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Finally finished, Mark is due to collect next Friday. And before you ask, yes it does sound like a "Wal" and then some.

Sounding an awful lot like a certain Father Ted episode...

Yeti Davis Eyes ～ Kim Carnes

All plastered up and windows in...

Some very lovely comments on this post and I'm humbled, truth is Cloudbusting are just 5 silly twots who happen to like Kate Bush and play the various instruments needed to replicate it. I'm proud as punch to be there, have been there for over 9 years now, longest I've been with any band, which just goes to show really

I have also had designs stolen, it’s becoming a bigger and bigger deal as design cycles shorten with increased competition. I feel you pain here. Even if I was to design an SMPS/class D module, due to the complexity and difficulty to troubleshoot versus the cost of building the module, it would still be less expensive in most cases to simply replace the module. The problem with the higher technology is that it’s very expensive and time consuming to develop, and even more so to do it reliably. (There are plenty of examples of unreliable “roll your own” designs by big and small manufacturers alike). In order to amortize these costs (and that includes global safety and EMC certification) to keep the cost per module down, the production volumes need to be much higher than most in the bass industry could ever use in several lifetimes. This is why top tier companies like ICEPower exist, they sell to other industries also, in addition to dominating the bass market. This allows them to spread the NRE costs across hundreds of thousands to millions of modules. Economies of scale are responsible for class D being a viable solution AND a good value to the players.

Hi everybody! this is my first topic and i hope to not do mistakes! I'm from Italy and since five years i follow this great and fine Bass forum. I've known some Basschat members and do several business with them overall about Ken Smith and Fodera basses. I play doublebass in Gipsy Jazz Quartet ensemble and hard rock / blues in Trio ensemble. I'm very happy to introduce to You all my head bass, self assembled! Specs are: - Alder body with hand pyrographed "dead tree", true-oil hand finish - MIM Fender P51 neck with brass nut and Fender D-tuner - Dimarzio Relentless neck pickup with volume pot and series/parallel bobine selector) - Dimarzio relentless middle pickup with volume and passive tone pots - Stereo/Mono output selector - hand satin bridge and bridge cover It sounds very powerful with huge lowend and round highs. I use with my Helix Stomp for emulate Billy Sheehan sound and many other vintage style of sound since old P to Gibson EB0, Hofner style sound and many other with effects or in dry mode...

You didn’t know Jesus used to read the Melody Maker?

Recently acquired this late '70's ET-285 that desperately needed a new pickguard. So I got it one, just put some new DR flats on it, gave it a good setup and it's a really awesome bass now.

Fabulous looking instrument! The gold is fine, nothing wrong with a little bit of bling here and there. 🌟

My best friend’s niece, Brooke Scullion, is performing for Ireland in the second semifinal tomorrow evening. D

I was reading the information, sent out by ICEPower recently, about their new 2000W modules and these points jumped out at me. To meet EMC/RFI requirements for even a medium sized MI company would be prohibitive. The cost a new ICEPOwer module does not come close costs close to a set of atV alves/Tubes in a big Ampeg* head. Yet no one seems to worry about replacing valves regularly. *£376 for full set of valves/tubes for an SVT at Watford Valves or more than half the price of a Mesa Boogie Subway D-800 currently in Europe.

That’s gorgeous. Congratulations Mark! FWIW I like the gold bridges, but I don’t mind gold hardware. Black would be fine too, but either way, it’s stunning. Food for thought; I want one! I’d be interested to know what it weighs….

Oh good lord I love almost** everything about that. Absolutely gorgeous. I await sound clips with bated breath. There will be sound clips, right? Right..? ** the gold/black hardware mismatch is a bit jarring for my tastes, and it's missing a string but obvs that's entirely personal preference

Sure it plays great and all - a bit vulgar tho. That top looks like an accumulation of pigeon droppings in a loft

nor does he..

That seems rather appropriate somehow 🙂

I have not noticed that lyric. My issue is that our Church is affiliated to the North West Baptist Association. NWBA. Every time anyone says NWBA, I expect to hear NWA.

Amongst many others! You know where you are with a Del bassline. I also relish doing Eberhard Webers uprite stuff, and John Giblins fretless lines and and and...... In fact, the show you featured earlier up there was not actually a Cloudbusting show, we have an 'acoustic' offshoot called The Kate Bush Songbook, where Michael (keys) Mandy and I get to explore the more delicate stuff from KB's catalog. Del had played on our two 40th anniversary of the Kick Inside special shows, which was quite a thing in itself, whilst doing so he expressed an interest in doing a short tour with Songbook, so I stepped aside and they played 9 shows as a trio in 2019. The 'Twinnies', Julia and Nadie ( @ezbass mates) joined them and added BV's and colour for 3 of those. I'm back in the bass saddle for those shows now though, and I have to say they are such a blast to play, not as thrilling as playing a ballsout stand up show to tens of people but incredible to play in their own way. I get much more nerves doing one of those to a hundred than playing the usual to a thousand

It is me yes, I am the regular bass player for CB and I claim my five pounds.

I seen Bill Bailey last night. Comedic content and must have played a over a dozen different instruments. Thoroughly enjoyed it.

Too Late Too Late - Motorhead 😁

Many thanks, I try my best, but Marks input has been fantastic.

Quick mock-up

There will be sound clips in due course. Gold hardware - still not completely sure myself, to be honest. I may get a set of black bridges and see what it looks like with black base plates and gold saddles.

I really ought to make a standard reply and save it so I can copy paste it every time someone suggest abnormally thick gauge strings for short scale basses relatively to their actual scale length, it'll sound like donkey as soon as you go up the fretboard because of the increased stiffness/inflexibility of the strings in relation to gauge, regardless of the lower actual tension, being a function of the shorter scale as a result of the relatively shorter vibrating length of the strings, an effect that will increase exponentially as you go up the fretboard. Personally I prefer a set with a gauge .095 low E string for a 30" short scale bass, and I think that is the optimal gauge for a low E string of a 30" scale instrument, certainly you wouldn't want ever to go any higher than a gauge .100 low E string if you want it to sound decent, the thinner gauge strings will also result in more harmonic content, which already is naturally reduced due to the shorter scale length, you wouldn't want to add to that effect by equipping it with abnormally thick strings relatively to the scale length. You can't expect ripping the strings like if you were handling the string of a bow aiming for a long shot and fretting them like you needed to squash a walnut, if you adjust your playing style accordingly to the instrument you actually play you'll find that the natural lower tension of a short scale bass is actually not an issue, but rather makes for a really comfortable playing experience, instead of equipping abnormally thick strings relatively to the scale length, which will result in preventing them from vibrating properly because of the relative increase of stiffness/inflexibility as a result of the shorter vibrating length, just so you can go on handling your short scale bass like as if it was the exact same instrument as your 34" scale bass, but sound like absolute donkey, that is all thud and mud, with no sustain and no harmonic content, as a result. Try equipping a regular 24.75" or 25.5" scale electric guitar with the gauge of strings that'll give them the same tension as the strings on your 34" scale bass and see how that sounds, there's a reason for them being much much lower tension than bass strings, and that is the scale length, which as said results in accordingly stiffer/less flexible strings. For drop D on a 30" short scale bass though you do properly need a gauge .105 low D string.

I tried to take a selfie asbestos I could:

That is most lovely 😊

All along the Sask watch tower Jimi

Judging by some of the comments here, yes very much so

Well it's been a rollercoaster but it's here and I love it. Needs some slight adjustments to action and intonation etc but nothing too substantial. Sounds fantastic though and looks great. It feels odd transitioning to 4 string but I'm liking it, certainly a better fit for stuff I'm wanting to do. It sounds incredible through the GK Fusion S and Barefaced two10, lots of tone to play with. Happy customer!

Eurovision is an celebrated event in gay subculture. I don't think there is anything controversial in that statement.🙂

Okay, I'm in. Not having much luck getting Mrs to sing, so I got a vocal sample & chopped it up. Had an idea for a trance song, picked up the bass & something not trance came out. But I liked it, so that's the bassline. Then I set about mixing trance, metal & breakbeat together to come up with this nonsense.

He Ain't Heavy He's My Brothel - The Hollies

I thought we’d left Europe! What else was Brexit for?

Jazz Cafe

I think it was her brother Paddy that had a penchant for exotic instruments. Wuthering was recorded at Air Studios under Dave Gilmour's wing in '77 I always thought she was an incredibly clever writer and the fact that she was a late teen when she wrote Wuthering. But because Wuthering was the first single anyone had heard from her, it wasn't known at that time, that she had written The Man With A Child In His Eyes when she was 13.

So I saw the KT Bush band at the Rose of Lee (music pub in s.London) in 1979. Might even have been her first gig…. I remember thinking it was more theatre than anything else, don’t remember there being an actual stage, she kind of floated into the audience (maybe 200 of us?) good gig - stayed to the end! We all knew it was something special…..

This new Harley Benton GuitarBass (heavily Fender Bass VI inspired), that I just got with the mail Thursday : You can read more about it here :

My band's harmonica player is the photographer who shot the cover picture for Kate Bush's first album. Irrelevant, but interesting!

OK, we're getting nearer with the 6 string.... latest pics are in. Top is walnut, yew accent layer and sycamore body; fingerboard is wenge.

Expensive but worth it : Fender Custom Shop Closet Classic precision Pro (2011) the neck is a jazz U profile

I bought this one some years ago when I first started playing. Still one of my favorite Fenders...don't buy into that "Fender PJs don't sound like a real P bass and the J pickup is weak!" nonsense. This is still one of the few Fenders I could see myself owning and I regret selling it.

If your fingers knot up after trying this bass line, fear not - you could very well be entitled to compensation for personal Ian Dury!😁