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Apologies for any blips today. However, SSL is now live and you can browse more securely Thanks for your patience

And now SSL is live, thanks for your patience everyone

...and actually, I couldn't be happier. It was like working with a psycho, Rainman and a guy who couldn't get off the fence. Huge weight off my shoulders. The first thing they did was remove my admin rights from Facebook, to a band I set up and a page I set up. I'm still shaking my head at that one, but hey-ho. What was I going to do? Remove a couple of pictures? Amazingly, I've had two offers from other bands since I quit less than 90 minutes ago. Clearly doing something right, perhaps the old act were just too stupid to see that.

yeah, tell me about it...!

Awesome stuff from Lalah and Marcus with Poogie Bell on drums. Fantastic groove from Marcus and Poogie. The CD live album is epic.

I'm thinking about doing a few versions of themes to help with things like this

We’ve set it like that for new members. For current members we’ll do it too but predict some will be angry about us changing it so we’ll do a postie and set a date.

yeah i tried that too in a sale i have, to lower the price. I ended up just tagging it with the new price

Price wasn't editable in the previous version...

My Eich Amp T-900 knocking it out of the park. Insanely loud and the dynamic response is great fun.

Written on an old blues players gravestone...... " Didn't wake up this mornin' "

Thanks. Hadn't scrolled down to see the whole list. D'oh!

Hahaha. Paul will do for now. This weekend, we/they were due to mix six tracks that were recorded about two months ago. I have contacted the the studio and asked them to remove my bass off the recordings, which is what they're doing. That'll be a nice surprise for them when they turn up on Sunday.

Oh beautiful work, Char. You should get a job working with with software.

The PM ones do, but we had some problems with the latter. As most people will visit to catch up on more than one reply, it's best to look here anyway rather than by email.

At the moment I’m trying to get enough money behind me to do a luthiers course because that’s what I really want to be doing but I thought I’d have a bit of fun with the kit builds Yeah this kits off eBay got it for a steal £40 it was listed under “Base guitar kit” so not many people looked at it the neck is straight I will need to sort the frets on it buts it’s all a learning experience but at the end of the day you get what you pay for and you can always upgrade the hardware over time I’ve got a Jazz bass kit that I got off eBay that I’m going to do next it only cost me £70 and the body is better (it’s really light) and the neck is nice a straight and surprisingly the frets are ok on it when I checked it with my rocker and it looks like only 2 need filing a bit If you want a top quality bass then kits aren’t for you but if you just want a bit of fun making your own bass then kits are great Once I’ve got my workshop back up and running then I will do a scratch build of my own design

Good on you. Glad you're already feeling the weight off your shoulders Now.... on to pastures new Good luck

Go to your profile and add a cover photo ??

Thanks Rabbie Leroy Vinnegar sounds exactly what I need. I’m aware of Milt Hilton and Ray Brown but haven’t delved into their recordings yet. I will get on it thanks again.

And alakazam! it is done!

Good effort getting an SSL certificate sorted so quickly!

Yeah I really like the SoundCloud embeds! Very useful.

Anything Leroy Vinnegar has ever recorded. There were/are much flashier players out there but Leroy will pin you to the ground. And then of course my favourite Milt Hinton and the unbelievable master Ray Brown. That alone is about 200 years of practice....takes time and patience. But it’s great fun. All the very very best.

EEK! The shame! When you get to my age etc...

SSL certificate is high priority but we couldn't organise it until the site was already live with the correct server and domain. It's on the list! @ped - if it's not on the list can you put it on the list? ?

Yeah, fantastic work guys. People don't realize how phenomenally difficult this stuff is to do and how no matter how well you plan, unforeseen stuff can hit you out of nowhere.

My Thunderbird is a real tank so when I picked up my Ibanez fretless it just feels,like there is nothing there at all. The thunderbird will remain number 1 despite its weight and my neck and shoulder issues, I have found that it doesn’t matter as long as I have a wide we’ll padded strap. Even 2 1/2 gigs don’t cause any fatigue for me. I think I could go to sleep with the Ibanez on and not notice it.

Sunday night I was at the Alice Cooper show in Glasgow. Missed The Tubes and most of The Mission. The bass player Chuck Garric had a busy night, Halo of Flies was epic performance. About an hour in I spotted a thin dark haired fella in shades behind the curtain and was certain I'd glimpsed a spangly bass. Had no idea Dennis Dunaway,Neal Smith and Michael Bruce were doing the Reunion segment outside the US. What was already a brilliant gig just got better.

Oh no you used "ohms" instead of Hz, TimR will be all over you, lol.

I'd like to just say thanks for all of the efforts in improving site. Having worked on system upgrades for the last 20 years I know how difficult they can be and the problems faced. Hopefully the majority of users won't be impacted by the lost pm's and can appreciate the benefits of the new features.

Your head is stretched btw #constructive

Feedback is fine. The unconstructive whingeing isn't

Honestly, I don't mind the feedback. I know there are things to clean up and sort and I'll do all I can, if I still had hair I would be pulling it out. Thing is though, I saw this forum software before all the issues and once the performance cracks on it'll fly along and is a lovely smooth experience. Some stuff I didn't anticipate I'll try to add in as long as it doesn't clutter things up or slow it down too much. The nicest thing for everyone involved will be the fact that now we have supported software where we're in the driving seat, if there's a popular feature that people want then we can look into that! Ultimately, we love the forum and it's the members that make it up, it's nothing without our community after all.

Quite right, too. Providing a free community for thousands? How dare you!

For the first couple of days I did exactly that - however one sure way of posting something that gets missed is to pin a thread. People never read them. That's why i also made it into topics that I hoped people would reply to, keeping it 'current', even posting in Off Topic. But people don't tend to post/reply/get excited by site news threads. Like I said, I did literally everything I could. It would have been much easier for us to have migrated at the end of Oct but we held off specifically to give people time to back up. And again, sorry.

Losing data is the basic principle of computer based systems, once understood, backup(s) begin(s) to become an evidence... Stop being assisted, don't trust anything computer based and ACT ! I think I'll start the MYAL (Move Your Ass League).

The old software stopped being supported in 2014

I put together a comparison vid of the overdrives in my pedal drawer at the moment, thought it might be on interest. Absolutely use headphones or decent speakers please Recorded with my custom US Lakland 44-94 passive P/J (both pickups on, tone up full), slightly gigged 45-105 Lakland strings and a Dunlop 1.14mm pick. Riff played into a TC Electronics Ditto, looped and recorded into a Focusrite iTrack Pocket after the pedals. Pedal order is: -COG Mini 66 (custom 'Seaweed' enclosure painted by Claire Cousins) -Schalltechnik Guma Drive (Darkglass Vintage clone DIY kit) -Fuzzrocious Dark Driving (in 'Dark' mode) -Fuzzrocious Broke Dick Peanut Gallery (BDPG) -DHA VT1-Pro-Bass-Drive Preamp/DI (the only Tube pedal here. I just concentrated on the drive section and don't really explore the considerable EQ section) -Fuzzrocious Demon -COG Knightfall 66 (Prototype: Germanium diodes on channel 1, LEDs on channel 2) This isn't meant to be a definitive demo of each pedal, more of an overview and how they compare tonally to each other. Cheers Si

About 2 years ago I bought the wood to make a telecaster from scratch. Around about the same time I bought my lad a Squier strat. They cost the same. Two years later my telecaster is nearly finished. It has bought me a lot of enjoyment making it, and to be fair it's not your average telecaster either - bookmatched and carved flamed maple top, chambered ash back, birds eye maple neck, etc. It's been a labour of love. However I can fully understand that people don't have the time, patience or skill to make a guitar from scratch (and believe me I had very little skill when I started! ). A kit is an ideal way to make a guitar your own, to put your stamp on it. It's not always about the end result either - it's the journey and sense of achievement. I will post up some pictures of my guitar when I'm done. I know it's not a bass, but I thought I'd gain some skills on a lesser instrument first. I have my bass in my head and it will be made from scratch - but I can't say when I'll finally get to play it - when it's ready

And this is probably the final gloss coat on the top. It is dust buggy free but there are still very fine brush lines from a slightly 'draggy' varnish in spite of it being warmed a touch and using a very fine fan brush. Having said that, I'm pretty sure they will polish out once the coating is fully hard:

Just picked up my Series 2 from Jon. Buckeye Burl top with matching headstock faced front and rear , swamp ash body, maple neck and Birdseye board. Electronics are Aguilar DCBs with the East-UK pre-amp. I didn't want a cluttered rear, so no battery compartment but an active/passive switch on the front. The tonal range is huge. I got this after getting a Shuker 2 years back from Cotswold Bass and knew immediately that I wanted to commission something. Oh, and the rear control panel cover is cut from the body wood rather like Elricks or FBass. All round a stunning piece of work from Jon ? David PS - my existing Burl Maple Horn is up for sale here.

Just catching up with this build. The top has a nice portrait of a spaniel behind the bridge. Nice work!

Looks great. Congrats!

You mean 'play a passage, loop it, play over the top and hope the drummer is paying attention'? I use a Ditto. Very small. I do find the loop cancel a bit annoying though and put it in an LS2 loop so I can disengage the Ditto, delay pedal and volume pedal with one tap. That's specific to my gig though.

The B natural is simply a chromatic approach note to the C. In order to analyse these things you need to have an understanding of the underlying harmony so I have posted the leadsheet for Cannonball below. The phrase the OP is querying occurs in bar 6, the chord here is an Ab major chord in 2nd inversion (i.e. the fifth of the chord, the Eb, is played as the lowest note). An Ab major chord consists of the notes Ab, C and Eb so we can see that Jaco plays a chromatic approach note ([i]B[/i]) to the major 3rd of the chord ([i]C[/i]), then the perfect 5th of the chord ([i]Eb[/i]), then another major 3rd ([i]C[/i]) an octave higher than the first. This major 3rd then becomes the major 13th of the following chord in the next bar: Chromatic approach notes embellish and/or 'smooth out' diatonic lines and you will find them in abundance in any bebop solo, walking bass lines - or James Jamerson line! They can approach the target note from below or above, and may even be 'double chromatic' (i.e. two chromatic notes in a row). I would strongly recommend adding them to your arpeggio practice routine to really get a handle on them.