Stub Mandrel

I picked my daughter from Nottingham last night at about 10:30pm on the way back we passed a young lady unicycling along the pavement. There ought to be a law 🙂 Many years ago I had a modest sized-lump appear in a disturbing location, growing slowly. After several weeks worry I finally inspected it thing I will have to go to the doctor... as soon as I made my mind up, the damn thing exploded! By the next day there was no sign of it. When I was in school one of the biology textbooks had a picture of a fellow wheeling along his distended testicle in a wheelbarrow... we all thought he looked rather proud of it.

As I recall I pretty much always ended up stage left without any planning.

As an onlooker, I wonder if every time a bass comes up for sale inserting 'This is not a Rickenbacker' in the text of the ad might be a worthwhile distraction 🙂

If I ever have the space I will rstore a Fergie or a Fordson T.

I think that's what happened to me. I suspect the strings cooled faster and 'shrank' a little making them taughter and raising the pitch.

Shame that guitar looks like a Barbie accessory

The point about Class D is that it uses Pulse Width Modulation. If is modulated then amplified and demodulated ( yes it is a form of Modem) I would argue that the PWM output is analogous to the input signal In the same way FM Radio is. It never enters the digital domain. I think that's the point I was trying to make? 🙂

It's one thing to replace songs you are fed up playing to an audience. Dropping ones you are fed up practising but haven't got round to playing in front of an audience does suggest a lack of seriousness about gigging...

This is very obvious if you have a tuner that reacts as quickly as the TU-3. Bye the bye, I tuned a bass yesterday, brought it to practice and every string was a few cents sharp - with this thread in mind I wondered if my tuners were at odds. But the instrument was cold. Once it had warmed up all the strings were flat by a few cents... I obviously have a temeperature sensitive bass!

If your 12th fret is sharp compared to the open string, don't you need to adjust the intonation? I always use an electronic tuner to match the first harmonic and 12th fret notes when setting my intonation.

My view is that 'heavy metal' changed, not the bands. The likes of Zeppelin, Purple, Heep and even Sabbath always had a hefty dose of music as far away from modern 'heavy metal' as Lena Zavaroni... but a fair chunk of their songs were foundation on which heavy metal was built - Whole Lotta Love, Smoke on the Water, to me, are unquestionably so. Ironically, some contemporary jazz (Soft Machine) and full-on prog (e.g. High Tide) was vastly 'heavier' than any of those four bands until Sabbath Bloody Sabbath came out (IMHO) but i think these things are intensly personal and everyone will have their own views, which is what makes it interesting. Tell me this isn't prog AND heavy... 🙂

It does here - keeps wanting me to go to YT premium. Ads are so crap I almost want to pay...

You're right!

Seconded!

Our guitarist recorded us last night, just with a Fosusright LDC mike into his laptop via an interface. It worked much better - he just put the mike away from the drumkit and not close to any of the amps. I think we will get away with it a week Sunday!

LOL! I meant 6/8 as against 4/4 🙂

I got sent a link to a recording of one of our rehearsals - just from a couple of condensor mikes up on the ceiling. Put it like this, you can hear the snare really well, until the singer starts then you can hear the singer really well. Everything else is effectively inaudible.

My first audition, which was a disaster, I was given a tape full fo songs. Spent a week trying to at least learn the basics of them with help from my little brother. Turned up 'oh those were only to give you an idea of what sort of music we are into'. Expected me (who was a pretty basic bassist at this point) to slot in with their random noodling...

I would avoid playing 6/8 songs unless you are auditioning for a prog band...

Such things are exactly what all this China-America trade dispute is all about. I see eearches both Bangood and AliBaba auto fill 'rickenbacker electric guitar' and 'rickenbacker bass guitar' but don't show any results, which suggests that some things have been taken down.

Its OK, don't panic. @wrinkleygit stole it.

I had a go of that too - I found it very easy to play (just like @Jabba_the_gut's) but it tends to make me use three fingers and go all guitary. The one thing I noticed with both styles of very short bass is that they get very brittle if hammering on, the 'clack' is louder than the subsequent note. Oterwise, they sound great.

Of couyrs real bass players woudl never stoop to such gimmicks... I tape sticks to my fingers and hit the strings with them ... and people pay me to do it! I sewed soft toys all over my trousers to distract from my playing. Watch me play bass and vomit fake blood at the same time. My bass is a flamethrower.

Rehearsals are about getting better at playing together, and sorting out arrangemens - "OK, which of the four different ways the original band played this do you want me to do?" 🙂 The second band I was in we wrote all our songs together as well - somone would bring a riff, progression or even a vocal line and we would take it from there. The third one, the guitarist wrote lots of original stuff and we leahd to learn and arrange these together as well. But you shouldn't be learning covers at rehearsals, unless you need other folks to help with some parts.

I stuck mine in chromatic mode and intend to leave it there!