KingBollock

[quote name='Zenitram' timestamp='1424219867' post='2694123'] Did they suit her? [/quote] I'm not going into that! I think this thread has strayed far enough as it is!

[quote name='discreet' timestamp='1424217076' post='2694094'] Mine went away for a weekend. Straight away I lost my phone and couldn't find it. She returned and immediately found it in my pants and socks drawer, which was very embarrassing as it was obvious that I hadn't bothered to have a shower or change my pants and socks all weekend. Tchoh! Women, eh? [/quote] Change them?? I don't bother with clothes when mine goes away.

[quote name='discreet' timestamp='1424216761' post='2694086'] Like hiding her iPhone in your coat pocket then accusing you of stealing it. Tchoh! Women, eh? [/quote] Oh yes! I remember that one! What a gas! Laugh? I thought my pants would never dry!

[quote name='discreet' timestamp='1424215827' post='2694068'] Stickers are perfectly OK, but spend a bit of time on preparation and application... [/quote] Indeed. They come with instructions and there's a video on their site. But, even so, I still asked my wife to put them on (after I thoroughly cleaned the fretboard) because she does lots of crafty type stuff. We had to use some artistic license because the stickers are for a 34" 4 string and I have them on a 35" 5 string. The scale length wasn't a real problem, but the width was. The sticker for the 24th fret is a long, black bar. We ended up cutting it up and using some of it to cover the dots on the 12th fret where the sticker didn't reach far enough to cover the dots.

[quote name='EssentialTension' timestamp='1424214730' post='2694044'] Grammar not grammer. [/quote] And that's before you get to his post...

I have the playing card stickers, from the site that Drax linked to, on my Cort. They're actually really good. They're easy to fit and don't cost a lot, so worth a go if you don't want to spend much. And if you don't like them you won't have lost a lot.

I can't remember what music was playing the first time, I just remember my brothers outside the room, giggling and climbing on each other's shoulders to look through the little window above my bedroom door (I put a curtain up the next day). And then my dad trying to open the door (I was using a cymbal stand from my brother's drum kit under the handle because whenever I had installed locks in the past, my dad would deliberately break them (and laugh while pretending it was an accident)), then banging on it and shouting, asking if I wanted a cup of tea (something he had never done in his life. In fact, he was the kind of person that would shout my name so that I would go downstairs to him to pass him his cup of tea because it meant leaning forward in his chair for him to reach it...). I do remember another early fumbling where we had a great laugh bonking away to The Macc Lads' Beer & Sex & Chips & Gravy. Blimey she was a fun girl. I would have married her, too, (and we did get engaged) if things hadn't gone sour with her family. I also remember, a few years later, having a good time to Cradle of Filth's Cruelty and the Beast, with a smoke machine and a strobe light.

Once forgot my strap. But what made it worse was that I didn't know the songs and I didn't have a music stand. We were a sort of mid concert interval thing for an orchestra, so there were plenty of music stands around and not being used while we played, but no one would lend me one. I ended up leaning back against a table, looking over my shoulder at the music on the table. Fortunately it was only for half a dozen songs.

The song You Suffer by Napalm Death. Sometimes we would even go so long that we could play it twice!

[quote name='chaypup' timestamp='1423785837' post='2689161'] Cardiff is GREAT! Some of the inhabitants are a bit grumpy though... [/quote] After the last time I was in Cardiff I wasn't allowed to sneeze for a month.

[quote name='Mr Bassman' timestamp='1423181852' post='2682075'] I also won a set, which was a complete surprise when postman Pat rang the doorbell. Not sure which bass to try them on first, maybe my fretless p bass? [/quote] You should make the choice based on the length and configuration of the basses. It is far easier to go from a 35" scale, four in a row, to a 35", 2+2, than it is to go the other way around. As I discovered with my flatwounds; so the most expensive strings I have ever bought are on the cheapest bass I own.

Out of my pedals, being the only ones I have personal experience with, I would suggest the Digitech Bass Driver fits what you're after. Very bassy and versatile, too. And not expensive if cost is an issue. I love mine.

If you cut the neck of that Bass flush to the body (and give it a clean), it would make quite a cool side table.

My main two basses are tuned half a step down for the four string and standard for the five string. Half the stuff I play is detuned half a step, but the other half can be standard four string, five string, drop D, C and C#, the five string covers all of those. The only times I run into trouble are when I am playing something say in C# and it's a lot of open C# with everything else played up around the seventh fret. Rammstein are a bugger for that. It is very tempting to add detuners to the E and B strings of my five string. Can you even get them for the B string that would allow me to go to C#? It would be very handy, though I suspect too expensive for me to ever actually do it.

[quote name='chriswareham' timestamp='1422959114' post='2678747'] The only 2x18" Vox cabinet that I'm aware of is the Super Foundation. I think there was also a possibly ported 1x18" in the same size cabinet, and a 2x15" with similar proportions but in a slightly smaller case. A couple of years ago I almost managed to win an eBay auction for an empty Super Foundation, and was then also outbid at the last minute on a WEM 2x18". Sorry to hear that you had to part with it. I still miss my V125 Vox cabinet that I used with a Simms-Watts AP100. It was a wide cabinet with a large port and a single 15" speaker with a blue painted frame. My love for 18" speakers came after that, as I replaced the V125 with a brand new Peavey 1820, which I had to special order from the States. Then I recently discovered there was a Peavey 3620 - two 18" and two 10" speakers in a single enormous cabinet! One failed to sell on eBay a month or so ago - not unsurprisingly as it was collection only from someone quite remote. [/quote] I shouldn't have had it in the first place... It was stolen and I new it. And being 13 was no excuse. There had been an illegal rave that was raided. A bunch of people grabbed what gear they could and legged it. I got it for £20, along with a 50 foot speaker cable.

I have used a small sanding barrel in either my Dremel or attached to a cordless grill, for doing that job. Something like this: Dirt cheap from Wilkos and general DIY stores.

[quote name='Dad3353' timestamp='1423092182' post='2680814'] Sorry, please read 'bland', 'inoffensive', 'innocent' or similar. I wonder why they chose that trademark, anyway..? "[i]Splitting blinder..? Take Bland, that'll clear it. Not for children under 10[/i]...". Hmm... [/quote] I take it you mean the company Anadin? It's probably from the word Anodyne. Which is what I assume you were trying to spell. "In medicine before the 20th century, an anodyne was a drug that was believed to relieve or soothe pain by lessening the sensitivity of the brain or nervous system (Greek ἀνώδυνος anōdynos < ἀν- an- 'without' + ὀδύνη odynē 'pain'). It was essentially an analgesic." [i]Source Wikipedia[/i] I knew the word anodyne, but was unaware of it's link to medicine. Always something new to learn on BassChat!

[quote name='ubit' timestamp='1423047073' post='2679893'] I once asked the wife what was her biggest fantasy and she said it begins with d, ends in o and it fits down here. I exclaimed where the hell am I gonna get a didgeridoo. Now I know ! [/quote] I've got a Didgeridoo, but it's got a split in it, rather than the other way around. [size=2](Actually true)[/size]

[quote name='krysh' timestamp='1423010807' post='2679664'] time 2 learn. [/quote] Indeed. In fact I am going to have a crack at something today. Not for the composition competition, just a cover of a track that only has drums, bass and a couple of guitars in it, with no guitar solo. And it's a song that I play along to regularly anyway. We'll see.

[quote name='RhysP' timestamp='1423035079' post='2679721'] I think the point that is being made is that the composition is supposedly the important thing, yet a lot of the feedback you see given to peoples songs is largely talking about how it was recorded, not about the song itself. If the important thing is the compositional aspect then this can be demonstrated by nothing more than a guitar or keyboard &amp; a vocal, it doesn't need to have loads of tracks with all manner of bells &amp; whistles on them. In that respect the monthly challenge does seem to me to me more about the recording process &amp; less about the song. [/quote] Furry muff. I do understand where you're coming from. In fact I haven't actually voted in this poll because I am aware that I am coming at it from the wrong angle and that my view is largely irrelevant. Perhaps I am hoping a decent recording might make up for my poor compositional skills? Though I would imagine it would make them all the more glaring.

[quote name='BigRedX' timestamp='1422953765' post='2678678'] KingBollock's posts exactly illustrate the point I was making earlier. It's called the [b]COMPOSITION[/b] Challenge, and yet he (and probably many others) are hung up on the recording aspect. And please don't ask us to make a video. Get the audio sorted is time consuming enough. I definitely wouldn't be entering again if some sort of visual element was required as well. [/quote] I get your point but it's a bit like there'd be no point in me trying to reply to your post if I didn't know how to type. I own a keyboard and all the equipment to write a post, but if I just mashed the keyboard with my face (which, granted, it sometimes looks as though that is exactly what I'm doing) then I won't be able to express what I am trying to say in any meaningful way. I could have brilliant ideas for songs, but unless I know how to record them, no one else is ever going to hear thaem.

[quote name='discreet' timestamp='1422928023' post='2678586'] So now you're a pair of bollocks! ...Ahem. [/quote] There are a couple of others knocking about, too. Someone took it for their Ebay account back in the early naughties, and there's a gamer kiddy who probably wasn't born when I became KingBollock in 1997. Unimaginative twats. A couple of forums I have been a member of were associated with magazines (PC gaming and music magazines) and I got mentioned in them for stuff I had said on the forums. And I once stumbled across a site that had a list of the best forum usernames ever, and I had come third. That sort of thing probably doesn't help. Actually, I recently tried to register it with Steam and found not just the gamer kiddy I already knew of, but someone had KingBollocks as well. I, rather snottily, went with KingBollockTheOriginal. In case you hadn't guessed, I'm a bit precious about it.

[quote name='Dad3353' timestamp='1422925597' post='2678577'] You're not going to feel comfy if I come knocking on your door either, then..! Seriously though, if it could be of any help, ask away any darned thing, either in the 'Recording' forum or by PM and I'm pretty sure that if a numpty such as myself can do the simple stuff I do, you can do at least as well (and very probably better..!). No, this is not false modesty. The difficult thing, as with learning to swim, is getting into the water. It's much more difficult to learn on dry land. Your call, of course, as always... ([i]On reading this back, I realise that It could be read as having to be in water to record stuff. Sorry, that's just how the phrase turned out, and is not the case. Recording can be learnt on dry land[/i]...) [/quote] I have recorded two things over the years, neither of which I actually finished. One was in around 2000 and was a techno type thing with heavy guitars. The sound quality was dire. The second was a couple of years ago and was a cover of a White Stripes track. I uploaded that to Soundcloud and posted it in a thread on here. People were nice about it, but someone asked me about panning, because I had everything straight down the middle. I hadn't even given it any thought (except for one effect during the track), I didn't really know that you were supposed to do that sort of thing. I tried looking up advice on what and how much to have on what side, and couldn't find anything. I haven't tried since. Also, I don't really know how drums work and I can't sing. https://soundcloud.com/user5139486/kingbollock-blue-orchid-5a I just found another chap on Soundcloud calling himself King Bollock! Cheeky bugger.

[quote name='Dad3353' timestamp='1422863082' post='2677558'] Can you use Skype..? [/quote] I used to have it. I don't have a webcam that works with my new computer anymore. And I'm far too shy, I didn't even like using it with people I knew face to face already.

[quote name='RhysP' timestamp='1422863057' post='2677557'] You're not allowed to do that though, it has to be a new piece of music. Ironically I have a song I wrote last year that works with this months picture.... [/quote] I figured as much.