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That's a very nice looking bit of kit. Love the personalised touch of the bird, although I personally would have had the backplate on the front, precisely because I don't really like the neck-through contrasting woods look! Wouldn't it be a boring world if we were all the same? You will, as others have said, not be disappointed! I'm currently trying to work out what I can sell to finance another ACG. I've been getting into fretless but much as I have a really great bitsa with a great fretless P neck and and some filter preamp goodness I always go back to the 'built for me' fretted ACG and realise how much more I get on with the feel and the sounds. So the only answer (ahem) is to get Alan to build me a fretless version of it! The fact that a Vigier, an alu neck Kramer and the aforementioned fretless, all of which are fantastic basses in their own way, will all have to go to finance it should tell you all you need to know about how great an ACG is. The asymmetricl neck profile and the flat board are what really do it, I think. It just feels so much more fluid to play and the bulge always seems to be in the right place, either allowing my thumb to rest in a more natural position and shifting the palm down a bit so it allows the fingers to move more freely or sitting right in the joint when I shift to a more baseball bat type grip for chords.

Fly Away - Lenny Kravitz

The Eagles - one of these nights covers band I’m in added this to the list of songs to practice ahead of next rehearsal on the 24th. One I’ve not heard previously but already I like it

Go Away - Strawberry Switchblade

Friday night I had a last minute (8 hours’ notice) dep with tribute band Dire Streets, at Chipping Sodbury Town Hall. I’ve done quite a few rhythm guitar deps with them over the last few months, but I hadn’t looked at the bass parts for a year, so I took my iPad and read the dots where necessary.

I’d been thinking it’s been a while since we last heard about this; can’t believe it’s been that many years!!

.....aaaaand here's a whistle-stop walk from the rear of the arena, across the backstage village, and up to my little bit of the stage:

You weren't far wrong 🤣 It's taking a while for me to pull myself together, not helped by having to be at work in my proper job at 8am this morning. Ouch. So.. yes. Matty Healy! Sting! Lewis Capaldi! The latter two were closely-guarded secrets, and genuinely took the audience by surprise. The bad news: they did self-contained performances that didn't need the house band, so I didn't get to play with them. The good news: they were amazing, so I didn't give it a second thought. We did two shows, each around 3.5 hours long (it isn't just music - there's comedy and that too.). We opened the show with Chris Rea's 'Let's Dance'. As well as being a bit poignant, it also captures the essence of the show and fits the band line-up perfectly. We had loads of dancers on stage, and it was a real high-energy start. From there we went into a reel called Rakish Paddy, again with the dancers aided by a quick costume change. After that, Cuddy's Cave, a beautiful musical poem... it's a love letter to the region by the wonderful Nev Clay. Over the next few hours we played songs including December 1963, I Can't Make You Love Me, Always a Woman and Hit the Road, Jack. It all went swimmingly. Of course our special guests grabbed all the headlines, but that's fine by me... the charity is going to benefit massively. Need to sleep now, 'cos we're doing it again in 2028. Here's a clip of the finale:

I only use a gang harmoniser for a few things, but I would say I never have thought a single BV sounded wrong or weak. Its a lot better than just a normal solo singer.

Some great advice on this thread. I'm now building my patches with a divider sending half the signal to a bass amp and the other half through a guitar amp and blending them. The more I use it to build patches the better it's getting. There's still some oddities, like there's one patch where no matter what I do I can't switch the overdrive on and off using a pedal assign... So I just don't use that anymore and rebuilt the patch elsewhere.

Awesome bass! I have the same model in dark red, though I think that the black looks better personally. Congrats!

Boss need to get the UI from Headrush, it's so much more intuitive. The bass presets are pretty shocking too, they need to recreate all the bass presets off the GT-10B for the modern pedals, they were largely excellent and usable.

On another side note i've just joined a blues rock band from Edinburgh area. They've seen me play with the Glam band so no audition required they said. They were just happy to get me the BL said. Guitarist is a mad Gary Moore fan so that should be fun. They seem to be aiming for that Eric Clapton, Cream, Gary Moore style of Blues Rock which can make for some nice interesting basslines. Dave

Got a good gig coming up this weekend Daryl at The Ferry in Glasgow. Not the best paid but its a venue we've tried in the past and got offered a support slot for silly low money and we said no. This was originally a friends gig but they had to cancel and offered to put us forward for it. When we heard what they were getting paid we initially said no. The venue then called me and asked if we could compromise a bit to similar Glam bands and we decided to give it a try. Its an old ferry that used to cross the Clyde and now converted as a venue. Not been in it before but friends that have played there said its pretty well run gig plus you get free food and drinks after sound check. Only downside is we have a Status Quo support band so that'll be interesting as we don't usually have support bands because of the costume before we go on means we can't arrange the stage when they've finished. The venue have taken that into consideration so we'll see how it pans out. Dave

Apologies, yes, I did mean the plastic coating

Go now - Moody Blues

Tbh all the presets are horrible. I just made my own clean patch and never touch the others!

5A sounds like a cross between a foghorn and an organ. A bit like the spaceship in "Close Encounters". 5C is along the same lines but with several halls' worth of reverb added. Is it switched into bass mode?

Don’t stand so close. Police

Not forgetting their sampled appearance on Eminem's 'My Name Is'.