Frank Blank

It’s the only way to get a duck to compliment Black Forest Gateau...

...stick an orange up its ar5e?

I'm loving these at the moment, any recommendations for this kind of sassy NY detective angular Jazz please feel free to let me know!

What a great band, just had to say that as they don't get mentioned around these parts much, Long Line of Cars is a real favourite of mine.

First line of my CV there, ahem...

Or rather tell me if it’s yours.

Tell me that isn’t yours...

I think I’m right in saying (having referred back to messages between Jabba and I) that it can be removed with the strings loosened.

I have one as well which I still use on occasion although I tend to use an app more.

I did almost two decades of band butlering, suffice to say never again.

I’d have no idea really, the butler manhandles my equipment (Matron).

Talking of rackets, the iPod chose a trio of heavyosity this afternoon on the way to the shops...

if you’re going to make a racket, do it properly, excellent.

That is outweighed by the weight of loading ones rig in and out of the venue!

Absolutely, and is it just me or does it improve the overall look of the bass? I think it just adds to the lovely organic curves of the whole thing. I know I keep repeating myself but that @Jabba_the_gut has no idea just how good he is.

I’m with I’m with you @bubinga5, this man is a... ...hang on, you know what? I’m feeling bad about saying that now. Sure I don’t like his style nor his showmanship but perhaps he’s a decent chap and loves his Mum. Nothing about the video does anything for me but each to his own.

...and quite like the very London way that people still say ‘out of’ when referring to where they were born, my Dad *spits* used to say it “You’re out of Camden Town ‘aintcha?”.

It’s a ‘lil work of beautiful design art in itself, let alone fitted on to that gorgeous bass! God I can’t wait to get it in the rack!

Buddha looks happy amongst the pine cones, that’s satisfying.

Probably the first thing I read on Google! Most unlike me to quote such things.

Yes, same here, classically trained violinist who also then did further studies in sound design. I am learning tons from her, it’s a symbiotic relationship though because I’m teaching her how to play the bassline from Peaches whilst chewing gum and wearing Ray Bans, all important stuff, there.

Indeed so, I am extremely fortunate to be in a duo with someone who is not only a great singer and quite unique guitarist but also knows the fvck out of the tech side too, in fact, what the hell am I doing on here!

Yes, I have done this a couple of times. What I needed/need is a quite basic lesson in all things audio. The Stomp has kind of forced me to do this because it’s all very well achieving a tone simply by moving sliders up and down but having an understanding of the controls makes it all so much easier. In this vein every term I now stumble across on the stomp that I have no knowledge of I look up and read about, for instance take plate reverb, I know what reverb is but had no idea about the huge plates of steel used in the original units, very interesting and informative it was. But I just zone out with compression for some reason, she teaches music production and sound engineering at University so I really should just listen to her!

Excellent, thanks for this, I hadn’t compared them particularly.

Sorry! I didn’t mean for you to write all that out, thanks though... As you know a compressor reduces the dynamic range of your bass signal. The most obvious benefit of bass compression is to stop the lows swamping the higher frequencies. This allows the bass to sit better with other instruments by controlling its dynamic range ...this is all I really do with compression and I’m lucky that the woman who constitutes the better half of musical duo is a sound engineer, has been for decades, I just moan about certain aspects of my tone (compression wise) and she sorts it. I just feel a bit stupid because with every other aspect of my tone I deal with it, I ask her what something is when I’m stumped but, compression... Im going to read the two items you referred me to and ask my comrade for an explanation. In summary, yes, you still owe me a coffee ☕ 😁