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@dmccombe7 Your Xmas gigs sound ace. I've never manged to get those sort of festive gigs in my bands, lots of other great ones for sure, but you can't beat a great party gig this time of year.

Does anyone have experience with Toltec pickups? Managed to snag a set of Vintage Reds but very difficult to find info or soundclips on the web. Cheers.

Our male singer couldn’t make the gig on Friday so Laurie our other vocalist sang like a bird for 90 minutes straight. Wish I could do that! cbf49fb4-bd9f-4bfb-be3e-57ae883ac503.mov

If we're being pedantic is a hollow monocoque strictly speaking neck-through? 🤔

Last gig before Xmas for BLOCKBUSTARZ Glam covers band at The Dreadnought in Bathgate was another great night of party fun. 110 advanced ticket sales at £10 a pop and quite a few walk-ins took it up to approx 120. 80/20 split to us on ticket sales so a good nights work if you would even call it that. Its just great fun doing Xmas gigs. Great feedback from the audience at the end as always in this venue. Its our singers home town and her local at weekends when not gigging. Fun stories of the night :- #1. Our singer was in loo at start of the evening and a guy asked if he had seen the band before. He replied yes and that he'd seen them at every gig in this venue. The guy was none the wiser that he was talking to the singer. Wigs, make-up and outfits tends to throw them off the scent a bit. #2. My wife and singer wife were sitting at a table with very few seats remaining when 2 guys asked if they could take the 2 spare stools at the table and they both said yes and they then asked if it would be ok for them to sit at same table as it was quite busy. While sitting there they then asked if the 2 women had seen the band before and just like the previous funny story they both said yes but elaborated that one was singers wife and the other the bass players wife. We are already booked in for next year the Sat before Xmas plus a summer gig too. Fingers a bit tender from Fri nights gig but managed ok without any issues. Tiredness was creeping in during 2nd set but managed to enjoy it all right to the end. 45min drive home and home for 1:15am, coffee and biccy then bed cause i was quite knackered TBH. Next gig for us is Hogmanay which should be another busy one and then on 3rd Jan up to Dundee for what should be another great one. Hope you all have a wonderful Christmas guys. Until next year all the best. Dave 🎅

[Let’s try this in the right place this time] Good gig last night at a new venue. Drummer won the reconstituted Cannon Trophy, awarded in the past for the person that had the biggest ‘mare on the night. Local gig for me, he lives 45 minutes away, and forgot his cymbals so had a mad dash home and back to get them…he made it back with 10 minutes to spare, at which point we admitted the potential for a late start was averted 🤣 FrankenJazz -> Darkglass Anagram -> Darkglass Microtubes -> BigBaby2. Started off with the pad switched in, but it was all a bit lost so turned it off and the whole thing came alive. Had one guitarist (both the other side of the kit) look over and say I was a bit loud but from where I was it sounded fine so left it. 😁 Went to a blues jam this afternoon. I’ve been threatening to go for ages but never have before, however I needed to go to get tyres sorted at Kwik Fit, which gave me an excuse to sneak a bass into the car and go down after. Only the house band bass player other than me there so I got called up a few times. Took the Tokai Hard Puncher which sounded nice from a clip I’ve seen on FB. Had someone come up to ask if I was looking for a band, so I may have dropped myself in the c@rp with ‘er indoors by saying maybe 🤦‍♂️

OFFS! 🤦‍♂️

This is interesting. Apparently in the early years those exported to the uk had the spelling 'Hofner' to downplay their German origin at a time when that was disadvantageous in the UK. In English the nearest equivalent of ö is œ. I posted a link to the German pronunciation above, closer to 'herfner' than 'hoffner' although the latter is almost universal in the UK. Œ is often pronounced as an 'e' in the UK (compare 'Phœbe'), I suspect Hugh Heffner's original family was closer to 'Höfner'.

With respect to using XSim, it's not a modeled response per se, as it uses the measured response and measured impedance of the drivers to arrive at the result. All it does calculation wise is to plug in the effect of the crossover components, so it's as accurate as the tolerance of the components used. Having used it myself I can attest to it's accuracy, which is also better than a traditional calculator as it can account for the ESR of both the inductors and capacitors.

Luvvit!

Very helpful. Thanks.

If you follow Martin Turner's Menagerie - that photo was taken by Misha 😁

My main bass (a Brawley 5 string) was £450 s/h. I can't justify anything more as the bass is much better than I am, or probably will ever be, and I only play at home or in church. However there is an Ovation Magnum 1 on Reverb at around £2,600 that I really would like to own, but don't need. So to me that's an expensive bass. Those who gig regularly will have different criteria, and it's been interesting reading the views here.

I wanted an OD that could go from clean tubelike boost to fuzzy grit and some good videos convinced me to get Earthquaker Devices Blumes, but all the stores in my part of the world had it either unavailable or available with bad shipping cost, so I spent more or less identical amount of money at my favorite local boutique pedalmaker's. Went to Blue Colander and grabbed the almighty Crooked Axis. It's a "Multipurpose Gain Device", it offers a super wide range of clean and unclean sounds. Ultra transparent clean 2-band EQ tone-shaping, clean boost, warm tubelike OD, fat and thick OD, grainy and gritty distortion, brassy fuzz and even a lo-fi destruction with spontaneous sub-octave occurrence. It's all there. Plus an active Bass and Treble control with amazing tone shaping capability. Yet another brilliant pedal by Blue Colander.

From my experience, basses of that scale never feel, play or sound quite as good as a standard 34" scale (+/- an inch or two). They can certainly be good, very good, but never AS good.

We will have to agree to differ on this Bill. You can see the frequency irregularities around the crossover point in pretty much any frequency plot I've ever seen or measured and the irregularities are audible as well as measurable. Without wanting to get into a philosophical debate about the nature of reality IMO if something is measurable and audible it is real. There's no doubt the software is getting better and will get better still but again IMO it isn't there yet. The measured plots still don't exactly match the computer's modelled responses and most of the big designers are going to use the software to get in the ball park and still use iterative measurements to check and hone their designs. Again I suppose it depends upon what you mean by "an exact result" it may be good enough but I'm a scientist not an engineer so exact is a very big statement.