NetRngr

its hard to see the way I have it sitting up in the chair but this is the finish from the side BEFORE polishing:

That would be because I suck lol. I am trying to get my capture stuff set up and I will start posting some streams /captures to YouTube hopefully soon. Think i'll call the Channel "Old Redneck Playing Games Poorly" hahaha

note: I am replacing the bridge with an actual MusicMan factory bridge and will be putting on either a Dark Brown or a black tortoise shell pickguard

So I just finished my latest custom bass build....as if 5 weren't enough this shall be the 6th. Ernie Ball MusicMan Style bass. I recently played a real MusicMan and choked at the close to 3k price tag on it. After building and playing this one I would put it up against that instrument any day.

I've chatted with gramps a bit, haven't gotten to play with him yet but he's an awesome dude.

Well, If she was like my mom and we were arguing that is probably the only way to save yourself from serious bodily harm. .... I KID!

Both he and the shoot first ask questions later cop should rot.

I hereby call to order the quarterly meeting of the old farts committee. ...

Got it to around 95% but there are some funky transitions I'm still boogering up

Leo does a lot of really unique covers. I like his stuff a lot and both his wife and he are very talented musicians.

Happy Birthday brohiem!

Some hausfrau took her plague spreading crotch fruit out in the public and I have been infected with what I can only assume is a bug one step below the bubonic plague. As soon as I feel up to sitting in front of the PC again I will get up with ya. (What NetRngr may or maynot look like at this time)

Honestly the servers themselves were not my issue. The lack of any meaningful progress to fulfill the promises that were made and the utter shit support they offer were the problems. Any hosting company that does not offer 24/7 support maned by knowledgeable staff and that hides the ability to bounce your server when needed does not deserve 1 red cent. This is a minimal level of support for hosted servers and one that DICE/EA completely screwed the pooch on. The fact that all work on the server platform has pretty much come to a screeching halt also speaks volumes about their opinion of their customers. I tend to find it hard to support rampant douchenozzelry and assholishness.

So basically skip the WWII game and get the Bad Cop. Game... Gottcha. On further retrospection. RSP servers are what killed BF1 for me, well that and them pushing known bugs because they are focusing on consoles and have to send anything published for cert. I will wait and see what they do about servers and make up my mind on these.

Tentacle porn is the best porn donchaknow

Cool will patch up! There may be a slight delay as tonight the new bass gets a werkout yo!

Rocksmith 2014 I know can use a mic , not sure about the original or if its still available. I would personally go with an electric or an acoustic/electric as Rocksmith has a USB cable that plugs into your guitar and is the most accurate at sensing the notes. They even have lessons on scales etc on Customs Forge that players have made that show you the scales. Some free advice incoming... 1) Get a decent guitar to start (Epiphone make great starter guitars at a good price and they are gibson owned The Fender Squier guitars are also pretty decent if you get a mid grade one) . One of the things that put learning players off is they buy a really cheap guitar to start under the assumption that if they dont like it they dont have much invested. Really cheap guitars will tear your fingers up as they are really hard to fret notes on and a lot of times have pretty scrappy electronics in them and that makes them sound pretty bad. I have several cheap guitars but the first thing I did was change out the pickups and pots etc to quality stuff. It makes a difference and for the cost of the new electronics plus the cheap guitar you could get a decent entry level. 2) Prepare for pain. No matter how good the guitar, until you build up some calluses on your fingers it will hurt. A good guitar will lessen this to some extent but it still will hurt for a little while just more so with a cheapo. (see above) 3) Find out the local music store where the musicians go. Guitar Center / Sam Ash etc are getting to the point that they aren't musician friendly anymore and most of the sales guys there dont know anything. Local guitar shops offer a lot of services the big chains dont or faster turn around. 4) Lastly and most importantly... No matter where you buy your guitar go ahead and foot the bill for a proper set up. I can't stress this enough.( this is where the local guitar shop comes in handy) Expensive or cheap guitars come with a basic production line setup but you will need to have someone who knows what they are doing do a full setup on your axe. Intonation, string height(action), pickup height, nut height etc all make a big difference in the way the instrument plays and the amount of pain you experience. Having this done eliminates fret buzz and having to bear down on the strings to fret notes. I have learned to do all of these things while learning to build guitars by hand so I just do it as I have all the special tools needed but its well worth the 40-50 bucks to have it done right and have a good set of strings put on. I had to learn all this the hard way so I pass this tribal knowledge to you freely so you dont have to learn the hard way. Rock on Gator!

Believe it or not I didn't learn how to play the guitar nor the bass until about two yrs. ago. I bought the original Rocksmith and the 2014 version and went through the tutorials. I am now at the point I can play in master mode (no notes appear on the screen unless you mess up ) and I have turned the dynamic difficulty off. ( the game starts you with partial notes and lets you build up to the full song as you get better) so I basically have sheet music till I hit 100% accuracy then I have a backing track. You can buy DCL songs to add on and Customs Forge has custom DLC songs made by the players for pretty much anything you can think of except the Official DLC. At present I have around 400 songs both custom and official on my drive. Unless its a really difficult song like a Boston tune or Meatloaf ( damn you to hell Jim Steinman) I usually hit 90%+ accuracy in 2-3 tries. If you want to learn I would recommend getting a decent entry lvl guitar/bass and a copy of Rocksmith. I know a few of the guys around here have it and some of my other friends from steam plus you can multiplayer guitar/bass for jam sessions.

I have a problem... I'm sure I have said this before. Went to the local crack dealers house, aka the local music store, and brought home a new baby today... I give you the ESP LtD Bass I got today. Active dual humbucking pickups, frets like buttah. Sounds mean as all get out as well. But I couldn't bring home the guitar without a sibling so .... I give you the Eden EC10 Bass Amp: 10" Speaker @ 50 watts. Should rattle the windows sufficiently to make the wife load the guns. Like I said.. I have a problem. Guitar is available pretty much everywhere for $550ish the amp is around $200 or so walked out of the store with bass, amp, and a pretty nice strap for $589.

One quick glance at Gator should have proven that! Sorry to hear of your ills. Hope you are on the mend.

Gator, Go ahead and make me one up. I'll patch up and come shoot some peeps fer ya

Fixed that for ya

Hope everyone had a Great Christmas! Sorry I was late wishing everyone well and happiness but I was told by the boss, aka my bride, that the PC was not to be turned on on certain days. I wisely obliged her and am happy to announce that I in fact did not have to sell her to the Arabs this year.. Yet.

Hey quit talking about Ken like that