Maybe for a ham, but it’s a little sharp on ribs.
Haven’t tried pork ribs, not a huge fan. Prefer beef ribs. Ham and cherry are great together.
Just read an email that confirmed three more gigs for the band. One private party and a couple of Après-ski parties at the local Ski Hill this winter.
Fun Fact: The money I made from 2025 gigging is more than I paid for my Mexican P Bass (Let’s just not talk about how much the amp / cabs / pedal board cost and it’ll be fine 
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Are you good enough yet? Yes you probably are!
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Mesquite is for barbecue. Plenty of tradition with that.
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Mesquite is good, it’s just a little too sharp compared to some others. I think if you were doing more of a Mexican style skirt steak with habanero, chili rellenos and other spices it would really shine. Ribeyes with baked potato and a Merlot; Oak all the way.
More gigs booked and ordered a new strap from Couch straps 
https://www.couchguitarstraps.com/guitar-straps/3-inch-wide-guitar-straps/3-custom-mega-bolt
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Couch straps are great!
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Two of the songs in our set are in Drop D tuning. I was previously hitting the tuning pedal, drop D, play song, tuner pedal and back up to E.
All good until you forget to tune back up and it’s ‘interesting’ playing the song in a different pattern that you learned.
I like playing flats. I’ve currently got LaBella Low Tension Flat on my Wingman and to get rid of the fret buzz / clacking for Drop D I have to jack up the action / adjust the truss rod more than I like.
Anyway spent the morning in HX Edit for my HX Effects unit.
Used the ‘Simple Pitch’ pedal (Line 6 Original) as part of the signal chain and it’s pretty good.
So now no more tuning between songs. Just hit the next preset on the HX Effects and I’m good
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That will do just the one string to make drop D?
No, it shifts the pitch of all the strings up or down to whatever interval you want.
In my case I set it to -2 ( down a whole tone). If you’ve learned songs in Drop D where you just detune the D string, you’d have to relearn the fingering for the other strings.
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Ok, that’s just normal then. The way you phrased it kind of made it sound like you were using it for your drop D stuff without having to shift your hand position on the other strings.
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I understood normal Drop D for bass is to drop the E string only. So its D A D G.
So a pitch shifter pedal won’t give you just the detuned E string, it’s not that smart.
Unless I’ve misunderstood Drop D.
I think we’re on the same page. It was just the wording of your post that made me wonder. You started talking about songs being in Drop D, then went to the pitch shifter in your Line 6 as a solution. I hadn’t ever heard of a pitch shifter that could just do the one string, but you hadn’t said anything about just playing the whole song in D standard so that’s why I asked. Maybe Line 6 had some sort of magic that no one else does…or you found a way to do something it wasn’t supposed to.
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Yeah it’s not that clever @Vader
I’ve had to relearn the two songs as everything pitches down. Not just the E string. So all the notes on the A,D,G are in a different position.
It’s only two songs, so it’s no big deal.
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Although, if you want a “solution” that is way worse than retuning the E string for those two songs or relearning the whole thing in D…
You could use your pitch shifter, but turn it on whenever you have to go to the E string and then turn it off for the other strings. It’ll give you a nice workout for your feet too. How fast can you step on that switch? 
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Or…
… and find a happy medium between the two settings in your E string setup.
I have this on a couple basses with flats, works quite well.
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Yeah no. I like really low action (2 to 1.5mm) and for 99% of what we play in our set it’s good.
Detuning an already floppy low tension flat string isn’t working for me.
Using a pitch shifter keeps the tension / action I like.
If I was only playing metal then of course. Roundwounds, pick and a cranked amp. 
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Forgot to post this the other day. I was doing my practice through headphones instead of my amp on Monday, and I could hear the tone I’ve been chasing for a while buried in there. I have to figure out what in my signal chain needs to be tweaked to dig it out, but it’s definitely there and starting to peek through.
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I just got home from practicing with a drummer. We’re both new to playing with people, this was my second time. I was nervous setting up and playing for about the first 30 seconds. Then something clicked, I relaxed and played better than I do when it’s just me. I just had fun with it. I also might be better than I think I am.
We’ve got another practice next weekend and both have some homework. We decided to hold off on looking for guitars / vocals until we figure out the rhythm section and get that locked in. It went a whole lot better than my first try. I swung too hard and got myself out into the deep end with no arm floaties and wasn’t ready for it.
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Is it a low tone? Look for ground loops.
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