nilebodgers

You can’t go wrong with an old Peavey Bandit.

This: https://www.cityandguilds.com/qualifications-and-apprenticeships/building-services-industry/electrical-installation/2377-electrical-equipment-maintenance-and-testing#tab=information

If you don’t have it already get a copy of iReal, it’s a great practice tool for jazz backing tracks.

I’d recommend this free course, you should be able to whizz through the first 2 modules on a superficial level and that should be enough to fake it. https://www.walkingbasslessons.com/walking-bass-lines-course/

Mim-style tuners and headstock end truss rod adjust suggest mex.

I’d have used a thin cutoff disc in an angle grinder myself, good Allen keys are going to be hardened steel.

I am in the middle of an experiment on my J. I’ve been grumbling about the “twangy” character of the G string (elixir stainless roundwound) not sounding the same as the other strings and not being right for the Jazz exercises I have been working on. Instead of trying a full set of flats I bought a 0.040 single Rotosound 77 flat string (similar tension to a 45 roundwound) and fitted it tonight. Sounds surprisingly good, tonally it’s very similar to the other well played-in rounds so more even across the neck. I’ll play it for a bit to see if it goes too dead, but it’s promising so far.

Over at the other bass forum there is an old thread where a bunch of luthiers are attempting to prove or disprove the “shims cause ski-slopes” thesis with a bunch of long-running experiments. As far as I remember, they haven’t managed to cause one yet with shimming.

If a band can't agree on and stick to a song arrangement then there is no hope. Gigs will just be a perpetual series of car-crashes. Where is the enjoyment in that?

I’m keen to try flats on my J. I’m doing a load of jazz lessons at the moment and the twangy G of the rounds on there just sounds wrong. I can roll off the roundwound edge from the other strings with the tone control, but there is no fixing the different character of the G.

I liked “In the Evening”, can’t remember anything else.

I was there, but for the life of me I can't remember which of the two days it was or much about it apart from a cool laser pyramid lighting effect on one of the Zep songs. Forty two years ago is a blinkin long time.

If it’s strictly a fun thing rather than a money making thing then putting up with any BS is a lot less palatable. Only the OP can decide if they can stand to work with a clown like that guitarist when they really don’t have to.

LOL - it reads like that. Although the guitarist sounds more like a 10 year old. When I retired this year, that was the end of my duty to deal with unreasonable and offensive people (i.e. clients). That tantrum episode would have been followed by my immediate resignation if I hadn't already gone due to the persistent volume issues and song arrangement comedy.

I wonder if after a few years YouTube archives old video into a highly compressed lower resolution (smaller file) version?

18db/octave is logical as that can be done with one opamp. 24db/Oct needs 2 opamps so a budget-oriented design is more likely to be 18.

The problem with Chain Reaction now is that they have almost identical stock to Wiggle at almost identical prices, so they aren’t a real alternative like they used to be. I agree service is very good from both.

Yes, Wiggle are good. I also use Chain Reaction, Evans, Cyclestore, Merlin and Tredz. I’ve had a good few chains and tyres from ebay stores, but I don’t usually buy things that might need returning off ebay.

Amazon win on delivery no doubt and their returns system is great. They just don’t seem to be really competing in the bike space as the prices are so much higher.

Interesting. I buy quite a lot of bike consumables and clothing and Amazon never have what I want at a lower price than the online bike shops like Wiggle.

When I started buying basses again after a long layoff I looked again at straplocks. My old Yam bass had schallers, but I had used extra long screws and threadlock compound on the strap fittings to stop them coming loose. This was ok and secure, if a bit squeaky. When I saw the new buttons had a captive screw I didn’t even try them, I knew that would be a problem so went straight to Dunlops.

Yes. A passive DI reduces the signal level down to something that works well with a microphone input. The loss is usually -20dB (one 10th) with 1:10 transformers.

Anyone spot the motorcycle and customised sidecar in the background of one of the pics?

Cocktail stick plus Titebond/PVA wood glue works like a charm.

When I was working in conference event production one of our clients (a large European bank) used one of these systems (SAP Ariba). It was a massive ball ache to invoice a job as the kind of things we were doing didn’t fit the process and required a messy kludge with many traps that would cause the invoice to be rejected. I don’t miss having to deal with that sort of nonsense.