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Was this another Nilorius post?

Arriving yesterday as a birthday present from my very generous bass playing brother, a black cherry Spector Coda from his overgrowing collection. He has a penchant from luthier built and out of the ordinary basses so he offered this to me instead of the more usual birthday gift of a CD or shirt. I have previously owned 2 Spectors and I’m always impressed how well they are built and how good they sound. This is no exception. It has the Spector Tone Pump Jr and EMG pickups, what’s not too like.

I tried putting it into Google Translate but smoke started coming from my phone….

AWWWW YEAH

Yes, Actual Intelligence

Friday Night Acoustic Gig Blue "Hey West Bend! THIS Friday night! Live music on the patio at King Pin Bowl and Ale House! If the weather cooperates, bring your favorite chair! If the weather doesn't cooperate, we'll play inside, so you won't need your favorite chair! Hope to see YOU! Special guest Kevin Henkel joining us on percussion." She's Right - I'm Left

I'd drown him out with thunderous slapping and popping and learn him, learn him real good.

At last the day has arrived & I’ve taken delivery of a shiny new Roland Jupiter X. been playing with it for the past hour or so & what a superb bit of kit it is.

Coitus Interruptus ～ Fad Gadget

Replying to my own post, but we have had some of the pro pictures come through which are great.

Roy Wood leaving ELO. He took half the band with him and formed Wizzard, expecting ELO to maybe make an album or two then fold. Jeff Lynne never looked back!

More a member losing a band than a band losing a member, but The Band leaving Ronnie Hawkins and joining Bob Dylan was a pretty decent move all things considered 👍

Two of these rather splendid little things, and considering there were only 24 made, I own one/twelfth of the worlds stock

I can hazard a guess at a rough "translation" of the first bit: "I haven't gigged in quite a few years, but my ideal situation would be to be teamed with a drummer like Tommy Aldridge, playing hard rock and blues with an edge. I would play like a real kick-donkey* bassist in that situation. I have all the equipment necessary to perform on stage and in the studio, however, someone borrowed a bass guitar from me and hasn't yet returned it. Fortunately, I have others." Sadly the rest is in some obscure dialect that I am unfamiliar with. The "see more" clickable link is just a tantalising tease, isn't it? We may all have a chuckle, but didn't James Joyce make a living out of this sort of stuff? (* This is a rare example of BassChat AutoCensor actually enhancing the prose.)

I would give it a try. If it went horribly wrong I would remind myself that the person who asked me was clearly an appalling judge of talent.

Sorry, I wasn’t feeling well for a couple of days and missed this. First, a professional service technician that made that kind of mistake (substituting a 4 ohm driver for an 8 ohm driver in a 410 needs to hand in any credentials he may (or may not) have. That’s a bone-head error in judgement, just like choosing a BP-102 which is about the worst driver I can think of for that application. The original vendor for the earlier PH cabinets went out of business, the parts for those drivers are no longer available. The closest match to the drivers in your cabinet is the Legend CA-10 (8 ohm), and the drivers are wired series-parallel. Note that wiring so the polarities are correct is essential. If you need a diagram, message me and I will get it for you. This is why I always recommend verifying that the cabinet you are buying used is really what you think it is, I see folks get burned all the time.

This gig is going to physically kick my butt. It looks like some kind of multi band event and we end up playing a bar from 9-12. I think we're providing sound and lights, and I'm wondering why, with that many corporate sponsors. It's up north in Plymouth at least an hour one way. I'm too old for this type of gig. This is a good gig for dmccombe7 . 😆 Seriously I thought we were done with these types of gigs. Blue

Looks like an amazing bass but let down by the confederate flag, gives off bad vibes if you know what I mean.

Am about to do the same tin-on-Jazz thing. Neither covers are going to get in the way of my playing (which is right at the end of the neck, either with a pick or plucked with the side of my thumb because yes I’m a throwback) and I always liked the look. Plus, it’s a £150 Squier with Fray Bentos flatwounds on, so it’s not like I’ll be defiling a vintage Fender or anything. And, if I really don’t get on with them I can always take them off and sell them on ebay or Reverb for more than the bass is worth 😂

Vince Clarke leaving Depeche Mode, which gradually led to DM becoming increasingly dark and against all likelihood transforming into a stadium band. Vince managed to carve out brief but very respectable chart success with Yazoo and another hit with the Associates (with Feargal Sharkey) before forming the duo that would be where he'd spend the majority of his musical career - Erasure. How long would DM have gotten and how long could they have lasted with Vince? I feel probably not as huge as they got and to actually still be a going concern (even if rather diminished from their peak) is highly unlikely.

Great Ball Of Fire ～ Jerry Lee Lewis

I’d be embarrassed at having people over who might see it. I have to say, when I clicked to open the thread I thought this was a joke at someone’s expense. Personally I’d have it refinished!

Fairly sure this is the original, (edit , it’s not the original it’s a recent release) one of my favourite basslines, great one to play

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I agree with all this... but I'd still play them if I was in a covers bands and wanted some Friday / Saturday night gigs. Really I think I have songs I hate, and then songs I hate but would be a useful part of a covers set list if the money is right. I'm just a whore really.

5W. No fan at all. It's the perfect lounge amp, and it's plenty loud enough in the lounge too - in fact stick it into something high end like a Barefaced Super Twin and it is hilariously loud!

Dave Mustaine leaving Metallica. Assuming him and Hetfield wouldn't have just ended up killing each other Metallica would have been a different band with Mustaine's creative input and obviously Megadeth would never have existed.

The Small Faces and The Faces were fabulous bands, but the latter wouldn’t have existed if Steve Marriott hadn’t walked away from the former …

We need a Mustang one!

It bugs me when someone's trying to sell something and they say, "this bit's broken but it's really cheap and easy to fix!"... why didn't you do it yourself then?

I had a local guy build me a custom pedal and i love it so much i would marry it. I wanted a two channel, one i could put some overdrive in and the other full on distortion. I asked him to put two of his pedlas into one box. The SunDrive and the Sledge Hammer. I call it the sunhammer! https://www.moosetwentythree.com/

...and the Herman Chin Loy dub

I would love to know who thought it was a good idea to get this bass painted up like this! I would bet either Country and Western or maybe hair metal, with an outside chance of Southern rock a la Lynyrd Skynard. I suppose you could always try arguing that the Civil War wasn't primarily about the morality of slavery and more about the conflict of two economic systems and the fundamental dichotomy of American political system that persists to the present day between Federal authority and the rights of individual States to self-determination. It would be a hard sell, though. Might be easier just to get the bass refinished. Looks like a nice bass and has lots of potential. Enjoy it.

Bass straight in, all processing in Reaper. I generally use Neural DSP's stuff for my tone, I'm a metal/rock player primarily and use Darkglass stuff live, so this works very well for me. I produce music for my main band and much prefer having flexibility to make decisions later about tone. This suits the way we like to write and record. Many of the compressors and EQs I use after this are Reaper's stock plugins, they're excellent. Especially the compressors.

Today has been hardware fitting day. Hipshot tuners - though not the Lollipops I wanted as it turns out... Hipshot didn't actually have any anywhere despite telling the supplier they were in stock - shout out to BTN Music for all their help with that and getting me the ordinary clover leaf ones very quickly. Bridges... hmmm... yeah. Bought a Hipshot Vintage but it just didn't look right. Then found a Stingray style bridge on Aliexpress (one of these: https://www.aliexpress.com/item/32839427267.html). It arrived very quickly but, again just didn't look right for the more minimalist look I wanted. Ended up buying a Hipshot A Style Fender fit bridge from BTN Music because they were on sale. Got the aluminium version. String tree is also Hipshot. Knobs are John East. The EMG MMCS with BTC Control 2-band EQ behind the scenes packs a punch 😮 Only issue at the moment is that something is funny with the jack socket so it keeps cutting out... job for the weekend. Still some serious tweaking and setting up to do, but it's shaping up to be a very very nice bass. Neck is old-skool jazz width 38.8mm with Graphtech nut that just dropped right in and doesn't look like it's going to need much work. Front to back it's quite chunky, but I like that, very similar to my Warwick Thumb bass in fact. It's light too at just over 3.8kg, and that despite being all walnut with a bit of maple. And to add - the fit of the neck to the body was perfect - quite tight, but once on everything lined up perfectly without needing to faff around. That was my biggest worry... having to adjust the fit of the neck. My worries were unwarranted!

NBW = New Bass Week, as it is 7 days since I bought it. I've been a Precision devotee for some years now - a good P does 95% of what I want from a bass guitar, so I had ended up with 2 actual Precisions (a '73 and a RI '63) and a Dingwall Super P 5-string. The other 5% is what you get from more than one pickup, and/or a bridge pickup on its own. Jazzes never did it for me though, and I recently started looking in earnest for an alternative. I'm not drawn to active circuits either, which narrows the field considerably. My shortlist included the Dingwall D-Roc. Bass Direct had 4 in stock, which dropped to 3 even as I watched, but then one came up on BassChat so I arranged to check it out and duly purchased it from the gent known on here as @Jimryan. The following day dawned with a serious case of buyer's remorse - had I blown a considerable on something I didn't really like? Then I got it out to play again, and all such thoughts swiftly evaporated. I have spent some time fettling it to suit my own preferences, which involved filing the nut slots, fitting new Elixir extra-long strings (I didn't care for the Paysons it came with), and making adjustments to the truss rod, action, and pickup heights. I spent some time at home getting used to its range of sounds and how it responds to my playing. The major wow happened when I took it on a wedding gig last night - Demeter 800W head into BF Super Twin. Not only did it play effortlessly but it sounded phenomenal in all 4 positions on the selector switch. Those different sounds cover all the main bass pickup 'food groups'. You can get an after-market replacement switch to give you 2 more options, but tbh I think Sheldon has nailed it with the ones he's chosen. The extra tension in the low E (with a scale length of over 36 inches) meant that I could play notes on it that I would normally choose to fret on the A string, with no flub whatsoever. A friend asked me 'Is it as punchy as it looks?' and as I told him, 'punchy' is definitely within its repertoire! The position of the strap attachment points means that it balances perfectly, and the head end is not uncomfortably hard to reach. The only downside is that the bass-side part of the lower bout sticks out where you don't expect it to, resulting in the occasional clash with (a) my cab and (b) parts of me. I've included the second photograph in an attempt to convey how sparkly the finish is - it's as sparkly as a very sparkly thing on World Sparkle Day. More so under stage lighting - we're talking Sparkly Mc Sparkleface here. The eagle-eyed may notice the absence of the black striped vinyl 'scratch plate' - that was removed before I bought the bass, a modification of which I approve 100%. I can barely wait to play this live again - would it look out of place in a Dire Straits tribute?

Lemmy getting ditched by Hawkwind. If that hadn't happened, Motorhead wouldn't have formed and Lemmy wouldn't have achieved metal god status and Hawkwinds latest bassist wouldn't have bought my Thunderbird vintage pro which I wish I'd kept

No One Nose QOTSA

Fleetwood Mac, massive in their Buckingham/Nicks period, much bigger than any of the previous incarnations.

The Reading Festival?

Yeah I feel the same and probably wouldn't have bought it because of that. Are you planning on having it refinished?

I've had both the 735A and 1025 and agree 100% with this^^!

So A.I. has still got some way to go

Recognise the key and tempo being played, and get stuck in. What could possibly go wrong..? Timid, me..? Nah...