SpondonBassed

Just one small point. If you intend to screw the blanking plates into the wood fillets that you've fitted, you may have problems with it being an end grain. The wood is likely to split. I'd recommend using Velcro to hold the blanking plates in place instead.

Welcome Peds.

Welcome Tigershark.

...but Jungle is MASSIVE.

Interesting. That's a new approach (I think). I take it that you are still developing this?

You're welcome. Enjoy.

Ever the sartorial satirist. Nice

Either of Richard Baker or Ted Rogers in a ginger wig would do. Skank's not that fussy...

Who gets to play Ginger?

Congrats Skank. I recently discovered how playable inexpensive Squiers can be for myself. It's even stopped me from playing five string for now.

Although I felt that this one might be genuinely useful one day...

The Repairs and Technical and Build Diaries sections of Basschat can be very useful.

Welcome TnToast. No good with cowbells then?

Sorry about that. You may not be far wrong there. I must have had a senior moment with clipboard memory.

You've just answered your own question. So much weirdness in there. I seldom follow suggested follow-ons because of it.

Welcome Outtaseezun.sarcastic

Then you already know the value of playing with others as opposed to recordings of others. Cool.

Welcome Dan.

Welcome B-Mac. Have you not yet tried playing ensemble? It's a real buzz.

Was that a "convenient" fire? The way the music industry works, I am prepared to believe that a lot of claims are made against fire insurance in cases of impending financial embarrassment. I am glad you've still got the masters. Were they the ones used on your band's CD box set? @Andyjr1515 and I enjoyed listening to those in his car on the way to last year's bass bash.

That's the thing. Where does it stop after the artist has passed on? Some of these estates are corporate entities more than representatives of the descendants of the deceased.

"Bridge" in this instance might refer to the pole spacing to reflect a greater distance between strings near the bridge... perhaps. Do the poles line up with the strings better at the bridge position?

His singing voice would charm the very crows from the trees. In addition, we need another topic to cover his playing of the gob iron. That hee-haw style of his... it almost makes me want to listen to Larry Adler. Almost but not quite.

I'm all for that. Especially those with fake chrome plate on them. Nasty lickle feckers those. I have them on my Laney combo. Genuine Bakelite is cool though.

...and me. I listen to different recordings of the same material by the same bands and I have favourites. Sometimes I dislike a particular version. Other times a version stands head and shoulders above the others for no reason other than the convergence of all of the right elements in the same space and time. Like many others, I can not define what it is that grabs me about the performances I like most. Sometimes it's the ambience of a live recording combined with the raw adrenaline coming through from the musicians involved. Other times it is the clever overdubbing and layering of pre-recorded pieces to make something extraordinary. The loss of stems probably matters more with recordings that are heavily worked in the studio. In those cases, the magic does not come from spontaneity as much as from the crafting of a piece off-line, as it were. In those cases, I agree with you.