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So, with the missing knob arrived, final finished pics As always, thanks for the fantastic support and tips and tricks you have all generously given along the way

You should like Rick Wakeman for this alone ......

In the end, it's your choice whether you have a car or not, and it's the band's choice whether they are willing to take on a member who doesn't drive. For some bands, that won't matter, for others it will be a deal breaker.

Back in the early '70's, I played in my first band. We had a set list of 28 songs, 18 of which were Wishbone Ash numbers. It would be fair to say that we were a Wishbone tribute band. Anyhow, we split up around 1978 and having not seen some of the guys for 40 years, we're having a reunion jam in Glasgow on 3rd February. Last night, I contacted Tim Brown, the drummer with Martin Turner plays the music of Wishbone Ash, ( A legal complication with the name) to find out what strings he uses on his Thunderbird. Tim was kind enough to get back to me this morning with the info I required. I just want to give Tim a big up for being a thoroughly nice chap and a great drummer.

Try these guys. They recovered my bassman and did a really great job. They could build you one http://www.zillacabs.com/

I'm lovin' the Aria. If you score any Matsumoku made bass in excellent condition as you have, you really can't go wrong.

I would say that the only responsibility the house band has is to hand you an instrument that is in tune. That's not cast in stone either. I'd love to agree with you though. I've done an Open Mic where I've been caught out by an insistence that I play the house bass despite having my own with me. I was stood in the wrong spot for the monitor too because the cable was short and routed badly. I was more crap than usual because of it so I get your point. Next time I went to that pub it was with @PaulWarningand Wendy as their guest. I suppose because we appeared as a trio for the first few numbers I didn't get pressed into using the house bass. I was still rubbish but I felt much more capable and probably sounded a bit better too. When I came away I revised my ideas about these sorts of sessions. Like yourself, I will always want to play my own bass but I am ready to go regardless. Getting asked to step up when you aren't ready is also something I have experienced. It didn't go very well but it won me the notoriety of a short piece of video on twitter when someone kindly clipped out a relatively botch-free part of my meagre effort. I did have my own bass for that but I could just as easily been handed the house bass. My point is that you can't predict what you'll be given but you are expected to make do. I see it as a necessary part of my development on my way to becoming a well-rounded player to meet these circumstance and cope. 'standard set-up' - what is that anyway? We had a thread a while ago where BC members compared action at the 12 fret. I'm still trying to pick the bones out of that one. Oh yes, OT; my housemate gave me a lift to the local OMs and I got a taxi home each time. @Len_derby was kind enough to invite me and give me a lift to the other OM out of town. Last year was the busiest bass year I've had. That's not saying a lot by average standards but it is a booster for my timid ego. This year I aim to build on it. No car though. Wish me luck.

Art is not the artist. go back 100 years and it’s likely every piece of art was made by a racist. Another few and you’ll find slavers.

Hi all, done a few transcriptions over the last couple of years so thought I'd start sharing them with you all here, before I get my own website up and running. I'll be doing some playalongs of some of these tracks in the not too distant future also. Hope they are of some use to you. Countdown to Ecstasy and Pretzel Logic are also done, just proof-reading and layout to do, so expect them soon! Cheers https://drive.google.com/open?id=17WeLSNw4fCnT6vLav75e0Nr0f0iXx6IB

Player!!!

I've got a Korean Spector - love it - easily as good as the Euro LX 4 and 5 I had around the same time - glad you're enjoying it as much as I knew you would. I've been looking for one of those Arias with a broken headstock so I can have a headless system installed - if you decide to smash it up, let me know.

They are not. I don't suppose they expected anyone to email Eminence for the driver specs. Still, at least the OP should have a better handle on what's happening. I'd say a good quality 4x10 would make a big difference - in 4 ohms if he is sure he only wants one cab.

Two iconic basses. I've owned Korean Spectors and they're superb. Well done.

It's unreasonable... to YOU. But not them, clearly. I know where you're coming from, 'though. You sound like a person who will be at the required place at the required time, regardless how you have to get there. But for a band who doesn't know you well, that attitude is an unknown quantity. It's a risk. Words are just words. I know people that I know I can absolutely rely on, and will never let me down. But I also know people who are lovely, yet I wonder how they managed to tie their laces in the morning... and the first time you meet both types, they seem almost identical and they all talk the talk. Some people may be more trusting than others. Some people may have been burnt before and avoid certain situations at all costs... It's nothing to do with fairness really.

I run four of them, 2 on my big rig board and 2 on my doubling board (I mount the receivers underneath, connected to power Voodoo labs psu and run them to an ABY switch) Never had any dropouts or anything. Once of them has a dicky battery door so I just use a rubber band to hold it in place. They all are in the Neotech strap pouches designed for them and the one with the dodgy battery latch and rubber band go on my upright's tailpiece so no worries about it moving about or anything - so the metal belt clips aren't a concern for me (they are flimsy). I run mine with Eneloop rechargeable batteries (the black ones) and never had a moments grief. I have run them continuously to test capacity and have got just over 7.5 hrs from the black ones and 5.5 from the white ones.

there are some very distinct similarities. I listened to thirty seconds of it and that was 29 too long.

I know it's a guitar but never the less, I reckon that's the mutt's baubles mate.

A little from column a) a little from column b).

Congrats on the finished item...Love the top, bet it's even nicer in the flesh. Catch your breath and then get on with the next project - DON'T KEEP US WAITING!!

Hang on, hang on! Brain wave. Behringer XR18 / Midas MR18 is an interface as well as a mixer! ipad/android/pc/mac control. Midas would probably be the nicer out of the two to have if you want to do recording at home as the preamps are a little bit nicer than the standard ones on the Behringer.

Is there nothing to meet your needs in the Motu catalogue..? Motu products ... We use a Motu Traveller; it's excellent, but they have a very wide range to choose from.

You could probably save yourself a fortune by just getting in a car and driving it. Accidents are statistics, there's no logical reason why you should have another. But then, I'm no psychiatrist. Or statistician.

How about https://www.thomann.de/gb/the_box_ma5.htm

Classic Rick.

It's a toughie...I always enjoyed Michael Jackson's stuff (the big 3 albums anyway, Off the Wall, Thriller, Bad) not to mention playing it. PYT is one of his best tracks IMO, but when I hear it these days, it's soured. It's pretty overt, just the title alone. So much so that I probably wouldn't actively put it on to listen to myself. It's not a contrived reaction or anything, more of a natural repugnance that has developed unconsciously. To his music I mean, not to what he almost definitely got up to, cos it goes without saying that that's just above-ground repulsion. But I wouldn't castigate anyone for listening to him, I don't see it as a reflection on them in the slightest.

WRT all the 'not stackable' complaints. Has anyone tried running a Pork Loin into a Muff type fuzz? i.e. Would you even want to stack this combo? I pair mine with a Rat - which works very well for my purposes, but I'd imagine with a Muff, it would be very dark and possibly not that usable. I'd assumed the logic here was two flavours of quite dark drive.

Doesn't matter what it's worth. If it's your go to bass, it's your go to bass!

Rickenbacker?? Never heard of 'em.

I know what you meant and I made my point probably a bit too harshly. What I should have said was "you can still be reliable with public transport." 😊 That situation was very disappointing. Let's face it, we've all been rejected from bands due to ability (not enough or too much), style, image or whatever, but when you nail the audition and then get thrown out for "non-musical" reasons like not having a car when no mention of how much of an essential criteria that this allegedly was it really grates.

Yes. Edge diffraction is eliminated. As is cancellation reflection from the wall behind the monitor. Acoustical loading is increased so the monitor doesn’t have to work as hard at lower frequencies. There’s good reason why every professional mixing studio uses soffit mounting for its main monitors

Slightly of Topic but I only just found out the Guy from Boney M didn't sing on any records , it wa the German producers voice

My father claimed to have sold him drugs, (great romanticist was daddy), one of his many tales, along with being spat on by the stones in Chelsea somewhere.

Well it may be worth considering a K-Series 410 & 210, if within budget. Each cab will get the same amount of power which in theory can be a bad thing, but I`ve done this with a good few makes now (Ampeg, Marshall, currently with Ashdown) and it`s worked very well. The addition of that extra two 10s going is very nice, as as well as getting full power from your amp - unlikely you`ll ever need that tho, I would have thought - you are adding another 50% of coneage, plus raising it higher so you hear yourself better. And then for rehearsals you only need to take the 410 along, so it makes life a little easier not having to lug two cabs about all the time. I`ve found in larger venues that the more speaker cones plus the higher up they`ve been the easier it`s been to hear the bass well.

Or a MIM Wal...?

I wish I mever sold mine now 😔 I might get some more and put them in my jazz, then sell on the SDs that are in there at the minute

They should put the price up, they'd have plenty of interest then! Very much enjoying the Entwistles on my Jazz bass. They're the ceramic ones, not the neo ones, but they're just amazing. Really nice single-coil vibe. They sound more like Jazz bass pickups than, er... Jazz bass pickups. Or something.

@Al Krow does Mrs Krow know you are considering an acquisition or a DOWNGRADE trade....?

Of course this guy is an idiot. I hope he doesn't buy anything made in China. To do so would be to support a nasty, vicious, totalitarian state the crushes personal freedom under foot.

"Complicit" gets to the heart of it for me. If I listen to this music, am I somehow endorsing the views of the musicians? If I buy (for example) eggs laid by caged hens, I am absolutely complicit in the cruelty to those hens, because my money is going back to the people who inflict that cruelty. (That example comes to mind because I've been dealing with it this weekend.) If I listen to Motown, am I complicit in their exploitation of black musicians? I now know that my most ever favourite blues rock guitarist is a Trump supporter - should I let that ruin my intense delight in his guitar playing? Those two are actually different - one is historical and one is now - that seems to matter, but should it? If the music promoted the nastiness, then no. I would never play in a UKIP band, or buy their cds even if I liked the sound. Personal connections are different - I'm lucky that I only have music I wouldn't otherwise like, made by friends, so I go with it for the sake of friendship. If I had negative personal associations with a particular musician, I probably would reject their music too - but that's about emotional resonance, not complicity.

Meet the new range, same as the old range...