NancyJohnson

It was just a husk when I got it...the bridge and machines are original. No original pickups/circuit, though. I just wanted to get it up and running.

I bought a Roadster as a project about five years ago. It all works. It's been up for sale here for a while. Might be easier to part it out. Hit me up.

They're doing the Last Flight with an orchestra. Interestingly, I had a brief exchange with Willgoose a few months back. I was gigging with Eddie Roxy (Department S) at the time. We were doing a show in London and I had PSB on in the car; Eddie asked who we were listening to and he casually said he'd been involved with Willgoose 'when he first started out'. I popped a message over to Willgoose and got a lengthy reply, debt of gratitude etc. It transpired that Eddie knows Willgoose's father (he played Sunday League football with him!) and offered a lot of sage advice when he started gigging and recording.

The EV thread is elsewhere in the off topic section.

There used to be a website called 'phat fingers' (or something) where you could punch in (for instance) 'Squier' and it would search eBay for near misses, like Squire, Squeer etc. Right, I'm off to search for a Febner Jizz Base.

Reckon it's more a case that all the elder statesmen on this site have probably reached a point where they've amassed what they really like and feel there's simply nothing of any merit for sale through Gumtree/Marketplace etc. Personally I've little interest in Sire/Squire/Ibanez/G4M kit, which seems to be the mainstay of these sites; this isn't to say I got lucky a few years back with my Aria Primary bass. I did see a gorgeous Mike Lull T4 on Marketplace one time, but couldn't scrape together the £££ at such short notice.

Public Service Broadcasting at The Barbican, this Saturday.

Ordered the UGreen one. I had no idea the USB socket would/might output audio. Cheers

Yup. By easy, I don't mean Amazon Prime delivery, but if you search you'll find.

Schaller used to make an eight string bridge; these seem to be easy enough to find - this would allow for intonating the two octaves: The Konig Bassworx bridge is quite elegant:

Thomann have a b-stock 7-string bass for £399. https://www.thomann.co.uk/harley_benton_bz_7000_ii_nt_b_stock.htm Over the years I've seen a few 12-string conversions (the first was off an OLP 5-string). I see stuff like this Harley Benton and do wonder whether it would be ripe for a project. The missus immediately vetoed the idea ("It's £400 and it'll cost you that again once you've tinkered with it, so no!"). How hard would this actually be? Plug the headstock holes, new machines. New (intonating) bridge and nut. Yes, people here would be going, 'String tension!', without really having the science to back up whether the neck would survive

There's no manufacturing defect; the geometry on Squier headstocks is always different to the full-fat Fender models. Always been the case.

It just happened quite naturally. We'd be in a room and would just tweak things as our ears went numb as things got louder. There was an inevitability that we'd all be fighting for our frequency.

Need to get some audio from a Samsung phone into a Scarlet interface (it's off a theremin app). Old school, I'd just have taken a feed out of the headphone socket (stereo minijack/ twin mono 1/4" jacks lead), but of course the new phone hasn't got a headphone hack socket. Looking for recommendations for some kind of Bluetooth receiver (or whatnot) that I can plug into the interface. Practical experience appreciated. Help!

Don't be silly now, eh? 😁

I had a lovely Bongo 5HH and likewise, could never dial it in. I enquired here about whether there was any way to just run it passive as it was uncontrollable; you'd start a rehearsal/gig with a nice tone, then you'd slowly notch up and up and up and a hour later it would just sound like mush. At the time, could never really determine whether the bass had passive pickups/active circuit or whether the pickups were active themselves and there was an additional active circuit. I gather from previous enquiries it's the latter, so in hindsight it would have meant pulling all the guts. There still doesn't seem to be any direct drop in replacement pickups for these, either. Looking at the board, there's nothing on there to turn down the output on the board itself.

We'll be issuing everyone with a sticker like this. Just put your Basschat username/real name on it. This will allow you exit/access.

As mentioned earlier, just bring a few (interesting) bits. Edging on the side of reason, people would be far more engaged in something different, rather than another Precision or Jazz. Also, it's a village hall, not the O2. 😏

Well, it's started. This inevitable urge to simply go back to passive basses. I suppose getting handy with the soldering iron over the last few months on other basses, I've decided to start putting the basses that have had retro-fitted active electrons installed, back to passive. I'm just sick of batteries, and the disparity from bass to bass. Obviously the Spector is the only one that came with the preamp installed as stock, so that will be unaltered. Bliss.

We have two rooms here, one with a little stage. We're putting on the timed stuff on the staged area (see post #1); it's feasible that you could do something in the second room, but obviously there's no guarantee of an audience, given the crossover in the main room.

This post is hurting my eyes. Just keep typing...the text will wrap automatically, no need to keep hitting enter after every few words!

A few years back (2009), I went to see NIN/Jane's Addiction/Street Sweeper at the Docklands O2 on the NINJA tour - it took three hours to get there (and the same back), horrific car park fee and maybe a 25-30 minute walk from the car to the venue. We missed the first band and saw about 15 minutes of Jane's Addiction. In the venue, the staff were literally barking at the punters to keep inside the yellow lines at ground level. It was the most soulless gig I've ever been to and it really tainted my feelings about schlepping up to the smoke for gigs. From memory, that was £35.00 a ticket. I just don't know why people want to go to see live music any more, especially in big places - I recall Steve Jones from the Sex Pistols commenting about why would anyone want to go [to Earl's Court] and see four dots on the stage - now at the big venues, I'd wager people spend more time watching a screen than the blokes on stage. The old Hammersmith gigs, you could swing the car into a parking place under the flyover for nowt, walk in and be home an hour after the gig. As @neepheid says, someone is having a huge laugh at the punter's expense; also take into account all that money sitting in a bank account for the next nine months earning 5%.

Don't go to a lot of gigs now; ticket prices aside, I honestly abhor the inconvenience and associated costs of the journey in and back (generally Reading to Landaan), the cost of getting a pint etc. Anyhoo...on to ticket prices. Guess I'm a little behind the curve here, but interest spiked when I read the happy news that Sugar had reformed and are doing two dates in London next May. Got the mailing list presale, no prices, navigated through that, no prices, tickets in basket, no prices, get to the end £62.10 a pop, plus a ticket agency fee. (God knows how the 10p element was calculated out.). At which point, I just shut down Firefox and went and made a coffee. My head was reeling... You're probably looking at £200+ to see a band play for 75 minutes. Old enough to remember going to see Rush at Hammersmith and the ticket was under £4.00. Five bands at the Lyceum for under £5.00. These prices seemed reasonable at the time, even adjusted for inflation.

Van Halen - Live In Pittsburgh 98. Blimus!