Recent content by hotsauce n eggs

I think a lot depends on playing style. If you use slides a lot, you are probably more likely to develop callouses. Also, having higher action on your bass can require a harsher attack(especially for slapping and popping) which would wear your picking fingers out more.

Who's presuming now? I specifically mentioned unreasonable no-compete contracts and made no mention of all of them. I'm talking about contracts that employers use to try and force their employees to be completely unable to work in their industry within a broad geographical region for years...

If the employer knows that an unreasonable no-compete agreement is unenforceable(and they should if they have a decent lawyer), yet they still make all of their employees sign them it is clearly a form of intimidation. In effect the employer is using deception and intimidation to disadvantage...

Considering that an employee is usually between signing a capricious and unethical contract and not having a livelihood(especially when one takes into account the ubiquitous nature of these contracts), an argument could be made that such agreements are signed under duress, and as such are...

Well, I have no experience with that particular model, but I figure that if it's well built and those jazz style pickups sound like jazz pickups, then I see no reason why it shouldn't be a decent slapper. Though in that price range you could get a nice squier p-bass which i do recommend.

I would recommend against talking to your employer. In my experience, as soon as an employer knows that one of their employees is thinking of leaving, they will immediately start making arrangements to replace them(either by hiring someone else or reassigning duties to other current employees).

Agreed. That's why you gotta find a good mom-n-pop kind of place that orders good quality instruments. Of course this relies on your area actually having the requisite guitar shops.

I think the first thing to know is what the OP's definition of "cheap" is. For some people "cheap" is anything under $1000 for others it's under $300 or even $200. Also, what are your purposes for getting it? Do you want to get it as an axe to see if you even like playing bass and then if...

How much experience do you have with hollow and semi-hollow body basses? My AGB140 is considerably larger than my Washburn Taurus, but it weighs a lot less. I could understand where someone who is very accustomed to the usual heft of most bass guitars would find one that feels so much lighter...

Clearly, he had to remove the fridge to fit more basses :p. My man cave is not nearly as stocked with basses, but then again it also serves as a post production studio too, and is much smaller.

It's a tough decision right now because it's gonna be a bit before I get anything new, but... I'm either gonna get a Danelectro Longhorn within the next six months, or a choice between an Ibanez Grooveline/Rickenbacker 4003/something from a custom luthier(maybe xylem) in about a year or so.

That's beside the point. If you need to put a new set of strings on your instrument, you go to the store, pick out your strings, bring them home, put them on your instrument, tune them up, and you're good to go in an hour or two(including travel time). Even assuming that the company's response...

It looks like a short scale to me, and considering that Ibanez moved from long to short on the artcore basses a few years ago, I would be surprised if they only made this new fiver into a long scale bass. Unless either the AFB or AGB models are getting lengthened again as well.

Well, I figured that since we're talking about Beats By Dre which are headphones, the overall discussion was more geared toward headphones made by other manufacturers. I do however also have a set of skullcandy earbuds too, they only cost me about fifteen bucks at target, I wear them at the...

I remember Bassmasta, they had the guy dressed in green. I seem to remember that they were more reliable at getting good tabs for songs as opposed to ultimate-guitar or 911tabs which aren't quite as good IMO. Well, from I can tell, it must have died out back in 2007 or 2008 because the most...