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Every year I promise my wife 'no more new basses and no more new gear'. Every year I fail. But I'm weak you see. And I'm retired and it rains a lot in Cornwall. Woe is me I shall go and disembowel myself 😔 Just get myself another bass before I do.

I like the harshness of it this year. "I walked past a shop and saw a nice bass in the window." "Get tae f**k, yer oot!" 😁

I’ve done charity gigs. They cost me money, so I expect to be paid. I object to the expectation that it's OK for musicians to give their time for free and no one else is expected to. They don't use that line on the bar, venue or catering companies!! I guess being a musician isn't a real job, so it doesn't matter! Giving your time for free for charity? A neighbour used to be a senior executive in the Red Cross. You wouldn't want to know what his salary was, and pension now is!!!

I think tony lost his original 3 string in a fire...still pretty funny ;)

ok, they have arrived, and after a few days now of comparing them. there was no doubt something wrong with the other pair as these new ones are definitely better with no phasing going on. soooo.... after a good listen.. and from back up responses from my older mixes. the last few mixes i have done with the superlux HD660 some have said the mix is a little dull and needing more sparkle at the top. this i can now put down to the superlux are alot brighter at the top end so when i do my mixing or more to the point adding EQ at the end, i am pulling down the hi end thinking there is quite a lot going on up there, when in fact it was the HD660s ( being over bright) Very noticeable when i now use the Beyer DT770 pro. so i went back to one of my mixes, and reEQ the mix as a quick test, and hay presto my mix is now brighter, and more accurate to the top end when trying against the monitors they now seem right. the bass end also is is better i can clearly hear the more subby lows in as much as the Beyers will go to that i just could not hear with superlux. But for now... thats all i have for you guys as usable information, i can only see how it all goes as some of you say they need to "Burn in" ? But as AL Nico says above "they really let you know if something is a bit harsh in the highs." i can only agree with him there, thats bang on as prooved in the twice mixing of the same song. A real learning curve here, we are always learning. but i still maintain when you get use to one set of headphones and then change them you have to almost reEQ you head. Anyway i am really happy now with the DT770s so i will just stick with them for now and see how i get on the more i use and get use to them Cheers guys

Some things it would be nice to do in 2026: 1. Improve my DB soloing. 2. Improve DB speed and endurance for when horn players call rhythm changes at high tempos etc. 3. Do more jazz gigs on DB, ideally with multiple horns. 4. Get together a jazz group with me on guitar.

Must make an effort to finish this winter project. (rubbish photo)

This is my bitsa Jazz; it has an unknown body which was previously a manky brown sunburst, a CV neck and tuners, Limelight pickups and a big green Russian tone capacitor. I painted the body in CAR using rattle cans and it turned out pretty well. Although it's a bit heavy it plays well and sounds awesome, so overall I'm well happy. I could have just bought a CV, I suppose, but I had way much more fun doing this.

I don't think I've seen any political extremism in posts on here. However I don't spend a lot of time in Off Topic. There have been opinions that don't always align with mine, but nothing that I would class as extremism.

...isn't that the point 😈 ?

Couple of rescue fretlii for your perusal folks Both rather nice in their own way, the Jazz is VERY jazz in an upright kinda way, the other thing is rather Wal-esque, surprisingly so in fact. Nordy PUPs are OUTSTANDING