Stub Mandrel

I love my Orange Crush 25. Totally converted me to Orange, I now have a Bass Terror for gigging.

With of Without You @TimR was right...

Don't be up tight, I dropped a smiley to show it was in jest. I could have quoted you in the 'Basschat Famous Quotes Thread' if I wanted to be cruel. I do wonder what @supernaut decided to do, he's usually around.

Doncha love the interweb 🙂

I think that's all covered by the double stops which aren't too bad once you get your head around the inconsistencies.

The line was just doubled, so it's the same whatever you play it on.

Don't give the Glaswegian's ideas... a six pack of Tennant's, chips and a battered P for supper!

I'm visualising a cab with a single 10" or 12" speaker and an angled section on top with a 5" speaker beaming the mid-range at the player's head.

I love lestning something like this because its full of ideas i could never come up with.

Apparently Harrison wrote it, Paul played it on a jazz, then Harrison doubled it on a Fender VI and a ricky 12-string. Or not.

Just managed my first full play through of WMGGW A couple of minor glitches, but should be OK now 🙂

I've done two gigs. In both cases there was a PA with 15" bass bins it was a bit academic. It's a powerful PA (3kW) but not run ridiculously loud, I have the Orange Bass terror at about 8:30 volume with gain about 3:00 and tine controls pretty much at noon, so not working hard at all for plenty of volume. On the second gig I had to turn down as I was too loud for the PA. Then on the second set we played half the first song with everything but the vocal on mute. No-one noticed the difference - I was subconsciously digging in to make up for the reduced volume and then the PA came in and the roof nearly came off! Second gig had a mate who does pro audio in the audience and he said our sound was cracking, the landlord booked us for New year and we got another booking but i'm not sure all of that was down to the cab... Two issues - one of the feet has come loose and I've cracked one of the corner pieces. It slid off a chair, then tipped over so one corner hit the skirting board pretty hard. I suspect most speakers would have been unscathed, but it was quite a whack. The problem is that the cores of the carbon panels don't give the screws a lot to bite into, one of them was pulled loose and that allowed the corner to flex and split. The cab itself was fine. I plan to fit bigger, self-adhesive feet anyway (I don't like the little ones). As for the corner, I might ask for a replacement, but as I have a 3D printer my most likely plan is to print slightly bigger, thicker corners in TPU (a flexible polymer) which will be much more shock absorbing. My feedback for GR Bass will be to fit much more robust corners and consider some sort of inserts or reinforcement where screws are fitted.

After an inordinate wait I finally have the wee beastie. It got delivered my old address (I watched it all unfold in real time on the tracking!) A month kater when I travelled up I missed my neighbour, so eventually he posted it to me. It's no bad for around £40, 10 watts and significantly bigger than a Blackstar Fly. Lovely retro look to the cream version, and the Joyo logo lights up. Sound is good for a 5" speaker not driven hard, loud enough gor home practice, playing with unamplified acoustics and maybe busking in a quiet area. The tone control is a bit puny, seems to work a bit like the Fender tbx and sounds best near 12 o'clock. Gain works well, needs to be fairly high to get ddcent volume, but I usually like a decent amount of gain, its main use might be to tame active basses. The drive channel is decent. Sound and volume don't match up to my more substantial 25w Orange Crush but that's not the point. Included an external mains psu - a big plus over the Fly, and a quality european to 13A adapter. Certainly a lot for the money - typical Joyo.

Thanks, UG is my first point of call as it usually gives several versions, easy ones to learn the structure then more advanced ones to flesh it out. That version is close to UG's official tab. There's a good tutorial here that has some differences but is really well-structured for learning. Getting there!

Last night the guitarist started jamming 'While my Catarrh Gently Seeps' and I foolish thought it would be really simple.

Not according to David Tudor, the pianist who first performed the piece in 1952. But it is somewhat shrouded in mystery. http://rosewhitemusic.com/piano/2018/09/10/the-composition-of-4-33/

Carole King was first and foremost a songwriter, and a performer second. Many of the songs have been done famously well by others, but it deserves its classic status. It's remarkable how many of them are familiar, the album felt a bit like putting on a cosy sweater.

It's taken me 40 years to get a copy (since deciding I ought to get one).

If you're going to be so bloody pedantic, you could bother to check your facts. It is in 4/4 time at 60 beats per minute, so 76 bars long.

History is made... accurate tab! But it is for guitar, not bass 🤔

What about "The Eighties Tribute Band"?

You know you are getting old when you would rather have roadies than groupies...