You could order all sorts of configurations with that body, so I'm sure the cavity was cut out to accommodate anything. The LB20 is passive, the LB70 was active.
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Actually considering how close the difference is, no... it only is a visual difference. The whole 'straight string path' usually is focused on the nut-to-tuners part of a guitar/bass. Even that is over-considered. The string-path issue that does hold some merit is a bass with string-thru. Depending on the angle coming off the bridge, it can bend pretty sharply which puts stress on the string. I own a few basses with string-thru and a few I made and have never had a problem with that particular issue.
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Actually it does look a bit flared - but certainly within reasonable tolerances.
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I sometimes completely slug-tape the cavities, and other times do 3 coats of carbon shielding paint with a slug-tape floor to ground to. Both work, sometimes it had to do with being out of one or the other at the time of need.
I do usually star-ground which is debated but I first started doing it following the written advice of Rick Turner.
I usually run a ground wire to the slug tape in the control cavity. I found that the adhesive used on the tape is conductive. Verified with a continuity test.I sometimes completely slug-tape the cavities, and other times do 3 coats of carbon shielding paint with a slug-tape floor to ground to. Both work, sometimes it had to do with being out of one or the other at the time of need.
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Look at it like this-instead of one straight string path, ya'd have 2.
Star ground is the way!I sometimes completely slug-tape the cavities, and other times do 3 coats of carbon shielding paint with a slug-tape floor to ground to. Both work, sometimes it had to do with being out of one or the other at the time of need.
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I don't talk about it, but I do like to sing ( a little, to serve the song) and play the bass.
Haji
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They're still made of cow meat.Dairy cows. But I can get you some cheese and ice cream.
I don't talk about it, but I do like to sing ( a little, to serve the song) and play the bass.
Speaking on that subject- I find it difficult, if not impossible to do so for some (actually many) songs due to the brain multi-tasking issue.
Gail Ann Dorsey recommended starting off really slow with a metronome until you can sing with facility. Other advice I got from a musician was to start off with just the root notes and gradually fill in as you get accustomed to doing two different things at the same time-
Thoughts? Other suggestions?
I realize that for some people, it comes naturally, even some drummers like Don Henley and Roger Taylor could sing and play at the same time. But Frank Zappa once stated that he could not -
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I don't talk about it, but I do like to sing ( a little, to serve the song) and play the bass.
Love these pics!
I never sang and played till 1993.
Out of nowhere I just did it.
Harmonies I thought we’re never possible for me.
Now I sound like a wounded moose.
So if I ever got back in a band.
All they should expect is good bass playing.
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I want them all, so I'll always advocate getting it. The AO is a bit more of that modern distortion. With the MT500, I almost always use the B7K voice over the MT because it sits better in what we do. As long as modern (as opposed to vintage old style) distortion is what you're after, then the AO will be a winner for you. Doubly so if LnM returns are as easy to do as they are at Guitar Center (GC is a pizza cake to deal with).
It's possible that I can do it fairly easily 'cos I sang in choir long B4 I started playing bass. Someone once mentioned how it would be difficult to sing "My Girl" against the accepted bass pattern. Nope, not for me. BUT. I can't sing "Get Ready" against the correct bass line, and I have a little bit of trouble with the answering line for "Sugarpie Honeybunch"(there's a pickup I has to leave out on the oo-oo-oos).
I tend to play a more 'walking' style bass line to a lotta things: "Johnny B. Goode" for example. On Chuck Berry's records, the bass usually just does 1-5[oompah]on each change. I play 1-3-5-3-1, etc. Even on the previously mentioned "Tennessee Whiskey", I play 1(rest)and 3(4) on each of the 2[A/Bm]chords along with the bass drum.
We generally add our own touches to the covers we do-and we only do covers. We don't necessarily emulate the original note for note. Kinda doubt the original bands always do their songs exactly the same every time. This, of course, doesn't include the performers who play to tracks.
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Ooh! Pizza Cake! Sounds delicious.
Maybe.
You pretty much need to do one thing or the other on autopilot. It usually helps to simplify the bass line.
I do the "Fred" part on Love Shack and I've modified the vocal lines rhythmically to match the bass rhythm in a number of parts.
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I always am wireless these days. The copper foil in my hat eliminates problems with routers, wifi, space lasers, etc.
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I know it's not a functional issue for the string path to flare out or in between the tailpiece and bridge. It's just a visual detail I can't unsee, so I won't install a tailpiece wider than the bridge.
