Maude

Totally agree @Lozz196. Musically it's his bass that drives the songs, I always feel that his bass is the songs and the guitar is the aggressive attitude. I feel privileged to be in a band that always features a handful of Jam songs in every set, add to that some Specials, Small Faces, Who, etc and it really is bass heaven, and the rest of the band realise the bass is driving things and want it loud and upfront. Oh I miss gigging.

Everything Starts With An E - E Zee Possee

Lady M already thinks I'm a "totally unique instrument", without rummaging in other people's skips. I like to think of myself as a hybrid half womble, half Stig of the Dump kind of recycler and like the idea though. 🙂👍

Don't tempt me with projects I'll never finish. 😁

Midnight Train To Georgia - Gladys Knight & the Pips

Now I'm Feeling Zombified - Alien Sex Fiend

If I had a hammer - Sam Cooke (and various others)

This bass is simply stunning. Visually everything just works perfectly, from the warmth of the colours to the modern hardware. The craftsmen ship is, from the diary, absolutely top notch and I can only imagine it'll sound superb. We all like different features but there is nothing on this bass I could imagine changing. Absolutely perfect. 🙂👍

Broken Stones - Paul Weller

But is it a maple/rosewood thing or a lacquered/unlacquered thing? I know that's kind of irrelevant as maple/lacquered, rosewood/unlacquered tend to go hand in hand. It it would be interesting to compared a lacquered rosewood to an unlacquered maple fretboard just to see if those perceptions swapped. Rick's have lacquered bubinga fretboards and maybe that adds to their sound.

I know, I'm an idiot. It ruined that gig for everyone. The audience were visibly shocked at the deterioration in sound quality.

During the first half of a gig once I noticed my top strap button had worked loose in the last song. I finished the song by holding the neck up with my left to take the weight for fear of the strap button pulling out, and sending bass tumbling groundwards. In the break I tried to tighten it but the screw wouldn't tighten properly so I went to the bar and purchased a box of matches, pushed one into the screw hole and broke it off flush. The strap button screw now did up nice and tight, great stuff, now I can enjoy the second half worry free. How wrong was I? All the way through that second set I could hear that the wood composition had changed in that bass. Like an idiot I had not asked for tone matches. What a fool I felt.

Ask - The Smiths

Blanket on the Ground - Billie Jo Spears

I've done similar when I got my Ashdown B Social amp. You plug in headphones and it doesn't cut the speakers automatically, well who knew? Everyone in the house and next door it turns out. 😄

There's something mildly disturbing about that, but in not sure what.

Yes 5050 appears to be the hollow body (or semi) version of the 4040. Note the 'f' hole. It's definitely very cool bass, but too ropey and too much missing for me. You could a replica neck made, refinish it and make the missing perspex parts, and it would be a very cool bass to keep, but wouldn't have any of the value of an original. Must stop now as I'm talking myself into it. 😁

That's pretty cool, and sounds surprisingly good when mixed together. Our drummer in the acoustic band made eight tuned pipes from 40mm waste pipe which you could hit/slap on the floor at 45 degrees to create a similar sound to the clip above. The band did covers of all sorts in our own style. We used the pipes to do the intro to Ed Sheeran's 'Shape Of You', each band member having one or two pipes each. It worked really well and was a real attention grabber (gimmick) but there just wasn't enough volume to gig it, and rigging microphones for all the pipes was too much trouble so we never actually used them. A relief we didn't have to play Sheeran but it would've been cool intro.

Marching On - The Alarm

Waiting For An Alibi - Thin Lizzy

This is no time to be thinking about swinging!

I've just had a brainwave, we're all trying to stop the sound at source, so to speak, but why don't we look at the other end. How pleased would your new neighbour be to receive a little gift when you move in? Noise cancelling headphones! Nobody can be angry at someone who's just given them a gift.

I think sometimes them telling you, or not, is the problem. You clearly don't want to upset them but a lot of the time they feel this way too and refrain from complaining until they're ready to explode, all the while you've been oblivious to the irritation you're causing. As well as isolating and keeping the noise down as much as possible, the best thing is to really make them understand that if they say something then you really won't see it as complaining and would rather they acted like a noise meter and gave you constant feedback over bottling it up until breaking point. Most people just want to keep the peace and say nothing but that's not always best. Other than that, just get the smoke machine and strobes out, and when they knock to complain, fill the hall with smoke back-lit by strobes and answer the door in full Gene Simmons costume, make up and blood with an Axe bass strapped on. P.s. Flame thrower is optional, but a nice touch. Best of luck. 😉

I live in a terraced cottage, 200 years old so really thick Cornish stone (slate) and granite walls. The living room and kitchen, each with a chimney breast, are on the adjoining wall of each house so reasonable sound isolation. The only way for me practice without disturbing anyone is to use headphones. I actually prefer to be able to really lose myself with headphones on rather than use an amp and always be aware others can hear me. No matter how nice my neighbours are about, the reality is they'd rather not hear me so I use headphones, in fact I haven't even got an amp in the house anymore. Unfortunately I feel there are three options/outcomes for practice at home. 1, Headphones, no noise so no neighbour agro. 2, Amplified or acoustic instruments, Discuss with neighbors and set boundaries, but accept they still would rather you were quite and annoyances will probably build over time. 3, Who cares, play loud and f 'em all, pretty guaranteed outcome of fall outs. Electric instruments are easy, plug in headphones and there's guaranteed peace with the neighbours. Personally I don't see the need to have a big speaker in an amplifier turned up to a decent volume for my ears in a room when I can have little speakers in headphones which will supply that same volume direct to my ears. Acoustic instruments are trickier and I don't think there is any perfect answer. When let rip on, a piano is a very loud instrument.

I suppose it depends on how they are produced. If it's pure production line, as in one man stands there all day long just screwing on bridges with an electric driver, then he can do hundreds a day. If all the other parts are done in the same manner and there are multiple people doing the same component then it's thousands per day. Also how much is actually automated, are frets just cut and pressed in by a robot? You'd have to know the exact manufacturing process to work out how many actual hours go into each bass.