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that's some birthday @pantherairsoft!

It's not unfinished, all the SBMM basses have a satin finish on the whole neck.

Just a thread for people to share some problems they faced in this phase of their bass playing lives - but more importantly, their solutions! It can be an overwhelming time, but to quote the Simpsons: "Did you know the Chinese use the same word for crisis as they do for opportunity?" "Crisitunity!" At the moment I'm doing the chord tones essentials course from Talking Bass, trying to develop my ear and am dragging friends along to practice rooms. I think these are all positive steps! One thing I know I need to address is using Tab Videos as a crutch to learning new tunes. I became conscious of just playing along to these - becoming almost like an advanced Guitar Hero or Rocksmith experience. Trying to remedy this by going off-book as much as possible, charting out songs (which I currently suck at) and developing my musical memory, but any tips, stories and advice from those with more experience is very welcome. P.S. I know the proper answer is probably finding a teacher, but I've tried two different teachers thus far and not really gelled with either. Hopefully third time is the charm when I have a bit more expendable income. ("When" pfft.)

Apologies, I had no idea I was doing wrong.

Thanks! The designer behind AMT is an ex-Moog guy. These are built from the same DNA as the foogers, but with lots of modern upgrades etc. The delay and phaser do what the foogers did with a cherry on top. The chorus and flanger are a bit like the Cluster Flux split into two pedals, with some extras thrown in (though the flanger gains some stuff at the cost of some CF features). So far, I’m blown away. Will report back after the honeymoon period.

Currently ploughing through 3 sets for 3 different bands.

It`s certainly individual

You had me at, “Moogerfoogers on crack”! I’ve not head of AMT before. Will definitely be checking these out! Congrats on work promotion and belated happy Birthday @pantherairsoft!

According to Thomann - "Made of carbon and refined aluminium"

Not sure there is much to fail, and if it did, it would only move round so you couldn't adjust it, in which case you could tune it back up,. Anyway, I contacted all the people who had the ric tuners and they didn't have them, so I contacted hipshot who told me that as long as I didn't mind putting a screwhole in my ric (which I don't), the 3/8 tuner with a 12mm long bush is a perfect fit.

Likewise. I once read an interview with Danny Kortchmar in which he said he could teach his grandmother to play screaming lead guitar, but rhythm guitar was something else entirely.

Bryter Layter - Nick Drake

As an aside to this thread, remember these pedals don't come with a rule book. I have the one above (the only one from the range that Jack doesn't seem to have 😆) and last night at rehearsal we used it with the trumpet. The octave down setting made for a useable tenor sax sound, and the group setting made for a useable brass section type sound.

I would point out that both of my Evox 8s are second hand, so between them they were less than 1k. The XR18 is now cheap as anything.

I'm looking at a 2 x 2,set for my latest project, never seen one in the, flesh, are they half plastic? Can't tell from the pics... 😕

You didn't, I was just saying. ok, well the rule is to only ask for valuations in the wozzit worth forum, which you can only see if you are a member, so if you want to post it there, thats fine, just not here.

It’s used for bedroom practice and for gigs too, I can’t remember when he said it cuts out but it’s enough to make it fairly useless.

Birthday, plus massive work promotion haul. The Asheville Music Tools stuff are basically Moogerfoogers on crack… and OMG they are phenomenal.

Thanks for that. Without a schematic I just assumed the relay was for the fan as it’s a 12v one same as the fan, and it’s next to the fan header. Really interesting info, thanks very much - I wouldn’t expect a low stressed relay to go that easily anyway so the fact it will probably be something else is bad news but might save me a lot of time. Will sell it for parts probably. I did read up that the fan should come on briefly when you start it up and it doesn’t do that so I am assuming that it’s something to do with the fan control, but if it’s heating up and cutting out so easily then maybe there is multiple problems - maybe the amp sections are struggling and getting too hot, then the fan circuit or temp sensors have given up from overuse. Who knows?

Good points. I don't want to hijack the thread but I got the 12s because their primary use case was/is to be a 'bass wedge' on stage. However, even for that I overbought and I would absolutely go for the 10s if I was to do it all again. The Mauis are 3x8" speaker per sub (so six drivers in total) and then all the tiny mids, so maybe they would be more capable than I think. Needs some testing for sure.