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Signed up too! Good luck!

Do the modern Ashdown amps have plenty of treble bite and high end sizzle?

Hi Steve, It's great to know you're out there somewhere and there's still interest in these basses. I bought a Chieftain from an auction a couple of years ago. Serial number P.010. It was in a very sorry state but I've almost got it playable - just need to sort out the electronics and dress the frets. It's a great bass and I can't wait to get it gigging again. Thanks for all the info.

Wenge / Elm bass update: it lives. Thought I’d share a quick resurrection story in case anyone else needs reassurance that instruments can come back from the brink. This one very nearly became “that bass I don’t talk about”. What started as a simple refinish escalated into: poly having a meltdown heat gun decisions I immediately regretted a drop-top seam briefly auditioning for independence and a small chunk of wenge making a bid for freedom near the pickup route At one point I was genuinely Googling “is relicing a legitimate coping mechanism”. Anyway… slow down, walk it back, glue where glue belongs, patch where wood went missing, black grain fill doing some very heavy lifting, and a lot of patience later — it’s back on its feet. Still some sanding to do to remove the grain filler then oil and shellac ready for nitro clearcoat. I also took the opportunity to do a comfort carve into the wenge to make it more hmmmm. The seam is solid, the top is flat, the grain is doing that wenge thing again, and structurally it’s absolutely sound. More importantly, it looks like a bass rather than a cautionary tale. Lesson (re)learned: Heat guns are not subtle tools Wenge forgives, but only if you apologise properly Fixing your own mistakes is annoying… but also oddly satisfying Onwards now to finishing, hardware, and pretending this was all part of the plan. Builds aren’t always about the glossy photos at the end — sometimes they’re about dragging something back from the dead and quietly nodding at it when it survives.

Just watching The Who live on TV at moment. From their Electric Proms at The Roundhouse i think 2006 era. BBC4 Jings they were good. Dave

If you were prepared to overlook pedantry, you could have celebrated twice. Like I did.

Hello again, Few more sounds about the Vari-mid tweaking: for each pickup position, I've set up bass at noon, treble a very little rolled off, and the Vari-mid at +50% level. Then i've started to play with the Vari-mid to high-mid maximum, and slowly came back to low-mid. I've played the same thing each time to clearly show differences. Enjoy !

I'm not an expert but I think you can adjust the input level on the audio input of the Minitaur with a MIDI control message. No idea about the Grandmother. You could try using a DI box, that should give a line level voltage instead of instrument level. If you want to plug into the audio input, the Sonuus Midi converter is not the solution since that will give you a MIDI out signal. If you do want a MIDI signal, there is so much latency with a bass guitar that the Sonuus units are almost unusable. They're a lot better with guitar frequencies. The best solution is to play the basslines on the MIDI keyboard and forget about the bass guitar.

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But what will you do when your 3rd party plug-ins need to be upgraded because you've upgraded to a new Mac or MacOS or a new version of Logic and old ones don't work any more? Or if the developer decided they don't want to develop a particular plug-in anymore or they go out of business (cf Native Instruments)? And what do you £1800 worth of plug-ins do that you couldn't do already with the massive number that are part of the standard Logic install? Logic already has more quality effects and instrument plus-ins than most of the studios that produced some of the all-time classic recordings. Wouldn't it be prudent to spend the time learning to get the best out of what you already have first? It strikes me that there are a significant number of users for whom the main reason to get a new plug-in is the vast number of pre-sets that come with it rather than learning how to create something new of their own.

Yessir.

Someone on a newsgroup I'm on has been using Claude Code to diagnose issues in code, as well as generating code.

I am older and wiser by now. Fabulous!!!!!

Mine has side and front LEDs. Because being in a band is showbiz.

Thanks guys, some great tips I can use, the mission will commence tomorrow. I will let you know the outcome... gulp.

That's weird, I've found the opposite; anything below Cish pitch wise on the A string has more of a tendency to retrigger, anything above that will pretty reliably not rearticulate when I hammer on. Passive J, tone all off, neck pickup, just some light compression in front of the mxr.

I sold it. Would I buy it back? Yes, yes I would.

I had been saving up for my one bass to rule them all. I got on the train with all my specs sorted to go and comission my very own J5. No way was I going to have LEDs. So vulgar. So useless. When asked if I wanted side LEDs I could not say yes fast enough.

Absolutely agree with your sentiment and we will be covering artists and gear across all genre so that there is something in there for everyone. Come and chat to me at the show and let me know who you would like to see in there and we will do our very best.

Another vote for Brian Pillans - I've had a few from him and the pickguards and service have been second to none.