Get off my LAWN! "Grumpy Old Farts"

[GonePlaid]

I didn’t realize that people expressed animosity towards short scale basses. I have two and nobody has ever knocked me for it.

Yeah, me too also.(the Ibby is listed as 30.3"; takes medium scale tapes)

 

[beans-on-toast]

I've never had much problem just desoldering SMDs with regular solder wick. But I also haven't worked with anything smaller than 603 pitch so far. Please let us know how it goes!

I'm not scared of short scale, I just haven't ever played one I really loved. Different strokes, I guess. Maybe an Alembic would work for me, I've always loved Stanley Clarke's sound.

I thinks that the product is best used with multi-pin devices. I can see using it with voltage regulators and op-amps that I’ll be using.

 

[GwenOnBass]

Seems to me it starts with people who constantly apologize for playing a short scale. Why this need to say something like I have small hands or some variation thereof shows itself, I don't know. Feels like a great deal of misinformation surrounds short scale basses. "Standard" bass = 34 inches unless it's a 34 inch Thunderbird then you can see Russia from here.

I notice I adjust between the two scales fairly easily.

 

[Passinwind]

Seems to me it starts with people who constantly apologize for playing a short scale. Why this need to say something like I have small hands or some variation thereof shows itself, I don't know. Feels like a great deal of misinformation surrounds short scale basses. "Standard" bass = 34 inches unless it's a 34 inch Thunderbird then you can see Russia from here.

I notice I adjust between the two scales fairly easily.

To me "standard" is 41-42 inches.

But as always, vive la difference.

 

[Jeff Scott]

I notice I adjust between the two scales fairly easily.

Same here. I don't get the I can only play a (fill in the blank) scale bass.

I guess that's because I've been playing guitar almost as long as I've been playing bass. I even have a guitar that goes from 25.5" (e-e) to 27" (e-E) scale on the same neck.

 

[beans-on-toast]

Playing in perfect tune all the way up the neck is highly overrated.

A good bridge setup of some short scale basses can take some delicate adjustments to get right, or optimal if you will.

 

[GwenOnBass]

While retired by the book, seems awfully busy here. First up today, a two hour video conference that ran about 10 minutes late. Followed 20 minutes later by another two hour video conference that was still going strong when I left for another video conference.

And give it this - it's better than going down the hall at work to the conference room to have a pre-conference conference. But we don't do that now, what with being retired and all.

It is a few minutes of idle chat before the first video conference when two of us who have worked together for years discover we live twenty minutes from each other.

 

[beans-on-toast]

With so many telecommuting, work life has changed.

People no longer spend time travelling to and from work. They just wind up working longer hours. You get to work when you’re sick. You get to work evenings and weekends. You even get to work on vacations. And working with people all around the world you get to attend meetings at any hour.

Nothing worse than being on a conference call and hearing someones toilet flush.

 

[GonePlaid]

With so many telecommuting, work life has changed.

People no longer spend time travelling to and from work. They just wind up working longer hours. You get to work when you’re sick. You get to work evenings and weekends. You even get to work on vacations. And working with people all around the world you get to attend meetings at any hour.

Nothing worse than being on a conference call and hearing someones toilet flush.

Proof that ____* happens, I guess.


*stuff?

 

[SoulReflection]

Proof that ____* happens, I guess.


*stuff?

So happy I am retired .

 

[rust_preacher]

I've been looking retirement right at the eye for a couple of years now. My wife wants me to quit, and I could get disability any time I wanted.

But - we have a lot of interesting stuff going on at work. Recently, we licensed some of our technology out and with that deal I can rightfully say my work career salaries have been covered by my contributions. One other licensee has a joint project with us that could get our name on the map of technology.

So, let them young whippersnappers come and go and try to reorg their asses off, I'll retire when I want to.

 

[GwenOnBass]

Took years for me to stop dreaming about work, though it still happens from time to time. The current work via video conference is far more important than anything I ever did at work-work. Unless you count, naw not going there now.

Happily our crew behaves reasonably on-screen. All but whoever is speaking is on mute, and anyone who has biology to see to turns off their screen. Pets, on the other hand, often get screen time and nobody complains.

Sunday's second conference call found me at the virtual lectern as I dropped a couple bombs. Remarked as I closed "this is why my band never lets me have a mike." :: laughs ::

 

[GwenOnBass]

Playing in perfect tune all the way up the neck is highly overrated.

A good bridge setup of some short scale basses can take some delicate adjustments to get right, or optimal if you will.

The floating bridge on my semi-hollowbody proves no more difficult to intonate than a fixed bridge. All I need, really, is a tape measure and a tuner.

 

[beans-on-toast]

I find that it’s more about balancing the tuning up the neck so it sounds good. Fret positions can cause problems. Micro tuning offsets can help.

Give five people a ruler, tell them to take an accurate measurement, and you’ll get five different results.

 

[Ken Morgan]

I didnt have any difficulty with much the few times I’ve used a short scale bass...guess it’s because I spend so much time on 6 strings, moving between 25.25, 24.75, and 25 even scale necks...sometimes all in the same song

I’m of the thought an6 tonal differences in scale length are easily compensated for by altering attack and maybe a tone knob anyway...

 

[Jeff Scott]

All I need, really, is a tape measure and a tuner.

In my case it's a tape measure and ahi tuna.

Now I'm hungry!

 

[beans-on-toast]

Not a fan of raw fish. Cooked with vinegar or some acetic marinate is fine.

I think back to the days were fish and pork were full or worms. Seems that they still can be.

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Does your sushi contain parasites? - BugBitten

 

[GwenOnBass]

Tape measure, not tapeworm!


... think of the parasites Gollum carried ....

 

[G-Dog]

Tape measure, not tapeworm! ... ....

How 'bout measuring with an inchworm?
" ... ... ...
You and your arithmetic
You'll probably go far"

 

[GwenOnBass]

How 'bout measuring with an inchworm?
" ... ... ...
You and your arithmetic
You'll probably go far"

I don't know how many problems I have because math is one of them.