Stub Mandrel

The bloody mri scanner is broken. I will get one tomorrow but have to go to a different hospital! I bet @Bluewine will be mindboggled that I'm getting a week in hospital, pill and IV drugs, treatment, a cat scan and an mri scan all for free.

Strikes me that something like this is a targeted product, and they know their audience. It's a signature model offering and same tone and playing experience as one of the greatest living bass players. But Pino is not well known by younger players and is fretless excluding many potential customers. They know the audience for sales is limited but probably many of whom want this will/can pay. Contrast with the Flea Jazz. Potentially big market... Fender make it in Mexico, keep construction cost down and the markup to 2-300 on a standard version. They make vastly more than MM because of sales volume. It's horses for courses and a nice model like the Pino MM for a niche market will always carry a premium.

3dB is 'enough to hear the change' and 10dB is twice or half as loud. Translate easily to movements on the mixer sliders, and are meaningful in that context. They aren't all calibrated in dB but good ones are.

If I think something is too quiet or loud in a mix I ask for +/- 3dB. If its inaudible or dominating, +/-10dB. Don't know if that's usual but it sounds impressive 🤣

"Typical of this style was his playing on Paul Young's "Wherever I Lay My Hat". His equipment at that time included a fretless 1979 Music Man StingRay Bass and Boss octave pedal (OC-2)."

Put the videos on Facebook. Our gig last Saturday. 😎

This is a good price for a decent quirky 60s bass. Tempted but need to save... https://ebay.us/m/fF2HWI

My Facebook feed showed me a picture of the new member of the Palladino family. Confusingly he has arms, legs and no strings...

Not sure.

I can tell you he sounds Cardiff to me and that's a Gren sticker!

Thanks. They are mk 1 I think but there are some useful clues*. Stuck on a hospital trolley with vertigo since Saturday night (when the fault appeared) butshould be home soon. I've contacted Orange for the Mk 2 schematics... worth asking! I hadn't seen the wiring diagram before and this may be very similar to the mk2.

That's a limited edition of 10 signed ones.

Comoare and contrast...

Probably but it was so badly set up as to be unpleasant rather than just requiring effort.

The action was huge, I don't think it had seen even a rudimentary setup A shame as it was gorgeous.

"Hello, I see you sell mandolins. Could I have one to fit this case, please?"

We threaten to unleash the dinosaur.

Not quite true of the Elf because of the complex compression/overdrive behaviour I just described.

The TE Elf has built in compression and like most TE solid state heads sounds best with the gain well up. The compression light SHOULD be coming on. It ends up putting out as much power as a more highly rated amp as it controls transients via the compression rather than handling them with headroom. If the is rotated into the last part of its range an overdrive effect is also applied. You can easily compete with an uncompressed 500W amp through the same speaker cabs, and can set the gain to get a good clean sound, dirty or on the cudp so it's pretty clean and gets dirty as you dig in. Very clever and much misunderstood. The designers really knew what they were doing. People who think it's a glorified practice amp and complain about fan noise gave missed the point of the Elf. It's as if it was designed specifically to spread the myth of Trace Elliot Watts

Well done whoever sorted this, and hope things turn out ok @Quatschmacher

I've had a Marine Band G for over 40 years, bit battered now. Also some cheaper ones. I can bend down on the draw but find draw playing hard work so have never stuck at it. Ought to try one of those workshops. Currently 'looking after' my partner's father's harmonica - an ancient Hohner Vineta 4 chord harmonica. Almost every source will tell you it does F-C-G, but actually it's G-major/D-major7 C-major/G-major7 F-major/C-major7 Plus low bass notes and a huge sound. Sonit can tackle blues in G and C.

Me too... when my brother told me about Ozzy saying 'this is the last time you'll ever hear us play Paranoid'. I grew up with their music, my first non-provincial concert was 31 December 1981 which made up much of 'Live at Hammersmith Odeon' with my first serious girlfriend. Never saw Ozzy

I found mine had a weaker g-string but after a surprising number of adjustments finally got pickup height right. It needs to be as high as possible without any danger of clacking the string. I have a tiny spall on the headstock. Trying to play it a lot but seems reluctant to wear. The £350 case is lovely but heavy, and if it isn't on a level surface it twists and the catches won't open.

I nearly bought a dolphin grey Aerodyne in PMT, but the setup was so bad I couldn't bond with it.

Ugh. Edit: neat - now I have an excuse never to go on a fairground ride again.