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Drumroll… then cymbal

...with this one. Italia Imola Rehearsal yesterday. First time I've played this one in six months. Sounded like heaven. My buddy said something like "Wow, that thing sounds great!" (Yeah, the same guy who said "Why didn't you get a Fender?" when I first showed him a pic.) 🤔

Just on my way home from an awful one. We were at Mill Hill again and while it’s an ok rehearsal complex the PA in the room we were in is awful. As I’m playing keys it really put me off and i hated every minute of it. The band sound was ok, and we played well but i was pretty much just hitting bits of plastic in the hope it wouldn’t sound too bad.

CHEEEEEEEEEEEEEESE (gloucestershire)

Medicine For A Nightmare — Sun Ra

was very excited to see a super cool instrument but then read jacob collier and almost defenestrated myself

just use a mix of both, rake when going down a string, and alternate when playing more than one on the same????????????????????????????????????????????????????????

Pills N Potions - Nicki Minaj

literally just play the bassline so much that it becomes completely muscle memory, playing it whilst watching a television show or something like that and with the vocal you can try to remember what syllables or section of words land on certain parts of the bassline, and go from there helps me a lot to break it down like that

A quiet one minus drummer as he had to take his dog to the vet for its final trip today 😢 So a quiet one to run through couple of new songs for key, one tweaked slightly from that originally planned - it may have been due to not pushing so vox hard on the night but it felt better changed. Took the Thunderpuncher I picked up from Dood recently into the studio Hartke/Ampeg rig and it was sounding great. Nice clank even with me rolling more bass and less and less top - whoever used the amp last had treble full up and bass rolled way back 😳 Now I like top end bite but that was crazy. Good session working through arrangements and bv’s with loads of too and fro to sort things out. Our drummer has said in the past he’s not been used to how we sometimes work on stuff that in early days of a new song can be a chunk of time concentrating on finding an ending that works running different ideas to refine rather than necessarily just go route one slow down and final splat. That works sure but sometimes it’s good to try other ways, or how to get to the final slow and splat 🙂

sorry mate but need to at least take me out to dinner before that

I agree RightOn are absolutely fantastic, probably the best around absolutely love them.

looks a bit terrifying feels like a light breeze is going to to take it off the wall but i trust your DIY for defo not worried about that, if its still up by some miracle then nice one happy for ya

it's alright mate money is money let them put food on the plate

Thank you for voting and your comments……. The wood is………..Paulownia. The body is 2.8lbs/1.2kg at the moment and my hope is to keep the whole bass under 7lbs whilst reducing any neck dive by using lightweight tuners and a heavy bridge to balance.

cant stand rick beanpipe but was great to finally see les show how tommy the cat is really played, wow! played it wrong for 20 years

What's Pau Ferro like to play? Dunno. Can you hum a few bars?

let me know where this bloke is and I'll sort him out i'm trained in eye gouging with fender lollipop tuners

they charged me £40 shipping on a pack of strings once and I thought £15 was already outlandish.... bloody hell.

I have the exact same problem but honestly just thought it was me and my great big BFG lug holes, surprised to find someone with the same issue......

an absolute shame this year has been a real shocker

ah thanks for the photo that makes a lot more sense than what I was thinking, interesting design though!

I don’t find a solution to this in Tenerife, the local music shops to where I was didn’t do hire. Next time, I’m probably going to buy one of these and take it. If I take it apart, it should fit in my carry on. https://www.thomann.co.uk/flight_mini_jb_bass_sb.htm