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  1. SpondonBassed
    I have the active version of the Hohner, the B2A and much like yourself I wanted a five string paddle bass. I got a price matching deal from the then Digital Village and bought a new Steiny Spirit XT25. It's passive. I have always felt that the Hohner was a bit better somehow. It feels solid and well finished. There is nothing wrong with the Steiny but it feels a little rougher. I really can't put my finger on it and I love both basses to bits. The Steiny now has Stainless flats on which made the B a little tighter. It's hard to get sets of five DBEs in flats. I was lucky to get a set of Picato DBEs from a member here. They're both fun.
  2. SpondonBassed
    Gotcha! But yes, it's nuttier than a squirrel eating Topic bars sat on a hundred weight bag of castellated nuts.
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    It's not a fold out and there isn't even a track list. Nicely minimalist for the times I suppose. I think you get a better offering with the deluxe version but I am a tight git as well as a miserable one.
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    I don't think the 2018 sleeve is quite the same somehow but it still won me over. I want to be the phantom sheet whistler when I grow up.
  5. SpondonBassed
    I can guess what that tin would frequently end up storing. Heeheehee Happy daze.
  6. SpondonBassed
    Welcome James. Let me just warn you; this won't be the first purchase you are likely to make as a result of the GAS. I hope you get great mileage from it.
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    Isn't Doncaster the home of the Bangin' Donk? Must ask Mark Radcliffe next time I see him.
  8. SpondonBassed
    That must have been because he was busy with his massive hit - Tower Bridge. (I still own that single)
  9. SpondonBassed
    Has Unwin the younger got the gift?
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    Is there not room for both analogue and digital? I find folk tend to get polarised towards one or the other when in fact you can have the best of both worlds with a bit of thought.
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    I've just bought the Vinyl LP of Ogdens' Nut Gone Flake on impulse. (For anyone in marketing, the sleeve made the sale.) I wasn't familiar with the album as a whole so when I got to Side Two it blew me away. Side one ends with the classic single Lazy Sunday. Turn the album over and Stanley Unwin takes you for a fanciful ride as he narrates the Small Faces version of an original fairy tale about a boy called Happiness Stan. The tale unfolds over the entire second side in six tracks with Stanley (mis)guiding you through the story in a way that you think you understand but; do you really? He starts the tale with the words: "Are you all sitty comfibold two-square on your botty? Then I'll begin..." Masterpiece!
  12. SpondonBassed
    In life you sometimes get a little grubby from hanging around places your parents warned you against. The trick is to survive it and, without throwing the baby out with the bathwater so to speak, rid yourself of the trappings of the music game that have nothing at all to do with playing your instrument. From what you say it appears that you have emerged from your bath smelling of roses and still playing. Well done, you've earned yourself an extended kip. Get your brakes sorted ASAP.
  13. SpondonBassed
    How do you prevent the fretboard from curling as you install the frets? Is it just the adhesive tape on the template?
  14. SpondonBassed
    Let me know when they recreate Lennon and Yoko's bed-in will you? Oh how I larfed reading that. Very happy to hear the upside. Well done.
  15. SpondonBassed
    Vantage - I have a fretless one from the eighties that I got to replace a month old fretless Squier Jazz. The Squier had a dead spot midway along the fingerboard. It has a P/J pup configuration and when I replaced the chewy roundwounds (as supplied with the new bass) with nylon wrapped flats it got even better.
  16. SpondonBassed
    That's getting close to something like this: Just saying.
  17. SpondonBassed
    Cheers Josie. It'll be a help to the podcast team down the line.
  18. SpondonBassed
    These should bring you up to date: Basschat Podcast Basschat Podcast Q&A I was thinking about an LED colour changer in the body that is piped out through the neck via fibre optics. Probably a bit ambitious.
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    It's not really a project yet but for a long time I've wanted to do a neck for myself with lit side dots. I'm not fond of the front facing ones. They are a bit vulgar and are of no use to me while playing. That said, a bit of flash harry can get you noticed when you are surrounded by equals. Along you came with the notion of a sandwich of timber and plastic... What I might do is make a body with a sandwich filling of translucent material. I'd light it from within so as it defines the body outline of the bass when the stage lighting goes down then just buy a neck with LED side dots. There are some wrinkles in my plan that I need to work out. Of course it could be another of my fanciful flights through my own imagination but you did ask. PS: On reading back I realised that you might be asking about the project I said I had just subscribed to. That's the Basschat podcast.
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    I'm liking that. About the only thing that'd improve it for me would be to see more of the audience there.
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    Very sorry to hear it didn't work. It's given me a few ideas though. I found a bit of planed sapele at Harlow's of Derby the other day when I was getting timber for a garden furniture repair. I have undertaken a new project recently so I can't start on it for a bit if at all.
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    That's a very good point. Since I last commented I've come around to thinking that this would have to be a special feature set aside from the regular casts. It would take a deal of setting up and a lot of people are already doing it on YT. As said elsewhere, lets not get ahead of ourselves.
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    I like that. If the podcast is to stand alone it shouldn't link out to stuff at all. We already have the forum for that and if non-member listeners want to find out more, they're more inclined towards signing up. I had 45 minutes overall duration in mind for some reason.
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    I agree. In fact I'd go as far as to say that the double bassists mustn't get left out. Perhaps we should co-opt a double bassist onto the podcast team?
  25. SpondonBassed
    It's a good question. However, I'd rephrase it so as not to give the impression that it is the only bass in the village. For example, why is the Fender Precision so popular? Does that cover it?
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