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My head was getting fed up of my going back and forth between mm and inch, so I sat down with my calculator to make myself chart, so I don't need to think anymore. Once I had done it, I realised that Yamaha's frequent sizes of 40mm and 43mm lie almost exactly in the middle of the gaps between 1½" and 1⅝" and 1¾" (40mm: 100.8% of 1 & 9/16" ; 43mm: 100.3% of 1 & 11/16") My head is so pleased to learn that it'll never have to think about this again 😅

Will you have to change your forum name?

His wikipedia entry mentions an A-level in music. If that's synonymous with Young Musician Of The Year then my CV is about to look a whole lot more impressive 😬

The corner of my brain which is taking this lockdown especially badly decided to confuse the contents of this State Of Mercury YouTube channel with what got posted on the Covers of Jolene thread, and I've now got Enter Sandman as covered by Norah Jones going round my head 🥵

I was admiring the logo until I realised it has six tuners

I've been waiting for this thread to reach its Clive Burr Appreciation moment 🥰 Di'Anno Murray Smith Harris Burr, my favourite line up (ps love that Di'Anno plays air guitar left handed)

I found listening to Hysteria an increasingly unsettling experience, as I began to doubt that I was actually hearing anything real and natural: not the drums, not the bass, not the guitars, just this metal-flavoured mousse of overproduced noise.

Play a tune of three notes on the piano several times in a row, then lift your hand half a foot above the keyboard and play the tune again, moving your fingers through empty space. In the silence, listen to the tune playing in your mind. Now pick another set of three notes. Etc. Repeat for half a decade 😬

It's just dawned on me that the preference for basses which visually capture the nature of wood at its most unfettered usually goes hand in hand with a desire for a bass which makes as smooth and even a sound as possible. The appearance is nature unbound; tone is highly polished and focused right across a wide range. Meanwhile, instruments that sound like someone whipping a rusty car with a chain usually look very sleek.

Trying to picture the balance of influence in that discussion

Do we yet know how roasted necks behave decades down the line? I've no idea how long they've been in use. Does skipping the youthful stage mean the decrepit old age is now closer? Is there even such a thing as decrepit old age for guitar necks? Please lecture me, fulsomely

It is permissible to send emails that start something along the lines of "Thank you for the phone call just now, great to get things sorted. Since I like to have things written down, here's what we agreed....."

I bought in the same 12 months Def Leppard Hysteria, WASP Live In The Raw, Motley Crue Girls Girls Girls, ACDC Blow Up Your Video, Guns n Roses Appetite For Destruction and then, just after them, ....And Justice For All. It did not seem like "average generic metal", not one bit, and it made Iron Maiden's Seventh Son Of A Seventh Son, which came out a few months later, seem pretty feeble stuff. (Given that I had all the previous 7 Maiden albums, could recite their complete track listings, including songwriters, and could draw the Maiden logo from memory, you can imagine how hard that realisation hit me 😭😂) I now shake my head at the Motley Crue and WASP albums, but ....Justice still gets me terribly overwrought.

I care here ready to sulk if this point wasn't being made promptly 😁

This is all purely what I've learnt from reading, so take it with a good pinch of salt.... The SB-2 is an odd design: firstly theres no tone control, just two volumes. Secondly, the bridge pickup is *really* close to the bridge: the idea seems to be that you add in some of the bridge pickup to the basic sound of the neck pickup as a flavouring. I guess some people find it frustrating. Both the SB-2 and the SB-1 are pure passive instruments. The L-2000 is interesting in that it has an active/passive switch, but whether the active is on or off, the bass and treble knobs remain passive and only cut: the MFD humbuckers make a full rich tone across the spectrum and then you dampen what you want. ps I'll shut up about G&L now! Back to BBs..... 😇

Heres a demo of an MFD split coil. My like of the noise it makes feels very much related to my choosing the 424 over the 434 - a really firm, ringing sound. Not exactly a subtle basic sound, but... *searches for metaphor* ....but the roar of a tamed beast is better than the yapping of a riled lapdog, no? 😁

I prefer a straightforward selector switch - I've a blend knob on my TRBX and find it totally useless - finding something perceivably different between 100% neck and 50%/50% is like searching for a needle in a haystack. I was wondering if it was just me, but someone recently bumped an old thread on TB about blend controls, which contained some technical explanations as to why blend controls so often seem to have no gradations, no better than selector switches. I can't say I understood them, but the whiff of science was enough to reassure me that I wasn't just being cloth-earred. I saw that some recent EBMM bass with two pickups had a 5 way selector: solely neck, mostly neck, equal, mostly bridge, solely bridge, and wondered if EBMM had had to fine-tune the preselected blends very carefully. Certainly, to return to your point, having five reliable sounds seems more useful in performance than trying to find those two tiny spots on the blend knob where the dominant pickup isn't totally obliterating the other.

One reason for buying a USA G&L is that you can have any neck on any body. Mine will be 1½", but the factory default for the SB-1 is 1⅝". The Indonesian-made Tribute series, though, you get what you get. Off the top of my head the Tribute SB-2 is 1½" and the Tribute L-2000 is 1¾".

I had been wondering if the clack rattly selector switch on my 424 was any cause for concern. Good to know it's standard 😁

I've an G&L SB-1 on the way. I'm hoping that and my BB424 will make a very happy pair, for what I want out of a bass, at any rate.

The photo pinched from this old advert G&L

Might be an idea for me to wait until I've got an income other than Rishi Sunak handouts 😬

Having a very pleasant daydream of buying this natural 2024 from the Bass Gallery and having it painted ruby metallic satin frost

Just yesterday I was transfixed by a photo I chanced upon of a G&L L-2000 in metallic ruby with a frost finish. Made a lot of sense to me!