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I am making progress in my own steady way. Today wasn't the ideal day to be outside cutting 22cm lengths of pipe for the ports. As the cutout for the speaker was a bit big and so the fixing holes were precariously close to the edge, I glued in some short lengths of reinforcement and then drilled for T-nuts. Remembering what had happened with the BC 112, I checked that all the T-nuts threaded up, then put them in place and tightened with the speaker in place so that if any finished up slightly skewiff they'd still go in. Still to do - put in wadding (on its way), glue in ports, put top on, round corners off, filling and sanding, and covering - I have a good-sized piece of leatherette left over from the BC micro cab which I'll use for that. Plus cut grille to size, put connector panel in, wire up speaker and put that in. Reinforcements and T-nuts placed ready for initial tightening: Box with bottom attached: Inside view:

This chap doesn't appear to be delusional about the quality of what he's turning out though, and the pricing is realistic.

I've seen mention of the Mazeti bass that was the unwilling donor for this on BC before, but I couldn't find a picture of the headstock to see how Mazeti originally strung it. Looks like it was available as a single cut and a double-cut, before this, the unkindest cut of all. Nice to see he hasn't abandoned his dangling bridge approach.

A lot of it is down to the self-confidence of the musicians involved. My current band are improving in that respect, but I've been in bands where they've felt the need to rehearse every week whether there's new material to be learnt or not, even when they were gigging a couple of times a month.

Anyone with an older Q2n (not the Q2n-4K) who wants an official Zoom case for it can find it at Gear4Music for the princely sum of 99p. That's a bit better than the £35 or so it'll cost you elsewhere. https://www.gear4music.com/Recording-and-Computers/Zoom-Padded-Shell-Case-for-Q2N/1W9V

I hope you manage to get back to a state where you can fail the 2024 abstinence thread.

John Entwistle Jack Bruce Trevor Bolder Dennis Dunaway Victor Wooten Charles Berthoud Pete Trewavas although the first three haven't done much for a while now.

To try and stop him screwing anyone else?

You obviously need to swap your 5-string Sei Flamboyant for a 5-string fretted Warwick Thumb, which I happen to have just here.

Thanks. We haven't had any, but I'm not the only band member with admin rights (and even I have been caught out recently, fortunately without bad consequences) so it seems like a good precaution.

I've only got DBEs on one of my headless basses. One of the Seis can take either DBE or conventional, and I've just moved to conventional so I can put nickel 40-130s on (it's fretless, so I thought I'd try nickels to reduce fretboard wear).

I did get to tell Dave Cousins that he was a big influence on my songwriting about 30 years ago. I'm not sure how much of a compliment he took it as, as he (and the other Strawbs) had just heard the duo I was in doing our support slot for them.

Normalising eliminates the perception of tonal difference caused by volume difference. Having the original recordings at the levels that the cabs produce means that any underperformance is not masked. Recording set 1 - original recordings from cabs, with amps at constant volume settings Recording set 2 - normalised versions of recordings, eliminating volume perception issues Nobody else seems to be having trouble understanding this.

That is exactly why I suggested what I did. One set of recordings at the different volume levels provided by the cabs, another set which are the same recordings but all normalised to the same volume. I did explain my thinking.

If you can't, it's very easy in Audacity. File | Import | Audio to import an audio file Select | All (or Ctrl-A) to select the entire track Effect | Volume and Compression | Normalize to normalise it File | Export Audio to export the normalised file

I suspect the latter. At least it would be well-nigh impossible to relic it.

I've ordered some non-spray Murphy's soap for use on my defretted 2000 Thumb as the body has always seemed rather dull, despite applying Warwick lemony stuff to it and rubbing vigorously.

Was the next one "When doves cry"? We've got enough songs for two sets plus maybe another 10 songs so we're not under any pressure to bring more in, we just like to learn new stuff. We generally have three or four being brought on at any one time - we'll decide what to do, run through them at the next rehearsal to make sure we're OK with them and think they'll work, and to work out endings, then run through them again at the following rehearsal to get them firmly in place.

Wonderful playing.

Bright - rather trebly. Woolly - somewhat indistinct. Dark - sinister and malevolent.

Indeed. Some people actually find singlecuts attractive.

Although I'm mainly prog, I do like a bit of glam too. Alice Cooper - Love It to Death. Hallowed be my name Second Coming Ballad of Dwight Fry

It's got a humber pickup but not a humber bridge.

Presumably that's why you advocate using nothing.

Why cloth covered wire? Also, you don't need to replace the jack socket if you go passive, just leave ring unconnected or connect it to sleeve.