pete.young

6 minutes ago, Mudpup said:

80 years old, recovering from the flu, stupidly hot weather and allegedly spent £300,000 of his own money to bring the full band over from Vegas for this one gig. He's earned his time for me so I'll cut him a bit of slack...

Nice to see a Duesenberg Star bass getting a rare outing too.

13 hours ago, Mrbigstuff said:

Politics will see this thread closed.

 

back on topic, I think the bassist in the script was playing a Tom Stenback. If  it was then it’s possibly the poshest bass so far 😂

Ironic, given he only seemed to be playing 4 notes. Dullest act by miles, landfill indie personified.

2 hours ago, Phil Starr said:

II've recently discovered Rallly which does look and behave just like the older versions of Doodle. 

Thanks for that Phil, it looks really useful.

I've not had any problems with BandMule crashing, ether on my current Pixel 6a or the Redmi Note 9 that preceded it.

Dont try this at home kids

i have a load of HOAL5 and HOAL7 pond cable somewhere, it never occurred to me to make speaker cables out of it until now. It's very flexible, and also totally waterproof so handy for those swimming pool photoshoots. I used it to repair umbelical dive lights which were a big deal before the invention of the LED.

6 hours ago, stevie said:

I can explain why this is happening and why LFSys cabs have been designed specifically to fix this problem. But I'm sure someone else who's not as heavily invested in LFSys will explain.

I have been told that it is due to the orientation of the High-Mid driver.  @stevie if you are going to write an explanation for  @Sean it might be worth putting it on the web site.

It made me think I was too loud because I could actually hear everything, instead of the sound blasting past me at knee level, and the band told me to turn it up.

On 21/06/2025 at 12:54, bertbass said:

Sorry, but if you're in one band then that's it, you don't play in other bands.  Help out in an emergency as long as no one else minds.  Not enough gigs to keep you happy, get more gigs.  Wrong type of music, leave and join another band.  I think you get where I'm coming from.

That might work for people who can only play one instrument.

Yes, I've used it. It's OK but not brilliant. Wheres The Gig was much easier to use but they started charging silly money for it.

It does some things that Google Calendar does not. The Availability screen shows at a glance when people are available or not for  a gig, provided that people fill it in and stand by it.

It does set list management and you can build up a library of songs that you can then drag into set lists. It has limited multi-band support but this may have improved since I last used it.

If someone suggests BAND, run away. We 'use' it in the blues band, and it's worse than useless.

I have a  Monza, which is the 10" version, it copes perfectly well with my 5 string basses and so did the Goodwood pre-production cab that I had on trial for a short while, so I'm sure the bigger driver in the Monaco will be absolutely fine.

it replaced an EBS2x12, which wasn't being worked particularly hard, but the Monza copes with a relatively loud blues band. Not tried it outdoors yet.

I can't take any credit for that - I'm standing on the shoulders of the giants who also post in this forum! I can't remember who suggested it or I'd credit them.

One option might be to increase the height under the board by putting some bigger feet on it: like this maybe https://www.diy.com/departments/diall-black-thermoplastic-vulcanizates-tpv-leg-tip-dia-32mm-pack-of-2/1725483_BQ.prd

39 minutes ago, Phil Starr said:

Thanks Pete I was a self taught and not very successful banjo player back in the days when Scruggs was seen as not really folk music. My 'tutors' were Pete Seeger's book and another which I think was called the Art Of The Mountain Banjo or some such name. I spent hours trying to get the picking styles right but foolishly never really got on top of many songs. That three finger technique that she uses was one that I learned at the time. I never heard anyone at the time describe down picking or frailing as clawhammer but certainly now that seems to be common usage. It's nearer 60 years than 50 since I last seriously tried to play the banjo so I may have misremembered

Art of the Mountain Banjo was by Art Rosenbaum, I think I have a copy somewhere. The first time I heard the term 'clawhammer' was when Ken Perlman's book came out in the '70s. I learned to play about the same time as you: I learnt from listening to Guy Tucker, who lived in Manchester in the late 70s, and from books by John Burke and Miles Krassen. There are lots of terms for the style, and various attempts to bold on esoteric definitions after the fact, but I think it boils down to a matter of opinion.

16 hours ago, Phil Starr said:

Now can somebody tell me what that picking style is called. When I learned it (a long time ago) it was called clawhammer with the pinch being the 'claw'. Now i see internet guides callingthe picking that I call 'frailing' being described as clawhammer.

The picking style that Rhiannon is using in the clip is not clawhammer. It is an old-time 3-finger picking style, which pre-dates the modern Scruggs-style bluegrass roll which is normal nowadays.

This banjo is also unusual in that it is tuned a 5th lower than normal 5-string G tuning, and I think the strings are probably nylon. 

For sale: Epiphone Masterbilt Century semi-acoustic archtop bass guitar.

In excellent condition with no marks that I can see. The original piezo pickup installation is still present and a magnetic pickup has been professionally fitted with a separate jack socket. I don't know what make, but looks similar to Artec? Short scale, strung with Labella 940FL flats and includes Tourtech hard case.

Acoustically the bass is loud enough for home noodling and might cope with a single acoustic guitar but like most semi-acoustics needs to be plugged in for anything louder. The magnetic pickup gives a balanced woody sound with a bit of thump. I've not succeeded in getting much out of the piezo, but not really needed to.

Collection from Ipswich or a meet-up are strongly preferred. In theory it's possible to ship this at cost, if I can find enough cardboard and a courier who will accept a package this big. Price is £550, not really looking for trades. Stand not included.

45 minutes ago, prowla said:

I went to Canterbury a few years back and had a look in the Hobgoblin shop.

 

I did the same a few weeks ago, and spotted a Maya Ricky copy in great condition at a bargain price. See Happy Jack's thread.

The other thing I like about Hobgoblin in Canterbury is that they keep all the value-subtraction instruments such as cajons, didgery-doos, bodhrans, shaky eggs and so forth together in one area of the shop, so I can avoid going into that corner altogether.

I've also had great service from the Rathbone Place shop a number of times, and sold a couple of instruments through them before they put their commission charges up to the current 40%.

Was at Bonnie Raitt's last gig of the UK tour leg last night. No photographs, I'm happy to respect the request not to film or take pictures.

Bonnie was in great form and the band were excellent. They were joined for a couple of songs by the support Jon Cleary who used to be a member of the band.

Finding accommodation in Brighton with parking is next to impossible, so I went down on the bike and came back last night after the gig. 29 degrees on the way down, road works closure issues all the way back, but it was worth it.

10 hours ago, Dad3353 said:

 

Additionally, units built with the alternate power module include
the added pre/post switch that lets the user set the XLR output to
provide pre- (direct) or post-preamp/EQ signal.

 

It would depend, then, on the exact model of your amp whether it has this feature or not.

I don't think this is the likely cause. Post pre-amp signal is normally taken before the feeed goes to the power amp so won't be affected by the master volume. My TecAmp works this way.

I think this must be a design feature of the Rumble 100.

They missed 'laziness' - it's written on every headstock. It's a Fender brand now, but the Squier company was created in the 1890s by one Victor Squier.

You have a PM sir.

Your best bet is to take some pictures and post them in the EUB and Double Bass Forum. That's where people who might be able to advise you are likely to be found.

18 hours ago, nilorius said:

Here i am - Yamaha TRB 5pII bubinga.

 

Very nice. There's a great clip of Ida Neilsen reviewing one of these on YouTube somewhere.

My L2500 Tribute had very narrow spacing, probably less than 17mm. That's why I got rid of it, I prefer wider spacing. I've not played a USA but I'm led to believe that the necks on the Tributes are much chunkier front-to-back.

Most of the Ibanez range seem to be quite tight, except for the BTB series.

If you're going to put the board into the loop and plug the bass into the amp input, it might help to know whether the loop is serial or parallel. If parallel, only part of the signal will be modified by the effects (50% if there is no blend control).

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