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A recent, small but very nicely formed addition to the practice rig - the Monique performs beautifully with a passive Wilcock, though I still prefer the Hellborg with actives

Bowed out of the trio on Saturday night with a pub gig over 60 miles away, I won't miss that sort of travelling for little money upfront. Fortunately we made an extra £50 in tips on top of the fee so the petrol money was covered. Punters seemed to like us and though a rather sweaty night (plus I had a heavy cold) we got through without major incident. This leaves me with no ongoing music projects which should free up some time to get work done on the house and sell some surplus gear off (anyone looking for some Roland PK-5 pedals?) with a view to jacking in the day job next year and moving to the South West, it'll be an adventure. As most of my posts tend to be on this thread then I will probably have an even lower profile in the coming months. Cheers guys. Post script - turns out it was more than a cold, I've just tested positive for covid despite having 3 vaccinations. Oh well...

https://bassmusicianmagazine.com/2022/08/bruce-thomas-pushed-rock-to-a-new-era-august-2022-15th-anniversary-issue/

Tried painting the headstock, but bring the perfectionist that I am wasn't happy with the result. So went carbon instead. Should provide a nice contrast to the white truss rod cover. Once the glue is dry I can finish sanding the edges.

The Reflux - Duran Duran

I love ginger oatterns, I’m hoping that they’ll bring out a chocolate covered one in the future.

I worked at Cambridge Composites (F1 products) before starting Zoot bass, it was there I learned the art of all things Carbon fibre. I've never had any affiliation with Rob Green or Gus guitars. All my carbon fibre work has been done by myself in my workshop using my own Vac' oven etc. All the moulds and tooling were also made by me using my own CNC machine. Here's a picture of one of an early Zoot fretless I made around 1985-ish.

I'm not aware of the stinky poo bass overdrive, unless that is the new nickname given to the Boss ODB 3.

There is an online archive of Mark Lamarr's BBC Radio 2 shows at https://www.godseternaljukebox.com/ and there are multiple series of his Beginner's Guide to Reggae all free to listen to. I picked a random episode and he said this was one of his favourite reggae tracks ever.

Oh how times have changed, the bragging of “mine is smaller than yours…….” Is this what we blokes have become?!

The sniping and snide comments stop now, or the thread gets locked.

August is upon us and that means one thing, it's time for another challenge! A joint win by @Doctor J and @upside downer in July with 2 excellent tracks and a subsequent choice of image from the latter, with the comment .... "This image from Alan Schaller's Metropolis collection, which examines 'how we are dwarfed in the modern world around us and often lost in it'. That's deep! Simple rules ✔️ Entries must be <5 minutes and recorded this month. ✖️ No illegal samples, copyright infringements or other snide goings-on ✔️ Bagpipes. the Edinburgh festival/fringe truce * . panpipes only if you have too. ✖️ No voting for your own entry. We'll know. And we'll shame you. A line or two offering an insight to your inspiration/track choice will be good as well , it works nicely on the voting thread. The Deadline for entries is Midnight on Wednesday 24th August good luck everyone * well, you don't have to, honestly

Prince Alla "Stone" plus "Grate Stone" a King Tubby dub.

Your Latex Trick - Dire Straits

When I saw that pic I thought it was the station I used on my daily commute. I can't tell for sure. but be afraid - the station in question was Baker St. In other news I accepted an offer on the house yesterday. That means the dining room can convert back into my temporary studio. Be afraid -I think I'm back.

Finally got my grubby mits on one of these. Really liking it so far.

For all the Giblin (and Joan ) fans out there in in case you haven't seen it.

If Yes had recorded “Owner Of A Lonely Heart” in a Sound Dimension-esque ska style I’d have been all over it like hair on a gorilla. Well, a sweaty gorilla. In Asda pyjamas. Might have to power up the 4-track and do it myself.

For reason's best known to himself's, Dads alway's had a bee in his bonnet when it come's to apostrophe's. Ooh look, bee's!

I've gone for the Dakota Red 'vintage' model, with aged chrome and a satin finish it has a 'roadworn feel' without being a relic. The Alnico 5 pups sound great. My opinion is that these top-end Squiers are at least as good as entry level Fenders. I also have a Flea and it was the best of the MIM and American jazzes I tried out.

Anyone interested in Linval Thompson will really enjoy this, I’ve followed him from my teens and he mentions some early tracks

Yeah tbh every member of staff I've spoken to either via phone or online has been very good. The person I spoke to on the phone had a scouse accent and the number was the Liverpool warehouse. In other news the cavity cover has arrived (albeit with 3 black and one silver screw) and has been installed.

@Kinkh Thats some ace work on the schematic, A really useful piece of work for anyone looking into this. @funkle, as you mentioned, the way i went about the "pick attack" feature is very similar. On the filter board (right) there are 4 output pins on the right hand side: 1. OUT (the filtered signal) 2. GND ( ground) 3. VB (biased voltage to pass to the volume board) 4. P/T (a clean passthrough signal from the pickup) These then feed into the volume board (on the right). when the volume pot is pushed in, the filtered signal is passed straight to the pot, so it acts as a normal volume control. when it is pulled out, it blends the filtered signal with a second signal, which is the P/T signal that is then Low pass filtered and boosted. the level of each of these 2 signals and the overall boost can be changed using the 3 trimpots on the board. the picture above is actually an older prototype, the newer version only has 2 red mini switches on the volume board. these can be changed to change the frequency of the peak for the pick attack mode: OFF - OFF - 1.5kHz (sharp peak) ON - OFF - 2.2kHz (sharp peak) OFF - ON - 2.1kHz (shallower peak) ON - ON - 3.5kHz (sharp peak) From your simulations in LTspice, it looks like the Wal boost in attack mode is much broader than the one in mine, but centre looks around 3.5Khz I got some great feedback from both @Andyjr1515and @benh, who have prototypes, so im still working on these. In terms of layout though, separating out the boards does provide some extra flexibility in terms of setup. using a single volume board, you can run the P/T pin (for the pick attack) from either the bridge pickup or the neck pickup, or have a switch to switch between them! The idea behind these was to make the system as customisable as possible, so the user can have a very simple setup similar to a wal (push pull for resonance on the frequency pots, and push pull pick attack on the volume), or add in additional controls if they want more tweakability like on ACG's preamps. below is a normal installation: (note the "jumpers" on the pins at the bottom corners of the board") One feature that can be useful for example is having additional settings for the resonance (such as ACG/Alembic filters). when the jumper is in place, the push pull is simply Low/High. but the jumper can easily be replaced by a 2 position switch, 3 position switch or pot for variable resonance: There are also pins / jumpers to change filter modes but that's even more complicated. sorry for the low quality JPEGS here btw, these are snips from my first draft at the instructions for these preamp boards. Id say that based on the plots you put up, it wouldnt be too difficult to simply much about with frequency values on these boards to replicate those plots very closely, although as you say im not certain whether some of the character comes from the somewhat outdated component choices. If @Kinkhdoes go ahead and build an exact copy of that schematic, ill certainly send one of mine over with matched frequencies to compare! Honestly the work of people on this forum never ceases to amaze me!! amazing work and can't wait to see the build progress!

I remember when I started I bought the cheapest bass in the shop, and, true story, I did not know there was such thing as a setup. I figured that out literaly a few years later

Tuning scheme should surely be dictated by the choice of repetoire, rather than being an idea set in stone. What does your student want to learn?

A further 20 minutes with my block plane and this is probably OK for rough shaping of the top at the moment: And so next is the initial scooping of the underside from where I will have a better idea of the final dimensions and weight. But before that, I'm going to have a ponder about some options relating to the control chamber that might influence the sequence in which I do the various steps

You're very welcome! Like @JohnDaBass I also have two B1-4s, one at the heart of my pedal board (below) and a second as a standalone fx pedal board / tuner / headphone amp / drum machine / looper for when I just want to travel light and slip a single pedal into my gig bag.

I was a violinist before taking up the bass at age 25. It didn't even occur to me to retune the bass to 5ths. It did take more than 5 minutes to adjust, but less than 5 days.

Does anyone here know how to dissasemble the tuners on an old BB1000S? The plastic/rubber O-rings are gone, i've purchased some new ones and am dying to put them on. But it seems i need a special key to disassemble to the metal part under the tuning key, is this correct? It doesn't simply twist off. Bass in question ofcourse:

Turtle Be The Day ～ The Crickets

Komodo my house. Sparks

Wired up front panel controls, OT primary and choke. Now to check connections and continuity before installing 6.3V AC leads for pilot lamp and heaters.

I love a P bass. Currently using a 1980 Greco Spacy Sound and this bitsa for a more vintage vibe.