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Looks like you just broke that rule, gotta let the bass go now or you go straight to Bass Jail 🤣

...and bassists 🤣

I'm suggesting he gets rid of it but I have no personal interest in it at all 😊 Not enough strings for one.

And for that I am grateful. It is a word that should only exist in the dictionaries of mad audiophiles.

It's a nice sentiment but I made the mistake of listening to a LBC radio phone in yesterday while driving... breathtaking both the views of the presenter and the people who called in. If anyone needs an argument against democracy a radio phone in provides it.

Finally

I'll also post my other project when that's done. I'm building what I hope is a superior version of the darkray with mostly real musicman parts but that one has a graphite neck as well. It seems to be incredibly difficult to do pots with light up led rings around them? Never would have guessed that would be the stumbling point so far

Lincoln Goines:

Lovely bass, enjoy it! I picked up a Stingray Special last year, having owned a 2 band from the early 90s. The special is a really great evolution of the Stingray, offering familiarity and something different in the mix imo, which is helpful in my justifying owning 2!

I will have to get myself together and record some audio examples. Because of the filter pre you can get some dub sounds if you go all the way, about halfway is almost a hint of auto wah sort of subtle squelchy q tron sound and all the way it sounds crystal clear and bell like. You can get really different tones from a very small amount of knob twiddling.

I was kindly given a bass cab, which appears to be an Omni 10.5. This looks a well made cabinet with four piezo electric tweeters and a decent speaker. There is a toggle switch on the back which looks like it switches the four tweeters in and out. Playing through the cabinet with a Warwick Gnome V2 works well and there are no issues with the main speaker. However toggling the switch appears to make no impact on the sound. I do not hear any higher notes or any change in sound quality. I've tested the toggle switch and that works fine. Opening the speaker up, and looking at the toggle switch, I can see a simple 'crossover' resistor which according to my multimeter measures the right value. I also note that when I got the cabinet a tweeter cable was disconnected and I *think* I put it back in the right place. I'm trying to work out if there is a wiring mistake somewhere OR one or more tweeters isn't working. The tweeters are buried in the cabinet amongst all the foam but it appears to me before I trace the wiring that they are in series and parallel, I'm guessing that this is to present either 8 Ohms or 4 ohms to the cabinet. The tweeters have no information on them apart from a sticker saying 0807. Goolge doesn't help here. I'm aware that piezo electric speakers cannot be easily measured by the ohm rating but should be measured by their capacitance OR by putting a small battery across the tweeter terminals and listening for a click OR by connecting them to a low powered amplifier and seeing if they work. I happen to have a dedicated capacitance meter but no matter which tweeter I measure I get a reading of 0.641 when set to the 2uF range on the meter. I'm way out of my depth here and and contemplating just junking the four tweeters and trying to get four other tweeters that might work. However I have no idea what the current speakers are and so I may be making things worse. I have no issues soldering any new tweeters, but I can easily see myself being back where I started from and absolutely no further forward and £30-£40 down and a lot more frustrated. I don't know if the tweeters are 4 ohm or 8 ohm or could be something else and I certainly don't want to blow up up Gnome. One thing that occurs to me is to simply find the two wires that feed the tweeter array and put a small (and cheap) amp onto them to see if it makes a sound. However not sure if a small little amp is the right approach. Any advice on what the next steps should be is greatly welcomed. Thanks Rob

Blame it on the Boogie — The Jacksons

Especially the first series from around mid 2000’s. Like hen’s teeth…..even in Japan. I’m still keeping an eye out for one. I love the blue coloured one!

It Wasn't Me - Shaggy

I'm not ignoring the original post but I do worry that with algorithms, we are fed our own narrative and this has in some way contributed to a huge divide amongst people. I have friends who hold the polar opposite of my views and I genuinely value the banter we have. In terms of somebody being racist, sexist, homophobic (& I would add prejudice against the disabled), I couldn't be in a group with them. Especially as extreme views often come with the "everyone is entitled to my opinion" view. Given the lyrical themes of my originals band, I think it's unlikely those sorts of people would be knocking down the door to work with me. I have made music with people who vote very differently to me and I have focused on the overall person, their musicianship, enthusiasm, passion and whether they are good company. Generally though, most of my band mates seem to hold similar views to me.

Don't let them talk you into abandoning a family member, they're just trying to get a good deal! Maybe use it in a trade if you come across something else you really want. Otherwise may they pry it from your cold dead hands!

Both amazing and a disaster in equal measure. It was a dress rehearsal, on stage with lights and sound and a small audience from the music club/collective. The idea was to get us used to that environment and have our sound guy do all the tweaking before the big day in October. The first run through of the set was scruffy, some things were far too fast, though I was impressed that I could play them at that speed, if you'd suggested it yesterday lunchtime I'd have said no chance We had some weird effect with my mic, on it's own it worked, as soon as we were all playing together something cancelled it out. We think it was the drummers radio mic as when that went wrong later I seemed to be back in the mix. The second run through was a total car crash. We fluffed outros, intros, the keys player forgot one of her solos and I completely blanked the third verse of Peaches We were all standing there playing bum de bum, bum do doo da over and over again whilst my brain went on holiday to the Seychelles or something! It was though, I have to say an absolute blast doing it, bouncing about, foot on the monitor, everything. When it all came together it was great, we've got time to iron out the wrinkles and we found out the set list doesn't quite work dynamically so that's getting a tweak. Plus, in a rush of confidence we want to add Grip as well, so that's my homework The sound guy was a bit odd. The vocals were getting lost in the mix and he was saying that he couldn't turn the vocals up any further. Surely then the answer to that is bring everything else down a bit and drive the FOH volume using the master fader? Apparently he knows what he's doing....

It's a really interesting video. Tallies with the Andertons blind shootout that they did at roughly the same time.

An Innocent Man - Billy Joel

yes, I've been thinking about buying an Elf...