nige1968

I don't think it's the end of the world, but ... wasn't the IT revolution supposed to free us all from sh*t work so we could spend more time on rewarding stuff. So how comes they're trying to solve the problem of interesting work, while robot garbage collections seem as far away as ever?

I don't have much call for P basses, but everyone needs one, right? So this was my lockdown panic present, of which the body, knobs and scratchplate are original. Pickup is a Seymour Duncan housed in a cheap cream housing. Loom is Kiogon, neck and tuners are Fender 70s-style and bridge is one of them chunky Fender Mexico jobs.

(You probably have to have been forced to sit through Disney princess movies by your kids to get this)

Low F♯?! Is that so pigeons can enjoy it too?

Bit O/T, soz, but someone really needs to invent one of these with an attached platform for a separate amp head. Anyway, your thing looks lovely, for what it's worth coming from a secondary school woodwork failure such as wot I is.

I've found Ashdown helpful in the past for enquiries about speakers for TE combos.

Wow, hadn't seen that before. He looks like he's on the verge of righteous tears.

Finish seems to have a faded look compared to the greyer NOS Mexican ones they did a few years back. Hate Marmite. Love Antigua. Give us a Jazz with a dark fretboard and pale blocks/binding and I'll be, as they say, all over it. This is only my opinion, of course; but then, it is the right one.

The folk rock band who tolerate my bass services were starting to get festival bookings before Covid. Usually the headline acts kept themselves to themselves, but for bizarre reasons to do with extreme weather we found ourselves doing the whole drunken 'we are not worthy' thing backstage with Stanley Jordan, poor lad. He had nowhere to hide. My friend "persuaded" him to participate in a selfie -- as Mr Jordan was changing out of his stage clobber at the time, the crop of the photo makes it look like he's naked and sitting with a clothed man. Brighton has its share of pop illuminati. We were next to Fatboy and Zoe in a queue for a kids' ride once and I used to occasionally see the late Gary Moore in places like WHSmith. But my favourite star spot was Nick Cave, standing patiently in a queue outside the fancy dress shop one Halloween.

Cream sits better with the upside-down headstock. It screams "funk" in every sense.

Have you considered splitting the signal and running clean and dirty in parallel?

Ah right, sorry my bad. Is it feasible to split the signal and send an input to each?

If your speakers can’t handle the bass anyway, what’s the rationale for adding an amp into the chain? I can’t see an extra gain stage making things any clearer.