Stub Mandrel

I have two gigs as a dep on 26 August, then a big gig for our blues band on the 27. Bank holiday I get to relax in the audience with Son of Man, Phil Campbell and Hawkwind.

Note the straight bridge. The ambition must have been achieving better intonation.

Nearly all our gigs are 9pm start +/- 15 minutes, except sunday gigs and festivals. But we are only doing about 2 1/4 hours.

Bass-lead-amp since last October. Improved my playing no end.

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I take that as a compliment!

Effectively identical to a Teisco EB-100 'Tulip', but a circular pale patch on the headstock means it's a Kay. It oozes Kay quality... or teh lack of it, maybe 🤣 At least it's possible to turn the tuners by hand.

Went to the Earl Haig Jam last night. An excuse to play possibly the most unexpected bass in my armoury. It actually sounded HUGE!

Wooden tug bar!

Not everyone wants a bass that can stand in for a lolly stick 😉

Two gigs this weekend. Saturday was the Exchange, a pub that loves its blues rock, and we had a great night with much uproarishness. The vocalist of a very good local classic rock band was in, and he congratulated us at the end. You can see I was prepared for a boisterous evening. On the subject of bass stands, I have a 'new' car and forgot to put, my stands in it., After encores I rested it on the bach of a wall seat, and it slid over. I thought it had knocked the G. We got hauled back for a final song, so we did Sultans of Sing as we've never played it live, I checked the G, and it needed a tiny tweak and we dived in. Of course, my A string was almost half a semitone flat. I gave up trying to tune it on the fly, muted myself and used a tuner, got back in time to finish the first verse! This afternoon was a small benefit for Alzheimer's in Llanelli. We all underestimated the travel time, and the drummer was quite late. The acts and landlady were very helpful and swapped round, so we could go one about an hour late. It wasn't packed, but was slowly filling up over the day until we left about half six. We were very different from the other bands/performers - swing jazz to the jazzy end of blues, so I was worried how we would go down, but it was great and the landlady said we were bloody amazing and should insure our guitarist's fingers. My partner and I stayed around, so we saw about five other acts. Not a paying gig, but we have been invited back to do a full gig for them.

Strange. My MIJ 80s fretless has a maple board and no shortage of mwah.

Scott's Brief Lessons. The 30-minute videos with the 25 minutes of waffle taken out. Or more likely... Scott's Biographical Lessons. As above, but with an extra five minutes waffle and no bass content.

I may be wrongbin the details, but those are probably 2 and 4 pole versions. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Speakon_connector

Some of them have different contacts so you can connect speakers with opposite phase using the same plug. Not sure how it works/how it's better than just having swapped wires.

Fairport Convention, no one been there for the whole tide, although Simon Nichol only took a break. But due to gradual replacement and integrity to the band's character they still feel like the same band. Can't see them continuing beyond Peggy and Simon though.

The Stones will be touring with no actual members, they will just all be hired hands like Darryl Jones, and the profits will go to the owners of each member's estate.

Search was quick for me, just over a second to find all used fenders.

I've seen this a few times - a shorter warm-up to encourage early birds. Worth coming a day early for Reef, they weren't on my radar until rceently, but I've seen them three times now.

Not quite in my budget zone I'm afraid.

Not yet... a basschatterwho needs to be involved has been away. There has been some parallel discussion on Farcebook.

OOps! It does do 3.5 jacks, but Speakon would be handy.

I'm not convinced. The majority of pedal effects run happily on 9V. I'm not sure why you should need super low output impedance (unless you want to run old 40R headphones dirct from your bass). Even the venerable 741 is 75 ohms, nothing compared to any amp input. Mic level is usually 2k and line 10k.

Being cynical, it's to provide sufficient headroom for the excessive gain of some active basses. I'd love to know what benefits are gained by the higher output level of active basses beyond generating the requirement for lower gain input stages on amps to compensate. I hardly think it's justified as improving signal to noise ratio or microphones would be boosted to similar levels.

We have earthquakes in Wales. Just small, civilised ones.