Skinnyman

2001? I think i followed you through Hamburg just a few weeks later. They were still assessing the damage ("Even ze Lancasters went home after a few hours - zis, zis vos dayz unt dayz mitout any end") I was on antibiotics for months. Never go back - they have long memories....

Take a blurred picture, stick it on Gumboil, get something horrible cooking in the kitchen and see if the same stunt can work twice....

Probably find a body ....

I've now ordered a new set so in keeping Project_c's fine example, if anyone wants to try a set of tapewounds then ping me a PM. They're cut for a Precision bass.

Try the guys on Freeman street in Grimsby. There's Gallagher's music store but also a DJ sound/light shop just up the road who may be interested....

I assume he's engaged an agency to do the search? They'll be the w@nkword specialists who'll have assembled the advert....

I use these and much prefer them to Schaller and the Dunlop ones.

sorry, Scott. sorry, Ricky

Jo gave me a series of lessons when I lived near him a few years ago. A thoroughly nice chap, easy to get on with and, most importantly, a superb teacher. I’d already been playing for a few years and in a couple of bands but Jo took my playing to the next level and, in doing so, gave me so much more confidence. I cant recommend him highly enough!

Interesting that there's no mention of gloves. This seems like a handy opportunity for Scott to find someone who can take all those unused right hand gloves off his, er, hands.

N. It's Noodles, Pot. The Pot describes the type of noodle. Unless, of course, you're classifying them as a Snack Meal, in which case it's M for Meal, Snack. A KPI is a metric that is established at the beginning of the year (and invariably actually given to you at the start of Q3) against which your performance is measured and your bonus (not) paid. CEOs generally have KPIs that maximise their bonus potential but have nothing to do with the actual performance of the Company. In this way, large corporations can haemorrhage cash and customers like nobody's business but the CEO somehow, magically manages to achieve all his (or her) KPIs.

Just a quick update to say that the fabulous Mr project_c was kind enough to send me the above mentioned tapewounds and I've put them onto my 1982 last-of-the-Fullertons Precision. They sound incredible - I really like flats but these just sound.... thunderous. They're rich, smooth and rounded - a proper old school thump. And i love the feel compared to regular flats - next thing will be to try them at rehearsal and see how they feel after a couple of hours playing in a hot rehearsal room. Thank you, project_c, for letting me try these out. I really hope you didn't want them back 😀

Hiya Wonky!

Greetings. Welcome to Basschat

Welcome! And please feel free to peruse the many fine items I have listed in the marketplace (Rodders, get the suitcase out the van!).......

WHAT!!!????

Are they 7.62mm frets? And sound advice for the newbie interrogator in his first days on the job....

I've used Snark ones of various sorts (very good and accurate but they go through batteries a bit quick and they can be a bit.....plasticky. Two of mine are held together by sticking plaster, like Jack Duckworth's glasses). I then got the TC polytune (which I've only ever used in single-string mode). Brilliant. Unobtrusive, battery lasts for ages, nice and clear display. If mine breaks I'm getting another. It also seems less sensitive to positioning than the snarks.

I've never done it professionally, but I've done the sounds for a good few amateur productions and band gigs over the years. You ask people to play at "normal" and then "peak" volume so you can get their input gain set properly. You then carefully balance all the instruments against each other so that everything is audible, boosting and lowering specific frequencies as needed to stop feedback and allow each instrument to be heard. Once all that's been done I can guarantee that the guitarist will sidle over to his amp and turn the flipping thing up. Or you discover that between the soundcheck and the performance he's found another inch of travel on his volume pedal. It doesn't help that drummers only work properly with adrenalin buzzing through their system so their volume and speed goes up accordingly when the gig starts. That's the point that volume wars break out. I think I've just persuaded myself that soundchecks are basically pointless. The levels we all agree then are not the levels at which the band will actually play.

Why bother when you got there first, Young Teebs? Cheeky little barskit..... 😉😉

I love a CAR guitar. Which makes it seriously uncool, of course You should get rid. I'll take it off your hands if you like. No, no, don't thank me...

There's been a load of comment on how gear vreviews shouldn't be done (some of it mine) so you've now got me wondering whether Basschat shouldn't start it's own YouTube channel? If we can organise a podcast, I'm sure we could get people in to do reviews that follow a consistent format. Clearly, some of us are less photogenic than others so perhaps the actual presentation might be done by a small subset of the community but this could allow us to share our collective wisdom for the greater good. Just a thought.....

Wow. Fantastic review, well done. Good luck with the album - i hope this is just the first of many similar reviews 😎

Small world! I'll drop you a PM....