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I've attended both the SW and the SE Bashes. The SW is in a single hall with one secondary room. The SE was in multiple, smaller rooms. For auditioning gear, the multiple rooms of the SE Bash were infinitely superior. Here, you're in a room with four to six other bassists and don't have to wait long before you can try the gear of your choice at a decent volume without clashing with someone else. Also, turning the volume up in one room doesn't affect anyone in the other rooms. Despite its many-sided wonderfulness, the SW Bash isn't always ideal for auditioning gear because of the way sound travels from one end of the room to another. If you get several people playing at the same time, it can become a bit messy. And with forty people in the room, there is always going to be a clash, no matter how considerate everyone is (which they usually are at the SW Bash). @cetera mentioned this earlier in the thread. So, if there's another room going, I'd suggest getting it. On the matter of mains sockets, @scrumpymike always reminds people to bring an extension, and that's worked well in the past.

Welcome Richie.

CPC have an equivalent of Lumberg mono jacks too so going to try them - fingers crossed it all fits!

I been looking for a nice lefty 6 string bass Could anyone recommend one as I hardly ever seen them Thanks

Lovely 'Tiny Desk' mini set. Jerry Barnes is killing it on his Jazz as per usual.

If I've told you once I've told you a thousant times not to exaggerate!

I'm sure, the Russians are duly confused now.

What would be informative is a bass through an hpf into an oscilloscope. It's an eye opener. Without hpf rest your hand on the strings and the trace disappears off the screen for a moment.

Ah that makes sense. I find The most annoying bit of making pedals is ordering stuff

Very nice 😎 Are you really going to encapsulate that lovely ebony in plastic?

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With Farnell you get the certificates of traceability/quality documentation needed by manufacturers.

Despite what @petebsaid in his reply to this comment of yours @Sean, back at the 4th South East Bass Bash in 2010, @s1m0n gave a fantastic - and dare I say, legendary - presentation about the joys of using compressors... 😁 Sadly the photos aren't available any longer, but have a look here for more info:

The ring finger is Allen Key and the wrist is the neck. You just need to choose the correct diagram based on the phase of them moon.

Now that's what I call trading up. Better.

The sound was so bad I couldn't tell if they werd awful. The supports, Phil Campbell and Michael Monroe were both brilliant.