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11 hours ago, horrorshowbass said:

Who wants a 42mm nut? Seriously.

Me.

On 25/01/2024 at 21:33, ossyrocks said:

Do you even notice/care? Is there that much difference between 4kg and 4.8kg?

(Firstly of adding, the ergonomics of each bass makes a difference to the perception of the bass, eg my Yamaha BB felt much heavier than my Squier P, though they were the same weight: presumably the different ways they hung around me applied the weight in different places)

It's what you're used to. I've two G&Ls made from Empress. When I first got them, they seemed incredibly light, and my knackered left shoulder was very grateful.

Now, though, as I know nothing else, they both seem normal. The 7.2 lb bass is the heavy one, the 7.0 lb bass is the light one.

(I suspect that ergonomics are again affecting my perception, as they have slightly different bodies, despite both being Leo Fender designed P basses.)

On 25/01/2024 at 20:51, warwickhunt said:

3 band EQ... no midrange?   

Bass, Treble, Ultratreble™️

G+L basses mostly don't have standard neck specs — both the nut width and the radius can vary. So for example, a wide 1¾" nut with a flat 12" radius was a possibility 

21 hours ago, Elfrasho said:

the finish was extremely thin and I'm convinced not original

As someone who likes gawping at Blazers, it looked original to me

Coincidently I was watching some live clips of a few songs from Rio last night. In couple of recent ones, JT was playing his Dingwall. Unsurprisingly, it made a very Dingwally sound, which is to say, not really like his sound on that album.

I have my Ampero Hotone multieffects unit (mostly used for the amp / cab sims + eq / compression) going into a Yamaha HS5 Active Studio Monitor. A good convincing sound, and more than enough volume for home use.

According to the specs, the Dirnt P has a nut that's a tiny bit more narrow than the usual 1⅝", but a thicker neck profile – it's called "Thick C".

Also according to the specs archived on the Squier Wiki, it's Artic White over Agathis

S.P.H. 

Steve Harris' middle name is Percy.

Rotosound Daddario and GHS all publish plentiful figures. I've noticed that for rounds, the Daddarios are lower in actual tension than the GHS and Rotosound at the same gauge. However, that lower actual tension doesn't seem to transfer to the feel of the strings, which seem just as stiff.

Time to get back to the proper notation 😐

I used to know the rules for reading those rhythms, but my brain seems to have found forgetting preferable to remembering. Where the tails are, and the direction they're pointed in make a difference to the length of the note, that's all I know now. And that there's a reason why some are in red.

I decided this years ago.

No music up to this point. End of the service, pall bearers lift up the coffin, turn to face the exit, stop.

Ramones: Commando

110 seconds later, the coffin is carried out in silence.

On 04/10/2023 at 10:00, Jonesy said:

I've just whacked a set of the La Bella 760FL's on a P for the first time and have been impressed so far. They sound great and the tension hasn't been too much for me.

If you ever need a second set of these, I've got one doing nothing — I really wanted to get on with them, but my dainty touch doesn't bring out their soul. (I won't be interrupting my LB-100's Chromes again.)

How I definitely did not sound with them:

3 hours ago, iconic said:

Funnily enough I've got myself down to a P, and a J, sold 7 since January. Feel sooooo much better for it too.

 

One thing I've noticed over the years, is that the really serious players, you know, those that play for a living, tend to have the least amount of basses....maybe just me? 

The website for Entwistle's gear takes several (very entertaining) pages

There's a G&L Tribute Fretless Kiloton

Pickup is in the right place, the selector can be put on Parallel — but there are no active tone controls, and that's an MDF pickup, not alnico. Still, Tribute prices are as they should be for MII.

But don't know how many of them have made it to the UK?

Short but very intense love of Maiden when I was 13–14. Then moved on, and then moved on some more. Many, many years later, found that the Killers-era line up (Di'anno, Smith, Burr) still does it for me, unreservedly.

I would love to hear Dolly Parton's seemingly infinite generosity of spirit tackling the challenge of commending the Sisters of Mercy's cover of Jolene

At one point I had one bass, and then it had to go to visit the tech, and while it was there I had no bass, and I thought, I'm never making this mistake again.

So now I have two basses, and at the moment one of them is visiting their mummy in California, and I've still got one bass to play. 

Wanted a bass when I was 13, but got talked into getting a guitar instead. I had been playing the piano and so on since I was six, so I progressed quickly and at 15 was definitely Good For Only 15. Three guys from the year above me at school asked me to play lead. We did one set of seven covers (Beatles, Pistols, Zeppelin, Van Halen) .... and that was my peak nicely passed lol. Three years later, and I was finally playing bass, but not for any good reasons.

Has anyone tried putting a Kiloton through one of those pedals that contains a clone of the original 2-band Stingray preamp? 

When I ordered my SB-1, I was deeply tempted by the Kiloton. At time, it was the series setting that attracted me; these days, I think I'd like to have the pickup selector wired front coil / parallel / back coil.

Fairly tense strings gently tickled by a very light touch.

T.W.A.

How low do you wear your belt?

1 hour ago, ahpook said:

Hey, stop arguing about the rules of the game.. .plenty of

 

Sister Sludge