tauzero

The more highly trained of us can go off-topic within the first post of a thread.

I was trying to think where I'd heard the Schumann resonance mentioned recently - it was in The Listeners[1], and I remember thinking then (it was referred to as an acoustic phenomenon) that as it's an electromagnetic effect, you'd have to have very strange ears to hear it. [1] A recent television series, well worth avoiding

If I'd known, I might have considered coming out to see you. OTOH, Mrs Zero went out yesterday morning and reported back that it was dreadful weather, so maybe not, and I hadn't got to bed till about 3 with a long drive home and post-gig buzz. Ankerside has been gradually bleeding out for years since Ventura Park (the big just-out-of-town shopping centre) opened, hence all the closed shops.

Makes exactly the same point as I would about numerology - the number 432 relies on the duration of a second, and a second is an arbitrary quantity.

It helps to be aware of what you've done. If you keep making the same mistake, you need to work on it. Generally it's a one-off. I have one song I need to do more work on as I keep stumbling over a couple of notes, everything else seems OK.

Last night's gig was the Black Bear in Tewkesbury. A very old pub which was renovated a little while ago, car parking was 500 metres away but we could park outside for load in and out. We were originally told the pub would do our sound, the manager who told us that subsequently left and then we were told we'd be using their speakers for FOH but needed everything else. So I just put everything in the car. It turned out that they have active speakers attached to the beams along the pub - I just needed to plug the main outs from the mixer into the wall. We only put vocals through the PA (I'm going to start putting a bit of bass drum through too). And as I was most of the way through setting things up, I realised that my mic stand was in the stands bag, which I'd left in the car as I didn't need the speaker stands, and parked in the car park. Damn. Still, the staff were very nice and gave us free drinks (and the Hopfather was rather nice). The white things on the beam above the guitarists (also just about visible above me) are the speakers. The gig itself went very well. Very enthusiastic audience, although one who had (judging by the state of his shirt) been doing a lot of quaffing [1] let his exuberant dancing exceed his coordination and collided with a monitor a couple of times - the first time, it pulled the mains lead out (must start feeding it through the handle) which Mrs Zero saw and quickly rectified. There was also an old bloke with a harmonica who just kept blowing it (mostly inaudibly). I kept thinking "Not now, Arthur" - quite appropriately as it happened, the Roses Theatre is just around the corner and that's where Eric Morecambe died. We came home as the wind was getting up - a sixty mile drive for us and the drummer, much less for the singer, somewhere in between for the other guitarist. At least the M42 closure had been cancelled so it wasn't too bad a drive. The journey down had been rather worse - rush hour traffic on a Friday and a crash on the M42 so we went round the M6/M5 instead. [1] Quaffing is like drinking but messier - T. Pratchett

Ah, the Variax prototype.

You're entitled to your opinion, although it is completely wrong.

Or is it the g as in garage or the g as in garage? PS. Yes, I know it's been said earlier.

I've got a Boss Katana Go and a Nux Mighty Plug Amateur. I prefer the Boss once I got it properly connected. I also use the Moises app (unpaid version) to split the bass out from the other instruments, so I can listen specifically to the bass track or play everything else without the bass so I can accompany it.

Is there a reason you can't just play a semitone down, or just use a detuned bass and play the standard tuning songs a semitone up?

Convert the headless Rickenbacker copy that you made into a headed one?

Let us know when you get a phone-shaped bruise on your head.

Swiss Tony says the go slower knob is the one to have.

The strings look symmetrical as they pass over the pickup, so as you say more likely something wrong at the neck joint rather than both the pickup and the bridge being misplaced. Not unattractive but not exactly striking either.

And without the S suffix, as that's for short-scale (SMS is short multiscale).

I have a couple - one Ibanez EHB1265MS and one Chinese headless. I have no problem playing them but I'm not convinced that they offer any great tonal advantage over parallel fret basses.

3000 fake Gibsons etc would be about £500k to buy from AliExpress, so should their worth be the cost price or the price of equivalent Gibsons? Anyroadup, a large shipment like that is surely going to a retailer rather than to individuals. I wonder if the intended buyer will ever be revealed.

Well, actually... Sorry this is a bit vague, I read it all thirty years ago or more. Can't remember what model of car it was but it was a car used in a famous rally or endurance race, during which it was crashed and a chassis rail damaged. As a temporary repair, a length of angle iron or similar was welded in, and after the race the chassis was properly repaired. The car was up for sale, and included was the length of angle iron that had been welded in.

I have two basses with identical control cavities and lost the cover for one. I got a sheet of ABS https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/262093434727 and used masking tape to roughly follow the lines of the edge of the existing cover, then drew round the cover on the masking tape. I scored along the straight edges and broke the ABS to give a rough shape, then used sandpaper to get it properly to shape. Drilled and countersank holes for the screws, and all was well.

I'm rather short of headless fretless basses, so a headless fretless 5-string Sei Flamboyant would be nice. Toying with the idea of replacing my GR Bass AT800 with an AT212V to use with the Tecamp Puma.

If we've got to have a headstock: Antoniotsai - how many bass brands can you hang from a washing line? Sei:

Not something you see every day. https://www.gumtree.com/p/for-sale/1970s-john-birch-fretless-thunderbird-bass-handmade-in-the-uk/1490339252

Just asked for Pino Palladino fretless sound from Paul Young's records. I shall have a play with the settings it's provided and see how it turns out.

Make a 6-string with three sets of octave strings, using blade type pickups.