Stub Mandrel

I've been vegetarian for 30 years. This reminds me why I am not vegan.

Back in the 90s when I went into a studio*, they just plugged me straight into the desk. I wasn't even allowed to choose what instrument to play if I brought more than one - I demo'd the basses I brought with me, and they always insisted I use the Hohner B2 over the Fender. *Only for recording demos or practice sessions.

Please tell me where you found a pub that sells cheap non-alcoholic drinks! 🤣

Dietary preference is not a protected characteristic.

In: err, cough, hum this and that... Out: I don’t understand the question.

WD40?

Never stopped Saxon...

You're up for a meating of minds? Flesh out your suggestions, but don't ham it up.

If you are recording a 'cultural campaign song' it might prove highly embarrassing if it transpired that the singer lived on a diet of raw liver and fava beans.

You are the Passenger and I claim my five pounds.

Frets - why do so many people rave about them?

I've heard of a few people taking flats back because they weren't dead yet.

Quite hard as you could have someone available 24/7 primed to receive payment notices and able to revise the site immediately, which is unfeasible for a small operation. Alternatively you need the website to be front ending a proper stock control system, which would mean completley rebuilding it. Not simple unless you have the skills. It's what would be sensible though, given the other benefits that would accrue.

Read my earlier posts, as with the fender deluxe, the problem with the bass terror is that the existing master volume doesn't give fine enough control at low volumes.

Hmm solution would be the one my Brother had on his Fender Deluxe guitar amp. A little gadget with a supplementary volume control and two jack plugs that bridges the post-eq fx send and return.

Opposite issue. You can go totally silent easily, the problem is that it is the area where the volume is low is very small. On the other hand my TE Elf wont turn down to zero at high gains, although it does do very quiet, which is arguably more useful.

P.s. those are plates in the far corner, not speakers...

Hope you approve of this @Bill Fitzmaurice 😎

To answer in reverse order, I need to have the bass and gain set high enough to get a decent sound (valve preamp) to DI into the PA so turning it down isn't practical. This means I have to use the volume to control levels. For rehearsals, I have the amp set louder as I don't go through the PA. Basically combining a 500W rms amp with a 102dB cab is very loud, so the practical minimum volume isn't to quiet. I can't get it quiet enough for use at home without using the 10dB pad and rolling back the gain, which is not much help. On reflection, this pub was quite small and it didn't help we had parallel walls about 10 feet apart behind and in front of the left-hand PA speaker. I had a big resonance at A/Bb and that's pretty much exactly the wavelength fto fit between those walls. I think it was partly this resonance making the bass sound too loud. Personally, the right solution would have been for me to not use the PA, or at just to have used one channel of the PA as the left-hand set wasn't doing much. In fact the whole way we were set up was pretty awful but what does a humble bass player know of such things?

Ho hum. There's a down side to a super efficient 2x12. Last gig I had the Bass Terror set at absolute minimum volume, plus di into the pa. I was asked but couldn't turn down any more. I have the dog's ⚽️⚽️ in the sound department but a less efficient cab would make life easier...

On saturday I used my Joyo XVI as a straight sub-octaver as an alternative to using my fiver for one song. Worked really well.

Found this blast from my past at the used record/cd store in Cardiff Indoor market on Friday.

Steve Howe on slide guitar.

This is how it turned out, darker and less contrast than I'd hoped. Pure tung oil probably wasn't the best choice; I hadn't understood how different it is from tru-oil. Also, I think I overdid the stain, I should have sanded it back more. The restoration wax (satin finish), I could have built it up even more, but it was starting to leave white residue in the holes.