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Finally got most of the second cab finished, its nicknamed Goth as its very, very black. It still needs a grill but that next weeks work and I was keen to see how it sounded in a stack, it maybe a small one (where have I heard that before) but it's still one speaker cabinet on top of the other. Checked it sounds OK on its own, stacked it on and the tried to fit the cheapo NL4 SpeakOn -> SpeakOn cable a friend gave me. The dammed cable won't fit in the Speakon sockets I have. I have just checked with Blue Arran and the order says NL4 sockets https://www.bluearan.co.uk/index.php?id=TUFF87182NU, the cable given to me has four metal plates inside the plastic tube but I can't twist the cable to fit at all. The centre prong in the NL2 is almost a half moon, whilst the cheap NL4 cable is most of a circle. @Chienmortbb made me two 1/4" Jack -> NL2 cables, a short one and a slightly shorter one and they fit into the NL4 sockets easily and smoothly. The cheap cable feels bloody awful and cheap. Not sure if my problem is that I have NL4 sockets in a single speaker cab AND/OR I have a crap NL4 cable ( @Chienmortbb's cable works fine) or I have missed the point completely and it's something else. Each speaker works fine on it's own with Johns cable's. I just can't join the cables together. All and any suggestions welcomed. Once I get it working and I have the grill, I'll post pictures. Thanks Rob

Just letting people who came last year or the year before that this event is on for 2026 in the same village call. @GreeneKing @nekomatic @doomkeeper @vsmith1 @sifi2112 @Ruarl Thanks Rob

I've made a few guitars and basses with an aluminium backbone and 3d printed body. No wood at all in the body but decent wooden necks. Nobody has yet said they sound rubbish. Perhaps they were being kind. I play them as much as I play the wooden bodied guitars and basses I own. I do not claim to be a guitar virtuoso but they sound different but no more different than my 80's Westone to my MIK Squire Tele to my Strat. My headless bass is different to my Jazz or Bitsa Jazz or Westone Thunder, not worse just different. What was interesting was how little effect the incredibly strong magnets had on the pickups. Given the strength of them, and I laughed out loud at the anvil, I would have thought it would affect the tone but it didn't appear to. I think it was a great experiment, mad but still worthwhile.

There are now TWO versions of Logic Pro, one is part of their subscription model that has recently been released, Apple Creator Studio (https://www.apple.com/uk/apple-creator-studio/) and one is the pay once version (https://www.apple.com/uk/logic-pro/) The Creator Studio has AI stuff that the pay once version doesn't. I have no idea what value this other stuff is. I already have and paid for Logic Pro, Final Cut Pro, Compressor, Main Stage, Affinity Photo/Designer/Publisher along with MS Office (which I must have for work) so for me, it makes little sense to get the subscription. Certainly all my Apple apps get updated at regular intervals so I'm happy with what I have. Rob

Not in my book. I have a Mod Dwarf and a ToneX and sometimes (always?) I spend far too long chasing down a sound that only exists in my head, that I can't work out how to use all the presets to get what I'm after and what I should have done is simply turn the amp on, plug in and play. I get too attached to the rabbit holes and I wonder what this does, and what that does and spent hours reading and exploring and then come back to what the original preset was set to. Other people are far cleverer and better players than me, so they may have a very different perspective.

Start with GarageBand and learn the basics first. GB is very very good, and you will avoid some of the complexity of Logic Pro. Focus on playing and recording rather than worrying about some of the more complicated features that Logic Pro offers. You can spend days messing with LP rather than playing and recording in GB. There's so much in GB and as has already been said, one you outgrow GB it's simple to open your work in LP and carry on. I jumped into LP and I should have stayed with GB for longer. Also one is free.

Nice....

What amp do you use to drive the Monza with from the Bassrig please?

I had that but it seems to work from phone or at least I think it did. The next page is a bit confusing and made me think it didn't work.

Subscribed. Was hoping to be subscriber #1 but suspect I missed that one. Rob

Finally have finished all the routing for Speakon connectors and handles. Sides, top and bottom already glued, Now doing front and rear glueing and clamping. Next steps tomorrow, let the glue cure overnight, a bit of filler (ahem), sanding down, put a 6mm curve on the edges with the router, two layers of smooth Armacab on all external surfaces, one top layer of textured Armacab but masking off any rebated areas, measure for black 3d printed corners, print them overnight as eight hours , assemble all and test for Sunday (hopefully).

I wish I hadn't seen this.... Ideas, ideas, ideas..... First time I've seen a guitarist that really, really, needs safety goggles.... Basically its an offensive weapon I could also have told him that he couldn't make it from plastic

Don't let the door hit you on the way out...

That's great. Just let me know

I think you are right here, it's very sad that AI is creating electronic music that most people think sounds 'real'. The genie is out the bottle now, and people who are desperate for clicks on social media will be in a race to the bottom to use it. There is a whole generation of people who live on social media and will do anything to get those clicks. Witness people blowing up Ferraris or doing other stupid 'stunts' to get attention. Perhaps the "Dog and Duck" will be the centre of the fightback for real music, but I somehow doubt it. On the plus side, both my daughters love live music and want to go to gigs, they then buy the music for the band or singer, they love the live element of it all. Whilst they may be in a minority, most of their friends seem to be the same, and they will continue to keep going to gigs so long as the price is right (apologies for the pun). They have introduced me to new music, though I have to say that Kneecap is not my idea of a good time, but I can't imagine I'm their target audience

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Attendees @rwillett - A couple of 3d printed basses or guitars, this will encourage me to finish my next two off. A couple of 8" Basschat cabinets. Might be interesting to try these with other peoples amps. One is quite loud, not quite finished the other one so not sure quite how loud they go. Since I'm about 100m away, I might bring anything or everything. Might even bring and setup a 3d printer if people are interested. If there is any interest and you need something thats more than a few hours to print, let me know well in advance. @neepheid @Frank Blank @Stub Mandrel - TBC @zbd1960 - TBC @ead - For some reason prefers Iceland (the country) to the Yorkshire Dales @ossyrocks @lee650 @80Hz @peterjam Lots of TBC's so hopefully we can firm up on numbers. So as you confirm, please add any equipment you might be bringing and update this. Would like to @rwillett Love to play some older basses to see what they are really like preferably with some old school valve amp heads. Would also love to play around with some amp modellers (I already have a Mod Dwarf and a ToneX) to see how they sound in comparison.

Just seen this in a data feed https://www.musicradar.com/music-tech/native-instruments-has-been-placed-in-preliminary-insolvency Doesn't look good Rob

So you'd rather go and see volcanos, waterfalls, geysers, drink hyper expensive alcohol, lots of black ash rather than spending a day with a bunch of bassists in a village hall in Yorkshire? Just checking....

If it helps I can probably print a square port of that approx size

If it walks like a duck, squarks like a duck, etc etc... I did like the "Why" as if this was a wholly unreasonable request. It made me smile.You're spending $5000 and would like to check what you are buying.

Tom, My most common tool is a decent digital calibrated caliper. I tend to work to around 0.2mm resolution with the Prusa, but I can get down to a consistent 0.1mm if I'm a little careful. Fusion 360 is happy to work to this resolution and far higher. There's no right way to model all of this, it's a case of what works for you. I used to draw rectangles and then fillet the sketch. This destroys the constraints and makes any changes difficult, thats why I moved to filleting the body as that can be done later. However that's just me. You tend to need 0.5mm or more for walls, 0.5mm is very thin, but printable at 0.1mm. It will flex, but that's not a major issue for pickup covers. I would have thought you wanted to make the pickup cover as tight as you can. If you are looking to paint them, then by all means print as-is and do supports and very gently smooth the support surfaces. Perfectly reasonable approach. Ask if any questions. Rob

So the guitarist is a bit of a virtuoso then, that D at the end is a brilliant twist.

Hope you can make it even if it's just for the morning.

If you are looking to print this, start to think about orientation and supports on the print bed. Printing top down will give you the smoothest finish BUT you will need supports printed for the two end pieces. Printing top up or on any of the sides, means you will have support pieces inside the cover to remove. Not sure how thick your walls are, but you might struggle with the screw holes on the side (or you might not). The covers are not under any stress so you may be able to use thin walls. You've got rounded corners, fillets on the edges, holes and different extrusions so good job so far. I tend to design with right angled corners and use the fillet tool to round afterwards. This means it's easy to change the radius, there are lots of exceptions to my rule 😁. Also use the offset tool a lot to get easy walls. Looks good for first time in Fusion.