Stub Mandrel

OK, Stew's guess gets the genre right even if the Goodies are a pastiche. The bassline was as played on Top of the Pops by someone better known as a guitarist and linked with the Pink Fairies...

About 100 miles out...

Me I think! This will keep you for a bit (I hope...) The original song doesn't have an easily recognisable bassline... but this is what they played live. Sorry it's not to fluent, I had to relearn it!

No probs! I've gone and got one now anyway!

Go on, 'ave another go!

And there we have it 🙂 Pumped up kicks, Foster the People...

Tsk! I meant I'm waiting for one I can actually identify... and I have made my contribution!

I'm just waiting for someone to post 'Peaches'...

Hmm. When did he drop the 'W.'? I haven't seen it used for decades!

I don't recognise it... but I bet you're using a compressor!

True, it's acting as a Faraday shield. It's effectiveness is dependent on the 'skin depth'. Copper's skin depth is considerably less than that of aluminium at any given frequency BUT for both metals it is thicker than the sort of foil used at 50Hz, so they will perform equally well. The difference does matter if you are shielding against radio frequencies.

Well you're the first to actually name it, get your track up!

I'm going out, but if thyour answer fits @lowdown's clue, it's right...

Saw them at Coventry in 95, which seems like yesterday. Double billed with Gong, the only differences were Daevid Allen out front and the style of music. Much awesomeness.

Looks like you all know what it is but daren't say! 🤣

I used the Sound Recorder app on my phone, which includes a facility to send a recording, so I emailed it to myself, picked up the MP3 on my computer and uploaded it. Much easier than I expected!

Certainly lives up to the reputation for a p-bass sound!

I wondered too, but saw a video recently that says this stops the wrap unwinding and losing tension - a major cause of 'dead strings'.

First, we accept that the even tempered nature of a fretted instrument is a compromise, but if you have the octaves right, then every note in between will sound acceptable. As @paul_c2 says, if you use a bass/guitar tuner (which uses even temper) you can set the intonation at any fret. If you do it by ear at a non-octave fret, you may well find some notes sound more out of tune, especially in some keys. On the mechanics, we need to set the intonation because fretting slightly lengthens the strings and slightly increases the tension. The tension increase dominates making the note sharp. We make the distance from nut to bridge slightly less than twice the distance from twelfth fret to bridge to compensate for this. The effect is more marked with thicker strings, partly because we set them higher and partly because they are, err, thicker and therefore stiffer. So the saddles for thicker strings need to be further away. On a guitar changing from plain to wrapped strings makes them more flexible, which is why you see a staggered line. Finally, strings are not 100% consistent... so swapping in an 'identical' set of strings amy still require a tweak.

I wondered about that too. We must be told!

Go on then ... I don't expect this to keep folks waiting too long! Rough and ready recorded on the Westone Thunder 1, using my phone.

Crikey, living on the edge! 🙂 I've done sleeping in a doorway after Sabbath at Hammy Odeon & New Year's Eve at Trafalgar Square