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Hi everyone, I received my Sandberg Lionel short scale last week and I could not be happier. This bass plays like butter, so smooth. This is my first Sandberg and I'm glad I made the leap and ordered this Bass. Took some pics and shot a video...The sound quality on the video is not the best but here it is. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=psIB4sISIww

"Pass the Parcel" for example would have fitted perfectly, and made for a family-friendly parlour game-themed hit.

This one makes me crazy.....😈...Sandberg Rayman. 4 in the line Headstock, and Humbucker at the sweet spot

Incoming NS5H2 from 2010. Looking forward to my first Spector Will hopefully arrive next week.

Space rock overlords Hawkwind are getting me through my day.

From Eric Clapton towards thorny issues around racism then via Bob Mould and Eric Cantona to the sad demise of Scottish Association Football. A glorious Basschat diversionary manoeuvre well executed

Watch a film with a nurse and they will criticise any scenes involving medical procedures, watch a film with a rugby player and they will criticise any scenes involving rugby being played, watch a film with a soldier and they will criticise any scenes involving using weapons correctly. Every moment of a film could be broken down into parts that displease some specialist or other in that particular field, if the story isn’t good enough to forgive such details then watch something else. Monty Python & The Holy Grail - they aren’t really on horses, they are just banging coconuts together.

Clapton Thread: Training Wheels for New Forum Members? I'm beginning to think that this thread should be co-opted into some sort of induction programme for new BC-ers. It's a perfect example of how the forum works and how to comport oneself. Imbued throughout with the spirit of give and take and IMO, it starts with a bold contention, garners some useful critical analysis, wanders briefly into controversy (and a promptly extinguished flame war), derails across ever more unrelated issues and finally collapses, chortling like a madman, into a stream of appalling puns. The thread shows BC at its most typical and is therefore useful instructional material.

I did commit to updates on the 'legal' purchase. Here it is on the right (next to the prototype) just needing the pickups and string tree to arrive.

Surely this...

Just trying to gauge the response and layout the options. Sorry if we’re getting off track but I think you’re missing the points that are being made and not seeing the signals. This is a platform that we can use to discuss whether a model train thread will be successful or whether we should shunt it into the bin.

Loving that Lionel short scale. I was close to hitting the buy button on the white one in Bass direct but I`m on a Jazzish trip at the moment and instead bought a TM 4 in blackburst, Delano`s, split coil option, the complete opposite to the Lionel really! It feels good to be back in the Sandberg camp again, the feel and shape of the neck is perfect for me and Holger is such a cool dude that he makes me want to own one of his products. Should be here next Tuesday or Wednesday. Just need to sell other things to pay for it now

The worst depiction of musicians in films, has to be KISS in Phantom of the Park, and they were playing themselves! 🤣

Latest itteration. Goodbye to the MS3 and Aftershock (for now at least) and hello to HX Stomp. All still on probation.

I dropped a jar of marmalade on the floor once and, when clearing it up, found there was broken glass inside! A narrow escape. I wrote to Robertsons but they ignored me. Nicked from Viz. 😁

I'm a Scot so football obviously not important for us any more

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Eric Idle is a pretty useful guitarist, but the reason that he may not be 100% convincing as a Bassist here, is the fact that he’s a right handed musician, playing the role of someone who’s left handed. Here’s a little test- flip your bass around the other way and try and play something that sounds like music and look convincing while you do it.

Yes, still open to new music. In that I include: - Old music I never heard before - Old music which I used to dislike when I was young (e.g folk) - New artists making music based on the old music I like - New music in a new style. I guess only the last of those counts as entirely new, and although open to it, probably does represent the smaller part of my new music uptake

Can we get this thread back on track.

This thread has gone so far OT I may have to tender my resignation....

Thank you, Douglas, for your five-star review 🤩, the website meanwhile has been updated, shipping costs now should be easy to see for everyone👍 https://en.alfredkallfass.de/buch.

Nowt wrong wie that. Its my hobby after bass. 1:76 scale model railways. Relaxing drifting off into another world and better times . Dave

Haven't seen this for a while...

Pat has been! Orders now being taken....

Small form factor only allows for one speakon - simple! Mind you, as stated, given Blackstars cabs have thrus (they aren't really thrus are they, they are just a parallel split) and they should be pushing the cabs as a companion to the amp, it's not really an issue. It's not really a deal breaker either - if you were desperate to use other cabs without thrus, it's not difficult to knock up a cable or a little box to plug cables into it. The reality is, if you are buying an amp physically this small and light anyway, you are probably only interested in having a single cab to run with it anyway... probably a 212... and that's the real point at which Blackstar have fallen down with this suite of products - a missing 2x12 cab, or a single 12 that you can daisy chain with another.

If you can hear the fan you're not playing loud enough!

I received Alfred's book this morning, and it's looking good, or even Very Good. It came in a hand-addressed plain envelope, very swiftly (from Germany...). Beware: the 'free shipping' applies only to those in Germany; I had to top up the sum for postage (to France...). Maybe Alfred could update his posts to indicate this..? The A4-sized book itself is very clearly laid out, well printed on quality paper, and so should withstand quite a lot of thumbing. And thumbing these pages is what it's all about. 500 bass lines, mostly just a few bars, but many longer parts, in all keys and all degrees of complexity. They are not graded progressively, which I found interesting as a concept for a beginner such as I, as it obliges one to hunt through for a 'simpler' piece, with a 'surprise' element when one pops out of the page. The first 'C' parts, for instance, with no sharps or flats, occur at 40 and 41. A heavy leaning towards 4/4 time signature, with a dusting of 12/8 or 6/8 and a couple only of 3/4, with a lonely 7/4 and 5/4. As a drummer, I would have expected a bit more 'swung' 3/4 (I suppose the 12/8 pieces could be played as such...), but that's maybe because I'm old..! There is one (497...) 6/8-3/8 (4 flats...) to spice things up, followed on the same page (499...) by a straight-forward riff in 'C'. Chords are noted for all bars of every piece, which help in 'hearing' what's going on; one could even generate a backing track to play along to (although, as the raison d'être is to improve reading, that's just a bonus...). All the pieces are musical, not simply 'made up' as dry exercises (no, I've not played 'em all, but it shows, just the same...). Any criticism..? Not much; not much at all. As with many methods, I would always prefer a spiral, 'lay-flat'l binding, but I realise that this costs more, and, to be fair, this book is supple enough to lay pretty flat without that. Other than that, and the scarcity of more divers time signatures, I have no hesitation in awarding five stars, and offer thanks to Alfred for bringing the book to our attention. Well done, lad.

Now I think of it, The US NS EUBs (acronym hell!) Have concentric alternating laminates of carbon & wood. They have Ebony fingerboards.

Ambient LF background drone, aka mains hum. At least until I muted the open lead.

Bats or the fans?

I would look at a Spector with EMGs rather than the Barts. Different kettle 'o' fish and the stand out by far.

Not sure. He wrote a song about where he was born but I can't remember from the lyric if it was USA or not. He didn't mention it enough...

The very last run of Steinberger wooden bodied/ bolt on graphite necks used Moses Graphite necks with the actual blend modified in collaboration with NS. Moses are not doing musical instrument parts any more so there was a push by somebody (not necessarily Gibson connected- can’t remember!) to persuade Rob Green to start offering Steinberger compatible guitar and bass necks some prototypes were made but the project was halted, again from memory, by Rob for whatever reason. Thing is, my Steinbergers and for that matter my Status already sound full and warm. Could it be that the full frequency hi fi aspect of these instruments just doesn’t suit the sonic goals of a lot of players? And if so, would they not be just as happy with an old Precision with flat wounds and a reduced frequency capability amp setup?

Hold the front page. Hooky in 'not entirely happy about something' shock.

The 2nd “difficult” album

That's what I tell my other half as well.

As power levels increase and size decreases, fan cooling becomes more and more necessary. This is something that the pro audio industry has dealt with for decades. There are good implementations with fans and poor implementations with fans, noise level being the most objectionable issues. Fan cooled amps do not need to be noisy.

Boutique/boutique-ish basses that I own/have owned:

So he doesn't miss last orders! 😆

You only have to listen to the isolated bass tracks of famous songs to hear how different the bass is isolated to how it sounds in a mix. I'd pay more attention to my solo'd bass sound if I ever played bass solo through my rig, but I don't, and won't. For me, bass isn't an isolated instrument, it needs to sit within a band sound, and in a live mix, the cab is part of that sound. I've had to train my ears to get to a bass tone that I know will sound well with a particular band, and it's not an intuitive thing at all. Those small diagonal-baffled Schroeder cabs were a case in point; for all their technical weaknesses, they sounded really good in a band mix, but really quite barky and boxy on their own.

I'm still wading through the Schubert back catalogue.

Mediocre means “of average quality, not very good” and I think it’s fair to apply that to the last 30 years or so of his music. I find it bland and dull, albeit immaculately played. Eric’s fans and customers disagree and vote with their wallets so the joke is on me and Phoebe, I suppose 🙂

My money's on this for v2: