The very worst thing is bias being presented as objectivity. Which is most of the time, unfortunately.
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Again, it’s human nature to tend to believe that our personal perspective or opinion is the correct one. That view gets us through life, regardless of how flawed a premise it might be.
In short, to err is human.
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I do believe this is the model that mark from talking bass just got, it showed up on last weeks live hang. He seems to absolutely love it.
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MM Sterling Ray24ca, normally $550 now $380 as Musician’s Friend Stupid Deal of the Day:
Caveat: mint green w/ tortoise pickguard only.
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Gonna differ here. It really doesn’t matter what misinformed people think; humbucker is in fact a specific term and in fact at times has been litigated; look in to the history of the PAF pickup. This is also why no one refers to split-coil P pickups as humbuckers; they perform the same function with a slightly different arrangement.
And sure, there are single coil soapbars, but calling them humbuckers is even more wrong.
So yes, if Fender did do this intentionally, they are definitely in the wrong and I will cede 100 quatloos to Lobster.
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I’m agreeing with Lobster on this. A Humbucker is it’s own thing and it’s discrete from a single coil. Which was what was in the Gretch Bass.
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I like the GHS as much as the NYXL. I was expecting them to be more flat-like, but they have quite a bit of snap to them. How do you find them?
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I changed all my rounds to them.
They are awesome.
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Buy the bass. I’ll take the tort. Problem solved!
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Hey there. So, I bought Matrixbrute last month. I found out that I need some money to help a friend of mine settle in here while the war is going on, so I send it back and gave the money to her. In the end, I end up with some bucks in my pocket, so I finally bought the instrument I was always afraid of, the drums.
Alesis Nitro Mesh. The drum module of the kit doesn’t sound so good tbh. … even after some time fiddling around with sensitivity, volumes, etc. … it still doesn’t sound as I would expect.
However, it has a USB and DIN midi port and it can be used as a MIDI controller for drum VSTs. And it works like a charm. (Tried it with Maschine/Komplete NI drum VSTs and Atlas 2 sampler … both sounded great with a little setup.)
I always feared drums, because whenever I tried to use my arms and legs in a “drumming fashion” I ended up like an octopus with Alzheimer’s. If you have the same fear … well, with drumsticks in my hands and pedals under my feet, and the click in my ears. The body actually cooperates quite well.
It’s a lot of fun and tbh. fiddling around with the bass on your own drum loop? It feels so badass. 
Nonetheless, as I spent like 2 weeks going through all the possible materials on edrums, I think, I can eventually help anyone who would like to buy some edrums to answer eventual questions.
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Nice!
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@wellbi
I am a lifetime member of Drumeo, and if you are interested I could give you a 30 day free guest trial pass.
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Thanks for the offer. But tbh. I am not planning to “learn” drums in an “all-out” fashion. It’s more like a “side project”. So, I wouldn’t use the guess pass so much. Someone else will probably use it better. Thanks, nonetheless.
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This has indeed been my fear, though I have yet to put it so eloquently 
Edit Aaaand Musician’s Friend sent me a 15% off coupon this morning 
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Thanks. I found out that whenever I try to keep beat, I need all four limbs to do something. If I try to play let’s say kick (right foot), snare (left hand), and hi-hat (right hand) rhythm. It just doesn’t work, after a couple of beats, I feel like I made a couple of knots on my body. However, as soon as I start to use my left foot also, for opening, closing hi-hat for example. Everything comes in to sync for some reason. But you don’t always want to control the hihat … so I actually have a “dummy” Yamaha pedal so I can step on something all the time even when I don’t need to control the hi-hat pedal. So that’s what I am working on now, to eliminate the need for a dummy pedal.
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The correct solution is a second kick drum pedal
XD
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What helped me when I first started on drums was to slow it right down, like ridiculously slow. Even pausing if you have to for as long as it takes to ensure that the next “hit” is always with the correct limb. At first you might feel like you aren’t getting very far, but all of a sudden it all starts to come together.
And then I found just making a small change like adding in one extra bass drum kick per bar suddenly made me feel like a physical retard again. But it comes with time, effort and practice.
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What helps me is not thinking. Just visualize and play. Loose and expressive that works for me. Trying too hard really mess up my timing. I treated that like a golf swing, you have to try hard not to try hard.
Then I experimented with different foot, the last setup I had was open handed setup left or right double bass pedal on easy songs I’d just play straight left hand, a little harder I play left hand hi hat/ride right every else, hard songs back to all righty. It helps me get the timing and right/left handedness issue under control.
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Are there any instruments you don’t have? 
Where’s the tuba?
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Nice pick up @wellbi ,
Welcome to the other side,
Enjoy, Cheers Brian
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