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I have donated the £49 from the bass raffle and Spondonbassed's kind donation to Basschat as agreed yesterday.

Thank you all for coming. It's nice that there are so many repeat customers/offenders! Thank you to Jo, Mrs. Norris and whoever made the chocolate chip biscuits for making cake and biscuits and to those who also brought cake, this is rapidly becoming the custom bass builder and cake bash Raffling Andy's amazing prize of an acoustic bass raised £49 that will go to BC towers to keep Ped and Kiwi in Jaffa Cakes! Pictures later when I can be bothered to get up from the sofa Thank you all once again, another one next year?

IT'S BASH DAY As always despite having months to do it I always forget something. In this case it's to mention that I was going to do another raffle, so if you have any spare relevant tat or custom basses lying around then bring it

Jelly and ice cream, now there's a way to make a bass messy Unfortunately for RR I moved the event to cope with me being in Germany for our nephew's confirmation. Rest assured, all things being equal, it will be back to it's normal slot next year. Oh bugger, have I just committed to doing it *again*?

It's this Saturday guys n gals! I don't know about WiFi though.

No strippers as far as I know, unless Andy counts because of the amount of paint he's removed

Silly question, but thinking back to the drawings and mock ups, have you cut the bridge slot the wrong way, or am I seeing the top as the back? It makes sense in my mildly tipsy head!

Is it tomorrow yet?

Oh yes, list... 1. Si600 - GK rig (house rig) Fender P V so GrammeFriday can get GAS all over again! 2. Tauzero - One or two SEI's or an Ash 3. T-Web 4. Ashweb 5. Len_derby 6. Markstuk 7.

It's just a social really, meet people from the forum and try any basses that get brought along. Show off your own kit if you brought anything, drink tea or coffee and if you're lucky eat cake!

[color=#282828][font=helvetica, arial, sans-serif]It's baaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaack! MBB4! I need my head looking at...[/font][/color] [color=#282828][font=helvetica, arial, sans-serif]The Midlands Bass Bash 2017 is taking place on the 13th May 2017 from 1200 to 1700.[/font][/color] [color=#282828][font=helvetica, arial, sans-serif]The venue is[/font][/color] [color=#282828][font=helvetica, arial, sans-serif]Brockington College,[/font][/color] [color=#282828][font=helvetica, arial, sans-serif]Blaby Road,[/font][/color] [color=#282828][font=helvetica, arial, sans-serif]Enderby,[/font][/color] [color=#282828][font=helvetica, arial, sans-serif]Leicester,[/font][/color] [color=#282828][font=helvetica, arial, sans-serif]LE19 4AQ[/font][/color] [color=#282828][font=helvetica, arial, sans-serif]It's easy to get to from J21 of the M1. Take the A5460 and at the first roundabout turn right onto the B4114 towards Narborough. Carry on the B4114 past Fosse Park on the right until you get to another roundabout. Turn right here onto Blaby road, the B582. Follow this road and once you cross the motorway Brockington College is the next left.[/font][/color] [color=#282828][font=helvetica, arial, sans-serif]In the left hand corner of the car park is direct access to the front of the school. If you want to use that to unload that's fine, but it would be appreciated if you would then park in the car park proper afterwards. The room we are using is the first door on the left, just beyond the disabled parking bays. We'll try and get a sign up with an arrow![/font][/color] [color=#282828][font=helvetica, arial, sans-serif]There is a firm limit of 7 amp rigs in the room[/font][/color] but if you have one handmade by dusky thighed maidens that is acoustically perfect in every way then I'll make an exception to the rule[color=#282828][font=helvetica, arial, sans-serif]! The room isn't huge and I'd like to be able to hear afterwards and be allowed back next year [/font][/color] [color=#282828][font=helvetica, arial, sans-serif] I'm bringing my GK kit as a house rig for everyone to play through should you want to.[/font][/color] [color=#282828][font=helvetica, arial, sans-serif]We're going to ask for a £5 entry fee on the day. On the off chance enough people turn up to cover the costs any extra will be donated to a charity voted for by the attendees.[/font][/color] [color=#282828][font=helvetica, arial, sans-serif]I think that's about it, any other information will appear in this post at the top of the thread and then be bumped.[/font][/color] [color=#282828][font=helvetica, arial, sans-serif]Can any possible/definite/probably attendees put their names on the list so we have a reasonable idea of how many to expect.[/font][/color]

Two people have voted for my badly play fuzzy mush? No accounting for taste is there?

[quote name='leschirons' timestamp='1464946145' post='3063951'] (For some strange reason, my "b" prints out as an emoticon) [/quote] That's due to the emoticon function seeing b no space bracket as try b ) or b:

Thank you! I was playing about with octave spacing a bit. I can get a three b "chord" using low b, A string b and G string b, but it didn't sound right with the chimeish bit, so it's only a 2 b chord. Made sense in my head anyway 😜

I done made me a noodle. It's more pot noodle than anything quality and no loopers were harmed in the making of this noodle, though it would have made it slightly easier to play!! [url="https://soundcloud.com/simon-orchard/bass-chat-noodle-may-2016"]Noodle[/url] It was played on an Aria Pro II Magna Series 5 String w/ EMG pickups into GK MB500 Fusion into Zoom H4n. B Channel with high gain on the valve pre.

[quote name='Happy Jack' timestamp='1464333848' post='3058454'] Were you planning to ask for their opinion, or will your guitarist be able to make up his own mind about what he likes? [/quote] He'd like an Ibanez, but he's sensible enough to get what he needs if that doesn't suit. Unlike me who wanted a P-Bass when in reality there are thinner necked 5ers in a PJ configuration which may actually suit me better! Thank you, we'll try PMT in Northampton. A jolly to Brum with pub stop does sound like a good idea to though 🙂

Are they any good? I got the feeling that PMT weren't that interested, musical items are a commodity to sell rather than something to be interested in if that makes sense.

The guitarist in my band wants to buy a new guitar. Any ideas of a guitar emporium where we can go to check out the options? I know the good places for bass gear but I'm a bit lost when it comes to our skinny stringed brethren. We're in Northampton BTW, so London or Brum is perfectly acceptable for travel.

I think we might be going to see Terrorvision in Coventry next month. I need to beat the troops into shape so I can get the right number of tickets!

[quote name='BigRedX' timestamp='1464018807' post='3055795'] Mr Venom spends most of his time in the audience so he doesn't need much room on stage. [/quote] Or *on* the bar, or in the street!

That's an interesting approach to a drop D tuning. I've never seen it before. Does it cause any issues with not being able to play an open E or I guess you just learn to work around it.

I'm sure there was a thread on here about practice/ home studio spaces, but I can't find it. Anyway, after a tidy up and moving some shelving around this is where the music is made in our house! [URL=http://s1118.photobucket.com/user/SOrchard6/media/Mobile%20Uploads/IMG_20160510_173214_zpswxztplsm.jpg.html][IMG]http://i1118.photobucket.com/albums/k605/SOrchard6/Mobile%20Uploads/IMG_20160510_173214_zpswxztplsm.jpg[/IMG][/URL]

I'm going to get one in this month. Promise!

It may stay worthless then, I'm rubbish at taking pictures of anything! Thank you all for coming along today, it was great to see you and have the support for this crazy idea