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Fabulous finish that 👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👍🏼

Bought a fender jazzer from Roberto, great guy to deal with, perfect transaction.

I’ll bring a roll of wide masking tape - have at it!

Say Hi to Laura from me. Haven’t seen her in ages! Have a good one 😉

good excuse to post this ... again

They don't work for me; ugly & stupid IMHO. I don't see the point of having a short scale full-sized instrument with the bridge half-way up the body.

If I use the high gain switch position, it gets very furry very quickly - can't turn the input gain above about 3 without it getting hairy. I'm using an active bass with pretty high output though. I'll keep experimenting. I've got the EQ controls all pretty much centred right now at around 5, but, again, I'll play with it some more and see what I can come up with. It's still early days, basically.

Yes that's designed so you can put splits into one, two or all threecavitiesas suits your need.

Wild Wild Life - Talking Heads

Gotta love Bernie’s creations. Enjoy……..and welcome back to the Goodfellow club.

^ This ^ was definitely the right choice, great work! 😜

1. Turn the gain and volume up more 2. Turn the eq up more, it’s based on the Fender tone stack which functions like volume controls (especially the mid band) 3. Use the high gain switch position. Knob position means nothing, the gain structures (and gain stage architecture) are entirely different between the two amps.

I know we've moved on from sliding pickups, but the discussion is now placement and I've had an idea. It's probably not a very good idea and I'm just thinking out loud really but bear with me, and maybe it doesn't belong in this thread but there we go and here we are. If the area between bridge and neck was filled with single coil jazz pickups, or similar slim pickups, and wired via a rotary switch then you'd have the largest range of tones. But, that's a lot of complicated wiring and the pull of the magnets would choke the strings, not to mention the shear weight of it all. Which made me think. If a pickup with no magnet doesn't produce a sound(?) then could a huge pickup the length of bridge to neck be constructed with multiple coils inside, each the width of all strings, permanently wired to an output (via tone if wanted) and a sliding magnet be used to 'activate' each coil in turn. There's various easy ways a lightweight sliding magnet mech could be produced, and there's no moving electrical contacts to sort out. I assume you'd get 'bleed' from the coils either side of the activated coil as it magnetises the string, but it could be interesting. Or am I an idiot? 😁

That Bassline is funky

The Glasshouse Gateshead last night, Roachford supporting Level 42. Roachford is a superb singer and keys player, with a bass, drummer and guitarist in his band, he gave a fantastic performance and really got the crowd going, we thought he was excellent 👍🏼 This was the 40th anniversary of the World Machine Album, which we saw when it was originally toured at Newcastle City Hall back in the 80's. I've seen Level 42 many times, and this incarnation of the band is IMO the best I've seen, with a trio of brass (tenor sax, trumpet and trombone) and the incredible drumming of Pete Ray Biggin they have reinvented themselves and give a polished and entertaining performance complete with brass section dancing, playing percussion and providing backing vocals. I spent as much time watching the amazing PRB on the kit as I did Mark King, who at 67 still does what he does really well. Previously known as The Sage, this is a fabulous venue for live music of many kinds, and the crowd last night had a fantastic night watching two accomplished bands.

Mike bought a set of Dunlop Straploks from me and was a pleasure to deal with throughout. Easy and quick transaction and a great guy. Top Basschatter 👍

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kg_Utj4Aljc

Very handsome, great piece of wood.