Stub Mandrel

LOL I assumed it was a pickup!

One of the distinguishing features of the Squier Jaguar SS. I see it has now been discontinued (too successful for its own good, undermining sales of 'higher' spec models?) I see a used one (in the USA) on Reverb for £310! Crazy? Perhaps in 20 years these Indonesian basses will have a similar reputation to early Squier P basses?

The physicality of vinyl is the big thing for me. A record in its sleeve is a work of art. I buy CDs today for cost and ease of ripping (and because my hifi hasn't been set up for about ten years), and I note that these days nice card sleeves are the thing not nasty jewel cases. Even a simple card slip is better than a crap case. I can't wait to get my hifi set up again, maybe with new speakers, once the divorce stinky poo is over.

Stick a preamp in it.

It really winds me up when people use a time machine to copy my posts 🙂

You could say they are 'going through the motions...'

If you can live with a reliced bass, then the Flea bass is a great way to get one with that spec.

Video working really hard to show how well they all were getting on...

The deal is a baseline and doesn't say anything specific on the issue, this is seeking an exemption from the standard rules. It's generally accepted that we will be negotiating on less 'headline' issues like this for years to come. Particularly worrying is that CITES rules will apply if you take your precious instruments to Europe. Wait for the fuss when a £1M violin with ivory tuners gets confiscated...

Great! Today I saw Guy Pratt and Lemmy both using the same four-note chord shape 🙂

It may be partly the isolation process, but to me these tracks always sound more middly, more handling noise, much less even between notes and more 'human' timing but always very different from what you might hear from a demo of a bass rig...

Petition: Seek Europe-wide Visa-free work permit for Touring professionals and Artists https://petition.parliament.uk/petitions/563294

Are you going to do a vid of Flea's Jazz basses?

Also even without it's not impossible to imagine it playing OK. I had a go of a mustang a few days ago and ran out of frets but could 'bluff' fret 20 on the G string by pressing it down onto the tail of the fingerboard

Question... Why do people assume the fretboard downstream of the last fret needs to be at the same level as the fretboard in the fretted part? If it rises rapidly after the last fret to be level with the top of the frets the join will be (almost) seamless.

I am always fascinated how what sounds like fantastic bass tone in a song, once isolated, sounds nothing like you expect.

Back in the 90s very time I set up to play along to albums I would almost always put Watt or Shhh on the turntable at some point. Ten Years After a band I sadly only ever saw once - their all guns blazing return at reading '83.

A light head and portable cabs. Something in surf green. Something ugly with a humbucker in.

Our club is full of remarkably normal people, at least normal when we aren't discussing our shared interests when it can get very weird. Last year someone gave a really good talk on Tardigrades (the honey badgers of the invertebrate world).