What are your irrational prejudices? I have some bonkers ones...

[HeadlessBassist]

23 hours ago, ped said:

Jad Freer, just because he sounds like someone I’d get really annoyed by. I’m not even sure he’s a person or not but if he was I bet he’d drive either a Tesla, Juke or a VW camper van

 

Definitely not an 'SSG', then?

[HeadlessBassist]

On 19/09/2025 at 09:01, SimonK said:

If we are talking about finishes, and maybe this is more of a guitar issue, but mismatched tops really get to me. While I understand it is difficult to predict how the stain will take surely it's possible to do better given the price of these things? PRS & Gibson seem to be the main transgressors:

 

 

 

Interesting point in question - if the grain pattern doesn't actually line up, why do they call it "bookmatched"?!

[Geek99]

52 minutes ago, SteveXFR said:

 

I guess you're referring to the type in gentleman's special interest films?

Yes

[kwmlondon]

5 hours ago, Terry M. said:

I've yet to hear a bad sound out of it.19mm bridge string spacing too to top it off.

Does it just have a two-band  EQ? Personally, I prefer not having a mid - just works better for me.

[Terry M.]

2 hours ago, kwmlondon said:

Does it just have a two-band  EQ? Personally, I prefer not having a mid - just works better for me.

It does indeed. Yet another reason it followed me home 👍

 

 

[Stub Mandrel]

Big key changes.

 

Tonight we will rehearse Boys of Summer. All straightforward except timing is critical with long pauses as a twiddle or two in the bridge.

 

So it's all about tone. We've been debating... singer offered us two choices: A or E (in which case he sings an octave down).

 

Original sounds huge in D# and even E sounds lightweight to me. I tjink A would be worst of all possible options.

 

I want to dig my heels in for E at least.

[Lozz196]

If anything I’d drop to D if the guitarist is finding Eb awkward, as agree upping to E makes it sound a lot lighter.

[Stub Mandrel]

1 hour ago, Lozz196 said:

If anything I’d drop to D if the guitarist is finding Eb awkward, as agree upping to E makes it sound a lot lighter.

 

Apparently the original was in F#, but they re-recorded it a tone and a half lower, Don Henley would agree!

[Lozz196]

Ah, I suppose as I’ve only ever played along to The Ataris version I thought the original was also Eb. Hot-dang pop-punkers!