Posted on May 29, 2008 by xcalith
I’m a big Dream Theater fan and to my disappointment, their albums usually aren’t available locally. There was an exception when I saw Train of Thought years back when I was still struggling with the guitar at the Tower Records branch in Glorietta, and I did not buy which I truly regret right now. My [...]
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Posted on May 10, 2008 by xcalith
I have started saving us for that big bass guitar purchase some time in the moderately distant future. My saving scheme was to set aside as much as I could; 250 Philippine Pesos (~5.95 US dollars roughly using $1 = P42) per week, without losing my sanity over starving. I still am in school and [...]
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Posted on May 2, 2008 by xcalith
I never thought about checking intonation on my bass guitar (Stella, my Washburn Bantam Series XB120) before after all this time. For those of you who don’t understand intonation, let’s take a look at the Wikipedia entry shall we:
Fret intonation
Instruments with straight frets such as guitars require special compensation on the saddle and nut. Every [...]
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Posted on April 25, 2008 by xcalith
After school, I went window shopping for a new bass guitar at Cubao. I didn’t want to travel too far as I was just window shopping anyway and I knew that I won’t find anything that would suite me for both price and sound. There were two major retailers that I was planning to go [...]
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Posted on April 21, 2008 by xcalith
I’ve decided to turn this into a bass blog rather than a tech blog. It’s just that I have more to say about music than technology especially with how fast it changes and I don’t have the luxury of time right now.
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