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[quote name='Happy Jack' timestamp='1393575682' post='2381979'] Depends whether or not you can get by all days on Oranges ... [/quote] I expect there will quite a lot of Apples as well.

[quote name='JapanAxe' timestamp='1393248749' post='2377705'] Is the handle wonky, or just partly retracted? [/quote] The latter. I was never a good photgrapher.

[quote name='discreet' timestamp='1393247387' post='2377686'] You know anyone who can do that for you, Dave..? [/quote]

Although I've had it for a couple of weeks I'd not had the chance to try this new head before this morning. Excellent. Looking forward to using it anger sometime. Running it in the garage is not a particularly good test but it proved that it all worked. Looking forward to becoming more acquainted with it as time goes on. Next job is to make a new speaker cable and a footswitch for it.

[quote name='spacey' timestamp='1392842278' post='2373475'] Top of the pops was pre-recorded recreated tracks in studio and then mimed or just the vocals live. [/quote] Not in this instance apparently. The cameraman who kept the only tape copy of this performance and who also happens to be a friend tells me that it was a fully live performance mixed in the studio by Dickie Chamberlain. His camera was fitted with a prototype fisheye lens, a product he was developing. He asked for a copy of the performance in order to demonstrate his lens and the tape stayed in his archive until it was rediscovered in 2012. Good job he did otherwise this particular performance would have been lost forever as the BBC accountants decided they could save money by wiping and re-using tapes, which at £200 a reel was, to them, a significant saving.

[quote name='Hobbayne' timestamp='1392628845' post='2370672'] I'm sure if that was the case they could have dropped the bass in on an overdub? [/quote] Not easy when it's live a live perfomance recorded directly onto a VTR. Quadraplex (2") VTRs of that era only had mono sound tracks. BTW I did spot a mic over the drum kit.

[quote name='Grangur' timestamp='1392549721' post='2369865'] How does it do that? [/quote] How does what do what? If you take the trouble to Google there is a huge resource about electricity and magnetism on the Internet. Try "GCSE Electricity and Magnetism" or "How guitar pick-ups work physics".

[quote name='Grangur' timestamp='1392549218' post='2369857'] The amp outputs an AC signal to the bass. This signal passes through the coils of the pickup and the circuit is completed with the signal going back to the amp. [/quote] Wrong. The bass pick-up is a signal generator. The signal flows from the bass to the amp. The amp sends nothing to bass. The jack socket on the bass is an output socket. End of.

Talk to Flightcase Warehouse. They'll make one to suit. (BTW I have no connection with this organisation. I am just a satisfied customer who has bought from them over many years)

Did the same back in September Lozz so I know how you feel, that nagging "have I done the right thing". I'm sure you won't regret it in the long term. Hopefully catch up with you at show. [quote name='chris_b' timestamp='1392028742' post='2363669'] One of mine is stagnating and another is going backwards, funnily enough both of them are losing their way due to keyboard players leaving. [/quote] Sounds sort of familiar Chris. Wouldn't be the same chap by any chance?

Snare side so I can see the kick-drum pedal.

Before you go chasing after another pre-amp you have to consider that the coil switching circuitry is an integral part of the MM SR5 pre-amp. It includes some compensation so that there is minimal level change as you switch. Most replacement pickups are wired to connect directly to the SR5 pre-amp and as far as I am aware other pre-amps do not have this facility. Also to use external (to the pre-amp) switching you have to slightly modify the pick-up. I tried various pick-ups and pre-amps in my SR5. It came with a Bartolini, an Aguilar OBP3 pre-amp and no coil switching. The Bart was changed for an SD, which I found too aggressive so it was changed for a Nordstrand MM5.3. Eventually I found a genuine SR5 pre-amp to replace the OBP-3 and that is how it has been for the past 8 years and how I intend to keep it. The Nordstrand has a certain purity of tone which I very much like. The early SR5s had 2-coil pick-ups and coil switching was fairly basic. I took this circuit as a guide and worked out how to rewire a 3-coil pick-up for simple switching. It worked out but there were significant level differences. Along the way I even built a small board with the coil-switching element of the MM pre-amp which was connected to the prototype John East MM pre-amp. That also worked but the control cavity was a touch untidy. Far too many wires. Eventually I concluded that I needed a real SR5 pre-amp which I eventually found on Ebay. I would thoroughly recommend having a look at the Nordstrand pick-up before you start swapping pre-amps.

[quote name='Merton' timestamp='1391551856' post='2358605'] We've just switched to the Sunday after all that, so will see you there Dave [/quote] See you there Martin.

[quote name='Merton' timestamp='1391517247' post='2357958'] Just bought a ticket for myself, and two lovely bassy friends, so will see some of you there on Sat 1st [/quote] I have my ticket for Sunday, so see the rest of you there. Just checked and I have my lanyard so stop me and say Hi.

Very nice indeed.

When the P-Bass was launched in 1951 you wouldn't have been able to buy one in the UK due to the import restrictions that were still in place following WW2. When I started to teach myself to play in the early 1960s the situation hadn't changed much as the only basses you could buy were instruments like Burns, Watkins, Futurama,etc or imported German basses like Framus and Hofner. Fenders were prohibitively expensive due to extremely high import duty. Fenders and Gibsons slowly became readily available during the Mersey Beat era from '63 onwards. There were virtually no tuition books of any kind for electric bass apart from the book "Easy Guide to Rhythm & Blues for Bass-Guitar"by Chas McDevitt and Joephine Douglas, which covered keys, scales and a few exercises. I still have a copy of it. Neither were there any tutors, It was just "Teach Yourself" Apart from printed sheet music which was usually written for the piano there was no way to obtain bass parts for songs apart from the tried and tested way of transcribing them form 45s of LPs. One got quite adept at lifting the arm off and going over and over a passage again and again. Very good for ear training. The same applied to lyrics which is probably why there are so many different versions of quite well known songs. There were virtually no amps made specifically for bass apart from Watkins, Vox and Selmer but these were also expensive. I started by using the family radiogram as an amp with a doctored tape deck as a pre-amp. Only later did I invest in a Linear 30 which was an affordable all-valve PA amp and had a chippy build me a replica of a Marshall 4 x12 which was fitted with Bakers Group 25 25-watt speakers. True that techniques have advanced over the years but to be quite honest todays wannbe bass players have never had it so good.