SpondonBassed

Obvious question, I know but do you smoke or do you live with someone who smokes? What about vaping? I am not sure about the latter but I suspect it affects the voice in much the same way. Do you warm up or wind down your voice before and after performance? If not, try a few warm up and wind down exercises. There are lots of YT voice coaches to show you how. If it's none of those and it is a recurring thing with your voice I'd suspect an allergy may be at the back of it. I have allergic rhinitis and even though it's a problem with my nose, my throat can get a bit gluey sometimes too.

It's not as easy as it looks but like you say, it's fascinating to learn what your own voice is capable of when guided by knowledgeable folk. The MD of Royce's male voice choir assessed me as being bass/baritone. She said that with practice I would tend more towards one or the other as I developed my lungs, breathing and delivery. You've got to be fitter than I realised too. I even took up swimming again to help. I am more baritone now. Years of smoking in the past has the effect of making my voice drop in air conditioned spaces so I can still get right down there on occasion. I don't attempt it for anything other than self amusement though. A word of warning however: If you are giving birth to any more tumble driers try not to deliver a Hotpoint. You'd run the risk of igniting one of your own cow farts and the resulting containment failure would take ages to clean up. Think of the environment, please. Hope the throat infection clears up soon.

Sorry for being facetious about ferrules. They are underappreciated as it is. Have a complimentary link to a soothing image.

When you put it like that, it assures me that you've got it sussed, as it were. I am thinking back to when I recessed the knobs on my kit so that the nuts holding the pots were concealed beneath the base of each knob. I felt this was necessary because of the curved body. There was an untidy look to the exposed nuts. I had thinned down the floor of the control chamber already and I then had to do little passes with a Dremel grindstone mounted from the inside so that the back of the grindstone did the work on the outside while the spindle was guided by the hole for the pot from the inside. Although I got away with it, the sound of thin timber just from running a finger tip across the front of the control chamber made me feel uneasy about exposure to knocks and bumps. I've been told that I worry too much before so thanks for sharing your experience. Ah Wolverhampton. Highly regarded as a cultural oasis of the Midlands with it's pubs and clubs. So that's how you discovered the lost chord... by t w a t t i n g a disillusioned yoof across the back of the nut wiv a dreadnought. Inventive.

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Do you consider reinforcing the thin timber behind the pups with a stiff adhesive foil or even a thin gauge piece of stainless steel in case an impact on the back might split it? Similarly with the control chamber?

I like your decal. From what the other Andy (jr1515) says, your gloss finish will become more of a sheen over time. I think it looks great as it is. Is that because it has been cut back with the 0000 wire wool? I prefer less of a gloss finish myself. That's why I didn't do Tru Oil. The finishes I got using Danish (neck) and Teak (body) oils were a nice satin even after I buffed them with beeswax furniture polish a couple of weeks after the build was complete.

Yup. As a moderator you've seen this recurring debate more often than I. Poor you. At least I can choose not to read it. It makes for compulsive reading though and I get sucked into it every time.

Just to reinforce your point here are some search results just from the General forum: Only Four results Two pages of results. Nope, not much to see here.

BC Quote of the month?

I heard Nate Watts endorse Hartke by saying that their amps don't fade under pressure. I've never played loud enough or in hot enough conditions to make any amp fade, you understand, so I just take it on faith from one of my bass heroes. Rickies seem suited to bi-amping. I read time and time again about the pups being significantly out of balance on some models. I suppose this is the best reason to separate the signals and process them independently. Secretly, I dream of building a Bootsy inspired five with independent outputs for each string AND each pick-up. I might limit myself to two pick-ups at first though. Just 'till I get used to tiptoeing through the vipers' nest of cable that I'll need.

Do they? Heeheehee

Some of the recordings that have survived are surprisingly good. There are many examples however where bass has not been as well represented as the rest of the band. If we could hear every bass line from every recording ever made reproduced faithfully, it'd really be summat for us lot. There would be revelations. It would mean zip to non bass players however. As long as they have a kick drum to dance to that's all they need. At the moment I have a five CD set of Northern Soul dancehall hits. These are the US records that weren't successful according to the hitmaker machinery. Ten years after they were stored in warehouse 'bins' enthusiasts were buying them to redeploy on the British Northern Soul circuit. I'm working through the hundred plus tracks to fill a hole in my knowledge of dance music in Britain. I wish the bass parts were a bit better defined sometime as the articulation is not always reproduced faithfully. They're not too bad on this collection all the same.

Welcome Arpenteur.

Welcome Rich

Yes. All of those things and perhaps a couple you haven't listed too. It's happened to me and I dare say to many others reading as well. You're best moving on. You have no way of knowing what the future holds and you need to be able to hold your head up the next time you meet any of them. Poor communication still exists despite the always connected movement. I think you are a victim of that more than anything else. Who knows? The next meeting might be your dream opportunity.

That would have suited me better than being singled out and treated like a hot house flower. I grew to hate that school just because of that one Drama teacher. Had we not moved I'd be a far bigger misfit than I am now. Guaranteed.

Done that. Not doing it again if this is all I get:

I had the same thing when I had to perform with my Mum in the audience. I was in my early fifties! The performance was in a church. The sound of the building was huge. I hadn't sung in church before. Previously, as part of the congregation, I'd mouth the words and mumble a lot. I wouldn't be able to do that here. In my favour, one could not have chosen a better place for us to perform. We were at the acoustic focal point of the building so we were heard without amplification even when we were accompanied for a couple of tunes by the church band. I had always felt uncomfortable practising with either of my parents in the house. I think my experience in primary school made me careful about who was listening in case I was picked out and groomed as before. I kicked all of those fears into touch by singing with the Mixed Blessings choir of Spondon that evening. The job at hand took over as I remembered my lines and took my place in the harmony of voices. I was well practised, the audience were mature and had come to see the choir as the main event. I had the best feeling afterwards. Mum was more worried about getting home to her tea at the end. She was complimentary, naturally but it wasn't a big deal for her the way I had perhaps expected it to be. For me that was a bit of an anti-climax really but in a good way. Better late than never I suppose. There is no point in regretting decades of suppressing my singing voice now that I've found it again. I'd just suggest you try not to leave it as long as I did. I couldn't say what your reasons are/were. Maybe reading about mine will help.

It looks like a tidy solution. The drill stops look like they should work but have you tested them in this sort of application before? I'd consider Torx key fasteners over Allen key fasteners for longevity. They are flank driven instead of point driven and therefore less inclined to wear out the key that tightens and loosens them.

The best advice I can give any young person is to avoid teachers like that. One of mine decided that I was to be her prodigy and she made my life at school a daily bus trip to hell. It put me off music completely until I got through puberty and by then I was no longer a marketable prospect.

Hahahahaha! I'd love to think so. You made a good point and I shouldn't sneer at the notion because it is sound.

I've been to two. One was a Double Bass Bash. I had a good time at both of them. PS: Not that I'm in your region of course.

I remember following someone around Wembley roundabout three decades ago. He was singing his heart out like he was practising Opera. We were both on motorcycles. He was good, don't get me wrong, but don't think you wont be noticed by other motorcyclists and end up on YT. I'd have posted that had helmet cam technology been there then.

Yes fine. Until she kicks you out for looking sideways in the wrong direction and threatens to smash-up the wall display because she felt the look of the place needed 'freshening up'! (Rubs temples and chants) I'm going to retire to my special place for a bit.