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Cassette? Eee you were lucky to have a cassette, when I were a lad we had t'make do with a scratched 78, handed down 3rd hand from local brass band. We 'ad to play it using our own finger nails, whilst balancing t'on a broken knitting needle, and used a hollowed out cow horn for sounds. Cow weren't t'happy as it was still attached t'horn. Sometimes it didn't even have t'right tune on so we 'ad to learn a whole new song t'wrong words.

I'm just working out the rear dual Speakon port. This has two speakon ports in a recessed metal plate. It needs soldering together but I can do that now. Do I need to seal the plate in place? e.g. put something around the edges where it will fit into the back board? Do I need to seal the Speakon connectors as well. There's a tiny gap around the edges where the ports screw in. Should I be making the cab basically as air tight as possible? If so then I'll put a bead of sealant around everything where air can get out. Now sure how far to go with sealing everything. Thanks Rob

I didn't say I looked good naked, merely it wasn't that unusual some many years ago Alcohol and rugby may have been involved Rob

There are certain phrases that keep popping up. Designed for right handed players Smooth and comfortable playing experience The Fender Precision Bass model, Features 20 frets Ideal for both beginners and experienced In fact the whole passage is 'AI' boilerplate, but it starts with "Designed for right handed players". It doesn't feel right but I can't put my finger on why it doesn't feel right. The Fender plate on the back of the neck looks like the serial number was engraved on and I thought they were stamped? The serial number doesn't match on the database (though that's not that unusual). The wear looks like someone with sandpaper and the wood looks odd underneath. The lollipops look too new. Thanks Rob

As an ex-rugby player, appearing naked in public is actually far, far less embarrassing than playing something I've never heard before. Far too many pictures to prove it as well, and it's got to the stage, that Zoe, my long suffering partner, simply sighs when yet another old picture surfaces. I also have a crap ear for hearing and am in awe of people who can listen to a tune and work out the chords as they go. I can't do that and suspect I never will. I'm doing a song writing course in Kendal and the lady who teaches it can listen to a piece of music and then just play it on the guitar immediately afterwards, and play it very, very well. I sit and watch her and wish I had as much talent as she has in her little finger. I have to repeatedly work at learning a song, its hard work. I do like the idea of a common song book though. Never thought of that. I would have a songbook of stuff I know and then other people can use it Admittedly its going to be a thin songbook at the start but it is a start. Rob

It was hard at first TBH, the guitarist borrowed my Strat and proceeded to blaze up and down the neck like a man possessed. He loved the Strat and I just looked on and inwardly sighed as he was 100x better than myself. I blame the fact that my fingers all point in different directions, please do not mention Tommy Iommi and his lack of finger ends, it doesn't help me here . Once we got the rhythm sorted out, it did start to click. I started running up the dusty end of the bass and then realised the bloke on the mixer had basically cut off anything above D on a filter on the mixer, so had to move down again. I wasn't really sure what it sounded like at all. Everybody was very nice but we were also very nice to the lady who was strangling and disembowelling a cat earlier in the evening. For next time, I'll try and have the Basschat 8" speaker with me, and politely drop that in the corner. Anyway, early days, the fact that the lady got away singing with a voice like that gave me hope my bass playing wasn't too bad. Rob

I was talked into doing an open mic session at the Craven Heifer in Stainforth on Thursday. I tend to dislike these things as I rarely know the songs and if often tends to be quite cliquey. Took along the 3d printed headless bass and a Strat (I have no shame) but left them in the car "just-in-case". It was incredibly tight to fit in a drummer (one toy bass drum, one Tom and one cymbal) but Bev knew how to play so small kit but workable, a PA perched on a chair and a mixer, two mics and needed to fit everything else in in an area about 2.5m by 2m. I sat out the first few sessions and was roped into more classic rock sessions. Cocaine, Green River Rising and a wonderful blues song I have never heard before but was about a train (that narrows it down). Never played them before but could see the music so started carefully and simply and built up. By the last song, was thoroughly enjoying myself so have now decided to attend more and stop being a dickhead about it. It certainly focuses the mind on picking things up quickly. Rob

We appear to have had two miracles this weekend, the England rugby team managed to wallop the All Blacks and we have had a day of non rainy weather. So I've managed to warm the glue as its rather cold, Cut down two panels for two cabs, I have two new cabs and one slightly not-so-good-not-as-neat-as-I-would-like-it-now-going-to-become-a-spray-booth-cabinet. practise makes perfect or in my case, slightly better than the last one. I've cut down the first cabs baffle so it's going to hold the 3d printed blue air filter. I've also assembled and glued three quarters of one new cab and that's all clamped up waiting for the glue to dry. As it gets dark quite early here, I didn't get around to the second cabinet, but now the pieces are cut, I can do something’s indoors. Still need to cut the holes for the loudspeaker but that'll have to wait for next weekend now.

So that's where all my electricity has gone...

Brilliant, that looks great. It makes me feel a lot happier about me doing it. Was the blade a coarse one (e.g. 20 tooth) or a find toothed one (circa 80 tooth) or something in the middle. Also why isn't it raining where you are? Not fair. Rob

As I'm an idiot I pasted this in the wrong chat. This is one way to cut a sheet of plywood down from 1440 x 660 for pieces for the 8" Basschat speaker. There are others but this does it in six cuts if you can stack the pieces, click on it to expand. If you have your own guide rail BUT it's not 1.3m long, you can also use cut 3 first, then cut 4, place them on top of each other to do cut 1. Still the same number of cuts. Apparently my circular saw will do 66mm of cuts with the blade at 90 degrees. It's a relatively cheap Makita (for Makita) https://amzn.eu/d/j6vA5Sf My guide is only 1m long so I do the same cut pattern as @tauzero. Your local timber merchant may have their own way to cut this. my local one has a sign adjacent to the very large table saw, saying this is highly dangerous equipment and under no circumstances tell the operator how to do his job So 24mm of plywood should be no problem and neither should 36mm of plywood (mmmmm...). It has an 80 tooth wheel on so it does very nice fine cuts and I have absolutely no idea if that makes a difference or not on the depth. If anybody can say for certain it's OK to cut 36mm of plywood without it destroying the 80T blade or motor? I'll have try when the weather gets better. Currently we appear to be doing our best to emulate Noah's flood in North Yorkshire. One day of decent weather and two weeks of rain and another week forecast. My poor dog never seems to have enough time to get dry from each walk

I have a feeling this came up a year or so ago. Might be a different one though. Stromness is as difficult to get to as can be and the chances of somebody actually going to collect was minimal. I replied and said I was in the area as I was diving Scapa Flow for the WW 1 German wrecks, I was a scuba diver and have dived Scapa a fair few times so if they asked any questions I could answer them, and would love to see it. Never got a response. Ping them and ask Rob

Now I'm confused. What are you losing here? The USB on the PreSonus is connected to one of the four USB interfaces on the Pi 5 (or 4). So you still have three USB interfaces left on the Raspberry. The other interface on the Presonus is in use as it's doing the I/O to the Pi which is what it should be doing. @tauzero wants to use the Presonus interface What am I missing? Rob

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Havana is very, very nice. Lovely architecture, very friendly people. Well recommended. I reached Havana via Houston.

Fair point so I'll look a little earlier for dates in April as well and we'll ignore the last week of May

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OK. Let's speak off line and work out how to it technically as this may bore people 😊

Hi, I'm looking at doing the third annual NW and Scotland Bass Bash and Petting Zoo for 2026. This would be at the Clapham village hall in Clapham https://claphamcumnewbyvillagehall.org.uk/ We are on the NW tip of North Yorkshire, 20 mins from the M6. Parking is easy and we would have the whole hall again. Currently the following days are available, so I'm trying to work out which ones to do. I've moved this forward to avoid clashes with the Midlands Bass Bash Saturday April 4th 2026 Sunday April 5th 2026 Sunday April 18th 2026 Sunday April 19th 2026 Saturday April 25th 2026 Sunday April 26th 2026 Saturday May 9th 2026 Sunday May 10th 2026 Sunday May 17th 2026 If I can workout a poll, I'll do this to make it easier. Rob

That sounds sensible.

So if I build two cabs they're twice as good 😊?

I'll redo my quick cutting list so it's a little clearer and tidier. @Bassybert how do you want to incorporate a suggested cut list? I can send you it it in Fusion 360 or I can try and find something else. There are a number of ways to cut and if you have a long cutting guide rail, that's one way and a short cutting guide rail a different way. Or Should I just create a separate PDF with my ideas in? Not fussed either way. Rob

Wow. It's that bad with bassists in Wokingham you need door staff? Sort of "You can't come in here with that guitar, too many skinny strings" Didn't know that. Stay safe. Rob

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