The Last Bass Outpost

Quote from: 4stringer77 on March 28, 2025, 11:22:39 AMHopefully some day most Europeans can say what they want without fear of having a knock on their door for expressing views contrary to what their establishment prefers.

As being a Swede I don't have any fear of speaking my mind (well, yet. Give Sverigedemokraterna some more slack and then we'll see). I'm not sure which European country you are referring to in that statement.

Mark King with an EB-3 is sure a rare sighting.

Quote from: uwe on March 15, 2025, 04:42:22 PMStone me, but I think she's cool:

I will not throw the first stone.

I have kept out also, but I will say something. Current management of the U.S is to run it like a business. A business managed by the means of fear.

Beautiful!

It's probably about time they design the pickup surrounds to accomodate the "new" higain pickups....

A ground loop occurs when different parts of an electrical circuitry are connected to ground more than once. For example, if you connect your D.I box between amp and mixing console, the amp and mixing console are both connected to ground and their ground connections are tied together in the D.I box. That's a loop which can cause a hum by picking up electrical interference. Hence the ground lift option on many D.I boxes which seperates the grounds from each other.

Assuming that the instrument is properly grounded (all parts that require grounding is only grounded once) the bridge ground can not cause a loop if it is grounded once. Out of curiosity I looked up pics of the Triumph wiring and most of the bridge grounds were soldered to the input jack. The Les Paul "Recording" guitar however seems to be grounded at the volume pot casing like you mentioned Rob. Probably because the volume pot is closer in proximity to the bridge being located more forward on the guitar model.

I doubt it matters much where the bridge is grounded. Do you even notice any noise induced in the circuit from the lack of that ground connection? Those low impedance pickups are less likely to pick up noise than their high impedance counterparts.

Quote from: Grog on February 10, 2025, 07:26:29 AMI didn't know that he also used it in BBM.

Neither did I. I've never seen that. They might have confused it with this lineup:

Rudolf de Borst (The Datsuns and Hellacopters) praises T'birds:

All I know is the term "rolled" means you press a round tool that can roll to compress a material. For example the cylinder shelf radius in the engines at my work is pressure rolled in one of the machines to strengthen that radius and avoid cracking.

On a fretboard I believe "rounded" would be a better word.

It fits perfectly in Fender's market strategy. They will not use the same materials as the upper lines at a lower price. Rest assure they are fully aware. It still has "Fender" on the headstock. The bullseye would be an aspiring player drooling for a vintage expensive instrument walking the line all the way from Squier, Fender Standard, Fender Player, Fender Vintera, Fender American Professional to American Vintage and Custom Shop. Fender as a company, like all companies first priority is making money for their investors/owners and I'd say they have quite good knowledge what people want or rather not want. Like Dave said, the new Standard Series will sell.

Same here, but my thought went to Eddie Van Halen:

New fun idea. I suppose mostly aimed at studio work. I would be quite nervous bringing such a thing out on a live stage depending on cpu:s and moving mechanical parts. Not failsafe enough for me. I was also impressed by how effortless he seemed to be answering questions and operating that thing simultaneously.

They were'nt very successful doing singles and had the best chart success in the U.K. For example the album Ace of spades went to no 4 while the single went to no 15. Their greatest success, the No sleep 'til Hammersmith album reached no 1 while the single Motörhead off that album went to no 5.