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  1. Stub Mandrel
    I love all the masterbilts.
  2. Stub Mandrel
    I see guitarists playing Blackstar amps almost as often as I see bass players using Mark Bass.
  3. Stub Mandrel
    As a bass vi and a baritone guitar?
  4. Stub Mandrel
    I think light oak will be far darker than your 'wet' image. Try a thin coat of varnish first.
  5. Stub Mandrel
    You can get these in various finishes. https://www.guyker.com/en-gb/products/guyker-gb205-5-string-electric-bass-bridge-vintage-style-saddle-bridge Careful groove selection should allow you narrower but consitent string spacing.
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    After shipping that's £15 more than a Squier mini precision.
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    Well I'm 1962. Life is cruel to us when it comes to year of birth basses...
  8. Stub Mandrel
    My brother had an expensive hike tent in his basket and was uhmming and ahhing over it for weeks. They randomly reduced it to 85% off. Free postage too!
  9. Stub Mandrel
    Unisex.
  10. Stub Mandrel
    His tone was pretty consistent between live and studio. Bear in mind that recording bass in the early '70s he would have probably gone straight into the desk while live it could have been that or more likely miked up speakers. This is probably the gold standard live recording of Andy Fraser: Note the very badly positioned (ribbon?) Microphone placed lined up with the centre of the four speakers about a foot out and angled down a bit. Surprising they got a decent tone... He gets a similar but brighter tone on the studio recording of mr big: I suspect he used the bridge mute on his EB3 as well as a lot of muting by alternating index and middle right hand fingers Flats? Probably. If I want an Andy Fraser sound I'd choose my Squier Jazz fitted with old style mutes.
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    Color : Flocculent Maple
  12. Stub Mandrel
    Spot the boomer!
  13. Stub Mandrel
    A road is for getting to places. Streets are for getting around places (in broad terms).
  14. Stub Mandrel
    I'm glad there are others with email addresses chosen in a moment of madness and still going decades later...
  15. Stub Mandrel
    As a fellow Terror 500 user, have you tried rolling the bass back a bit and maybe upping the treble?
  16. Stub Mandrel
    The Trace kit is very repairable -- no sanded off IC numbers and parts you can see without having to buy a Mantis!
  17. Stub Mandrel
    Origin and history of drink drink(v.) Old English drincan "to swallow water or other fluid," also "to swallow up, engulf" (class III strong verb; past tense dranc, past participle druncen), from Proto-Germanic *drenkanan (source also of Old Saxon drinkan, Old Frisian drinka, Dutch drinken, Old High German trinkan, German trinken, Old Norse drekka, Gothic drigkan "to drink"), which is of uncertain origin or connections, perhaps from a root meaning "to draw." Most Indo-European words for this trace to PIE *po(i)- (source of Greek pino, Latin biber, Irish ibim, Old Church Slavonic piti, Russian pit'; see imbibe). Figurative meaning "take in through the senses" is from late 12c. Especially "to imbibe spiritous liquors" from mid-15c. To drink to "salute in drinking" is by mid-13c. To drink like a fish is recorded from 1744. To drink (someone) under the table "continue drinking and remain (comparatively) sober after others have passed out" is by 1909. drink(n.) "beverage," often especially "alcoholic beverage," late Old English drinc, drync, from drink (v.). Meaning "as much of any liquid as is or may be taken at a time" is from c. 1300.
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    Interesting... Tried the new intro song... it was going to be solo acoustic but we thought we'd put in some subtle backing. It's tricky with some dropped beats, but with the vocals it makes sense. I swapped a bass riff (inspired by Cirrus Minor) to a different song so had to invent a replacement. I suggested a big tempo change that rescued another song. For my troubles I got threatened by a clown armed with a rubber sledgehammer, but the vocalist cut his face off with a plastic chainsaw... the gig will be memorable! True confession... I'm starting to enjoy plectrum playing (perhaps because the extra practice is making me better at it).
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    From photos, I'd be pretty confident that Andy Fraser used 4x12 cabs with his Marshall 100W bass heads. I think his tone was mostly in his fingers.
  20. Stub Mandrel
    But... does that tell you if it is good for metal?
  21. Stub Mandrel
    Very true. But is it worth playing fretless if it sounds like a fretted bass?
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    For me fretless has always been a bit like an effects pedal... something you only pull out when it fits the song. That said, last year I got carried away and played a whole blues set on mine. The audience reacted as if they'd never seen a fretless before, which was good for the ego 😁 but I've resisted repeating the exercise except the odd rehearsal.
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    Forget That... try these: The Crimps Frank Ferdinand Sex Pistons Generation Z Belly Idol The Sweat Emerson, Fake and Palmer
  24. Stub Mandrel
    The series resistor is more about protecting the amplifier from instability due to the insanely low impedance of the tweeters beyond the top end of the audio spectrum.
  25. Stub Mandrel
    Shat 69?
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