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I got one on the last day of 2018 and then in 2019 i left it in India. At that point i didnt really have a band in here and i played it through a gear4music 15w malarky they called a bass amp. It was there till early 2025 when i took it back to the UK. I play thrash metal and it sounds monstrous. Its meaner than my Modified Vintage VJ74 with EMG actives and the output is more. A great bass and considering these are hard to find under 300 quid makes it even sweeter

I do I've got a Mike Lull PJ 30" loaded with flats. It's my go to gigging bass and my 2 other Lulls sit at home unplayed, but not unloved

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I was going to get Jura and analog dreams, but I was put off as when i went to get analog dreams there was a 'sign up to NIs marketing list and get $25 off' so I did, then went to check out and got a 'you can't use it for that' I had MPC stems before, and found it very useful, so interesting to see you didn't get on with it. I will get round to getting jura before it goes back up - £34 is pretty good as I couldn't get together the money to get a real one in 1982!

48 tooth fine cut - https://www.screwfix.com/p/trend-wood-chipboard-mdf-circular-saw-blade-184mm-x-16mm-48t/826af We had a few hours of dryness. I'm sure it'll be back to wet soon.

The point of the PiPedal is to work as an effects pedal. I'm not sure whether there's a way to intercept the digital output of the PiPedal, I haven't been into that yet.

Roger Waters never had the nerve to make the Final Cut. Shame, he's missed out on great little cab.

My EUB / Guitar set up as of last week, a friend made me a silly offer on the MOOD so there's an empty space at moment, been thinking reverb maybe (after Echobox). Starts at the MINI on the top right and works left, then Onward to Meris X (bottom right). Some pedlas may look a bit wonky, only 3 have velcro at the moment. Its desk top use rather than floor, makes editting easier on the fly. Sounds f***ing awesome!

Brilliant, that looks great. It makes me feel a lot happier about me doing it. Was the blade a coarse one (e.g. 20 tooth) or a find toothed one (circa 80 tooth) or something in the middle. Also why isn't it raining where you are? Not fair. Rob

Hold fire before taking material off the heel - unless I've misunderstood what you mean by the heel! Something doesn't sound right. If you take the neck off and remove the shim that you've added and then bolt the neck back on, does it return to the excessive action height as before?

As far as I know it’s similarish to the Aphex Aural Exciter and Big Bottom pedal. I also think it sounds a bit like the Creation Audio Funkulator, at least how I had it set. Gives a nicer bottom end, with added highs, I have the high set lower amount as it gives a whine when it’s set too high, maybe a combo of a fault or having 2 comps lol!

I have a few basses here, but for the last 6-months my go to bass has been a slab body 51 RI. It's hard to pinpoint the reason, I love the neck for sure, it's a baseball bat in every respect, and my bandmates appear to like it to the point that when I pulled out a late 70's Precision for a rehearsal the singer actually complained about the tone, and he never complains about anything. There is something in that slab body/SC/baseball bat space that really does work, certainly in my experience.

I think we need always remember that for most of us the audience will never know. Use what you like, what gets closest to the sound in your head when in the mix, but don't get too hung up on it. You're the only one will ever notice.

Battens already cut to length and drilled. My circular saw proved capable of cutting a triple layer sandwich (once I set the cut height right). I used a different cutting pattern as I was cutting a maximum of 610mm - first a cut across at 300mm, then a second and third at 376mm. After that, I stacked the three pieces and cut at 276mm twice, so a total of five cuts. First, I made the sled - I'd glued and screwed a length of batten across the panel, and just cut across using that as a guide. Then I clamped up for the first cut, and found that when I'd just nipped up the fixing bolt for the blade that my definition of nipped up and the instructions definition of nipped up are different. Once rectified, off we went. The first cut is the shallowest. After that first cut, I was able to use the piece I'd just cut off to rest the other side of the circular saw base on. Another cut the same and then I stacked the wood. And at last got to the final cut. I still have to cut out holes in the front and rear.

There are a few contributors to the Rickenbacker thread over on Talk Bass (yes, I know...) who have done 4/5 string conversions. Might be worth a browse. Apologies if you've already done this, of course.

I've recently bought a few MPC plugins: Mini D is Excellent. I think it's great, I immediately found presets with exactly the Minimoog bassline sounds I want. Editing is straightforward and intuative. Inspiring to make P Funk synth bassline sort of stuff. I've spent hours on it. Jura: Very good. I've found lots of great sounds and is inspiring for making 80s synth pop type stuff (it has had me listening to a lot of Italo Disco and getting quite close to replicate it) , I especially like the arpeggiator stuff and the lead and pad things. It has loads of editing potential - admittedly a bit too much for me right now to be completely sure what it is I'm tweaking sometimes. MPC Stems: Rubbish! Or at least it has been rubbish with a phone recording of the band - which is something Moises dealt with quite well, and I had Stems technology with Serato for DJ stuff and it'd do a good job of stems separation in a few seconds per song. MPC stems though - takes ages (something like 5 mins for a 5 min song) then has an extermely un-intuative way of working with the stems and the separation is bad. At least it was only £10, but so far it is one of the worst £10 I've spent in a long time. Big caveat here: I only got this yesterday and spent about an hour with it, if I spend more time with it and get better results I'll edit this. Sub Factory: Good, but I haven't been inspired by this one (which is what I think a really good synth does), it does the 808 bassline thing well - but so does the MPC Bassline (which I already have) and I don't find that to be a sound that really needs too much parameter editing, it just needs to do a good 'boom'! I dunno but I find this synth over-complicates stuff and becomes a bit uni-intuative, it's not encouraging me to play around with it. I like dubstep and drum n bass so thought this'd be right up my street for getting really in-depth control of complex bass sounds but the results so far are a bit bland and in the no-mans land of not sounding 'retro' like the Mini D or Jura but not sounding cutting-edge enough to keep up with current dubstep/dnb producers. Hopefully more time on this will help. Ring the Alarm: Good for what it is - but it's basic (but at least is only £14), it's a dub siren with a few extra bits. Sounds good but the issue with this one is using the MPC hardware because the touch screen and 4x Q link knobs that you need to swith around isnt ideal for this sort of hands-on knob twiddling thing, ideally it's something that's a separate on-hand unit to occasionally off-the-cuff do a quick siren effects - but as an MPC Plugin it doesn't quite work like that. For my ideal setup I'd like to add a small mixing desk and add a a real dub siren and some outboard effects like a space echo pedal (Boss RE-202) they could also solve the issue of playing live and filling the time for the new song to load on the MPC (but hardware dub siren + space echo + a mixer is a lot more equipment and cost than £14!).

Am currently leaning towards the Nano (but will probably have changed my mind again by tomorrow!!!!) the thing that puts me most off the Anagram (and the full size QC) is having something so expensive on the floor, at great risk of being stepped on by the punters and having drink spilled on it. my Shure wireless pedal was almost taken out by a glass of wine at Saturdays gig, and even my brand new amp got a soaking!

Similarly this one is down to £720

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My circular saw proved capable of cutting a triple layer sandwich (once I set the cut height right). I used a different cutting pattern as I was cutting a maximum of 610mm - first a cut across at 300mm, then a second and third at 376mm. After that, I stacked the three pieces and cut at 276mm twice, so a total of five cuts. First, I made the sled - I'd glued and screwed a length of batten across the panel, and just cut across using that as a guide. Then I clamped up for the first cut, and found that when I'd just nipped up the fixing bolt for the blade that my definition of nipped up and the instructions definition of nipped up are different. Once rectified, off we went. The first cut is the shallowest. After that first cut, I was able to use the piece I'd just cut off to rest the other side of the circular saw base on. Another cut the same and then I stacked the wood. And at last got to the final cut. I still have to cut out holes in the front and rear.