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I've never taken mine to a gig but I use a QSC wedge to practice at home. The old wooden floors could scratch the bottom of the wedge and they also vibrate. It's great.

Hi all, I need a pickguard making with a slightly non standard route. Nothing too crazy, just one cut different and in a plain black/white/black. Where is good these days? I know you can get a pickguard for £10 or spend £250 so rather than waste 10 businesses' time by asking for quote I thought I would ask where has been good for you guys in the past. And how much they cost! Thanks Jack

That's a shame, can't flip it on eBay as "ex Searchers vintage Japanese Aria bass" now!

I’ve re-read this and it might be confusing - what I mean is, the cross-section area of the square port should be the same as for the cylindrical port, and the length of the square port should be the same as the length of the cylindrical port. As I understand it the straightforward calculation for port dimensions assumes that the inside end of the port is in free space inside the cabinet, not next to the cabinet wall, so that’s why calculating the right size for an end slot (or triangular corner port, etc) isn’t so easy.

I only have a few minutes to dabble today... all i can say is this does live up to my expectations, and maybe exceeds them! I really like it, but then i suppose i've always fallen for influencer hype...

From my experience, there are two brothers who take the terrorise calls. One is really personable, and apologises for the delays, explaining about the massive orders they received during lockdown. The other brother has no hesitation in lying to you, saying he has your order details in front of him, and gives you information which turns out yo be completely false. Very frustrating - and is the reason why I will be selling my Jaydee Series 1 as soon as i receive it.

Word Up! - Cameo

Within music (or other arts) I have no interest at all in AI content. It's pointless oxymoron, that try my upmost to avoid. I find it ultimately boring. There's no 'story' so to speak about the creative journey, bar a few prompt words. I've got to the point where I'm bored rigid of nearly every movie being a CGI fest, so AI has no chance. 🙂 AI is able to step in because unfortunately creativity is being discarded in so many areas. Music, a lot of uninspiring dull generic output. Movies, constant remakes and sequel franchises. I'm off to my cave, cheerio.

I’m definitely getting one when they arrive into stock

Tony Hall played bass on "Save Me" and several other tracks on Dave Matthews' album 'Some Devil'. Dave Matthews - Save Me

Having had a few emails with Frank, we have acertained that this wasn't his,as he had modified the side dots

PowerPoint - Kanye West

Spread(sheet) Your Love — Black Rebel Motorcycle Club

Philosophers call this "Qualia" which is losely defined as the "what it is like" of experiencing something. The kicker is that we can never know what it is like to experience something from someone else's perspective, and thus the best we have is indirect evidence from others who act/report the same sort of things as we do for a given experience/stimuli. There's also the fact that while not identical, our biology is close enough to other's to infer that what I experience as the colour "red" is most likely pretty similar to what you experience, but we can never know for sure. Probably the most famous discussion on this is Thomas Nagels' "What is it like to be a bat". But this is high falutin philosophy, with IEMs it probably is just minor differences in ear shape!!

In Excelsis - Killing Joke

Yep I missed it again. I was going to do an acoustic slide piece with some nice long reverb, but haven't so much as picked up a guitar since Christmas so it wasn't to be...

I'm not sure what the neighbours would think about a gig in the basement at full volume, haha! I've got two separate AC adaptors, one that came with the unit by Fidus (made in China) for home use, and a separate one for gigs by Dongguan Lewe (also China). Both are 12V 5A 60W PSUs A&H seem to recommend their spare part: AH-AM12199 PSU, but seem to be tricky to get hold of? What PSUs are owners on here using?

It's arrived (impressive, I ordered it on the 23rd so it's taken 4 days 8 hours to get here). Haven't started playing with the noises yet. And it says "ANNBLACK BOX" on the case. The case is a little different to the Lekato ME-01 - the top doesn't have a downward slope. Other than that, the control layout is the same, and the Android and Windows control software is the same.

I may get some moulded tips for the Plunges at some point. I'd always welcome a bit more attentuation.

A bit more progress on this one today, with equal parts satisfaction and quiet concern. The roasted maple neck has had a test fit into the wenge & elm body (dry fit only). Alignment and scale are behaving themselves, centreline is where it should be, and for once nothing has tried to fight back. Always suspicious when that happens. I’ve also been polishing the gloss poly finish, which has reached the stage where it looks finished enough to give you false confidence, but still has plenty of opportunities left to catch you out. This build was started before I’d properly refined my build process, so there are still a couple of jobs left that now feel… character-building. Chief among them is drilling the bridge earth hole, which is one of those operations where you stare at the body for ten minutes, measure it again, stare some more, and then wonder why you ever thought this was a good idea. Still, progress is progress. Next update will either involve a neat earth wire… or a lesson learned. It would be rude not to mention that a worrying amount of today’s progress was made possible by my Narex chisels, which continue to justify their place on the bench every single time I pick them up. Sharp, predictable, and refreshingly uninterested in drama, they’re basically the opposite of most of my builds. Clean cuts, no tearing, no surprises — just quietly getting on with the job while I mutter “that’s lovely” to myself like a man who’s spent far too long in a workshop.

My old UI16 had a brick power supply, and it was a pain, one of the reasons I went for the CQ20.

We use the black background on all of our images @tauzero, we have posted some more pictures of the bass in our showroom on Facebook though

Could really do with a background other than black for the photos to show it to its best advantage.