Owen

Ooh! Ooh! I have a joke which is super niche, but I think this is the moment.

My friend, who never showed any interest in music, phoned me. “I was on eBay last week and I saw the most beautiful thing. It was a guitar and I could not stop myself. I hit BIN and it arrived yesterday. I don’t know why I had never clocked these before”. “So you had an epiphany?” I asked. “No” he replied, quite put out. “It’s a proper Gibson!”.

I saw Rory Gallagher. I suspect he has an element of responsibility for my tinnitus. Wow, he was loud. See also SRV.  

muttter mutter 5 string mutter mutter

Bargalicious.

My new favourite word. Apart from cake and trifle, obv. 

Thanks. They look like proper kit. In the spirit of info, here are some further user reviews and a sound test against a DPA.

https://gearspace.com/board/low-end-theory/1394800-just-bought-line-audio-cm4.html

With a matching headstock, obv. 

It turns out that 1097 of my 1715 are UA plugins, of which I "own" perhaps 20.

Crazy madness. I have 1715 plug-ins. And I am a totally amateur bodger. How did I manage to collect so many? Lots of them are UAD ones that are sitting there after being downloaded with my Apollo interface, but need to be paid for to use. I wish I could disappear them. I would also like to know which plugin occasionally makes Logic unstable. You would expect the message to read "********* is making Logic unstable" so that I could go and deal with it. But that would be too obvious.

On 22/05/2025 at 22:28, Bill Fitzmaurice said:

In this case it's not so simple, as the ports are tapered. Basic ported box speaker modeling software can't account for that. You can do it with a more sophisticated tool, like HornResp or Akabak, but they require a high degree of expertise. However I do happen to have that high degree of expertise, and my rate is reasonable. Free.  ☺️ 

Bill leaving no room for the haggle

You cannot spell Bass without a B. 

Come at me 4 string zealots. 

I had no idea these existed. I have often fancied the control that digital offers but in a 4 channel package. Well, here it is. I was worried that it did not have parametric eq. It does. They also make a cute mic stand adapter. So I shall buy one. BC, always finding me new ways to spend money. 

6 minutes ago, neepheid said:

 

Well, you're #40 here, so there's a certain asymmetry to it all

 

Aha! I was thinking 4 here. But 40 it is.

1 minute ago, NancyJohnson said:

I was on Bass world, honestly couldn't tell you what my username was; seem to remember being quite slack in moving over to Basschat and getting a membership number of 200 or something.

 

It's odd how most of us older chaps were likely active on alt.bass or alt guitar.bass type newsgroups as well (back when we were all on AOL or had newsgroup access bundled in our email clients).

For some reason I can remember being member number 4. But that might just be a created memory. I do love it here though.

11 hours ago, walshy said:

......The start of a parts clearout.....

 

All the cool kids are doing this now. 

1 hour ago, Dood said:

 

 

This one is a good snapshot, lots of people logged on and lots of posts showing. Anyone see themselves logged in? I'm on there! 

http://web.archive.org/web/20060426190514/http://www.bassworld.co.uk/pn/index.php?name=PNphpBB2&file=viewforum&f=1 

Yep. There I am. op. 

Did a gig last night in Llanfair Caereinion. What a pleasant surprise to find a d&b Audiotechnik foh and martin wedges. I left my backline (QSC12) in the car.  There was a moment to smile when the singer asked for less bass in the foldback to be told there was none. 

But there was a REALLY weird squeal going on. We could not find an induction loop and the rig was not hooked up to anything installed. Eventually I found the loop amp which was live with an open mic somewhere on the stage. It was clearly set up for general use. Everything got a lot easier when that went off. 

Fender Tone Stack, no? Like an Alembic Preamp. But with rocket power bolted on.

A nice honest piece of wood there. I like it.

On 12/05/2025 at 16:09, Steve Browning said:

Combining a rather fetching Warmoth body/neck combination from our own @Beedster (from his current sale of assorted bits), the bass sports a Lollar 5% overwound pickup and Gotoh Res-o-Lite tuners. The obligatory K10gon loom (0.1 cap) and barrel knobs. A nice weight and very resonant. This one's a keeper for sure.

A very pleasing colour combo. 

I miss their tapewound strings. 

Phew. I am glad you came up with the answer quickly. I was about to embark on a spot-the-difference puzzle, and I hate those.

I love it! Everything comes through here if you wait long enough.

I shimmed to raise the headstock. It is now OK. But I must admit it feels like a cheat. My preference is that it works as it "should". I know a shim is entirely acceptable. Thanks all for humouring me, as usual. 

It shows us enough to suggest you are not playing a Lefty P!

10 hours ago, Owen said:

Essentially, the bottom strings are buzzing more than the top ones. The neck has had a couple of days to settle, so I shall recheck it tonight.

No joy after a couple of days to settle. I might just put the flats back on. They were showing it who was boss.