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Running late again on updates. Lovely communion service on Sunday night with a nice mix of carols and choruses. The set list for the service was: Great Things Holy Forever Make Room Seasons (piano and vocals) Communion - by Brooke Ligertwood, lovely song with some nice alternating 4:4 / 3:4 bars in the chorus for a wee bit of prog worship!! Mary Did You Know - modelled a bit after the Mary J Blige version Trust In God I do enjoy playing the Phil Wickham songs - they seem to encourage me to break out the plectrum as that just kinda sounds right for the rhythms in the bass. Not a very regular pick player but it just seems to work in the context of his tunes. Seasons is a lovely song with interesting words. We decided during the rehearsal before the service that it would be nice really stripped back so was just piano and vocals in the end. Mary Did You Know was fun too. Such a gentle mellow song, and again lyrics that capture the mystery of the Christmas story. We later funked it up as an outro instrumental after the end of the service. It was doubly good as we had a sax player for this week. Cool. And of course, the church was looking nice and Christmassy, which complemented the vibe very nicely!!! My Sandberg VM4 was my trusty companion for the service. Love that bass!!!!!

Didn't I sell it to you back in 2005? It's a stunningly good bass, and I should never have let it go, really. I think I was the third or fourth owner of it at that point, at least it's found somewhere stable to live!

Where Eagles Dare - Misfits

Yep, that's an Original. A proper old one too, since it has the brass nameplate in front of the bridge. Thinking probably 1994-1995 or so? Seis age spectacularly well - mine is 22 years old and plays better than it ever has. What electronics are in it? I'm guessing the Schack circuit he used to put into almost everything? As for getting the top fixed - get it over to Martin. He'll sort it right out. I had him "rejuvenate" mine about a year and a half ago - got him to do a full setup, clean and polish, replace a few screws that had gone rusty, stick some Hipshot Ultralites on it, fix an annoying issue with the battery compartment where the wood cover had become detached from the metal plate underneath, and so on.

Fly like an eagle - Steve Miller band

Just about to start a side venture of a laid back covers trio and would welcome song suggestions So far we are trying: Tracy Chapman - Baby Can I Hold You Chris Stapleton - Tenessee Whisky Chris Isaak - Wicked Game Johnny Cash - Hurt Kim Carnes - Bette Davis Eyes Amy McDonald - This is the Life Foster the People - Pumped up Kicks Singer might add a bit of percussion but there'll be no drums. We're looking for a Sunday afternoon vibe rather than a smash it up Saturday night. Thanks in advance.

I've been experimenting with testing microphones. I used a Scarlett interface into my laptop and Friture to produce Mel & A-weighted spectrograms. I used a HH Vector 8" producing pink noise over bluetooth as a sound source. Speaker and mic 1.25m apart and 1.25m above the floor in large room with lots of soft furnishings, curtains. Most obvious thing was the speaker had limitations, as you could see the same notches across all the mics. The flatest response was... a £30 generic BM800 mid-sized condenser microphone. Often used with 5V from a PC, these run well on 48V phantom power and are very sensitive. Lots of hacks for their circuit or putting larger inserts in them. I haven't modded this yet, but it gave the biggest signal and flattest curve with widest frequency response of all the mics I tested... I think this gives the best idea of the HH Vector's output. Note the dips at 450 and 550Hz which I guess may be the crossover frequency. My other condenser mic - Behringer C2, used flat and with low cut, which drops around 3dB from around 100Hz ish. Interestingly the 550 dip is not very pronounced. I think I need a better white noise source before repeating the experiment... things are going on for different types of mic, but I don't have confidence the sound source is flat enough to draw meaningful conclusions on anything but the sensitivity and the extent of the high/low frequency response. If anyone can recommend the ideal spectrogram settings, better software (Friture has no manual and appears to lack a simple save screenshot function) or any advice at all, all welcome!

https://www.aliexpress.com/item/1005004890664840.html ?

Well that's pretty tidy! Hopefully it lands soon dude.

Have you folks seen this range? I stumbled across them the other day... Sadowsky-Metroexpress-21-fret-vintage-m-bass

Nope, the original Cort Curbow had an ebonol fretboard. 😉 Only the second generation from the 2010's had a rosewood fretboard, but this one is a first generation model.

The ACG Moth is by a mile the most ergonomic bass I have ever played. Check this out for something a little different... ACG Moth bass

The question is simply about the size, so are those knobs 6 mm, 6.3 mm, 4+6 mm or 6+8 mm? Simply unscrew one and measure the shaft. These guys have a huge selection: https://www.banzaimusic.com/Knobs/

I bought an end pin stand for my NS WAV4 and that’s it. I haven’t bought a bass, or anything else bass related (excluding the end pin stand), since Sept 23! 😢

I realise now that I haven't bought any musical gear at all this year, for the first time in a long while.

@Si600 I gave that a go but got the same result, just a text description. Thought I'd try again with another browser, healthy reminder why I dumped Google Chrome 😃 Slower than a slow thing and for some reason it's forgot how to auto enter my password. Sorry folks this is way too much trouble just to save you going to Ali-Ex yourself, entering "Long Shank Diamond Round Micro File" and clicking the one at £1.46 👍

That's a word to add to my vocabulary, although I suspect I'll never have cause to use it.

Bought Dave’s Aguilar preamp pedal. Super smooth transaction. Dave was quick to respond and shipping the pedal to me. Highly recommended.

Well, it wasn't last night, but on the 30th November. We, Verdant Rupture, did alright on our debut gig. Went rather askew in the last song (the one about the lesbian suicide polycule*) and needs some drum reworking to fix the issues. Playing the song written in Sheffield General Cemetery, that's about the SGC, in the SGC was a thing of beauty. I'd post the link to the livestream, but the sound on that was very not good because no one was monitoring it, unlike in the room and on stage - both of which were decent. *Keira and I choose interesting subject matter.