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49 minutes ago, dmccombe7 said:

That is a bit tight for 3 guitarists plus drums in an alcove i always find makes them loud and sometimes a bit booming.

I'm assuming one of the guitarists is the singer. ?

Yes. Drums weren't bad, our drummer is quite restrained. And our front man is guitar and vocals - originally we were supposed to be a five-piece with him just doing vocals, but the other other guitarist was crap and never learnt any songs so we had to get rid of him and Dean went back to playing guitar too. Just as well, we'd never have fitted five of us in there.

Barcus basses. Greg Barcus has built a few, don't know if he's packed it in as there hasn't been any activity on his Facebook page since 2019.

7 hours ago, Leonard Smalls said:

We had to sack a guitarist because of a combination of serious substance-abuse problems (*), poorly cared-for gear (we never knew if it would work!) and erratic playing where sometimes he'd completely forget what he was meant to be playing, or launch into a loud and unrelated solo in the middle of a verse.

You never said you were Roger Waters.

On 22/08/2025 at 11:25, Woodinblack said:

Sei flamboyant 42"

You're determined to see the positive side of the accidental Sei.

19 minutes ago, roger said:

Well I did kinda assume as much, so do many other amps have this? Can’t say I’ve seen it, thank you

Ashdown do. I've only encountered one bass (an Ibanez, don't know the model) where the active input with its attenuation was the one to use - all of my active basses have outputs on a par with passive basses.

5 hours ago, Beedster said:

Why a 4-string nut?

In case a certain customiser should decide to add two more tuners at jaunty angles, add two bridge saddles, and ram a couple of Strat pickups into the pickup routs.

First time at the Crown in Rugeley last night. Car parking was rather random, there's a sort of car park at the back but it doesn't have any markings (or, indeed, tarmac) so cars just get dumped there in a haphazard way. The space was distinctly petite and bijou, so when the second guitarist arrived fashionably late there was nowhere for his cab so he went through the PA. TBH I'd prefer it if both guitars went through the PA but the singer/guitarist wants to use his cab. While we were setting up, before guitar 2 got there, one lad started chatting to the singer/guitarist - he'd got various guitars so they were comparing notes. A bit later, after I'd rigged the PA, a rather more elderly bassist came over to chat to me. Which was nice. Took until about halfway through the first set for more than very faint ripples of polite applause but once things started going, we got a much more positive reaction.

My perpetual rig of choice - Tecamp Puma 900, GR Bass AT212, and as I also do the PA, Behringer XR18 with a cheeky peek of the Zoom MS-60B+ on top of it, with external router and BCF2000 and Nokia T20 tablet for handy control.

After listening to this on both a laptop and a desktop running through a hifi system, the bass gets a bit obscured by the backing track - it's where it would be in a normal mix but that's a bit far back when the point of the video is to showcase the pickups. Still, liked and subscribed because you're worth it.

Can you effectively import your settings from XR Edit into Mixing Station by loading a snapshot into the XR18 from XR Edit and then opening Mixing Station? Will it pick up the current settings in the XR18? Just wondering as it would save hours of mucking around transferring settings.

Nice to see that you've been successful on two fronts.

10 hours ago, Woodinblack said:

Yes, like that - this was the type I got

https://www.aliexpress.com/item/1005006198188772.html

 

 

I still keep an eye out for programmable ones, but they are the other side of £100 to do logos and band name etc.

 

There's more than one model on that page - the default one is £7 but looks like it's just an LED light with facets, the lasery one is £17. I've just gone mad and splashed out very nearly a tenner on https://www.aliexpress.com/item/1005007714100673.html

11 minutes ago, Woodinblack said:

 

Its the superstar badge. it is apparently awarded by posting your 20th post in 2 forums. But clearly people have done that and noone has the badge. 

Damn you, Peter Noone!

I had a fretless through-neck 5 which was a nice bass. Sold it when the number of basses started getting rather high (I've bought more since then though).

Yes. Once upon a time I wanted a Precision. Then, after getting one and playing it for a while, I happened across Warwick, and everything changed. I've had another shift since then, to 5 strings. Just deciding whether to go back to gigging fretless. Favourite basses now are Seis and Antoniotsais.

Anyroadup, could it be to do with the number of times one has Won The Day?

Not confused at all. You weren't specific enough, and the fourth Pokemon badge, as I discovered through the wonder of DuckDuckGo, is Brilliant Diamon and Shining Pearl. I suppose I could have said Camp Cook, but not every former Scout would have gained their badges in the same order as me.

What looks very much like the M-Vave branded equivalent of the Lekato WS-90 has come up on AliExpress for under £30 (until the 27th of August). I've ordered a set as my WS-50 receiver is getting slightly temperamental around the micro-USB socket and I like to have a spare set.

https://www.aliexpress.com/item/1005006613115406.html - I'll report on it when it arrives.

Brilliant diamond and shining pearl.

20 hours ago, SteveXFR said:

Innocent question here, not judging or trying to start a fight, just curious. 

Why do you want a pick to sound like fingers? Is there a reason for not using fingers?

I play both styles because of the tonal differences.

I use a 0.88 pick and loads of bass, high mids and gain with low mids and treble cut for a really aggressive pick tone.

I don't use a plectrum for the different tone, I use it because the metacarpal of my right forefinger was broken when I was in my early 20s and it set with the knuckle perceptibly lower than the rest of my hand, so alternating between first and middle fingers is awkward and can get uneven - for some things I simply can't manage it with alternating fingers but can with a plectrum.

1 hour ago, snorkie635 said:

I blackballed you at the Awards Committee. I should not have mentioned that. Not have mentioned that at all.

Just wanted to check in these super-sensitive days - that's not the same as blackface, is it?

A band I was the co-founder of somewhere in the early 90s played a few gigs. The guitarist/vocalist got rather sweary between numbers at the last one, and the drummer (who could well have been given an offer by another band so there could have been an ulterior motive) said he was leaving because Steve was too sweary. Our viola player was leaving anyway. Steve then rang me and asked me if he was too sweary, and I was rather non-committal. I went to the rehearsal studio soon afterwards and saw a notice from him saying he was looking for a drummer and bassist who had to realise that there was ONLY ONE BAND LEADER and it was him (we both wrote songs for the band, it was about 2:1 him to me).

He did get another set of personnel together and they're still going. Their website has biographies of each member, and in his it says he did the folk clubs as a solo act. Rather a lie, as he and I did them as a duo. At least it was the inspiration for a song I wrote called "Revisionist"...

44 minutes ago, Bass Direct said:

We have one of these incoming, can't wait!

One of the limited edition 15, or one of the vanilla ones?

I started out as a guitarist, in my teens. Played in a school Glenn Miller tribute band but wanted to be the next Hendrix. Went to university and met up with another guitarist, a drummer, and a keyboard/guitar/vocalist. When it became evident that I was the worst guitarist in the band (demonstrating an uncharacteristic self-awareness), and we didn't have a bassist, I decided to change roles. The Fender Soundhouse just down the road had had a fire, and Hayman had gone out of business, and the combination of the two things meant that bits of Hayman were being sold relatively cheaply. So I put together a Hayman 40/40 and went from there.

I still love playing, 50 years on. My taste in music has remained with rock - melodic, prog, and glam, although not everything in those genres. And when I was young I aspired to a Fender, which I eventually bought, then I played a Warwick and the P went in part-exchange for it. Then, twenty years later, I moved over to 5 strings - the Warwick is still here though. Most recent couple of basses were a Barcus 6-string fretless and an OLP Tony Levin.

2 hours ago, PaulThePlug said:

Dunlop Nylon, 1mm

Don't like the powdery feel of the tortex material, and they are too stiff for the thickness.

I use the same - I don't use plectrums much on bass so I just stick with what I use on guitar.