Richard R

Welcome aboard! That's a hard font to read on a phone, especially for us older guys 😉. Lots of love for short scale basses here, both bought and built. Check out any of @Jabba_the_gut's builds in Build Diaries. But he almost never sells them, so no point in gassing 😥

Welcome aboard! Sounds like you have your perfect instrument, very cool 👍

Welcome to a friendly forum, and a great hobby! RAM is a superb album, one of my all time favorites on so many levels but especially the production - just staggering. It cost over $1m to produce, and you can hear it across everything. https://www.soundonsound.com/people/recording-random-access-memories-daft-punk As for new bass recommendations: pick a budget and play a few to find what feels right in your hands. Anything by Yamaha or Ibanez will be good, but others will have played more basses than I and can make suggestions. When you have one, just play it - and stay away from the marketplace for a couple of years... 😁

Looking good. And the workshop is pretty cool too 😀

"What do you throw a drowning bass player?" "His Amp." "That seems cruel" "Would you rather he DI?"

That only seems to link to the top of this thread. Is that a technical error, or a very subtle way if saying I should have got my life organised and turned up?

Welcome aboard! Once a sound engineer, always a sound engineer! However when you're up front you can't hear the FOH mix so you just have to trust the bod behind the desk. We have great sound engineers, very musical too, but when I play there always seems to be a little red light on my channel... 🤔

Welcome aboard!

Where can I get one of those t-shirts???

I've been reading your blog. Lots of good stuff!

I apologise.

Which one?

That is truly, truly, execrable!! Our youth leader landed this on us for Sunday: https://youtu.be/PmIEiAwrKkU "The Fruit of the Spirit's not a coconut" I was on FOH Sound, but the band all moaned like anything - until they actually came to play it when they had a whale of a time. So much so that they spontaneously played it again after the end of the service (getting half the words wrong and causing much laughter): https://youtu.be/chE0N8fxk-4?t=3165

I made my own page turner from a 2 switch footswitch, the PCB from an old keyboard and a long USB cable. One switch page forwards, one page backwards. Works a treat

Following with interest!

😅 Step away from the marketplace!

Welcome aboard! Given the number of members here from the Netherlands and northern Europe, I'm expecting someone to organise an Amsterdam Bass Bash next year, pandemic permitting. (Hint 😉)

How very organised! At the Midlands one we sort of rolled up with odds and sods (mainly chocolate as it was all short notice) and fortunately Jamie found some tickets left over from 2½ years ago. 😅 Have a great time guys and gals.

This popped up on the Spotify "Discover " playlist. Never liked or been interested in Iron Maiden, but this is excellent. Not sure if the link will work, but it's "Prodigal Son", from "Killers"

That made me look up Chirpy Chirpy Cheep Cheep: And it is even worse than I remembered.

Tervetuloa! Isn't translation software wonderful!

Welcome aboard!

Thanks again @jebroad . Next year I really would like to see the GCSE Bass wired up and making some noise....

A little off the topic, bit that made me look up the Hamlet cigar adverts. I hadn't realised they ran the same basic concept for so long. https://www.sounds-familiar.info/2018/01/hamlet-cigars/

Welcome aboard! As everyone has said, excellent bass. Hope the recovery is swift and complete. Learning an instrument definitely stretches the brain as well as the fingers, and when you finally play a riff you couldn't do before it's very satisfying.