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Here’s the end result - what a stunner!!!

I always liked Howlin' Wilf, although he wasn't really a tribute act.

The basic carve of the body is almost done. Just got to take a bit of thickness off the back of the lower bout and then I'll move to the neck. I'll finish sand it all at the same time. From the view above, it looks pretty conventional. But this gives a hint that it's not quite... :

Punter came up and handed me a slip of paper once, with a request on it. At the end of the song, I announced "We've had a request from one of you lovely people, it's for a song called...", I unfolded the paper and read, "...'youre crap, pack up and fk off'..." Nah, not really. But it's only a matter of time till it does happen.

Further to my last, as they say. Just found a snap of my 7er.

I always thought masonic ladies were known as maisonettes

EBS_freak, great questions. We're at the Summer NAMM show this week, so please give us a bit of time to respond.

Dread Zeppelin are real. And awesome.

I'd suggest you are not driving the existing 4x10 sufficiently. Buying a better cab will not change anything if you are still using an inadequate head (I would imagine a Behringer amp taken from a combo will not have much power). Upgrade the amp and continue to borrow the Hartke for now would be my advice.

We'll do pretty much any request as long as it's from the 20th century. Any requests for Kings of Leon, Arctic Monkeys, etc. receive a good telling off

We do abba, so that is why that doesn't cause a problem for us. One of the heavy songs, I use the full distortion for that one. We get that quite a bit. People get a bit annoyed with me - "Do you do any oasis", "Who?", "Oasis!", "Sorry mate, never heard of them", "Dont be stupid, you know - lateleeeey.. gonna be the one that saves meeeeee...", "Nah sorry, doesn't ring a bell". I really really detest oasis! On the other hand, one guy at the last gig was really insistant we should do Hazel O'Conner 'will you'. Doesn't strike me as a good song for a party / dancy band like us.

Hi All, We've caught wind of this discussion and wanted to chime in a bit more "officially". First off, we're thrilled about the enthusiasm and the discussion here regarding our latest model, the N8. Keep it coming and we'll do our best to chime in as-needed. The response above is accurate. We wanted to provide a bit more context: Often times the recommended minimum impedance is stated for damping factor reasons, frequency response reasons, or as a precaution. Whatever the case may be for why Shure stated 9 ohms in its specs, the results of the tests we conducted show otherwise. We have tested the N8 with both the Shure P9RA and the Sennheiser G3 EK 300. Both body packs drive the iem well with no problems. The output impedance of both packs is on the lower side so they are able to provide MORE than enough juice should you choose. Neither of the packs presented any "cutting-out" or went into any over-current protection modes, etc... We were impressed, so we decided to try an artificial 4 ohm load as well. The results were the same. Both packs remained stable and were able to drive the 4 ohm load with no problem. The THD stayed low at an impressive 0.01% on the Sennheiser and 0.04% on the Shure. The voltage across the load was 1.9 on the Sennheiser and 1.55 on the Shure. Driving the N8 "as is" with either of those two body packs should not be a problem based on our tests. Also, we beta tested the N8s over the last few months with a number of people (including Nathan East himself) and there were no reports of any issues related to driving the iem with any of their amps, phones, body packs, and other devices. We're all ears so please keep the feedback and questions coming!

Seen this a few times in the last couple of days. Fortunately, if you look closely, in the text of the fob-off the word "listing" is actually a link back to the original item. Still a frustrating pain in the ar$e though. I'm guessing there's a rationale behind this, not including an obvious link & making the actual link inconspicuous, but it's anyone's guess what it is. Just another step in the ongoing process of making Ebay hostile, awkward, unintuitive and irritating.

We regularly announce songs as requests , it engages the punters quite well cos although we might not have time to do all the requests , at least they know we are trying , we get away with as long as they don't see the set list 😉

Both types, country and western

I like it.

We only play requests when we’re asked.

Last Saturday we'd just finished playing Don't Stop by Fleetwood Mac when a rather drunk punter asked us if we knew any Fleetwood Mac.

Recording the gigs and playing back afterwards can be a useful tool - sometimes people don't realise quite how fast they are playing.

Now, some of you may remember me fawning over the original RM800 which Ashdown released back in 2015 - there’s a review in the relevant section to which I’m far too lazy to link! That was a solid amplifier and frankly the best class D head I’ve used. I had to sell it because of cash flow issues and regretted it ever since. Last year I bought a Trace Elliot Elf, believing it would be the answer to my Class D needs. And in some ways it was, but I missed the RM tone, power and drive. I then heard Ashdown were releasing the EVO II which has a headphone socket, the one thing I’d have liked on the RM800. So May this year I decided to sell the Elf, sell my little Hotone Nano Legacy Thunde bass head which I used for home practice, and find me an RM EVO II. There have been a few little tweaks since the original RM800, such as headphone socket, second speaker out, VU meter with blue LED showing mute, separate active and passive inputs, improved drive (not that I felt it was lacking before). Plus the new 500 is lighter somehow - I haven’t looked to find out how! Today it arrived. First impressions I’ll be honest, the new Matt anodised alloy front panel isn’t nearly as cool as the old polished stainless steel but Ashdown have their reasons for it (easier to see under stage lights apparently - I never had a problem before!). But once I was home and got to annoy the neighbours that little gripe went away, this was like an old friend coming home. Everything I loved about the original is there in spades, and it sounds amazing with my Barefaced Super Compact. First gig is on Friday, cannae wait!

I can do shiny and new. You want old school? I can do old school. You want etched & engraved? I can do etched & engraved. You want figured maple? I can do figured maple. You want 3D finish? I can do 3D finish. You want customised rarity? I can do customised rarity. You want barking mad silliness? I can do barking mad silliness. You want more photos? http://s1128.photobucket.com/user/h4ppyjack/library/Basses CURRENT/AliKat Double Bass 2018

We record gigs too. Then we send round the recordings just to say " this was us, what would we do better." No finger pointing or blaming. Individuals are often quick to put their hand up to any of their own mistakes when hearing the recordings. It's also a good opportunity to say "your tone was great," or "that was a fantastic solo" or "you really nailed that part" . We all like a bit of recognition from our own bandmates too.....

I’m not really sure if doing a few simple modifications to a Harley Benton PB-50 really counts as a build, more a bit of painting and fettling. But anyway, I wanted to get this finished before I move onto the next project, so here’s a few pics about what I’ve done to my two week old bass.

Monophonic synths often have much more in the way of timbral and modulation possibilities, partly due to the fact that you can stack up a bunch of oscillators on one note and it will sound great; if you stack up too many fat voices in poly it gets a bit overwhelming. Monophonic is great for lead and bass sounds. Polyphonic is more for textural or chordal stuff. Polysynths don’t always do bass as well as monosynths.

If it's the same type of paint then it'll be fine, just very lightly key up the surface (2000 wet 'n' dry or a scotch pad) if dry and gloss over. If the coverage is acceptable you could just clear lacquer on top. I always prefer a coloured basecoat then lacquer to a colour topcoat. You get a better depth of finish.

Nearly £300,000 turnover last year, shareholder dividend of £71,000, trading since 1997 - I think you should be OK!

Thanks. Ideally wanted to do a shorter scale and 32.7" is sort of at the cusp of what works well with a low B.

I like High On Maiden, they were pretty good too

Haha, that's a good one 😄 I actually did nick a line that someone posted on here a while back, and used it with my old band once. I forget who posted it now, but to whoever thought of this, I thank you: 'Our guitarist has just had a request......but he can't do it because the guitar won't fit'😃

Ha - that's the lamest GAS coverup I've ever seen. You just want a new gadget don't ya?

Yes. It's bookmatched cocobola. Mica at Alembic calls it the great red spot bass and it was built as a custom. The LED pack was included in the build spec. Series Alembics generally have a 5 pin XLR for +-15volts and stereo output. You can use a 1/4 Jack which switches over to internal batteries, but life is short. The Alembic XLR leads are amazingly reliable so pretty much everyone uses them. My son does post here as JackPlug. he has a few other Alembics, with and without LEDs. His series 2 has blue side markers so I guess Josie wont like that either. She might like his Wolf which has no LEDs, no XLR and probably enough strings for Woodinblack. Each to their own.

We played in Wells earlier this year at a pub and our 2 acoustic guitars , bass, cahon and fiddle group was asked to do 'Mr Blue Sky'. Well I suppose we did have the fiddle, just needed the rest of the Orchestra....! We do 'Ace of Spades' as an encore however!

I'll trade you a minim for two crochets ...

Don't laugh but I tried this, it worked great, £40 https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/ammoon-NUX-TIME-FORCE-Guitar-Effect-Pedal-Multi-Digital-Delay-11-Delay-Effects/253694477528?epid=15005751988&hash=item3b115e84d8:g:SsEAAOSwsZxazSd3 11 delay effects.True stereo signal processing.Automatic I/O detecting circuit. Tail keeping function.Kill dry function.Up to 9 storable user presets plus manual mode. Individual TAP tempo function.Easy switching between manual and presets. Large color LCD panel (128*128), graphic interface making the overall operation easy and intuitive.New generation 32-bit DSP, high performance 24-bit 44.1 kHz AD/DA. Input/output level for send/return.Buffered or true bypass.Runs on battery or AC power adapter.

Our B/L would say, “We'll learn it for next time.” Which, since we did a lot of weddings, seemed to show very little faith in the bride and groom’s chances!

Very cunning - i thought i had you foxed

Have you listened to Rory Gallagher? Absolutely no connection to those knobs from Oasis. Loads on YT - here's your starter for free: Tesco had "The Irish Tour" in their cheap CD bin for £5....I bought a copy leaving the vinyl copy safe in my record collection.

The design is staying as it is

In an old band a guy celebrating his birthday asked if we could do Enter Sandman and he could sing it. It was an end of year student union party so we said yes. 2 of the band didn’t know it so we went through it in our 30 mins break. We got up to do it and the guy started to sing. turned out he only new the chorus and sang that over all of it. It was woeful.

I never did put my revised board up 😁

Chocolate thunder?!!!! 🤣🤣🤣

And a quick shot of my ns2j

I love Zodiacs, I have five of them now! Weirdly enough the white and rosewood ones are the lightest, have the thinnest necks and a less deep sound. The bridges are poor quality pressed steel which will eventually cause your strings to break if you play super hard like me. If you replace it with another metal it'll make the tone noticeably less bright. They look nice with hipshot kickass bridges, and if you get the steel saddle inserts it will sound very close to the original bridge

oh boy, glad to see some Peavey luv on the 'chat, even for a little know gem like the Zodiac, and now that the honeymoon is over I'm delighted to report the lifetime bonding has begun even with a toothpick neck which completely disappears in my mitt at the nut. the BIG DEEP sound this baby lets out just from the bridge J is delicious when giving the amps a turn on the bass knob. then turn that knob back down and go for the P and fugetaboutit, it's everything I've been dreaming for when lusting after an EBO violin or a beefy Fender Tele w/neck 'bucker and capable of exactly the beefy wooly woof ala Felix and Bruce that I've been hoping for out of any bass I consider, yet without any negatives common to some of the famed boxy sized PUs. surprisingly, the swapped in EMG HZs are coming thru like champs far more than I'd expected, and that it's a smaller sized light bass adds to the positives as I try to stick with more comfortable basses these days. I watched this thing online for nearly half a year as the price kept dropping from almost $300 to what I needed it to be and the seller made it happen once we tossed the case and popped the neck off so UPS shipping totaled my price needs. I even had to send $300 cash, arggh, and then the second my $$ arrived the store owner went on !surprise! vacation... so imagine my tension, plus nobody would step up and simply box it and hand it to the driver. after decades of insanity I'm not one for patience in these deals yet it never fails that something crazy seriously delays the easiest of transactions from the seller's end, but it was worth the wait, the hair pulling, and some wall punching LOL. other than my preference for chunkier necks I couldn't be happier, even with the silly scratchplate screws standing out it eventually really appealed to me and doesn't look the same without them so some jeweled studs will take their place even tho I adore the look with the plate on, which was sent along. these Zodiacs really are off the radar and it seems the burst / maple board version gets the positive reviews over a majority of the color bodies with rosewood boards, very odd, so I'm glad after all the other ones I failed to secure it was my first and best choice that I ended up with. I've been lucky with inexpensive basses and this is the new crowning jewel which has definitely lessened the GAS for more basses. maybe some day they'll be discovered and even get some respect.