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Looking very nice!!! Liking the colour matched headstock nice detail!......

I'll have a bash at putting some pictures up.

We have rules,and as the band is an equal vote thing problems are few. We all agree on a song and learn our parts at home once the key and version are agreed. If anyone is not up to speed on a new song its put to bed till next rehearsal to allow anyone struggling to catch up. A song is not on the gig list till it is right. No noodling, ever, not even at rehearsal. That includes vocals and drums. Tune up only silently, almost every tuner has a volume mute. We practice quietly so errors are obvious and easy to rectify. If any member really dislikes a new song it is dropped.

...and a couple of other random bits & pieces: BRING CASH if you think you're going to need any, as the nearest ATM is a mile away at the Co-Op. You should also consider stands/straps for any guitars you're bringing, ear plugs (just mentioning with my organiser's H&S hat on - should not be needed as I'll intervene to prevent any dangerous noise levels), headphones/speakerless systems for your use in the Quiet Room (or to turn the 'noisy room' quiet).

Thanks for all the input guys. Got an update as bought a kit off a guy that refurbs decent beginner kits (how he puts it ). I tried a few, and a small 'frankenstein' kit spoke to me. Its a Sonor 503 bass and 2 toms, a Mapex venus snare (sounds amazing for a budget one and was what really sold me the kit tbh), a high quality hi hat stand, cant remember the brand, and the entry level Zildjan cymbal set and decent pearl stands. 20" bass drum which will be better for the brass band, and space taking upping. Pedal seems like good one, it plays really well anyway. All set up and tuned, new bass drum skin plus a set of vic firth dampeners thrown in. I paid £250 and was pretty happy with that.

There’s a bit of a ‘it’ll be ok’ attitude at times. I don’t want it to be ok. I want it to be the best it can be.

Never had a smoked bass, have tried smoked haddock 😀

That’s because you’re sick in the head tired of Tort, tired of life

Unboxing videos are a pet hate of mine. I don't care about the packaging, plug the funking thing in already!

Right you lot, just stop it with these Wals, OK; I'm running out of clean undies!

Hi all, I've always had a soft spot for Capri Orange and couldn't resist when this came up on Reverb a few weeks back. It's a 1993 MIJ '62 reissue, one of the "non-export" versions. A few battlescars, and the neck pickup doesn't work so I need to take it apart and see what's going on, but other than that it's a great bass and plays very nicely. Came with a non-original pickguard but I much prefer JB's without them anyway. Can't say I've seen many of these about - I think Capri Orange was only in production in 1993 and 1997, but it would be interesting to hear more. Enjoy the pics!

I was talking about a re-spray of a bass body. Why on earth would I be changing the subject to spraying a car? FFS

A full car body refin for £200? I don’t think so?! A bass refin will be between £250-500 I’d say, very much depending what you want (natural, solid, metallic etc). You could patch the wear instead probably, instead of a full body refin, but doubt it would get back to ‘as new’. Si

With a bit of luck it'll be a send or return socket, even the headphone socket. Where they sit never used, the contacts stay shut and get corroded. Get any cable plug, spray it with contact cleaner or even a very little wipe with WD40 on a cloth and insert into every socket there is on the front and back (preferably either switched off or with the volume down) a few times. Could be the vibrations are affecting one or more.

That relic was not done well, I would definitely not pay more for that. Why are we talking about respects etc. The most obvious thing is to get it attached to your towbar and drag it around a bit. You never order just one chip from the chippy, get some more, and gravy to go with

Music will come back. You guys in your 20s and 30s don't see it now but some of you will still be gigging when your in your 60s. If there isre still bands and gigs which is doubtful. Blue

Annoying, it’s sounds like an absolute nightmare. So many of them in one band, life is too short to waste with these people.

bloody hell, that's why I can't see them

Yeah, my two grumbles are very minor compared to the fun and enjoyment I get out of the band. I have absolutely no issues in my other band, such a joy.

I'm also in the minority. I've played in the past with people who fell into most of those categories but I wouldn't tolerate that these days. I'm at a stage where I am really enjoying my playing and gigging and if there was someone spoiling my enjoyment then they would either need to change or I would walk Luckily we're all really accommodating and if something needs to change then we'll work out the best way to do it, no one moans, everyone turns up to rehearsals having learnt their parts, everyone turns up to the gig on time and we all get on really well

Oooh - I do like the look of these! Are these a 1x10, 2x10 and 3x10? What is the power output and weight of each of these if you have the info to hand?

#4... I dunno why but that one has popped up loads of times for me. I dunno if it's just a safety blanket type reaction, but it's bloody annoying! Only seems to h guitarists that do it too! Keyboardists in my experience don't do it!

My number one annoyance is guitarist and drummer not being able to keep quiet at rehearsals. If we're working out new stuff, how the hell do I communicate with anyone if you pair of feckwits insist on playing random riffs and fills. The only other thing is placing the singers microphone dead centre on the stage area. Sounds wierd but there's three of us across the front all playing guitars, I have to stand to the singers left at the guitarists request as, for some reason, he can't cope if he's that side. If the singers mic is dead centre on a small stage that means his headstock is over in my area so I'll just stand behind the PA speaker then shall I. If we all take a step to our right then we'll all fit, but they just don't get it. Then they comment that in most pictures or video I'm obscured from vision. It's a small stage tonight (The Thistle in Plymouth if anyone's that way and bored ) so we'll see if they've worked it out yet.

I'm not currently gigging and haven't done so for some time because you can guarantee that 1-7 will be at the rehearsal plus uk_lefty's great guitard who's a s..t singer and the inevitable rubbish drummer.

To be fair we're at Vauxhall Conference level compared to you guys! We play local pubs mainly for fun as gig fees for a band are usually £250 up here. As there's six of us we get £40 each with a tenner in the band kitty so it's a paid hobby for most of us. However we're all decent musicians and our singer is a great frontman so we enjoy ourselves which communicates to the audience meaning we always get people up singing and dancing!

Only the same way some guitarists need to play loud to get 'their' tone. They do not 'need' to, they want to. Same with drummers.

Heresy. Mods @Skol303 please intervene in this heretic's bass life before his Bass Soul becomes driven to be mere Food.

Why are you the one turning up early to help cart all this junk around? It's bad enough you have to suffer through this dual PA nonsense let alone being the one carrying it all! I hope your gig doesn't involve stairs. If band members want to live through some infantile rock fantasy then the least they can do is load the equipment in and out of the van. I know it might be a futile effort but have you mentioned in ears to them?

Thought you meant a Chapman stick. How anyone can make heads or tails of that is beyond me.

In a former band the biggest annoyance was the guitarist insisting on also being the singer. He was an unbelievable guitarist, but he knew it, and didn't know that he was a terrible singer. The music overrode the poor quality vocal but that band would have been immense with a proper singer.

Ouch. We have a winner!

I’m still with Basswood

I just googled it - looks like there is a fair bit of pink streaks about. Maybe you beat the pink out of the wood?

I had one for a while, loved it. As Phil says, the valve is very subtle, to the point where you don`t really notice it as you turn it fully up, but more if you start playing and then turn the effect fully off, suddenly you notice "something" missing from the sound. To me it adds like a "shimmer/some hair" to the sound, stops it from being crystal clear. When I got mine I went to Andertons with 3 Markbass amps on my list to try, the Little Mark 3, Little Mark Big Bang, and Little Mark Tube. I never got round to hearing the others, I just I liked the LMT that much.

That scenario is a LOT easier to avoid that you seem to imply... but fair enough, some prefer to avoid another possible failure point. I don't wait for batteries to die, I replace them regularly (once a year for me and my Stingray), and that does the trick. Except that, of course, one time I did forget. And the battery died on the first set at a beer festival. A few seconds later I realised what the cause of the no-bass situation was, so I pulled my volume knob (I have a bypass switch installed) and carried on playing. Then I replaced the battery during the first break. If a gig is ' specially important' or I'm recording, the battery gets replaced regardless... it's not that expensive

I meant to update this. No changes except that I now have a choice of genuine Fender hardcases to transport this in and I have been playing it. I did a bit of research too - the serial number on the neckplate combined with it being A09.. makes it a Japanese market model, so may have travelled a bit

I hadn’t really thought about its size, but i guess as i own 3 Tech 21 boxes i had it in my mind that it would be about that size. I’m glad its a bit larger, as i can imagine hitting both those foot switches by accident. Cant stand them myself, and most seem to actualy be re-unboxing with a lot of over acting anyway.

i like your prog! have listened 'echo' - nice chord chain and well produced piece. congratulations =)

Here's mine;

Me too, same offer buddy.

my drummer leaves his Kit at the back of my Shop , you can have that for £5

Hey, nobody dates my sister without asking me first!!!

Showing off my CTM 100 with new Barefaced two10

Deffo a Manchester bass bash needed.

The other option is to look at what it is about the sound that heavier gauge strings give you and find another way to get that character into it. For example - would changing the material of the string say from nickel to steel or from roundwounds to flat wounds or try nylon coated strings. Find some cheap second hand strings off here, or see if anyone has any old ones they can donate or lend you and have play - you might find something you like which won't bust the neck!