Armstrong. I'm planning to swap the Shuker pickups (70s style wind) out for some Nordstrand split coils and I was going to reuse the J pickup from that in the Sandberg. I contacted Aaron for some options for a P pickup to match the J. He replied very quickly and obviously he could do something hand wound for me but he actually recommended one of these for about 1/2 the price: https://www.wdmusic.co.uk/electronics-c17/kent-armstrong-guitar-pickups-c100/kent-armstrong-bass-pickups-c101/kent-armstrong-hot-p-bass-pickup-alnico-magnet-enclosed-cover-p14226 Does anyone have any experience with them? They seem very cheap compared with most of the alternatives out there.