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I was once asked to dep for a band, and the next thing I know, two years later I was still playing for them.
... wait.. *penny drops*
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1 hour ago, rainbowreality said:
Hello there!
Just thought I'd let others know about this - basically I needed a replacement neck for my Sire P5R and got in touch with Thomann.de They told me they can order one and would cost me £40 plus £10 shipping. I was a bit cynical as it sounded far too cheap but long story short I got it today and it's the real deal, Rosewood fingerboard and all. Only things not included are the tuners, string tree and back bracket but apart from that it's good to go and an absolute bargain so I thought I'd share the info! Only downside is the waiting times from the Sire factory, mine took about a month and a half but hey it's a minor inconvenience all things considered.
Interesting, thank you! Did you need a serial number or proof of Sire ownership to get it ordered?
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The absolutely wonderful dude that is Jono from ACS has just shared this post via ACS on Facebook:- Although this is not the same initiative that Musicians Hearing Health had, these are the Pacato 16 (non-moulded) type.
Look after your ears 👂 everyone 😊
Tinnitus UK has teamed up with ACS Custom to offer you universal earplugs that can be used whenever they're needed!
These high-quality filtered earplugs are your go-to solution for safe, immersive listening.
By choosing to buy earplugs from us, you’re not only protecting your ears, you’re also supporting our vital work helping people living with tinnitus.
The earplugs are available to buy now on our website (link below )
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A standard multimeter set to read volts applied to the Ring and Sleeve of the output jack on a bass with active electronics won't give an exact reading, because placing the multimeter in the circuit in this way is in series with the preamplifer and battery, which would be correct if trying to take a current reading. A standard multimeter should be placed directly across the + and - terminals of the batteries for the most accurate reading. I.E, in Parallel with.
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Mine got worse after getting COVID. I wasn't gigging at the time, so I can't find anything else to blame it on.
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2 hours ago, police squad said:
Who is suffering with this dreadful thing
Mine seems to be the worst it's ever been and I'm worried about gigging with IEMs.
I make sure that they're not loud but I fear it's still getting worse.
It's affecting my hearing too
One of my bug-bears with hi-fi earphones masquerading as IEMs is that they can actually do more damage, especially if IEMs, even proper ones, aren't used safely.
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32 minutes ago, chris667 said:
My best mate (a professional pianist of 40 years standing) has recently developed it.
The MU sent him to a proper music audiologist in Manchester. They gave him earplugs. So if you're a member, it's worth calling.
First step should be a trip to the GP. And a hearing test - many forms of tinnitus and hearing loss can be mitigated. The absolute worst thing you can do is hope it goes away.
Yes, I think the Hearing Health For Musicians (I think its called) initiative is still running, I'm not sure - but professional musicians (especially in the MU) have access to hearing tests, health advice and moulded ear plugs. I have a nice set of red ones!
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1 hour ago, Marvin said:
Mine's gotten worse in the last 6 months.
It's always there, and always been there but it's definitely more noticeable.
Unfortunately, there's little to be done about it. I was told you can get hearing aids that cancel out the noise you hear, but as you'd expect they're expensive
I have aids to help with my Tinnitus as does my buddy Paul Gray (The Damned). Tinnitus noise can't be cancelled out I am afraid, however different techniques are used to help mask it, or help to teach the brain to 'turn the gain down a bit'. More on that another time. We've also tried various ways to protect our ears from more damage too, alas Paul has come back from tour with more sadly. I'm off the road from big gigs nursing other health challenges, but it pays to give my ears a rest too.
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Here's my full review of a custom Elite model by Overwater from their Progress series of handmade basses. My written review is on it's way and will be available over at http://www.bassgearmag.com later, but here's the video to accompany it ahead of the release. Hope you enjoyed it and thank you so much to Mick for offering for the bass to be diverted to me for the review before delivery! You must be very happy with it!
Dooooooood
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Gosh, what a horrible time to be a top quality bass gear reviewer! Neural DSP, Darkglass and now Line 6 all bringing out new toys! Mwah ha ha ha!!
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15 hours ago, Buddster said:
Not really a review, rather a shout out to RightOn.
I've got 3 of them and find them excellent.
However, the reason for the post is my most recent purchase.
I emailed them late Sunday evening regarding a custom strap design. Nothing too elaborate, but they don't sell one I wanted.
Had a reply 1st thing Monday morning saying that they could make it, no problem.
Payed, and had an email confirming.
It arrived this afternoon. From Spain!!
In a lovely box, and purple tissue paper.
Thats what I call good service.
Many thanks RightOn.
Although I didn't end up ordering in the end, I also contacted RightOn about making a custom strap for me. They answered back and asked questions then offered solutions along with a price and how to order.
The only reason I didn't go through with the order is that I received a lovely welcome gift from Bass Gear Magazine,a care package that included a big branded strap!
That said, I might still treat myself given that they could make the strap I had in mind.
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Whilst you're at it, arrange with the band to have a member (at least) join the ISM or Musicians Union. You'll have access to their advice, legal department, PLI, gear insurance and most importantly template contracts to create your own, so that you don't get stuffed by unscrupulous "venues". when they skirt around accepted booking practices.
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https://greasygroove.com isn't a UK based company, though they have a great selection of products and looks like they ship internationally.
However, to help you order, I did stumble on this page with PDF templates of a wide range of well known brand PDF templates to download for free. Handy if you wanna create your own I guess.
https://greasygroove.com/will-it-fit
*I've made a decent post about the company (I don't know them) so I'm not just leaching their templates off the website for nowt.
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I'm yet to dig in to fin dout more, but I have found another two plugin management applications for your perusal:
https://sonisto.com/access-manager
The latter seems to be able to manage updates too, but both websites lack descriptive detail!
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8 minutes ago, Owen said:
I bought a new Mac Mini M4 last week. It has bricked itself within 2 days. I will not be worrying about plugins for a bit.
Oh Noooooooooooooo!!!!!!! I'd hope you'd be able to get an immediate swap out, but nevertheless it's a massive ballache having to go back / ship the item to where it was bought from.
Hope it gets sorted quickly!!!
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38 minutes ago, BigRedX said:
I've solved the problem by only using two plug-ins that weren't part of the Logic Installation, and while both these third party plug-ins make life a bit easier when composing or recording neither are essential.
I have to admit that I started off as being a plug-in hoarder. I'm like a magpie for shiny shiny things ha ha! There's plenty that could be uninstalled now after 5-6 years with the same machine. The next application I need is one that will help me organise the handful of plugins that are really useful and the ohers can either be moved to a separate folder or removed swiftly! I just haven't gotten around to doing something about it. I guess that means I'm busy, which isn't a bad thing.
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18 minutes ago, PaulThePlug said:
Like the bottom one, but take the cut after the mounting screw, unless tapeing on, I'd keep the full neck pocket if the plate.
Why not just a small square between neck and pup?
Incidentally, the bottom image was an hour battling with ChatGPT and an image of my bass!!
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15 minutes ago, PaulThePlug said:
Like the bottom one, but take the cut after the mounting screw, unless tapeing on, I'd keep the full neck pocket if the plate.
Why not just a small square between neck and pup?
I do have some small squares of material that would kind of work; I suppose I’m already not that enamoured with pickups being little black rectangles, so I was thinking of something that would be a bit more in keeping with the curves of the instrument. It wouldn’t be the end of the world from a utility standpoint .. especially given my skills with a saw ha ha!!
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Hey all! I am drawing (pun intended) upon the artist talents - and maybe those who can create diagrams that CNC cutters can use to help me create a pickguard for my ‘kinda P bass’ body. But, you just know that where I’m involved it’s not going to be an easy task, is it?! Fussy pants Dood. Doody Pants.
The bass, or what could end up being basses in question are my lovely Fender Power Jazz Bass Specials. The ones with the carbon fibre headstocks
I’ve realised that I really like having a certain amount of height between the body and the strings for certain playing styles which I can improve by having a thick pickguard on these basses.
We have issues though - firstly, the controls on the body are not in a good position for a standard P bass plate - even though the body isn’t too removed from a P shape! Which leads me to the next issue. As the body has extra scooped out cutaways on the upper and lower horns, extending a normal P plate down the lower horn just doesn’t look right at all. I’ve included someone else’s design that really isn’t for me at all.
So, I have a few ideas to try out.
The first is a design that would be similar to the one that I made and submitted to Sheldon Dingwall for Dingwall AB1 basses and, I had it on my flip paint model, a one of a kind. I love how there’s a curve that circles around the controls and want the same. Also look at the way this Dingwall bass does the same.
My AB1, I really like this half-guard design, inspired by thunderbirds and Les Pauls (incidentally before the D-Roc came out).
As for the lower horn, I can only find a few scratch plates that do the sort of thing I would like, but none of them look quite right, but hopefully you get the idea. I need to find a way to round off the lower horns part!
I’m pretty sure carbon fibre will be the plate of choice to match the headstock, what do you think?
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1 hour ago, SteveXFR said:
It's not an uncommon setup. I first saw it used by Lou Barlow from Dinosaur Jr. Using an Ampeg SVT and Peavey 5150 guitar amp and it sounded absolutely filthy! So much better than overdrive pedals.
Absolutely! As a young upstart, learning my way in bass, it was all new to me, I hadn’t even heard of Billy Sheehan and the likes at that point, aged 10, 11 or so. Wow, I remember when James Brown and Peavey brought out the 5150 (No not THAT James Brown lol) - Speaking of guitar tones, that’s a model I use very often! Doug Pinnick at the point should get a mention!
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1 minute ago, SteveXFR said:
When my last band recorded, the oroducer used amp sims to great effect. My bass signal went through an SVT for clean channel and a Marshall plexi for the dirt. It sounded amazing.
You've just reminded me! When I was a wee whipper snapper, I'd read that Duff McKagan from Guns n Roses recorded his bass split between his bass rig and a guitar amp. At the time I had a little Marshall Bass 12 combo and my friend had the Lead 12 guitar version. Well, it wasn't long before we had the two stacked on top of each other with my bass plugged in to both. Honestly, even at that point as an impressionable oik, I was smitten with blending the mids of a guitar amp tone in to my bass sound. - And to think we can do all of that and more for free without leaving the house these days, crazy!
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On 25/05/2025 at 23:19, Machines said:
Summary - I don't think anyone is going to be disappointed with the SP1.
The setup was decent but a little 'on the edge' for me, I felt it benefited from lowering the pickups and raising the action a bit (truss relief) to let the strings ring a bit more.
Soundwise the P pickup is sublime, fat and with clarity, also the J is definitely not thin (it's actually a 6 string sized pickup from Combustion model). Blended in parallel they give an excellent balanced tone where neither pickup is overpowering, and in series it takes on a totally new character - but without overwhelming the output (which is an issue i've had on ALL Combustion based models).
It has the Fender vibe to the looks and tone, but with Dingwall zest, it could easily be a 'one to rule them all' instrument. However as I practice bass polyamory, that won't happen with me.
n.b. now features block inlays (Neck Illusions) and Canadian knobs
Great pictures and review Machines! Nice bass!
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The free Neural Amp Modeller is absolutely incredible, nearly as incredible as Steve Atkinson, the designer who as far as I know is still giving away the code as "open source". Darkglass' brand new Anagram processor has the NAM player embedded and, Steve makes available the profiling side of the software for free so that you can capture your own gear!! The actually quality of the captures tested against the original is comparable if not better than some modellers out there, the internet says.
I think there's a few other brands that are starting to integrate NAM in their processors too such as Valeton (GP-5) and Sonicake (Pocket Master). Its an exciting time to be alive!
I do have rather too many amp sims, IR's and captures on my desktop, I can suffer from option peralysis at times but as @Beedster says, it's a whole lot easier these days - and cheaper! There's a few groups / pages I follow that offer up cheap and free plugin deals; the quality of these are just brilliant. Even the "bad ones" are still infinitely better than my old Zoom 2020, 4040, 8080 or 9050S I owned 'back in the day'! Bonkers!!
Check out sites such as The Bedroom Producer's Blog, Anmer Hunter's YouTube channel, Plugin Boutique, Plugin Alliance umm... definitely United Plugins! I love United Plugins!! They have a birthday deal on, I would highly recommend anyone doing recording to buy everything by FireSonic from their deals.
There's loads of resources out there. I grabbed STL's AmpHub LE the other day for free from Focusrite to try it out. I'd bought an 8 Pre interface last year. I use the Neural DSP amp plugins the most, especially the Cory Wong X. You'll hear the SSL desk emulation on pretty much everything I record, it sounds SO good!
I could go on, but those at the back have fallen asleep already!
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Hope it gets sorted quickly!!!
Spectre Digital Element Bass- A Warning
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Have a look at these super bass plugins from United Plugins: https://unitedplugins.com/plugins?tag=bass
United Plugins have a massive selection of plugins by various associated brands, I use the Firesonic and Sound Device products on every recording. I’ve certainly had no issues with running any from U.P.