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I earned these almost the same day, 4 years ago, and then nothing, ... still don't know how the system really works and what's this for as there is also the ranking saying I'm in the top 1% of all members, but where is my envelope? 🤔🤪

5mm?!! Is that a typo?

100 litres is a bit on the large side, but the Celestion Pulse tens will work OK in that volume. They also have non-rising mids. Asking Ashdown, as @Lozz196 suggests, isn't a bad idea, as they sell replacement drivers at reasonable prices.

Considering the prices are close to the likes of Pizza Excess the food is a big step up. Marc's also opened Palladino's Jazz Bar nearby. I haven't been yet, he's targeting the jazzy end of blues.

always helps when the bass is up there in the mix and that is well up there, too much tbh

where you play the strings is important, over the pickup is my prefered option, seen players play near the bridge with a pick, sucks the bottom end right out. If you want more bass, don't boost it, cut the the mids and treble

Mine (yes I only have one) isn't too, as the others are sixers, but what's your point except pretending, again, that only you know and own the best...

We have something similar, ours have low power red and green lasers that project tiny, intense moving dots in a matrix. They run off power supplies but i've adapted ours to run off a USB power pack to cut down on leads. They were about £10 ea

Great, Thanks for your help. Link corrected , testing fine, Result . BTW ,you'll get to an age one day when you forget...... that you forget ! Then it doesn't bother you anymore ! Don't ask me how I know this ! Best Wishes, And thanks again for going out of your way to help. Mike

Not really. My early basses and guitars (before 1990) were simply what I could afford. After that I had sufficient disposable income to buy the instruments I really wanted. I saw photos of a prototype Gus Guitar in a musical instrument magazine in the mid-80s and decided that if I ever had them money I'd buy one. I was lucky enough to be in the financial position to buy several in the early 2000s. The bass I use most at the moment is an Eastwood Hooky 6-string, because that is what I need for the band I currently play in. Once I've saved enough money I'll be getting Gus to make me a Gus version of it.

I can definitely understand your evolution. The high spec Jazz gives you a lot more versatility. I think my tastes have stayed the same, but more and more, I'm finding examples of instrument brands I'd written off that I now really like, such as Music Man. I still love Status basses, but only use them for live trio jobs where that sheer punch and cutting through the mix is essential. But what really changes is the nature of the playing I'm hired to do. I'm all Jazz bass these days, basically because I play for a professional 50s & 60s multi-act tribute show. The Jazz is the instrument that fits and adapts to more music than anything else.

Any recommendations for someone to rewind one of the pickups on my Squier Bass VI. Got it out of storage where it's been for the last 4 years in a case and discovered that the centre pickup is dead. I don't want to spend a lot of money because I'm not keeping this bass and it cost me less than £250 in the first place, so the rewire cost has to be close to the value it will add when selling with all three pickups working. Thanking you in advance...

Well I discovered rock music through seeing guns n roses on MTV around 91 - I would have been 10-11 years old. I got one of those ‘everything you need’ electric guitar sets from Argos for Christmas that year, and I became a very mediocre rhythm guitarist over the years that followed. I wanted desperately to be a widdly, flashy lead player but lacked the willpower to consistently practice. I was a good enough rhythm player to join a metal band at 15-16 writing our own material and playing locally. At 17 we weee established on the local scene and our mates band’s bass player left. I got on well with them and they asked if I could stand in on bass until they found a replacement. I’d never played bass before but figured it’d be ok if I stuck to root notes and learned as I went along. It was a total revelation, and I never really went back to guitar. I vowed never to play covers because that was an admission of giving up on the dream. Except a couple of years later I received a great job offer which meant I had to quit playing live (shift work and regular rehearsals don’t match) After 17 years climbing the ranks, the shifts ended as I moved into management and the first thing I wanted to do was start playing live again - and at 42 (at the time) playing covers in pubs sounded a lot of fun - and guess what?! It is! What I enjoy about playing covers, is that it’s made me a better player. I used to write basslines for my own ability - so I progressed very little as I was never challenged. Learning ‘professional’ basslines has made me better at what I do - so now I’m just marginally above ‘barely competent’

This is a great pick sound and playing too. Check track 5. Flats?

If only more people were as self aware in this case. Well played, Sir. 👏👏👏

Good midweek gig at The Gryphon last night. After a late night two nights in a row (and the usual 5:45 alarm 😭) I'm knackered today! Too much headbanging as well, my neck is giving me some jip this morning. There were a few issues, the first band took a while getting off stage, which meant we were rushed and our guitarist couldn't work out why his amp was quiet. Turns out it had been switched to half power mode. Still, it went very well and there were lots of positive comments and we even sold a t-shirt. Very hot up in the small gig room there though. I think capacity is about 50 and we were almost at that, plus no air condidioning. My new digital only fuzz was working a treat tonight too. On my GX-100, I'm running a transparent overdrive into a bass fuzz and then a parallel signal with bass overdrive into the fuzz face model, both fuzzes with a bit of clean blend, boosting the lows on the fuzz face, reducing them on the bass fuzz. It has that high end chaotic movement to the sound that most digital fuzzes don't quite get. My rig was Dingwall Combustion -> GX-100 -> Laney Digbeth 500 -> Fender 610. WhatsApp Video 2025-08-21 at 09.36.02.mp4

I felt the same way when I initially started to learn to drive at 17, and as a result didn't learn properly until I was in my early 30s, although the fact that before then I wasn't in a position to afford to buy or run a car anyway may have had a lot to do with it. I quickly realised even though I did pass my test on the third attempt, I am actually a terrible driver with no road sense and therefore I don't drive and the roads are a much safer place as a result. I'm also a terrible bass player (and guitarist and synth player) but the difference is that no one is going to die as a result of my poor instrumental technique. And, even if I say so myself, I think I'm a decent composer and therefore I have no hesitation about getting up on stage and playing, no matter how badly I might be doing it, because the songs will still shine through.