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External hoovering only. If I open the amp up and start messing with it, I'll end up with a dog's dinner...

Ha! made me giggle, that!

I bought a used LH500 off Gumtree. It's 5 years old, but the original owner says he's hardly used it. It certainly looks mint. It sounds great - just as I was hoping, and all the knobs and switches work properly. But - it smells. Like a dog. The smell seems to be coming from the right-hand side front and rear vents, as opposed to the middle back vent. I've washed out the foam filter and hoovered everywhere I can, which isn't that much. What do we think, team? Is this simply dust which will dissipate with use, or is it a sign of something more sinister like a failing valve?

Kev, I'm in Stockport area - Marple, to be precise.

Just a thought. I bought the Harley Benton shorty as a "throw away" introduction to short scale. I replaced the pickups and wiring loom. Overall cost was under £100. It sounds unbelievably good for that money. It's my back up to my Mustang, but I choose to use the HBS for some Motown and reggae numbers because of its P-like tone. It was a very wise buy. Could be worth considering, Kev?

I went short scale 18 months ago because of neck and arm problems. I have 3 short scale (30") basses, and they have noticeably different playing characteristics. This is mainly because of the position of the neck relative to the body. See Photos. In photo 1, left to right, Lakland hollowbody short scale, Fender MIJ Mustang, Harley Benton Shorty. Notice the different bridge positions relative to the end of the body for each bass. The Lakland's neck projects quite a lot further to my left when I'm playing. It feels much more like a 34" scale bass as a result. The Mustang has a thin, skinny neck which brings my left hand closer in. The HBS brings my left hand even closer in, plus it has a small body, making it feel quite dinky relative to the other two. Howeber, it has the widest neck. See relative nut positions in side-on photos, and see how much "longer" the Lakland neck is. Kev - don't know where you're based, but you're welcome to pop round anytime to try these basses out for size.

https://www.gumtree.com/p/guitar-bass-amplifiers/olp-ernie-ball-musicman-stingray-teal-manchester/1275069418

Here you go. Really easy waist strap/gut support to take the weight off your neck and shoulder.

Ha! Some spinnaker repair tape and a hole punch, and we're done.

You see - there is the solution, right there. Thanks, Stuart.

One of my basses has white binding on the fretboard edge and, in comparison to the unbound rosewood fret boards on my other two basses, the shiny ends of the frets can be difficult to see. The ususal black dot markers are fine, but quite often I can't tell where the frets actually are which can lead to problems if I switch between basses with different neck lengths, but the same scale length. So, I need to add some fret-end markers to the white binding. I'm thinking about using a permamnent marker pen, having carefully masked-off the target areas on the binding. I'm not the most gifted DIY person, so any thoughts or advice before I go ahead, folks? Steve

Could it be 32" scale?

Here you go. Really easy waist strap/gut support to take the weight off your neck and shoulder.

https://www.joinmyband.co.uk/classifieds/paid-work-for-musicians-amp-bands-all-experience-levels-t1024251.html

We've all experienced this to some extent, I'm sure. We've just got a new singer on board. After two rehearsals, he said that many of the existing songs were "awful" and he didn't want to sing them. Oh. Righto then. Let's ask everybody else, shall we? In a secret ballot, all 5 band members tagged each existing song as "Keep" or "Ditch". Only 5 out of the 30 songs attracted 4 or 5 "Ditch" ratings. So we scrapped just those.

[quote name='stevie' timestamp='1508854824' post='3394885'] Silverfoxnik was selling a couple of relatively lightweight JBL cabs which would work well with these. The cutouts are for a 12" driver, but your tens would work fine if you were to cut a simple circular sub-baffle for them. Then you'd have the choice of one cab or two. [url="http://basschat.co.uk/topic/300635-fs-two-jbl-4646a-12-speaker-cabs-unloaded-l25-each-ono-pp/page__p__3373633__hl__jbl__fromsearch__1#entry3373633"]http://basschat.co.u..._1#entry3373633[/url] [/quote] Thanks, Stevie. I'm going to see if I can wrestle the GK 210 along to the rehearsal room, taking in cars, stairs, long corridors en route. I'm hoping band mates will help. Once it's there, I'll leave it. See how it goes.

OK - thanks. Further reading suggests that an open-back guitar cab isn't going to work. Plan B is to buy an old bass combo with a 10 driver and transplant one of the Eminence Delta 10b's into it. Remove the old amp, obviously! For example, just seen a good used Ashdown Perfect 10 30w combo for £45 - how about that?

[url="http://www.eminence.com/pdf/Delta_10B.pdf"]http://www.eminence....f/Delta_10B.pdf[/url] [size=3][font=Arial, serif][b]Mounting Information:[/b][/font][/size][list] [*][size=3][font=Arial, serif]Recommended Enclosure Volume, Sealed: N/a, Vented 12.7-37.9 liters / 0.45-1.34 cu.ft. [/font][/size] [*][size=3][font=Arial, serif]Driver Volume Displaced 86.5 cu.in. / 1.42 liters [/font][/size] [*][size=3][font=Arial, serif]Overall Diameter 10.09", 256.2mm [/font][/size] [*][size=3][font=Arial, serif]Baffle Hole Diameter 9.18", 233.17mm [/font][/size] [*][size=3][font=Arial, serif]Front Sealing Gasket Fitted as standard [/font][/size] [*][size=3][font=Arial, serif]Rear Sealing Gasket Fitted as standard [/font][/size] [*][size=3][font=Arial, serif]Mounting Holes Diameter 0.25", 6.4mm [/font][/size] [*][size=3][font=Arial, serif]Mounting Holes B.C.D. 9.66", 245.4mm [/font][/size] [*][size=3][font=Arial, serif]Depth 4.25", 108mm [/font][/size] [*][size=3][font=Arial, serif]Net Weight 10.8 lbs, 4.9 kg [/font][/size] [*][size=3][font=Arial, serif]Shipping Weight 12 lbs, 5.4 kgs [/font][/size] [/list] I have two of these currently installed in a GK BLX 210 cab. Sounds fantastic, but weighs almost 30KGs. Is there any way I can drop one of the drivers into an off-the-shelf empty cab to make something that sounds OK which I can leave in the rehearsal room? PLEASE don't get technical!! Just let me know if a suitable cab exists and where I can get one. How about one of these? https://www.ebay.co.uk/i/302434801366?chn=ps&dispItem=1&adgroupid=47558299615&rlsatarget=pla-370974490202&abcId=1128936&adtype=pla&merchantid=7308454&poi=&googleloc=9046436&device=c&campaignid=857337246&crdt=0 Thanks, Steve

https://www.gumtree.com/p/guitar-instrument/stentor-1950-double-bass-trades/1271711988

I'm sitting here trying to decide how to approach learning this. I've never played the bassline to this ABBA song, and I fully realise that it's not straight-forward at all. Knowing my band as I do, I just know that lead guitarist is going to do a Yngve all over it. In fact he's already drawn our attention to Malmstein's cover of Gimme, Gimme, Gimme which leaves me completely cold. My feeling is that if I try to recreate Gunnarson's original line, it will be too busy for the note-heavy treatment the song will get from the guys. In general, with this band (two guitarists, one of whom is a very accomplished prog-rock/jazz exponent who doesn't do "less is more", and the other who overlays his rhythm guitar with guitar synth, and BV's via a vocoder thingy), I find that I have to keep basslines simple to avoid over-egging the pudding. All advice gratefully accepted.

[quote name='uk_lefty' timestamp='1508426426' post='3392128'] Dreadful. If you're going to rock it up do it properly, not just have a mildly distorted guitar playing over a carbon copy version of the original. [/quote] Yes - I agree. For me, The chugging guitar in the verses sounds very much like a grafted-on afterthought. The whole effort sounds like two pre-existing songs clumsily spliced together.

[quote name='Thunderpaws' timestamp='1508399240' post='3391870'] Check out Paul Gilbert's live version. Was on one of his live albums a few years ago. It was a Japanese recording. Just looked, here it is: [url="https://g.co/kgs/LkFqwn"]https://g.co/kgs/LkFqwn[/url] [/quote] Thank you. I'll have a listen.

[quote name='lurksalot' timestamp='1508363916' post='3391773'] We tried rocking it , but just couldn't nail it , parts sounded good , but it didn't gel so after trying to gig it we gave up ..... however 'Does your mother know' rocks out brilliantly [/quote] I suggested Does your mother know as an ABBA song that's much more likely to work as a rock cover. But no - the band wants to do Dancing Queen.