Dood

Yessssssssss! I’ve been composing music for my channel!

Done  

Thank you Teebs  Cheers!!

Wish I had the reddies. Always fancied a Status 5... 

Good luck with everything @Dood

Didn't know you had one of those Dan

Not yet, but it's a possibility. It's very likely that we'll struggle to gig with the frequency we used to, and I was already getting a little 'bored' with a lot of the gigs we used to do, so I'm rethinking my 'musical future', to spend more time writing and recording with others and less live stuff (certainly fewer projects), and switching my attention more to other activities that are more financially useful to me (computer based)... 

I've already completely rearranged my 'home office' to be more work and a lot less music, as I'm working from home these days. I think I might sell a bass or two and cabs that I don't need and put a fridge and a nice espresso machine in the room instead... 

I had a good run, but I think I want to spend more time visiting family and travelling when I have proper holidays, and work more from home.

If you are thinking of selling off because of revaluation rather than financial need - consider waiting a year. 
too many basses glutting the market will push prices down and there’s probably going to be some folk selling off basses because it will mean they can eat. 

Yeah, not a good time to sell. I was about to sell my Audi A3 just before things got complicated... and looking at the market, there's a lot selling but I see the same things again and again, I don't think there's many people buying. 

Hey no problem @JapanAxe! I'm just trying to spread the bass love! Would be good to share as I am hoping these reviews offer a great resource. Just want people to know about them!! 

What a trooper!

I'm going to see what I can do about making it easier for everyone to access the reviews (and of course know about them) - I just haven't figured out how yet as my mind has been elsewhere for a while. Maybe a decent signature?

I have come to the conclusion that the stuff we keep "in case" is 90% redundant. Whenever I do get called to do anything, as soon as I get jiggy with esoteric bits of kit I get a look from the producer or keys player that says "do what you do well and we will do all that fiddly stuff".

But which 10% is not redundant?

Need money + have gear not in use + gear is worth more money now than when you bought it = Sell it

My father has a barn full of just in case things. Hope I'm going to die before him... Don't want to move, sort or sell all these things...

I remember some years ago when I started buying all the good deals I was seeing. I ended up with my two cars garage full of boxes of high end hi-fi components, instruments and amps. Sold everything and made a lot of money as lots of these things were bought for peanuts.

If you don't use them, sell them and use the money for what you really need.

ooooh 

Good luck with that - hope they are more popular than the one I listed (now where's that tumbleweed emoji...)

I hope I have set the prices low enough to sell. They've been safely stowed in my cupboard not getting used, so they should really go for a bargain.

Noooo. You just need a bigger house, or an extension, or trade away a child. Any of those is acceptable surely!

Oh mate.. I DO need a bigger house WITH an extension. Tough one on the kids actually. I kind alike them both. Maybe I could get the older one to do some Saturday work on the oil rigs to bring in some extra cash. Possibly a bit on the little side to operate the cranes and the like though.

Anyone know the lottery numbers coming up??? Or has won the lottery and not sure what to do with the odd 100 thousand? lol 

It's worse than that for me.  Sometimes I end up in a bad place mood-wise, which results in feeling like I should sell all the gear I have and then start again from scratch.

Inevitably, this happens in moments of deep, desperate, despairing dissatisfaction with my sound. Don't judge me - we've all chased tone dragons, I'm sure.

Thankfully, most times I manage to avoid throwing the baby out with the bathwater and keep a vaguely sensible head on my shoulders. 

best programme ever apparently.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p07cdbzx

Fantastic show, I'm currently on episode four of five and it's superb.

Watching episode 2 now. Its spine chilling! 

so many likes

I was quite excited when I had the message, rumour has it EBS only made 50 of them

where was it?

Hit me up with a price if you do Dood...

PM'd you Kev

Advertised in the marketplace!

Does everyone who turns up have to play only Flat?

*I'll get me coat*

One of your side projects D?

@Bridgehouse Interestingly, LT hasn't been used for anything other than gigging! - I have the Helix Native plug in for recording etc and I practice at my computer. So LT has just gone up for sale!

For sale?!

I know! Lol

How was it?

I did wonder if I was going to be able to get HX to deal with the complex chains in my LT, but I spent a lot fo time cutting them down, maybe doing away with some of the parallel loops. Through IEMs and FOH I don't think anyone else noticed the slightest difference between the two! Ok, so it took ages to sort out, but I am confident that for this current gig I won't need LT. I also managed to rock up to the gig with just two basses, my stands and one case! I'm really impressed, I think it's staying.

I'll be trying out HX Effects at a gig this weekend. Stand by for updates! 

I love a good impulse buy...my bank account doesn't always.

As HKH says.."pictures?"

I never put any ad on the social media. 🤣

Pics?!

I'm feeling excited at the prospect of turning up to a gig with a battered old P, but I've got a lot of work to do on some of the sounds that the band uses to fit it in. I do need that low B for a few songs though.

Ah, simplicity is a wonderful thing! Like you, lately I've had a hankering for a 4-string Stingray, which was all I played for years back in the 80's. Unfortunately I've been playing 5's for nearly three decades now, and all the 4's I've picked up over that period (for mainly nostalgic reasons - although I've never had another a Stingray 4, oddly enough) I've moved on again fairly quickly because I missed the low B, or 'the thumb rest' as I call it, too much. It's all in my head, I'm sure of it...

I'll be running through my gig sets hopefully next week if I have a chance. The worst case I thinks that I'll need to punch in an Octave pedal when I want those low notes. I could even try out a -5 semitones on a pedal to get the "low B string" (100% wet effect) - which won't sound the same but for the odd part of a song it might work.. but that P bass though... yum!

Doodles

I nabbed one locally and its a fine unit - lot's of old school bass tones lurk within!

Is that not a bit like rubbing Dood's nose in it?

Heeheehee

I really ought to stop stirring it up.

Interestingly one does have a pocket, the other doesn’t!

Is it just an easy one off purchase for their merch or are there any strings attached?

BOOOM!!!

Ha ha ha ha! That's niiiiiiiiiiiice!!

Spill the beans @Dood, what have the incompetent fools lost? 

Actually quite bizarre, if you are a doctor, sales rep, footballer you are required to have above average skills in your chosen “career”. Not so with couriers, it appears you need to have zero sense of direction, be nigh on blind, have no sense of responsibility nor any understanding of customer service

A vintage bass has mysteriously been ‘lost’. It went missing between being collected (not scanned) and being brought in to the depot (again not scanned) - draw your own conclusions but it has taken way longer than it should to ascertain it’s whereabouts.  The levels of incompetence displayed up to this moment in time are astounding. Indeed I even received a phone call asking if the parcel had arrived, even though said operative had spoken to both the source hub and the delivering centre and neither “had seen it”. 

There are literally a mere handful of delivery drivers around here I trust. They are brilliant and I see them often. Those are definitely excluded from the torrential outburst I feel bubbling up inside when I think of courier services.

Last week:  "It's being dealt with urgently" they say! Chased them today. NOT A PEEP.

Constable!*

*Was probably wearing handcuffs at the time.

I meant a couple of turtles...

@TheGreek ... I... slow.... ha ha ha ha!!! 

And me. 🤣

He spends most of his time counting the massive pile of wonga he's sitting on..!

On the financial side of things, I understand that the all members (John and the Freddie Mercury estate included) still very much profit from the touring and shows of the active members. I think folk think that Brian and Roger are just out for themselves now. It's a great thing to know that it's still Queen as a business entity that looks after all of it's members. 

Not me

It seems the problem has righted itself, though strangely all one million of my post attempts have suddenly appeared making me look like a complete n00b of the interwebz.

The site is a bit laggy in places.  I've noticed it takes several seconds to load all of the components on a full web page.  Are you on a full screen or a mobile Dan?

There seems to be a back-up cache on the BC side of things that holds the user's draft text in case of a client disconnect.  In areas of the forum that require a log in it can be problematic trying to retrieve it but it is usually saved there until the text is officially posted by the user.  I can't be arsed to troubleshoot or report it.  I'd guess that your submissions were stuck in that cache for some reason.

Nice as the upgrade was, I think mobile users got more from it than users on full sized displays.

Gotcha! 

Funnily enough the Magellan adds a bump to the lower mids too as well as cutting the extreme high and low frequencies to make a thick, smooth mid rich valve like drive that works brilliantly in the mix, better than any other drive that I've tried (of which there are many!). It's perfect for Motown and dad rock stuff although I often leave it on for the whole set, everything from Andy Williams to the Foo Fighters  

Never had a chance to gig the Tone Hammer, unfortunately. 

Presumably a Tonehammer 'nails' the sound you are after...

I'll get me 🧥

The AGS button will convert the gain dial to a drive control. Sensitive though. Past 9:00 gets too grindy for my ear. Mid controls also affect AGS output. I'm running mine at 7:00 and it's just right for me.

LH500 with Ashdown 410 and flats on my Lakland.