Woodinblack

No he has full lessons on there, including with download sheets, especially the further back you go when it was only on there. Its only the recent ones that are a bit more '10 tips for playing with your thumb' type stuff.

No, promote him, it looks great for a change.

Really does look like a dan smith one - wouldn't mind one of those. Bet they are stupidly expensive.

Agreed. I even like the colours of those standards

Hah - should have read this before posting a topic I just did!

Having just bought some wood for something new, or more like, bought some wood because I found it (giant redwood), where do people get their wood from? There are a lot of online places and eBay. We have a local woodmerchant but their stuff is quite expensive. Handy in that you can pick stuff, but probably too expensive for me until I get better! So who is good?

Hey look, they did another custom that I would buy if I had that sort of money: I do like the 4 string colours they have put out, if only they would stretch to having a full set of strings. That one, I assume will be even more expensive than the custom as it has darkglass distortion built in and some custom graphics

Good enough for the job really when it comes to mic reverb etc

In that case thomman must be wrong with their dimensions as they clearly list that thing you have shown the picture of, the 4usbFX as 187 x 217 x 70 mm https://www.thomann.de/gb/alesis_multimix_4usb_fx.htm So if thommans figures are to believe, it is not the same height and the behringer is only 30% bigger. In which case I wouldn't get it from thoman as their version of it is huge! And I wouldn't get it from Alesis as I wouldn't trust anyone measuring it in inches but 30% or 70% different size aside, if you are going to need 3 instrument inputs at any time, don't skimp out on a 2 input mixer with a bunch of hacks to get the rest of signal in unless you really have a surfeit of time and patience or a shortage of money or you like taking more time on the setting up part of gigging.

Double the size? The Alesis is 70 x 187 x 217 mm The Behringer is 47/37 x 220 x 242 mm So just over half the depth, 0.3cm longer and 2.5cm wider? You are using what my wife calls 'man measurements' By the time you have remembered your correct lead and your DI and everything else, seems a lot easier and probably a lot smaller. I do actually have a 1202 (non fx), which lives in a dusty corner of my music room and all my keyboards and computers connect to it, which leads to the monitors. Been there so long I would probably have to dig it out, but it still works!

Would be a lot easier (and probably cheaper) to get the same kind of thing but with a 3rd or 4th microphone socket, such as the behringer 1202, then you dont need odd leads or extra DI boxes, and it is all a lot simpler.

Autodesk sketchbook?

So there was an open box deal at Best Bass Gear, for a Nordstrand PBass 5 pickup. I have never really been keen on the P Bass pickup on my Maruszczyk which is a Haussel, picked because apparently it is what fitted with my 16.5mm spacing. Anyway, the Nordy pickup looked the right size and was $70, compared to £140 here, so I thought I would go for it. It turned up today, as did some La Bella tapewound strings from Thomann - I played some tapewound basses at the bass bash and they were suprisingly good, (although maybe it was just one of Jabbas basses that did that!). So I have just put the pickup on (yes, all good bass work starts at 23:00), and it was a quick job. Also cleaned the neck, and as I had to take the strings off anyway, it got the tapewounds, initially bought for the fretless. But I am impressed so far. The pickup is a great improvement, a lot more articulate, a bit dirtier. Before: After

When I first picked the jazz one up, I looked at the controls and for some reason I was thinking that there were two pickups, so was wondering if there was a blend, then realised there wasn't. Normally I am not a fan of 1 pickup basses, but I quite liked it in those designs as it didn't look that fussy. Placement might be a bit hard with that much space!

I actually couldn't tell the difference in gauges, but the brown one just seemed a more solid sound, not sure if it was the heavier gauge or the pickup. Both were good, the brown was just the best (although the other one i think looked a bit better!)

Looks like a photoshop to show you can have rosewood or maple. Although you can get ebony that looks like that. Or many other woods. https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Highly-figured-African-ebony-bass-guitar-fingerboard-QUARTERSAWN-GRADE-A/273380501804?hash=item3fa6bf692c:m:m8pz5DLK5LhTjI5ORLzZWNw

I suspect as you have gone from a 4 ohm to an 8 ohm it probably won't go as loud but should sound better when it gets there, unless the previous speaker was literally broken.

He really can, those basses were at least the equal of any other small volume bespoke luthier bass. If he had put a price tag on those basses at the show he wouldn't have been leaving with anything. That semi acoustic one with the tapewounds played fantastically. I don't play a 4 string and it isn't the sort of shape I would go for, but it was so easy to play, I would have ignored all that. I understand pricing for the mini basses would be tricky, they are smaller but just as much effort to make, but I think you would have to had put a really high price tag on them to get to the point where people weren't ripping your hand off to take them. I would. That seems reasonable.

Having had the joy of playing this rather too much, they sound remarkably like other basses! I know that sounds stupid but I was expecting them to sound somehow 'small', but they didn't. This one sounds a bit thinner and quieter than the brown one, more like a jazz, but that could be down to the strings, i believe this one had lighter strings (unless I am missremembering, which is quite likely). I was also surprised at just how high up you could play these things, ok, not all the way to the top fret, it gets a bit crowded around there and there is a lot of wood once you get to where the neck joins. But the access is really good. But the really good thing is once you start playing it, you don't really want to stop.

that group image of us is great, And frank has his trousers on in that one, which is nice! I forgot to mention that the sale basses were great. The Gillet acoustics were great, loved those, and especially liked the little skinny string one. Not sure I have scope for one of those, but I was impressed. Also the walnut Chowny are very impressive. I didn't quite get out of there without buying anything, but I figured I got away lightly, if Jabba had been selling that brown mini bass or the hollow one with the tapewounds it would have been different!

I got a 'so you didn't buy anything at the bass bash then?', which lead to.. "well..."

So how was the acoustic gig, was it ok?

Yep mine has just gone, not sure where it went to!

Just got back and unloaded. Another brilliant south west food bash for bass players I so want a bass like this:

I have a thing for the bass IV. I have had two squier bass IVs, and a SRC06 crossover and don't have any now. But every so often I get the urge for another bass VI. I think the problem is that I am not in the right type of group for one. It would help if the Squier was 'better', ie, fix the bridge, better nut, better other features, which yes is perfectly possible, to do but a lot of work. The SRC06 is just a tuned down guitar and much more metal than anything else.