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Years ago I foolishly sold my Warwick Alien 6 to @therealting and regretted it fairly swiftly. I've been on the hunt more or less ever since for another one, and have failed to find one for years... ...Until last week! One popped up within Richtone Music's second hand listings on Reverb. I called them up, agreed a price and paid a deposit. Today being payday saw me pay the rest off, so it should be getting sent out today! With some extreme luck I may even see it tomorrow... Never seen one for sale since I bought the one I sold, so I'm pretty chuffed to finally have one on the way!

Since I’ve ran out of excuses, space, outputs and money to buy more pedals, I have decided to treat my board (more like treat myself!) to Barefoot buttons. I have chosen those Tallboys and different sizes/heights, which helps a lot to stomp on the upper row, now it’s a breeze and I don’t have to stomp with the tip of my foot. Different heights also help with narrow spacing between footswitches like my Mastro Valvola pedals. Also, they have transparent buttons if which I used where the LED is too close to the footswitch so that I can see thru the colour… bought them from thorpyfx if anyone’s interested (zero affiliation) since there’s no other distributors that I know of in the UK.

We took our Bandeoke show to the Blue Lagoon in Bristol last night. First time there, and sadly a very quiet night. However those who were there couldn't have been more enthusiastic, one young woman even came up and gave us a 20 quid tip! The dearth of punters meant we basically played a two hour request show. I used my new HB 25th anniversary bass, Bugera Veyron into Barefaced Compact and jolly good it all was too. Just after we had finished the pack down a rugby team walked in. If only they'd been an hour earlier....

Update. The neck pocket was cut to a taper being 63.5 mm at the widest part. The Honer neck was also cut to a taper at about .6 mm wider than that. I didn't want to plane down the neck so after some considerable time in thought gently planed and scrapped the short side of the pocket with a nice sharp chisel. About 10 mins work. These come without bolt holes so not wanting to fill the existing holes in the neck I opted to resort to the art of cheating. This involves a tightish fitting sawn of screw being put into the holes in the neck and being used as a dot marker. The holes can then be pilot drilled from inside the neck pocket and finnished from the other side. Warning. It has to be a pilot hole from the inside as the lacquer will crack around the holes as the drill bit comes through. Masking tape on it first may help. Using a drill press is a good idea if you are not sure how straight you can drill. One of the reasons for this palava was because the existing holes in the neck were not quite right from the start. I could have used a wooden chop stick etc and made dowels/plugs but didn't want to take more material out of the heel of the neck so opted to go with the existing holes. The supervisor was watchingT

You'll need to keep that plate nice and clean...You don't want the letter 'B' covered in mud and sh*te.

Some gear porn from the Bash. Enjoy!

The latest iteration of my basic bi-amp board. Some pedals seem to have found a 'permanent' home, others keep changing still but I'm definitely getting closer. The Ampero has three switchable effects and a tuner on the extension switch and is doing a lot of preamp, signal splitting, compression, noise gate type stuff in the background.

Whittle be the day. Buddy H

And this

I received mine at the end of Feb and wanted to wait until I'd done a few gigs with it before posting a review to try and avoid that 'new toy' bias. I've now done 7 or 8 gigs with both it and an incredible jazz bass that Dan @d_g built for me and I've just been blown away by the tone from this combination, it's easily the best sound I've ever had. I'm going straight to the desk via the Capo and using in ears with RCF935s as FoH and it sounds equally amazing to me through both. I have the A side set to have just a bit of saturation with the B side then giving a bit of a boost to both volume and hair when needed. Below is some raw audio straight from the desk from a gig last night, majority are just Capo A side but the 5th clip (Somebody Told Me) I think I kicked in B Side about halfway through the clip. The last one (TIRO) starts with Capo A side plus C4, then goes into Capo A side plus Aftershock, then Capo B side plus Aftershock. In short, I absolutely love it! Capo.mp3

Some nice tones here from Naoto who I follow, there’s a bit of slap in there, using fender flats which I didn’t get on with as they were a bit high tension for me

Tiger stripe

Beautiful instrument. Wonderful sound, played like a dream. I love it.

Took me a long time to get into flats, and even longer into flats on a Jazz, in part because many years ago a guy in a music shop told me "flatwound string sound dead". OK, they're kinda definitive on a Precision and accepted as such, in so many respects they're even more so on a Jazz. Wanna hit some retro heaven? Flats, back PUP on full, front PUP rolled off a little bit, and a pic through an all-tube head. Sorted 👍

Just adding these pics to keep the story going. Just playing ahead of us now

There's a couple actually: a headless Status S2 (5 or 6 string). I've absolutely loved the shape since I first saw them in the '80s, way before I ever took up bass (which was about 18 months ago). Just intrigued. And this one from the classifieds right here. I can't afford it. I have no reason to believe I can play fretless bass (never tried). But ... just look at it! https://www.basschat.co.uk/topic/469484-marleaux-diva-6-bass-signature-redwood-burl-top/

Flat-Bottomed Girls ～ Quëën

I suspect that he would sound as good whether he's playing a '62 Fender or an Encore, he is great proof of the 'all in the fingers' model 👍

My two ebony ‘boards.

I can honestly say I had it hung round my neck for over two hours straight last night and I did not notice the weight. I do use a wide Gruvgear strap, but I believe it is the perfect balance of the bass makes it work.

My band 'Shreds.' hits our home base of Sheffield soon, playing at 'The Lughole' in just over two weeks! Come check us out! Saturday May 13th: https://facebook.com/events/s/sheffield-hunt-saboteurs-benef/736172934798939/

In Arduinoland, ezButton is pretty handy. https://arduinogetstarted.com/tutorials/arduino-button-library - the button array is good for multiple buttons. Setting the pressed time when isPressed is true and then comparing it when isReleased is true and seeing what the delay was. I did a similar ESP32 page turner using bluetooth - made it to send page up/down, line up/down, or next/prev window with a display to say which it was doing. That was before I encountered ezButton so it debounced by spotting the button press, hanging on briefly, then checking if the button was still pressed. Subsequently I saw another method which I thought was very clever - there's a variant on it at https://www.e-tinkers.com/2021/05/the-simplest-button-debounce-solution/ (go down to "The simplest debounce function").

found these guys through insta! so happy i did! this fuzz is one of the only ones that might be able to keep up with my Heliotropic!

***I'm not sure where exactly to host this post, I will endeavour to part out each of the videos in to the reviews section, but with over 150 here alone out of the 400+ I've recorded, it's going to be time consuming! *** For many, many years I have recorded what I believe to be high quality, detailed video demonstrations of great bass gear out in the wilds today. Unfortunately, many of those magazine videos went live without being shared or advertised. (Thankfully that has changed since I moved to Bass Player and Bass Gear Magazines) So, in order to get these videos under the noses of those who (hopefully) want and maybe even need to see them, I am thinking of ways to compile them for ease of access. Here are just 150 (on YouTube) of the 400+ I have shot over the years, which includes my latest videos for @BassGearMag - a brilliant online magazine. These links below don't include the full magazine write-ups and columns, but these should be available in the video descriptions. Add the playlist below to your YouTube accounts and PLEASE add me on YouTube too so you can get notifications when I add more videos / update my playlists! >>> Subscribe to my Channel here. <<< ALL VIDEOS BELOW IN MY PLAYLIST HERE (I update this list) https://www.bassgearmag.com/author/dandanveall-com/ YOUTUBE: https://www.youtube.com/@BassGearMagazine Contents of the playlist:- (Positive comments tagging me @DanVeallBassist in the reviews would be very much appreciated! 3 Leaf Audio Chromatron Envelope Filter Pedal | Review https://youtu.be/TGCFee55hxA Aguilar AG700 and SL112 | Review https://youtu.be/4jVCDjOb6co Aguilar Chorusaurus Pedal Review | Guitar Interactive Magazine https://youtu.be/BT-zVYwgvDo Ashdown CTM 100 head & 4x10 cab | Bass Amp Review https://youtu.be/r_eDTYmESRQ Audient Evo 8 - Audio Interface - Set Up Basics - For Recording Bass and Voice Over. https://youtu.be/uU25PGPXO5A B1XON Review with Zoom Q8 by Dan Veall https://youtu.be/V81vx86c5h0 Barefaced Audio Machinist | Reviews | Dan Veall https://youtu.be/rPo_L0Hz3q4 Barefaced Big Twin 2 and Retro Two 10 Bass Cabs Review https://youtu.be/NJeE0b2rKHo Barefaced One10 T | Guitar Interactive | Review https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w9b1aANimeA Bass Guitar Review - 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Free to a good home. Collection only from S8 in Sheffield

Yaaaaay! It's all been worth it then. Good luck in your search.

If you can catch him at a Bass Bash: Paging @G-77 😃

It'd be fun to go and play about with a double bass..

Well the schroeders have arrived! Thanks Mick - great dealing with you 👍. yet to try them at volume but they look ace! Will probably split them into one in the spare room and one in the living room.

Tangent, but it's neat that that URL still works despite the profanity filter's best efforts.

Bigmouth Strikes Again ～ The Smurfs This page has me using too many TLRTs today 🤔. Some fine choices 😍. Best weekend wishes to all.

I have LaBella LTF's on my Jazz. It's a mexican roadworn with pickups and pots upgraded. I find Labella's particularly deep sounding when compared with the other flats I've tried, which are only Picatos and Thomastiks. So they've given my Jazz a really deep tone on the front pickup, if you want it, but it's still pretty honky on the back pickup alone. I more or less have the tone rolled off the whole time too. I had some fun the other night with my Mark Bass rig, a compressor and the jazz on the back pickup, trying to cop that Joe Dart tone (not the chops I'm afraid). Rob

I will pay for the information!

Heard this on my local radio station, great old tune from around 1980

Ahhhh, that reminds me of someone....

Not great. Shouldn't have to DIY your bass.

Joe Dart uses the EB Group flats (not the cobalts) on his signature ray / sterling, and he uses Roto rounds on his older Max Jazz. So it depends on which version of Dean Town you like best.