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Thanks. I have reached the stage in life when I have realised it is better to actualy get the facts rather than guess. I now have the facts.

You may have an idea of how you sound, but a looper is very good tool to reveal details from your playing. Instant playback, cheap units are really cheap.

Would it be worth trying the SVT models in the Stomp before committing to buying more hardware? Especially if you're not going to be gigging it.

I read somewhere that JT learned “chucking” from Bernard Edward’s and that this technique uses the nail to get a pick like sound?

The only one I’ve found that let you do stuff like binding parameters to input levels or oscillating waves was the MOD Dwarf. The Dwarf was way deeper in what it allowed but with a significantly steeper learning curve. The Dwarf also allowed you to do crazy stuff with its CV system allowing to set random value generators and stuff like that.

I came to say the same thing. If I want something smoother but uninspired I go with my Jazz bass, if punchy but uninspired I go with the P-Bass

Having recently bought my Dingwall John Taylor bass (and not really having a gig for it) I've started to learn my 80s duo stuff but on the bass. It would be fun to swap between guitar and bass on some gigs ( the bass line on Rio is particularly good) I've decided that I should do some of this stuff more authentically and play using fingers and not always with a pick The guy in my 80s band is a music teacher and awesome bass player and he's putting together a short video of how he plays with fingers stuff like how to keep the volume the same between different fingers Also he says to keep the nails on your plucking hand short so they don't pick the string Anyone else got any more tips for me on this, (keeping the nails short is a great tip)

It's probably worth knowing that Celestion measure their Xmax differently to most other manufacturers so the 'true' level of excursion for comparison with other brands will be something comfortably above the 4mm they quote. Xmax isn't a hard limit, the speaker will go on producing an output without endangering itself beyond Xmax. The magnetic field extends beyond the magnet but weakens as you get further from the magnet. For the speaker this mens that the speaker begins to struggle to follow the signal accurately and it starts to distort. Xmax is an attempt to put a number on the linear part of the speaker's output. At the frequencies we are talking about, below 100Hz, you probably wouldn't notice 10% distortion. The old fashioned and harshest way of measuring Xmax is just to measure the voice coil and magnet gap; 16mm and 8mm in the case of this Celestion. That leaves 8mm of movement with the coil inside the complete 8mm gap and Xmax of 4mm each way. The other ways of quoting Xmax are to measure it at a specified distortion (often 10%) or to do a 'predicted' Xmax based upon the speaker's geometry, adding a bit of extra Xmax to allow for the extra bit of magnetic field beyond the gap. Both these figures will add excursion and to be fair will reflect real world behaviour. You can guess that marketing prefer a bigger figure. 18-Sound don't have details of how their Xmax is measured on the data sheet but I supect it is calculated with a bit extra and more generously rated than Celestions.

The Less I Know The Better - Tame Impala

Keep your eye on eBay... I picked up a proper German LX6 for £500 earlier this year.

Im still looking but lm on holiday at the mo. Im really trying to hold out for a Streamer lx5 if lm honest mate. Yours is a very nice bass though👍

Not yet mate thanks...still on holiday at the mo. My preference is still at Streamer LX 5 tho.👍

That's the same setup I used to have (except for the 310's). It's a great rig for the price. I eventually got hold of a 315s as there was a b-stock item going for a ridiculous price (£120 off the top of my head). It's good, but definitely not as easy to move around as the 312s.

The shoop shoop song - Cher

Brilliant! I love it when a plan comes together! I look forward to seeing how you get on with a 5. The only HB I've ever played was the little purple one at the SW Bash raffle this year. Impressive build and I said on the day, that if I was still globe-trotting for a living, I'd have ditched my B2A for one of those.

Got a C4 again from @d_g Hooked it up with my MIDI and mapped out my fave moog/synth presets. Definitely missed this pedal and I actually find this better now than the mxr bass synth after using it again. Sustains longer before it glitches out and feels good responding to my attack. Latest update on the Neuro app is more intuitive and presets sounds better than before. I find this a better workflow for me than cycling through mxr’s 8 presets. It’s still a great pedal though.

At that price, I doubt you would have any regrets. I actually like that finish! I wonder if the neck pocket would fit a standard fender jazz neck? From memory, I don't think when I was starting bass in the mid 90s there was much on offer below £200 😀 Crazy what is available now!

Good point. I've only ever been sent notation and slash chord charts. And those have been rare.

Boxing Day gig for The Bonnevilles at the Anker Inn in Weddington, on the borders of Nuneaton. Rather empty when we started - and it was an early start, at 6pm. We had a guest singer to do the inter-set break - she's become a regular fixture at our gigs, through doing open mics that our BL runs. She used backing tracks off her phone until the last song, when we accompanied her for "Creep". The second set had rather more of an audience, with a few of them dancing. Our guest singer came back on towards the end of our set to do "Sweet Child O' Mine". It was during that that I noticed that my wireless was showing battery low, so while she was getting back off the stage (it might only be 15cm high but it's a real stage) I switched wirelesses. Then we had a couple more songs, and into the final one, "Tulane". We were about 3/4 of the way through when the guitar cut out. The drummer and I carried on playing, singer carried on singing, guitarist was going over his pedalboard and amp trying to find the problem, singer did the band introduction for all of us, and then, just after he'd introduced the guitarist, the guitar suddenly burst back into life (guitarist told me afterwards he had no idea what had happened, it just started working again) and we finished off. Antoniotsai dragon 5-string -> Lekato and M-Vave wirelesses -> Zoom MS-60B+ -> Tecamp Puma 900 -> GR Bass AT212. The usual Caravelle memory foam trainers.

Really wasn’t looking forward to tonight, but it turned out way better than expected. We were told that 44 tickets had been sold beforehand, but clearly some folk just turned up on spec and I counted about 70 bodies. A promoter for a local event came to see us, stayed for both sets and seemed genuinely impressed. A couple of senior moments, as ever, but mostly on point. The last time I played this venue I couldn’t hear myself and had a good old moan about it on BC. Some bright spark (I’m thinking @Beedster but I could be wrong) suggested this set up, rather than stacked, for potentially better monitoring: Absolute genius! Whilst not crystal clear, it was near enough - I thank you 🙏 way of the future. As you can see, it was my usual Phil Jones rig, Maruszczyk Elwood L fretless plus pedals (mini Pitch Black, Sadowsky SPB2, MXR M87 & Tech21 VTDI).