Count Bassy

Buy a lined Fretless, then close your eyes. Hey Presto: Unlined Fretless!

8 hours ago, Doddy said:

The whole 'Pino would use a (insert inexpensive bass here) if it was the right choice' is mostly bogus.

Sorry, I didn't realise that you'd asked him.

7 hours ago, Rumple said:

I don't know her but she supported Wilko Johnson a few years back, she was very good indeed.

I saw her supporting him as well (In leamington).

5 minutes ago, SumOne said:

I find the whole argument of 'why get an expensive Bass' a bit like saying 'why get an expensive watch....my £30 Casio tells the time more accurately than a £10k 1960's Rolex' , or 'my £500 sofa does the same job as a £5k sofa'  etc. Even if more expensive Basses aren't technically any better than cheaper ones (but generally they are) there is more to it than just 'getting the job done' for the cheapest amount.

I guess it depends on your personality and what drives you.

Possibly Pino just knows what works for him and has no interest in the "bling" aspect of them.

4 minutes ago, TimR said:

 

That's intended for business expenses. Not personal expenses. If you're continually trying to offset your PAYE against your 'hobby' expenses that's not right. 

 If you declare incidental earnings to the HMRC then you are entitled to claim expenses against those earnings. But, I don't think you can claim losses in one area of income against profit in another area of income. However IIRC, you can claim losses from one year against profits from another year.

In a lot of cases of ametuer/semi pro musicians the difference between earnings and expenses is small and people don't worry about declaring the difference. For small turnover businesses you simply need a three line declaration - Income, expediture, and profit/loss.

An old dear friend of mine (RIP) got shopped (we think) to the HMRC by someone in his village because he got paid for playing concertina in a folk dance band.

He got the call from HMRC, followed by a visit. At the end of the vist the HMRC person said basically "You've got a bloody expensive hobby here, haven't you?"

Additional note - you get more for playing in a folk dance band than you do in a Pub rock band.

30 minutes ago, lemmywinks said:

 

Or just say nothing about it unless you are part of that community.

We are all part of the world community.

3 hours ago, tauzero said:

 

"Woke" appears to be a term which now encompasses all non-bigots. WTF does "woke culture" mean?

I am not a bigot, but I wouldn't call myself "woke" iether. As I suspect 90% of the UK population are as well, I am just an ordinary person trying to live his life and trying to get on with people rather than plss them off.

19 minutes ago, Sibob said:

Just out of curiosity…..and I have no preconceived ideas as to what the answer will be…..who on this thread isn’t a cis straight white man?

 

Si

Is it relevant? We shouldn't be classifying people by their gender, colour or sexuality anyway should we? Far better to classify them by whether they're nice, decent, people, or not.

11 hours ago, lemmywinks said:

 

When people of African ancestry use that term it is not an ethnic slur. Obviously it has different connotations if a white guy said it, no matter how it's spelt or pronounced there is a metric ton of historical reasons why it is inappropriate.

 

Hopefully 2023 will be the year that the basschat dad brigade no longer need this explaining to them, I ain't counting on it but we can all live in hope.

But surely, the best way to stop it being used in a racial slur sense is for everybody to stop using it in any sense.

Very hard to say to someone that they shouldn't use it when others are using it openly.

Andy Fraser, exxcept that, in many cases, it could also be Neil Murray (And Vice Versa).

8 hours ago, Linus27 said:

Yep, very good, proper, accomplished musicianship and no silly faces or look at me playing 1000's of notes per second, just great playing and a good piece of music. Nice MarkBass rig as well.

And no slapping!

3 hours ago, Ricky Rioli said:

 

 

I'm afraid I've some sad news about Brian Jones.....

And Charlie Watts 🤥

Family: The Weavers Answer & Strange Band (double A side).

 - My first introduction to real rock music. I was "in town" and my older brother asked me to buy it for him. I listened to it and was hooked - and still am 50 years later!

- and in the same year their albums " A Song For Me" and "Anyway" - although I didn't buy those until a few years later.

7 hours ago, sprocketflup said:

Not seen Tim around for a while

Never mind Tim, what about TIM?

23 hours ago, fleabag said:

Maybe that piezo wire needs to touch the underside of the new bridge ? It isnt right now.  What i can say is there is only pot that affects the piezo, which is it's own volume.  There is no tone pot for it, although there is a 3 way blend switch for mags only , piezo only, or blending both

More likely, I'd have thought, that the Piezo 0v wire is touching the bridge and the bridge is earthed to the socket, so it is seeing a link between the Socket Earth and the Socket ring - which is what normally turnes the whole system on. SHould be fairly easy to find whatever it is.

17 hours ago, EBS_freak said:

You’ve not played a short scale Alembic then?

As it happens, no I haven't. But that's irrelevant, we are not talking about an Alembic, but the Brian May Bass. I'm not saying that the mounting position of the upper strap stud is unimportant, just that it it cannot be taken in isolation. You need to know where the centre of gravity is, which is affected by many things. For example this bass has high mass bride and Ultralite tuners. Obviously the depth, width, and wood of the neck also have a big effect. I'm not saying that this wouldn't have neck dive, it might or it might not, but you casn't say that it will based on some arbitary rule about the 12th fret.

Personally I would have prefered a longer upper bout, but A: that is more to do with the way the strap lies across the shoulder than the balance and B: It would no longer be a Brian May bass.

21 hours ago, EBS_freak said:

The upper horn needs to be over the 12th fret for it to sit properly for a start.

Totaly depends on where the centre of gravity of the whole thing is, and a mahogany body (if solid) will tend to move that towards the body end.

On 21/12/2021 at 18:15, EBS_freak said:

Looks pants as a bass.

Plus there's no hope in hell of it balancing.

 

Scale length is quite interesting though.

I'd have thought that with a mahogany body it would probably balance pretty well.

Scale length is, concidently, exactly the same as my first (& only) home built bass.

3 hours ago, Bill Fitzmaurice said:

The boost is greater in the lows. That's not the same as only in the lows.

Yes, but the effect is that the basses become more prominent, which I think was the original point that someone made.

4 hours ago, barkin said:

Wanna borrow my glasses...?

I wondered if anyone would spot that 😝.

Well spotted, and thanks for pointing it out.

6 hours ago, Bill Fitzmaurice said:

Your chart is half-space, so it already shows response on the floor. Moving it close to the wall puts it in quarter-space, which adds as much as 6dB of axial sensitivity. It does so over a broad pass band, not just in the lows. Most speaker modeling software can't model the difference between different space loadings, but HornResp can. This shows the difference between quarter-space on the darker upper trace, and half-space in the lighter lower trace. You don't get just extra bass with wall loading, you get extra everything.

 

The effect is the same with ported and sealed cabs, so wall loading doesn't make a sealed cab work as well in the lows as a ported cab. It just makes both work better closer to the wall than away from it.

Not an acoustic expert, but just looking at the graph: at 1KHz the boost is 92.5 to 95dB, ie 2.5dB, but at 100Hz its 97.5 to 103dB, so a boost of around 5.5dB, and at 60Hz you're getting over 5dB boost. So yes, you do a boost all over, but it does seem to be greater in the bass end.

Please correct me if I'm missing something.

** Corrected to 5dB - Thanks Barkin!

On 11/12/2021 at 13:04, neepheid said:

I've come to the conclusion that (most) basses sounds bassy.

 

Not had much of a bass playing career as such, but this is my conclusion as well.- and the punters reallycan't tell the difference/ don't give Shlt.

I always thought that this was needed, so glad to see someone's done it. But at that price - perhaps not.

1 hour ago, Norris said:

Walk

 

 

 

No, run!

But not in the corridor