Al Nico

Hello. 14 year is a long time. I can only manage about an hour and a half maximum.

Hello.

@Jean-Luc Pickguard Your track is a shimmering wonder. The percussive elements are fantastic. I like the production all round. Nice stereo and mix. It made me smile and I felt pretty calm afterwards.

@MoonBassAlpha Track goes together well, moves through and keeps interesting. Good sounds too. Bass came out well. I like the mid drive sound, it's live sounding and has even weight low and high. It's original too. Nice work. @upside downer Good mix. The slury synth bass riff makes my head go funny, in a good way, and so does the arrangement and phrasing. It has good drive and evolves as it goes with some subtle surprises. I enjoyed it.

Great. Thank you everyone. I was worried about gauge, now I'm also worried if I'll chose the right, gauge, tension, winding type, texture, core shape, material, coating, brand, and probably price? Are flat wounds even legal on a Spector?

Finding the great all-round 'one bass does it all' setup is proving difficult As I understand it, flats tend to have thicker cores than round wound, because there is more space to fill inside the coil? This would give them more tension. Does that sound right? Experimenting looks expensive. How did you find out they were the strings that worked best?

I've had my music described as 'somewhere between Country and Rap'. I'm consistent.

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Hi. I finally got the battery into my Vernier and measured the strings on both guitars. They are the same. The Spector definitely feel under less tension. Then I heard a reasonable explanation. I hadn't considered that the core wires could be different thicknesses, and that's the part under tension. The lower tension ones are more sensitive, good for widdling, but have to hold my breath to keep things even. The high tension ones sound strong, but can only bend notes mid way up the strings. Horses for courses and all that. Which ones to settle for. Probably thick cores, because they help to even the bumps.

That's the one with the crackly jack socket?

I'll see your 'strap locks' and raise you a 'pick pocket'.

I put up with it for a long time in the 80's. Then one day, on the counter of a music shop in Leeds city centre, there was a sweet jar with hand written label "strap locks". It was full of these curious looking things. Have been using the same pair ever since. I recently took them apart and cleaned them for the first time as they were getting stiff. They must be 40 years old. How wonderful.

Welcome and embrace the many boisterous allures from audience members struck by your sudden celebrity status. As always, preparation is the key. Put a security lock on your phone, don't take your wallet, just keys, cash and condoms, cigs and lighter if needed.

@lurksalot Intense. I wasn't sure at first, but the sound is good so kept going. I did get drawn in. The intensity starts to lower and then picks us a bit harder. The drums are done well. They have a live energy about them, that must have taken a lot of fiddling. The performance is unique and holds it's own style. It left me feeling like I'd experienced something. Lots of points awarded for that alone.