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You are of course entitled to your opinion, and your feelings are valid. For me, I don't really believe Elton John thinks it's alright to fight on a Saturday night, or that The Proclaimers really would walk 1,000 miles, or that Sting really thought every little thing she did was magic. I think it's possible for a lyricist/author/screenwriter to write a story about characters, without necessarily sharing the opinions of those characters. I don't think it's necessary to agree with the sentiment of a song to perform it. Musical theatre is on my side here 🙂

My goodness.. if that's how you feel, don't ever join a folk band. The lyrics to half of those tunes will give you nightmares.

And so with the finish just about where I want it, the myriad of final assembly tasks begins. The idea for using Tru-oil is to do something similar to @Jus Lukin 's headless build - have enough gloss to show off the wood figuring but still have enough grain showing through to retain the organic feel of some lovely timbers. This is pretty much there - below, you can see the gloss on the main reflecting surface but, if you look at the edges of the reflection see the shimmer where the oil has sunk into the grain? It's pretty much like that over the complete top and more-so for the 'strident' grain of the oak at the back : The first part of the assembly is fitting the tuners, because I need those to line up the bridge. Here they are fully fitted with the truss rod cover just placed on at the moment (magnets will be fitted in the next couple of days). The nut, also, isn't yet fitted and finished and nor are the fretboard or frets: In that it is easier to reposition two bridge screws rather than four, I fit two of them first and check the alignment of the two outer strings all the way down the fretboard: Yup - straight. So tomorrow I'll sort the bridge earth, drill the other two holes and fully fit the bridge. Then next will come the cavity shielding and fitting the electrics.

Another one for the stable 😍

UPDATE TO THE UPDATE... I stated a dispute with eBay re this matter; eBay handed this over to Paypal as that is how I paid. Despite being given repeated opportunities to give ANY response re this matter Peter Barton (aka 'vintageinvestments' on eBay) refused to engage in the dispute process (quell surprise) and Paypal have refunded me. Why this guy has dragged this out is beyond me. He clearly did not hand over the cab to a stranger knocking on his door claiming to have won it... how could anyone know he had sold it on eBay and how the hell did they get his address when even I didn't have it? You just wouldn't would you? The main thing is that in about 30 days I'll have the funds credited back to my credit card (almost 7 weeks after paying) and with the assistance of BC I know a lot more about Mr Barton and I'm wise to him should I ever have the pleasure of meeting him professionally/in person. Oh and I'm still in the market for a TKS cab.

I think that's the Japanese calendar, in which the year derives from the reign of the emperor at the time. In the Showa calendar, which ran from 1926 - 1989, for the duration of the reign of Emperor Hirohito, 58 corresponds to 1983. And that's a stunning JV. If you didn't give the chap at least a grand for it, you robbed him!

Not more of that cancel stinky poo! You can't cancel something, that is just a right wing meme. If you don't want to do something you don't do it, its not cancelling it. If your audience don't want to listen to it, its not worth doing it, its not cancelling it.

I've been a victom of rape and domestic violence, so I find songs which seem to glamourise things like that uncomfortable. Hip hop especially nowadays is AWFUL for its portrayal of the treatment of women, and it really doesn't sit well with me. However, with that said, there are few bands that are intentionally glamourising it because they agree with it, but instead they're telling a story. Anything could be taken to be offensive or insulting to some section of society but we just have to remember that music is an art form and we're entirely allowed to not like or agree with art for it to still be legitimate. Music is art of the time, and reflects the society at the time it was written. With all that said, you have to make the decision about whether you want to play that song, you have every right to say no, just as much as the other members of your band have the right to say yes. I hope you find some kind of compromise that suits everyone!

Marshall MB 15 in really good nick, sounds good too. One happy teenager (his Mum and his sister aren't too happy though! ).

Arrived about an hour ago.

This. Songs, films, paintings, sculpture - in fact, all art - reflect the time and the culture they were created in. If they don't please or suit you, don't sing, play, look at or listen to them. But please don't whinge about or attempt to "cancel" them. I don't like the great majority of films. The gratuitous violence, covert (and overt) political agenda they promote and the manipulative appeal to base emotions in most irritate me. So I don't watch them (don't even have a telly). However, I recognise that others are free to make their own choices.

It's not perfect, but it's getting there. Slowly.

Before & After shots. Selling a few pedals basically paid for the Helix and C4 (+ controllers). My conclusion is that this new setup is fun and has a lot more potential sounds and tweakability, but it does lose a few things - the individual pedals are more limited but often sound a bit better at their specific sound and have more obvious/immediate hands-on (or foot-on) control. The new setup is better suited to hooking up to a laptop and planning out presets rather an spontaneous tweaking. Also, the Helix editing system is great and a £20 footswitch will give you two extra footswitches which is plenty to do most things. The C4 sounds great but Neuro editing isn't as intuative, and it needs a £100+ controller to access additional presets via footswitches (and the setup of that isnt that easy either). So I wouldn't particularly recommend people spend £325+ on a C4 and controller if it is just to replace their envelope filter and octaver, but it does also do a lot of great synth sounds so is probably is worth it if you want that too.

Am I the only one that is shocked at someones woke'ness about old songs? Brown Sugar is an anti slave song and Delilah is about someones, albeit over the top, revenge on someone who wronged him. Make believe and in the past.

Or Blues, stay well away from the Blues..

On Monday, I played at church in the most difficult service that I can imagine. We recorded four songs for my own mother's funeral ceremony. I am pleased with the results, and am happy to share them with the congregation on the day - we were able to personalise some of the songs, by selecting verses that were more relevant to my mum. That makes them all the more powerful. So far, everyone who listened to the recordings has cried. Me included.

For the OP yes this is spot on. You don't need to worry as all of this has been taken care of by @stevie in the design stage. For anyone interested you'll notice that we always talk about a speaker's impedance but measure it in ohms, which is resistance. That's because the resistance of a speaker and the crossover components change with frequency. Capacitors resist low frequencies and inductors resist high frequencies. The speaker has a coil in it of course so that is an inductor too and it's resistance to the amp's power rises with frequency. The amp 'sees' a higher impedance. In this case we have a capacitor in series with the horn tweeter which limits the bass and an inductor coil across the horn which shorts out or bleeds off the treble. The horn is louder than the 10" speaker so there is a resistor too, which reduces the horn driver's output. The trick is to match everything up so that at the crossover point there is enough 'resistance' to cut the output to each driver by half so the combined output stays the same across the frequency range. One little point of detail is that the speaker is a really complex load with an impedance that varies at just about every different frequency. Stevie doesn't just rely on theoretical figures in designing his crossovers but by measuring each driver and building prototypes and then measuring frequency responses. It isn't rocket science but a lot of care goes into a simple circuit like this.

I replaced my old EB stingray5 with a custom built flying V model my guitarist made for me http://cellarguitars.com/index.php/celcellar-v

And how the bass looks now.

Potato Song ～ Kesha

which is the hallmark of all art.

Jeezo! They are just songs. Does everyone have to take them so literally? A- most of them were written in a time when things were different and 2- they are just poems. some of these songs are make believe and who in the Dog and Duck is going to complain because of the lyrics of a song that was in the charts? They just dance along enjoying themselves.

Just had a quick fudge around to get the Phase90 on. I’m still getting a volume drop when the phaser kicks in ? Any thoughts on that ? (And got some toppers seeing as all the cool kids have them 😜😂)

Metal or Hard Rock - you decide.... My band Soldato released these 3 songs last year. I trialled a load of different gear and I've found and settled on Spector basses to work best for me. Signal Chain on these is a Spector Euro > Tech 21 DP-3X > GK Fusion 800 > BF BB2.

I wanted one so much I tried to build my own lefty version...

I picked up a red one. Pretty smitten with it. I guess that makes me gullible as well 😉 Seriously nice player though.

Onboard FX are a bit silly. Have to stop playing to make a change. That's what my feet are for!

Great fun bassline. Here's a quick youtube vid I uploaded a while back, may help? As with anything it's about playing it over and over again and building up speed. Good luck!

I don't see anything wrong with the song. It's about a guy who is trying to stop a young girl "coming on" to him. Some people think it's about an older guy having lustful thoughts about an underage girl but the guy in question is trying to reject her because he knows it's wrong. Your singer would need to have a great voice to carry that song off!

I put together a small board for gigs that don't require lots of mad sounds (most of them 😪). I'm not sure what the 4th pedal will be. I considered a tuner (I normally use a clip-on), but I think this might be a roving line-up anyway, depending on the gig. And any excuse to break out the Octabvre Mk3. My favourite thing about this board is the power supply: a Gigrig Isolator and a True Tone Onespot. I can't believe how simple and effective it is.

I don’t see a problem in adapting lyrics, or even not playing a song if it goes against modern thinking, or it makes a band member uncomfortable. It happens in literature too. In Charlie and the chocolate factory for instance, the Oompah Lumpas were Pygmy slaves in the first edition. It was rewritten in the 1960s.

not for better players than me but, luminous tape stuck to the neck where the spots go so you can see them at dark gigs

And Jack's been walking for decades more than some of us...

We did this in a previous band I was in, but our female lead singer subtly rewrote the lyrics so the message was more of a 'you don't have to be a good girl, you don't have to do anything you don't want, and if he doesn't like it tell him to feck off'. I don't know if the punters noticed ,but once she'd done that I was quite happy to play it!

The bass sounds great Jack and that's some very impressive walking bass work there too! 👍

Salut, En écrivant en français sur un site typiquement anglophone, c'est sûr que tu vas avoir un maximum de réponses !?! Au cas où tu ne l'aurais pas remarqué, c'est BassChat ici, pas OnlyBass... Un petit passage par la case "présentation" serait, d'ailleurs, le bienvenu, sans oublier que la ponctuation existe...

Disposable Heroes of Hiphoprisy

Do not be playing with our feelings here!

So boards changed again,as I've got rid of a few pedals, to buy another bass (as you do) had a change around of some and have a slightly different layout. EBS Microbass 2 - this is the third one of these I've had, and I'd forgotten how brilliant they are. Works as an A/B box for 2 basses, or two channels for one, and an OD, DI, headphone amp it also has a loop with a control for parallel to series operation. I've put all my effects into the loop, so I can use them with the headphone amp and set the dial to 100% effect as I don't need any clean blended in. first in the loop Cali76 CB - I've tried most of them and love this for versatility while still being intuitive to use. It has fantastic natural tone,which just makes you sound better. (Although I've seriously got my eye on an FEA optifet 🤣) This then goes into the main input of a Boss LS2,so all channels are massaged by the Cali76. This then goes back to the EBS, this is my main clean sound, I can switch effects in/out using the Ls2 Ls2 Loop A - Analog Channel Cog T70 triple Octave - 3 channel octaves with its own loop. Two separated T65 octaves which ive set 1 for a clean smooth octave and another for a synthy octave up sound, utilising the filters. It has a third "sub" channel which has no clean just octave. The filters can get this fairly close to the OC2 sound. The loop on this enables "parallel" octave so any effects used have the octave clean underneath, in this loop I have Zvex Mastatron fuzz- gated spitty funky fuzz! An absolute fuzzy classic and is must on any board. It adds to the synthy channel on the T70 to create an massive fuzzed octave. In series to The T70 MXR Bass Chorus Deluxe - fantastic warm chorus/Flanger. I have it set to affect only the high end,so subtle but a lovely sound. I particularly love the Flanger setting. EBS Dphaser - fabulously funky multi stage phaser, with lots of control and sounds very deep and cool Ls2 Loop B - digital Synth Channel Source Audio C4 synth- this has so many sounds and I'm finding it's able to replace more and more of my board. Loads of octaves/filters/phasers/bit crushers/fuzzes and synths. I have the Disaster Area Micro DMC so I can access 128 sounds from the C4. So versatile. These to channels can be mixed via the LS2 (the most useful pedal in existance)

And neck done. While @Matt P 's final whisper coats of Tru-oil were drying I go back to this. The brass nut needed slimming down and thinning down: Then the fret recrowning and polishing: And finally a last tidy up of the rosewood: So all ready to return to @AndyTravis

Having bought an Alesis Crimson II e-kit in Jan of this year it didn't take long for the fragile nature of the 'prosumer' drum sets to appear. Although a capable kit in many ways, the snare just isn't up the punishment that a snare will take. So enter the Jobeky Piccolo 13 x 3.5" snare! Jobeky are a UK company who have been making hybrid drums and kits since 2005 which will work with most modules on the market so I elected for the 13 x 3.5" dual zone piccolo snare. There are other sizes available, but as this is a trigger it made a little sense to keep the drum shallow. It's superbly made with a black chrome shell with black gloss rims and lugs, housing the Jobeky braced trigger, all nicely put together with plug-in connectors and what appear's to be good quality cabling. The output jack is via the air hole, and comes with Jobeky's own 3 ply mesh head. Response is excellent with an even rebound and exceptional triggering across the skin and it's working well with the default Alesis module settings - I can't ask for any more. Well worth the £195 price and the 4 week waiting list...I suspect that this won't be the only Jobeky drum I own before too long. The difference in materials, build quality and feel is night and day - the Jobeky snare is obviously a professional level electronic drum when compared to the "just above entry level" Alesis shells The Alesis snare(which has already been repaired several times) has now taken on additional floor tom duties.

To inset the jackplate I first attached it and then scribed round the outside and marked the jack centre-point: Next, I tapped some curved incisions around the marked periphery with a couple of sizes of chisel and mallet: Then drilled the 20mm hole with a forstner and started very carefully chiselling a 1.5mm depth within the marked periphery. It takes care and very sharp chisels. The mallet is essential. I still managed to take a chip out around the hole but happily nowhere that mattered (phew): And done:

I no P bass expert so went to Bass Direct I picked my self up a red one of these yestarday, after trying several guitars over about 3 hrs. As I was trading in I could get what I wanted and I eventually got down to two P style guitars. The Boxer and a MARUSZCZYK. Both sounded beautiful and hit the spot to my ears. In some other ways they were quite different. Note: The boxer feels as the name suggests is more of a bruiser, the MARUSZCZYK a bit more classy but was more gentle. I went for the Boxer as it is an exceptional sounding bass, has wider range of tones and it was RED! 😂 👍 I'm liking it this morning even more than when I picked it out....very happy!

And yes, the hatch all-in-all has probably taken more time than the neck carve did...but it is, nevertheless, probably the best hatch I've done to date . Now complete with the all-essential fingernail cutaway: Trussrod cover and jack plate next

For the rebate that the magnets will fit into, I've cut a couple of pieces of the offcut from the walnut top: Not the prettiest, but it should be functional (and it's hidden ) I have a decision on whether to add a binding to close the gap a touch, but this is basically how the grain will match so I am glad I did it this way: Tomorrow will be the trussrod cover

1988/9 Sunburst Sabre 8.1 lbs