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Hey @Thunderpaws, I'm super glad you enjoyed the Glasgow gig, I'm actually the bass player for the Second Sons! Nice picture too! We're working on an album right now which is hopefully going to be out later this month! https://www.instagram.com/georgepricebass/ - Here's my insta with more tour photos! It was also a pleasure to work with GVF, they are great, great guys and Sam is a monster player! Anyway, all the best and see you soon maybe! George

Got the body all sanded and started shaping it Got the top done and started the back but got to go back to work so I’ll do some more tomorrow.....

I need to stop reading this thread. It's making me too angry.

Here my second fretless bass: Fodera Hybrid AJ Presentation Shape with spruce top and back. Simply a One of a kind with a no words sound and playability...

They said they'd retired, but now there's film of Dirk Lerxt and Pratt rehearsing together again and sounding, well, remarkable. Perhaps they'll surprise us with a reunion tour? Fingers crossed. https://m.facebook.com/story.php?story_fbid=2005220929507190&id=1202966273065997

Fixed....

Sounds like everyone had an utterly dreadful day, as I suspected you would. I'm really glad I had to work and miss the whole f%$&*ing thing.

Had a great time nice, nice to meet some new people and catch up with the old. Too many nice basses to be comfortable!

The HPF is highly valuable as an EQ tool as well though. If you set it to cut at 100 Hz and boost the bass control at 30 or 50Hz the net result may be a boost at something like 60-200Hz depending on amount of bass boost and details of you bass control's response curves, with a steep dropoff below the bass peaking. Voila, you've just changed everything about how you tailor your low end. By way of example, here's what happens in one of my amps when I set the bass control at 6/10 (a mild boost), then sweep the HPF over its entire range, which in my case is something like 25-130Hz.: So there's your boost in the low mids, if you want it, although a mild gain tweak may be needed too. The beauty of this approach is that you can tailor your bass EQ around specific room nodes that account for much or all of that "boominess" we all fight against so often. In practice this is a lot easier than it looks at first blush, at least IME. It's a very well known old school approach to EQ, as seen in classic Pultec EQs for instance. But if you just want to kill out of band mush, all good to that as well.

I had a gig last night at a venue out of town (Aberdeen) where they have decent equipment, so this time I did not bring my own in order to make transport easy (we're an 8-piece). I had played there once before, and I used my own gear that time, as it was a weekend of gigs for which I already had my stuff. They had a Hiwatt 200 tube head and matching 810 cab onstage. I like 810s. I like how with relatively low volumes you still 'feel' the air moving. But I struggled to get a sound I liked out of that thing. I had to turn down the bass a lot and boost treble and mids... so I suspect this is much like the Orange Terror heads where flat is mids&treble all the way up and bass all the way down. But even then... it felt far too woofy. I guess if we were a dub band I might have liked it better... I missed the sound of my Mesa D800+ and the two Barefaced Two10 stacked vertically. That's what I used last time, and I could still feel the air moving but it sounded great, powerful, defined... well, at least when the trombone player allowed me. He likes my setup a lot and often just stands in front of the mini stack, smiling, playing his trombone while humping an invisible bear

Good move. I'm not sure when production ceased. I bought it new at the start of 1990, the serial no dates it as late 89, which makes sense as they had to order it in. I know the later models changed the PUPs to EMG & then they stopped doing the PJ config not long after. The bass was originally black but 7 years ago, I decided to strip it down. I had intended on painting it, but when I saw the grain, I decided to oil & wax it. Here's a link to some pics of that process... https://flic.kr/s/aHsjuw23Lc There used to be an Ibanez website with loads of info about discontinued instruments, but I can't find it just now.

I've been playing about 45 years now, never put my bass through any FX and no one has ever suggested that I should. What did he feel was missing from your sound that a pedal would cure?

Also depends on what the requirements of the band are, other bassists present might have though "thank god he isn`t using a rake load of effects that would have really facked that song up".

If the drummer has to carry the kit and a PA round, what is the advantage over a regular kit? I tire very quickly of prima donnas who insist on having "their sound" on stage to the detriment of everyone else's. If any band member can't understand that the overall sound of the band is more important than what they personally sound like, I'd be getting rid of them or walking.

If you’re just playing four chords then perhaps, but I find a quick glance now and then is necessary when reading tricky music, or jumping up to do high fills etc.

Picture of tonight's gig (well technically last night's gig) . Anyone mention heft? He he .

Are you running it off the front pickup only? If not, try that. Below low A will sound muddy. I’d probably only play down there with the BOD if playing mostly clean signal with a small amount of sub rolled in to beef it up. Playing the soloed sub voice down that low isn’t terribly musical-sounding.

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

Dear colleagues, I’m honored to officially announce that the great drummer Marco Minnemann has joined my new album and has started the recordings. It will be a very long prog rock ambient track You can read more at www.albertorigoni.net/evorevolution/ Check out this video teaser below 🙂 Thanks for your attention! PROG ON!!! Ciao! Al

I made several deals with Uros, sold an Aguilar DB680 and bought it back a while later, also sold him a Jule Demonique. Always a pleasure to deal with him. Fast payment, good communication, everything went smooth. Recommended basschatter for sure. Would be happy to deal with him again. Thanks Uros :-)

Just wanted to say thanks to Mike and the Scrumpy crew for another great bash - really appreciated the organisation of this and the lovely food. I'm looking forward to next year already!! It was great to meet up with people I met last year and to put some faces to names of others I have seen on the forum. Day went far too quickly for me and I didn't get to try half the things I would have liked to! The 1x12 shoot out was very interesting but I missed the 1x12" build as I was too busy chatting. As usual, there was lots of different and interesting kit. It was great to chat to Michael Gillett again - really interesting chap and lovely basses. And some cracking Markbass gear too - Marcus Miller heads and 1x12 cabinet took my fancy. I carried someone's (Norm's?) 2x15 Barefaced cab in - one handed carry - ridiculously light. I have to say thanks for all the positive comments I got on the basses I took, especially on the fretless one; I'm glad folk liked them. To hear what the fretless one actually sounds like in the hands of people than can actually play fretless was really rewarding for me. I need to practice (a lot!!!). For anyone that has thought about going but hasn't, you really should no matter what your ability or kit. This is such a friendly event in a lovely location. Thanks again to everyone for a really enjoyable day. Jez And I won a cracking strap in the raffle - really chuffed with that!

Here's my SB321 recently acquired from HappyJack. Was by no means abused, but it did need some fettling to get it up to scratch.

Bugger. Forgot about that one. The big fat woofer pickup was a revelation. Add it to the list.

His response: "Sorry no, definitely not a Fender neck. Will amend my description."

He doesn't call it a "Fender" in his description - I have sent him a message to see what he claims it is...

Just ordered mine as a birthday present to myself..along with some rum...and a Dingwall...I think I’ve got myself enough presents.

No - I bought it as-is via a facebook group. It's actually a relatively cheap body with a wrap on the front; I guess it must be a branded one, but I don't know what. I thought it'd be kind of contradictory to put the high-end Status neck on it!

Just like my Status Electro II 6 Jonas Hellborg model from November 2001 in pristine condition : The low B here is very well defined with the Thomastik JR (nickel roundwound) fitted for the moment. I'll put some Fodera stainless steel roundwounds later (medium scale as it's a 82 cm scale, Jonas Hellborg being Swedish, the scale is in metric measure which gives 32 9/32 inches scale in imperial measure).

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Another kebab fail. The situation is now at crisis point and threatening the very existence of the band. Despite not having our inoculations and and having no pet passport for our guitarist we ventured to the disputed border town of Earby in either Lancashire or Yorkshire, no one seems to know. We got a fifty quid bonus and free beer and had a good night but it was sullied by the towns total lack of kebabery. Another dash to a 24 hour Maccies saved us from a fate worse than a fate worse than death but this is now two fails on the bounce and begs the question "what's the point of being in a band ? "

All of the above. I've left loads of bands due to one or the other and I'm now very relaxed about never gigging again. My particular hates though... Band members who don't rehearse the song and actually try to learn it at a rehearsal. Once had a keyboard player who turned up to a rehearsal with a brand new keyboard. He took it out of the box and started reading the manual and just made bleepy noises for the next two hours. Also had a drummer once who insisted on banging and crashing his drums every moment we weren't actually rehearsing a song. He didn't last long. Drunks. "I can drink xxxx and it doesn't affect my performance". Oh yes it does. Singers who say "if you buy us all a pint we'll play another one". I'm already tearing down my gear by the time he says that. Singers who say "I think we should play some swing." Really? You can't even sing the rock songs properly, what makes you'll sound like Frank? Oops... beginning to rant...

Certainly seemed that way last night, and they were enjoying themselves, not checking to see who was watching them. They were great fun to play for, hope they'll be there next time too!

Thanks for the photos. Great looking equipment. I also have a DHA pedal and have a comfort strapp too!

Forgive me guys, I've just found the recording forum . I feel like a fool now... sorry it's my age I didn't know it was there, (shakes head) burger...

I don't know why but whenever I read the word 'peccadillo' which, to be fair, isn't that often, I always get these images in my head in true Reggie Perrin fashion.

That looks very nice indeed!

Coincidentally enough I took my La Bellas off too. I wasn't digging the cloppy sound I was getting, not enough zing and bite for my taste. I ended up putting extra light gauge D'addario chromes on my P bass and GHS pressure wound strings on my Sterling Ray. I'm content with this set up. I'm getting the sounds I want and I prefer the sound of chromes a lot better. I can deal with the tension on the chromes with the extra light gauge set. I've never tried nylon strings before. I'm curious about the results you'll get if you decide to go that route.

When will next year's dates be announced? I'm hoping to get more out of it next time, rather than wander round feeling like a rabbit caught in the headlights.

Well, given its size, I’m sure that won’t pose a problem.

#bassurbanmyth 30+ years of playing active basses, changing batteries every 9-12 months whether needed or not. Neither this nor any of the rest of the “I’d never have an active bass...” horror stories have ever happened to me.

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

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Me too, but a strap would cover the chip too.

You can go cheaper without going lower quality. Thomann now offers it's take on the Pedaltrain, it's branded Harley Benton Spaceship. they have diferent sizes, the boards come with gigbags included and they make bundles with PSUs. https://www.thomann.de/gb/cases_for_guitar_effects_guitars.html?sw=harley benton spaceship They also have them with hard cases. Just got one for myself and it looks and feels well made and roadworthy.

Ringing ears are damaged ears - get some attenuators right now...

Even the Sting bit too................?