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Would ear protection count as a fail? Seems a bit shortsighted if we disincentivise safety.

FTFY. C'mon you know the adage, "Will play for food." Missing out on pizza is anathema in my book.

Tim - that's super helpful, thanks. I'll need to go back and check what settings we currently have for the aux-outs and what difference it's making. I can then make sure we have dedicated wireless (with transmitter amps) and wired (no external amps), if required, or simply leave as is, if it's just a case of the "select listen" option impacting the inherent desk output levels for the IEMs, given none of our existing output levels are close to being maxed. But it seems to me that this provides a "best-of-both worlds" option, avoiding unnecessary expenditure on external IEM amps for wired IEMs, which is an unexpected additional cap-feather in it's already significant haul for the CQ range. Bravo A&H!

That could be the nicest piece of wood ive ever seen! Not even remotely jealous 😂😂

Some more Veal, a track from the 2009 Marsalis album, 'Christmas Jazz Jam'. The tune is 'Blue Christmas'. A bit late in the season but it's reading practice, not party music! https://bilbosbassbites.co.uk/blue-christmas-wynton-marsalis/

It happens and I certainly don't know why. I tend to stop playing to see if it helps, sometimes it does, other times not so much.

Needed a small light bass ( 23" scale) while recovering from an op and this seemed to tick all of the boxes. It's pink and a bit sparkly, has a roasted maple neck and comes with a nice gig bag and all for £200. I bought it from gig gear, the fit and finish were great and set up pretty spot on. I'm going to try a Tonerider Duke pickup in it but the stock one was fine for the price. Well done Ashdown.

On Friday our Blues band opened for an excellent Eagles trib at The Ferry in Glasgow. Ultra busy so what could go wrong? I've been with them since 2015 and it's a really tight well rehearsed band. Anyway, I stepped up to sing the 2nd last song which I've sung dozens of times. Carnage! 1234 drums and instruments totally out of time as in different song out of time. Stop smile and start again. Same result. Eek. Third time I kept singing through the cacophany until we reached verse one and it finally gelled. No doubt we'll reset the song at our next rehearsal. Such disasters seldom happen but wow. If C@rlsb3rg did onstage disasters.

Many thanks for a super smooth deal Frank. The bass is superb! Cheers, Leon C

Its got 2 handles on it!!!! What more do you want??? 😉 Someone mentioned Zilla cabs not sure in weight.

I appreciate you have somewhat unusual and sometimes challenging circumstances to deal with Woody 😅

Boots do wax earplugs which are vastly superior at noise blocking if you stuff them in right. I bulk buy fifty to seventy quids worth whenever I visit the UK because we can't get them in China.

Have you considered the Epi Allen Woody?

who needs a band when you have this! “if you build it they will come” 😆

I've been doing a swift surf through the tracks on Spotify and it really is a Fish/Giblin album. State of Mind reminds me of Mick Karn.

Hello everyone, I haven’t posted for a while. This winter has seen me dive back in to playing bass whenever I can and have been doing lots of practice every day when pain levels allow. ( music takes a back seat in the summer as my other love is motorcycles, but as my health continues to go downhill music will hopefully fill the void motorcycle might leave any time soon) and to my main point, Santa brought me a five string fretless in the form of a Sire V10. I set it up to my preferences and noticed the A string was a little quiet. I left it until I had a new set of Cobalt Flats to put on it, expensive but worth every penny, and although better string balance, the A was still a little quiet. I don’t like the strings to get progressively lower from B to G and always set them up with 2.25 mm clearance on each string following the fingerboard radius. I set my guitars with staggered pole pieces the same and always have good string balance. I measured the individual string height to the individual pole pieces and the B was about 3mm the G was 2.5 but the A was over 5mm. Also when sighting across the strings the B and G were way lower than the middle 3 even though they were radiused perfectly. So I thought I would set the saddle heights for the B and G by eye rather than measuring, bringing up the height of each by about .5 mm and then resetting the pickup heights. I don’t why the two outside saddles were so much lower when following the fingerboard radius, but once adjusted to match the middle three saddles with just a gentle slope, the string balance is perfect and it hasn’t affected the playability. If anything the B string sounds fuller and has more tone. I am 57 this year and have played since my teens but still seems I am still learning. Anyone else have a similar set up or encountered problems with string balance. If so how did you solve it?

What a difference 16 hours makes - I've been listening to Vengeance by New Model Army this morning and Stuart Morrow's bass playing is crazy, frenetic, odd-sounding and chuffing brilliant.

You don't get these problems at Fairport Convention gigs. Though if you are sat at the back you can be blinded by the lights reflecting of the sea of grey hair in front of you.