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Lots of fun stuff on the horizon... Bad Mongo will continue to do their thing, I've tentatively started Sushi Party, drum machine driven noise terrorists and I'm putting together a Brisbane pick-up band for Kim Salmon... Was speaking to him today, he's pretty excited about it... As am I, obvs...
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What's the pickup dude?
Jelly.
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private vimeo pls!
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In less exciting news, I just had new strings delivered Thomastik Infeld Plectrums. Thought i'd try them after the regular ones I put on the Sigma were so good. They were £17 on Strings Direct and are handmade.
They're mixture of brass coated steel plain strings, flat wound G, D and A and a brass roundwound low E. All wound strings have a silk wrap. Apparently they're softer sounding low tension set. I imagine they'r a bit like Martin Silk and Steels. Thought they'd be a nice counterpart to the little Guild's boxiness. Bought a couple of sets in .12 and .13 to try.
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Got to learn/relearn a bunch of motown and soul stuff as I'm depping for my mate's function band next weekend so I've been spending this lovely sunny Saturday in my room. Been a while since I've played electric bass and I've been rather enjoying playing these:
Through these:
Definitely not period correct, but I can get a passable Jamerson tone out of the Dearmond :)
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Good question! I've got an old '70s japanese p-bass copy under my bed (think it's still got flatwounds on actually...), with a lovely handwound wizard pickup, but the neck is like a baseball bat and it's heavy as fuck. Just the thought of doing a 3 hr gig with it is making my shoulder ache.
I've been thinking about getting a jazz neck for it (slimmer, right?) but I'm not sure if aftermarket bits to fit an actual Fender would fit it and I keep spending all my money on bike things. :)
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Shit, now I'm looking at undrilled £20 J bass necks from China on eBay. How bad an idea is this? In fact, looks like I could build a whole new bass for £50...
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Note: Electronics are complete and ready for installation--no soldering required, but the electronic parts needs to be mounted on the pick guard so soldering is required.
Wut
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Haha, of course they're out of shot, I'm wearing them. The one on the left is fretless too :)
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If you want a cheap J/P bass, the basic Harley Benton offerings from Thomann are pretty amazing for the price.
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Forget the basses. We need to talk about your bed linen.
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U wot m9?
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Anyone got a TS9 for sells?
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Taking the Tele a dnew pedal board to the studio next week. Going to overdub some surfy twangs on my waitsy folk nonsense. Can't wait.
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Mosrite clone sounds brilliant, the Mick Brierley P90 is something else... There are a couple of things not right with my Notriteâ„¢ (lel) tho'...
The neck angle in relation to the body is all wrong, Brendon's gonna reseat the neck with a permanent shim so the neck is more parallel with the body (see pics)... He's also not put enough rake on the strings behind the nut, I'll be able to fix this with different machines easy enough tho'... He's made it a Fender style headstock but a Mosrite's profile is way deeper so that it doesn't need string trees...
Couldn't be happier with the sound tho', it roars!
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She's finished! Apart from the volume knob, which is sitting on top of my Twin waiting to be chucked on... I get her tomorrow... 😀
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