tauzero

Just right for making a headed Wingbass.

How can you resist https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Bass-Rock-Quality-Enamel-Lapel-Pin-Badge/230651100061 ?

The GB74 has a plain body rather than a cap, a J-type pickguard, and a different preamp. The GB4 is similar to the GB94.

Couldn't you just make a fake front for the Ashdown that's a bit wider than the Markbass? http://www.metalsucks.net/wp-content/uploads/2013/07/Immortal-fake-cabs-604x453.jpg

It's a bit of a game doing that but here it is, on the settee at our holiday cottage (see thread in General Discussion about taking a bass on holiday with you).

Bought a Cort GB4 from Colin a week ago. Very helpful, good communication, and nice to meet in person, albeit briefly as I needed to get back home.

In the traditional BC way, met up with @clunkie66 at Toddington Services and exchanged money for bass. It's a handsome instrument, Jazz based, with Seymour Duncan pickups - the bridge one is MM rather than Jazz. Active 3-band preamp, with switchable mid. The neck is very nice and well-finished - Colin did have the frets levelled so I can't say how good it was out of the factory. It's 38mm nut and 21mm thick at the 1st fret, which makes it about the same dimensions as my Warwick JD Thumb. I don't generally do significant things with tone controls on active basses - mostly I set them flat. There's a wide range of sounds available, and after some experimenting, I've found a non-flat setting which I like, which is a bit meatier than the basic flat setting. All in all, a great bass which shows what you can get on a budget.

I've got a tribute band rehearsal the day after I get back from holidays, so I've taken my new (to me) Cort GB4 with me along with a Tascam GB10. We're not at gig-ready state yet, hence wanting to keep everything fresh. Mrs Zero is fine with it, and she'll be doing a bit of revision herself, as she's recovering from a nasty bout of sepsis and missed a couple of gigs and any rehearsal for the last month or so. I've also taken a guitar with me in case we do any open mic nights.

And Hayman. There was a special tool (basically a zig-zag rod) that made it easier to adjust, as it's tricky to turn it 90 degrees with a straight rod. Um. I know what I mean...

Ah yes, Kenny and his jazz men were great.

Duran Duran gets slagged off a fair bit in Barbarella. They're complimentary about T'Pau in Star Trek though.

So we can buy them and put them in a safe place, then buy them again when the flat pack arrives and we can't find them? Or is it just me?

Alan Cringean (I'll third the suggestions to get in touch with him) got Overwater along to a few of the Moffat bass bashes - they're in Carlisle, so not ridiculously far from you.

I hope I can make it for this one - I've missed the last two or three so my cake reserves are seriously low.

The originals band I'm in, Gasfoodlodging, released a CD a couple of weeks back. It's just had a review by Ryan's Gig Guide, a Birmingham/Black Country monthly that has replaced Brum Beat. Modesty forbids me from quoting it but it can be found here: https://ryansgigguide.com/2019/June/8-9/ No bribes were involved in the production of this review, and the reviewer is not known to any member of the band.

My former covers band did some gigs in Munich three years on the trot: http://lightning.tauzero.org.uk/munich.html

But we still don't know which mods we can delete.

Are we marking Blue's homework again?

I speak from experience. I owned one for a while. The first gig I had with it was upstairs.

After you've lugged that into a venue, the last thing you'll want to do is carry in an extension cab too, especially if you then have to lift the combo onto the extension. I'm sure depleted uranium is used in the construction of those things.

Ireland have done a cracking job of making sure not to have to host it next year.

It goes against my very being, but if you're tributing someone who often uses a plectrum, things are taken out of your hands. Or, indeed, put into them.

Um, holding plectrums. I use plectrums and fingerpick on guitar, and occasionally a plectrum on bass. Not sure what else they could be used for, except maybe an emergency biscuit if you carefully cut it to shape.

They're very useful. I've got one stuck to the scratchplate on my Variax guitar, and another stuck to a strap plectrum holder and clipped to the strap of one bass. I wouldn't stick one on paintwork or onto wood.

Pretty sure mine has all the screens the same, but I do my editing on the PC so only really use the screens to check which patch I'm on and for the tuner.