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Interesting interview of Lee Sklar


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I wonder has there ever been a discussion on the effect of the battery cavity right under the strings, how much of an effect it has on the vibration of the strings and, of course, whether different brands of batteries have an impact acoustically as well as electronically. Surely tonebatteries can be a thing? 😁

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The battery compartment acts as a resonating chamber and is enhanced if the battery can rattle around. 

If you think I'm just being facetious it would occasionaly happen on my Ibanez 8-string and it was really fun/bizarre.

Of course I also attached alligator clips, bits of metal, and tuned the thing as felt needed by the music being created at the time. 

The Kitchen NYC early 80's playing along side the likes of Material/Massacre.

Bill Laswell happened to have the same bass and was doing the same thing to his basses. 

I had already removed the frets from mine, though. With a claw hammer.

He thought that intriguing (fretless 8-string) and humorous (the claw hammer).

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33 minutes ago, OliverBlackman said:

Idiots spending too much time “learning music”. The silly old man

 

I know, you're supposed to spend the majority of your time lusting over new gear instead of actually playing what you have 🙄😂

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