Velarian

What a great idea! Thanks for creating this, I’m sure it will be extremely useful. 👍 I’ve had a very quick play with it and my first thought is that it would help to set the start and end points for the loop if you could see the actual playing time of the video as it’s rolling. I think this would make fine tuning the loop length easier. I may have not have grasped how to use it properly though so please let me know if I’ve missed something. Awesome job 🙂

Wow! What skill.

I managed to make it through January without buying anything. I also didn’t drink any alcohol for the entire month. Hmmm, I wonder if there’s a correlation? 🤔

I think I’ve just made a connection in the depths of my memory. Years ago my mates band supported the Damned at a local gig. I was on the desk FOH and towards the end of the set this stroppy American girl came up to me and demanded to know when they were going to be finished because this set was going on a bit. Not long I said and off she went. Next thing I know is she’s on stage playing bass with the Damned. She must have been Patricia Morrison right?

What a great first fretless to have. It looks lovely. Unlined and a reverse P pickup too.

Good point. You do need two devices to read them in, one to display and one to scan the code in.

Thanks for that, it sounds great. Do you know that it’s easier to share patches using the QR code?

It would be handy to put on the fire during this cold snap?

Serious answer: - BMW = Bongo

Hopefully it will arrive safely but if it does, I think it’s still worth complaining about the misleading information you were given and the anxiety it has caused.

frank.jø[email protected] has got to be worth a try, no?

I had a thought about this kind of thing. If I was buying an expensive bass from a private seller and couldn’t collect it personally, I’d be tempted to get an Apple AirTag (or similar), register it with my phone, send it to the seller and ask them to include it in the package. That way I’d have a reasonable chance of tracking its location if it was delayed or went missing.

Just an observation (and I really don’t have much clue), with the headstock block right up against the nut, will you be able to achieve the right break angle over the nut? From the picture, it looks like the front edge of the block might be a tad higher than the back edge of the string slots and, for example, a thick E string might not bend sufficiently.

What are you using to drive the 600s?

32ohm headphones would work for most use cases. Phones, tablets, laptops, hi-fi etc. I recently bought some Beyer Dynamic DT990s which are 250ohm and whilst they do work for general use the output level is generally set at 70-90%. I use a separate headphone amp connected to my audio interface for more critical applications. I believe 600 ohm units would generally be for studio use.

Count me in this year.

I think it was quite common to use tape echo in the 60’s. This article: https://www.soundonsound.com/techniques/doubling-thicker-sounds?amp , contains the following: - “The traditional option is known as 'artificial double tracking', or simply 'ADT'. This was essentially an extension of the simpler 'slapback delay' effect heard on countless Elvis and rockabilly records, whereby a delayed version of a vocal was added to the original. The shorter the distance between the tape machine's record and playback heads and the higher the tape speed, the shorter the delay time was, and the more it began to resemble a double-track. Unless the machine suffered from excessive wow and flutter, though, it didn't emulate the natural pitch variations between tracks. The engineers at Abbey Road created the more familiar ADT effect (favoured by John Lennon in particular, and heard on many Beatles records) by making manual varispeed adjustments to short tape delays. The speed changes resulted in the small pitch and time variations that made this effect sound much fuller and richer. And by hooking up two tape machines so that the relative delay between the two could be adjusted down to zero or even be reversed, tape phasing or flanging was produced, with more extreme speed variations creating a more trippy ADT effect.”

Beautiful!

I bought my oldest P-Bass unseen from Exchange and Mart back in 80/81. The description matched what I was looking for, I spoke to bloke about it and then drove all the way from Yorkshire to Luton to buy it. A bit risky In hindsight but it worked out ok.

A seasonally appropriate Paddy McAloon.

No longer available but I would love to have this (especially at the price originally offered).

It must be difficult typing one-fingered on such a small keyboard. 😉

She reacted to a few of the initial replies so I’m guessing that she found her answer and off she went! 🤷‍♂️

Why not take a road trip then write a song about it: A night in Tadley. 😉