Richard R

Level Pegging I think. But they all sound the same to me 😉

Looks a lot like Bandlab, which we're using for remote collaboration too. Basically what you are saying is that you like fiddling about and that solving the problems is as much part of the fun as playing the instruments. Sounds pretty reasonable to me!

What a fabulous sound!

Between the iRig, SessionCake and H4N you have more inputs than the Beatles had for Sgt Pepper and your phone has more processing power than the moon lander. I'm looking forward to hearing what you come up with, should be awesome!! I know what you mean about laptops that become desktops due to the number of leads plugged in though 😞

Great name!! Now I have recycled gas...

All that copper tape will keep the slugs from the pickups too 🙂 So you won't be able to play any of these songs.

I have just seen the final edit of an upbeat song that I am playing on for next Sunday's online service. It seems I move my upper body quite a lot, but my expression remains resolutely immobile.

Looking very good! You need a name and a logo for the headstock, especially once you start selling them. Something that references the origins. PianoForte in the Fender script perhaps? Or 88KeyBass? Bassendorfer?

I was thinking initially "That's quite a jolly boppy bass line, the tone goes with the rhythm and would fit with dancing on Top of the Pops". Then I realised he was playing along to Nirvana! 😄

Some people would regard that as a good end to the gig 😉

These ID threads are genuinely fascinating. Like Silent Witless, thankfully without the murder and usually with less decomposition of the body, but in the same way that tiny clues reveal the truth.

The ebay descriptions all start with "roasted maple neck not genuine", and then different guitars have different faults. Would be tempted, but I have a friend's 5-er on loan so don't need to spend money 😉 https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/RedSub-Coliseum-Fanned-Fret-5-String-Bass-DAMAGED-RRP-319/303665014478?hash=item46b3d866ce:g:TdgAAOSw8vtfRUMI

Does it sound as good as it looks?

Something like this one: https://shukerguitars.co.uk/stock-basses/5-string-uberhorn-bass/

They put up with me at the 2019 Midlands Bash! Everyone genuinely welcome 😁 Though I was too scared to go and embarrass myself on the green Shuker Uberhorn, I did at least play simple scales on a couple of others.

They put up with me at the 2019 Midlands Bash! Everyone genuinely welcome 😁 Though I was too scared to go and embarrass myself on the green Shuker Uberhorn, I did at least play simple scales on a couple of others.

There seems to be a lot of goodwill towards the HB kits over on the build diaries. @stewblack has a couple of HBs and can tell you what the necks are like.

The horrid bits bits of wire? Make a funny clanking noise and the instrument sounds better without them? They're called strings.

A bit of a chill time before the rest of the day, having already been up since before 6. https://music.stevelawson.net/album/the-best-of-steve-lawson-pt-1-solo-2000-2013 All from one bass, with loopers and pedals.

Oooh, about 2 years & six months. I had been off work with 'flu and it hammered me for a week or so then another week woozy and surfacing afterwards. During which time I must have wandered disorientedly about eBay because the next week I started getting odd "Recommended for you" emails from them. The oddest one was " Non working 5 string bass in Worthing, Sussex", which was so funny at the time I shared it will friends at work. One friend said, "well I have an unused bass, I'll bring it in and you can have a noodle if you're actually interested", and rocked up the next day with an Aria Sinsonido silent travel bass. So I messed about with this for a couple of days, then asked the best bassist at church to show me some basics. He taught me a simple riff and said "Yep, you can do this, I'll teach you". So I bought a used bass online and have never looked back. Sadly Kev died a couple of months after I bought my bass but I will forever be grateful for his initial enthusiasm and encouragement. I'm still too slow round the fretboard and my timing is a bit ropey, but I can follow the chart through a worship song, play more interesting lines than I used to, and am making progress. And enjoying myself even though I'm not in any band at present.

And since nobody is allowed into the office these days you probably won't. Unless Andy has a photocopier at home?

This may be old news to many of you, but I hadn't realised it. Scott Devine has been running a long series of interviews with notable bass players. If you're an academy member then the videos are in there, but the audio recordings are available to anyone as podcasts at https://scottsbasslessons.com/podcast They are really interesting, not at all manic, and well worth a listen. I've never heard of some of these guys and girls, but then have gone on to get their albums. Others I have heard of like Mo Foster and Gail Ann Dorsey, but don't really know anything about them.

What?? Does that happen in real life??

- a deer, a female deer, Ray - a blind soul-singing bloke. I uses to have an FEA programme stashed away somewhere, but it was on 3.5" floppies and wouldn't run on any current O/S. However a quick google search shows up loads of free and open source options. Need to wait until I have a working pc though.

Just looking at my bass and thinking- that's the best impulse purchase I have ever made and the best £250 I have ever spent 😊 (Cost does not include subsequent purchases of strings, gig bag, tuner, metronome, pedal and amp.)