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This is it, the start of the second half of the calendar year , July is coming to an end and we are thus in need of a voting poll to decide on the BC favourite composition of this very month. The compositions have taken the following picture as inspiration which was splendidly chosen by last month’s victor @Leonard Smalls Voting will close at midnight on 31st July Your choices for this month are as follows , please pick your fave 3 1 @Dad3353 Nature has a way of responding to misuse and abuse of her bounty. Now abandoned by those hoping to make a quick (on Nature's timescale...) profit from this area, winds whistle and howl through the broken panes, rattling anything left loose, echoing in and out of the cisterns and tubes, pipes and wires; anything to display some disapproval. Are they voices, or is it our heightened imagination..? Heavenly choirs or shrieking demons..? Let your conscience be your guide... 2 @Rikki1984 For some reason I keep on including vocals despite my innate lack of ability to sing or write lyrics! 3 @Nicko The theme of the song is Urban Decay. The lyrics (such as they are) are about towns disappearing but the music starts with a clean, simple theme and the idea was to add more and more layers to represent the graffiti that builds up over time . Of course, it's urban so I went for a bit of poor rapping. 4 @Waddo Soqable you can call it Orchestral Piece 4 if you like.. 5 @Leonard Smalls We have "Flowers", a song about decay of relationship, plus a general musing on how folks live closely together. 6 @Nail Soup The picture bought to mind the decayed industry we see around us, a thriving workplace has become a void. I called the song "Into The Void" and that in turn led to a downbeat, goth-y feel. 7 @xgsjx This one is a different view on the pic. Looking at it as a great memory. One where you feel warm and happy. Maybe you worked in the factory? Maybe it was a party in this factory? Maybe you found love here? Whatever it may have been, it's a happy place to visit. 8 lurksalot The track starts in sombre reflection of times past , but very soon jumps into the lively present, whilst also giving a nod to the incompleteness of its current state ....really !! 9 @upside downer The image struck me as eerie, erratic, sparse, curious and out of time so my strange effort hopefully reflects that oddness. Voting will close at midnight on 31st July Good luck everyone

Do Not Resuscitate...

We have a name! I considered various one-syllable words starting with a 'bee' sound, before settling on something... Spanish. My previous build was a Champ-inspired circuit in a 1x12 combo from a deceased Line 6 Spider, which I dubbed the Araña Muerta - Spanish for Dead Spider. So this one is the ABEJA 15. 'Abeja' is Spanish for 'bee'. I sorted the troublesome treble pot with a blast of switch cleaner. I might still try cooling the bias down a bit - it really does get rather hot above the 6L6s!

“Anyone seen anything like this?” - yes, but I took some Imodium and it cleared up…

Nothing wrong with a precautionary lateral flow test - takes two minutes and helps everyone to relax more whilst rehearsing.

... and result!

Wallop! Not quite tuffcab paint - Rustin's step paint from Toolstation Rough finish, but it'll do I did the good old rice test this morning and got 52hz. I'm guessing i need to add a few more millimetres to my port length - i'll give it a go Not sure what to do grille wise. I have some cloth, but I quite fancy some perforated aluminium sheet. I've installed the tweeter so that the 90 degree dispersion is in the vertical plane. Feet on 2 sides so I can use it in both planes My little ipod into my BH800 and through this tiny cab is really, really nice. Nicely balanced. Added a little bottom end via the EQ makes it even better Second, tweeterless cab is on the cards now Weight - My scales (which always seem to lie to me when I get on) say 11.5kg I've already lined up some more scrap 15mm ply for the second one 😁 Grille to go! 👍

First gig since Dec 2019. Managed to stand up, move about and sing. Nice to be playing again. Rain stayed off until just before we went on, but sun came out into first song.

That actually sounds better than the real thng 😂

We got together about 2 months ago for a video shoot. The drummer asked everyone to take a lateral flow test. He's got some serious illness in his family and needed the reassurance that he wasn't going to complicate the situation. The rest of us thought that was a sensible precaution, took the tests and emailed him the photos. I was happy to comply.

It lives, it lives! Just need to arrange collection. Don’t want to risk it going teats-up with a courier. Had a custom logo added to the rear of the headstock in memory of late father who passed away last May. His initials were gkb. More pics when I get my hands on it.

Out of TLRT's and the 'TLRT meter' image won't work. I am at my wits' end. Someone pass the smelling salts.

Set up the stand's legs as usual, but then lay the stand horizontally on the floor, and insert the speaker while it's in that orientation. Then raise the speaker up like a drawbridge.

I played my first gig this week. Crossed my fingers and turned up with a big bottle of sanitizer. It was a small venue, with restricted numbers, but after a year and a half isolating and 130,000 deaths I wasn't sure I wanted to be mixing with anyone. We have to start up our lives again and I don't know there will ever be a "best" time. It was a difficult decision to make. I've been desperate to gig for over a year but when the opportunity came I found I really didn't want to take the first step. I'm jabbed up so, while I expect to get Covid19 at some point, I'm hoping/relying on the vaccine to keep the illness to the level of an annoyance. If a new, more virulent, variant turns up, it's back to hiding under the stairs, but until then I'm happy my diary is seeing gigs again.

Played at a busy pub in Ilkeston on Friday. Zero mask-wearing among staff and customers but luckily I got to stand right by the side of an open doorway. The crowd were definitely up for it and we got the welcome group of well-dressed, well-oiled women on a night out to lead the dancing. It looks like @oldslapper and I had the same weapon of choice!

IMO if a band member asks for everyone to take a lateral flow test at short notice before a rehearsal, that's fine. It'll take a couple of minutes. We're in strange times. It's OK to be inconvenienced a little more to reduce the risk as much as possible. Sometimes you don't know how you'll feel until it comes to the crunch... like most of us, I'm desperate to gig again, and I've been sitting like a coiled spring waiting for the opportunity to come up. A few days ago I was offered a gig for this weekend, but when I thought about it - and the fact that it was indoors - I actually declined. I surprised myself, but it didn't feel right to say yes.

I really don't understand the point of people being criticised for noting what is clearly an inputting slip in a thread entitled "bug hunt". Like I said before, if the people requesting observations think mine is worth ignoring, they're perfectly capable of ignoring it, and they don't need you slapping my wrist for them.

I'm starting the day with some Nails. Catchy stuff.

We agreed unanimously that a lateral flow test before the rehearsal would be a good idea. Especially when you consider there's 12 of us, horns and stuff.

Oh dear, I do seem to have touched a nerve, don't I. 😂 Not my intention, I assure you. You, of course, know the personalities and situation, and I do not. Nor is it any of my business. I was merely pointing out that the facts as stated in your original post did not square with the "making rules for others to follow" remark in your subsequent post. I'm not sure where you get the idea that I'm "offended", vicariously or otherwise. If asserting your right not to take a free and harmless test is more important to you than having a band rehearsal, that is, of course, a matter for you and your bandmates. And you got to come on basschat and crow about your successful assertion of such rights, so, well done you!

Sound great until the slap, when it started to sound decidedly lame. Probably a major plus point...

Hmm … in best Shakespearean sonnet mode … how many times has the internet been wrong let me count the times .. really not got time to enumerate all the times I know about, let alone everyone else, true source independence on most things on the internet is an illusion, on chords, tab and lyrics it is doubly so apologies to @Inarafor the thread derailment

Patrick Andy, rocking

Waddo

Good spot. That's already happened to me. Repeated jabs at the save button when quoting someone else = multiple posts = necessity to edit and delete content = profound embarrassment = withdrawal from public life.

Yes, it's only you!...

How long the bass is from the bridge to the nut. https://www.studybass.com/gear/bass-guitar-buying-guide/bass-scale-length/

Have a look at the Yamaha TRBX 304 which is in the same ballpark or for a P/J bass the BB 234, a great passive bass. Nothing wrong with the Ibby though. There are also some new Squier Affinity`s out at around £230 that are nice. Really you need to get to a big shop like a Guitarguitar and try some out if you are near one. You are lucky as at your price point there are so many great options, you just need to have a play and see what suits you. Good luck!

Leverage… innit? It’s a class 3 lever if I remember right… fulcrum at the tripod end, load at the speaker end, force in the middle (that’s you).

Thank you. This is the first full commission having had 3, a Finn, a Recurve and a J-Type which I recently traded with ead (Alain) for a Recurve fretless (an unlined beauty). I plan to retire in 12 months so will be spec-ing a Recurve Classic SC 6 as a gift to myself after 45 years graft. My GAS afflicted days will also be over 🤣 Shaun

I’ve Edited the main blurb for you Graeme 👍

STOP!!! I've tried fretless many times and never mastered it...when I read threads like this I'm tempted to try again...I HATE YOU ALL!!!

Cool stuff! Great to see someone just laying down a nice groove. All too often these YouTube vids turn into a "look at me" clown fest with double thumbing/tapping and allsorts of mental fills. The young lady drumming is absolutely fantastic😁

Did we take a look at Frank on his older BB already? Frank Itt / BB

Holy moly, that is superb 😍

I wonder has there ever been a discussion on the effect of the battery cavity right under the strings, how much of an effect it has on the vibration of the strings and, of course, whether different brands of batteries have an impact acoustically as well as electronically. Surely tonebatteries can be a thing? 😁

Thanks for sharing this. The comms with the company were spot on, but you never know. You’ve gone along way to allaying my fears.