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My account is correct, but perhaps it is not clear enough? The drummer suddenly announced that he expected the rest of the band to turn up the next day ready to prove - to him - that we were all 'clean'. I pointed out that, since he was the one with the problem (the other three of us were fine), it would make more sense for us to re-start rehearsals once he no longer had a problem. He was noticeably less fussed by my response that some Basschatters seem to be. Being vicariously offended is a wonderful stance, isn't it? So convenient, and so totally without responsibility. Anyway, there seems to be some confusion about this amongst my fellow Basschatters. The drummer in question is a really nice guy, I enjoy playing with him, and I hope to continue to do so. I don't think I have anywhere in this thread suggested that he should not be allowed to hold whatever views are most appropriate to him, and I recognize that - in his opinion - his views are reasonable and sensible. Still with me? Good. What the opinionated and entitled amongst us seem to forget is that there is a flip side to this, which is that I am equally entitled to hold whatever views are most appropriate to me, and they should recognize that - in my opinion - my views are reasonable and sensible. We've already had one arrogant clown accusing me of being an anti-vaxer - this from a silly billy I've never met, who knows the square root of bugger all about me - apparently for the heinous crimes of not holding the same opinions as him, and of not taking orders from other band members. Let's not go any further down that cess-pit, OK?

Some poor snaps of mine, had to go one by one as office sofa is smorl

Got a new bass build ready. TB-12-Q Twelve string Thunderbird Bass with Quilted Maple top. - Mahogany body - Bookmatched Quilted Maple top - Nine ply Mahogany/Walnut set neck. Glued in - Transparent black stain - High gloss transparent acrylic finish - White binding - Ebony fretboard - Mother of pearl position dots - Jumbo frets - 34" scale - Buffalo horn nut ? - ETS twelve string brass bridge set - Two spokewheel double action trussrods - Carbon reinforcement strip in the neck - Lace Alumitone Bass Bar in the neck position - Lace Alumitone DeathBar in the bridge position - Allparts stacked pots (volume/tone volume/tone) - Mullard capacitors - MEC on-on switch for coil split (humbucker-single coil) - Gotoh GB 350 lightweight bass tuners - Gotoh Stealth ST 31 guitar tuners - 2 xPure Tone Multi Contact jack output - d'Addario EXL 170 - 12 strings - Weight: 4.25 kg Electronics circuit by my good friend Bas Becu. Serialnumber: 2021003 Pics of the build process can be found here: https://www.enkoo.nl/brooks-tb-12-q.html

Here’s my quiver

Thanks for all the positive reactions, guys. Just to bring this story up to date, the young student collected the bass a couple of weeks ago, thanks to Martins’ ‘assist’. George sent me this pic.

Hubba bubba.

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My three Bravewood p basses

My latest addition. 😀 Fender Custom Shop Sean Hurley Signature, Aged Charcoal Frost.

Last night I did my first gig since March 2020. We were in central London and played 3 x 1 hour sets. I haven't stood up for a whole evening since the beginning of last year. It nearly killed me! Talk about match fit, or not.

Nothing wrong with a precautionary lateral flow test - takes two minutes and helps everyone to relax more whilst rehearsing.

I think Mark will do pretty much what you want. He made me a brilliant copy of Geddy Lee's No.1 Jazz bass. Gratuitous bass pics:

It lives, it lives! Just need to arrange collection. Don’t want to risk it going teats-up with a courier. Had a custom logo added to the rear of the headstock in memory of late father who passed away last May. His initials were gkb. More pics when I get my hands on it.

I did that a little while ago but my count hasn't changed. He might be planning to welch on the deal.

We did a evening wedding party last weekend. It was outside in a marquee with the sides off. Apart from being blisteringly hot, it was lovely to do something normal again and see people having fun. It was an older crowd so I suspect most had been double jabbed and we are so I felt comfortable with the setup. Also like Chris_b, I haven’t stood up for a whole evening for a while and that along with setting up and taking down played havoc with my back. Next gigs are a joint family party for my 50th and belated 21st for my eldest in a village hall followed by a small festival and charity gig on bank holiday Saturday. We play the festival in the afternoon and then straight to set up for the charity gig in the evening. Fortunately, the festival is plug and play lol. We have had a few function enquiries as well so hopefully things are starting to look up.

There isn’t a global pandemic of second hand smoke though Jack, give your head a wobble - I think asking for proof of a negative lateral flow test isn’t unreasonable; they’re free and take a couple of minutes.

I don't have a pedalboard as such but witness my pedal shelf! (Not shown - Source Audio C4 and Future Impact)

My mate Martin was in a band with Nicko before the Maiden days… They sacked him “because he wasn’t any good”. We ribbed him magnificently when Iron Maiden’s tour manager called me about a white Gibson ES-355 we had in stock and they sent a runner to purchase it (at £3500 or whatever it was) as one of the band fancied it. What a claim to fame though, “i sacked Nicko, he joined Maiden soon after”.

Hello Again! Well.... the teeny tiny cab is together and has been tested It's definitely easy build I haven't applied any finish to the cab or a grille as this was a test version (although i'm falling in love already) I made the crossover on a piece of thin ply. It really is a compact cab. I used araldite to glue the port extension on and then stretched some gaffa round it nice and tight for support One point I would bring up (and I could be talking rubbish here).... The port ends closer to the rear wall than I would have expected to be ideal. My thoughts were that you needed at least the diameter of the port. Any thoughts on this chaps? (port length 170mm) Or does it not matter? I coupled up my BH800 and played some tunes through it via an ipod. I was very pleasantly surprised. Nicely balanced with neutral equalisation and with a good dispersion of higher frequencies. My better half said "that sounds nice" - praise indeed. I've played my precision through it for a few minutes and its great! Not bottom heavy, but then I didn't really expect it to be. BUT It's clear, punchy and responds very well to EQ changes. Would I gig with it? Probably not unless it was a small room.... Would I gig with it plus another cab (minus the tweeter section) yes definitely! Its probably a bit unfair to do a review after such a short time, but I promised myself that i'd contribute to this project as well as gain from it. I'll report back once i've done a rehearsal with it Anyone can make this cab. The joy of hearing your creation come to life is soooo worth it! I am v tempted to knock some 12mm versions together (although the V3 basschat design is calling me) Thank you to all who are involved in this wonderful little design Pics attached - drill shown for scale 😊 Jon

@Happy Jack spells it out:

The DC7 is a monster. It runs my entire board and I’ve not even managed to light the 40% of load light yet. Insanely good, plus it fits under a Pedaltrain with no modification to the board needed. It’s not cheap, but worth every penny for me.

Generally speaking, most rock singers are always spending their capital, not just the interest. Bruce Dickinson was mostly not like that, which is why he can still sing these songs. But he's past 60, and voices never stay the same decade after decade. Even Pavarotti was no longer singing the music that made his name once he was that age, despite having the most blessed vocal apparatus and an immaculate technique. Lemmy had the right idea: start out knackered, and stay knackered.

It isn't, but if someone ask if there is anything about a thing you don't like, you are going to get answers about what people don't like.

I've read elsewhere that clicking on someone's avatar, it shows at the bottom of their profile. I've tried this on both Safari and Chrome, but there's nothing there that I can see.

I found this in account settings Seems to sort the issue. @Paul S might want to see this too.

It's a test that takes two minutes to do... what's wrong with trying to be safer?

We got together about 2 months ago for a video shoot. The drummer asked everyone to take a lateral flow test. He's got some serious illness in his family and needed the reassurance that he wasn't going to complicate the situation. The rest of us thought that was a sensible precaution, took the tests and emailed him the photos. I was happy to comply.

I found a badge for you Douglas 👍

What's this ? Now someones autotuned Sarah Brand's track ! 😏

I didn’t have a badge before, but I now I do, all the levels became visible once clicked.

LOL LOL, it all seems to have become visible 40 minutes ago! 😂

Yeah I’d agree - both of mine are HH - originally cost £2299 (a 4 and a 5). I use them a lot along with my Classic Sabre. That Classic looks nice (no it’s not mine!!) - it’s up for £45 less than I paid new for mine! Mine has birds eye, flame and a bit of quilt in the neck. That colour (coral red) was only available between NAMM 2010 and NAMM 2011 so they’re thin on the ground. As close as you’ll get to a 2 band Classic in fiesta red (one of the members here has the original prototype which actually is called fiesta red 😏)

Just the ticket 👍

While we're waiting for the nano PB to hit the UK market, something comparably loud with very decent bass, even more compact and with multifx, tuner, drums, aux-in and looper all included can be got from this Megaboom micro rig...batteries definitely an option too! 😀

Decided to keep the G and L and sell for cash. Got my eye on this beauties, the sr5 looks awesome

I really am very pleased with the Ampero (A) ....but there is one really annoying thing about it - what the foot buttons do. The 4th one is wonderful: it can be assigned to be turning on and off one or more of the elements of the patch. So on one patch it turns the compressor on/off, on another the distortion, etc. Having two buttons doing programmable like that would be fantastic. However. On the smaller Ampero One there are only two other pedals, and with it you can go up and down through the patches. On the bigger Ampero, though, pedals Nos. 1-3 go between the three patches of one "bank". To move up from one bank of patches to the next, you have to press foot buttons 2+3 at exactly the same time. This is rubbish. What a waste of space. (B) The three little knobs under the screen on the bigger Ampero are very useful when tweaking the settings on patches – it's much easier to be precise with them than by changing levels on the touchscreen.* To someone who would prefer to program the patches on their computer, these will be unnecessary. (C) I'm so glad to have the bigger Ampero's on/off switch. Don't know why it makes such a difference to me, but it does *I presume on the smaller Ampero One which doesn't have the three little knobs, precise adjustment can be made by touching on the parameter, and then carefully turning the larger knob to the right of the screen.

Dub morning with mykal Rose

Hot love - Lard. Edit: oops, sorry, Trex Edit 2: sorry again, I meant T-Rex

Okey Dokey , I think I've rinsed this one for as much as I can get out of it just now. Not yet managed to convince the neighbour to let his lungs loose on it but I live in hope ......(die in caergwrle) The track starts in sombre reflection of times past , but very soon jumps into the lively present, whilst also giving a nod to the incompleteness of its current state ....really !! EZdrummer , I found a new kit that works on this, ibby 6 string through waves gtr 3 offering some twang , Gordon Smith applying some low end and of course the much in demand sweet vocal tones of yours truly .... which I will ditch if an offer of a superior performance makes it to tape !

I agree with bass agent, I’d find it odd even if I’d never played anything else ever. When I turn a blend control I expect to increase the thing I’m turning it towards and to taper off the thing I’m moving away from

Here goes........ Some blurb for the voting page: The picture bought to mind the decayed industry we see around us, a thriving workplace has become a void. I called the song "Into The Void" and that in turn led to a downbeat, goth-y feel. end of blurb. Recorded with Studio One. First time out for my upgrade to Studio one Five, with some new (virtual) amps/pedals. First time out for a new set of drum sounds too. Daw = Studio One (five). Mic = Sure SM58, Guitar = Squier telecaster, Bass = Vantage, Drums = Studio one piano roll with Red Zep sounds.