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If buying different tips, measure the diameter of the 'speaker' part they fit on as the hole in the tip come in different sizes. I've not checked when buying off Amazon and got ones too small.

I've wanted a white bass for a while, but didn't really want to buy another add to the growing collection. I had in mind what look I wanted though. So when @oldslapper put a white body up for sale, I jumped on it pretty quick. I transferred the neck from my Jazz Delux, black scratch plate and knob plate I already had, and added Aguitar pickups. Loving playing it.

I popped in there a couple of weeks ago to get a midi cable. The guy behind the counter didn't know they sold them and has never sold one in ten years working there! It was quite reassuring in a way. I do hope it doesn't close, even it's a more traditional sheet music type shop.

It's sad to see any music shop go under. When ever I'm in a new town, I look up where the shops are just to have a nose,and still remember being a young'un and the excitement of looking round at all the instruments. But, to be honest, I'm a bit fed up of going in to look at shops basses to find the generic line up of a couple of Fender player series, maybe a Cort or an Ibanez or 2. None of them anything like setup, so no point trying one. Meanwhile, there's racks of different guitars on the wall. The old PMT at least had a separate room of basses to look at. The new one had about 8, with nothing worth looking at.

Oh wow!

I said it wasn't elaborate. I bought a bass on here, stripped it, and had it resprayed in Gulf Racing blue. I wanted to add the orange strips, but not on the bass itself. However, RightOn didn't sell a black strap with orange stripes (although they do sell a blue /orange Racing one, but only in 6cm width). So I asked for a black strap, 8cm, with orange strips, and they duly obliged.

Not really a review, rather a shout out to RightOn. I've got 3 of them and find them excellent. However, the reason for the post is my most recent purchase. I emailed them late Sunday evening regarding a custom strap design. Nothing too elaborate, but they don't sell one I wanted. Had a reply 1st thing Monday morning saying that they could make it, no problem. Payed, and had an email confirming. It arrived this afternoon. From Spain!! In a lovely box, and purple tissue paper. Thats what I call good service. Many thanks RightOn.

Just bought a body (of the bass variety) from John. Easypeasy. No hassle. Great to meet you and have a chat.

And cost of living. Prices of drinks (and everything else) going up, less spare cash = less punters spending money = pubs cutting back on bands. And yes, Covid seems to have had a big effect on attitudes to going out. Definitely noticed it at our local pub venue.

Good question. The company of band mates. The working out arrangements with band mates (even through the arguments and frustrations). Standing on stage playing while people in front of you are having a good time from something you've crated. But, I still get a viseral feeling from the weight and power of the bass that I love. Even on headphones, I love the sound of the bass, that slightly out of phase from a Jazz, that 'mwaw' of a filter or crunch of a distortion. The drive of 8's or the harmonic weave of a melodic line. It's why I'm a bass player, not a guitarist or keyboard player. I stopped playing for many years (to work in music) and still have time to make up.

Yes, that's we're currently doing. It works, but you'd think there would be a better way

Thanks, looks interesting, but for some reason the page won't load

Hi We're finding it difficult to track the dates when band members are free for future gigs, which makes bookings difficult to arrange. Does anyone know of a good system (outside of Google calendar or a spreadsheet), like an app or website addon?

Very clever, have 2 😄

I recently switched from the Zoom B1 four to the Boss gt 1b. I'm loving the Boss. It sounds great and I di straight into the desk. It's very flexible, using control pedals or the built in pedal to assign to whay you want. But it only has 2 fx channels (delay. Overdrive and reverb are separate switches) so unlike the Zoom you can have oct>chorus>phaser>wah>synth (if you were mad enough!), but that's not really been a problem. The Boss synth isn't as flexible as the Zoom with its 5 assignable slots, but much more in terms of control pedals and configuring the padal to your needs. Overall, I prefer the Boss.

Gig yesterday afternoon. Multi band outdoors community event. Nothing special to report about the gig, but it seems the pa guy was kinda stitched up as to the nature of the event. So we took along our Soundcraft Ui24 which we use for gigs (which we run a silent stage). We also use this for rehearsals with IEMs. So we all plugged into that as normal (Roland Electric drum kit), gave him a stereo feed with our ipad for mixing and took our aux feeds as normal. Worked a treat. Great sound on the IEMs and had a hassle free fun gig. Win win

I've know drummers place thier hand underneath to mute the snates. Much like the guitarist who won't shut up at rehursal, I'd love to stand in front of them with a set of wire cutters.

As I've ready posted my (embarrassing) felt puppet picture, and it really is about AI generated content (and not a gratuitous excuse to post 'something what I done', honest...), the band generated blisster pack action figures of ourselves which I used to make a poster for our next gig. It still can't generate a Fender with 4 string, our guitarest isn't that fat, and the drummers legs aren't really that short!

Yes, i remember when midi and sequencers came in and it was the 'death of real music'. Although they do have a lot to answer for!

Depends, subscription to Chatgpt is paid, or it's free for a limited number of pictures

Thats how I roll, and it's very liberating, not worrying about tripping over the cable. And I have the Lekato and never had any problems with them over 3 years, even with an active bass.

Mama mia is a lovely bass line to play. Not difficult, but flows nicely.

Our drunmer does AI for work. Wish now I hadn't done a silly one of him at his drums. This was his reply. 😳 😂