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Here’s the end result - what a stunner!!!

I always liked Howlin' Wilf, although he wasn't really a tribute act.

The basic carve of the body is almost done. Just got to take a bit of thickness off the back of the lower bout and then I'll move to the neck. I'll finish sand it all at the same time. From the view above, it looks pretty conventional. But this gives a hint that it's not quite... :

Punter came up and handed me a slip of paper once, with a request on it. At the end of the song, I announced "We've had a request from one of you lovely people, it's for a song called...", I unfolded the paper and read, "...'youre crap, pack up and fk off'..." Nah, not really. But it's only a matter of time till it does happen.

Further to my last, as they say. Just found a snap of my 7er.

I always thought masonic ladies were known as maisonettes

EBS_freak, great questions. We're at the Summer NAMM show this week, so please give us a bit of time to respond.

Dread Zeppelin are real. And awesome.

I'd suggest you are not driving the existing 4x10 sufficiently. Buying a better cab will not change anything if you are still using an inadequate head (I would imagine a Behringer amp taken from a combo will not have much power). Upgrade the amp and continue to borrow the Hartke for now would be my advice.

We'll do pretty much any request as long as it's from the 20th century. Any requests for Kings of Leon, Arctic Monkeys, etc. receive a good telling off

We do abba, so that is why that doesn't cause a problem for us. One of the heavy songs, I use the full distortion for that one. We get that quite a bit. People get a bit annoyed with me - "Do you do any oasis", "Who?", "Oasis!", "Sorry mate, never heard of them", "Dont be stupid, you know - lateleeeey.. gonna be the one that saves meeeeee...", "Nah sorry, doesn't ring a bell". I really really detest oasis! On the other hand, one guy at the last gig was really insistant we should do Hazel O'Conner 'will you'. Doesn't strike me as a good song for a party / dancy band like us.

Hi All, We've caught wind of this discussion and wanted to chime in a bit more "officially". First off, we're thrilled about the enthusiasm and the discussion here regarding our latest model, the N8. Keep it coming and we'll do our best to chime in as-needed. The response above is accurate. We wanted to provide a bit more context: Often times the recommended minimum impedance is stated for damping factor reasons, frequency response reasons, or as a precaution. Whatever the case may be for why Shure stated 9 ohms in its specs, the results of the tests we conducted show otherwise. We have tested the N8 with both the Shure P9RA and the Sennheiser G3 EK 300. Both body packs drive the iem well with no problems. The output impedance of both packs is on the lower side so they are able to provide MORE than enough juice should you choose. Neither of the packs presented any "cutting-out" or went into any over-current protection modes, etc... We were impressed, so we decided to try an artificial 4 ohm load as well. The results were the same. Both packs remained stable and were able to drive the 4 ohm load with no problem. The THD stayed low at an impressive 0.01% on the Sennheiser and 0.04% on the Shure. The voltage across the load was 1.9 on the Sennheiser and 1.55 on the Shure. Driving the N8 "as is" with either of those two body packs should not be a problem based on our tests. Also, we beta tested the N8s over the last few months with a number of people (including Nathan East himself) and there were no reports of any issues related to driving the iem with any of their amps, phones, body packs, and other devices. We're all ears so please keep the feedback and questions coming!

Seen this a few times in the last couple of days. Fortunately, if you look closely, in the text of the fob-off the word "listing" is actually a link back to the original item. Still a frustrating pain in the ar$e though. I'm guessing there's a rationale behind this, not including an obvious link & making the actual link inconspicuous, but it's anyone's guess what it is. Just another step in the ongoing process of making Ebay hostile, awkward, unintuitive and irritating.

We regularly announce songs as requests , it engages the punters quite well cos although we might not have time to do all the requests , at least they know we are trying , we get away with as long as they don't see the set list 😉

Both types, country and western

I like it.

We only play requests when we’re asked.

Last Saturday we'd just finished playing Don't Stop by Fleetwood Mac when a rather drunk punter asked us if we knew any Fleetwood Mac.

Recording the gigs and playing back afterwards can be a useful tool - sometimes people don't realise quite how fast they are playing.

If it's the same type of paint then it'll be fine, just very lightly key up the surface (2000 wet 'n' dry or a scotch pad) if dry and gloss over. If the coverage is acceptable you could just clear lacquer on top. I always prefer a coloured basecoat then lacquer to a colour topcoat. You get a better depth of finish.

Hi there, and welcome

That actually looks much nicer to me than the original. Beautiful!

I like very much...very Spector/ Streamer-like.

It is a tricky one, Paul. Most of the 1977/early era punk is just great pop songs, Buzzcocks, Blondie, Undertones to name but a few. Considering the material by The Exploited, GBH, Partisans etc it`s sometimes baffling how it`s all part of the same genre as they`re so different.

I reckon our MD could come up with a brilliant horns-heavy arrangement for Dancing Queen. I'd love to do it, it has a fabulous bassline. And talk about a guaranteed floor filler..!

A friend of mine has suggested we start a tribute to Camel and Toto called.......... yep you've guessed it..... CamelTo(e)

Best tribute name I ever heard of was 'The Small Fa(e)ces' 😂😂

Cheers Spondonbassed (Suzuki fan?) No............... I'm Dad/agent/roadie/mug/basstech/amptech/soundman/mug/rehearsal manager/fan/mug/Dad

There's 3 options from Behringer... The P2 has an amp in it... the P1M hasn't. The P1M is literally a volume cut - so strictly speaking you need an amp in front of it... although you can run a set of IEMs straight from the Aux. (Ugh). The P1 has an amp in also - but has dual XLR inputs so allows for a balanced stereo input as opposed to the stereo unbalanced limitation of the P2. In reality - this doesn't mean that big a deal - it just means you will get less signal loss with the P1 than the P2. Will you notice for the length runs that you have? Probably not - in fact, I'm going to say no. I'm also guessing that the dual input summed to mono (and controlled via the L/R pan) will also give you a "more me" function if you were to split a signal from your pedal (landing) board to the beltpack. Actually, thinking about the size of your pedal board... you may want to rethink the amount of signal you are going to lose... that pedal board is just short of a kilometer now isn't it?

If you haven't time to record the entire 4 33, you could always just have the edited highlights, lasting approx 57 seconds.

Yes. It's bookmatched cocobola. Mica at Alembic calls it the great red spot bass and it was built as a custom. The LED pack was included in the build spec. Series Alembics generally have a 5 pin XLR for +-15volts and stereo output. You can use a 1/4 Jack which switches over to internal batteries, but life is short. The Alembic XLR leads are amazingly reliable so pretty much everyone uses them. My son does post here as JackPlug. he has a few other Alembics, with and without LEDs. His series 2 has blue side markers so I guess Josie wont like that either. She might like his Wolf which has no LEDs, no XLR and probably enough strings for Woodinblack. Each to their own.

Why not repaint it? It'll look like new and be a WHOLE lot easier than tolexing (which I will never do again as long as my ar$e points south!)

I spot faced the top on my Pit Bull to get all of the control spindles parallel to each other and to conceal the nuts where they would otherwise show beneath the skirts of the control knobs. The "floor" of the control cavity was flat and I found it easier to leave it that way than trying to match the top's contour. I wondered how it would be to have the each of the spindles perpendicular to where they are located on the curve of the top. On mine the curve isn't so pronounced and would not be worth the extra work but I reckon it's going to look great on yours. I've learned a great deal from you on this topic. What you say about grit sizes above is really helpful. I always wondered why my sanding technique started off looking good but then went backwards with the finer grits. Cool headstock. It's the bits.

Thanks for the recommendations all, i’ll check them out

Don't laugh but I tried this, it worked great, £40 https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/ammoon-NUX-TIME-FORCE-Guitar-Effect-Pedal-Multi-Digital-Delay-11-Delay-Effects/253694477528?epid=15005751988&hash=item3b115e84d8:g:SsEAAOSwsZxazSd3 11 delay effects.True stereo signal processing.Automatic I/O detecting circuit. Tail keeping function.Kill dry function.Up to 9 storable user presets plus manual mode. Individual TAP tempo function.Easy switching between manual and presets. Large color LCD panel (128*128), graphic interface making the overall operation easy and intuitive.New generation 32-bit DSP, high performance 24-bit 44.1 kHz AD/DA. Input/output level for send/return.Buffered or true bypass.Runs on battery or AC power adapter.

Kind of weird juxtaposition here. Radio doing a report about angry bees at the moment.

Believe some of it 😮 I'll have you know I'm using all of it as references looking for my next 2 album deal . It will be front page NME before chrimbo dudes 😇 😎 🍾

The design is staying as it is

once had a punter go up to the frontman to ask for a request during a song expecting his undivided attention whilst playing guitar & singing. The stock answer when getting daft requests was that we don’t do that song, but the next one contains some of the same notes.

Utter crap. That's what sort of music we play. It's good fun to play, but it sounds bloody awful. Still no idea why we're doing a gig, but it'll be good to see folks faces.

Agreed, he sounds like a twonk.

I have had this problem occasionally, I just say to the drummer "I'm not good enough to play this song at this speed" usually does the trick. But adrenaline kicks in and a lot of bands play faster live, listen to live albums, they do play faster than studio versions of the same songs

Vintage - I`ve been very impressed with the Tony Butler Signature Precision I picked up recently. Just think the name makes looking for instruments a bit difficult, vintage bass, vintage guitar etc, end up with any old pony bit of gear.

Thanks - it’s a beauty!

Morning! Yes we’re getting there. The newly painted scratchplate is looking great! Thanks for the steer on the ashtray - much appreciated 👍🏻

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