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Rehearsal last night with the latest band that I've been recruited to. We're doing a one hour set at a beer festival tonight and we have a fairly sketchy grasp of the songs, so that should be fun. It's a very odd set list, which sadly includes All Right Now but there's a lot of unusual and unknown (at least by me) songs that should ensure that no follow-on bookings ever happen.

I'm another potential, no inconvenient gigs at the moment.

And? ?

You'd better not look in "Basses for sale" then.

Another option would be to plead guilty and ask for 9000 other offences to be taken into consideration, as then he couldn't subsequently be tried for those. It's always possible that the police are keeping everything else up their sleeves to see what becomes of this case. Or alternatively they've lost all the paperwork for all the fraud cases that have been reported to them.

"ect" instead of "etc". Whatever happened to basic literacy. Oh yes, and confusing "ie" and "eg" - I assumed that somebody knew what they meant in a spec once and that led to some wasted time.

Different online dictionaries have differing opinions on that - dictionary.com and thefreedictionary.com say it also means absorb, as does Merriam-Webster <spit>, the Cambridge dictionary and Collins both just give putting liquid in your mouth and swallowing it as the meaning. So fretboards can drink oil in the USA but not in the UK (or EU).

Basses or kids?

It does seem about due (I do hate trying to read the stupid American date format). Ten months since the last one, ten months between the previous one and the last one, and earlier ones were more frequent than that.

Seeing as the routing is quite neat, what about your previous idea of a clear scratchplate like on your Ray35 so the grain isn't covered up by a massive expanse of black plastic?

Back to the Cavern in Tamworth - Pitchers has now gone by the wayside. As I've just bought another bass, I've decided to thin the herd, and one of the candidates for thinning is the Esh Poseidon V which I never take out because it's valuable. However, I regularly take out the valuable Seis, and the valuable new bass will also get taken out, so I dragged it out and put in a new battery. Aside from the fact it's got tapewounds on it (they're black so they look cool but I really don't like the feel), it's lovely, so it gets to stay. The girls still don't have a bassist, so I stood in, but one potential player came along last night to watch rather than to play so they may be sorted out now.

Dammit, he makes headlesses too! Retro me Satane!

What!

Looks as if you've got enough slack in the leads to the jack socket to be able to pull it out through the body without unsoldering them, which makes life a lot easier when you replace the socket (barrel jacks are a consumable item) as you can solder in the new socket without having to furtle around in the cavity.

I did read it but after I'd replied with the information, which was taken direct from the Omni build plans and therefore could be considered authoritative.

@Bill Fitzmaurice's original plans specify only a 4Ω 20W resistor in series between the input and the piezos.

Who judges whether they are well made and high quality?

You're only just into double figures.

FTFY.

The headstock. Or, in the case of proper boutique basses, the unheadstock.

If you use VLC for playback, you can raise or lower the pitch (Tools | Effects | Audio effects | Advanced). Or, if you're using Youtube, you could try this: https://transpose.video/. Note: I have no experience of the latter. We play Sweet Child a semitone down, I use a pitch shifter (Zoom MS-60B+) as I play it with other bands and at open mics in D.

The covers band I've been in the longest (Dirty Roses, classic rock) - some influence in song choice (we all make suggestions, some get taken up, some don't), basslines are up to me and my conscience. The covers band that I've transitioned from dep to permanent member in (The Bonnevilles, R&B) - I have yet to find out if I have any influence in song choice, fairly free on basslines but the guitarist has put me right on a couple of them. Originals band (RJG band) - the band is there as a means to turn the BL's already recorded material into a live set. Currently in a bit of a hiatus as we're not sure what's happening with the drummer. I've got total freedom with the basslines and it appears I haven't yet done anything stupid. Covers band I've just been recruited to (Magenta Protocol, genre spanning) - apparently everyone can make a small number of suggestions which are adopted unless they're vetoed. Basslines, again, are up to me and my conscience. I've done the website for Dirty Roses and for other past bands. Our drummer seems to be the best at getting us gigs.