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You can pick up a Trace Elliot, from the days dinosaurs walked the earth, for next to nothing these days. They're great amps, that were hewn out of a solid block of iron. They're a bargain - If you're man enough to be able to actually pick one up.

Luckily the parking at the Edinburgh one is fine. The rooms sound great and have decent equipment - no ancient TE bass amps or drum kits with dodgy hardware.

Sounds good. I've had a couple of SUBs, they're great basses. I believe the seller was @mcnach . I'm sure he'll be glad to hear you're happy with your new (old) bass.

Occlusion – the booming effect we hear when our ears are blocked, caused by sound (particularly lower frequencies) being transmitted through the bones of the head to the ear canal. This is particularly a problem for singers and those instrumentalists whose instruments are in contact with their head, e.g. brass and woodwind, higher strings. The effect can be reduced by wearing earplugs deeper in the ear canal, or by using vented earplugs. From this website: https://www.hearformusicians.org.uk/hearing-protection

For many years I was in the same boat. But when I did start playing them my playing got better. Because some covers can really stretch you - they're not all Mustang Sally.

The CITES restrictions on importing/exporting rosewood instruments, will end at the end of this month. So there will no longer be a need for instrument makers to switch to Pau Ferro fretboards any longer. It mucks up Fenders plans as, if they switch back to rosewood fretboards, they'll be left with thousands of instruments with Pau Ferro fretboards, that nobody will want (unless they seriously discount them).

It was recorded on a mobile phone by a fan. Most mobile phone mics just aren't designed to capture decent bass, however loud it is in the venue. Guitarist is Dave, who is no wallflower. He goes through phases as far as guitars are concerned. For years he was a tele man but recently fell in love with Zak Wylde, sold his tele, and bought two Epiphone Les Pauls - one in black and one in white.

Try loosening the screws and moving the chrome control panel nearer to the tort scratchplate. It usually does the trick.

I've got Dunlop Super Brights on my Classic Vibe Precision, Elixirs on my Fender 57 MIJ Precision and good old Rotosound Swing bass strings on my Fender Elite. They all sound great. I don't get on with flats.

Has it been chewed by a pit bull? That's a hell of a chunk.

Crikey.......

I know Lawrie Macmillan. He is very tall, dark and handsome, and up until recently drove an Alfa Romeo. If, after a significant amount of lessons, for some unexplained reason, your girlfriend's bass playing is not getting any better. I would suggest you get her to to swop to a uglier, fatter, possibly with bad halitosis, bass tutor.

Older style P basses tend to have shallower necks than newer ones. Certainly my Precision elite's neck, is significantly chunkier than the necks on my 57 reissue and Squier Classic Vibe P basses.

That's Charlie Jones. I saw him playing with Goldfrapp with his see-thru bass. He's a cool cat.

I bought a really nice playing and sounding MIJ Precision from Basschat, about a year ago. But I felt like a bit of a change. So I bought a very nice Fender, Japanese, Rosewood, Precision neck, from Ebay. I removed the original maple neck from my MIJ Precision and fitted the new one. But however I fiddled with the EQ on my amp, it just didn't sound as good as it did with the old maple neck on it. I blamed the difference in sound on my imagination but eventually swopped the necks back again and instantly the bass came to life and sounded so, so much better. It appears that some necks and bodies are just destined to be together?

I can't tell you how long I've been looking for a signed copy of Captain Mark Phillips biography.....thanks! 😄

I have set of Lindy Fralins in the bass shown in my profile picture. I have a set of Wilkinson pickups in an old Squier Jazz bass. The Lindy Fralins cost £150 for a set and the Wilkinsons £40. The Lindy Fralins sound great but the Wilkinsons sound excellent too. My point is, there's no need to break the bank to get a decent set of pickups.

Drunken a**holes, don't we love them?

The guy has a Silver Series Squier on sale for £599. I suspect he's a bit of a chancer.

I used to be a pro bass player and would take any job I was offered. But I ended up having to get a proper job to pay the bills. I've had to cancel my participation in tours with my band, twice, because of work commitments. The second time it happened, my band were backing a well respected blues singer from the USA, and I was gutted, because I was really looking forward to it. In the end he turned out to be a total curmudgeonly, old, cnut, so I'm glad I body swerved that one

The first album I owned was Rod Stewart's 'Blondes Have More Fun' (Xmas present at 14). I used to listen to it all the time and really liked Phil Chen's bass playing, which was really tight. This was a year or so before I picked up a bass.

That drummer's fills are rubbish. Like a couple of toms being thrown down a flight of stairs

I have a friend who became the guitar tech for the Soweto Gospel choir. She'd been a sound engineer, around Edinburgh and Glasgow, for a few years and out of the blue got a call from a friend, who was having to drop out of the choir's UK tour and asked her if she fancied taking over the job. Of course she had no idea about being a guitar tech but said yes anyway. I had to teach her how to tune a guitar. She managed to get through the UK tour and eventually she ended up as their tour manager, on a 6 week tour from Hamburg to Istanbul.

I have a road worn Jazz and another Jazz with a set of roadworn pickups in it. The trick to get a fuller sound, is to lower the bridge pickup and raise the neck pickup.