songofthewind

Good work! Very exciting!

I’ve just been fiddling with my Joyo Ultimate Drive, trying it as a clean boost, with the gain all the way down. Works fine, cheap as chips.

As a recovering guitarist, I found a graphic EQ useful for increasing level for solos etc. It’s handy to be able to cut certain frequencies in the boosted signal (bass sounds proportionately louder when the signal is boosted). I have a cheapie Behringer EQ pedal which works well enough for this purpose. I imagine others will jump in with their own recommendations.

I’m from Paisley myself, but I’ve lived in England since the early eighties. Saw Steely Dan last year. Very sad after the death of Walter Becker, and a wee bit disappointing. I find them to be something of a tribute band to themselves, they don’t really cut loose. Plus, you can never hear the bass! The Fishman sounds interesting: I’m getting to looping bass, and I’ve got a wee gig coming up soon. I’m investigating ways of getting atmospheric sounds. Do you think it works on bass? I hear you about excessive vibrato: oddly I like it less and less on any instrument these days.

No we don’t! That would be wrong, and who would do such a thing??

You're right, I am a die hard Dan fan. I would get on well with Danny, I expect. Nice playing from him too, btw. You guys wouldn't be Scots, by any chance? I seem to remember that BJ Cole was something of an experimenter with MIDI and so on. I think he made an album of MIDI stuff. This would be about 1990.

That edging strip looks good. There's a guy on YouTube who shows how to use narrow velcro to attach speaker cloth to a baffle. I think that is a method you could adapt.

A good way to sort this out is to play plugged into a very accurate tuner, preferably with a large display I find. Then try each note on each string up and down the fretboard, and see where to position the relevant digit to get the accurate pitch. This really helps me to train my ear. My fingertips differ slightly in softness and width, so each requires a slightly different approach, in my experience.

Does it have a length-ways slit? I can't tell from the pic. How about those black plastic folder spines from WH Smith, that you use to hold a sheaf of papers together?? Do they still make them?

Ah. What about wrapping the edges with gaffa, and then stretching the fabric over the edges. I think I remember doing something like this ages ago. Worked pretty good, but it needs to be neat.

You could consider stretching a dense weave cloth over the existing metal grille.

Oh dear..

Glad you know where my handle comes from! You're quite right, Neal Schon DID play SOTW on the album. I wonder if the Playhouse band was the same line up that played at Green's Playhouse, with Earth Wind and Fire? That was a COSMIC night, that was! The joint was jumping. There was nothing like a Green's audience. BTW, have you ever thought of having a stab at east St Louis Toodle-Oo? That would be very cool too. I also saw Poco at Green's: Rusty Young was playing pedal steel through a Leslie cabinet, and it sounded wonderful. Have you heard that sound?

Very fine! Move over Jeff Baxter!

Jeebus, good stuff.

Nice.

Bart mark ones are fine! Ignore the naysayers!

NOT Rolex! Tolex! Stupid spellcheck.