Twigman

[quote name='RoRi' timestamp='1336322078' post='1643995'] Funk'n'stein "All day long" (from Israel). Cool groove. [media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EyPXqRHFR5U[/media] [/quote] Man that is bliss....what a chilled groove!!

Tomorrow I think i shall make my debut visit to Bass Direct in Leamington...I think I'll take a run up there on my motorcycle. If you spot a bespectacled chap in lairy leathers around Bass Direct tomorrow, that'll more than likely be me. All for a Hipshot 3 string retainer that i don't want to wait in the post for!! LOL

81 views no comments... par for the course

[quote name='BigRedX' timestamp='1338551455' post='1676173'] Make sure you get some proper solder and none of this crap lead-free stuff. [/quote] You need this stuff the 60/40 lead and tin stuff in the RED reels. NEVER the GREEN reels

[quote name='thebrig' timestamp='1338533443' post='1675831'] I've been looking at Warmoth for some time now, but I have heard that their necks are a bit chunky, is that the case? [/quote] Both my Warmoth necks are slim taper jazz. They feel slim and narrow to me - they suit my average sized hands. I haven't tried their standard neck profile. All I'd played before Warmoth for any length of time was my JV P which has a much wider fretboard but about the same thickness of neck.

and this is where we are now...

and the bridge went on..

Then the pups went in

Then the shielding went in - the bridge earth was soldered to a tag which is screwed down in a rout under the bridge with shielding foil ensuring connection to the underside of the bridge.

progress.......tuners went on

http://www.facebook.com/pages/Sad-Lovers-Giants/104860292879894 Here is ours again!! Only 998,556 to go to get to the[i] first [/i]million 'likes'. there is another page run by a fan which has more 'likes' than our official page http://www.facebook.com/pages/Sad-Lovers-and-Giants/70192439636 How did a fan's page get more than 1000 'likes' more than our official page?

Can you bypass the pre-amp by selecting a passive mode perhaps?

[quote name='mushers' timestamp='1337961312' post='1668131'] when i have spoken to hmrc i have had very different answers to the same question from different people it can be a minefield [/quote] I am an accountant by day. This is very normal for HMRC. Even their website carries exactly contradictory information on certain topics - sometimes only 2 or 3 paragraphs apart on the same web page . It is my belief that all advice is deliberately ambiguous so that all their bases are covered and they leave things open so that they can interpret 'law' whatever way they see fit (in whatever way will generate them the most revenue). Tax law is NEVER black and white, only all shades of grey.

[quote name='Phantomnin' timestamp='1337940082' post='1667619'] Why? Because bass is not the instrument people start on. [/quote] Rubbish!

[quote name='WalMan' timestamp='1337950707' post='1667915'] You are lucky then. They should have stopped it after 5 years if not sooner. [/quote] i think if you can show them recording/publishing contracts etc then they let you carry on. I did get a letter once a long time ago and sent them copies of these.

[url="http://www.gak.co.uk/en/fishman-pro-eq-platinum-bass-instrument-preamp-eq-di/2538"]http://www.gak.co.uk/en/fishman-pro-eq-platinum-bass-instrument-preamp-eq-di/2538[/url] next day delivery from GAK ???

[quote name='WalMan' timestamp='1337934215' post='1667516'] Although the chances are that HMRC will (or should) if not immediately then within the first few years of such claims knock you set off claims back on the grounds that you are not "trading with a view to a profit". [/quote] In 30 years they've not complained. Not made a profit once in any of those years.

If you collect all your receipts from the rehearsal studio, the money you spend on your basses/guitars/saxaphones/, all the money you spend on your music software oh and the equipment you need for your home demo studio then unless you are making reasonable returns from gigs I would imagine most folk make a loss. If all of this is declared on your tax return and offset against your music income then you will get tax relief on your losses and a mice cheque from HMRC.

XLR to TRSjack is balanced too

Ok so the bushes are in.... I had to use the nickel bushes from the Fender Vintage set because I sanded the tuner reams open a little too much the other night for the Gotoh nickel bushes...DOH!! [despite the tech specs suggesting that the Gotoh bushes are 0.1mm wider!!] Still no harm done really...

The Gotoh res-o-lite GBR640 things are here. featherweight and rather yummy:

BBC Radio 4

[quote name='markstuk' timestamp='1337707293' post='1664348'] Remember saying this? "Many keyboard players may have a piano at home on which they hone their skills but may not have keyboards per se. I doubt they'd call the removers to transport a piano to audition." [/quote] Of course....that is an explanation of why a keyboard player might not have a keyboard to bring to an audition. Neither did the chap who got the job in my band. Now that he has the job he gets to 'keep' our D50 and also now has several other keyboards of his own (none of which get used with us).

[quote name='markstuk' timestamp='1337705262' post='1664315'] But the image of keys players practicing on a grand piano at home and only getting onto an Virus/Moog in the studio or provided by the band is, I suspect, abnormal.. [/quote] LOL Once the keyboard player got the job, he became custodian of the keyboard...and he actually does get to take it home and use it between rehearsals!!

[quote name='markstuk' timestamp='1337702700' post='1664256'] The point I'm gently trying to make is that you seem to want a keyboard operator rather than someone who brings something creative to the party.. [/quote] No We recently did recruit a new key player. Of course it's important that someone brings creativity to the party but it's also impossible to perform our back catalogue on a Moog (for example) so during audtion the audtionees were provided with the correct synth and instructed which sounds play which songs. We also spent some time jamming to test spontaneity and creativity. Maybe you would call it an operator but even playing preprogrammed patches there was much difference between the auditionees. I can't understand how we might have auditioned a keyboard player on anything but the synth that creates the live and recorded sound. We don't want our back catalogue re-arranged by an auditionee.