Stub Mandrel

By a curious coincidence, I found my t-shirt when loading my speaker last night. I will be wearing it to a rehearsal tomorrow.

The bass does more for my thumbs than any amount of anti-inflammatories.

1 October - Windsor, Penarth. 9:00pm ... 8:30pm ... 8:00pm ... 8:30pm At this rate, it will be happening on the 29th...

As a guitar finger-picker, I just tried picking four-finger chords and it's easy enough. Trying to play 'September' across all four stings strict one finger pwer string (well thumb and 3) needed a lot of concentration and wasn't fluent! Riffs with three fingers are easy enough and can get pretty fast.

Sort of. I'd estimate 1 cent flat on the C, E and G. 2 cents on Bb but pretty much on tune for C#. https://pages.mtu.edu/~suits/scales.html

Watching when in Rome on sky arts. Would have been good to see that lineup playing a set of 'classics'.

That gives you a true temperament fifth, not an equal temperament one. Not that the difference is meaningful - about 1 cent.

Having watched two of the car-crash live videos, I'd say that was being fairly generous to Vince Neil; like saying Phil Collins can still drum, just his physique stops him holding a drumstick.

I don't! The noughties were a bit shite in places, but things have picked up since then.

The list was just meant as a bit of fun. Personally I've never been particularly into the 'light heavy metal' of hair bands, although I've seen a few and enjoyed the enough and I even have a copy of Dukken's Back for the Quack. Mind you I like Nirvana and Pearl Jam. And Blur and Oasis.

Misinterpretation, even people with excellent ears can only distinguish pitch differences of about 4 cents at best. You do want to be tuned a bit better than that, as otherwise you can get noticeable beating when playing chords or against another instrument.

They destroyed then in the sense they stopped them reforming. It's no accident that five years after Kurt's passing, they reformed. They looked like a hair metal band when I saw them at Reading in 1983. That posting was intended as humour, y'all know...

I meant the bassline. Phil wasn't the most politically correct of frontmen...

Bang goes my theory then...

There's gratitude for you!

It does give a point to changing key though.

Drummer "Oh fack, I've left the snare off...!"

Candidate for the 'famous quotes thread' when taken out of context 🤣

As someone with a vertical 2x12, my understanding is that this improves dispersion in the horizontal plane, and is actually worse in the vertical. Am I right @Bill Fitzmaurice? I'm happy to have a bit more headroom and the amp not working as close to its limit. Plus if I need to fall back on my Elf, it's only 130W into 8R, but 200 into 4R, which combined with an efficient cab takes it into the 'practical option for any gig' territory.

I've done it with a pick but I wasn't comfortable, and I don't think I was as anywhere near as well as I should have been. Audience didn't seem to mind. I find it easier to keep the tempo with fingers and play the chords by either pulling the strings together or flicking my fingernails across the strings together which gives a different but equally aggressive sound.

Do you have the 'new' Pitchblack Custom? If so it's 0.1 cent.

Top Ten Hair Metal Bands Utterly Destoryed By Nirvana. Hanoi Rocks Skid Row Warrant Britny Fox Poison Dave Lee Roth Cinderella Motley Crue Err... ... that's enough hairspray - Ed.

I will drop a couple of 3" holes in a jiffy bag. Just pop a donation in "El Papa's Collection Box" 🙂

It's an interesting issue, and I thought it was worthy of wider discussion than just diagnosing what may be an issue with a single bass. In another thread, a similar issue is raised, but the person querying is using a TU2. I've just checked and the TU2 has an 'accuracy' of +/- 3 cents (the TU3 is +/- 1 cent). Two people with the 'same' problem yet one is using a tuner that is thirty times more 'accurate' (the manufacturers may mean precise). There's a real possibility that one bass needs a good setup and the other is fine, but if +/- 1 0.1 cent tuners become the norm we will see these issues a lot more. How did we cope when we had to tune by ear to a reference ?

That should be fun to play 🙂