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That's brilliant: I had the pleasure of meeting him at a bass show a while back and it'll be a privilege to have him come and talk to us!

We currently have two similar T-shirt designs, and have found that most people want either one or the other but not both, so I'm currently working on a new one that is completely different.

Yup, I mentioned that.

Makes sense Dave, no matter what bass I play I sound like me. I`ve been more than happy with the amount of low-end from my all-Paulownia Superlight TT, I did think I might have to use the actives to add in more lows/depth but have found I prefer it in passive mode. Only just over a year til I get my Superlight Lionel...................

You can sometimes test it by bending a string so that it moves away from over the poles.

Definitely, to combat this we used to have so much merch - probably 8/10 different tees, some same style but range of colours too - it took longer to carry in the merch than it did full backline!

The general consensus/cliche is that musicians are artists - creative, expressing themselves, communicating emotions n'all that. But is that what you think of yourself? Seems a bit pretentious to me! Perhaps I've got no soul or artistry, but the more I play music and learn about it the more I think of it as a process, a technical skill. Is being in an orchestra and sight reading artistic? Is playing a cover version with some embellishments? Is even playing some sort of free-form Jazz? After all, even that is mostly about applying technical skill and music theory. Is making original music? Usually that seems to very heavily rely of pre-existing musical formulas. I think there are some musicians that are genuine 'artists', people that really do something original that transcends technical skill and know how, that's only a small % of musicians though.

JB4 Batch 1 #2.2.mp4 This evening I started to inspect the necks in person. This is #2, your neck @Phaedrus01 . I'm going to be sending an individual video or two to everyone on the order list in private just to check in and so we can confirm shipping details and final balance. Hopefully I can send away towards the end of neckt (aha) week as I need to find individual shipping boxes. JB4 Batch 1 #2.mp4

Check completed listings on eBay and reverb 👍

My favoured toned basses tend to be from mahogany type woods altho it may well be its the combination of woods and electronics that give me that particular tone. Harder woods tend to be heavier in my experience and as i've grown older not so practical in longer gigs. Its a bit of a trade off these days. My Warwick Thumb is gorgeous to play and has a wonderful tone but not sure i could wear it for a full gig these days. My Sandbergs are my compromise. Reasonably light and the tone is OK. I guess i could replace the pick ups and pre-amp for EMG actives but for me its not really worth the money. Sometimes I would prefer my Sandberg VM4 to have a slightly warmer and fuller tone but not enough to make changes and other times the tone is just sublime in certain venues. I think amps and cabs have a big say in how my basses sound too. Having heard myself with different basses thru the same rig i have noted that they generally all sound quite similar in tone so maybe that old saying of "its all in the fingers" is possibly true. I just sound like me. 😂 Dave

I guess right now, it's the Fazley Hot Rod. This is the result of my "£150 giggable bass challenge", and it has quite a story to it. Buoyed by the positive result of buying a bass for £150 (the Gear4Music LA Select bound P bass thingy) and then mucking about with it (replacement pickup, tuners etc., bit of fret work), under the banner of "how bad can a £150 bass be?", I decided to lower the bar further and set myself a new challenge of setting the entire budget of the project to £150 - that's initial cost of the bass plus any remediation required, new parts only, (postage ignored) because I'm quite mad. Back in September 2024 I spied the Fazely Hot Rod on Bax Music and thought to myself, damn, I like the look of that. Surf green, no pickguard, reverse P, single volume control. £84 at the time, perfect as the starting point for a £150 project. It was out of stock but I placed the back order anyway, knowing that it would take several months for a new batch to arrive. It's not like I don't have other basses to play after all. So the ETA begins to lengthen - was initially end of 2024, but the date kept slipping and you probably know why - Bax Music went bankrupt in April 2025. I am in the privileged position to be able to shrug off an £84 loss so shrug I did. In the interim, as I had pickups lying around waiting for basses to go into, I snagged an Epiphone Embassy Special IV locally for £150 and chucked an Entwistle neodymium pickup in it, and very nice it is too, but that's another story. To my surprise, rumblings of Bax Music being bought over and coughing back into life happened, and to my further surprise, I got an email at the end of May saying that the newco was going to fulfil back orders. Despite my scepticism, I played along, answered any questions they put to me (like opting to wait on the goods ordered instead of getting store credit now). It took a few months for them to get around to my order but to my amazement, a parcel was dispatched to me on 7th August and I recieved it a few days later. So it took the best part of a year to arrive - but was it worth it? Oh hell yeah. I honestly don't know how they did it. The only cost saving areas I could find were the comically bad pickup (which I was going to change anyway), the finish is a bit wibbly wobbly in places (like ripples in it if you look really close) and zero cavity shielding. Oh, and the stock strings were absolute thin, rough garbage. But the fretwork is great, it even has a subtle chamfer/roll to the fretboard edges. The tuners are acceptable at the price point, and acceptable as tuners go in general. The bridge was your bog standard BBOT, nothing to complain about there. So, to get it up to snuff, I replaced the pickup with a Tonerider Duke, shielded the cavities, replaced the bridge (didn't have to, but I had a £19 Guyker bridge lying around which has partially slotted saddles and hides the ball ends of the strings for a cleaner look), fitted a triple string tree (because I like them), and the finishing touch - a giant volume knob! Final tally was £144.67. I've only gigged it once so far, but it was great - I'm not much of a knob twiddler at the gig but there was this weird sense of extra liberation when there's nothing bar a volume knob to p!ss about with! I'll shut up now, but TL:DR this is currently my budget #1.

YES! Thanks for setting this up. I need to get the finger out on this, so I’m more than up for joining.

The Horrothia Type One X is 18v, oodles of headroom. It has the same front still, but the version now being sold is called the One X and went from 12 to 18v... I assume due to some headroom requests. It's easily my fav chorus I've ever used.

which one? he's got two

In fact, it would be better and more accurate so, as Colchester must be declined in the genitive and factum rejected at the end: Status : Camuloduni factum. Latin and Greek classical studies leave deep scars...

Hi, does the HORROTHIA have enough headroom? Thank you!

Rosegarden Funeral Of Sores - Bauhaus

Thanks, but I've used the drainpipe successfully in three speakers so far and I know my hole saw does the job for it. Oh, and it's Tau not Tao!

Pat bought my Ashdown RM800Evo 2 head. Great communications all the way and aside from the good old Royal Mail pretending that nobody was in when they knocked to deliver it, all was very smooth. Thanks Pat.

The right DB amplifier will depend on a lot of factors, including: Your bass and its specific characteristics What pickup you're using What type of music you're playing Whether you're going through the PA (and need the amp just for stage volume) If you're using a HPF or pre-amp Your budget What kind of sound you want (hi-fi replication for jazz, or a more aggressive tone for blues etc.) How picky you are (I'm not picky, other people are) I use Barefaced cabinets and have settled on an EBS amp as it provided both the quality of sound and the character I want for bluegrass. For other music, it wouldn't be appropriate or suitable. I also have a Trace Elliot Elf as a back up, but this is just a small amp I can stick in a case.