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[quote name='bobbass4k' timestamp='1457476133' post='2999008'] Here's my current DIY crop, ranging aesthetically from "passable minimalism" to "accidentally painted by an alarmingly intoxicated donkey" - Gut shots are available upon request, except for those that are stuffed into their enclosures like a sausage casing full of weasels. [/quote] What do you use for a primer?

Sabaton have a song made up almost entirely of songs titles (Metal Machine), another made up of lyrics from other songs (Metal Ripper) and another made up of band names (Metal Crue). [i]I have a phobia A fear of the dark Afraid to shoot strangers The animal talks Guns scare me shitless But love gun's my friend The sentinel's coming But is this the end? Riding on this crazy train I'm going paranoid Watch me lose my mind And break the law (breaking the law, breaking the law) I'm a metal machine It's close to midnight and He's barking at the moon I'm a metal machine The rainbow in the dark is shining I'm only metal machine It's close to midnight and He's barking at the moon I'm a metal machine The kings of metal ride the sky Is this st. anger The ultimate sin Or have I really A black knight within?[/i]

A question for those that paint your own enclosures: What primer do you use? I only have acrylic polyurethane primers and I don't think they'll adhere well to aluminium. I am thinking that an automotive one would do the trick, but thought I'd best get some advice from you knowledgable lot, first.

I have considered doing this myself. The fans used are usually the same as those used in PCs. I have an old hard drive bay that has a thermostat and a couple of fans in it that I think would be ideal for this kind of thing. I would just use the thermostat, it should run on just the DC supplied to the fans in the amp. It only cost me about £7, donkey's years ago, and I have no use for it, so I don't mind cannibalising it. I would have it so that it could be switched in and out, so that it could be used just in the house but would be there to kick in if it was needed. I would imagine that you can still get them, I know you can get rather more complicated PC fan controllers. I'm sure there must be something cheap that could be used.

Unsuitable rooms always makes me think of a gig my wife and I went to see in a village pub. My wife and I had done a disco there when we owned a mobile disco. The room is about the size of our livingroom, but there is a bay that we easily fit into with our lighting rack, decks, 500w P.A. and even all the light boxes across the front, leaving plenty of room for tables and room for people to dance. The band we went to see there took up well over half the room with their gear, which included a massive P.A. So there should have been room for about 12 or 15 people to stand and watch, but they also had a huge mixing desk, and they had created a barrier using tables to cordon off the back of the room where the desk was. So in the end there was room for six people to stand in a line, as long as they didn't move. But it was so incredibly loud that being in there was literally painful. It made absolutely no sense whatsoever.

In that case I like Twincam's idea of cannibalising a new pot and putting the innards, or just the track into the old pot. But I am not sure of the ethics of such a plan.

8/10 I got #2 and #7 wrong. I knew #7 but suddenly doubted myself and buggered up.

There's Sabaton's Carolux Rex. Sabaton are pretty much a concept band, based on war, but Carolus Rex is based specifically on 100 years of Swedish war. And they recorded it in both English and Swedish.

[quote name='rmorris' timestamp='1455037373' post='2975291'] Those type of cable tie bases are good but there's still the issue of the adhesion not always being strong enough. Depends on the surface you're sticking it to but I've experienced them failing over time/temperature on steel and aluminium (vertically mounted so dropping off). But with silicon sealant applied round the edge as adhesive they have performed well. [/quote] I've had the exact opposite problem with them, I keep putting them in the wrong place and they're a right pain to get off again! And then I have to use new sticky pads to put them back on.

W.A.S.P. - The Crimson Idol.

If I don't want to drill an anchor point, I like these: [Img]http://images2.cableorganizer.com/adhesive-clips-bases/images/01-adhesive-base_red-cable-tie.jpg" class="ipsImage" /> However, I don't know if you can get them with a big enough slot for Velcro. Edit: You can get them large enough to take a variety of Velcro widths. The generic term for them seems to be Grip Tie Mounts. I could do with some myself.

Digitech Bass Driver. They're not expensive and they're really versatile. I love mine.

You can get cordless screwdrivers for free with cordless drill drivers. If you already have one you could get a Planet Waves bit to fit it: http://www.amazon.co.uk/Planet-Waves-Drill-Bit-Winder/dp/B008BPI2OW/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1454157443&sr=8-1&keywords=Cordless+string+winder Or, if you don't already have one: http://www.amazon.co.uk/SPARES2GO-Cordless-Rechargeable-Electric-Screwdriver/dp/B01AAMRJVU/ref=sr_1_2?s=diy&ie=UTF8&qid=1454158263&sr=1-2&keywords=Cordless+drill+driver Or: http://www.argos.co.uk/static/Product/partNumber/7114683.htm Together that comes to £14.95, so you're not saving much, but you do get the driver bits, too. And if you keep your eyes out, you can find the screwdriver even cheaper, I have seen them for as little as £3. There is the option to go for a drill-driver, but they're larger and more powerful, so you'd need to get one that you can set the torque on. One of my drill-drivers cost me £7.50, but I can't remember where from.

Sort of reminds me of this one: http://www.pouringrain.co.nz/music_2string.htm

My main four string is tuned to C standard. I put the bottom four strings from a five string set on it and tune it up. I worried about damaging something when I first did it, but it hasn't been a problem, and for some stuff I even tune it up to C# standard. I have read that the ideal bottom string for this is .118 but I am using a .130 and it works great. It is nice that the layout is kept the same, as opposed to drop tuning.

People should feel free to do whatever pleases them with their instruments. If you have a bass worth £300 or £3000, whether you choose to smash it to kindling or mount it on a wall behind bulletproof glass, is totally up to you. As I said earlier, people spend a lot more on purely ornamental stuff all the time (and if you think they don't, have a look at some of your neighbours gardens). It's about what you [i]want[/i] to do with it. If you want to play it but end up locking it up in a bank vault, that's a real shame. If you bought it to play it, then play it! Otherwise, in a couple of years, there'll be an ad in the BassChat marketplace with your name at the top. for a beautiful bass being sold because it just isn't being played, and that's a shame because it should be played and you feel guilty for not doing so and it is now time to pass it on to someone who will... Really, how often do you see those ads? Do you [i]own[/i] the bass for playing, or are you just looking after it for someone else? [And isn't it typical? I finally post something that people like enough to quote positively and there's a damned typo in it!]

[quote name='TheGreek' timestamp='1453130255' post='2956636'] Sorry but I'm absolutely anal about trying to preserve my gear and want it all to be as mint as possible. I appreciate that they are for playing which is why I have more than one - this means that most are stored safely leaving only a couple out and at risk. [/quote] There's nothing wrong with doing your absolute best to look after your gear. In fact I would encourage it, it's a great idea. Just so long as you play it. Mind you, even then, lots of people spend an awful lot of money on things just because they look nice, that have no practical purpose, it is entirely up to the owner whether they want to hang a bass up on a wall and never play it, or whatever. But it is a shame to do that if what you really want to do is play it, to restrict one's self through fear that may well be unfounded if you look after it properly.

If you scratch a bass it remains a musical instrument. If you refuse to play it, it becomes an expensive ornament.

[quote name='rmorris' timestamp='1453109606' post='2956321'] I use it at work for overall shielding of cable assemblies. But for your use would it be easier to use flat braid ? [/quote] Why would it be easier? Do you mean to wrap the flat braid around the wire, or just use it to link the cavities? I could just run a wire for linking if that was all I wanted to do. I know shielding the hole probably makes absolutely no difference, but I like the completeness of it. I feed the wire through the braid, then feed that through the hole. Splay the ends of the braid and tape them down (I use aluminium tape for shielding cavities). I only really started using it for that because I had it knocking around. I bought it with wire in it labelled as "Gibson" style wire, when I was rewiring a Les Paul style guitar that has chrome hardware, so it all matches...

I don't often listen to whole albums, I tend to make up playlists that I set to shuffle randomly. For instance. I have quite a few Grateful Dead songs but no albums. Their stuff lives in my Hippy playlist, along with Jefferson Airplane, Sweetwater, Bob Dylan, Canned Heat and a shed load of other stuff from the 60s and 70s. There are between 300 and 400 songs in that playlist. There might only be a handful of songs by a band in the playlist, or there might be a couple of dozen. I have a slightly smaller playlist that covers the same time period, but is made up of pop songs, labelled Oldies. And another one that is bigger than the Hippy one, for Country music, that goes from the 50s up to now. By far my biggest playlist is for rock and metal, which starts in the early 70s. I also have playlists for Folk (mostly Irish, though), Punk, Goth, Hip Hop/Rap, Classical, modern Pop and others. I just play whatever I am in the mood for. I do own several hundred albums, and I do still listen to them. The problem is that I am very indecisive and often struggle to make up my mind which album I want to listen to. So even if I decide I want to listen to one particular band, I will usually end up putting all their albums on shuffle. I was born in 1975 and I listen to lots of stuff from before I was born. Being told what I can and can't like is bullshit and I find it incredibly offensive. I live a very isolated life, so I am genuinely pretty much untouched by fashion, especially in music. I also have real problems remembering names, whether it be people or things. So knowing all the details about the music I listen to is difficult, half the time I can't even remember what songs are on what albums of my very favourite bands, so all I have to go on is what I am listening to, so it is, for me, by default, [i]all[/i] about the music.

I mostly use it for lining the hole between and linking shielded pick-up and control cavities (my basses and guitars don't have scratchplates).

You could always use the four core and solder two of the wires together, so it's not totally wasted? Can't say as I see why it would really be a problem to just cut it off, though. If you wanted to make up your own cable, you could feed it through some braided shielding. Like this stuff: http://www.bitsbox.co.uk/index.php?main_page=index&cPath=200_207 I have done exactly that with that stuff in guitars myself.

Would this be any good? http://www.maplin.co.uk/p/audiovisual-single-individually-screened-four-core-grey-priced-per-metre-xr23a Or this: http://www.maplin.co.uk/p/audiovisual-single-sheathed-four-core-grey-priced-per-metre-xr92a

I used to volunteer at a band venue that didn't serve alcohol, and many of the bands that played there would tell us how it was their favourite place to play. There was never any trouble or drama. Just lots of fun and lots of enthusiasm for the bands playing.

This wasn't a band gig, it was a New Year's Eve disco. Bill, the owner, had set the pyros up. Three of them across the front of the stage (two streamers and a flash-bang), which was a bloody stupid idea. He also set the switch up under a table at the back of the stage behind all the gear, because he was an idiot and a dick. Guess where I was when midnight hit... Anyway, before I crawled off under the table to celebrate the coming of the new year, I was keeping an eye on people getting too close to the pyros. And there was one bloke desperately try to impress a woman by dancing right in front of the disco with the lights (and the pyro) behind him. I kept asking him to move and explaining why he shouldn't stand there, to start with he would move but come straight back, but then he just started ignoring me. So, the countdown begins and I scuttle off. I can't see anything, but midnight comes and I press the button. Que ohhhs and ahhhs and then the screaming... I had set fire to the arsehole's jumper! Oh how I laughed!