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I'm also 5'6" with small hands. Back in the '60s I learnt on a short scale Framus Star bass which suited me well. When I returned to playing many years later I opted for a full scale Jap Precision on which i cut my teeth. I then remember buying a 5-string Fender Jazz from USA Ebay, the one with 5 tuners in a row. Firstly the neck was so wide it was almost impossible for me to play and the G tuner was so far away that I couldn't reach to tune it. Needless to say it went back on Ebay fairly quickly. A full size 34" scale bass is the business. If it was all right for Suzi Quatro then it's all right for me. Over the past 30 years many 34" scale basses have come and gone however more recently I've been trying various short scale versions but they just don't feel right. My muscle memory has adjusted to the 34" scale so they just feel slightly dinky. They've all gone too apart from the Rob Allen Mouse which just sounds so good although I have to watch where my fingers are all the time otherwise I over-reach. Not good when playing to an audience. Anyone know of a comparable 34" Fretless which could replace it?

I remember chatting with you at the bar. 😀

Back in the early days of BC's predecessor, Bassworld, there were 2 Bass Bashes just off the M1 near Northampton which is fairly central. It was well attended by people from all over.

Hi Steve Nice of you to pop in and good to hear that you are well. I remember bumping into you at Bass Direct once when I was collecting my Berg 610. Now that was probably around 2007/2008. I know what you mean about GAS addiction, fortunately I've cured myself of that these days.

In an earlier interview he said he was singing a song that he’d never sung before and at the end of his set I thought I heard him mutter that he was told to sing it by the BBC. I wasn’t over impressed by the direction. Too much looking at the audience or computer graphics on Buck House and very little of the artists who were working their socks off.

Fourth gig for the new band last night at The Victoria Inn, Four Lanes, near Camborne. With football on the TV we expected that the pub would be empty but it picked up quiet quickly. Considering we don't play your standard pub covers the punters managed to dance their way through most of our two sets. Sadly there were a few mistakes but we put that down to the fact that we don't gig enough so we've got to get things right for the Lostwithiel Gin Festival next month. At the end of it we had a very happy Landlord and a return booking. This was the first time I've ever played a whole gig on a fretless. It worked out really well and the rest of the band loved the tone. Thank you Frank for introducing me to the Rob Allen Mouse.

Before you chop the ends off open up the jacks and make sure the black conductive plastic screen is well clear of the central signal wire.

NL4 plugs do NOT fit NL2 sockets NL2 Plugs DO FIT NL4 sockets.

First pub gig for me in about 8 years and first gig with new band. For those who know the expression it was a bit like the Curate’s egg. On the plus side my Sadowsky Metro UV70 sounded great through the Ashdown Pre-DI and Bose L2 PA. I had one of the speakers next to me for monitoring plus Backbeat for bass and Eich stool for drums. On the negative side I’m finding it very difficult using pre-recorded drum tracks compared to a live drummer who I can watch and communicate with. At the moment I have no trust in the drums, a bit like getting up with a novice drummer at a Jam night. Timing is fine, just a bit erratic. The most recent tracks are fine but some were created by the band leader during the first Lockdown when the bass parts were played on his keyboard. We’re on the case and will be addressing the issue this week. It’s good to be back.

Everybody is over-thinking this requirement. The simplest and cheapest solution is a 2 into 1 mixer cable. A pair of jack sockets into a jack plug incorporating a couple of resistors.

Neither do I. The Elvis tribute I used to play in had short-sleeve uniform shirts however usually it's a loud shirt with the sleeves rolled up to 3/4 length over a plain T-shirt or black shirt and loosely knotted white tie, both with black moleskin jeans.

I'd completely forgotten about that one. I can't even remember when or where but now you've reminded me I did feel for you at the time.

The stand is Konig & Meyer (K&M). Excellent quality, well engineered, very solid and considerably better than my previous one.😀 Edit: It looks like it's this one - 14000 Drummer's throne »Gomezz« | König & Meyer (k-m.de)

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Will do tomorrow.

For years I'd practiced sitting on my home office chair. It was only after post Prostate operation problems that I took to sitting down for most gigs. Firstly I got a drum throne and fitted a butt-kicker to it driven from a mix of bass and drums. Then a much taller bar stool with the same device attached. This worked fine as I was always at the back next to the drums. Last year I concluded that I would never gig again to I sold the bits. Recently I've found another band and mentioned that I'd like to sit and play to which the others said, "what a good idea, so will we". In recent weeks I have been trying to recreate my monitoring system and bought an Eich active drum stool. Absolute magic. Everyone, keyboards, sax, bass, vocals and drum tracks, goes through the PA. We have no monitors on stage, so I have the drums in the stool and my bass through a Backbeat. Works well for me.

Sadowsky Black Label have black silks. Nice strings. I use them on my UV70.

Since my hearing started to deteriorate I have always been able to watch and feel the drums however my new band currently use pre-recorded or sequenced drum tracks so there is nothing to watch or feel. As a way round this problem I recently invested in an Eich DBC400R Active Sub-Woofer Stool, a sitting down version of the Bass Board. Yesterday's rehearsal confirmed that it was the right thing to do as I could finally feel the drums and lock in with them. In a similar way to In-Ears the Eich is getting the drums from an Aux Bus of the mixer via a power amp however I noticed that there were quite a few variations in incoming levels. It's not practical to keep tweaking the power amp all the time so I was thinking that perhaps I need to put some kind of limiter in circuit to provide some sort of automatic level control. As this not an area of expertise I would welcome any suggestions for suitable kit that isn't going to cost an arm and a leg as the Eich has somewhat emptied the piggy bank.

Seeing this new arrangement got me thinking so I've just had a look at a spare Backbeat circuit board that I have. The 1/4-inch two jacks are wired in parallel so the connections to the Backbeat are a loop-through and it just sits across the signal path and, as they say, takes a sniff of the bass output signal. That being the case it would be quite possible to replicate the new arrangement by making a cable with a right-angle jack for the instrument with 2 cables coming out, one going to an in-line locking jack socket, the other to the Backbeat input. Now where did I put my soldering iron?

If you wan’t a thump in your back then keep your Epi cab and use a Backbeat.

I know from my days in the Broadcast Industry that proprietary cables are a very negative selling point. For such a mission-critical component users always want an alternative source.