LukeFRC

Imagine you're a massive Man City fan. You go to every game, home and away. When you were younger you even played for the youth team. You're in the fans group. You have all the kit to wear, plus the training kit. You talk for hours online on forums about City, you wake up and you check the socials for news about city, you own nothing red, you listen to Oasis every day, your ring tone is "aaguerooooo" and you have dreams you wouldn't tell the wife about of Haaland. If we cut through your heart it would probably be tattooed with the City badge. But one day you wake up beneath your bedsheets (sky blue, but not the official club ones, because even your wife has limits) in your Man City pyjamas look at the a signed picture of Pep above your bed, and one of Colin Bell on the bedside table along side you and get up. You pull open the curtains to see the dour grey rain that Manchester is famous for and the realisation hits you that you're just a extra in the background of a petrostate's soft power initiative, and paying for the privilege. So what do you do? Probably take a bit of time away from City, maybe try purple bedsheets. Redecorate. Relax. the thing is you probably still like watching city, and with time maybe even go to a few games again. But at that stage, on that grey wet morning the end state is uncertain, maybe you will, maybe you won't. Maybe you'll start playing again, maybe you'll end up doing something else. You just need time to reconfigure work it out. (Know Andy just well enough to know the football metaphor will make his day him vomit _)

With demanding work and two small kids and an upcoming house refurb project keeping my playing at home ticking over feels like an achievement in itself. Basses are fun and there’s enjoyment in trying gear, but that gets odd when you’re not using it regularly. but I’m atypical I think, my creative outlet is through my work, and playing bass is what I do to relax and use a different part of my brain - I’m reality piano would probably be better if I would be disciplined enough to sit and learn. it’s not a bad thing to not care as much any more, and put your energy elsewhere. Where that must become odd feeling is if part of your conscious or unconscious identity is “hi I’m Andy - I’m a musician” - that has to be positively reprogrammed to be something else. And it probably isn’t easy to do that.

Can you rout the wood on the edge out so it fits? Wood is easier to bodge than metal

Ground control to @warwickhunt…

I had a beat up Lakland 55-94 which has a lovely fat tone that the eq wasn't doing anything for - boosting mids was too boomy, cutting seemed to kill the whole bass. But there is a way, and their is a master - and his name is John East and his Uni pre is lovely. Now I have read online that the lakland on it's bridge pickup doesn't sound the same as a stingray. And I have measured and compensated for the scale lengths and found that yes, it is not in Leo Fenders 70's sweet spot... But control over bass and treble boost frequencies, and A-B ing it against a borrowed 1976 Stingray got it pretty close

love those knobs. Kawai is on my list to try sometime, though I know the pickups are pretty much impossible to replace when they go

Is it Ziebek ? Or Zwiebek or something? I thought I remembered a version with less switches

what's the submarine? It has more switches than what I thought it might be

I can. "Hey, you know the click you suggested really works out, key player programmed the bass lines too and will just send that to the FOH, so erm we don't really need you."

A dolphin thumb reverse explorer thst got drunk - I like it

I was going to reply but Funkle said exactly what I was going to … unless you are really good and can already make a nicer playing neck than Yamaha… mod something existing…. I’ve done enough builds to know that the reason that I don’t play things is that the neck and playablity isn’t as good as things I already have

Scroll to page 170 http://www.introni.it/pdf/ITT - Integrated Circuits for Consumer Applications 1977_1978.pdf

What’s the DFZ - from a pure design pov that’s really lovely looking

I think it’s more Interesting how many of the boards you see have so many pedals released in the last couple of years - now there’s been a bit of miniaturisation going on but i do wonder where all the 20 year old pedals end up

I always thought it was a great way for pedal addicts getting around the “no room on my board” problem and justify feeding their addiction….

I've posted these before, and they really are not good photos... but... it really is quite pretty (the Ibby got sold, turned out I hated it!)

For me, I doubt I would have got my Capone if it was a true headless… as my mental image of headless is 80s cheese that my personal taste doesn’t quite fit with… the faux headstock means I’m quite happy with how it looks and I imagine non musicians don’t even notice the difference.

sorry

I'm very lucky to have found this at the right time and right price. It's exceptional. (a fair bit posher than I am used too, ideally the house project we're doing lets me keep it)

EBay, reverb and basschat/talkbass for used prices. if that doesn’t tell you rough prices then either: nobody cares and it’s worth £30 or theres a community of geeky fans of that instrument online somewhere and you need to find them. if the company is still going how desirable was it when it was released, how desirable are other similar basses from that maker.

They are to stand the bass on so it doesn’t rest on the tuners. they are crazy carving shapes. plus a pigs teats would be more down the body

But the good thing is - in discovering you are a moron you have gained a nice preamp pedal! some people are morons the other way and feed too much power into things or middle up centre negative and positive… which to be fair… they cancel out?

Are you saying that if I had given into my temptation to try and fix it … it wouldn’t have been the fun rewarding project I thought it would have been?!

it's just some of us will die with a Anima preamp they didn't know they wanted