uk_lefty

It's still up with no signs of movement but I am careful with it, keeping the load bearing parts nearest the wall fixings and having the acoustic guitar on there which weighs very little.

This all day long. There's an Andertons video where they compare some semi-hollows including the Warwick Star and Epiphone Jack Cassady, some others too I think... That should give you a good idea of the possible sounds. I had an Epiphone JC and found it really versatile, great bass.

Quick q for anyone who has had this done... I am considering buying a very beaten up vintage bass. At some point in the past someone has done a very bad defret. I think the board is unusable and would want it removing and replacing with a nice slab of unlined ebony or wenge. How much would I be spending on an operation like that, ballpark, please? And are there any recommendations? I have emailed Shuker but expect he's a very busy chap, any other recommendations gratefully received. Thank you

Have listened to this album almost non-stop. Great tracks, I wish I could play like that!!!

Really enjoying that! I like the meaty tone with a little bit of nasal accent in it too. I avoided the seasickness inducing camera work by reading the comments and allowing the video to play as I scrolled down page 1.

I think for the look headless is the way forward. I had a cricket bat Hohner before but didn't get on with the string spacing. The dream would be a headless bass with a body, like a Status... I had a Washburn Status but the neck was always bowing one way or another so I moved it on. I've never seen a lefty Hohner Jack before.

I've got a US one already!

Ooohhh Yamaha Motion basses... They look the part

So, I outed three basses recently. Now I've got the itch for a new one, but I really need it honestly!!! 😁 Context: my main band is a four piece doing mostly 2000s covers. I also have an 80s band starting up and I fancy having a very 80s bass for it. Being left handed my options are limited, so here's some ideas: I've got a nice Mexican P bass. It currently looks 70's, black body and guard, maple neck, cream pup covers. I could "dress this up" more like an 80s style bass: white guard, white pup covers, white plastic knobs and maybe gold hardware at a stretch. Buy another bass... Now, funds are limited, so no brand new Status unfortunately. I've mailed someone who was selling an Aria SB a long time ago to see if it's still available. I could easily get a Steinberger Spirit cricket bat but I'm not a big fan. I will keep an eye out for Westone's, Washburn Status, etc... if funds allowed and I got impatient I could go to the bass hunter chap in Japan, good chance of a lefty Aria SB out there I reckon? Then there's the others that aren't so distinctly 80s but could be worth a punt just because... I'm drawn to Warwicks now and there's a few Thumb basses available in London. I've also come across a heavily modified Fender P bass from the late 70s that needs a hell of a lot of work but that could become a very versatile fretless vintage bass. What would you do?

I guess I did this but it wasn't as straightforward as simply a better opportunity. I had become really close friends with the band over the five years and felt really bad about leaving, but I had to. There were lots of contributing factors: Set list barely changed in five years; Arguments over what to put in the set list, which links to it being more about what some of the guys wanted to play Vs what worked for our audience; Playing random gigs hours away for little or no pay, but not happy about playing for good money forty minutes from home; Rehearsal time being spent mostly on waiting for singer and drummer to arrive, forty mins drummer set up, then fag break, then a little bit of rehearsal before next fag break; Being awkward with gig enquiries, only wanting to do the same gigs for people they already knew... So we spend all our gigs playing the same set to the same people; All of those things built up and led me to quit. The final straw for me was a gig being booked on a date everyone knew I was away. With no rehearsal. I found out about the gig through a Facebook post. So I wished them luck with the gig and advised they get a dep because I was, as in the diary and as I had answered when asked, away at a friend's wedding. I auditioned for another band, got the gig, then quit the first band. It was the best thing I could have done. I am now setting up an 80s band with the guitarist from band number 1, four years or so after quitting. He and and another have come to a handful of my gigs. The story among the first band is that I was never available for gigs and I was holding them back... Well, if you count missing one gig because we had a baby due around that time and another because someone booked and announced a gig despite knowing I was away... Anyhow, all water under the bridge. I saw the one who had the biggest issue with it all a few weeks back and it's all good. The silly thing is with the first band I was really close with them all. It's just that two of four of them were great friends but not great band mates.

That dent is odd, and no mention of it in the description! It's a nice looking bass for sure.

https://ebay.us/m/hwxR17 Interesting looking bass! I have no idea if the price is right, just a quirky looking thing.

Auditioning a singer turns out to be harder than you think... We've still not done it. Undeterred we will continue with the guitarists friend providing vocals for now while we get the songs tight. We had a vote on the rest of the songs to learn, each band member given a list of 80 songs and a scale of 1-5 to score the songs. 1 = I'd rather quit than play this; 5 = we absolutely MUST do this. There was some interesting patterns in the data, but it has given us a solid top 10 to work through next. Practice tonight. Can't wait

This is quite long... Basically, these are really good if you're a beginner in the world of IEM. Just in case anyone is wondering what these are like... A few weeks back Thomann were doing a deal on IEM kits. Not huge discounts but enough to tempt me into it. I have said in the past that I wouldn't go IEM, I felt I would feel disconnected, not be able to hear the audience feedback, we'd have nobody to check if FOH sound was any good... Well, curiosity got the better of me. I bought some Sure SE215 earphones for £85 and the T-Bone IEM 75 for £125. These were the special offer prices and the exchange rates are the time. Thomann threw in some cleaning kit for the earphones, I also didn't realise that the T-Bone system came with its own earphones. I tried the earphones at home, I've heard so much about custom molds, number of drivers... These just sounded bl00dy good plugged into my multi-fx. They're comfortable, with memory foam squishy bits to stick in your ear hole and moulded plastic to sit snug within the ear. Cannot fault them. I tested them out on a recent gig where we had a pro sound engineer at the venue and a big stage. I don't have a wireless for the bass anymore so just a long lead, but I could wander around freely. The T-Bone is dead easy to set up, I just put it on top of my amp so it had good lone of sight to my receiver. The receiver is a nice little unit that clips to your belt or guitar strap, takes two AA batteries that had no problem in a 2hr gig. I didn't get to test the range over more than five metres but it was fine for that. Sound quality... What I noticed was that by using this set up I still got enough ambient noise through that I could hear the audience and didn't feel disconnected. In my ears I needed to turn the volume up to a sweet spot where I got all the instruments through the earphones, I started off dead low and turned up slowly, initially thinking I had one of the guitars missing from the mic but I just needed to get to the right spot. Through the gig I had the vocals absolutely crystal clear and I wasn't straining to hear lead guitar or backing vox as I sometimes do with monitor mixes. I was able to have my bass amp a lot lower on stage volume than usual too. After the gig my head felt so much clearer than when I play with a monitor mix and custom earplugs. It felt like a real game changer. I played the next week at a gig without IEMs just to feel the difference and for this weekend both gigs will go through IEMs. I'm pretty sure that the T-Bone and Sure set up is akin to playing a Harley Benton bass through a Fender Rumble 15. It's great for its price point, very usable, but more expensive kit will bring out more nuance. Right now, I don't need that nuance, I'm just enjoying what I've got! Transportation-wise I just received a £20 flight case off Amazon that I've been able to get the set up into very snug.