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I still remember the start of Covid so vividly. Was at the end of a weeklong vacation to captiva island cramming into little shuttle buses with bunches of people that Friday when they sent out a note that they were shutting down all the schools and my office for two weeks in mid march, getting...

I know we are mostly in a “post covid world” by all accounts, but I have a hard time reconciling how things used to be with how things are now. I tested positive for Covid Saturday after feeling crummy for a couple of days. Almost thought it was bronchitis that I had that mostly went away but...

In my own personal experience, I’ve found that progress is not linear. I’ve also found that. Sometimes to progress I need to play/practice well above my skill level, and sometimes I need to play something as slow as necessary to get it down, before progressively speeding it up. Take something...

Well, long story short I brought my bass in and had it plekked and it worked a treat. I live in one of the 3 biggest markets in the country. We happen to have a very reputable guitar repair “shop” where I live that has more than one location and about a dozen different techs, so they are a big...

If you’re a beginner then I would start with a local music store. Finding a teacher as a beginner is pretty simple. Some of the “better” teachers out there are only interested in working with more advanced students.

I vaguely recall reading a few sentences from Glen Ballard complaining about having to try to tune the bass because it was so badly out of tune. I don't recall where I saw that, or if there was any bigger commentary about it than that. It's a ballsy move for an unknown artist to get Flea to...

This makes my point better than I could. The song is an angry middle finger to an ex. Everything about the song conveys that energy. Except the bass line. Which is a whimsical, out of tune, out of time, meandering for 3 minutes. If there’s any emotional quality to that bass line, it is the...

Well done. Nice work.

1/1,000th of a mm. Which again, is 100x+ of what the human eye can even see, let alone work and measure…

On a lot we will have to agree to disagree. But of this, I have no doubt. Cheers!

With respect… This is completely preposterous. A properly configured, fairly unremarkable CNC machine can repeatedly, 1,000 times per day, measure and make cuts with a tolerance of .0005mm over and over and over. Even if a human hand was capable of applying consistent, precisely even pressure...

Well I think the combination of an experienced tech/luthier and plek is probably best. A 30 year pro will never match the level of precision a CNC machine can achieve. It’s physically not possible. But an experienced pro with 30 years of contextual knowledge and experience will make a plek...

The lowest action of any bass I’ve ever owned was a lakland skyline, which come from the factory plekked. A close 2nd, was the exact same model bass, but hand built and setup in Chicago. Third is the Sire V7. The materials out there about the sire are somewhat nebulous. They want you to believe...

Maybe Jason Newstead is in the chat...

D Different strokes for different folks. I hate that bass recording. There’s a pretty wide range of paths to take where you can have a busy, funky bass line on that song that will compliment the rest of the song. But when I listen to that bass line it sounds like he is just meandering all over...