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Not just a great bass player but a cracking songwriter, too.

I have more faith in both than I do in your average piece of audio marketing fluff

it's not just the thd that differs although thats a biggie. how long did it sustain this output power before limiting kicks in? at what frequency (was it 20-20k or just 1k)? what is the crest factor of the signal used? was the amp degraded or damaged to produce this figure? are the quoted watts rms, peak, music power or aes (among others)? (aes should be the modern standard but Im still skeptical that it's evenly applied) what was the ambient temperature when tested? was the test carried out using a passive or reactive load (can the amp absorb the back emf generated by a speaker and still retain control of the coil) that's just off the top of my head. there is just too much wiggle room to skew results, making the figures pretty easy to inflate and ultimately pointless similarly, I have some led lighting that's marketed as c700w. actual power consumption is nearer 100w so this bullshit isnt just inflicted on the audio sector

I like that tortoiseshell, where's it from?

That was always our intention!!!

Maybe I'll make a new post for this, but I thought I'd share the first pictures of my build!

Thanks! I plan on checking the sounds at a store, not sure how much YouTube videos help 😅 but I did like P sound best so far Well, for someone with zero skills. If I ever manage to learn then no 😁 Thanks a lot!

The Madness tribute I was in diversified in the same way. Ended up with the first set Madness and the second a blend of all you mention above. Sounding good mate 👌🏻

I Do My Crosswords In Pen - On Broken Wings

I was lucky enough to see the Ramones on their last ever tour. They only did another three last ever tours after that last ever tour so I was lucky.

Yeah, I'm about 600' up here at he house and it's a steep hill down into town, which I think is a drop of about 250' - 300'.

Peggy Sudoku - Bloody Holly

Here is my lovely single cut bass. It’s an ACG Sona next to an ACG Finn. Alan’s single cut design is very comfortable and a joy to play as is every ACG I own. The black Finn is a beauty as well.

Hey short scalers ! (Especially those who play Ibanez EHB1000S) I share a post i've made in my NBD EHB1000S topic (to not repeat it here) cause i've had an idea about neck edge inlay that could help those ones who have taken the adhesive dots road to replace the non-working-kind-of-luminlays https://www.basschat.co.uk/topic/522029-nbd-ibanez-ehb-1000s/#findComment-5621679 Enjoy !

Hello again ! Some improving details I continue to make this bass perfect to me, by correcting a stock “defect” (kind of): neck edge inlays. This problem is now well known and a lot discussed for this EHB family: neck edge inlays (even on fretboard sometimes) are difficult to see, and close to impossible when light is low. This is the case on mine and her roasted maple neck. The luminescent function is not really working after 15 minutes, and become completely invisible. So no 36000 solutions : - Make it changed by clearer ones by a luthier. Too much money for me. - Make it myself: too risky. I don’t have enough tools to make it precise and don’t want to have to perform varnish on neck in case I damage it by replacing the inlays. - Add some adhesive inlays over originals. Cheap and easy. But how many time little adhesive dots will stay on the neck before falling ? Then I had an idea inspired from my day-job work: in aeronautic world, when we glue a label on a part or assy, we are adding some varnish on top and around to make it strong and avoid the label to peel off. So after a short search about tooling to use in this case, I’ve found eyeball stickers perfect for the job. Let’s go ! So I bought some edge inlays and put it over originals ones Then masking around these new inlays with eyeball stickers and tape, to protect neck. Then with a small brush, varnish application on the inlays and areas between inlays and eyeball stickers. Then after one minute wait, eyeball stickers removing to avoid varnish to dry on it. And here we are. We’ll see if it’s efficient. To finish it, a small magnet glued with double-side tape as picks home; like on all my basses. Next and final episode: the ramp. But Ibanez didn’t replied yet to my request about the paint RAL they are using on their instrument for Seafoam green color. As I’ve found a lot of different shade of seafoam green, I would like to be sure to have the closer one. (If someone here know this Seafoam green paint RAL used by Ibanez, it would be greatly appreciated) To be followed ..

We play an excerpt of the title track in our set, the bit after the drum break grafted onto another song. Great to play, absolute masterpiece

Madness numbers, 'Lovestruck' and 'Wings of a Dove' and 'A Message to you, Rudy' by The Specials I play in what's mainly a Madness tribute band called Cairo East but we also include numbers by The Specials, The Beat, Bad Manners and so it's becoming more of a Ska tribute -