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10 or so years ago MarkBass used to give the xmax, but don’t anymore.

Yes, the church I used to try to be part of thought that getting the songs out on the Thursday before, was getting them out early. I don’t miss this nonsense at all. 13 years of my life wasted.

That sounds like me. 🤣🤣🤣

It is indeed. Well remembered. 😎 Could do with a rub down & waxed again. Hopefully after we move house I’ll have plenty time. Wow, just found the thread. That was 12 years ago!!!!

Bought an Aguilar OBP2 & PJ set from @cetera & fitted them last night/this morning. A good upgrade from the IBZ C4 pickups (as good as they are too). The amount of low end it is now able to produce is phenomenal! Should be able to go well with my synth bass stuff.

Just bought Gary’s Aggie OBP2 & PJ pickups on Monday evening. They arrived today securely delivered in a foam layered box in a Jiffy bag. Great communication & I would happily do business with this fine chap again. Buy/sell with confidence. 👍🏼

I much prefer this version…

What about MS Teams? We use it a lot at work, but I’ve never used it out of work.

This is sadly very relatable. Since quitting the band & not having set foot in church since, there’s only been 2 communications to me, both WhatsApp messages before Xmas from 2 WLs pretty much trying to find out if I can play. I didn’t respond. No one’s bothered to find out how me or the Mrs is. They only want us when we can be of benefit. They talk a good game on stage, but off stage they seem to forget it all, become wee cliches & lack the basics like compassion, care, community, inclusion & so on.

Really enjoying Greta Van Fleet. All my fave 70s & 80s rock bands melted together!

Yes, I did try to keep in touch, but many of the messages I sent to the team chat went unanswered. I’ve not left on bad terms. I told them I needed to step back to get the house renovated (which itself is true), but I’ve also had enough of the nonsense. The Mrs has been largely ignored & they only ever contact her when they want something done, never to ask how she’s keeping. Anyhoo, I’m not gonna derail the thread & don’t want to get it locked, so keep up the Lord’s work & be blessed.

That's my days of playing in a CCW team done. I told the WL that I was stepping back a couple of months ago, but remained in the Team chat. I've not been to church since, & during that time no one from the church has been in touch to see how I'm doing (One person got in touch to ask how the renovations are going, but that's only because we're both bassists & regularly talk. We didn't talk about church at all). So last week, I decided to leave the worship team's WhatsApp group. 4 days later the pastor's eldest daughter (who was the WL until about 4 months ago) got in touch and just said "Hi, hope you're okay. Saw you came out of the team chat. You're missed this season & hope it's just temporary". It leaves me feeling only valued for my bass playing & not actually valued as a person. So on that, I think I'm done with organised religion. I do still believe in God, just not this cliquey false compassionate organisation that claim to represent God.

Got mine finished & it's went a very different direction from what I thought it would. Starts off with a heavily processed hi hat to make the swooshing portal loop sound. Guitar part is me on bass playing up the dusty end. The rest is a mix of NI Komplete & Roli Equator2. Just got some unexpected time, so I've added the horn solo that I wanted. Played it on the Roli Rise.

You can always upgrade the pickups then the electronics at a later date.

Ooh, that's a nice surprise. Thanks guys. A 3 way tie is sweet. I'll get back with a photo very shortly!

It's got a college that has a music department. The music scene from 4 years + ago was meh. There's the Twa Tams, which is probably the only actual music venue. The Green Room is advertised as a music venue, but it's been pretty dead whenever I went. Dundee on the other hand, seems to have a great music scene.

Falkirk seems to be pretty decent. A big contrast to Perth, where just about everybody that says they're a musician is a lekky guitar player. I think there's about 2-3 okay singers there & I never met any of them.

I enjoyed that. It's a fun song to play & you did a splendid job, very nice playing. My only criticism, & it's more of a personal preference, is the 2 note slide chord did nothing for me & I found it distracting. But apart from that, it grooved nicely. I especially liked your take on the 2nd part (The "I don't ask for much" section), with some cool grooves in there. Keep up the good work. "Skate" is a great fun track to play too. 😎

I’d love to, but alas I don’t have a Fodera. So both the album & the donation shall remain in your dreams for now.

I'd never associated Dingwall basses exclusively with any type of metal, let alone clangy. I was tempted to get one back in 2006 when I was in a funk rock band.

I've got a Sub Stingray 5 & used a Behringer BDi21 as a drive pedal. Sounded fine. My Ibby used to be active & using various dirt pedals on it was never an issue. Have you tried putting your fx through the fx loop on your amp? It can yield very different results.

Did Father Jack make that one?

I've got an entry this month. Bass is my Ibby through the Plugin Alliance Ampeg B-50N. Drums & vocals by Logic (just had fun chopping things up). Lyrics are: Baby baby, Baby baby (x several), Alright.

3 music related companies come to mind that have been above & beyond in their after service. Hercules. I had a stand that was a couple of years old & the plastic bits went sticky, so I emailed to ask if they knew how to remove the sticky residue. They asked for my details & sent me a new stand. Roli. My Rise25 which was about 3 years old, developed a charging fault & wouldn’t charge over USB. I asked them if they knew how I could fix it or what it would cost. They sent me a returns label (paid for shipping) & fixed it free of charge. Cambridge Audio. I got a pair of Melomania 1+ earbuds last Xmas. A couple of months ago they wouldn’t turn on & had no lights on them. I emailed them & they tried some diagnostic things over email, but still wouldn’t work. They sent me a returns email & it was collected that morning & the new pair arrived the following morning. I’d happily buy from these companies again.

Very good. 🤣