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@Leonard Smalls Clever the way you spliced menacing with euphoric vibes. Cool track.

We use Alto TS308s for FOH and TS408s for monitors (it works better that way round, the 408s are an ideal shape for monitors). Vocals only most of the time, sometimes one of the guitars and sometimes my soft synth. They're great.

But don't do a 1990s "Click here to enter" home page a la Rob Green...

The saw sled is the width rather than the length of the panel - I think it would work doing cuts 3 and 4 first, then stacking the middle and right-hand pieces (I suspect the circular saw might baulk at 36mm).

We really felt like rehearsal was needed after our last gig. Tonight we focused on the weak points and also played Alive by Pearl Jam for the first time. Alive is a blast to play. My jazz was sounding awesome, I'd boosted the mids a tiny bit and made sure the gain was high enough for a bit of overdrive. Half way through I realised I hadn't checked the controls on the bass, but they were exactly in my favourite spot - neck full, bridge about 20%. Only point of contention... they all think the bass on Uprising sounds better clean! Have they ever heard actually listened to it?

I’ll plan on being there. Thanks

The Good, the Bad & the Ugly of '25, eh? The Good - Ecstatic over buying one of the last 5 Status Stealths, my Fender Elite Jazz, my 95 Stingray and most of all, my 1998 GB Spitfire. Mostly all solid keepers. An honorable mention has to go to my Cort Artisan Space 5 (the third one I've owned), which continuously amazes me for it's sheer value for money, playability and great sound. Also, hopefully arriving before the end of '25 is my Walnut/Graphite 66 Modern/Classic Jazz, with a single piece body by @Silky999 and one of @Kiwi's AUROK™️ Graphite Necks. The Bad - There weren't really any bad instruments per se, mainly some that went out of the door as I traded up to other things. If there were any disappointments, it was the sheer weight of my KingBass Mk-II (now up for commission sale at Andy Baxter's), whose mass could easily generate it's own gravity, and my beautiful Stingray 5 Special, which was left in the dust by my old Aguilar equipped '95 Stingray. But that was entirely predictable. The Ugly - Only one £150 no name Precision that I bought on a whim from Gumtree, which was recently donated to a school I teach at.

I hung my nose over one of these in the GuitarGuitar sale when they were down to £695. I listened to videos of people playing them and they sound fantastic. Should've bought it...

The Lubes

A 32” Wilcock Mullarkey was being played with The Divine Comedy on Jool’s Later on Sunday night.

Thompson Twits Pimply Red

Spandau Ballot Ultracox

GOT IT

I went from 35 to 33 to 32 and my most recent bass is a Nordstrand Cat bass which I think is 30... 32 is current favourite - Mk II of my Elrick signature is 32" and headless, so super comfortable to play, and fits in a guitar bag so easier to carry on a bike, and to fly with Steve

Got mine yesterday. Had a play this morning and echo a lot of the above. This is perfect for those of us who might need a synth sound for two or three numbers up in a set. The presets are fab and there’s more than enough settings to tweak. It’s a lot of fun! Tracking is good enough and I hope better when I get it on the board with a compressor. Mr Martin Allison must have amazing technique or there’s some editing in the vids! All in all a very good bit of kit that really does provide the synthiness I need.

A bit of 80s ska... Bad Mangers Madnest The Beak

I've always had a fairly uneasy relationship with social media. I am of the right age to have joined facebook when it still felt like something fun and somehow private – around 2006, I think – but it jumped the shark some time in the late 2000s or early 2010s and never came back. I've not deleted my account, not really sure why, but I've also not looked at it in about seven years. I dabbled with a few of the other platforms, but always found they got both boring and addictive after a while. My dislike of the Skinner-Box psychological manipulation that's ubiquitous on the modern internet is actually what attracted me to this place. It's a forum. There are posts. You open the site and look at what's been posted. If there's something interesting, you read or respond. If there isn't, you close it again. Basschat isn't painstakingly engineered to monopolise my attention, it doesn't use the latest scientific research to try to serve me targeted content, to entice me into scrolling or paging through or whatever. It's a website. With stuff on it that I can look at, or ignore. It does have the unfortunate side effect of leading me to buy more gear, but that's a trade-off I'm willing to make.

Thanks but nope. Definitely a sixties sound not bebop. I’m sure you’d get it instantly if you knew it, but maybe it’s more obscure than I thought.

1st class. Enjoyed looking at this and am seriously impressed.

Im taking a break from Facebook, possibly permanently. Its mostly either adverts for crap, AI fake videos & images and political propaganda. Mostly political propaganda now it seems. At least here, the only discrimination is against pick players, slappers and Scott Devine

I'll be posting some photos tomorrow.