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That E string’s just too long, I think. Superbrights are unusually long - I use long scale on my 35” Ibby BTB and they fit perfectly. I’d try a different brand personally.

First gig since November. Private party in a church in the middle of nowhere.

Bloody awful. Stinking cold, long drive, shit get in, freezing, hours of hanging about, long drive home.

Bugger this: counting the days until my last gig of the year in November and then the whole sodding lot’s getting sold.

Better things to do on a Saturday night than this!

49 minutes ago, Sibob said:

Finally got my main board rearranged for 2025, it’s been largely unchanged for 5 years or so, but I wanted to shake things up a little. 
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Off came the Noble (plus the power it provided), and on came the Barber Linden EQ and my Schu-Tone FJBOD. Needing power, I opted for the GigRig Generator into a couple of Isolators (via a 2-way power splitter). GigRig provided some over-and-above customer support helping me get this setup sorted, huge thanks to Joe and the team there. This setup allows a full isolated power setup, which the Noble couldn’t provide.

I also ended up swapping out all my old pancake jacks for EBS patch cables, solid, tidier, more space, love ‘em.

 

 

 

Cheers

Si

 

Nice. The GigRig isolator is a great solution, I’ve got one hanging off a 500mA outlet, saved buying a bigger PSU for me

58 minutes ago, stewblack said:

I use the Harley Benton solderless ones after they came out very well rated for low noise in a test. They're fine if you put them together properly. 

The only downside is if you're like me e and chop and change pedal boards all the time they can suffer from being pulled in and out. Otherwise perfect.

+1 from me on this. As Stew says, come out well in tests on t'internet, and stupid easy to assemble. I used to use Lava but prefer the HB because very difficult to get the connection wrong with a screwdriver-based approach! They work fine... you'll maybe have to take pity and rewire your guitarist's attempts 🙂

Yers, there really ARE some peaches in there! And the width!!

This is my favourite bass ever. Can you hold it until my choice of lottery numbers align with what their stupid machine picks? Somehow, either I’m selecting the wrong numbers or Dr Lottery is.

Yeah that neck! Seems a shame to play it with the strings facing the audience really, but I guess there’s no way round that!! 😛

Let’s be right… pic #2 is bass stance, bass face AND dusty end! Good work fella

Thanks for all the suggestions folks!! Much appreciated. 

Good afternoon. What Bluetooth solutions are everyone using to get background music between sets into the mixer please?

My current one kaput. Something with a 3.5mm headphone out, battery powered a bonus but there’s always a 13amp/USB outlet available so not essential.

Any recommendations please? Thanks!

God I wish I got to play music like that. Instead I’m in year thirty of playing Brown Eyed ****ing Girl. Wrongly. I play it correctly, but you know geetards. 

A massive part of my formative years that album. Good work… keep us all updated!

Blimey! Odelay’s a great choice… hope everyone has got their “make lots of random noises” pedals ready!

Ah, one of those!! Very cool looking things regardless of how they sound!

@agedhorse - this is so true! “Bass amps generally last 10+ years without attention but I am now seeing bass amps in after 15-20 years of hard use that need refurbishment. It's not the SMPS and Class D part that needs work, it's everything else that suffers the wear, tear and handling accidents”

My guitarist’s Nomad 55 combo is basically trashed… because front panel not covered and many whacks taken. My old Ampeg SVT 3 had dry joints and blown MOSFETs and a smoked transformer at different times… strongly suspect because it lived in a crappy plastic 2U rack and kept getting knocked over on to concrete by… guitarists 🤣

My current GK is in a 3U full fat flight case - more chance of breaking your shin than knocking that over. I’m still very much a large transformer sort of boy

The thing that puts me off getting new moulds is all my local sites are Boots - thus likely an indifferent 19 yo doing the do 😩

ACS all the way, as we know by now. Mine are ancient (really should get new moulds) so I think mine are 26s / nearest equiv is 27 now. A lot of attenuation - because geetards are geetards and one of my drummers uses the cheapest, nastiest cymbals known to man. Ear slicers

My lad uses this, seems to work with everything plugged in so far! https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/B08J6XVWFN/ref=ppx_yo_dt_b_search_asin_title?ie=UTF8&psc=1 - nice because USB C or A (with adaptor). Also class compliant i.e. no driver install required. Previously had tried the classic Roland UM-One cable, but that needs drivers which (because Boss) meant pain.

I love this. Given Korea and the year there’s a good chance it was made by World Musical Instrument Company, Incheon. Ibanez used them at the same time - I’ve got a 2006 Korean BTB which is Japanese quality levels. I suspect this is probably the same! GLWTS

6 hours ago, 0175westwood29 said:

 

ahead of the big upgrade next week (the Morningstar ML5 is going and a ML10x is taking its place 

 

the top dirt fixer is for the life, crimson and mountain, the bottom is on the helio and the blooper is on the big fella atm 

Needs a round of applause 👏 every time you post a pic. Absolute work of genius. I use MC controllers rather than than the MLs but MS gear is amazing. Some really nice recent fw updates to the 10 with more on the way. Support and updates for MS products has to be one of the best in the market. 

Some good advice here so far. You likely need to mute a lot more on 4+ strings. I use floating thumb. That said, if I’m playing something that doesn’t need anything fretting or open on the B I anchor my thumb on it.

As others have said the extra low notes are nice, but the real benefit is e.g. being able to start stuff in E on fret 5 B string.

I’ve got two main fivers… one is dropped half a tone because the geetard in the band I was joining didn’t tell me they dropped until the day before first rehearsal. By that point it was too late to relearn fingering. If I’d have known I’d have just shifted down a fret on a regular tuned bass! Hey ho 

5 hours ago, Greg Edwards69 said:

Saturday, Redonizm were back at The Cow & Telescope in Southend, one of our favourite venues in the area.

 

Being that awkward Saturday between Christmas and New Year, we were unsure what the turn out would be. The pub was almost empty when we arrived and when my wife, bother, sister-in-law and a coulple of friends arrived around 8.30 the audience size doubled! But we needn't have worries, people started trickling in, including a lot of regulars, around 9pm and got quite busy by the time we started at 9.30.

 

We get to got a little heavier in this place, which is nice, but still kept a few of the party anthems that always work, anywhere we play. In fact, it's getting harder to choose which songs not to play these days! That said, I was hesitant to play Dakota and Sex on Fire that one of the singers had included in the setlist, at this particular venue, as they're done to death (the new mustang sally). But they went down more that okay. In fact the regulars have their own call and response thing for Dakata that made it even better. Like having our own choir.

 

All in all a really good night and a perfect end to the year. This was out 4th weekend out in a row, so set up seemed much simpler, and I wasn't aching as much as I normally would at the end of the night either. I could have kept going for another half hour, no problem. Just goes to show that your body gets used to things after repetition!

 

Got a break from gigging for couple of months now. Time to work on new material, technical stuff and working on marketing stuff, not to mention booking some more dates in the diary!

 

 

 

THREE guitarists?!?

@Bassy - if you’re anywhere near south Lincolnshire you’re welcome round mine to try it out!

22 hours ago, Bassy said:

My amp is a Gallien Krueger legacy 800. It's a very nice amp with the GK eq from the 800rb. 800w, it's a bit overkill (and not just Lemmy).

The Barefaced BB2 works VERY nicely with a GK - I’m using an RB into mine. Once you’ve heard a BF 12” you won’t care that they don’t offer a 15, they’re outstanding cabs 

49 minutes ago, dmccombe7 said:

Each of us in the Glam band knows their own input channel number on the desk and therefore runs their own cable to the desk.

Desk is usually on the stage next to our drummer who owns and controls it himself. On the odd occasion the singer will take over control of it depending on stage space.

My XLR cables are all custom made and labelled as Dave 5m or 10m for cable length.

Dave 

Come again? The. Drummer. Does. The. PA? Wha? They can do that sort of thing?!