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My local Aldi has fisherman's scales in the central aisle....obviously not as accurate as your kitchen scales but negates the need for entering "the Forbidden Zone"...

What IS the best bass for metal? I thought I'd better get that one out of the way!

Got some more done on these today and I'm quite pleased with how they are looking so far. I'm also having a variety of thoughts regarding pickups - I'm half thinking of installing just a piezo in the bridge on the burl top. I'm also thinking about making a 30" neck for one of them, though that may follow later. I've done the routing for the neck and bridge on both of these and I've also started rounding the edges. Next task is to route the two neck blanks for truss rods.

Has there ever been a cooler drummer than this?

Just have to say, in response to the Barefaced naysayers on this thread, that my experience with the Barefaced tens runs contrary to the reservations that are expressed here. I am in New Zealand, yet the communication and customer service from Alex has been superb. I have two One 10s and a Four 10 which I combine with anything from a Mesa Subway 800+ to Orange AD200, Fender Super Bassman, Ampeg V4.....so I have a reasonable experience with these speakers. I also own Bergantino, Fender, Ampeg etc cabs for comparison. I do not want to get into a which is best scenario as that has been done to death, but IME and combined with decent amplification the Barefaced 10s far exceed others in volume and the type of tone that I enjoy. Yes, they are coloured but they are designed to be that way and it suits me. They go very loud without farting out and sit nicely in the mix. So light.... Anyway, it does boil down to opinion and we are all entitled to one, but I was surprised to read some of the comments here so looking to balance them from my own experience over 40 plus years of playing.

+1. I love a bit of Indian Yanny.

This is genius! I love it! You've got my vote man, perfection on every level! 🙌🙇‍♂️🙌🙇‍♂️🙌🙇‍♂️🙏 You are a god among mere mortals. 👏

OK I'm in a simple affair this time , nothing too complicated but I am very short on time this month, gigs, work and setting up for Lurksalittles 18th birthday bash next weekend ! Enjoy For some bizzarre reason I cant get the picture to upload this time around , I will try Again in the week

Just a weekend bump, have a great weekend 🙂

Good luck to both of you. Although i've been thru a few bands in past couple of years i've not gigged since early 2017 and current band is in rehearsals at moment. Only half way thru our set list of Glam Rock covers but that's because guys all have other commitments with other successful bands and are trying to slot this project in the gaps but hopefully will pick up once we start gigging. The talk within the band is that this band will take over as the main band for them all so that's nice.

We have a gig tonight to which a couple of people who saw the Stones last night are coming. Someone suggested we should drop our Stones numbers because it would be a bit of a stark comparison for those who’d seen them last night, and we wouldn’t want the band to be shown up for playing sub standard versions of the songs. I said sod that, the Stones have had a good enough run - why should we care if we show them up 😎

So spent quite a bit of time with these ZS10s. Quite a different sound to what I’m used to. Warm, with not a particularly wide soundstage (blocking the port makes this worse) with the recessed upped mids and treble clearly audible. So whilst I don’t particularly dig on them for casual listening of music, this trait could be quite favourable for onstage use as it will keep your ears fresher for longer. Having said that, I do like the warmth of the dynamic but I do find them quite a fatiguing listen generally - but I think that may be down to the mid range bloom. What I will say though, for the money - great. This or a 215? No competition. And if you think that this whole setup is comparable to the cost of an entry level cable from the big boys... not a bad thing to have in the spares bag either!

S'nothing, first gig since 2016 ; we're just about to start loading the truck.

Harsh that, was gonna say buy it a decent suit and get it some singing lessons...

I re-read that but let me just make sure... wink is the correct spelling isn't it? Otherwise I'd say your doctor is extraordinarily friendly, if a little dodgy with it.

At that price point you really need to get down to your local musical instrument retailer and try everything your friend can afford. The usual suspects will be a good starting point but there's always a chance that there will something in stock that you've never heard of before that turns out to be a bit of a hidden gem. Also you'll get a much better guitar at that price if you don't buy one with a built-in pickup/electronics.

That’s James Gadson. He was the guy back then, he certainly did a lot of sessions in the 70’s and 80’s. I think he was still gigging locally in the LA area up until a couple of years ago. A nice little read about his career here. http://www.drummerworld.com/drummers/James_Gadson.html

In order to keep my strings fresher for longer I wash my hands before touching my bass, carry a microfibre cloth to wipe the bass and my hands and point a fan at my hands so that they don't sweat and stick to the strings which would inevitably cause skin particles to end up between the winds of the strings. I get around 9 or 10 wedding gigs out of a set before they get noticably dull. My bass is also the last thing to come out at a gig and the first thing to get put away at the end of the night

Just got in from the first of a three gig weekend, two more tomorrow, with not much of a break between them. You know that bit when there is some woman in the audience and all her friends are saying 'oh get her to sing' and you just know they are going to be awful, they are always awful. well, she came up when we were going to do all right now and grabbed the singers microphone (he is good with crowds, not me!), and started singing. OMFG was she good! Honestly I can't remember when I last heard as good a singer, a really strong voice, but not forced, perfect timing, great personality. Can we keep her?? Turned out she was a depping singer on a night out.

Just make sure you don't take it back to the wood - pretty unlikely unless you go mad with a belt sander though. The finish will easily T-Cut back to factory-standard gloss if you want to sell later.

Looks like a Schecter Stiletto Stealth to me:

I was only listening to ‘Tin Drum’ in the car today. Agreed, an exceptionally gifted and original musician.

As folk might be aware, we're putting together a pilot episode for a BC podcast and for one of the segments we're going to do a Q+A. Please post any questions you'd like to throw at us in this thread and we'll try our best to answer as many as we can. (Questions with the most "Likes" will get priority) Because this is the pilot episode I don't want to put any real parameters on acceptable questions other than they have to be Bass/Music related, just go wild and we'll see what happens. At the very least we should get a good giggle out of me and @SpondonBassed trying our best to act like we know things haha! 🤣

Mainly a rocky indie kind of thing. Not at all metal. I have an Ibanez Atk 800 bass. Love that thing. Very versatile. P thud type of thing through to a stingray-ish sound. I have an EBS Reidmar 750 and TC Rs210 cabs. Pedal board is Cog Rogue One > Knightfall 66 > TC Vortex > TC Spark Boost. The knightfall really helps get close to that tubey full sound. Sounds terrible played solo... Maybe not terrible but it's not good. Sounds amazing when the band kick in. Took quite a long time to work that out. I don't have any clean mixed in with the blend knob. The rogue one, I don't really use to its full capacity yet. I only really use the one channel in the band, and I've not yet found a home for the octave but I love playing around with them at home. In the band the rogue one soloed doesn't really cut it but with the 66 still engaged it creates a full blown round fuzz sound that dominates the mix but without really over doing it.

Aha in which he definitely won't be cheaper than the guy I have got lined up (for me down in the big smoke)...

You can get your own relic'ed bass by gigging a new one, instead of paying a factory to make it look like you're a well gigged muso

Thanks everyone. I'm going to see see a Yamaha F310 tomorrow. Fingers crossed!

No worries. Pleased that it turned out to be such a worthwhile upgrade.

Hi - what's your budget? I'd suggest this is not a bad place to start on your synth quest and typically sell for around £50 to £70 (inc postage)

Thanks for this, I bought the same pickup thinking of putting it in my Bravewood ‘56 to give me the split-coil tonal option... going to do it now!

I don't change anything. I set it for one sound, manually. Think the intro to Don't stand so close to me. I didn't think it would store different patches but I'm not very techy. Now pass me my mobile phone so I can see what my settings are!! I Photographed the minitaur settings and look at the picture when I use it

Great link - didn’t realise James played on so many famous albums, including ‘Let’s get it on’ . Thanks for posting.

Rare I don't ramble, but, SIMPLY EXCEPTIONAL. Can't thank you enough Kev, ecstatic

If you're getting to play one of the greatest songs ever, you can't do anything other than look cool. Even the bassist looks cool on his chaise longue! 😎 One of my old bands used to play this song & I've been trying to get my current band to, but maybe they've just not got the coolness to play it.

Very cool, couldn't be more in the pocket, very 70s very old school. My drummer in my high school band had the same style. Love it. Blue

If you have two at once it’s always tough...

Poor Peter Stringfellow, we hardly knew him.

It's his hat, right?

Been a while etc, etc...Anyway, bear in mind that this, the first track Ive ever submitted, was written, recorded, mixed and mastered in one day. The idea came to me while while looking at the image and watching our various cats going about their business and interacting with one another; It starts off pleasant enough, then changes to a slightly ominous atmosphere before kicking off... if you have cats you'll (hopefully) get it

The gear I acquire tends to be purchased in the full knowledge that it’s going to be very good. However, the one purchase that caught me a bit off guard was my LaBella Black Nylon Tapewound strings. I bought them on a whim mainly out of curiosity as I was watching a lot of Janek Gwizdala’s VLOGs on YouTube and he has a couple of his P-style basses strung with them. So I took the plunge and bought a used set from the Basschat marketplace. Put them on my Sandberg Electra VS and my god! I pretty much knew I’d like the tone before purchasing. Tonally I find them to be very similar to my Dunlop Flats but the feel...so smooth and so bendy! Really like the looseness of them as they make me play a little differently which I enjoy. I have to use a lighter touch which makes me feel a bit more cheeky when playing The best part? I got two sets (one factory sealed, one used) for less than the new price of one!

That looks brilliant. One of the many things I've thought about over the last 10 years is getting some of my favourite 4-string only basses made as 5-string versions. Good to see that I'm not the only one with this idea! I see though that you are changing the pickup system entirely for your new bass. That was always one of my concerns - getting suitable new 5-string pickups made that would retain the sonic characteristics of the the original 4-string bass.

That was before instant gratification became a marketable commodity. You are right none the less.

Just finished making the final templates for this so won't be too long before I get building. There are quite a few templates for this build - I haven't included the pickup cut out as that will be done later when the pickup choice is finalised (or I build more than one with different pickups....). So here's the template set for this build all made from mdf

I feel ashamed now

Will post some fancier pics later but here´s proof it´s now actually strung up!

Here's my headpiece solution. Drill stops with some longer screws. And a little something walnut to pretty up the output jack And after a day of sanding, finishing has begun. First coat of oil is on

Simply Sandberg P4 (before California VS4 designation) 2010. Nicely worn in