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Oh yeah, I forgot that I sometimes do lazy boi practice with my Epiphone Jack Casady unplugged. Easily heard over tinny laptop speakers for all the non-bass sounds.

Yes indeed, it is the perfect match for the combo, very happy with it and my rig.

Well, as reported in the "how was your gig last night?" thread, I took the Soloking out for its maiden gig last night. It did great. I have no complaints, it sounded good, held its tuning fine, felt nice to play and despite being on the heavier side, being well balanced it wasn't an issue. These basses are fantastic at twice the new price IMO. If you're put off by the lack of provenance or the stupid name then do yourself a favour, get over it and get one!

Pedalboard, can either take headphones straight out of the Monomyth, or I can additionally use a Yamaha Sessioncake if need aux in. Sometimes, I use a USB audio interface into the laptop if I'm learning stuff off computer. Bass straight in, headphone monitor out.

First gig with a new singer last night for Nine Lives, at the Balaclava in Fraserburgh. It was a good gig! Our new singer has put a lot of work in to get the songs together and she did great, if she was nervous she didn't show it. I'm really chuffed with how it all went - change is always difficult for all concerned but we all handled it like champs. Pub was lively, maybe 40-50 folk in there at the peak with plenty dancing and 1 face plant that someone is definitely going to feel today! Kit used - the Soloking's first live outing (which also did me proud) and the Yamaha BB1200, all into a Markbass Mini CMD 121P IV plus New York 121 cab.

I doubt you're going to be happy with anything other than an actual '64 T-bird. They'll get everything physically perfect and it'll be "nope, it doesn't smell like someone smoked several thousand Senior Service next to it, and my wallet is telling me that I haven't spent a five figure on a bass - something still doesn't feel right..."

Lucky you. Tonight I'm an hour in each direction. In two weeks time, it's two hours in each direction (on one of the most pitiful so-called "trunk" roads in existence, the A96 so 2 hours is assuming no lorries, tractors etc.). Two weeks after, admittedly it's like a 5 min drive for me, but that is only one of the venues we play. Furthest I've had to go is probably Dingwall, that's over 3 hours each way (using the same crappy A96 mentioned before). We may both be country bumpkins, but you don't have stupid effin mountains in your way...

Had one, sold it. It did not elicit this emotional attachment in me that it seems to in others. It was a 1975 Gibson Ripper which I restored (apart from the refinishing) from a shell. Nice bass - was one of the ones they did with an alder body rather than maple so didn't weigh as much as a house. But I went through some tough times and suddenly it stopped being a bass and had to become an amount of money. C'est la vie. It's just stuff.

Tainted Love? We do an unholy alliance of three versions - the pace of the Gloria Jones, the structure and "rockness" of the Scorpions, and the "*emphasised double hit* run away"ness of the Soft Cell. As long as the people at the gig like it, I don't really care what anyone else thinks about it.

Backlash relates to looseness in the teeth of meshing gears (in this case the interaction between the worm attached to the button and the worm gear at 90 degrees on the baseplate of the tuner which is attached to the capstan) - most noticeable when you change direction, there's this moment where the turning does nothing, is usually easier than normal and it's quite disconcerting until the teeth mesh properly in the opposite direction then work as expected. Change direction again and the same thing happens in reverse.

I know what it means in that context, but I enjoy a good fnar as much as the next punter

There's an echo in here...

Mystery resolved - yes, they're real, but they're a zzounds exclusive in the US and they don't ship internationally, so tough! https://www.zzounds.com/item--EPIEITB6PRSNH3 https://www.zzounds.com/item--EPIEITB6BBSNH3

I have nothing to add to this conversation, except Holy zombie thread resurrection, Batman!

So sorry to hear this. Condolences to you and your family. Can't begin to imagine what you're all going through. Thanks for posting this, must have been hard to write.

It's a no here - EBMM prices long since disappeared over a horizon I'm not willing (or frankly able) to follow. Had a quick play with the configurator though, that was fun.

Are you being serious? It was clearly a parody of the very rude user from earlier today telling me to wind my neck in. I took zero offence to it.

That's your opinion, and you're entitled to it

That looks lovely - your photos look way better than the ones I've seen online. How can they sell instruments if they're set up like that? Oh well, money off for you! Yes, please document what you do with this in a thread, I'd be interested for one.

Thank goodness Dad doesn't check spelling also...

I walk away all the time, but it was made personal and that I will not tolerate without reply.

I will have the last word, thanks. How f'n dare you cast aspersions about me. Please find and quote me where I have ever "diss(ed) all those classic tunes". "People like me"? That would require some knowledge of the kind of person I am, of which you have none. You know the square root of hee haw about me, my music or how it is/was made, but thanks for telling me how crap it is and to pack it in because there's no point. In fact, everyone go home - all valid music has been already created, you're wasting your time, because @diskwave, the arbiter of taste has decreed it thus. Have you any idea how stupid you sound? Read it back - you're being a complete moron, running around in this thread like a bull in a china shop, accusing people of all sorts, argumentatively disagreeing with anyone who has a different opinion to you. You're forum poison right now. Why can't you just accept that people having a different opinion to you is not an attempt to invalidate your opinion, which you are more than entitled to have BTW. You like the old days. Good for you, I like 'em too. There are people who disagree with you, and guess what - they're not wrong either.

It might do. WTF has gotten into you? Go take your rose tinted specs off and have a wee snooze, maybe you'll feel better later.

Even the police get days off.

Better discussing this than yet another effing tonewood bitchfest, which is what I feared when I saw the thread title.