Dood

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

Done  

Thank you Teebs  Cheers!!

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.

Well done Dood, good luck ☝️

great news well done will be looking forward to the reviews 

I am SO looking forward to getting my teeth in to this! I have three reviews on the way almost immediately and a whole list of manufacturers who want in. I'm pretty touched actually! Thank you everyone  My reviews are only gonna get better and better now!

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.

Done 🙂

Thank you Jambo!

Done  

Hahahahaha!

Smileys and emojis are reminiscent of school when girls used to put little love hearts over their "i"s instead of dots.  They're meaningless to people like me.

Mwah! Hee hee

The internet probably isn't the best place to hang out if Smileys, Emoji's and digital aren't your thing. 🤣

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! 

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

Good luck with everything @Dood

Didn't know you had one of those Dan

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. 

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.

@SpondonBassed - You beat me to my reply - yours is a bit more concise and yes spot on. What's funny is that in terms of being coloured (in) the Hartke 4.5XL has aluminium cones and thus are shiny silver. The crayons are nice... but you know... shiny!!! (oh man. I'm a Magpie)

Which tends to be heavier?  Hartke or TE gear?

Hartke I believe are the only one out of the two that offer Neodymium in their range? So by default that would be my answer, but I think the Hartke 4.5XL is heavier than Trace's 4x10 equivalent.

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.

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. 

Constable!*

*Was probably wearing handcuffs at the time.

I meant a couple of turtles...

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

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. 

 I don't actually own a Jazz bass

You've come so far, yet your journey has barely begun..... 🙂

They are very nice basses, as said the neck is more of a handful than a usual Jazz, which is nice imo.

I love my Jazz 😍

I need to just give up trying. Deleted my YouTube channels and a whole bunch of SM accounts today. I might keep Instagram as that’s fun, but I think I’m totally hovering over that FB delete rather than disable this time. 

@dood Do it! Facebook is a monumental waste of time and gets you precisely nowhere. I don't miss it at all.

I use FB for  advertising gigs & messaging , DO NOT START SCROLLING LEAVE THAT ALONE !!! I don't want to know what sort of pizza I'd be & all that crap .

Where is it for sale bud?

For Sale section unfortunately ;/

/sadface - lamentable necessities

If I get a copy will you sign it

He is a bass player, not sure he can write. 

Thank you everyone  

Yes, I feel like I am 100 years old. I sometimes wonder if in my universe time is moving faster. It only feels like yesterday I had ten posts; I'm old and grey, 100 seemed to arrive in no time at all and typing 80,000 posts a year happened in a blink of an eye. ha ha!

Yes I will sign anything.. probably how I ended up in this mess in the first place lol... 

Yeah, I'd go with a white guard on the red JH or black on the black. Or none at all for that matter. As I've a spare preamplifier here, it could be a good donor for some upgrades too.

I don't have an MM bass in my artillery and listening to the reviews this one (JH) does a pretty good job of sounding alike.

I had the earlier Korean model - GB75 JH which I liked a lot (so much that I got Jon Shuker to model the neck on my Shuker 5 to the same dimensions). Didn't get on with the active circuitry. Now have a GB55JJ as a backup, and to have a fretted, roundwound J to be completely different to my fretless flatwound Shuker P. Again, really nice playing bass. Very good B string on both.

Had a pair of GB75JH models. Both in trans black and both sold on here earlier this year. Missed the general vibe of those basses after they went so picked up a trans red GB74JH last month. It’s the cheapest bass I own but I like it out of all proportion to its value. Great instruments (I also own a flame maple GB94 with binding and blocks which is another fave rave of mine)

@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

On my screen, this was beautifully truncated to "Expect to see it plastered."

Which is nice.

I looked up her website.

When I saw the words "artist and recovering groupie" I left because I am far too young to risk being corrupted with that kind of malarkey.

Which bit of your anatomy would you immortalise Dood?  Your fretting hand or your plucking hand?

I've no idea who Cynthia is and I'm not sure I want to look it up ha ha!!

What part would I immortalise? Goodness I've no idea. I'm not really sure anyone would want that to happen lol. Think 'my other half' would probably use my head as a door stop maybe.

That's pretty poor.

I can't believe (well I can!) that they don't have a failsafe/revert to factory option.

I have three TC Polytunes, all of them play up every now and again.  I leave them for a bit use a different one, then a couple of months later come back to the faulty one, and it works!

I also have a Spectradrive that still works as an EQ/Pre-DI but the tone prints won't load.

I won't buy anymore TC Electronic pedals

Is it wrong of me to mourn the Dood predator?

Oh yeah, I hadn't noticed that had changed too.

[Dons hard-hat and flak jacket]

Maybe Dood predator is due for a makeover!!!

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Nah.  Was interested when it was a bass show, but quietly changing it to the electric, acoustic and bass show without telling ticketholders was a bad move. lost all interest.

Yeah it is disappointing. As an exhibitor I like a bass only show, as it means that I can be sure everybody walking past my booth is interested in what I am showing.

However. Paid in full to do the show in 2020. So it's not like it's costing me anything. Look forward to seeing you guys there. We have new UK made basses (SWB Deluxe, SWB-1, CHB-1 and CHB-2) on show! Come check them out.

Nope. I'd spend all day and many £££ just to get there, and I'm not in a position to buy anything anyway. I'd be like a diabetic kid in a sweet shop.  

Would have gone but just tested +ve for Covid so hiding under the bed.