Stub Mandrel

Hope it turns out to be OK. GR Bass told me they are going.

Andy the Rumblekat.

Better than that, close inspection shows we were actually playing in the same key for once!

He is, shame that they parted ways with Neil Starr though. Would have gone to the Merthyr show, but it sold out in a couple of days 😞

A veritable orgy of ticket buying means I have tickets for Sassafras and Band of Friends, as well as ACAB, a popular local band.

Gotta share this clip from an open mike on Monday with Alex from Bluesfire.

I just poke my legs through a couple of holes in the bottom of a large carrier bag, squirt in half a can of polyurethane foam gap filler and five minutes later I'm good to go!

I thought I was getting over gas. I always took the fosters out of bog seat bongos. Then I saw a candy apple red one in the flesh...

Buy a bass for looks alone? Me? Never!

My TE 1110 combo plus Weston Thunder 1 would come to exactly £150 (excluding a jack lead and few quid of repairs). Very giggable.

Just got sent this 🙂

Yes the Embassy 🙂 Sound courtesy of a chap who understood the utterly confusing controls on a big Line 6.

My Embassy in the wild. Great bass for blues rock.

Went to an open mike at the Earl Haig in Cardiff with Alex, guitarist in Bluesfire. Both very nervous as probably Cardiff's top blues rock venue and hoping to make an impression. Met loads of great musos and some really impressive music. We were lucky to find a great drummer (sorry didn't catch your name!) who knew our songs (Walking in my shoes, All your love, So many roads) and an ace saxophonist, Stuart who did a great job on so many roads especially some wicked call and response with Alex. Got a few nice compliments which was nice as there were some cracking basists there. Hopefully get the gig!

Both my band do let's stick together, totally differently, but it's a storming riff to hammer out. Should add it's guaranteed dancing!

My brother's band Stonehouse at the Earl Haig.

Probably Jamie 🤣 @jebroad he's mad enough to do that!

There's long history of Lotuses being made from parts bins of other manufacturers, especially GM. Was it the Esprit that had Opel Manta suspension?

I'd love to know how they do that. I find it very hard to believe one (or a few) companies have discovered a way to make characterless pickups. Increasing magnet strength increases the sensitivity, but potentially interacts with the string/strings. So older, weaker magnet types tend to be more neutral. Coils have two key properties - inductance, related to the number of coils, and resistance, related to the number of coils and wire gauge. Coil placement - obviously. Coil physical size also has an effect, wider coils cover more string, changing the harmonic content as they 'average' the signal over a longer length of string. Varying these factors will change the 'tonal character' of the sound. I suppose you could use individual pickups per string, small, very low number of windings to minimise the contribution of the pickup. But these would still only tell you what one point on the string was doing, and would have a poor signal-to-noise ratio because of the additional gain required.

Hey! Don't pick on me 😉

Cat got your tongue @Frank Blank? 🤣🤣🤣