Richard R

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Welcome aboard! No idea about the bass, but hope you find what you want in the marketplace here. 😁

Which have the better tone - AF, Whitworth, or Metric?

Like that - consider it pinched 😁

Clearly they don't want it to fall off! 😃

That's quite something! Is all the decorative metalwork attached to the bridge, or separate but very close fitting?

Possibly the most honest introduction ever! You don't by chance want to buy a 2006 Jaguar X150 that has developed a habit of overheating in traffic?

Welcome aboard! Lots of lovely people here to help you.

My daughter just recommended this one to me. Better than what she usually listens to. 😁

Welcome aboard! What's a Traben Array?

You mean a Steinberger? 😁

Better call the one-and-only @Smanth - she's the only person who could make that design. And actually make it work too!

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Thanks for that. I'll look at iReal.

I love Tomita, ever since I first borrowed his "Snowflakes are Dancing" from the record library in Birmingham. But he is a bit odd at times, and this arrangement is definitely one of those times

@velvetkevorkian- which did you pick and how have you got on?

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Welcome aboard! Suggest you follow this thread: @Stub Mandrelis sorting out a Bass Bash for S Wales, but there are others as well. 👍

I use a tuner pedal, then usually DI into the desk. Anyone with a passive bass uses the Behringer BDi21, either just as an active DI to buffer the signal or as an amp modeller. Cheap and cheerful, but actually pretty good.

I rather like that album. It's fundamentally flawed, but you can hear something of where they would head later. Jonathan King produced it.

Living Next Door to Alice - that's a song I've not heard in a while! I first heard it on a Friday night at the Frog and Frigate in Southampton, probably 1986. You know the sort of pub where the floor is sticky with beer and sweat and you're so tightly packed you can't move? Well that was true for all of us standing on the tables as well. In that environment it's a great song!

It was great - a really happy and joyous celebration. The bride is from our church, the groom from Texas, they met in Austria and planned to get married in 2019 in Solihull. Things got very complicated with visas, so they were actually married in July 2019 in the Cayman islands with just parents as witnesses, the plan being to then celebrate back here in 2020. Other things got in the way. So having been married nearly three years they finally had the church wedding celebration. A good day - and a really nice change from all the funerals I have done tech for over the past two years.