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A handful of us got together in Newcastle today to talk nonsense about our basses, mostly Precisions. We had 18 in total.. Here's some pics.

is that like a drive thru plane wash thing or are you really a pilot.

Talk me out of a Barefaced Big Baby 2 By adamg67, 7 hours ago in Amps and Cabs Answer: No Look forward to purchase pictures

Being away so much cost me my first marriage, but Mrs Bassfinger MKII was, at the time, a copper so understood long hours and crazy shifts. She's since retired through Ill health, and i've sort of move partially sideways in my field away from actually geological work towards the planning and asset management side of things. Instead of contracting I've settled on a full time employer who are really good. I don't get to go away so often, and when I do now it tends to be more Western Europe rather than the Americas or the Stans. I still do a little consulting, but not too much these days due to potential conflict with my full time employer, but 50 euros an hour plus expenses is a good crack when I do take on a bit on the side. I'm 51, heading for 52, and I've shovelled enough away in recent years that I'm knocking it on the head 2 months past my 55th birthday which is when my mortgage will be paid off. I won't be buying a private jet or a racehorse, but I won't starve either and I can spend some time with Mrs Bassfinger and my dawg.

I think my only new arrival by April will be this, strung on La Bella flats, which I collected yesterday.

That particular plane took a couple of us over to Belgium for a meeting. It belongs to a chap who was arranging finance for the project we were involved in, so for him he was combining business and pleasure. An industrial geologist deals with the identifidstion and extradcition of metals, rare earth minerals, fossil fuels etc for the purposes of industry. My end of the business deals with the bit between resources being identified and assessed as financially feasible to extract, and full on production. I sit in the middle, involved while such finds are in the process of being set up for industrial level extraction. I spend very little time doing the actual geology I'm qualified for and a lot deciding what equipment will be required, for how long, what's its market value is likely to be when we've finished with it, etc, which I'm not qualified for.

Delivering G - @Teebs. It's written on the plane. 🤣

I have never built a bass before, but I recenlty acquired a bass neck and i intend to build a bass around it. The neck is 35in scale 5 string. ebody board with compound radius, and 24 frets. string spacing at the bridge will be 17.5mm The intention is to build a bass body from a 8 or 10mm aluminium plate, sandwiched between 2 3D printed slabs made from ABS. The idea being that the neck and the bridge will be directly mounted to the aluminium creating stifness. Ill be putting nordstrand blade in the neck and nordstrand blademan in the bridge with john east preamp. Theres some scheme drawings below to give you an idea of design. The neck has been scanned and loosely modeled. bridge chucked on for ilustration purposes. Id welcome any feedback from the more experienced builders if youd care to give it. Particularly if you have experience with metal or 3D printed guitars. ill keep this thread wpdated with progress for those interested.

Hi, Free to a good home (or a bad one for that matter): 2 x iSolutions iColor 4 stage lights and controller - each has 4 x 500W bulbs with RGBA gels. Controller can be used as faders, or sound to light. Very bright, great for bands or theatre. ADJ WiFly NE1 - great for moving heads and DMX programming for lighting rigs for use with ADJ WiFi products Spirit (by soundcraft) F1 folio 16 channel mixer - great sound quality - might need new power adapter, but I might find it as I clear out some more stuff! 12” mirrorball with 30W spotlight and motor Big drum bag of stands - 1 mic stand, 4 speaker stands, kick drum mic stand, and extending PA speaker pole to use with a subwoofer. May need the odd screw fixing. 3 rack mount flight cases - 2 wood in good working order, 1 plastic with one broken but functioning catch. Some great stuff here, just shifting as I’m clearing out house, and none of it is getting used. Would like it all gone this week if possible, so first to pick up from Cambridge wins! Cheers, Andy

Mostly pics today. The neck is pretty much finished. It ended up with an interesting scarf joint - I'm not sure I've seen one like it before! Other than that, it's mostly just little jobs before finishing. There was bit of a chip in the binding so I repaired it using epoxy and black furniture powder. It seemed to work pretty well. I may use it to grain fill....time to do a few more experiments. Finally I did the pickup routs. Me being me I decided to rout the neck heel at the same time. So I double sided taped the neck in, cut the side off the template, and whizzed away, praying the tape didn't fail! A test fit and the pickup ring was right up against the end of the neck. Perfect!

Just noticed the herningbone pattern on the skunk stripe on the Powder Blue Sterling. Beautiful.

KFC Bargain Bucket works as well!

Although my cab is not yet complete (will be getting the Tuffcab on Weds), I took it to both Open Mic night on Thursday and a Gig on Saturday. So what was the sound like? Well on Thursday at Open Mic I was asked to turn the volume UP. When I got there, That has never happened before. I set up my amp as I usually did, adjusting the master volume to what was, by ear, my normal playing level. To my surprise the soundman asked me asked to turn UP. Although the sound on stage was as I liked it, apparently it was too quiet FOH. Through the night (we played for about 90 mins as only one other performer braved the inclement weather) I could hear myself more clearly than before. The performance area is cramped and I am just about on top of the cabinet but I could hear the notes clearly, more mids were getting to my ears. Now I am no short arm, I am well over 6ft so they have a long way to go. I went home happier than I have for a while. On Saturday we had a paid gig at the same venue. As on Thursday the clarity close up was noticeable and unlike on Thursday, I used my wireless system and could go deep into the audience. The sound was great, overall the bottom end seemed well controlled and I could hear myself. It seemed like the low mids were clearer to me up close to that cab and they were nice and clear further back I should add here that we all have a really poor memory when it comes to sound. Unless you can A/B two items one after the other any comments are subjective at least. However although I was largely happy with the Mk 2 cabinet, It was worth the effort and expense to build the Mk 3. I should add that I did not buy new drivers and both the 12" driver and compression driver have been in use for some (probably 100) in the Mk 2 cabinet,

G-TEEBS !!! (nearly! )

No gigging photos, and as I steadfastly refuse to have a smartphone no selfies either. Best I can manage is a snap of me mincing about at work.

IEM seems to be the current fix for everything these days. We went from AK wanting to buy a cab, to equipping a whole band with IEM's, along with them having no say in the matter lol.

Looks like a bunch of leftover parts from half a dozen random basses, bodged together. This is that Eastwood shower again, isn't it? Bet it's about a grand, too.

*Headphones/decent speakers needed* These are the 760FL on my ‘71 P: These are the 760FS on my Lakland 44-64: Si

Wew! Hmm. Yumm. 32” scale. Sort of pseudo R styling... I like.

I got this bass off here on a trade. It came with a John East preamp that unfortunately was defective. I replaced it with a Seymour Duncan STC2 preamp and Aguialr AG J 70s pickups. I think it sounds the damage!

I been having some incredible luck finding 'unicorns' lately - First it was the left handed Kasuga 'Rick' from 1977 and now a Fender JB62SS in Vintage White. These things are incredible - Take a Jazzbass and 'shrink' it down to a 29.5" scale, make the body 15% smaller, but keep electronics, pickups etc in the same size for easy upgrades. Yum yum! This thing is so mind-blowing easy to play - 3.1Kg (6.8Lbs) and it just sound like a proper Jazz. Tonight is going to include a full setup, upgrade the bridge (Babicz) and pickups (Fralin) and of course install some proper left handed CTS pots along with an orange drop. 47 Pics: For reference - JB62SS vs Fender Jazz: (Borrowed from another site)

Hello all, Here is my new music video, I made all the music with my trusty Yamaha bbg4, drum loops, and my voice. No other instruments involved at all! Thank you for watching, Craig

Got my FX today. Very pleased with it. Quite program (did my training on the Stomp), i managed to transfer all my patches over to it from the Stomp manually, no software used. I love how all the effects parameters can be tweaked using just foot switches, so very handy for making adjustments on the fly while still playing. Love the fact that i can see everything at one time. Its a bit heavier than I expected. Not a deal breaker at all, it feels very sturdy. There are a few niggles as far as finding when things are goes, i know what I want but cant find a few of them easily, as they are in different places compared to the Stomp. Cant believe this box is cheaper than the Stomp (I realise it's missing stuff, but nothin gill ever miss). I'm not getting rid of the Stomp though, at least not yet. The FX fits in my gig bag with my amp and leads, so can live there when I'm not rehearsing or gigs, and the Stomp will stay in the bedroom for headphone practice.

Played various styles of reggae for many years. Then ended up playing soul covers in a functions band several years ago. But two years ago got asked to play with a 90's Grunge outfit (distorted guitarses are still too loud!) - was a total new experience discovering mid range frequencies in Grungey rock, prefer dub. Last week the reggae guys talked about reforming (covers) which is exciting...Natty Dreadlocks will be at the dinner table 😉. Yet in between recent jams I've been gigging Madonna, B52's etc with a Ukulele band...it's all a bit eclectic these days.

If it's the one I've found then it's a v2 is jump on it if I were you,before I do 😂

I had the T65 for ages,as well as the T70 an absolutely awesome octave. With the filter it can go from very aggressive and synthy to absolute 90s dub sounds. The thing I loved about it was the dirty octave up, it adds a lot of presence in the mix, I do feel that this octave is much better at the clean signal off synth tone,than it is at clean octave tones (the T16 works better for that) Check which version it is,as the old ones had the loop with a Y cable but whatever effects you had in the loop could not be used when the T65 was off. The newer version has a footswitch to turn the loop on/off. If you use the loop you will have to turn the loop volume down as well as the clean as it adds it's own clean signal. On the whole I found it dirty and synthy, with the filter full CCW and the octave up boosted, it's like a brassmaster fuzz. I recently traded my T70 to get a Future Impact but I do miss that sound. I bought an Aguilar octamiser as it's the only octave that does clean and synthy very well. The T65 filter goes further at both ends than the Aguilar, I had no tracking issues with the T65 however like most,it doesn't like going too low.

It looks like a really happy robot

Attendance & Gear List: 1. @Frank Blank’s Acoustic Corner - Godin A4, Rob Allen Mouse, Ibanez SRC6, QSC K12.2, Helix Stomp, HX Edit. 2. @Rich's Garden Of Delights - Shuker custom 5, Tanglewood acoustic 4, EBS Neo 2x12 & probable new amp (tbc) - both basses strung with nickel Elixirs. Possibly some FS stuff, details tbc once it hits the paid Marketplace. 3. @wrinkleygit, Jabba’s Semi Hollow Fretless, ‘72 Gibson EB0, SWR Working Mans 10 combo & 1x10 ext cab & a set of h’phones. Both basses strung with Labella flats 4. @scrumpymike Setting aside a bunch of FS stuff to give SW Bashers first shot and minimise packing and shipping work/costs. Unless cash flow dictates earlier sale, this will include: a couple of BF cabs (either SC Gen 3s or Two10s, to be decided); BF One10; Maruszczyk Elwood 30" scale; Spector Bantam if still unsold (already posted FS); Eden WT550 if still unsold (already posted FS); Ampeg PF800. 'Keepers' also on display will be: the other pair of BF cabs; my no. 1 gig bass 'Rascal Mervyn-Lyte; 'Rascal Lyte Mkll - provided I can decide what it's going to be in time for AndyJr to build it; my no 1 gig amp (Subway 800+); my old no 1 gig amp (Genzler Magellan 800). All of which will hopefully bring forward the day when Mrs Scrumpy can finally join her old man in retirement 😁 5. @Pea Turgh My Frankenstein Jazzguarman(!) strung with D’Addario XL Chrome flats. My black bitsa (same strings). Probably my Peterson combo which I’ll flit between selling and not selling (still). 6. 7. 8. 9. 10. “Stick a black and decker drill on the end, and I can make it through walls, baby!” Ps @scrumpymike - I’m eyeing up that Eden amp!

Two in a row for Team Helix.

Mesa Boogie Bass 400+ and my Trace Elliot V8

I actually know very little, but I made enquiries about the HOD/Shavo with a different paint job. And got the same answer @Ashdown Engineering posted up there... Knowing my powers of perception they’re probably still throwing darts at a picture of me on the office door for not realising I’d muted my amp and thought it was faulty 😂🥳

Finger lickin good. it would never reach my strings

Also Fenders being produced at that time had dire quality control issues so there's a real chance that any random contemporary Fender made in America won't be as good... <edit> A bit more detail... it seems that QC problems in the USA led to major factory changes which meant supply couldn't meet demand. The manufacturing in Japan wasn't originally aimed at producing inferior 'copies' but rather making up up for the shortage of US-made instruments while they sorted things out, which took several years. Follow the links above for more details.

Look at the picture, fer cryin' our loud! He's a wing/enginecompartment-holdtogetherer! ...and of course he dresses differently during winter flights.

Have you read through the thread and the info & articles linked to? Short version - 80s Japanese Squiers, particularly those with the JV serial prefix, were exceptionally high-quality replica-standard instruments, weren't produced in huge quantities, and comparitively few survive nearly 40 years later. This means they are rare, collectable and therefore highly desirable to some people.

Everything I hear and read about Ashdown convinces me more that I was right to join the club. As much as anything the sound of their gear - it's just great. If I wasn't insane and convinced that I also need so many other amps I would use their stuff exclusively. For what it's worth my ABM grind control just makes it sound like a valve amp. Not overkill distorted, just lovely.

Yes but the Shavo has the compressor too so a little different.... January will bring what you desire however

Awesome !

for a bit of wider reading this is also good: https://reverb.com/news/interview-fender-visionary-dan-smith-on-how-to-turn-around-a-faltering-guitar-brand I really don't know what offends people about JV Squier being appreciated.

Osmo is great as a satin finish - and yes...they indeed do tinted versions, but I would be tempted to stain it with a proper spirit stain and then put a clear finish over that (Osmo, Tru-oil, nitro, poly - they will all go over OK. Reason for me saying that is that tinted finishes tend to having the colour sitting on top of the wood and it is difficult to get a depth of colour or, sometimes, evenness. With a proper wood stain, you can experiment until you are happy with it and then seal it in your chosen clearcoat finish. I would recommend the trial pack of Chestnut Spirit Stains (the wood colour ones - they also do a poster-colour pack but they won't be any good for what you are after) available from Axminster here: https://www.axminster.co.uk/chestnut-spirit-stain-trial-packs-ax24498 Used carefully, each small bottle would easily do a whole guitar so this pack will last you years of multi-coloured builds! There are a number of colours amongst them that would do what you are after. You can also mix them, either together, or by doing a coat of one and then overlaying a coat of another. Bear in mind that the actual colour will be majorly affected by the colour and porosity of the wood so it's useful to have a colour spectrum to get the right effect. When staining, the colour as applied and still wet is a useful guide to how it will look when the clear finish has been applied. When it dries it will look a different shade. To double check the final colour once it has dried, just wipe over with a damp (not wet) cloth. For what you have described, on Maple, light oak and light mahogany will give the brownish/pinkish tinges and yew the yellow/orange tones - but there are plenty of other colours.

Nah. The logo on this one's a sticker or transfer someone's obviously printed at home. He would've just scribbled on the headstock with a biro.

Seems like a lot of people are putting up with a drummer who can't keep time! That is like a guitarist who can't tune up or a singer who can't sing. Before you do any more rehearsing you have to sort that problem out. Being in time is part of their craft, so drummers speeding up or slowing down can't be tolerated. It doesn't sound good, it makes the whole band look bad and wastes all the effort of the other band members. I would fire any drummer who doesn't have a good sense of time. I'm lucky, this isn't a problem I've encountered in the last 20 years because I haven't played with bad drummers in that time. In bands most of the songs have been counted in by the drummer but I'm playing with a lot of guitarist/band leaders these days, and they tend to count in.