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Did some cosmetic mods to my Lionel short scale..Added a custom Wenge pickguard and Ash/Burl Maple knobs from ETSY 😎

Thank you @pedfor all the work you've put into this project, and indeed into all things Basschat. I don't exaggerate when I say my life is a better place for this place.

Hi Everyone! New to this site and so I thought I'd start by sharing a purchase I made back in June this year. The 2020 Sterling by Musicman Stingray 34 with swamp Ash Black body and roasted maple neck. This is my first Stingray Bass as I usually play Jazz Basses. Had seen this on the official Sterling site and was blown away with how great it looked. A 'BFR' inspired design they say on the site. Purchased it from a site called Project Music who had only one due in so snapped it up pretty quickly. As I say, my first Stingray so other than a 1990 USA Stingray I borrowed and played for a couple of week's I don't have much to compare it with. I'll start by saying it's loud, very loud although I do usually play passive Basses and one other active Jazz which has nothing on this things volume. 3 band EQ seems fine, plenty of tones can be dialed in easily. Not sure whether the bass boost lacks in the real boomy end. The body looks great with the white grain showing through and is well finished. This is a lump of a bass! May remove the clear scratch plate as after cleaning the bass after use there is quite a bit of dust build up underneath which can become visible. The roasted maple neck is lovely and plays really well. Had to file down the nut edges as they weren't particularly well finished and sharp to touch. I guess that's the real difference when it comes to Indonesian made vs USA made Musicmans. And of course love the all black hardware. Been very pleased with it so far. Not had the opportunity to gig with it as yet due to you know what but have used for online recordings and jamming at home and really feels great to play. Any Stingray players out there recommend any mods at all? I've read that people tend to swap out the standard preamp for something a bit hotter like Aguilars OBP 3. Anyone ever done so and felt the benefits? Have added some pics 😊 Let me know your thoughts, Q's etc Ozzy

Hi guys! Waiting for the sound test, here is the unboxing of the brand new Harley Benton, the MB-4 model (music man style) in the exclusive satin total black version. In the coming days, a review and a series of dedicated bass covers will follow. If you don't want to miss any updates, I invite you to subscribe and follow me to my youtube channel ... enjoy!

I've just finished this basschat 112 cab: It's a slight variant in that it is built using 12mm birch ply and it is using the Beyma SM212 speaker with no tweeter/horn. It had its first test run last night at rehearsal where it sounded much better than the studio's Hartke combo I typically use there, a lot more focus and clarity. It was able to keep up with our weightlifter drummer and two guitarists too. Very happy with it. Thanks to all the folks who worked hard to create the design and produce such professional drawings to follow. I think I've caught the bug now - I want to build another, maybe a 8 or 10 inch for practicing

Whale , look what arrived today ! Most of mine are Schallers too , I can just squeeze them on with a thin strap end - perfect for the g****rs though ( I do have another bass incoming these will be perfect for ) 👌 All in all a great product, these won’t stagnate in the bc shop! Cheers ped 👍

"Please sir, can I carry your bags back to your car, can I help tidy up the classroom". Come on lads, lets get him when he gets out to the playground

But he isn't though is he? You can't really turn on the telly without seing farage and his bunch of right wing nutjobs moaning about their free speech being curtailed. The president of america has been spouting right wing conspiracy theories heavily for the last 4 years, don't see his free speech going anywhere, or the whole news organisations set up to pander to that world view. If anything, there is more right wing free speech than left wing free speech these days. Even the bbc isn't allowed to come up with an opinion without having to add 'but some people think it is reasonable to drown immigrants in the channel' too to balance it out.

Because so much of what right wingers think is free speech is actually hate speech.

Collection only but I’m not sure where I am at the moment, I’m in the boot of someone’s car

Touch down here too. As seen on the Basschat Instagram page...

Looks like l'm nowhere near as original as I thought I was, but stuff it here we go:

... this happened yesterday.

I'll be honest, I don't think it requires that much analysis. He's done enough of these slips and has made his far right leanings clear enough to just take it at face value - "everyone ultimately prefers their own race" is just him describing himself. The reason he attributes this to everyone is because he has spent the last few decades surrounding himself with yes men and sycophants who feed his ego and assure him that his views are held by everyone, he can never be wrong. You can seek familiarity in a wide variety of commonalities (social standing, political views etc) however Morrisey explicitly selects race. That's the big tell I think. I agree he does like the sound of his own voice, something which is quite surprising when his voice sounds like... well... that. I'm not sure who his audience even is any more - he appears to only tolerate vegan right w(h)ingers with a preference for white nationalism, I might be wrong but I can't see a lot of record sales coming from that demographic.

I am genuinely sorry for, and appalled by any abuse you have received. I have some Jewish and black heritage, although it is far enough back that it is not apparent. My mum and her mum were on the receiving end of abuse for the black heritage. However, anyone claiming to be left wing and dishing out any kind of hate speech does not belong on the left. If they say they are then they are wrong by definition, with one of the founding principles of Socialism being equality.

Absolutely. Being ancient, I remember when one could hear quite a wide variety of political views via the mainstream media. Not any more. We have lurched markedly to the right in recent years and anything to the left of the Lib Dems is openly described as "communism" and/or heresy. The far right has always exploited the fact that they are (rightly) forbidden to say some things (drowning asylum seekers, etc) by claiming it to be an "assault on free speech". The sad thing is that more appear to believe their nonsense nowadays.

Sonic blue and basschat orange? 🤔

Full cases.

Got mine today but I'm sure I ticked the 'reliced' option..... Anyway thanks, they do what it says on the tin, incidently, where is the tin?

They make great plectrum holders too! Unfortunately you ahve to snap the plectrums in half but that's just details...

Not had it cranked yet but at low volumes I can tell it has a very wide range of sounds. Individual level controls for both halves of the pick up give a lot of flexibility. It grunts, and sparkles. I like it a lot.

These alt uses are good. I can't be the only BCer who bought these without having any need - my basses all have Schallers on (which I believe might also be @ped 's most hated straplock). Maybe need a new bass to go with these.

Solved - Thanks man. Pulling the strap over the rear hump took away say 50% of the dive. But by doing so it also shortened the strap which brought the bass up a little and now my right forearm rests beautifully on the back of the bass. It's not only very comfortable, but the weight of the arm kills the last bit of imbalance!

Get back in here and sharpen those pencils

C'mon if you think yer 'ard enough

Well, not an update that will rock the world but...it IS the first cut related to the project I've cut the back wing mahogany blanks ready for thicknessing The mahogany was a gift from @tauzero as a thank you for a small job I did for him a year or so back. If I remember correctly, it's from an old bar top. It's nice wood - thanks, Mike! Tomorrow I will get my trusty Makita thicknesser out and get all four pieces down to their final thicknesses. @Jus Lukin and I have also decided on the arrangement of the neck laminations (9 piece) and so tomorrow I should have the order for the neck and fretboard timber into David Dyke.

Is that massive bulge your tummy?

The perfect adornment, practical too..!

Cheers Ped! 👍

Mine arrived today. Looking good. Cheers @ped 👍

Is he just trying to get on the Katie Hopkins rent-a-gobshite bandwagon? I literally couldn't care less, he's a hateful individual and I never got all the fuss about the Smiths. I bought one of their albums when I was 17 and gave it away to a mate the next day. Believe me, 17 year old Yorkshireman me didn't ever give anything away that had cost me money. I just couldn't stand Morrisey's voice for an entire album.

Got mine today. Thanks!

You mean you haven’t kept yours in the original packaging? You fool! They’ll be worth nothing now, whereas mine will continue to grow in value

Ta da!

Nope. 😒

Exercise Cygnus took place in 2016. They simulated an outbreak of disease, similar to what we’re currently experiencing. They found: “The UK’s preparedness and response, in terms of its plans, policies and capability, is currently not sufficient to cope with the extreme demands of a severe pandemic that will have a nationwide impact across all sectors,” One problem was that while each government body participating in the exercise had its own bespoke plans, enabling a flexible and decentralised response, nobody in the centre had oversight over everyone else. Social care was found to be a particular concern. The report listed four areas of “key learning” and 22 further “lessons identified” from the exercise, couched as recommendations to government. The report was never published, it’s existence came as a surprise to many people, especially those in the care sector. Maybe if they’d taken note of it, we wouldn’t have the highest death rate per capita in Europe? Especially bearing in mind that many of the ‘mistakes’ made, had already been identified four years earlier.

If he had any clue about this stuff he should have said "Everyone ultimately believes that what they think, what the people they choose to socialise with think, and what the authors of websites that Google algorithms send them to think, is what everyone thinks. And if that network leads those people to discriminate on the basis of race, then those people are by definition racist" I suspect in saying what he said he was alluding crudely to the generally accepted idea in neuroscience/psychology that the human brain has a hard-wired tendency to seek familiarity and to fear novelty. But he has extrapolated a tendency that can be overridden by learning/environment/culture (and of course one that can also be reinforced by these same factors as is his case) way past the point that it's supported by the data in question. The main problem with Morrissey is that he likes the sound of his own voice and has an increasingly small audience, so his views become more polarised and at the same time he appears to hit the off switch a few minutes too late pretty much every time he speaks to a journalist. I imagine he's going to find some success as a politician

I saw this on fb and laughed.

I’m sure this was said with a proud tear spilling down the cheek and the roar of Spirfire’s overhead 😀 Thing is though you’d think that our democratically elected leaders would have had a pandemic playbook of sorts. We have them for terror attacks and other ‘disasters’ except leaves on the tracks and a flurry of snow in mid January. Sure we can allow for the initial WTF moment as a national disaster hits but there should be a national strategy which considers what action should be taken and what resources are needed in this type of scenario. That’s what I expect as a voter. I think it’s great that there’s a been a shred of common sense employed here when looking at the practicalities involved in the deployment and administration of a nationwide vaccination programme. However I can’t help but think back to when the figures were confidently announced from lecturn’s suggesting 100,000 tests would be carried out daily and the ensuing shortfall in numbers and strain on testing facilities. A bit more realism and less politicking might have been a wiser choice with hindsight. Anyway training... It’s not that hard to ‘train’ someone to insert a swab into the nostril but we were left with a massive shortfall in testing based on the toll it took on a system which was unprepared with the sheer magnitude of the task at hand, no one appeared to ask the lab’s what their capacity was before confidently throwing out the big numbers, if the reagents needed were available in such quantities etc. There were some red faces and people were made to look foolish because they wanted to project numbers that they were always going to struggle to hit due to many factors...before then doubling those targets. Much in the same way as with a nasal swab it’s not terribly complicated to administer an intramuscular or sub cut injection but unlike the self administration (of insulin?) as pointed out earlier there are some other small things to consider when administering a mass vaccination programm to the public such as anaphylaxis management and the administration of emergency medication. It’s not an insurmountable task but there is some nuance to these things which add’s to the complexity in relation to training and supplies chains. It’s not just pinching the deltoid or the belly fat and sticking in a needle. If this has been a bit long winded TL:DR version We can bemoan the shortcomings because we’ve seen them first hand time and again. We can also be optimistic that they’ll get it right eventually but many of us remain cautious. Oh and don’t forget to vote!

Point taken, but I'd be willing to bet that you get a lot more of it from the far right.

Just about to post this, actually searched first and found this thread. Imagine if we all did that, the mods would be out of a job.

For me Morrissey lost any right to an audience when he equated the Norway massacre to McDonalds, not so much because there wasn't at some level a degree of logic in his argument - life is life and is precious whatever form it takes - but that he chose to express it when and how he did, with no apparent understanding of the potential sensitivities of people in his audience or their right to not have to be subjected to his rants. I generally have broad tolerance of people's rights within the law to their own views, political, religious and cultural, but not of people who take inappropriate advantage of social status to advance them out of context.

OK,i get where you are at. IMHO i have to say that the VMT is a little flubby and lacks the clarity you seek i am afraid, and i have tried it with boosts, stacking with a B7K, other pre-amps etc. I am not saying it is a bad pedal, but I don’t think it will ever give you that cut you want. It then depends on whether or not you are wedded to the DG sound - if you are then the AO or the X will be way better pedals for what you are after. If you are open to other brands there is a massive amount to choice from, but it sounds like you want a tight low end and almost a cross over looking to poke through - for this i would go Tech21 DP3X every time, and it dispenses with most of that board!

Well it's here, first impressions, I seriously like the stealth paint and for once the tort guard is growing on me, neck is not as chunky as other HB's I've owned in fact it's quite similar to my 4 string Alpher maybe only fractionally deeper its straight, no sharp ends and the frets seem to be quite level. Pickup isn't bad for the money, remember it's £118! The tuners tune and the bridge is functional but not brilliant but like I said it's £118, would I recommend one for a beginner? Definitely, would I recommend one in general? Without a doubt, it's a bargain!