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Yes I'm still here in Essex with a full order book for Zoot's, Funkmeisters and Zoot Boudica "Wal-a-likes". I still have a vac' oven and all the stuff to start making Carbon Graphite necks again, I just don't have the time with my current work load. regards, Mike.8 points
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I'm going to work on those moves!5 points
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Ricicle Race - Queen (ventriloquist remix)5 points
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The guitarist hates him. Looks like he’s thinking “here he goes. Every bloody night…”5 points
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And that, ladies and gentlemen, is what it's all about. When I stop doing this, it's the point at which I shall give it up.5 points
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Had a strange one on Friday night at a private Do just outside of Cheltenham. It was a 7pm start and we were finished by 10. I still have no idea what the occasion actually was but we seemed to go down well. Throughout the first set I had a bloke in the crowd staring at me intently and taking photos. Believe me, I'm really not someone you'd want to have a photo of, so I was a bit confused. During the break he came up to me and said "I really like your Kingbass. How much do you want for it? They're not making them anymore so I'll pay you whatever you're looking for right now". I asked if he was a bass player and did he want a go but he told me he was just a big Level 42 fan. I thanked him and politely declined his offer but I get the impression he usually gets his own way as he was very persistent. In the end he got the message and made sure I took his contact details but it was all a bit weird.5 points
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Not really a settee but close enough and an addition I've been enjoying - and color coordinated!5 points
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Brogue Madonna4 points
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I'm not looking to sell, just lend you what you need until you get contact with Smoothhound, or get sorted permanently, if it helps you. All I'd need is a PM with your home address and I'll post a Tx. You can keep it for as long as it's useful to you. No need for complications such as payments and stuff. Over to you...4 points
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This morning I got a bag from Shaller with 6 replacement tuner head parts, so I have a few spares when they break! Also some plectrums. Unfortunately the first one actually damaged its tthread (Although that was replaced by Jon Shuker, so no prob) but I have the parts of the current one, so should be able to put that back on4 points
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I ran a workshop for a group of music students on mastering recently. You're welcome to my Keynote slides and the handout I produced for them.4 points
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In the interests of both pseudoscientific opinionated curiosity and shameless self promotion, Im posting this video I made that addresses a lot of the common themes I've seen posted on social media (including during my brief tenure here on Basschat) about the P Bass...... enjoy, comment and discuss?3 points
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Erm not sure about this one, comes with the original case in excellent condition Serial #E99603 Manufactured December 7th, 2016 Build Code 110-82-12-07-CS-CR Model StingRay 3 EQ H Color Mint Green Neck Tinted Maple Neck Maple Fretboard Pickguard Mint Pickguard Hardware Chrome Hardware Pics to come, but here's one for now3 points -
June was a hotly contested challenge, and with congratulation to @Dad3353 @Leonard Smalls @Nail Soupand @skankdelvar for their most excellent compositions. As it was his first win, the honour of picture choosing has fallen to Nail Soup , who offered the following ..... "Its a small ornament I saw on holiday in the hotel lobby" This has provided obvious inspiration to some fantastic work , raising the bar yet again! Have yourself a listen through and choose you your favourite 3 , The choices on offer this month are as follows 1 @Dad3353 Passing on the Message, from generation to generation, as has been done for generations past, and will continue for generations to come. Simplisism, with the Mother Tuba encouraging the Baby French Horn to have confidence, to follow, then lead, staying synchronised, all the while having great fun..! There's a lesson there for us all to learn, maybe..? 2 @NickD The image spoke to me of circus tricks, which in turn tickled my sinister bone. There's always been something about circuses that makes me uneasy, and I've always had a sense that behind the thin veneer of spectacular glitz and glamour there's probably rampant animal cruelty, violent, alcoholic clowns, and all sorts of dodginess. ... this idea of the sideshows distracting us from hideous goings on, naturally led me to draw comparisons with dodginess going on behind the curtain while we watch amazed at the current shitshow. 3 @Leonard Smalls This month I done a song about Infinite Regress, which is where in an infinite series of entities, each entity depends entirely on the existence of the previous entity. This is often illustrated by the idea that the world is supported on a turtle, which is in turn supported by another turtle. So how far do these turtles go? All the way down. But every fool knows it's hippos, not turtles! Hence, we have this achingly beautiful melody: (good luck ☠️) 4 Lurksalot OK then, I have enlisted the help and vocal skills of Fat Harry White , the Hippo of Luuurve , and he is on form let me tell you 5 @xgsjx I give you Hippo toe to toe at the hippodrome - Toe Toe 6 @Nail Soup The picture evoked care-free playtime between parent and child (with my parents and also myself with my kids when they were younger), so the lyrics are from there. The music came from a quick mess-around with some jangly C86 ideas. 7 @Doctor J I took a literal approach. The Hippo, nature's most untrustworthy beast. 8 @upside downer A lolloping, lazy saunter with a vaguely hip(po) hop groove. Mucking about at night is all well and good but, c'mon, the blazing sun is on its way; let's get ourselves in the refreshing water. It could be a bit tricky limiting your choice to 3 , but the voting will close on the 31st July. Good luck to all3 points
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I think Funeral Plans At The Retail Park are probably some sort of stoner metal, but welcome your suggestions3 points
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Wired up the speaker sockets and pre-amp valves, except the heaters - I leave those buggers till last!3 points
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Lobster is a bit of an EBMM fanboy - he has a bunch of them. For him to be putting down an MM instrument it must be pretty bad.3 points
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Sometimes ash bodied Precisions can bark a bit, I nicknamed my old 78 Ian Paisley as the bark from it just reminded me of how he sounded.3 points
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They just seem to be doing it right, don't they?3 points
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chocolate jesus - tom waits3 points
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They should have it somewhere in the midlands. That way, people don't have too far to travel to point out in person that they're not interested in it and never watch it.3 points
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For 'boot-camp', I poured meths onto a pair of socks, and wore them for a day or so before a trek. No funny looks, as most of my comrades did the same.3 points
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Answered by Dad 3353. Alternatively you can put a few drops on your finger tips and let it soak in. Repeat a few times. It's a bit of a faff though compared to using an egg cup or similar to dip in.3 points
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There's loads of great P bass slap! Including what might be a contender for the best known slap tune ever - Forget Me Nots (aka Men in Black) with Freddie Washington on the P bass with steel roundwounds.3 points
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Had another think about this re-mastering @Velarian's old cassettes. EQ's obviously the way to go and a dynamic EQ / multiband compressor is a refinement of this approach. Then I remembered Kenny Gioia's tutorial on frequency splitting, a method which allows you to apply EQ, compression (and other effects) to defined frequency bands with a hard cut-off between each band. This uses Reaper's stock frequency splitter VST The end result is a group of effected tracks broken out by frequency band (e.g. Lo track, mid track, hi track)and which you can balance with your track faders. A further refinement would be to automate each frequency track (or track effects) so they become controllable across the duration of the song rather than being a static EQ profile from beginning to end. Example below uses an acoustic guitar but the principle is applicable to a whole song:3 points
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Wee pub gig with the punk band last night 6-9pm slot. Great time to play as i get to kebab shop before i get home. Only downside is that i need to leave the house at 3pm to get to the gig for set up. Audience size varied thru the night from half full to busy and back to half again towards the end. Everyone seemed to be enjoying it. Standing very close to amp meant i couldn't hear my tone properly but it sounded ok on Vids that have appeared. Has anyone else noticed that with many mobile phone vids the bass drops out a bit when the vocals start. I'm guessing the phones have some sort of built in limiter/compression of some kind.3 points
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I have been doing the exact same process, bringing reel-to-reel tapes from over half a century ago of bands I played with, rehearsing, into the digital age, playing them into Reaper for preservation and, if possible, treatment. These, too, are stereo mixes for the most part (some mono...), so nothing can be done on the 'stem' level. The frequency analyser, along with just listening, gives some clue as to what can be done, but there's also a lot that just cannot. My unwelcome suggestion would be similar to that posted previously above; that's to say: know when to stop. Once into the upper ranges, no distinction can be usefully made between Vox, keys, guitars, cymbals, noise... and pursuing perfection becomes a hunt for the Dahu, or Chimera. If it's as good as it gets, it is sometimes (often...) as good as it gets, and that's all. There are moments when a doctor has to decide when to pull the plug on a terminally-ill patient. That moment will be retarded as long as possible, but, eventually, the time of passing will be pronounced and a sheet pulled over the departed. It's sad, but that's Life. Just as an anecdote, and no more cheerful, I had all my weeks of painstaking transfers of tapes on an external USB Teradisk. One day : nothing. The disk was dead. I even sent the disk to the specialists, who could, for a very hefty fee, recover info from dead media. To no avail. I signed up to pay in case of success; they tried, but failed to recover this disk. All, then has been lost, and I must dig out again my crumbling tapes and start again. Lesson..? Back-up, then back-up the back-up, if the stuff is precious. Digital media are fickle, and go 'Poof..!' when they choose to, not when you would like them to. Good luck with your audio archaeology; hope this helps in some way. Douglas3 points
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I know what you're thinking... was this thread bumped after 12 years or was it 13?3 points
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Unless your wife is, at minimum, 30 years younger than you, she's not qualified to answer that question. Sorry, the rules of what is rock 'n' roll are very strict in this regard.3 points
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That's not only not unusual, it's common. How sound waves work isn't the least bit intuitive, so it's a field where you must be taught. Figuring it out on your own isn't impossible, somebody was the first to do so, but it's not easy.3 points
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Well I would play 10,000 hours, and I would play 10,000 more ...3 points
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Played a gig last night at my local squash club with a band that I haven't played with since before lockdown. It was arranged fairly last minute as fundraiser for Ukrainian families who've ended up here in the north east. It didn't look like it was going to be well attended due to the early tickets sales numbers but we were pleasantly surprised that the place was almost full on the night with a great friendly/family atmosphere. We played 2 sets of Brit Pop covers with me also singing lead vocals all night. I normally play in a classic rock covers band sharing a quarter of the lead vocals so I woke up this morning feeling a little bit hoarse. The drummer's son has been learning the guitar so we got him up for a few songs which made his parents and grandparent's very proud! The drummer played an electric kit which, although I'm not a massive fan of electric kits, made for a much more manageable backline sound. The only negative thing about the night was that the room was really warm as we couldn't open the windows while we were playing due to the nearby houses, one of which was the guitarist's parent's house which was literally across the street! I'm not normally a sweater but it was running down my forehead in buckets last night! That could also have been due to the fact that I was flying by the seat of my pants on a few of the newer songs that we threw in at the last minute as I was reading the lyrics from my phone, whilst also controlling the mixing desk from a tablet(not normally my job in my regular band). We made it through the night without too many mistakes, the audience went home happy and we raised some money for a worthy cause.3 points
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Gigs are like buses... Nothing for a while and then 3 in 4 days, including 2 yesterday. In the afternoon it was an hour at the Cider, Rum and Reggae festival in Trowbridge. Utterly brilliant, such a happy vibe and some great ciders flowing and some amazing food -- curry goat, jackfruit & ackee and a roti, oh god just thinking about it is making me drool. Superb PA sound with a maHOOsive wall of bass, we played really well and the crowd seemed to love us, some of them were up and dancing from the B of "Buster..." and by the end they all were. The evening was 2 hours at a private party thrown by a bandmate's friend, they also fed & watered us and everyone danced the night away. Probably helped by the copious amount of Red Stripe being consumed a brilliant day, but oh holy mother I am so broken today.3 points
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The legendary cellist Pablo Casals asked why he continued to practice at age 90... “Because I think I’m making progress,” he replied.3 points
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The eldest spawn is off to university in September and I need funds for everything from rent, books, computers etc etc. So, alas, I have to sell a few things. First up: Ibanez EHB1005SMS. This lovely thing is a Medium / Short scale 5 string. B string is 32 inch and the G is 30 inch. It's very easy to play and sounds excellent with flats or rounds. Full specs https://www.andertons.co.uk/bass-dept/bass-guitars/modern-bass-guitars/ibanez-ehb1005smsemm-ehb-5-string-bass-in-emerald-green-metallic-matte Pickup upgrades and the Preamp plug swap and the locking jack socket It's no secret that the stock pickups are a bit uninspiring on these. So this one has been fitted with the wonderful Aguilar DCB humbuckers. Because of the angle they are the 6 string version and they were a whopping £300 from Bass Direct! I've also done the preamp "modification" - TBH it's not really a mod as such. As stock the preamp has 2 plugs and 2 socket locations for each of them. When new the Output Socket is in the Unity position so the output of the bass is the same whether active or passive. I've swapped that to the 6db increase for when the preamp is on as I like a bit more output to match my other high output basses. The other plug is about EQ. When new it is in a socket that makes the tone flat when the pots are all centred. I've moved that to the other socket that gives a little boost to bass and treble and reduces the mids a bit. The plugs are very simple to move for any combination of the positions. The locking jack socket was awful. It was so stiff that I'd have to take the bass off and put it on my lap just to get enough pressure on the switch to make it release. I know other owners on here have had the same issue. So the socket has had the internal spring removed. It is now just a normal high quality socket that won't break your thumb. The preamp is a 3 band with a mid freq. The Treble control is a tiny bit bent but works perfectly. Other modifications The large dots on the neck are just stickers. If you have a look at the reviews on this bass one of the complaints is that the tiny abalone dots are pretty much invisible against the roasted maple board. So I put some stickers on top. They are the easily removable laptop Webcam covering stickers. In reviews you'll also see that the Glow-In-The-Dark side dots are beyond crap. Even with a powerful UV light shining on them they fade after less than 2 minutes and then are as impossible to see as the front dots are. I did originally try stickers on the side too but my thumb just moved them or rolled them up, or they just got stuck to my thumb! So, the crap original dots have been removed and replaced with proper traditional side dots that now can be seen properly. Strap Locks It comes with the strap locks but not the strap itself. Dings As you can see from the photo there are a couple of dings on the headstock. The paint there is really really thin. I'm sure it could be touched up a bit with some superglue and a black sharpie. Those are the only dings I can see. Strings I play really lightly most of the time so I've got a set of Thomastik Jazz ROUNDS on it. They only come in one gauge and some might find the B a bit sloppy. The headstock string retainers will apparently take a 140 B string. Biggest I've tried was a 136. Ramp The ramp that comes with these is a bit pointless. It's just a flat bit of wood that doesn't match the board radius and is too small anyway. I like a ramp so I've used some 2mm thick micro suction tape to mount it for a bit of a ramp effect and get it closer to the strings. If I was keeping the bass I'd get Andy to make me a proper one for it. The ramp will come off without leaving any marks Sounds It's a very versatile bass now it's had the pickup upgrades. Here's a video with Flatwounds with plenty of use of the B string. VIDEO COLOUR: The strange colour effect on the bass in the video is just because of a green bass with a Green Screen effect for the background. The bass colour is just the usual Emerald Green Metallic. If I had a blue screen instead of green it wouldn't have looked like that! Gig Bag It comes with a pretty good gig bag. Brand new, these are a grand. With the £300 worth of Aguilars I'm looking for as close to £800 as I can get. EDIT Chunky price drop to £725 Collection from Northants area please. Not looking for any trades. The money will be spent on pots and pans, student rent and engineering books.2 points -
Lightweight - one hand lift, tiny stage footprint, tall enough to hear on stage, loud & clear, with lots of depth, smooth mids and a nice bright top end courtesy of the adjustable Tweeter - excellent as a Main Cab, stage monitor + small enough to use at home, or in the studio, etc. In excellent minty condition and complete a Viktory dust cover + the original box & packaging. Designed in Italy & assembled in Indonesia, I've owned both these and Italian assembled MB amps & cabs over the years and I am unable to tell the difference in either sound, or build quality - in my humble opinion of course & with my old cloth ears 😂😂 Here are those Specs we all love so much....... TECHNICAL FEATURES IMPEDENCE 8 ohms SPEAKER SIZE 2×10 in. BASS PORT rear TWEETER piezo POWER HANDLING 400W RMS (AES Standard) CROSSOVER FREQUENCY 3.5 kHz FREQUENCY RESPONSE 45 Hz to 18 kHz SENSITIVITY 101 dB SPL WEIGHT 31.97 LBS / 14.5 KG WIDTH 23.23 in. / 59 cm HEIGHT 12.60 in. / 32 cm DEPTH 17.13 in. / 43.5 cm Can post to the UK Mainland at cost which would be £23.29 fully insured, next day ExpressAM delivery.2 points -
They're all Dimarzios, just disguised2 points
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voting is go ....2 points
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Losing your faith in humanity? Visit Basschat and have it restored.2 points
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Greetings! My name is David and I am from the Eastern Coast area of the U.S., specifically NJ (not that part that has the accent). I've been playing electric bass on and off for about 25 years now, and just got back into it (again) after a bit of a break. I also play Electric Guitar, Trombone, and some other brass instruments. I play on Music Man and Carvin Basses, with a Carvin backline from some years back. Currently just looking for a place to talk about bass guitar that is fairly low key. Current Pedalboard Signal Chain: TC Electronic Polytune, ISP Decimator, Aguilar Octamizer, Boss OBD-3 Overdrive, MXR Bass Envelope Filter, Boss Bass Chorus. I was using an MXR M87 Bass compressor at the end, but it decided to stop working, so I've switched out to a Boss Bass Comp BC-1X. This is run into a Tech 21 Sansamp Programmable, and all powered by a Pedal Power 2 Plus. I play mostly 5 string, but have a 4 banger for when I want a P-bass sound, and I also have a fretless in the wings for when/if I finally decide to learn to play it.2 points
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I'm fighting against my old BBC training, where 1KHz reference tone on a digital recording was set at -18dBU... So I tend to record all instruments at peak of around -6, then smear a bit of neutron 3 on it so RMS level is between -15 and -10. Then at the master I use either a Shadow Hills Compressor plus Waves limiter set at absolute peak of -0.5, or recently I've been using Ozone 9 with a Greg Colibri preset such as "high detail wide", then turn down compression slightly as this would otherwise give a dynamic range of only about 3dB! However, when producing a masterpiece such as this month's CompoCompo piece you want it to be as loud and unpleasant as possible - mainly to benefit those of us of a more delicate persuasion (eh Doug? 😁)2 points
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+1 for surgical spirit. I also find that if you soak a pad of cotton wool or lint or whatever with the spirit and actually rub your fingertips with it rather than just soaking them, the hardening effect is even quicker.2 points
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TVs are so thin that they cannot hold decent sized speakers or decent sized amplifiers. So while the number in the screen may go up to 11, the sound will only reach 5 or 6.2 points
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There is a reasonable leeway. 'From where the heel thickens to close to the nut' is a decent rule of thumb - but you can take liberties. But the risk area is where the rod is going to be primarily pushing. which is up against the fretboard in the middle and down against the neck bottom at the nut and at the heel ends ('up and down' relative to being looked on from the side). So, if you are going to suffer breakthrough, it will be generally under the 1st fret area, where the wood under that force is at its thinnest, and if the fretboard is going to pop off, it will be in the middle of the fretboard.2 points
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Haha, brilliant! Just think, in a few years we'll be moaning to the youngsters about what it was like in our day having to lug a 20kg 8x10 around!2 points
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Two gigs this weekend. Gig 1 - Lingfield Park for a school for epileptic kids. I was depping in the band and always enjoy their gigs because the singer messes around with the songs and structures so it keeps us on our toes 🤓 Gig 2 - tiny function room in a pub for a mate’s wife’s 60th. Completely makeshift band who’d never actually played together as a 5 piece before that evening. Drummer didn’t seem to have done a huge amount of homework (“What’s that song?”) but we had a giggle and on the whole scraped through without anything horrendous happening. Nice to be back to a level of normality with these things. A quiet august will be followed by a pretty busy September I think so that’s nice.2 points
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I found this one even more useful (and less click baity):2 points
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1978 Fender Musicmaster Bass. All original except the pick up was upgraded to a Seymour Duncan SSL-1. This short scale bass has had a recent set up and new strings. Plays really well. Condition wise it’s great considering it’s 44 years old. No case or bag(apart from a well worn gig bag that came with it.) You’ll see these retail at far higher prices so grab this while you can. I was looking for one for ages and ended up with two hence moving this one on. I do have the original pick up which could be included by separate negotiation if you’re looking to have an all original instrument. Happy to meet up to exchange with in reason. I had this listed recently but the buyer had to pull out last minute if you’re thinking it looks familiar.2 points
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