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https://www.dropbox.com/s/63o485o8e6idv57/Charms-Wheatsheaf-05dec2015.mp4?dl=0 Recorded on a Zoom Q2 HD, apparently. Quite acceptable sound and video, shame it couldn't autotune the backing vox down a bit though! There was no monitor my side, honest!

I really wouldn't do it. I have wall hangers in our study and just about get away with it. New acquisitions need to be pretty though, according to my wife! The upside is she can sometimes tell an SG from a Telecaster (with a little prompting!)

Can't believe Ball of Confusion by The Temptations hasn't been posted yet. Something portentous about a bass intro, isn't there?

Yes, he played the drums before he took up bass.

Is it the same as a drumport cone thing?

I had exactly this problem with a Sony hifi I was looking at for a friend. I had nearly given up when I found an invisible annular fracture on one of the output relay pins that went open circuit when it warmed up. Dab with the iron, sorted!

That's what a regular gig does for your playing, I guess

Hah, that's Frankfurt, nowhere near Nice.

I think the new G3 speaker goes higher than the G2's 15", I don't know if it looks like it should on paper, but from what I remember of my old compact it does. I actually think I could manage without the tweeter on my G3 Midget, it's shame it's not offered as an option. I use a G2 and G3 Midget together with a small amp and they seem to play nicely together. Haven't dared gig both with my Shuttle 6 yet!

Morphine, bass (fewer than regulation number of strings iirc) drums and sax, quite sparse though. Royal Blood, using all kinds of octavers etc. is how it can be done in a rock context.

Do Peavey do any lightweight heads?

^^ I've heard Blackstar aren't bad on that front either, to be fair.

I'll have to nominate one of my old bands for worst tune that's up on youtube. A cover of Tomorrow Never Knows featuring 3 "guest" vocalists who had never sung it together before. I can't seem to put links in here anymore, but if you really are some kind of masochist, put "Mark Bosley Tomorrow never knows" in the youtube search. I really can't see why HE would have put it out there. Knitting needles in you ears would be kinder...

My lot, Charms Against the Evil Eye will be playing our psyche-tinged pop in the middle of a 5 act evening upstairs at the Wheatsheaf. Other bands are 31 Hours, Sweet Pink, Flexi and Alan Jaggs. Looks like quite an eclectic lineup, should prove interesting! Doors open 8pm £6

Let's stick to the core issue please.

Why are these not used in Valve amplifiers? (or are they these days?) I'd have thought it would help in the trend to make stuff lighter and probably have a lower noise floor.

Also seriously, you can take the nut slot lower than you might think on a fretless - pretty much flat to the fingerboard. On some basses you may need to watch the break angle over the nut as you get low. Pay attention to winding the strings low on the tuner post.

File the nut down gradually until it buzzes unredeamably on open strings. Then unfile a couple of stokes.

It's not one of those basses in the shape of a giant gun, is it?

Slightly back on topic, did anyone buy the Ear Peace ones, and how are they? My ER20s are getting a bit ratty, and I like the idea of slightly less attenuation than the ER20.

I'm with BigRedX on this, I think it looks ok. I had a Vox standard bass with the pickup about there and it was pretty nice (DiMarzio P pickup though.) Aren't some Goodfellow (GB) basses vaguely based on a tidy bum shape at the, er, bottom end?

Death to the Pixies t-shirt from Brixton Academy, not sure if Trompe le Monde was being toured, they deffo played tunes off Bossanova though, so '91-93 sometime, I guess. Still fits, but the colour is now.... charcoal!!!

I saw John Martyn years ago at Aylesbury, the place was really quite empty, but he was superb. By the end the previously lukewarm audience was well into it.

My Lot, Charms Against the Evil Eye will be playing our own brand of Psyche-tinged pop at 8.30. There will be 3 other bands too, good sound system, finishes 10.30, so not too late for a school night!