Recent content by Richard Miller

I have the SR 16 with powered Mackie's and love it!

Metronome practice is good for reinforcing your timing. A drum machine serves the same purpose, you just have a wider variety of things to play to. Makes it less boring. Even a cheap machine will probably have a good selection of patterns to choose from and you can change tempo on the fly. Is...

It's my understanding it's not so much the temperature as it is rapid change in temperature. Regardless, the more you subject an insturmemnt to variable conditions, the greater the chance of something unfortunate happening. As for the insturment itself, there are too many variables to say what...

Is that a Ric PU on his Jazz?

I prefer something conservative like this .

Sanity is overrated....

Barring disease or "mis-adventure", the human brain is capable of evolving and learning new things it's entire life. What's important is to keep tasking it. I'm 62 and almost every time I pick up one of my basses for more than a few minutes, I play or do something I've never done before. There...

My Squire Precision in my profile pic $350 from China!

How about some of this

I guess it would depend on how you define "worth". I have a number of less than $1000.00 basses that I love playing. If I had buckets of money to dispose of, I might spring for an elite type bass, but if you're happy with what you have, what more do you need. BTW, one of my most recent...

I think it would depend on how much creative input he contributed. If the bass part was stylistically distinct and had hooks that he wrote, I would be upset to have someone else step in and play them on the finished product without prior consent or attribution. I had a situation like that happen...

German made Hofner, Gibson Thunderbird, 50's era Fender Precision.

Dave's World of Fun Stuff on You Tube. Tons of videos for bass and guitar setup.

I favor something casual/conservative. Kinda like this.