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Saw it last night. I'm not a Queen 'fan' but enjoy their music so went with an open mind to watch an entertaining film, not a documentary. I really enjoyed it, everything musically was realistic enough, more so than a lot of films with actors playing musicians. I found it quite emotional in places (glad it was dark in there) and uplifting and joyous in others. It said enough about Freddies life without going into unnecessary gory details and of course the film centres on Freddie, he was the star in Queen so was the the star in the film. All in all I think it's a great film. I liked the nod from Mike Myers towards the Wayne's World scene which was slipped in.

We went last night. We like their music but we're not dedicates fans as such. So can't comment on time lines. IMHO they did enough on Freddie's private life. His family struggled with it then and there's no need to drag it out any further. As @blue says, John Deacon was an amazingly good look a like, and acted pretty well too. We'll probably go again, as we have Cineworld Unlimited.

I bought a used Fender P in NYC about 8 years ago. I was fully prepared to declare it at customs, I stood there for 10 minutes with the case in my hand, nobody showed up. All the guards were over in the ‘nothing to declare’ area trying to catch people sneaking through and they completely ignored me so I just left. I thought I scored but the bass turned out to be a fake anyway.. Legit neck, random body. Still my favourite bass though.

Strings. Four of them.

Do you think you'll play sitting down, or standing up with a strap on?

I saw it today. I loved it. It was a really good rock movie. Keep in mind I'm not real picky or critical about this kind of stuff. I went to the theater to be entertained and I was. Was it me or did the bass player Joseph Mazello look a lot like John Deacon? Blue

New bass, Reverend Mercalli 4, barefaced super twin, markbass little mark ii.

I've always thought a zero fret instead of relying on the nut for string height was a good idea

Coincidentally, I recently had a similar sort of jam, where I was the new guitarist, drums and bass already played in a different band. We just jammed some grooves, I played rhythm, and gave the bass room to extemporise, and i played a few melodic lines and tried to avoid widdling, for the most part . The drums just played funky with very little in the way of fills and certainly no solo! We gave each other space and it was really enjoyable. Was kinda nerve wracking for me as I hadn't played guitar in a band for 17 years. One of the bands they like is the New Mastersounds, and the resulting recording wasn't too far off, for a first time jam. So, it can be done!

Can he edit it to add some stuff in to make it last more than 30 seconds?

Sorry I'm not allowing it - it's a great tune!!

One of the things that @eude and I have been discussing is the colour of the fretline markers. We've gone for redwood veneer which should compliment nicely with the top. Here is a sample I did on our cherry cupboard at home, which will be a similar colour tone to the finished katalox: Should look pretty classy. I'm aiming to have all the fretlines installed tomorrow.

So ..... few times over the last few years i was lucky enough to do some music for advert and television .... the guy was really nice and he told me he saw a video contaning my music which i ve done for a media company in London . However , he told me they already have a music composer that they have worked for years but he told me they are very busy and need a hand . when i asked him what kind of movie it was i was shocked ! Never done music for a porn tv before so i went for it . Checked the website and they have won loads of awards in the last 5 years, big company . now , just purchased a 50 inch 4k tv just for this job ahahahahahahahaha and another positive thing is that i can never get caught "sorry love im working "ahahahahahah

@Al Krow, The volume knob is notched and each click provides an increase in loudness. In my opinion it's smooth. My Quilter is very similar in that regard and my Ashdown seems to give you more earlier in the stage especially when the compressor is engaged. The Mosfet is definitely the more modern sounding of the two heads. The Tube has more of a low-mid presence with controls set flat on each in my opinion. I don't have much experience with full blown tube amps. The T does offer more warmth than the M but there wasn't a night & day difference to my ears with the gear that I had during the period when both were under my roof. The cabs that I had then all were a little more vintage sounding. They were a pair of old Genz Benz 112s which I still own and two pairs of Ashdown cabs without tweeters (Mi 10 & ABM Mini 408 Neo). The T isn't wild & woolly and the M isn't sterile. They're each just nice clean sounding amps but again, I do feel that T is warmer. My experience with compressors is also not very extensive. I've owned a couple of quality pedals that didn't get used much. I'm sure that there are better compressors but with the limited amount of usage that I have given the unit on the Veyron, I can't say that I've encountered anything that turned me off. Here's a video of the Veyron M being played by the same guy in the previous video that I posted. He's got the Ultra High & Ultra Low engaged which sort of sccops the sound....

For a period of time, I owned both the Mosfet and the Tube versions. My plan was to make a decision on which I liked more and the other would be returned to the vendor. I liked them both and couldn't decide. I kept each of them for more than a year until I sold the Tube to fund another amp purchase. Right now my amps are the Quilter Bass Block 800, Ashdown Rootmaster RM-800 EVO and the Veyron Mosfet. Who knows how they came up with the 2000 watts rating. 500 watts? I feel pretty confident with saying that I think it is more powerful than that. With respect to volume, it compares very favorably to the amps that I named above which are rated at 800 watts RMS.

Long ago, I once did Einstein on the beach. Terrible soundtrack that got! "One two three four, one two three four five six, one two three four five six seven eight, one two three four, one two three four five six, one two three four five six seven eight." Never again!

And one lined fretboard

That gap in the neck pocket is a handy place to store plectrums and business cards, probably get a couple of cables and a spare pack of strings in there too:

This is a well-known thing - a guitarist who wants other musicians to play so that he (and it is invariably a he!) can go widdly-widdly-wee to his heart's content.

This is what Martin have on their performing artist series. just a little window - maybe a little limpet on the back of the headstock, imagine a miniaturised reversed Stratocaster jack socket with this fella looking at you. would work off vibration like a clip on tuner... for reference these circles are about as big as a 1p coin.

Getting a simple and effective unit on a solid body in a position that’s viewable when playing is hard - acoustics have the big slab side to fit them in easily and they are viewable when playing

Awww! Thank you! The original flip finish was pretty amazing, but when it went back for it's service (after 8 or 9 years active use!) it came back with the new crackled chameleon flip paint finish - and whatever he did it plays and sounds better than ever! My 7 string I think will be next for a service but no need just yet. Still going strong in to it's 10th year. Maybe nearer 11 I forget. Jon is a really nice guy; an understanding engineer who really knows his wood choices. I can't think of a better way to understand more about our basses, so I would recommend the course. Jon is a great teacher. Thing is though, now I know what he is capable of, my next two basses have already been planned... on paper at least!

Absolutely! As a massive Carole King fan, ‘Pleasant Valley Sunday’ is up there as one of my all time favourite songs. Lots more of their stuff is great too, including ‘Last train to Clarksville’ and ‘A little bit me..’

Impressive that you have a cupboard dedicated to storing cherries.

As a kid, we all knew someone who had easy access to 5th generation copied porno on VHS cassettes. A mate of mine was very keen to show me a recording of something he thought I'd find hilarious but for all the wrong reasons; popping the tape in, there were trailers for forthcoming porno films. The trailer in particular featured a blonde woman on a boat with two guys. There was an America-accented dialogue with references to a 'double-banger sequence you'll never forget' and the accompanying music? The theme from the Nicholas Parson's vehicle, Sale Of The Century. It obviously etched itself onto our addled teenage minds. I was out with him last night and 30+ years later it still gets a mention, one us us apeing the narrative while the other hums the theme tune.

Bring on the fluffer, I'm losing wood...

Time to dust off the wah pedal.

First gig I ever went to was the Hyde Park show in 76. Saw them loads of times. Watched the film last night and loved it. The audience loved it. Loads of laughing out loud and for me, tears!! What a big girl, but music can get me like that!

Most of the demos online are using the FMeron with high FM settings and im not so much a fan of that sound. So I mostly use it with the FM control set all the way down or just before that. The other thing you will find if you get your hands on one is the triggering. Its a little fussy, but when you've figured it out its spot on and very quick. Unfortunately you have to feed it a signal devoid of highs and high mids if you want it to trigger reliably on a low E on a 4-string for example. However playing a Low E or anything lower on a 5-string's B string and it appears to be much less fussy. Im using a P-Bass 4-string with thomastik infeld jazz flats with the tone rolled all the way back. The band Im in probably wont be comfortable sharing out early material I will try sort out some recordings into my soundcard soon!

And after all the debate about wattage or the perception of said watts, the above post is the most important one. Stew loves the amp. A happy bass player!

I can’t stand locking jack sockets. If anything they give a higher load on the wood possibly causing cracking - especially on front mounted sockets. At least putting the lead through the strap moves that stress to the strap and strap button area where the wood is thicker. All basses should have slot load bridges. I hate having to feed the strings through the bridge, especially if taking strings off but wanting to keep them for future use.

Nice carve

...but this sounds more like "measure about 20 different interrelated things twice making sure not to muddle them up, then measure them again, walk away from it for a bit, go back, measure again for good luck, THEN cut once..."

Needs a set up and a few minor jobs doing but we're nearly there.

Rumour has it they need to change the company to just C Electronic now.

Did you expect them to be the right way round? Look at it FFS! Looks like the holes for the machine heads are too wide and have been plugged with some sort of rubber ferrule.

I know, i was lucky to get a piece that nice! although hopefully enough of that lovely figure will show through the inlays. the thinking is that the dark "cloud" pieces are supposed to look like the breaks in the clouds during a thunderstorm, so the ziricote is as much a part of the overall scene as the pearly bits. sort of like how lightning illuminates the clouds as it passes through: whether or not it works out that way remains to be seen... okay so exciting times are coming... THE INLAYS ARE CARVED OUT!..... but not in yet. most of the rest went fairly smoothly... again apart from those bits of lightning. next time i do an inlay... no lightning. annoyingly, by the time id finished doing all the waves, i'd got fairly good at it. no doubt by the time i come to do the next bass i will have forgotten all of this. for any of you interested what a fretboard looks like before the inlays actually get glued in, and what inalys look like not in the fretboard: you can probably see to the far left of the first picture a little black square in the first wave, turns out i went a tiny bit too deep there, so thats a little square of ebony veneer that covers up my mistake. in the end, i separated the large cloud pieces either side of the lightning and did them separately, it was just easier that way to get it to all line up nicely. you can probably also see on that picture the two bottles of CA glue poised and ready... well that picture was taken pretty late, and the missus told me to tidy the kitchen and go to bed. so you'll have to wait for the big reveal once theyre all glued in. you can also see on the second picture the headstock with the tuner holes plugged and the sides cut off. im going to glue some new maple wings on tomorrow to accomodate the new headstock design. for now... heres the fretboard with the inalys just laid in place: they all lie within a couple of tenths from flush, so they should all look very nice glued in and sanded back. the only real concern is the black MOP clouds... black mother of pearl isn't the most consistent, and so sanding back even a few tenths of a mm can really change the shades that show through. im hoping this won't be a big issue, but i really like the clouds nice and dark so hopefully they don't lighten up too much once sanded and polished.

Lightweight Rig. Amp 2,5 Kg, Cab 2x12", 600W 8Ohm 102db, 17,8 Kg

Time for some more photos, to catch up with current Dogs activity. The Tabard, Chiswick, beginning of December 2017 The following night at the Prince of Wales, Wimbledon The Fairway, Ruislip, mid-December 2017 The Old Hall Tavern in Chingford on 30th December 2017 New Year's Eve at the Red Lion Little Missenden

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I use both techniques & try not to get too hung up on how other players play bass. I can name great players who use both techniques. It will always be hotly debated though