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    Nickel Plated - need more high end

    Wash your hands before you pickup your bass and wipe them down with alcohol after seems to extend string life for me.
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    Poll: [update] If you're only playing high notes, are you still playing bass?

    Is Brewer Phillips playing bass on a tele on this? Is it early punk?
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    Did the 90's kill keyboard players?

    Agreed you become stuck doing keyboard songs with a full time key player,I've gone the other way,I play bass guitar most of the night and double on keys for a few songs.Check out a Roland vr09 really easy to use.
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    How do I get “it”?

    practice with a metronome until it "swings",Latin beats,funk etc.
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    The Door's Love Me Two Times - what key is this?

    it starts and finishes in E major and the finish sounds resolved,
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    So all those things we think make a bass sound different? Maybe not?

    so all acoustic guitars sound the same.............
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    What color burst on this bass from a Roy Buchanan clip?

    I wonder if Roy knows his amp is facing the wrong way:roflmao:
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    Storing your bass - under tension or not?

    I bought a second hand 82 hamer cruise that had been stored with no string tension for about twenty years, it took a lot of fiddling and time to get the neck relief right(plays ace now),that's with set mahogany neck.Bolt on Maple necks can be an even bigger pain to fix an ugly "s" bend. I...
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    Chasing Tone, Bassists vs Guitarists

    Chasing tone? Just buy gear instead of more practice seems to be the mantra of some guitarists
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    Inspire me

    Hamer Cruise bass
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    What's your "go-to" pup and tone settings??

    Depends on the room/PA etc, Whatever works,P/J bass though W bins biased toward J to get the "tightest" sound I can Small venue 200 people playing off amp biased to P to fill room with big fluffy sound, whatever it takes.
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    What bass is John Mcvie playing?

    3.32 min you get a glimpse
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    hello , question from total beginner guitar bass

    You can, but if you learn good technique from a good teacher then won't have to "unlearn" bad habits later.
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    Exploring the deeper subsonic . . .

    DBX boom box>DBX 100 Boom Box Sub Harmonic Synthesizer Manual | HiFi Engine Split your input one to your amp other to Dbx into a sub.It only tracks below 120hz(ish) so it doesn't sound like an octave pedal.Works great with electric/acoustic guitar as well, only the low E and A string are octaved...
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    Guitar player, timing discussion

    Syncopation for the Modern Drummer https://www.booktopia.com.au/syncopation-for-the-modern-drummer-ted-reed/book/9780882847955.html