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I asked an AI to do me an image of 2 of my favourite bass players: Duck Dunn and Bootsy Collins. Instead of generating them separately the AI went all BrundleFly...13 points
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A rare outing on lead guitar with Deadlight for our producer’s 60th 🎉 It wound up being a showcase of all the local talent, with tonnes of variety. Our original 80s inspired goth is always very well received and we had loads of friendly heckles - “you two are too polite to be goth”, to which I replied, “it’s a very misunderstood genre!”. A really special night and a pleasure to be a small part of it.10 points
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First gigs of the year for the Zep tribute, up to Kinross in Scotland on Friday then Cullercoats in the Northeast on Saturday. Quite tiring, driving for a 512 mile round trip in two days, setting off at 10:30 on Friday and getting home at 2:30 on Sunday morning. Both gigs were well attended (101 tickets sold in a 120 capacity in Kinross, with a 220 sell out in Cullercoats), which was good as we had just had to cancel a gig in Yorkshire due to poor ticket sales. The first gigs we've played since November, so we were a bit rusty, but we played well enough over the two gigs. A very good crowd reaction on both nights.7 points
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I put a TurboRAT in a Warhammer Land Raider, just finished it today. Many hours of work and totally worth it!6 points
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I think this is the longest I've ever had without buying something. I'm actually practicing with the gear I have already, and I've even recorded a couple of bass cover vids. It feels so very wrong.6 points
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It's not just you. Two of the input channels on my Yamaha AG03 PC interface have failed. Instead of buying a new one, I found the Xenyx 802 mixer that I was given, and used the working inputs from that, and a pair of effects pedal cables, to plug into the two remaining inputs of the AG03. The twin mixers are messy, but kept me operational. There's more. Instead of buying a midi expansion box with lots more sounds for my piano, or a better hammer-action keybed, I invested the same budget in piano lessons. My Grade 1 exam is on 10th March. And one more. Instead of using my fretted bass to practice, I am now exclusively on fretless bass, working on my intonation. So, all this gear abstinence malarky is giving me no extra toys, but a bit of extra ability on the instruments that I do already have. Practicing? It'll never catch on....5 points
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I do find it puzzling that the AI is capable of doing so much in these images, but then hits a brick wall when it comes to things like the number of strings / tuners / pegs etc.5 points
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There's been a bunch of news stories today about fake bailifs - my plan would be to give them a Trace Elliot cab to guarantee they never came back following whatever back injury they give themselves... 😮 !5 points
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[Ai Edit Video] Slim down subject by 2 stone[/Edit]4 points
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I have to agree, it's just nasty. Yup, all kinds of wrong.4 points
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Sire have a habit of doing that to your brain and sense of values. I've had a few Sires, and of course, they usually end up being trade-in fodder for more expensive instruments, but they are good. My most recent one was one of the 2nd Gen Ash V7's and as a backup bass to my American Original Jazz, it was easily as good, if a little punchier with the preamp. I think you sometimes have to end up taking money out of the equation and just accept that a good bass is a good bass, no matter how much it does or doesn't cost.4 points
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Admittedly guitar factory wages aren't high but it's hardly slave labour. If you're in the 'Land of the Free' and work for Ernie Ball you can expect $16ph, work for Fender in Corona and it's $18ph. For a comparison, the In-n-Out burger bar down the road from the Corona plant pays a starting wage of $22ph. It's just factory work so workers get factory wages. Over in Zheng'an, China the cost of living is 1/5th that of California but the guitar factory folks are on $4.5 - $5. There a few reason why bosses there pay a bit better. It's home to 130 guitar factories, if next door pays more you risk losing your workforce 🙂 If none of you offer OK money then you all risk losing your workforce to the big cities. Prior to the Guitar Park opening 25% of the county's migrant workers were in the big city guitar factories, keeping them happy and productive is now vital to the local economy. Exception to the $4.5-$5 rate is Zhang Weiyi. His place produces about 180 guitars per year but they carry $8000 price tags, he needs the cream of the crop for his work force 👍 South Korea has a higher cost of living than China but still much lower than the US. $9 - $9.25 is the going rate there.4 points
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If you get nowhere, I am happy to talk to them. 10 years a VAT inspector and over 30 years in industry, as head of VAT for the European region.4 points
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Off the back of the Vintage Fender thread I purchased a '74 P-bass on Reverb, beaten up just how I like them (not everyone's cup of tea I know). It needs work to get it up to scratch, the main things being: 1. A refret. 2. Replace the installed electronics back to the original (if they are usable) and earth wire 3. Change the scratch plate 4. See if I can free off the bridge from the body consider reconditioning or replacing. 5. Add my favourite flats. Happy to listen to constructive advice as I update this thread.3 points
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Selling this beauty… This is one of the newer Streamers from Warwick’s Rockbass line. Not sure if this one is a bit of an oddity, when I ordered it (new from Andertons last summer) it was listed as having MEC passive pickups. When I unpacked it, the pups happened to be their active models. Whatever… A great sounding bass, lightweight with a carolena body, laminated maple neck, the fretboard is wenge. Just-a-nut, 3D bridge, 2 band active EQ, control cavity shielded with copper tape, Warwick straplocks, truss rod tool, and a Rockbag gig bag. No dings or marks, just the branding on the pups has faded somewhat from my playing. Moving this on because I have a full fat US Stingray incoming… 😎 Located on the IOW, so if you’d rather collect I can meet at one of the ferry ports your side (Portsmouth/Southsea/Southampton/Lymington), or I can ship at your expense (around £15-£18 Parcel Force tracked). Thanks for looking. 😊3 points -
Picked this up a few weeks ago -a lovely 2012 walnutglo 4003 I'd owned a few Ric guitars before and found them o.k. but this is sublime.3 points
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I feel the gloves are off regarding encouragement and luring others into gear acquisition is now standard operating procedure.3 points
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"That's a great sounding bass! I must buy one for myself, for, as we all know, new basses make us sound great. " Or is that the wrong sort of thing that is being encouraged?3 points
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That probably would have increased the value - flatwound players are a weird bunch...3 points
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This is me all day every day. I don't dig in. Might as well let the amp work for it's keep and turn up the volume knob as and when needed. My tone doesn't suffer one bit as a result.3 points
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Sold them on here mostly 👍3 points
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We do regularly get asked for photos with the full band after the last song so it kinda goes with the territory in a Glam band. Its always fun doing it to be honest and gives you a bit of a buzz. I've even been asked out on a date a few times while wearing the full Glam gear but had to say my wife sitting next to the stage wouldn't be too pleased Oddly enough i regularly got people talking to me with the punk band. Dave3 points
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I keep hoping one of our gigs turns into something like any of the scenes in the United Artists 1964 movie " A Hard Days Night ". Is that too much to ask? It's going to be a long wait. Lol Daryl3 points
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After almost 60 years playing bass I can still have bad gigs where I couldn't get it together. Especially if I'm playing with a marginal dep drummer. Daryl3 points
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I played an S2000 at BassBros in Warwickshire last weekend, and was reminded how ballsy and powerful the original 2-band preamps were in those things. Just a pity that it was nearly £3000 in 2025 money. *Sigh*3 points
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Glad to hear it went well up this way Pete. Looks like a decent sized venue and crowd. Dave3 points
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My new board3 points
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The way it was explained to me was: If you are a shop, your inventory costs you money, you're paying for floor space, you're probably paying for a loan to purchase the stock. If you have an item that isn't selling, its making a loss. You have no emotional attachnent to the gear. You're better off dropping the price and getting rid of it and buying something else with the money, that's more likely to sell for a profit. If you are an individual, you probably don't have a loan on that specific piece of gear (but you may have a credit card bill for other gear) and you won't be equating floor space in your house as costing you money (it is, you are paying to run your house). The costs are hidden and it's not so urgent you clear the space and sell the gea unless you need the space for something else. You also will be emotionally attached to a piece of gear. It only really becomes an issue when you run out of space at home and need to declutter, or the bailifs come round...3 points
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Just to share a tech tip: many years ago I built a headless bass using one of these cheap headless bridges. As many others have found, they are almost unusable as they are incredibly hard work to tune, the design puts huge friction on the tuners. I've just dug that bass out again, and (fingers crossed) managed to make it considerably better by adding cheap thrust bearings from Amazon (other suppliers are available ) : Kozelo F4-10M Thrust Ball Bearing 4mm x 10mm x 4mm, only cost me £6.79 for 5, and took literally a few minutes to fit. Remains to see how long it will last of course... There's today's geeky post for you! Photo with bearing fitted to E string, middle strings as they were originally. Cheers, Andy2 points
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Music Man StingRay Special 4 Charcoal Sparkle £1800 Serial number F81378 Up for sale is this 2018 Music Man Stingray Special in the stunning and now discontinued Charcoal Sparkle finish. This was made in 2018, the first year of the newly redesigned lightweight, StingRay Special basses with an 18 volt preamp. The body is made from lightweight swamp ash (not the ‘selected hardwoods’ of the later versions) and the fretboard is ebony on a smooth, fast, roasted maple neck. The bass also comes with an excellent Zero Mod thumb-rest. This StingRay is in very good condition with just some minor plectrum wear to the pickguard and some very superficial finish wear to the brushed metal plate the tone knobs are mounted on which is hard to capture on the photographs. The hard shell case is also in very good condition. A great looking, great sounding bass. It’s a sleek and contoured delight to play, and sounds fantastic in a live setting. Cash on collection only please as I don’t want to courier this, especially since reading all the horror stories on this forum about sending basses. A half way meet up is a possibility if you’re in the South East. I’m not interested in trades. Any questions, please let me know. Here's a link to my previous feedback as a Basschat seller for assurance of a clean and honest transaction: Feedback for EdLib-3 - Feedback - Basschat2 points -
Picked this up in a trade on here from MrMonkeyWizard on here about a year and a half ago, I've barely touched it but it's beautiful and nicely balanced. Upgrades are aguilar super doubles and a bartolini 5.2 AP with double battery Link to MrMonkeyWizards original listing below with full details, also comes with tourtech hard shell £600, open to offers also possible trades for 1x12 cabs https://www.basschat.co.uk/topic/455335-mtd-kingston-z4-with-aguilar-super-doubles-and-bartolini-52-ap-preamp/2 points -
Hi, I'm interested in this bass and I'm a big Entwistle fan. PM sent.2 points -
NGL, I absolutely love the look and sounds of this thing. Yeah it's a tad disco but dayum 😍😍 https://www.fender.com/en-US/electric-basses/jazz-bass/limited-player-plus-x-blu-detiger-jazz-bass/0149410376.html2 points
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T-shirt with Road Crew - Bass Tech is my suggested move.2 points
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I think the general consensus is that it’s enjoyably shite. Who wouldn’t want to see Geddy’s turbo mullet zooming around their TV screen in front of a stock background?2 points
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Db? Just hit all the black notes and one white note of your choosing!2 points
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As I understand it Generative AI works by scanning a source ( usually the internet but it can be a specific database) for information/ images that fit the keywords in the description it's provided and combining information from those sources to create a new image. At no point does it actually understand any of that information itself. ie. It doesn't know what a bass guitar is, let alone how it's components work, hence the obvious innacuracies in many of the images.2 points
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Cloud busting - Kate Bush2 points
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No emails plus no red symbol to indicate PMs for me, there are obvious concerns that the entire basschat marketplace could collapse imminently with potentially dire repercussions for the mental health of bassists and possibly implications for the entire UK economy 🙂2 points
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Just play the D an octave above. Nobody in the audience will be able to hear the difference.2 points
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Thank you. I actually retired at the end of August. Certainly nice to be able to help. A commission sale is slightly different in that the supply from the shop to the seller is one of services. If handled correctly, you buy the bass from the owner and the shop charges the owner the commission. Obviously the amount you pay covers both of these. I suspect in many instances that isn't exactly what happens but that is how it works in theory.2 points
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I'm the opposite and would quite happily wait in the changing room until the venue is empty and then strip down my gear. With the Glam band most people don't recognise me when i walk out to strip down my gear. Maybe i should get a band t-shirt with "Road Crew" stamped on the back. Dave2 points
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The band found a new bassist quickly, and is still running. I've no idea whether the BL's wife learned the bass. My leaving the band coincided with the return of some neck and shoulder problems I'd been having, so I took 6 months out. Last month, I was appeoached by a drummer friend about helping him to start his own band, and I agreed. Sort of a blues-funk covers band. 5-pice band; lead guitar/BV's, drums, keys/rhythm guitar, myself on bass, female lead singer. Our very first jam session with 6 try-out songs is this coming Friday, 21st February.2 points
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New to me again.2 points
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A great weekend of dep gigs with the wonderful 'From Gold To Rio' Spandau/Duran tribute show at the lovely Whitby Pavilion and Wakefield Theatre Royal! My 1st time going completely ampless with only my Spector Dimension HP thru my Shure Wireless/Thumpinator/HAZardlAMPs pre pedal and HX Stomp (set to GK800RB/Ampeg 810) between me and the desk....! It all worked great though... compliments from 2 separate sound engineers, audience members afterwards.... and the band members loved what they heard in their IEMS too (as did I!). Result! 😃🎸😎👍 Lovely to meet forum member and ELO Experience bassist @TPJat Wakefield too! Whitby Pavilion: Wakefield Theatre Royal:2 points
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Sorry, not sorry:2 points
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