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Khoi Khoi bar, Letchworth. The Desert Penguins playing rocked up pop and guitar driven covers from the last twenty years. First time at this venue, hoping for a good one!

Anyone seen the new Sire line? Looks the same as before but now there's a V8 (no idea) and the V10 is now a V10x with hipshot bridge and tuners.

In three colours!!!! The revolution has arrived just in time for the latest and biggest financial crisis in my lifetime. One step forward, ten back.

Not sure if you play guitar as well and that's why the question, but a guitarist I played with for a while used a Dunlop mini bass Wah on guitar and it sounded great. I've used the full sized unit and though big and heavy it's got a great range to it and is dead easy to use. I've now got an AMT Bass Wah that needs a good click press down on the toe to turn it on (unlike the Dunlop that just reads your mind) but still sounds pretty good with three different settings. I'll try my AMT bass Wah with guitar in the next few days now, I'm curious. A guitar wah robbing the lows would affect your solos IMO and make you sound like you're at the bottom of a tin lined well so you'd be best off with something that retains the bottom end and keeps the thickness and presence to your notes.

That's a bit of poor QC from the shop on the setup in my view. I've only ever played one Fender CS Bass and I have to say it was...... A bit like my 90s MIM Jazz. I wasn't blown away by it at all. I didn't even like the relic work, it just looked too fake and making the back of the neck look like it had been in a bonfire did nothing for the feel of it. Overall while I think some of their CS Basses look fantastic online I'd need to spend a lot of time with one before parting with my cash. You did right buying online so you could return with no fuss

I just don't see it myself. 😜

Bass Direct were doing a good offer on Maruszczyk flats a while back. I've got them on my Jack Casady and I'm pleased with them. I think I paid £20 or less for a four string set.

A proper precision is a joy. It just works. I do like a Jazz but there's just a simplicity and effectiveness of a P bass that makes me kick myself for selling mine two years ago. If you get a left handed one by accident don't put it in the bin, I'll find a use for it.

Understandable!

Nathan King. Not Nathan East. Still, it was a decent lesson nonetheless

Probably, yes. One of, both of, maybe some other factors too.

This, I think, is critical. There's so much good stuff out there for free but things mentioned in this thread are far better taught in person: posture, hand position on the back of the neck... I watch some slap tutorials on YouTube and you can't even tell if they're hitting the string at all, it could all be mime! I've only ever had one lesson. It was with Nathan King. I sent him recordings of my band and basically said "I want more musical knowledge to be a better player" it took quite a while for the lesson to get going as he tried to figure out what exactly I wanted and then how he could think of something to teach me (a great experience though and worth the money!). Some students might not be able to articulate their goals very well!

I'm no techy but when I've had cheaper pedals (Mooer, weirdly named stuff off eBay and Amazon) I've had unwanted pedalboard noise. When I've used Boss, Darkglass etc I haven't. I've always used a cheap power supply. I'm not drawing any conclusion to the exact reason except "cheaper components". If other people don't have these issues, great.

Paul Young's Love Will Tear Us Apart is not his finest moment. I also heard an absolutely torturous version of Chris Isaak's Wicked Game recently, it was a male singer, completely changed the rhythm and ruined an amazing song. It took me quite a while to work out what I was listening to.

Took a half stack for the last gig. Plenty of low end volume though for a big venue with a smidge of low end in the PA. Played the fretless for the first time with this band and had a touch of valve drive on for the whole time, occasionally dialing it up and down as needed. Lovely sound.

My school careers service didn't really exist. They had a basic software version that asked what my GCSEs were and anyone who did History and a language was told to be a diplomat. I am not now a diplomat. I don't think I ever will be.

Isn't it just jealousy that you have a job that sounds infinitely more fun than some carp like corporate accounts manager or not as menial as council tax supervisor or some shtit like that? My brother is a football coach for kids, and making a good living out of it. He was never more than a pub player and has a degree in history. If anyone gets sniffy about his job it's just jealousy that he can make a good living out of doing something a lot of people have a go at on a volunteering basis.

Last night's half sized rig. Experimenting with fully electronic drums and eventually convinced the band we should put a smidge of bass through the PA so only took the one cab. Still very loud though! ABM600 into an ABM Pro Neo 15". Lovely sound with a fretless and a touch of valve drive.

The Ashdown RM amps don't have as much of a "baked in sound" as the Orange amps I've tried. So if you want a clean sounding amp the Ashdown is very good, you can use pedals or its onboard tube drive to rough it up. All Orange amps I've used seem to have no clean setting at all (I've never owned one, always used on shared backline or rehearsal rooms so I am likely to be wrong through lack of patience with these).

Is anyone else using one of these? I've got one and use it as a practice amp for both guitar and bass. Thing is, I can't seem to get it to connect to my PC so I think I'm missing a lot of the functionality. I've got the android phone app so I can change the amp types by Bluetooth but then it's restricted in terms of the effects, I can switch them on and off but not rearrange them or change them... Any tips for these? Thanks

Last night our drummer did his first gig with a Roland electric kit but normal cymbals. The drum sound was so much more manageable, more space on stage, less stage volume and just an overall much better sound. The gig itself was good as always, the Horn in St Albans is a decent venue and with live bands playing late and free entry it gets a decent crowd.

That's a cracking deal on those basses. Wish I'd paid that!

Kramer Striker fretless. Quite niche I think. They were dead cheap on the old Musicyo website in the very early 2000's and you could get two dollars for a pound. I have to say it's not an especially deep neck, I've had precisions and played Warwick's with far thicker necks. It's just when you have a few basses and some you use more than others the transition can be noticeable.

Instagram just says "North Yorkshire". I darent look into this further in case it's on my way up to family visits!!

Serious Hofner GAS here too. I've never had one but I currently have an Epiphone Jack Casady so I'm very tempted to add a Hofner. I also really want to get some vocal lessons to sound a lot more like Sir Paul, sadly my days of being able to grow a Beatles haircut are well behind me.