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In the seconds before, her facial expressions give everything away. The fart. The wait. When it hits her nose... and then the dirty girl is secretly digging on it.

Surely that would only be if he'd ricked his back?

Same with the Beatles, great songwriters, I mean truly great, but I can't stand their whiney nasal racket... I have changed my mind about a few bands over the years, I genuinely detested Steely Dan as a youngster, but I find them fascinating now, same is true of Country and Western.... No, wait, I still hate Country and Western.

I've just soldered up a cable for Mark King if anybody is interested in taking it off my hands. £100.

Don't post a picture or you'll bring John Hall down on us!!

I sometimes wonder what I started with that FrFr thread!!! Nice cab

Nope - for a live interview (NOT an easy thing to do - especially a long one) much better than most. And very interesting indeed. Full marks Andy

@shug Good advice there. I won't be stripping the finish off this again,the first 5 times were bad enough 🤣

Last stage. Still more heartache on the horizon 😱 Lacquer got peeled off with a razor blade,back and sides rubbed smoooth,satin black applied. No drama 🙂 Putting the bass back together wasn't straight forward. I was fitting a 2 saddle/through body bridge, from that you want the strings and pickup to line up near as possible. The Bloodstone P-Bass 50's chosen for this job didn't fit the hole,nor did the Roswell ?? I had a smaller single coil bought on ebay so used that. Bridge drilled and fitted,string bushings drilled/fitted. String it up for first time. All OK except the neck is arching back on itself 😱Slacken off the TR helps but even with the saddles jacked right up the strings are hitting the fretboard. Never had this bother fitting the other 2 saddle so start investigating. Turns out the new PB-50s have a different bridge,that bridge has a thicker base plate so the neck pocket was shallower. Got the router out and trimmed down the neck pocket Still couldn't fathom why the pickup didn't fit. I'd 2 Roswell pickups and lifted the wrong one,the one for this PB-50 had been trimmed down by 1mm. I had the router out anyway so cut a bigger hole 👍 You'll be glad to know I now have a playing bass 😉 I may add a skin to the back at a later date.

I feel like my aversion to the looks of the ART 7 models is being won over by the responses of how well they perform!

Warwick always take a considerable hit used. They're the bass that comes to mind whenever I think of a brand that depreciates like a stone. The used models tend to hold their value because they've effectively bottomed out once they're no longer brand new. I'd take the cash it would cost for that Thumb new and buy a used model.

Thanks for sharing this Q. This pedal does look very interesting. I've had a quick conversation with Olivier. He has confirmed: 1) As an alternative to (i) 4 band pass filters (BPF), this can be made available with (ii) 2 BPF and 2 Low Pass filters (LPF) or indeed (iii) with 4 LPFs; [my preference is likely to be (ii)]; 2) all filters (whether BPF or LPF) will have a 5 octave frequency range from sub bass to treble and resonance goes from flat to self-oscillation; 3) UK price = 360€ (i.e. circa £320). Given that a decent gated fuzz by itself e.g. the Mastotron is £129, that seems fairly priced; 4) current draw is 200mA (at 9V), which should be well within the capacity for most decent PSUs; 5) The Fuzz is a variation of the Lovetone Big Cheese gated fuzz. Olivier is of the view that with the gated fuzz this pedal will work great on bass; I'm inclined to agree and I'm definitely tempted!

Progressed?? I like a bit of progressive music, but it sounds a bit dated these days!

Yeh, women, how can they play stuff, they would be too distracted by kittens and handbags to learn a proper mans job 🙄

I've finally managed to listen to the whole of it. Well done all involved, and thank you for working so hard on it. Thumbs firmly up: good audio quality, good presenting, love the news and what's hot on the forum bits, the Q&A section with its humour as well as useful info, liked the interesting talk about bass necks. Although I knew most of the general info, I wasn't familiar with the functioning of the double truss rod, so I learned something I didn't know. Only gripe, bit too long - as in, the talk is fine, but it IMO could/should have been divided into two or three installments to publish in two or three episodes. That obviously would require tweaking the script so it doesn't get chopped at random intervals. The same goes for Stephen Chown's interview, IMO. *Puts her music journo hat on* I like Stephen a lot, and enjoyed working alongside him, David and Scott at NAMM. I like how open and straightforward he is, and his natural, relaxed interview style; I wouldn't want to see that interview shortened, as would happen if, say, I had to make it into a BGM article (it would have to be edited into a crippingly small number of words!). However, once again, the interview could be split into two or three sections that follow the chat's progression, and published in more than one episode. I think it would be an incentive for the listener to look forward to hearing more from the man in the next episode. *Takes music journo hat off, and bows* So, really, the only thing I found daunting was the 2-hour-plus length. As others have said, no need for you guys to travel up and down the country every week, just gather the same amount of material each time, and use it for more than one episode. IMO, of course.

For all those wondering if she's actually playing, ask yourself this... Since when has a Stingray had such a pronounced G string...?

I know that feeling. I popped into PMT for some strings and left with a EBMM Stingray a few years ago. The former Miss Bass wasn’t terribly impressed, until I mentioned the time she nipped up the retail park for a Burger King and came back with a leather sofa from DFS. I think that made us even.

But they sound their best when nobody sings them 😉

Korg Pitchblack works well for me, big display, easy to use, handles low B no problem.

I bought this lovely bass from Ash a few months back, it was in need of some TLC as Ash decided to sell it off. Anyway when I got it the paintwork was cracking in various places and my first priority was to stop it from getting any worse, so all the components were removed right down to the bare guitar. Next I scraped out all the cracks (gently mind) to make way for the the black infill and then I levelled this all off as best I could but some lines can still be seen, I was not too concerned about that as my main priority was to stabilise it. I then sprayed black Acrylic, taping off the red binding was tricky and afterwards I had to gently remove any over spill and level out before applying the clear Lacquer all over, left for 10 days wet and dry to flatten and then a final buff, very pleased with the finish and it does show lines and little blemishes underneath but hey it adds to the character, who wants a perfect finish. Just noticed some areas were I didn't get al of the overspray off, poor eyesight unfortunately The bridge was sand blasted down to bare metal as some of the grub screws were seized but it all came out well after a respray. I fitted a complete new loom made for me by my good friend Craig Douglas, he does a very neat Job, CTS pots Vo,l Vol and a varitone I replaced the bridge pick up with a tone rider I picked up on the bay The Red knobs are cheap looking so they will be replaced when I find some good decent ones. After getting it all back together and having a good noodle I have to say the sound rocks, the stock P pickup is very good and Im really pleased with the tone rider, that coupled with the varitone is fantastic, cant leave it down. These basses are excellent value for money and the build quality is first class and I have to thank firstly Bassassin who inspired me to make the decision to buy it, his knowledge is invaluable and for Ash who made all the effort to get it to me. Brilliant stuff lads Oh and I kept the diamond on, shame to remove it Have a look at the pics and see the end result.

One of those situations where I'd been lusting after one of these for so long clearly I wasn't going to be happy until i'd bagged one - and here it is! Its beautiful to play - even though it's 30" it doesn't feel at all cramped compared to my regulr 34" precision - it has the same sort of proportions, and same very Fendery sound. It's a 2013 Made in Japan model, with a slab body, 7.25 radius and smallish frets - kind of slightly bigger than vintage. Really lightweight at 3.5kg and pretty well balanced too. The condition is immaculate - the guy i bought it from was retiring from playing and selling off his stuff - he'd barely played this, and never taken it out of the house. Genuinely could pass for new. Its just had a set-up by our local luthier here and now has a lovely low action and strung with La Bella Mustang flatwounds I'm gigging at a little festival next Saturday and itching to take this along - I really, really hope it's a keeper, as I've had to sell my Epi Jack Casady to help pay for it

Plan of attack was glue the paper to front and back,feather the edges then spray a pink burst. Here I made a major mistake. The paper was too thick to feather properly ,ended up with a defined line and paper fibres, In hindsight,soaking the paper with shellac would have allowed me to sand smooth to the body edge. The fibres,being trapped in shellac, would have sanded out too.The heavy line and a major overspary caused this to be "match abandoned" I also managed to get a fine coat of pink on every surface in the living room 🤬

Woah. INTENSE! These sound great. What a filter! Great stuff.

Keep it up! I love seeing builds like this slowly come to life.

There are several rockabilly/psychobilly upright bass players who play left handed, most notably the bass player with Vince Ray & The Boneshakers. Whether any of them play with the strings swapped around for left handed I don't know. However you are very unlikely find any playing left handed in orchestras, as their bowing will clash with the double bass players seated next to them.

I have the perfect defense for music shops, I keep a constantly maxed credit card and overdraft which means I can walk into any music shop at any time knowing I have absolutely no chance of purchasing anything! Now all I need is a cure for the abject dejection that wandering round music shops with no funds causes 😭

Percy Jones was (and still is) way more interesting than Jaco Pastorius, but he was British, not American, so not selfish and not playing louder than the other members of the band. He also had nothing to prove to anybody as Brand X had enough notoriety for their members. That said, I like Weather Report when the 'Phons was on bass, ahead of his time in his approach, but without that “hey look, that's me playing“ bad habit of Jaco Pastorius. I'm a fretless player, but my main influences are Percy Jones and Mick Karn, and I'm proud of it.

There are a couple of lovely used thru neck thumbs in the classifieds at the moment. That's where my Warwick funds would go :-)

big sales and good records are not related at all, big sales could mean people bought it because it was easily accessible and dumbed down, not always true but more likely to be if it's an established band already

Someone said here the MSP were a preach yColdplay. Bang on the money. Thought I should give some of their more highly rated albums a go but they all irritated the fook out of me, the vocals, the lyrics. Kin awful. The Fall. I used to be a keen Peel listener but never could understand his love of The Fall. Gave several of their earlier efforts a go to figure out what he saw in them then i concluded he must have been be partially tone deaf. Just amateurish tosh. Dire Straits - on the plus side I still really like MK's guitar playing . It was a welcome alternative to the army of rock guitar dullards of the time. Then came Brothers in Arms which was relatively devoid of the classy playing on the previous albums and had some of the most irritating tunes of the 80s e.g. Walk of Life and Money for Nothing

There is an easy way to do it and there is a pairing button - it's on the back of the unit. These are far from being dreadful' units. I would imagine they are being discontinued because the retail price made them unattractive purchases. This has been discussed on here at length

The only thing Fendery Jazz bass I've played with a wider nut was a Squier SIlver Series Jazz which had a 40mm nut (slightly narrower than the B neck). I think I'm right in saying this particular neck was used for both the P and J basses.

I’ve been mooching for a Plex for some time now - and about another half dozen preamps. I may be becoming a serial Pre-amp collector...

Is it Adam Clayton’s latest Signature bass?

I was listening to some desk recordings a few weeks ago (our guitarist just bought the 32 channel Mackie iPad desk thingy where you can master tracks down individually) and thinking how great the bass sounds just coming straight from the Fishman, pretty much the sound I went through a ton of amps trying to achieve. Went home really pleased with my tiny but great live rig yet a couple of hours later I almost bought a GK Plex just out of curiosity, had to have a word with myself and remove it from the virtual basket.

Bolt is already tight as a gnats chuff!

For many years when I heard people talking about Donald Fagan I genuinely thought they were referring to this guy. I just assumed that he had a vast back catalogue of stuff that I'd never heard. it's only quite recently that I realised my error.

I've just finished listening to it - nice work, @SpondonBassed and @Akio Dāku :-) No negative comments about the production, writing, vocal style, etc.; it all sounded good. I thought the length was fine, but I'm used to listening to "long-format" podcasts (it was at least shorter than The Intellivisionaries). The interview with @Chownybass was really interesting - thanks for going into lots of (messy!) detail for us about how the business works. It makes me wonder whether someone at Harmony in India would be willing to be interviewed about their end of the process... Are you planning on doing a "show notes" page (which I guess would just be the first post in the comments thread)? It'd be nice to have links to the companies/threads you've talked about, the pedal settings you were demonstrating, and so on.

That poor piece of wood looks terrified. S.P.

I’ve always struggled with Bob Dylan. I’ve bought and persevered with Blonde on Blonde, Highway 51 Revisited, Blood On The Tracks, all the big ones because everyone says how great he is/they are, but I just don’t get it. I recognise his influence on the type of music and artists that I’m into, and therefore his indirect influence on me, but every one of those albums did nothing for me whatsoever, and after much trying to like them they untimately found themselves in the window of Cancer Research.

But it’s not black.

With regard to the bass, have you tried splitting the input so you can have a channel for foh and channel for IEMs on your XR18 - means you can run different EQs - this will help greatly. Remember you have a compressor and EQ on your aux out also.

The easiest way is to get someone else to do it for you. There are plenty of budding film-makers around who will do the job for £100-200. This Terrortones "performance" video was done for about £150 which included hiring the venue where it was shot, took a couple of hours to film and the approved edit was completed by the end of the week.

Six!! Wont be interest in another then :-)