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Baloney Balderdash

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  1. Or sand the grip part of the pick with coarse sandpaper.
  2. Youth Culture Killed My Dog - They Might Be Giants
  3. If weight is not an issue then hands down and old used Trace Elliot amp, as suggested above. They can be had quite cheap used, sounds no short of astonishing, play really loud compared to the rated Wattage, and are build like tanks. However they do weight about a ton.
  4. Makes perfectly sense to me, even if I personally am not exactly too fond of headless basses, but I am sure it helps immensely to counter the neck dive otherwise bound to be a thing with that short upper horn.
  5. Yeah, looks great, hella neck dive though I would suspect. Also personally I prefer the O-Bass in the orange finish and with the back pickguard (white or black pickguard for orange finish, white or tortoise pickguard for black finish).
  6. Seriously, while I do like current Ibanez, they really ought to re-release some of their old classics, like for instance the Musician Bass.
  7. "No picture, no bass" - Mob Barley -
  8. Tension seems quite normal to me (image from OP): Fairly similar to that of regular D'Addario XL bass strings.
  9. How about this one: An actual serious act. And the scary part is that even though it is way off my usual musical taste I actually genuinely love this!
  10. Well, worked for me. And the pots I sprayed were really bad, but now works flawlessly and have done so for years since I sprayed them. I fail to remember the name of the product though, but it was made specifically to clean circuit boards.
  11. Shameless self promotion: Hail Satan - Fjernsind
  12. I decided to string my Ibanez Mikro Bass with Elixir Nanoweb guitar strings, threaded through cut off ball ends of old bass strings to not fall through the bridge string mounting holes, of the gauges .068 - .052 - .038 - .028, and tuned to tenor bass, A standard, tuning, that is as the 4 upper strings of a 6 string bass in regular B standard tuning, which as said Stanley Clarke, for one, makes widely use of. And I love it! Obviously useless for filling out a traditional bass role in a band context, but as solo and/or melodic instrument, that is also viable for playing chords, but while actually still sounding good playing regular bass lines on, it is pretty amazing.
  13. As The World Dies, The Eyes Of God Grow Bigger - Sebadoh
  14. I found that I get a better tone from picking very lightly, more so stroking the strings, with a very light inward "slapping" motion with the very tip of my finger pads/very edge of my nails, but as said rather stroking than really striking or plucking the strings. It does require some practice to get the precission needed to do this properly though. But if anything you loose potential dynamic range by plucking/striking the strings too hard.
  15. Could be something as simple as the pots needing a cleaning. Any additional crackle when any of the pots are turned? If so a fix could turn out to be as quick and easy as to spraying some electronic cleaner inside them and giving them a series of wiggles back and forth.
  16. While wood does have some influence on the overall tone there is likely as much difference between two individual pieces of wood of the same type as there is between two random pieces of different wood types, add to that that neck and fretboard wood properly will have a bigger influence on the overall tone and I think the type of wood the body is made up really have a rather minor influence on the overall tone, not really in any way that within reason would be predictable or make sense really based on wood type alone at least. Personally I love how Ash looks though, and my Aria Pro II Laser Electric Classic that got an Ash body, while rather heavy, does have an amazing resonance. So I'd chose Ash.
  17. Bobo should have worn this: As a tribute to The Village People.
  18. Not going to help OP, as it is active and definitely does color the signal, but I am really satisfied with my ART Tube MP Project Series tube preamp and DI. And as a bonus you get a switchable HPF, fixed @ 40Hz 12dB/Oct, that really tightens up the low end when engaged.
  19. Try searching for "Superwound 606 FFB strings", as that is what they are actually called, not "Six-O-Six". From what I could gather from the Google search I did using the above mentioned search string it very much looks like they are stainless steel wound, but not 100% sure.
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