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Welcome Laura.

Funny you say that; when I was looking at Warmoth I noticed their P Bass easy access neck heals looked liked a Lull, plus the 21 fret ramp is the same, and they are pretty close geographically, so wondered if they did parts for him… 🤔 I’ve had 4 Lull basses, 1 was exceptional but the other 3 just very good, which is a concern now they are £3-4K

Have to admit that you're right. 😁

I have just bought my first fretless bass. When I play the G string it makes a sound that I can only describe as fret buzz... but there are no frets obviously. It's only on the G, could it be that I need to raise the action on it? Also, when I press down quite quickly on a string it produces a hollow metallic sound, any idea what is causing this. My point of reference is my only other bass, a squier p bass.

Sounds like you have enough

Interesting original question. I feel if the political view gets in the way of creation and causes a funky energy and vibe yes I wouldn’t join the band. I feel we all have different views on things in life but I hope we are mature enough to be able to agree to disagree and focus on the task at hand when it’s clear tension is building. If that’s not possible 👋🏾.

Indeed. But it's fully shielded and looks the part, if you like CAR that is. 😊 It is what it is I guess. I'd have been interested but Mrs PJ has warned me that another bass in the house would be bad for my health! I tried "the optimum number is what you have plus one" approach. She's having none of that. Two road bikes, lots of golf clubs and ten basses already. You know how it is...

The complete Anthony Jackson bass part for the tune 'Endeavour' from the 2012 Hiromi Trio Project album, 'Move'. Some challenging passages but it's do-able. https://bilbosbassbites.co.uk/endeavour-hiromi-uehara/

I couldn't be in a band with anyone with views that were that offensive to me. First of all, because the company that someone keeps is often a good indicator of their character and I would not wish to be presumed to be a right cnut because of someone else's opinion (besides which, there are plenty of other perfectly valid reasons to presume that about me anyway) Secondly, because I find it just about impossible to keep my big mouth shut and the frequency of arguments that would result would impact badly on the productivity of this band Having spent some time working in the trades (following years of work in the liberal arts), this was a frequent problem. Building sites have always featured a higher than average proportion of racists, homophobes etc that seem to feel emboldened to pass frequent comment by that setting

This is a really interesting topic. Personally, at the level of a ‘weekend warrior’, I don’t expect or need to be ‘mates’ with the people I play with. If someone is espousing extreme or illegal nonsense, then that’s beyond the pale. But, if what they believe doesn’t affect the working of the band and it doesn’t affect the relationship with audiences and venues, does it matter? It’ll be very sad if people with different views can’t find common ground to work together.

Backed by Pink Paladino

And that other great Welsh crooner: Tom Mones

Shirley Basset

A rival to Eddie and the Hot Hods

I am a qualified sparky (if somewhat out of practice now). You're both quite right. If there is no earth bond to the chassis/common ground of a piece of equipment then the transformer output is floating, with no reference to the 0v ground/neutral of the supply. Generally, due to an effect called capacitive coupling, it will sit at around half the mains voltage. If you touch this floating "live" chassis you become the reference point to ground. The good news is that, after a small discharge once the reference is made, the capacitive coupling now has a reference to ground and no further current flows. So following an initial unpleasant tingle it is now at 0v. At least, until you remove the reference (ie you let go or remove your lips from the mic etc). Then the capacitance will recharge and another tingle will occur next time you complete this circuit. Roughly translated this means that the effect is a bit like a nearly dead battery that can measure a decent voltage until you connect something to it and then instantly drops to 0v under load While at mains voltages this SHOULDNT prove more than an annoyance, you certainly don't want to be subjected to constant small shocks so the fault, while very unlikely to prove injurious, needs to be repaired. At distribution/transmission voltages (ie National Grid stuff with pylons etc) where you're talking 10s and 100s of thousands of volts, this capacitive coupling carries enough energy to fry you instantly. This vid (at c1min) shows them discharging the line prior to working on it. Note that the line is still live at a very high voltage and the helicopter has no reference to ground but due to the capacitive effect there is still considerably energy discharged. Once it's been discharged, despite the line being live, it is now safe to work on There is no harm in cutting the shield cable of a balanced mic/line cable. It's pretty common practice in install work to have all shields only connected to the output side of equipment and disconnected at the inputs. It helps to reduce the number of earth paths and lessens the likelihood of hum caused by earth loops. In fact, you will sometimes find equipment interconnects made with unshielded twisted pair cable such as cat5 or cat 6 with no ill effect (the balancing circuit effectively recombines any interference in reverse polarity which cancels it out) And yes, while I have opinions about PAT, your equipment and mains cables should be inspected/tested, labelled and logged frequently for your own safety and liability - not to mention that some venues will not let you plug in anything not displaying a valid label There's a whole other rant to be made about cheap switch mode power supplies or shoddily manufactured Class II devices but I haven't taken my blood pressure medication yet today so it's probably wise to stay off it for my own safety

I don't work with anyone with an agenda of hate.

Might as well post my recent build.

@andyhaines, I found this in the user manual of the GR Bass One (350 / 800 / 1400): "On the ONE 350 amplifier, pressing the LED button for about 8 seconds allows to toggles the cooling fan activa- tion." So, it means that the fan can be switched ON or OFF, but without the Studio Mode that will engage the fan when needed... Maybe it's worth considering for your needs.

Reading all the comments here, I figure it's probably simpler to just do the odd build as and when I'm called upon. By and large anything that I'd have been doing would primarily be Fender-based, as the parts are fairly plentiful and I could easily buy in the stuff I'd need. I would have been able to offer custom routing/electronics along with a custom paint options, although these would have been solid/flake as opposed to sunbursts. A few years back I had a short conversation with a guy that was close to Mike Lull; he mentioned that a lot of the work behind creating their basses was outsourced to external businesses and the magic only happened when the parts went back to Lull for assembly/set up. I'll admit (despite owning a pair of Lull basses) this didn't sit so well with me, but hey-ho, they're great instruments and needs must, I suppose.

Hod Stewart, the well known brickie.