Owen

Oh! Ouch. I had a case which damaged my bass. When my homemade carrying strap broke, my case did not protect my bass as it hit the stone steps. That was my own stupid fault. What happened to you and G4M reversing hard out of the situation is deeply uncool. 

Knows it you do. 

9 hours ago, rwillett said:

 

Let me know what you need. I've two Prusa MK4's. Oddly enough they are doing sod-all at the moment

 

Rob

Slacking you are. 

I wish you the very best with that and sincerely hope it works for you. None of my responses are aimed at you, Mr Mandrel. I am hoping that casual readers would get a handle on the dangers and the clear strategies for negating that danger. From my own personal experience, I would not be taking the risk for the cost of 3 sets of strings (or less if you use TI Jazz Flats!).

I am not telling anyone what to do with their lives. However the reality is that when it goes wrong suddenly all sorts of musical endeavours we take for granted, both listening and playing, are no longer possible. Hearing damage is progressive. Ironically mine tipped over into permanent tinnitus during a rehearsal with a harp. I can no longer play that subtle stuff that requires me to respond to subtle playing changes because I cannot risk further damage by playing unprotected. 

This is all totally avoidable. 

Anyone reading this needs to get proper moulded ones. Saving 100 quid to use plugs which are not guaranteed to seal is asking for trouble. Every one of us who has tinnitus/top end loss/hyperacusis (sp?)/something else would spend that 100 quid without blinking to make their hearing right. Most of us would spend 10 or 20 times that. But we cannot. Once the damage is done, it is game over. No one sits there listening to their ears whine/grumble/rumble or just not work and thinks "so glad I saved the cost of 3 sets of strings".

Do it right first time. I am not pointing at anyone who is using anything else. 

I bought a mixer from John. Everything was easy and this man packs beautifully. 

Wowzers! I do not play guitar in anger, and already have WAY too many. But that is proper funky!

He made me a 35" 5 string neck in the late 80s, early 90s which pretty esoteric at the time. It has been through a couple of bodies but is still lush. 

13 hours ago, Geek99 said:

Rush got it wrong - it’s not The Spirit Of Radio, it’s “the spirit of basschat”. Losers, Rush will never do anything successful, five minute wonder 

you need something called X, I have three and I’ll send you the best one by express 24. Don’t send money. 

Right there, right there in the Walmart 👍

Not wrong. Feel the love people!

4 hours ago, The Guitar Weasel said:

 

Thanks. I will try with this one because it is fitted so will not need any work other (!) than un-bannanaing it. 

4 hours ago, Burns-bass said:

If you need a new end piece, I have one. 

Thanks. The piece is there. It is just not stuck.

1 hour ago, The Guitar Weasel said:

It's called the 'saddle'

Deep in my memory banks I actually knew that. However, it was pretty deep in there. Thanks for the tips. 

I also need to bring the bridge back from Bannana so will wet it, put it between two pieces of flat board and clamp it hard for a few weeks. I knew that Black and Decker workmate would come in handy eventually.

8 hours ago, Burns-bass said:

 

Wood glue you'd assume (hope!)

I am sure it is. But there are ways of applying it that do not look like that!

1 hour ago, Burns-bass said:

Yoghurt is obviously not a good adhesive. 

I am not entirely sure what went on there!

2 hours ago, Hellzero said:

Fast and easy solution

 

These are some of my favourite words when it comes to craftsmanship.

Somenone has donated this DB to the college I work in. Fair play to them. However this bit has come off. I know I should boil up some bones etc. That is not going to happen. What do I use? Someone (a 5 year old?) has tried something but that popped as soon as there was any tension. I would also welcome suggestions for clamping for someone who has no clamps. 

We will obviously be needing a diary with pictures. This way, we can cheer from the sidelines. We get quite possessive here

Double Seal. It gets no better. 

This was probably the one you wanted

6 hours ago, MichaelDean said:

The problem I have with NAM is that anyone can make a NAM profile now. They're not all created equal and you can waste quite a lot of time trying to find the needle in the haystack on Tone3000.

I shall give it a couple of hours. There is Monique one in there which I will at least test. 

There is probably an upgrade but I was ANGRY. Don't be coming at me with your reasonable thoughts

It is not all bad, I have NAM sitting waiting for me. And that is probably better. 

Staying "in house" with Logic makes a lot of sense. And I am sure that, for my purposes, the plugins are more than ample. 

I have messed with the Logic guitar amps but the Waves one just seemed to make eveything soung nice without me trying. And that is my favourite thing. 

You will need an interface to get your bass audio in there. A pickup is less ffaff than a mic. Audio interfaces are cheap on FB marketplace. 

You will need to have some sort of syncing noise/visual so you can glue audio and video together in iMovie

You will need to spend 3 or 4 hours on a "teach yourself Garage Band" YT series. It is far from rocket science, but if you just pile in and hope for the magic after 10 minutes you are destined for Dissapoinment Central.

<sigh> I am migrating to a new Mac Mini M4. I have just tried to put my paid for, Olde Worlde Waves plugins on to it. Waves is asking me to load Rosetta or spend more money on new stuff. Waves can take a running jump.

It is really frustrating. The guitar amp just worked for what I wanted. I whacked it on and got on with whatever else I was doing. I know I can go to NAM or any number of other things, but ...............grrrrrrrrr.........

On 10/07/2025 at 21:20, BenTunnicliffe said:

You wouldn't believe it but the man had four of the things,

This makes me feel better about my excess kit.