Stub Mandrel

Two coming soon, only got Saturdays booked today!

My default setting is about that with tone full. I like both pups up as well for the 'hollow' sound.

It looks surprisingly cool to me, the body is a bit thin and small but it still weighs the same as my full scale Sire P10 😬

We finished by hamming Marilyn Manson style sweet dreams. I think thst shows where it's heading. Our own songs have titles like Kill the Clown, Circling the Drain and Dreams of Despair. I suspect it's all going a bit goth...

It's unusual for a drummer to do it without being asked though!

Other end of the (short) scale: As received... will be tarting it up: A quick set up saw a half turn off the truss rod and a hefty neck shim and the action is still high with the bridge bottomed out. Slight buzz at the nut on g string, think the slot is a bit tight as pushing string down stopped it. Very light strings so hilariously easy to play. Was thinking of a refin, but the yellowed colour evokes aged olympic white...

Cydernide 😁

Well that was interesting! A quiet rehearsal! A drummer I haven't met before who put a towel over the snare. I got to refine my basslines for about eight originals. We jammed a few things, including me and the guitarist (Daz the daffodil) trying to play and sing Child in Time 😱 Aside from that, quite a chilled evening. I even had go with a pick.* *It seems no-one calls them plectrums any more.

Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Wigs.

Tonight, despite being in a good room and my eq virtually flat, my jazz sounded lifeless. It was only 2/3 of the way through the rehearsal I realised that I had tried the tones off, neck pickup backed off a bit reggae sound before we started. I'd reset my volumes but not the tones... Anyway... it's originals and for one song I needed inspiration and a more aggressive sound. I found both with a pick. The changed sound inspired me to a much better bassline.

Not my videos... they are my partners in this collaboration!

Are you a billionaire? 😁

If you think that's disturbing:

Rehearsing with Taffman and Daffodil tonight... so we'll have a go at the theme song...

That's about 30% more stretch!

You need a 'proper' jazz pup pair to get the full range of jazz sounds. That's why PJs don't cut it.

Here's the evidence...

I've just received a Kay Gremlin from Lee - don't ask why I love these old, bargain-basement instruments! It was packed brilliantly well, better than described and Lee was great to deal with, as said above he's a credit to the Basschat community.

I use 1 finger per fret all the way to the nut... even on a 35" scale five string. I do have fairly long fingers.

Crikey you're all in the wars... I hope it isn't catching. Speedy recoveries @Bluewine and @Gasman!

5* OOMPH rating.

It's always a buzz when people come because of your reputation.

My approach varies depending on how well I know the song (in a general sense). I recently learned Jean Genie. I've busked it at jams a few times and know the structure simply from having heard it a lot. I had to learn the proper details, especially around the chorus but it was fairly straightforward. On the other hand although I 'knew' keep on running it was not well and I was surprised by the complexities in the verse and chorus... especially the changes in syncopation. Plus there were several different tabs so I had to decide which was most accurate. I broke it down into sections. I did one ir two play throughs at half tempo to make sure I had the rhythm right. Then it was brute force... start at the beginning and see how far I could get. My two rules... 1) if I keep making a mistake stop, slow right down and get it righ. Practising a mistake is never a good idea. 2) walk away, ideally sleep on it. You will always be better on returning to . Combine the two approaches. Accuracy at the expense of speed, plus a chance for your brain to process the learning = much faster and more accurate next time around. So my learning is usually many songs in parallel, rather than one at a time. Currently learning 34 songs - a soundcheck, two 15 song sets, and 3 encores. Luckily most I already know or am familiar with and many (but not all) are reasonably straightforward.

Open a burger van?

It was odd, perhaps we hit a bad weekend.