SpondonBassed

Once again, a BC member goes the extra mile for the love of music. Good one NJ

It must be part of the collector's mentality to see additional value in hardware because of who owned it previously. I have no time for that.

[quote name='dood' timestamp='1509747640' post='3401451'] Oh wow! I did the same!! Mine was a kit from one of the electronics magazines. Not sure which, Elektor, Practical Electronics or Maplin. I tweaked an ‘FM Bug’ schematic to take the level of my bass and demonstrated it in my 4th year CDT classes.. Year 10 in new money. It’s was great, if you didn’t stray from the room! [/quote] I was a regular subscriber to Practical Wireless magazine as a teenager. I never built any of the projects though. Rural Ireland wasn't the best of places to source new components. Luckily, my aunt and uncle had a television and radio shop that did repairs. Their resident technician let me sit in the workshop and soak up whatever knowledge he cared to impart. At the back of the place was a mountain of discarded televisions and radios. I started collecting 10 inch speakers and making my own enclosures for them at home. Even then I was seeking that fullness in the bass range that was so lacking in domestic systems.

Welcome Ian.

[quote name='yorks5stringer' timestamp='1509727465' post='3401252'] Now I'm confused: thought he was Dave not Blue Peter.... [/quote] http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ok6TL1jYfGE

[quote name='PaulWarning' timestamp='1509717884' post='3401164'] I suspect there's quite a few converted guitarists on here, I'm one for a start, no evidence for this but we usually give the game away by playing with a pick, could be a poll in there somewhere [/quote] Of course playing with a pole is best done from a distance...

He's fine. The way he talks you'd have to take everything he says with a pinch of salt. That or you'd need to declare yourself incurably gullible. If he spoke with received pronunciation then he'd be dangerous. Heeheehee, like Valerie Singleton with a blunderbuss. I do agree though that it is worrying if people take what they see on YT seriously, your good self excepted.

[quote name='oldbass' timestamp='1509711347' post='3401083'] ...Those soaring octave runs are mighty impressive even all these years later. [url="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2KsK1ybDZ44"]https://www.youtube....h?v=2KsK1ybDZ44[/url] [/quote] Especially as he's using a bow! (Yes, I know it was mimed)

I had an acoustic guitar bought for £4 in the seventies because Dad insisted that I start on acoustic. He had already refused to buy the Woolworths electric guitar that I had coveted for ages that cost £20. I had almost convinced him to open his wallet in Woolies' but when I mentioned that an amplifier was required the wallet disappeared instantly. It wasn't the fact that the amp would be extra, it was the notion of listening to a complete noob practising but [i]amplified[/i]. Wise decision Dad, I forgive you. The acoustic was painful to play. It was built for nylon strings but was sold to us with a set of steel cheesewires, or so they felt. I also had a Bert Weedon [i]Play in a Day[/i] book. The book was a buzz-kill from the off. The tunes used for practice were alien and old and fusty. Because I had no way of knowing what the tunes were meant to sound like, it got ignored. I jammed with it in company but I didn't like it for its flat fretboard. I defretted it, sanded a curve onto the fretboard and refretted it. Naturally it never played well after. I passed it on to the younger brother of a friend when I left home. I later got pressed into playing a left-handed bass right-handed for a mate who lent me his brother's bass. I hacked along until I reckoned I might stick with this bass lark and bought a right-handed one for myself. Then I had to relearn all of the songs we'd worked on... I have no regrets. I think I got more enjoyment out of making do than I get from the instant gratification that is expected these days.

I received my copy on disc a couple of weeks ago. Like Hiram, the lyric [i]I've got the keys to your horse[/i] is lodged in my mind. I liked it overall. It's not as exciting as I thought it might have been but these aren't young guns any more. It is age appropriate. Instead of explosive delivery it has a slow consistent burn that sits well with my fifty-something constitution. It has stamina. I will happily listen to this during supper and during the washing-up after.

[quote name='musicbassman' timestamp='1509522693' post='3399548'] Hard? Call that hard? We used to rehearse in t'paper bag in middle of road..................... [/quote] ...AND... that bag would be one of Ringo's [i]hand-me-downs[/i] after he had farted in it.

I enjoyed the first post... thanks for that at least.

Sorry, I can't answer your question. I just found the topic title intriguing and wandered in by mistake.

[quote name='DJpullchord' timestamp='1509519678' post='3399530'] Cheers chaps. When I play a hormonic, the left hand comes off on a quick controlled kinda way. Surely replacing a finger kills off riiiiiiiiiiiiiiing? Fairly dead? [/quote] No. As long as you put your finger tip precisely on the sweet spot for that harmonic, the note will continue to ring. You are damping the other frequencies by touching the string thereby isolating the harmonic note for that position. This will also give you an indication of how well the intonation of your bass has been set. If you are killing the harmonic at the fret I'd look at a saddle position adjustment to pull it into line.

[quote name='bluejay' timestamp='1509438865' post='3398821'] Agree with Yorks in principle. In practice, you have no idea how effing boring, rather than purely offensive, menstruation jokes/puns are to women, no matter who they are told by (and that includes other women). [/quote] In fairness S, they're quite boring for a lot of men too. Schoolboys however regard them as sophisticated humour. I want to know why the shop known as PMT seems to be popular. What's the draw?

Welcome Iain. May the GAS be with you.

Wow! What a plucker! Thanks.

Welcome Damir. It is interesting to hear about and see the bass tambura. I wasn't aware of it before but it sounds interesting. Although I play fretless electric bass sometimes I find double bass hard to intonate. Maybe the bass tambura would help in training to play uprights where it is needed most, up to the 12th fret. What does a three inch plectrum look like and how do you hold it?

Welcome James. Have you seen our build forum yet? Among the new builds there are projects that may be of interest to you. [url="http://basschat.co.uk/forum/15-build-diaries/"]http://basschat.co.u...-build-diaries/[/url]

Watched. Enjoyed. Good work.

Best: The raffle ticket that I bought at East Mids BB4. It won me a set of five semi-flat D'Addario strings that I had, as yet, no bass for. Runner-up: The Pitbull kit that I bought with the strings in mind. Lots of pleasure from both building it and playing it. I haven't really got a worst, sorry. I'll try harder next year.

[quote name='Osiris' timestamp='1509382831' post='3398489'] ...[color=#282828][font=helvetica, arial, sans-serif]bags of heft...[/font][/color] [/quote] [b]SPLUTTER![/b] [Wipes tea splattered screen with a snotty sleeve] It can't be true because bags are not hefty enough to contain heft without risk of rupture. Now... if you'd said [i]skip-loads of heft[/i], I'd have believed you without question.

Aw. I heard when news of Sean Hughes' (RIP) death was on that he had been in a music vid for the Terrortones. I was all set to look into the band to see if it was yours. Two bits of bad news then. Good luck with the new venture, I have the vid on my short-list to watch later.

[quote name='discreet' timestamp='1509364756' post='3398297'] Looks too good to be true. I wonder how far in you have to go before some kind of fee becomes payable..? [/quote] My first thought also.

OT. I got bored with the clip halfway through. I had my eyes shut as I listened and it made no difference. Not really my bag.