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I get everything I need out of this rig, RM800 Evo + Super Twelve. No pedals, just the joint versatility of the BB735A/RM800/SuperTwelve. Perfect match!

Look what was waiting for me when I got home from the office!!!

Someone remind me when an 'f'hole becomes a Norissole?

Getting quite close to being able to close the top on this. I've cut the cable routes to the control chamber and lined the main void with veneer: The reason for the latter is that the chamber is actually quite shallow, because the back is so heavily carved, and the dark veneer gives the illusion of a much more substantial void through the 'f'hole :

Here's my reason for unreservedly recommending Jon's work.

I’ll just leave this here.

Hello, i'm Luca. I play guitar, but lately i bought my own bass equipment for my practice room... So i discovered i enjoy play bass too 😆

Two One10’s will sound awesome. I just started using both all the time (two Marshall 4x12’s to contend with) hence my want of a Two10. Heck, if I’m flush I might just get a Four10 and be damned with the roof!

Heres my Fender collection- 66 Jazz, 71 P, Custom Shop 5, 76 P 64 P, 70 P, 69 P

Windows still sucks. Yes a Windows laptop is far cheaper than an Apple Macbook but plug anything MIDI related and it may or may not work, the soundcard is likely to need tweaking to be a able to get the controller to work, the list goes on. Mac’s just work.

Could have been worse. If I'd invented it rather than nicked it, I suppose it would be an AR'sole… or is that me for nicking it

My first family pic, love em all in different ways 😍

Looks like a reverse body to me.

The 48’s as standard have a p neck and power bucker bridge pick up config under the shiny covers.

Look, I've just got podgy bones, ok?

Hi Al, it's genuinely complex isn't it? One of the complexities is that a lot of the 'information' is also advertising. For example your 'well known manufacturer' who is quoting a 15" cab running from 25-2k is probably stretching things a little. If the 15 is flat down to 25 Hz and can handle any power it will have to have a very heavy cone and a long throw, both of which would make it very inefficient. More likely it is 10-20dB down at 25 Hz so it is making some sort of sound but just not loud enough for you to hear significantly. The 1x12 may sound good with their 2x10 but if one part of their claim is improbable can you believe anything they say? A speaker that only goes to 2k wouldn't be suitable for bass on it's own. All this means is that you couldn't tell anything about how the cab would sound just from a bald 45-16k frequency response. Is that at -3dB, -10dB or some other figure. Is the response flat between those two extremes or biased towards some frequencies more than others. Add in one more factor, how we perceive sound. It is just like everything else to do with our senses, an entirely subjective experience. What we think of as bass is often about what is going on elsewhere. If I'm trying to pick out a bass line from a recording I usually cut the mids and tops rather than boost the bass. That'll make the bass line stand out much better than boosting bass 95% of the time. If your cab 2 had a bit of a mid/top end boost it would sound brighter even if the bass end was exactly the same. It might not be the 5Hz quoted difference in 'cut off' that creates the difference but what both cabs are doing in the 100-200Hz range that you are hearing. The best way of judging any cab, particularly an instrument cab is by ear. Test gear will help anyone designing a cab but you can't really drag it along to a music shop. Published figures without any indication of how they are measured aren't always a lot of use. I'm not completely cynical about manufacturers but it's a tough world for them too. If they use 'honest' rms watts and +/- 3dB frequency figures and so on then they are likely to lose sales to people who use peak figures. I'll get back to you on what in principle might be the difference you'd hear if the figures were independently measured and so could be compared, that's another long story.

Good gracious, no..! Whatever gave you that idea..? Almost libellous, to boot..! Retract, I say; retract or face the consequences.

i have my own Shuker template

For a brief time when things were really bad, I actually put my 7 string (Doodle as it is known) up for sale. I still thank so many who sent messages telling me not to do it. Who needs kidneys anyway, I have my flip-paint beauty still! (I don't look like that now lol)

Sounds like you got involved with guys that perhaps like funk but can't play it. Funk can mean different things to different people. In my neck of the woods sadly no one is playing funk. It's not an easy genre and a lot of guys don't understand don't have the feel for it. IMO play a guitar solo on " Good Times" is an example of not understanding and removed from the genre. Blue

Strings. Four of them.

I’ve done better?? I didn’t realise my comedy was being rated! I shall try harder in future to ensure the quality of my humour remains top drawer and only of the finest mirthment.

Don't be so sure about that. Most rehearsal spaces are small enough that you'll get a lot of boundary sourced phase cancellations, which can make your amp sound not as loud as it will in a large room. Guitars and drums don't have this issue, as the wavelengths they produce are much shorter and are relatively immune to phase cancellations.

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

I don't think I ever said I hated my sound. Au contraire mon ami: I've actually never been happier with it. I count myself very fortunate to be able to have on tap two excellent heads (DG M900 and Mesa M6) and two excellent cabs (BF SC and VK210) to mix and match. This thread has, for me, been all about adding to that sound, but doing so in a way that is going to work well, without the faff of buying a cab and then finding it doesn't really work (noise cancelleation etc.). They can be a pain to sell on in terms of time, effort, couriering etc. as you know. But I've learned a lot along the way due to some great, helpful, posts from fellow BCers

Think you might need to change the heading on this thread to :- Not a BAD word about the Queen movie

My wife got me this for my birthday. A soldering and rework station. I have to say, I’m impressed. The ability to desolder smd ICs in a couple of seconds is fantastic!

Nice family, love the blue jazz 👍

If you're struggling to find a band then it's really worth paying some attention to how you market yourself. Some quality footage of you playing and a tidy FB page etc can go a long way towards generating some interest in you as a player. If you have a good presence and plenty of media to support it then you will be more desirable to established bands looking to replace a departing bass player. Also networking is really important. Put yourself out there as a dep and take everything you can. You'll find that being known locally as a decent player and a good reliable person goes a long way to helping you find a band.

The One10s sound anything but thin, in my experience

Hehe, sure! I hear you.... Although Hyori's pronunciation seems to be just for rhythmic effect and the glottal stop does not actually exist in standard Korean but a buddy of mine from Melbourne (parents originally from Stratford, London) used to add a stops like that in his speech when enunciating certain Korean words, but it was not to be encouraged!

Saw it, loved it, & yes, not ashamed to admit that it brought a tear to my eyes on more than one occasion!

yup. It's not really that custom, it's a series 2 body but fatter at the bottom.

Cool? It can be b*** freezing!

Thanks all, As it happens, I just happened to find an email from a custom pickup maker that I have used in the past (anyone believe in fate?) so asked the question. The 3 x 3 configuration no problem, and no problem to put it within the p90 cover as a staggered set up (so no modification needed there). Only would be £75 done and delivered. I am going to try the suggustion of doing it as a temporary trial with an old precision pickup and if it does what I want I will order a custom one and save myself some grief trying to fashion a new pickguard etc. Much obliged for your input.

And so they do. That, or the information you really need just isn't forthcoming at all...

I enjoy playing with both pizzicato and plectrum. But it took rigour and discipline! It's the slap/pop bit that, for some unknown reason, I'm not attracted to. But I was raised with big band music on the radio. I need a walking line or to play in half-time, the Latin box or rock riffs. I like the melody and harmony in rhythm. Percussion only is not for everyone. I play either PZ/PL depending on the song. Some lines sound better to me with a pick (I Think We're Alone Now, Hang On Sloopy, Good Vibrations...). Those type of lines work and sound better with plectrum. And I can't imagine a car chase scene in a movie unless the bass is on plectrum power. Whereas, jazz and blues need the fingers to do the walking. But I'm speaking in generalities. Leave your band for another and you'll find yourself doing something different. I hope you had fun singing along with Sloopy! I know the McCoys did! She reminds me a little of Andy Capp! Could be Flo had a daughter. . My bass journey has been inspired by records alone. I drove myself nuts until I could learn two finger pizzicato back in the incubator because of James Jamerson on every restaurant juke box. Then, the sound of a plectrum on a muted heavy-gauge flat-wound string attracted my ear, courtesy of Carol Kaye, Sir Paul McCartney and Ladi Geisler. I heard the great Rod Hicks playing a fretless Ampeg bass with Paul Butterfield and immediately ordered a fretless. I bought a Fender Jazz when I turned to rock and pop. Ray Brown's swinging walking lines caused me to go out and finally buy a double bass. Trying to capture the original vibe that made the song a hit in the first place drives me to change techniques accordingly. But all the great slap-pop bassists in the world can't entice me to "frappe la pouce en bois". Love Disease 6/8 fretless Ampeg bass: Ladi Geisler with Bert Kaempfert's Orchestra. "Knack-Bassen unde Dankeshoen!" The proper way to hold a plectrum! (and this may comes as a surprise for some!) Right Way! Wrong Way! Way wrong way! I caught on when I realised that biggest part about playing bass with a plectrum is to hide most of the pick and rotate only the wrist while resting the forearm firmly against the bass hip. That's why the body is bevelled there (Thank you Leo!). After those three tricks are mastered, one can modify to suit. Carol Kaye's books were most helpful. Holding the plectrum like Mel Bay also makes sense to me, now. And just enough plastic showing proud to push the string. A small wrist arcing motion separates the string and plectrum to avoid interference while alternating up and down strokes. There's no chance of resting the fingers on the pickguard to slow you down and the closed fist acts like a spinning ballerina, spinning faster as she pulls in her arms and legs close to her center of gravity. The effects of centripetal force is kindly and gracefully exhibited by these wonderful ladies! The double bass will introduce one to the bow! No bassist should ignore this if they ever get the chance to buy a DB. I always felt that to be a bass player, you have to play a DB. When I finally bought one, I changed all my fingering to Simandl and now apply it to the Fender bass also. I reserve the 1-2-3-4 guitar fingering for guitar and banjo where it belongs. (Or the dusty end of the bass guitar.) The plectrum suffers undue criticism because pizzicato is what distinguishes the bass player from other string players. So to be a "real" BP, one must walk the talk. But the plectrum offers another tonal palette to be explored. Just as any possible combination of five digits. Harmonics, tapping, slap/pop... We should never sell ourselves short. Pick 'em all over time.

Resurrecting old thread alert.... This came up out of the blue on my You Tube feed. It’s from a Spotify special marking the 30th anniversary of Songs From The Big Chair back in 2014. Small studio setting, small crowd but the quality of the performance is absolutely sublime. Superb, tasteful, restrained musicianship throughout and quite true to the original recordings. Roland Orzabal’s voice is in great shape, no sign of his pipes wearing out with age, and Curt Smith’s tasteful playing on a couple of nice vintage hollow bodies. There’s a 40 minute set plus chit chat in the complete video but here’s Head Over Heels. The Working Hour in the same video is worth checking out too - a tour de force. Makes me so grateful that we have music in our lives...Enjoy.

I remember the days when I was an important customer ... that was quite fun. Didn't last long, mind.

That's interesting..! To me, it sounds just like the 'Hounslow' (pronounced locally as 'arnsler'...) pronunciation of the word 'subtle': su-ul..! Quite different to the Soul version we normally use. As it's now officially Bejing, formally Peking, maybe Su-ul could be adopted by Auntie Beeb for Seoul..?

Just to round this out in case it happens to others. There is a file in ~/Library/Application\ Support/TonePrintEditor/ called TonePrintEdiitor.settings that isn't deleted or overwritten when you clear system caches or do a reinstall. It wasn't obviously corrupted but several lines were either different or missing compared to an install on another machine. Cut and paste fixed it. Non obvious and without a second computer, undiagnosable. It may be OS dependent I suppose because I have no explanation for why the file contents would have changed. About a day wasted but it is now working.

My bro and I were discussing Queen this week and how John Deacon (who was apparently born a couple of streets away from where I live) has completely retired from the public eye, probably quite content to enjoy his old age with zillions of pounds and relative anonymity. Fair play to him. He's done his bit. I won't be visiting the Daily Mail website tho. As the awesome joke goes: "I used a copy of the Daily Mail to kill a fly yesterday. I read the first three pages out loud and it shot itself."

Yep. in fact i normally play a bit louder at rehearsals than i do at the average gig. I normally put it down to the drummer being too loud but good to know there is a real reason for it. Ive never found shop or home playing to be any indication of how a rig will sound at a gig. To my ears all rigs/combos sound great at home, but when they are pushed at gigs their tone can change quite a lot.

Shape and remove (router) 10mm and add a new piece of timber...oval, heart shape, Batman logo 😏😏.

You'll be able to do a 'Recent Status Update' then....

Ah the joys of autocorrect. I too have trouble sustainng my pizza , had to switch to lasagne. 🙂

Got 54 Peavey basses,at least one of every model but not every variation within each series. That's definitely classed as a collection and it's fairly well known among Peavey people. Because of that I get messages from folks all over looking for info or advice,sometimes I put buyers/sellers in touch. Mostly found playing a Harley Benton PB-50 😉