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Hi folks There’s an Ampeg SVT-VR for sale near me. Refinished in white vinyl, with matching 1x15 cab. £1400. It’s on Facebook. I’m really tempted but just don’t think I could manage it or need the power. Having struggled in the past with moving other tube heads I’m not sure I want to go back, but man does it look cool. May be of interest to someone, which will stop me buying it! Happy to go and check it out if useful to anyone. It’s in York. https://www.facebook.com/share/Cw5cNxZrkiu24Sd5/?mibextid=79PoIi

Hope and Anchor last night with The Psychodahlias. Good support from Fuzzy Head, reminded me of The Damned, brilliant! Not the best venue for a 7 piece but nice to be back at a place I haven’t played since the early 80’s. Finished our set at 11:00, got home 4:00. 🙄

Ordered today. Getting plexed. Should be here in one week. First 2024 I've seen. Makes #7.

TODAY! Shirley Beer & Cider festival with the Cantina Band! Firrst band on, a one hour set at 3PM, Backline provided, sound engineer and everything - unusual for us. Backline was slightly less good than was mentioned in the contract, but it'd be a bit churlish to complain, right? Halfway through the setlist, we realised we still had about 40 minutes left to play so we had to chuck a few old faithfuls in. We played pretty well, Crowd seemed to enjoy it (from afar), it was all going great guns until the power went... it came back on eventually, minus monitors, so we did what we could for the last few songs. Played the Steling -> small board -> Hartke 410 (I was promised an Ampeg, dammit!) Pay wasn't great so they made it up with beer tokens, enjoyed a pint of Mavis Bumblethorpes (?) Perry (5.4% ABV) on stage, then once we'd finshed, I had a pint of Giddy Goat cider (6.8%), followed by a pint of Merrithorpe's blackout stout (8.75% ABV), then it was back to the cider for a pint of the Spazwhistle (?) 'Guvnor' (10.7% ABV), then I think I had a couple of pints of the Arthur Baslingtons 'Deep, dark pit of depression' (15.8% ABV), followed by a pint of Fotheringay's Self-loathing IPA (21.8% ABV), then it was back to the Cider bar for a couple of pints of Fighty McBastards 'Punchdrunk' Perry (27.9% ABV) which was delicious, before trying the Scrambleton's 'Regret' chocolate stout (39.875% ABV), then I decided to play it safe with a nice, refreshing pint of Samuel Bobbington's 'What in the name of God?'' (19.8456% ABV) before I really went for it with four pints of Asquith's 'Kidney Killer' (57.7% ABV). I was a teensy bit tipsy by this point, so decided to play it safe and stuck to the easy drinking, super quafffable Hampton's 'This is a terrible idea' Porter (157.8% ABV) for the final six pints. Apparently, I walked the 3.8 miles home.

Jings you must be thirsty. Dave

There was no firm reschedule date for my op so I decided go to Berlin after all. After five years of FI collaboration, Andras and I finally met in person for the first time.

I asked for advice on buying this guitar and amp on another thread, and appreciate all the advice given. Well, I bought it....my first bass. A squire P bass and a Fender Rumble 25. Stripped it all down last night and cleaned & polished the frets and fretboard, body, chrome hardware. It was a bit too black and white for my liking, so put a matt black vinyl wrap on the pickguard. Put it all back together, and a new set of strings. Well pleased with how it came out. Plays really well, now to try and learn how to play the thing. Couple of before and after pics (hopefully).

Having completed two other Guitarbuild.co.uk basses (https://www.basschat.co.uk/topic/478420-guitarbuildcouk-bass/ and https://www.basschat.co.uk/topic/490058-nbd-guitarbuildcouk-bass-2) I wanted to do (at least) one more. Body and neck were ordered and arrived yesterday. Parts for the build have been trickling in over the last few months as I found the bits I wanted. Once again, the whole process working with Jasmine at Guitarbuild.co.uk was smooth from start to finish and the body and neck are everything I hoped for. The body, like the other two, is the P-bass body, except this time it's actually going to have a P-bass pickup :gasp: Main wood is alder with a swamp ash veneer from the special collection. Neck is two piece flamed maple - and it's gorgeous. All black hardware is going to be Hipshot B-bridge, licensed Hipshot 1/2" ultralights, Hipshot three-way string retainer and Schaller straplock buttons. Pickup is going to be a Tonerider TRP1 with a special custom @KiOgon wiring loom - John made me a completely modular P-bass loom that I can easily wire up with or without either volume or tone pot. First config will be pickup straight to the output and only if I don't like that will I start drilling holes in the body. Current plan is to finish the body in clear Wudtone (like the other two basses) though I have toyed with the idea of doing either Olympic white, or... orange. Thoughts on that?? So, without further ado... photos before I get started doing anything:

Many thanks go to Rob and his lovely family for creating the time and place and victualling us all day. One can never have too much tea. It was great to see old friends and make new ones. My love for P bass tone was affirmed again and I wish I’d have had a play on Luke’s Bravewood. His pedal board was awesome. It made me realise I’ve drifted away from being in touch with what is happening with things bass The shootout was interesting. My Accugrove was warm sounding and that suits me. I was surprised just how good my forgotten ‘spare’ GK Legacy 800 sounded alongside my Eich T900 and Tec Puma 900. Those two sounded near identical btw. A good bass bash leaves us with new inspiration. This was a good bass bash 🙂 Photo to follow. Peter Old guy in the pink shirt.

Tonight's board

Put together a quick montage and demo of my little board. Covers all my musical needs. Can go from clean to dirty to filthy to synthy. Apologies for my sloppy playing :’(

Here's a few YouTube links to help your research! The Pedal: https://www.withbassinmind.com/the-pedal The Promo Video: For audio reference, here's a short video of me stumbling through a Jaco solo - there's nothing in the signal path other than the 'Finally' V2 (although, in fairness, I did re-amped the signal through my LB-2.N). If you'd like to know anything else - please feel free to pop by my social media pages (Facebook, or Instagram) and drop me a direct line! My very best, thanks for reading! Philip

The thing is, that's exactly what we did. Everything is laid out very clearly in the 'warning' - which appears as a notification which you have to acknowledge before you can carry on. It was ignored. It was not us who 'went public' which I agree is a shame, and we have been painted as the bad guys somehow, despite, if you read the 'warning' a genuinely friendly offer to help do some research, which we're happy to do (and is really easy in this case). A similar situation recently resulted in the poster sending me a PM after reading the 'warning' note, we got talking and I ended up sending him a free membership. The system works if you follow it.

Super impressed by this pedal I only really knew jptr as loud noisy fuzz nothing wrong with that!!! But damn this one is a winner as it’s a bit cleaner than I expected and yeh for a simple control layout there’s plenty to tweak also the shirt I got in the package Chris sent over is great

I "accidentally " bought another Yamaha BBG5N11 recently. Seller readvertised the bass after a no sale. I put in a cheeky "that won't win" bid - I was the only bidder. Several days later the spade, er bass arrives. Strings are rusty and dirty. Not a set either. Removed I find the Nut is moving freely. Previous owner must have been a potato farmer - fretboard is filthy and bone dry. No idea where this has been living... Out come the wipes, cleaning duster and the Lemon oil...half an hour later ee have a clean, oiled fretboard looking infinitely better...Nut now glued in safely. Letting the glue dry and the nut to settle in before fitting a set of black tapewounds... How do people let this happen to instruments?? Everything has a value...why would you neglect something so that it deteriorates?? It's beyond me.. Photos to follow...

At my age you'd think I'd be playing in more salubrious locations. You'd be wrong.

Morrisey has entered the thread….

That's me hame! Thanks for organising today, Rob - it was absolutely splendid. We couldn't have asked for better company, a better setting or better weather. Onwards and upwards. 😉 I'll post my pics once I get them off the camera.

Great day, and really good to see old friends and meet new ones. Thanks very much to Rob and family for organising, catering and generally being top bananas.

Great day & thanks Rob .. sorry I didn’t get to say goodbye 👋 … Simon

I didn't take many pics. Rob

A very enjoyable day indeed. Thanks for organising Rob, and thanks to you and your daughter for catering so wonderfully. My bacon butty on arrival was just what I needed, along with the plentiful supply of tea, Yorkshire tea, in a real teapot an all. Without tea, I think I might die. It was great to meet everyone too, the time flew by. It was good to see and hear such a variety of instruments, amplifiers and effects, and to get to try them out. My favourite bass, well I really liked @LukeFRC's Bravewood P bass. Also that GK amp which @GreeneKing had kept hidden all day until the end. The cab shootout was also interesting for me, I liked the BC 12" cab a lot, again @LukeFRC had brought that. But there was so much that was new to me and unfamiliar, I'm going to have to widen my horizons. Cheers, Rob

Thanks to everyone who came today. Thoroughly enjoyed it

It may be cheaper to buy a sack of sand, and walk around your house with it for one week at least 30 minutes three times a day. You'll get more muscles, or less Ampeg. Or more Ampeg, because then you have the power to carry it to gigs and rehearsals.

Just ordered Poli octave... Here is mine from last night

Guinness Zero is actually pretty potable IMO. Ditto Punk AF and Adnams Ghost Ship low alcohol. Nothing like the horrendous offerings of the past.

Hi all! I'm probably getting pretty fed up with my posts, but today I finally finished building the pick attack, and I want to show you what happened. I apologize for the poor performance, I am not a tool player, the sound is not processed in any way, there is no vst. I am ready to answer any questions regarding the wal amplifier. tutu.mp4

Kinda... if you squint...

I don't really see why - if there was no rule, nobody would pay for an advert, and BC wouldn't exist. As much as we'd like to, we can't make any exceptions, can we? Every post/thread that alludes to an item being for sale is removed and the poster receives a very nice detailed and courteous reply as to why: See, we even offer to help you research! Tell me how that's unfair?

And now for something a little different: I just put together a second board to go with a computer of some sort, starting with my 2018 Apple iPad: Harley Benton PowerPlant Tuner / PSU (new) tc SpectraDrive preamp (old) Lead Foot volume pedal (new), which is bigger than I thought I wanted, but it all fits in the case and I like it. Boss MD-200 Modulation (a year old) Thomann t.mix. MicroMix 2 USB (new) The mixer acts as a USB Audio interface, in to the iPad via an old Camera Connection Kit (CCK). It can also play back Bluetooth audio from e.g. a mobile phone, for practice. It has to be powered - the iPad can't power the mixer off battery alone. I was concerned I might need a powered USB hub, but I think I avoided that, barely. On the iPad I'm trying various things. You can do complex audio routing with plugins through an app called AUM. The screen currently shows the AudioKit L7 Live Looper, which is pretty powerful, has pre- and post-loop effects, and runs great on this iPad as a standalone app. It can be controlled entirely by MIDI if you have that option, but I'm thinking of mounting the iPad on a mic stand for easy access. I might run vocals through it too, since the mixer has a mic input spare. The board needs to be tidied up and some cables need to be improved e.g. the RCA cable with 1/4" adapters is way too long at this point. But it's working and sounds very good so far. With the Bass VI, I'm not exactly up to Frippertronics standard yet, but we shall see!

I played in a doom band, all our songs were miserable (except the one about alien lizard people). It goes down great for the right audience. Alice In Chains will go down well in any metal/rock gig.

Armalite Rifle ～ Gang of Four

Keyboard player is where they all should be, hidden behind the pillar playing with his organ.

Did he advertise it as "like new" , many people do, "mint condition" , "never used" . At least fooking dust the thing off before you sell it....hate those type of sellers...

Today, I shall be mostly playing: An Aria IGB68 Integra 5. An absolutely stunning bass, and one that gets overlooked a lot here at Rayman Towers. However every so often I pick it up and play it for an hour and I’m reminded of what a fabulous thing it is. Massively versatile, lovely neck and very powerful output and tone. They shouldn’t be as good as they are, with a factory fitted “Neck” MM pickup fitted as standard (which doesn’t quite line up correctly with the strings), the sound is modern but awesome. You can pick them up for not much money, but they don’t come up often. What’s your choice of bass today?

It's easy not to notice gradual deterioration of something, which reminds me that I really must give my Eko Ranger 6 its five-yearly restring about now. I might even clean the fretboard.

Funnily enough, looking at how the market conditions are now for live music (although at a more modest level for guys like me), this doesn't surprise me at all.

My best mate toured in 90s with sisters of mercy playing keyboards. He made enough to buy a house so was quite lucrative. Cost him his marriage eventually though.