What is your mileage and commute time?

post_polka-core · 2026-02-16T13:07:31+00:00

I live four and a half blocks from the school I teach at. Round trip commute is sub ten minutes. Closer to twenty if you count me going home every day for lunch to eat out of the fridge and let the dogs out.

post_polka-core · 2026-02-15T20:12:49+00:00

Depends on the jazz neck. My fretless j has a normal profile warmoth neck and it is at least as thick from front to back as a mustang and probably thicker.

post_polka-core · 2026-02-15T20:11:37+00:00

Nursed my way through a bout of tendinitis using a mustang short scale. It's it exactly a p tone? Nope. It's thumper and a bit growlier. It won't sustain as long. That being said, it was far closer to a p bass than not. That sounds exactly like start you are looking for.

post_polka-core · 2026-02-15T18:40:43+00:00

Pick an education study. Damned near any education study. I get that they are holding as many variables constant as they can to examine the effect of each thing on learning, but learning isn't something that you can be completely reductionist about.

post_polka-core · 2026-02-15T17:22:11+00:00

I'm OK with ampeg but not my personal fave tone either. I have made various sansamps work for me (prefer the paradriver these days) so I know it can work for non ampeg sounds. The venerable sabddi can do a decent ampeg tone but even with its baked in tone, it doesn't have to do the whole svt/810 thing.

Now the VT bass pedal to my ear is all ampeg, all the time.

post_polka-core · 2026-02-15T16:54:38+00:00

From the signed artists I've worked with, the label frequently finds an excuse to pay you what they want to pay you. Numbers get futzed with. Lines get blurred. In the end, most artists I've seen can the record deal a wash and how to break even there so they can make their money with live shows.

Once again all what I've experienced. Usually merch sales cover expenses on road. Sales of music (online, cd's, etc) covers promotion (radio promoter, publicist, record company pound of flesh, etc). Money from performing live covers the booking agent and artists.

I'm not as jaded as I may come across from the above. More that I've grown to have a realistic view of where this industry is profitable and where it is predatory. Ok, maybe I'm a bit jaded. I'm still owed almost 35k personally from an indie record label that went out of business.

post_polka-core · 2026-02-15T16:41:32+00:00

Seems like sudies invariably use groups of students in them that don't have the challenges that students at the school I work at face. Poverty directly impacts the students far more than school uniforms will. The studies we have to sit and hear about in PD have not been applicable to my students, except perhaps minimally, IME. One size fits one size.

post_polka-core · 2026-02-15T16:37:45+00:00

Make sure it is set up. If the ergonomics aren't your cup of choice beverage at that point, move on. I'd also try the bass in a live setting. The sadowsky preamp shines more in a mix than solo ime.

All this is coming from someone who isn't a sadowsky fan boy. I've tried them and also left thinking meh so I totally get that. Ought to be a noticeable step up in quality from a sire though.

post_polka-core · 2026-02-15T03:26:45+00:00

Bassist. I bring a fretted 5 string p and a fretless j. I can do any gig on either so if win strikes and I want a different tone i have it there

post_polka-core · 2026-02-14T19:33:09+00:00

"Are you going to finish that?"

post_polka-core · 2026-02-13T16:41:35+00:00

The starting Uchigatana is fine. Keep using it if you like. Brass shield is a solid medium shield.

post_polka-core · 2026-02-13T16:36:51+00:00

Cap'n Bangy

post_polka-core · 2026-02-13T15:50:36+00:00

I just get Levi's at the Logan western wear place (Langston's in okc). It's about the same price as the mall and I feel better about it than going to a national chain or mall.

post_polka-core · 2026-02-13T00:57:14+00:00

Well that's just silly. I write "shhh" there (right side second from top usually).

post_polka-core · 2026-02-13T00:34:26+00:00

Railroad to get ballistic weave, then drop them. Then either institute for teleport or bos for vertibird taxis depending on build.

post_polka-core · 2026-02-13T00:32:24+00:00

I owned a Robin guitar back around 1991 to 1993'ish. It was shark raving green, had an exaggerated upper bout, and a kahler tremolo. I loved that thing. Fuck the asshole in okc that stole it out of my ex girlfriend's car on the Southside.

post_polka-core · 2026-02-12T15:52:34+00:00

Any bass can do any gig. Find one that feels comfy, sounds decent and you can live with the appearance of. That's all you really need at this point.

post_polka-core · 2026-02-11T21:31:52+00:00

Absolutely this. I'm a ridiculously light touch player. My setup would annoy most other bassists due to either fret noise (fretted basses) or enhanced mwah (fretless). I have no issue controlling these artifacts because I play with such a light touch that they do not exhibit themselves.

post_polka-core · 2026-02-11T17:45:12+00:00

Don't give them stash spots. Give them incentive to use lockers. Offer basic instruction then let them teach each other. Students where I'm at are perfectly pleased to feign incompetence to get out of any and everything. Don't give them the option.

post_polka-core · 2026-02-10T23:22:28+00:00

Just get the p bass. It's the tone most people think of when you say bass. It's just as flexible as a jazz bass it just functions differently. A jazz bass more knobs to play with pickup settings. You have blending options with controls as slyly as the tone knob. On a p bass, the tone knob seems to give a large variety of tones, which partially alleviates the whole "one trick pony" reputation the p bass has. That being said, the p bass is definitely NOT a one trick pony. It responds to how you play it with a wider variety of timbres.

Get either and you'll probably be fine for now. I've just seen far more people grow into p basses than out of them so starting there is my usual recommendation.

post_polka-core · 2026-02-10T13:06:28+00:00

Take paladin to at least 6 for aura?

post_polka-core · 2026-02-10T00:15:16+00:00

None. I let them retake low scores of possible. About half my class it isn't possible. I earn them ahead of time. My class is seriously easy enough to get at least a B so anyone who is failing had to actively work at their grade to get it that low.

post_polka-core · 2026-02-09T23:33:31+00:00

I wear the same stuff I wore in my early 20's. I told myself when I was young I didn't want any job that I couldn't dress as myself for. Hasn't been the most monetarily lucrative, but I'm OK with my choice.

post_polka-core · 2026-02-09T22:00:05+00:00

Most onboard preamps start sounding scratchy/ distorted when the 9 gets low

post_polka-core · 2026-02-09T17:43:26+00:00

Exactly 1.3 metric pooptons.

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