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Shine A Little Love - ELO

Go let it out was a banger, “pick up the bass” That was Noel on a 4005 after Guigsy left. i’ll say though, if you actually listen rather than dismiss…it was a fairly present bass sound. I dunno, I like oasis so.

Colour me tentative 1. sire v7 5 string (rapidly becoming my favourite bass ever) 2. vintage est96a (punches above its weight as judged by basschat midlands massive and @Stub Mandrel) 3. Tc electronic bh250 and 4. A cab that was dragged out of the sea

Hasn't that always been the role of bass in 90% of music?

We played the fabulous Richard Jefferies Museum in Swindon. A beautiful setting with what I thought was a respectable crowd. I flew back from Spain yesterday so we hadn’t really rehearsed. I think we have it in the bank though. A varied crowd from 3-87yrs old and the under 10s all helped us pack up. Luckily, the other half of my duo is a teacher so he was able to coordinate them so we had no breakages! Everyone was super friendly and it was certainly one of the more memorable gigs.

All true, but….. Ashdown have a sound that is less obvious and less generic, although to my ear still no less powerful and musical than Ampeg. Having both, plus of course a Mesa all-tube head, is the way to go 👍

City of tiny lights - Zappa

No, for all the reasons above I'm on the 5GHz. Also in a hall with a no other digital connection save my phone. "LIP timeout message" , no connection for the CQ app ( after an hour's use), and no way to reconnect. Also rendered shut down inoperable, just wouldn't move from the "Shutting down" screen, to the "safe to shut down .... message. Hard shutdown for everything and leftover it overnight and all OK the next morning.

Custom board courtesy of Rob (rwillett) kindly made for free I’m currently putting a ‘guitar’ one together & asked Rob again .. he came up trumps again for a small fee .. will post pics asa

@Woodinblack Hi. I asked Chat GPT about setting up a blend from series to parallel and It's technically possible, however: Chat GPT: It’s Not Perfect The transition isn't linear (you don't get a smooth tonal gradient — it’s more like a shape-shifting zone between the two extremes). You’ll likely lose output level, clarity, or introduce tone weirdness in the mid-position. Requires careful impedance matching to avoid phase cancellation or signal loss. It goes on to give solutions, the easiest being don't fade it, have a switch. All the fade solutions are large technical projects. Chat GPT: Why a Switch is Better for Series/Parallel No phase or impedance weirdness — the pickups are either fully in series or fully in parallel, electrically clean. Consistent output — no mid-blend signal drop like with pots. Simple wiring — easy to implement with a push-pull pot or mini toggle (DPDT). Predictable tone: Series = louder, thicker, mid-heavy. Parallel = clearer, lower output, scooped mids. Sounds Like an interesting option. I'm going to stick with passive. I'll test series - parallel first and if useful, decide on a switch or pull pot. Prefer switch.

Dirty old town - The Pogues

Are you still on the 2.4 GHz setting for the CQ wifi?

I once met @grangur of this parish. A very charming chap @Grangur

Holy f***ing Christ

Not promising anything, but I’ll talk to the management. Assuming that a mere Sire V7 might interest someone in such otherwise august company of Sei, top bracket fenders and so on The lady of chateau geek is going to Devon in a few weeks so I don’t see why I can’t take 1.5 days off (I need to take the drive slowly as I’m not allowed to drive too far in one go for medical reasons) what time is kickoff? id love to try a db @Rosie C and it would be a pleasure to meet Scottish alter-ego @neepheid

Well, most of my collection is a bit mental so I'll list the more weird ones. I'll list them in "declining pointy order" if you want. Pictures to hand of the first 2 if you want a laugh. Status John Entwistle Buzzard Grainger Hades 8 string Explorer 12 string Hamer Alembic Stanley Clarke Alembic Series 1 Wal Mk 2

I think we need pictures really…, 🍿 #kleenex we really should fully understand the pointiness quotient ….

Didn’t know they used Grovers ever. If it is an old one it seems to be in pristine Nick.

I tried this today with my C4 and MXR - sure enough I heard it on the C4 and my tuner picked it out too. I couldn't hear it on the MXR though there may have been a really tiny drop in pitch according to the tuner. That might just be an artifact of the tuner not really being able to pick out the main note - I guess it's designed for a simple bass note, not synth tones with modulation on them. I must say though I hadn't heard that on the C4 but I'm mostly using it at gigs and rarely hold notes long enough for them to decay that much. That led me to mess around with the note hold function on the MXR - that is a very fun way to keep a note going, probably not something I'll need, but definitely something I'll play with. I had fun comparing the IMA sledgehammer setting on the MXR to my "setting" of just using my octave and chorus - I prefer that to the MXR. And my "go to" synth sound of octave/fuzz/chorus still holds up favourably to some of the MXR sounds, though clearly isn't as versatile.