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Cozy Powell, eat your heart out!

Bought a great preamp from Lee. Excellent comms and fast postage. Who could ask for more?! Recommended!

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Amoeba Dollar - Aloe Blacc

Nail polish can come in glitter finish, or you can get glittery clear/gel coats. I would find a UV-cure glitter white nail polish and use a small UV pen to cure it hard, then wet sand level and polish out. White is horribly unforgiving to match as every white guitar finish has a bit of yellow, blue, grey, pink or even green in it.

I used to play in the house band at an open mic night. We never rehearsed except alone, at home. Sometimes it did not work very well on the night but hey… it’s amateur night. What it did was teach me to listen and follow on the fly and probably did more for my ear training than anything else, especially when a player asked for bass on o song I had never played! In my current and, the Rhythm Guitarist said when I joined that we play everything exactly to the record. Like scratched record almost every time we played a song for the first time, I would say, “that’s not like the record” In the end I kept my mouth shut. I get on great with the rest of the band but the RG has always been a PITA. He announced recently that he was retiring on health grounds ( heart attack last year, Self inflicted diabetes, and more) with his last gig this Saturday. We had a rehearsal as a four piece last week and it was tight, a lot of fun. Now just the prospect of a one more gig with a below below average RG that cannot keep time and likes to play loud then….relax.

Hi I know how to set up adjust truss rod intonation string height fret levelling That’s a lot more that a pro set up gets

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Peter bought some DB strings from me. Great communications throughout and he also paid promptly. He kindly let me know when the strings arrived safely too. Perfect! Deal in absolute confidence.

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Patrick Hernandez!

Okay, so I played my Am.Perf.Mustang for the first set of our multiple tribute show last week, and it knocked it out of the park. Very easy to hear in the mix and very distinctive. Like a Jazz bass on steroids after you've just had your ears syringed. Only problem is I want another Mustang now! (Keep looking at the JMJ, but leeuurrrve the 'Competition Burgundy' Vintera II.) Other short scale basses are available.

The Amoeba Song - Nigel Planer

I notice that @King Tut got the 'nice 5 string' and @Geek99 and I were left with the ordinary ones. 😂

Only 88 to go!

Last night was the final rehearsal with the Hulla band before our next gig on Saturday - a birthday party in the next village along. It was sounding good as this one was just a run through of the set. Usually the band leader has added, changed or removed songs between practices but only lets us know an hour or so before kick off but last night the set was the same as the previous week. It was tight, the sound was good and for the most part we knew what we were doing. It was a chance for me to try out my latest acquisition - a 2nd hand Ibanez GSR205 5 string bass (my ticket out of the Gear Abstinence league) - and I was very happy with the sound and the playability. The string spacing is a small-hand friendly 16.5mm at the bridge and all the problems I've had in the past (I have small guitarist's hands) were gone. I was still making a few mistakes as a result of the extra string throwing some confusion into the mix, but overall I was very happy. My current pedalboard is just a Zoom MS60b (providing a noise gate and compressor with an option for adding chorus) and my Ampeg Classic pre-amp going into the desk. The sound of the bass was just right - punchy without being overwhelming. I even got compliments from our sound guy ("I loved the sound and turned you up a couple of times")

I had one of the old red ones that I made pink. They are great fun but the bridge and tuners are the weakest points. 2 saddle can make intonation tricky and the tuners are understandably cheap. Really easy to switch out and make it a very serviceable bass!