neepheid

Oh, wasn't asking for devilment, just to see if I could help. I suspect not - the oldest bass I own is a 1978 Yamaha BB1200...

How old is "older"?

Still buzzing from last night's gig with Nine Lives at the Harbour Lights in Peterhead. Yay, a stage! Yay, a sound engineer and house PA! So we found ourselves in the unusual position of being ready to go about half an hour before show time. It was pretty busy, certainly the busiest I remember it being at this particular venue, there seemed to be a constant, but varying level of 30-40 folk in the bar at any one time. I worried that we'd be a bit rusty, being the first gig since the beginning of December, but we played really well, a few minor bloops here and there but nothing showstopping. And boy did I feel frisky - I went on three wireless walkarounds during the gig (or was it four?). General shape throwing/posing on stage and I'm feeling pretty creaky today. But all in all, cracking night, got some great comments and chit chat with a few of the punters. Had the obligatory drunk guy thus: Punter: "Can you play some Metallica?" Me: "Sure, in a couple of songs" ... *band plays Enter Sandman* ... Punter: "You said you'd play Metallica!" Me: "Umm, we did?" Punter: "Aww, I missed it" *I shrug* Well, we're not going to play it again, are we? FFS! Anyway, apart from that, cracking night, loads of folks up dancing, a new song in the set went without a hitch, got some great feedback, got paid (and got told that we could up our price next time), reduced load in/out due to not having to provide PA. Just all kinds of good really. Gear was the Cort Curbow then the Ibanez ATK into the usual toan cubes (which weren't doing that much, mostly just providing the feed to the desk, had a wedge in front of me)

Even with the knowledge that I will be attending?

Well, I just made myself unpopular. Got excited and pushed the wee Joyo to the max, got an angry text from Mrs. Neepheid who was upstairs having a nap. Whoops, this little amp is a bit more pokey than I first thought.

I would really like the ability to rename stored attachements on here. Because sometimes (OK, quite often) I'm a lazy bugger and just paste in something i've seen online, and have 20 pages of attachments called "Image.png", whoops!

Well, last night's gig with The Inevitable Teaspoons (we're on Spotify, by the way ) at Drummonds in Aberdeen was a lot of fun. Gigged my Cort Curbow for the first time since I replaced its guts with USA Bartolini pup and Glockenklang preamp and it is the bass it always should have been now. Sounded terrific last night - punchy and strong. To be honest, I didn't need to do any EQ on the bass, I just left the EQ flat and ran the pickup in series. The gig itself was a good laugh, maybe 50 folk there, hard to tell because some folk were at the end of the room up a level. Mrs. Neepheid came down to see us too, yay! She reported that she saw quite a few folk into it, not quite motivated enough to get up and actually dance but there was chair dancing going on in various pockets of the room. The crowd took a while to warm up, but we had a few folk up dancing by the end. I went walkies during "Shake a Tail Feather", that got a good laugh (and a dance with Mrs. Neepheid). I'm a happy boy. Gear was the Cort Curbow and my pedalboard - I love a "just turn up and play" gig with house PA and a sound engineer who knows what they're doing. Although I had some Trace gear behind me, most of my monitoring was through the house wedges in front of me.

Would totally own that mug, you goit.

Yes, you weirdo

? It went into production, you gimboids! I ain't a pox on bass production, how very dare you, sir! https://www.thomann.co.uk/harley_benton_hb_50_vintage_orange.htm

Well, if you're happy then I'm delighted.

Eh, I just fitted a Freeway 10 way switch to mine. I found this to be a very satisfactory (and very clever) way of opening up many more possiblities on the Triad.

It's when the E and A half of a split pickup is closer to the bridge than the D and G half. Regular way is the other way round.

Yes, it came with a PSU, I was curious to try the USB power feature. I am very surprised at how long it lasted - got tired of waiting for it to indicate even 25% usage after 90 mins.

I have joined the club! I'm hoping that part of the reason I don't play at home much is the suitability of the stuff I have - the Markbass Mini CMD121P IV combo is neighbour annoyingly loud at like 1 on the master, has no aux in, no use for practising at all. Up until now, I have been using my backup head (TC Electronic BH250) and that's OK, but it's headphone only unless I trot out a cab too, and while it has advantages (like the built in tuner) and has aux in, it's just a PITA to set up, especially for a quick blast, so I tend not to bother. I've seen this thread with interest and watched a bunch of videos which didn't seem to be full of excrement which showed it in a favourable light, so I decided to go for it. Got it on a deal on Amazon (ordered 12th December, in case you were wondering if a confession was needed in the Gear Abstinence thread...), took a while but it finally arrived today. I'm very impressed! I went in with reasonable expectations - I know it's not going to pull up any trees, and it's going to inevitably be a bit on the boxy side of tone, but it isn't half bad for all that. Better in headphones than out loud, but not awful. Bluetooth is less laggy than I was expecting, which is good when you're following music/tab on a screen whilst playing - it's still a wee bit behind but a lot less than previous Bluetooth devices I have tried to use to make aux in be cable free. Haven't played with the USB audio interface part of it yet, but I've been using it for over 90 mins now with Bluetooth on, and the 11200mAh@5V power bank I have been using it with is still showing 4 out of 4 lights - which seems bonkers to me! It'll probably just switch off all of a sudden, but it's still working as I type! I may return with more thoughts at a later date, but I think this is an excellent piece of kit and I'm very glad to remove at least one excuse for not practicing as much as I should...

Ha ha, a swing and a miss, it happens.

Out of those I can do the following: Sunday April 19th 2026 (last choice because got a gig on the 17th, hence why I can't do the 18th) Saturday April 25th 2026 Sunday April 26th 2026 Saturday May 9th 2026 Sunday May 10th 2026 Had some close calls around these dates with band and personal stuff recently so it would be good to get it tied down soon.

It subtly changes the sound, and gives people yet another thing to endlessly debate the virtues of on an electric bass

I'm pretty sure even my privileged and well enough off self doesn't eat enough fruit.

Most Gibsons issued in 2024 had a "120th Anniversary" inlay at the 12th fret... Not the anniversary of a manufacturer, but there is the 20th Anniversary Epiphone Jack Casady...

Ahh, but showing you're keen and going for extra credit isn't the same thing as being given 10 songs to learn straight off the bat for an audition...

Right, let's get @paul_5gate out of the way. The way I read it, I reckon the majority ruling is T2 failure, but still OK for T1. Everyone OK with this ruling?

I'll be "that guy" - what are you wanting to achieve by changing the bridge?

I think it's a free choice, and it's none of my business what any of you choose. I don't really feel like sharing my personal opinion on this, because someone will likely come along to tell me how wrong I am, as is always the case in threads like this.

Thankfully well out of my price range, even their more "affordable" offerings.