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For an ancient like me who learnt imperial in 1953 and moved on to metric in the 1970's, what does the ^2 mean? Metric numbers and volumes etc are OK, but these weird "new maths expressions" are just confusing. They look like a change for the sake of change!

Ditto.

Every time I hear E. R. Stanley Jordan starts to play in my head.

There is no way for users to delete posts, and unless there is some privacy related reason that is very pressing we almost never do that. Especially for problem posts as maybe someone else has a problem and it would be a shame to get rid of a body of info. If there is some really pressing personal reasons that you don't want some of the info publem, just do a support request on it asking for that data to be deleted.

I have been talking about the family of OD/dist/fuzz pedals with manufacturers, players, and some boutique makers. All recommend the same: try before you buy. And with your own bass, not any other. One of the most complicated effects is the OD/dist/fuzz family, because their behaviour, sound, and adjustments are affected by the bass, or the effect before them. I've seen and heard that some compressors have a very different behaviour depending on the bass. That's why I have fx boards for hi-Z and lo-Z basses. Different beasts. I thought that output impedance does not matter at all. On paper there shouldn't be a big difference, but ears don't lie. Try a few side by side to compare them against each other.

20 hour flight from Perth back to Brum last night ...Emirates have a surprisingly good music library on which I found this: I'd never heard of Dieter Ilg...ok so it has a trumpet on it too, but boy do I wish I could play like him.

We won’t play with TVs on in the same room. If they want music, then off they go. Beats me as to why anyone would want both at the same time TBH.

Bought a nice preamp from Tony, brilliant seller! Fast / detailed postage! Thanks again man!

They stay at home now but I like them far too much to sell them.

Looking to replace the electrics on my yamaha rbx360, standard pots aren't long enough to fit through the body and tighten the nut in place. Pot(s) shaft is too short. Anyone know where I can get a harness VVT which'll fit?

Hello Basschatters I had been looking for a fretless for a while and there have been several on the forum that I nearly went for but in the end decided to build one for myself. The plan is for a fretless four string, with a single Bartolini MMC pup coupled to an East filter preamp. I used to do a few builds, some of which I posted on a previous incarnation of this site, but I haven't done one for ten years or so now so it will be interesting to see how much I remember. Anyhow the idea is to keep the budget down to the cost of what I was going to spend on buying a fretless so a notional budget of ca. £400. This will mostly go on parts as I have an unused mahogany body blank, maple neck blank and a wenge fretboard left over from when I last built a bass, although I will splash out on a nice walnut top for it. Here is a pic of the last fretted bass I made, the plan is for the fretless to be the same shape and style if i can find the old template and hopefully source a similar grade walnut top.

All The Time In Airports — The Handsome Family

My first bass amp was an Ohm 'Pukka' bass combo. 60 watts, 15" speaker, 5 band EQ with compressor if I recall. Really weli made and good looking bit of kit, it sounded great and I have fond memories.

Isn't this just the natural expansion and contraction of the copper as temperature changes?

Those embroidered denim jackets with patches now on display as artefacts at the V&A Fashion Museum. Quite fitting, I thought to myself when I saw that, considering that so many of the blokes that wore them at the time looked like Vikings and Anglo Saxons.

I'm wondering if I should go with something like a line6 Pod GO. I could set up a basic preset for each bass along with the small number of effects that I will use. It looks relatively simple compared to something like the Helix and I don't have a problem tinkering with it to get the sound right. Plus I don't have to buy a bigger pedal board to potentially fit a sim pedal, overdrive and possibly something like a Boss LS-2 to blend clean and overdriven sounds. And if I have a bigger board then I will be tempted to add more unnecessary pedals.

Ponce.

Lawks! As I was a skint yoof I used to sew zips into my tesco jeans that I'd dyed black and purple and made into drainpipes. My needlework wasn't very good, but it was meant to be DIY punk! I even made my own bumflap out of a particularly vile green acrylic tartan material then scrawled "Slits" on it in fluorescent orange paint. By contrast, mine and Swamp's mate (the only other school punk) had a rich dad who bought him a pair of real bondage trousers from XClothes, and real leather jacket with Ruts painted on it... We always sent him to the bar.