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Ah! Which band was that? Decent enough place. Timmy Taylor Landlord on tap which is a thumbs up from me. Food looked great too!

Second 4 Play (🥴) gig with our new singer Dave. He’s great - excellent range, timing and feel. Good frontman too, and a lovely bloke. Excellent.

Black Bull, Kirton near Boston. Good crowd, and only a 20 min drive. My wife came to see me play for like only the third time!

The Dimension > GK > Barefaced continues to deliver in spades. I’m totally GAS free with this setup.

That’s really nice. Some premium choices on there!!

An excellent choice. Still regret flipping my SR.  Idiot. 

5 hours ago, fretmeister said:

 

 

If you swap to USA Ultralights and go for the Y keys instead of the Clover ones you'll save about another 12 grams.

 

As you've noticed from the other end, even a little makes a bit difference.

 

(I'm obsessed with bass balance and weight!  )

True, but (IMHO) Y tuners on a trad shaped Fender is… just… no. Clovers, lollipops permissible on 60s Jazzes. 

That’s really nice! I love the old early P scratch shape on pretty much anything, including a Jazz it now seems. Good score!

Keen price for an amazing piece of kit. If I had the spare cash I’d get it so I could have two… but that’s just silly, one of these on it’s own kills!

Excellent little gig with Clutching at Straws, Ship Inn, Pointon, derrière end of nowhere near Sleaford ish. Played well, small but drunk and appreciative crowd… home before midnight! Lots of gigs 20 mins drive from home this year. Ace. Hate driving. Sucks donkey.

Even with my ACS moulded ears a little battered. Time for fresh moulds and more attenuation I think…

Clutching at Straws at The Old Ship Inn, Pointon near Sleaford tonight. Now indoors rather than out, two lots on before us so not busting a gut to get there! Wrists knackered after weeks of DIY… and an afternoon gig tomorrow! I’ll be ruined. Luckily, there’s beer and nuts for later on 😊

Absolutely brilliant gig with Clutching at Straws Saturday eve. In 20 years, that’s a top 5 gig. We played really well, it grooved, it rocked and the harmonies were on point. Crowd up and dancing. Fed and watered and paid and 20 minutes down the road. Shoulder sore after slinging Betsy two nights in a row but who cares?! Everyone should have a mate with his own pub in his garden!!

Good work. And two barefaced cabs. Double points awarded!

Gig one of two this evening. 4 Play (👊🏼👊🏼👊🏼👊🏼👊🏼👊🏼👊🏼) covers band, Holbeach Services club. First one with the new singer. He’s clucking excellent. Spot on. A few tunes need to go back into the garage but pretty good. No audience to speak of so a paid rehearsal.

Private party with the other band tomorrow night. It’ll be the usual lengthy messy and hugely enjoyable carnage. 

Yeah - I think the SR wins here as a first fiver. Plus, they really are very good, and take mods well eg new pups (nordies fit and they’re brilliant in an SR) and the control cavity is massive. 

If it were me, I’d get a 5 string. Here’s a bargain: 

and spend some time getting used to muting with floating thumb, pinkie, whatever. An SR is great IMHO because they’re tight spacing.

I’ve got two Fender 5s, one standard, one dropped half a tone. The dropped one needed a setup even though only dropping half a tone. I’ve found common or garden D’addario XL nickels 50-130 work fine in both timings for me. If low B isn’t enough for you could eg drop all the strings a tone, but will almost certainly need to set neck relief afresh

Bike chain links? Of course, thought they looked familiar. I’m stealing that idea 😋

@danny-79 - nice. Interested in your brackets for slinging the thumpinator under the board… what did you use for that, looks like they’re screwing in to the base plate?

16 hours ago, dmccombe7 said:

Might be a silly one but have any of the mic stands got the centre pole touching the floor. The tripod legs have rubber stops on them that prevent the mic picking up bass drone but if the centre pole is touching floor it can transmit the bass vibration up to the mic itself. Had that in rehearsals a few times where previous bands have left stands that way and we didn't notice until we started playing. Its usually a low end hum / drone tho.

Dave

Good shout Dave… lost count of the times that’s been at fault over the years!

Mike bought a box o’ bits from me. Excellent transaction, deal with confidence! Thanks, Colin

GREAT band pic!

Oh man! I’d break my “jack plug must insert on side of body” rule for that!! What a beautiful thing!!

This, maybe? I hawked an SVT3 pro around in a 2U version of something like this a lifetime ago, and it stood up to car/gig loading really well!

https://www.thomann.de/gb/thomann_rack_case_3u.htm

Ah, this is a great thread! I’ve got an old Crafter acoustic bass (superb, despite being cheap ish!) suffering from exactly this ailment. Time to strip a tuner and get the calipers outs!

Hi… no, it’s many featured but that’s not one of them!

10 hours ago, neepheid said:

Unfortunately I came away with a blocked ear - maybe I pushed some wax in with my earplug. Off to the shower to see if I can steam it out.

Euw time, but had my lugs cleaned on Friday. Twice a year without fail. I use moulded plugs and for sure wax plus regular in ear use ends in blockage. 

First one of the year with the sideline, “hey it’s a gig”, covers band. An hour’s drive over lumpy Fen roads. Dep drummer (who was excellent) and last one with the outgoing singer. Rose & Crown, Manea, near(ish) to March. Band: 4 Play (ha ha etc). Seriously. I’m just the bass player, not my band. 

It was ok! We played well, though the guitarist is always a bit donkey strokes down up down up down up down up so the dynamics are never as lively as they need to be. Seems they have a regular crowd for gigs and a few musos among them. Some nice comments on my playing, tone and BVs which was cool!

A few weeks off and then it all goes mental busy with both bands again. Excellent.

My fingers are aware they haven’t gigged since early January 😆
 

EDIT: my bad, gear! Angelina this evening, the ‘burst Dimension. I will be buried with both of my Dimensions. Gallien Krueger RB700II into Barefaced Big Baby 2 Gen 3. The speaker simply makes the upstream sound very audible with no colouration. Having spent many years throwing humbuckers into GK amps, you don’t want to colour that, it’s done.