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You will respect my authori-tay! I call this rig Cartman

Hey, relax guy!
Sorry.


I know, I just couldn’t resist, however, considering how “reality” has gotten far more absurd than Parker and Stone’s satire(and painfully close), maybe not a good move. I got plenty of Traynor gear, I use old YBA and YSR heads for guitar, and love my SB500H as my lightweight bass go-to. Where’s your Radial product? The Bassbone is the nerve center of my bass boards, and I have a fair amount of Empress boxes.

Which way should the blend knob turn?

This question seems to come up a lot. As I wrote the last time it did (in this thread)

Easiest way to deal with a Blend pot whose rotation/pickup assignment seems backwards to your preferred way of thinking is to A) get a knob that has a pointer indication on it; then B) depending on your preferred orientation, have the pointer either at the 12:00 (facing up at you) or the 6:00 (facing down at the floor) when in the center detent both-pickups-on-w/-even-balance position.

If you want to turn the Blend pot clockwise to favor the Bridge pickup, have the knob's pointer at the 6:00 position for the center detent; now when you turn the Blend pot clockwise the knob is pointing at the Bridge pickup! And vice-versa.
If you want to turn the Blend pot counter-clockwise to favor the Bridge pickup, have the knob's pointer at the 12:00 position for the center detent; now when you turn the Blend pot counter-clockwise the knob is pointing at the Bridge pickup! And vice-versa.

And if your bass is wired opposite just reverse the above.

You're welcome. :bassist:

New Multieffect Device: BOSS GX-1B - Thoughts from the Community?

If any of that is inaccurate, bandchef, please clarify.
Sorry for the above misunderstanding. I have made mistakes by writing BOSS GX-100/GX-10. I only hav purchased and using a GX-1B (the blue one) and for this my question as above written.

four cable method
What's this? The GX-1B do not have any FX Send/Returns.

Which way should the blend knob turn?

I prefer them with the center point 'up' and turning the knob as I'm looking down at it towards the neck for the neck pickup and back towards the bridge for that pickup.

I've had them where it was installed backwards to this. It's counter-intuitive to turn back for the front pickup (?!?!?), so the wires got reversed and the Disturbance in The Force ended . . . .

Which way should the blend knob turn?

Every bass I've ever had, except my Sadowsky, the blend know turns clockwise for neck. Why Roger decided to do it backwards, I don't know.
Because it sorta emulates a tone knob "up" for brighter, "down" for darker.

I don't prefer it that way, but probably because the myriad of other basses I've had with blend knobs work the opposite so its what I've become accustomed to.

Sire vs Fodera?

The Fodera feel is the real deal !!! As is the richness , clarity up and down the neck, and the way the bass responds in your hands .
It's an entirely different experience from any bass I've ever had in my hands . They just sing with no fight or effort . If you barely breath on them , the notes ring out .

Your mistakes will be immediately exposed.
Some people like it, some don't.

That’s how I feel about my NYC Sadowsky.

Selling a member that is not new, but only has 1 post?

Aw man, you win the whole day! Nicely played!

LOL...my old guitarist in my punk band way back in the early 80's constantly quoted this episode.....cutting off Slausons:laugh:...thanks for that memory
Going to have a hard time selling it on its own if I don’t first cut it off!!

Double Bass Yamaha slb300: can you play it on a stand?

I have a K&M stand for my SLB-300, and the bass isn't really in the right position or height to be played comfortably when it's on the stand.

A little off-topic, but I got the idea from a post in an earlier TB thread to attach a piece of velcro (the fuzzy side) to the belly bar where it hits your body. That bit of friction really helps to keep the bass from sliding around.

This pic shows my playing position more or less, although seeing it from that perspective the bass actually looks a little high.

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Tell me you're old without telling me you're old

Annoying as heck hearing them now, and too old for them at the time, but once heard at someone's house, they live forever in some recess of your mind. But they were actually kind of funny. Irony for ten-year-olds, as with Bullwinkle. The best bit was when the crowd watching the race lamely yelled "Yay" - in unison - and then immediately dropped to silence whenever Tom Slick's name was mentioned. Spun off of George of the Jungle?

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Which way should the blend knob turn?

There is no forward and back, is my point. A clock hand moving clockwise will move to both the right and the left. 9 to 3 is moved to the right, 3 to 9 it moves to the left. A knob moves in a circle, like a clock. If looking at the part of the knob closest to you (further from the floor) then clockwise points to the neck. If looking at the part of the knob further from you (closer to the floor) then turning clockwise points to the bridge. That's why the question references clockwise and and counter-clockwise in the first place.

Which way should the blend knob turn?

My Carvin BB-75 is backwards too clockwise favors bridge. I just thought it was an oopsie from when it was built and work around it. It seemed counter intuitive at first, but after playing it for 30 years, it just became "the way it is". My 2 other blends (Ibanez SDGR806 and Alembic Epic) are both clockwise to favor neck pickup. Fortunately, the Carvin is my main player, the others are situation-specific and don't need to change often, if ever.

Thunderbird Club

Seems like this parallels the Bond Girl and Sean Connery's theme(s)… I wonder what the soundtrack for this series contains?
The '60s, especially mid-late '60s were totally spy-centric. The soundtracks reflected what was started by the James Bond series. A late '60s fave is by The Walker Brothers. Scott was offered the James Bond song gig but passed on it - he and Dusty Springfield were king & queen in the UK then and should have each done one of the Bond themes. Dusty did "The Look of Love" which was in the original Casino Royal, the non-franchise Bond movie later re-made with Danial Craig as Bond. I totally dig it, but I'm not certain Cherie or Kirstin would be interested in singing "The Female of the Species is DeadlierThan the Male"!

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