Woodinblack

I got asked by someone I am sure I hadn't met, but knew a bloke who I used to play with to 'help out' with their group that are trying to get together to make a gigging band. It was all different songs to those I normally play in pubs and I have a bit of time free so I thought why not. They sent me 10 songs, that they have got to on their setlist and I dutifully learned the gist of most of them * So I went to play at one of their practices last night, seem ok, a bit of a culture shock in the (lack of) volume and (lack of) speed department for me. However, when we did those songs, mostly ok, there were some other songs they were trying, and the BL kept saying things like 'I know we didn't say about this one, but don't worry, you won't have problems, its a standard'. Some of those songs I had never heard before. So in these terms, does standard mean what I thought it means, its a song so common that everyone knows it (apart from apparently me), or does it mean its so simple you don't have to think about it, its just a i-iv-v thing (which they weren't but they were generally standard). To me there are standards, depending on where you are: mustang sally, mr brightside, sex on fire if you play in pubs, Burn, paranoid, rock'n'roll if you do classic rock, etc. Is it just that at 53 I am just not old enough to know the right 'standards'? * As a side note - Son of a Preacher man by Dusty Springfield - was the bass player charging by the note or what? I was quite surprised on that one.

Maybe put it to one side while you think about it?

Can't they all just bunch up a bit, like my 15mm spacing fireman?

eBay as well! I was watching some for ages, and then he halved the prices on them. There were a couple of pieces that were quite large, with slightly less figuring, so I thought I would get some of that.

It was a tenner for 550 x 400 x 5mm Just going to use it as a facing for something, not sure what yet!

Cool - always handy to know. I haven't built anything for a while but just ordered some Golden Phoebe from china yesterday, so need to make something with it!

Ooh - wenge.. I can't generally help with recomendations if any of the options are Wenge. But the answer is obviously B - the Wenge. Where are they from?

I agree, but if you were to set out to generate publicity there are probably easier ways, and for it to work you probably need a halfway decent band to cash in on it

But that was you don't get to say 'yeh, of course I did a european tour'!

This is the way to do a tour if you have: A) A lot of money B) A huge amount of optimism So you pretend to be a band, pretend to have fans, and go on tour. Buy a lot of facebook likes for your page, some fake videos and a lot of youtube views and set up a fake management company, and you can play to empty venues across Europe. http://www.metalsucks.net/2018/11/09/l-a-band-threatin-faked-a-fanbase-to-land-a-european-tour-no-one-attended/

The sound wasn't great, but orders of magnitude better than the support. I could see the guy had a bass, I assume some of the rumble must have been notes, but not entirely sure.

He gave you some money to take it away?

Yes. from my email discussion with them. Something that seemed to surprise them as much as me. However, I have worked in a little electronics company in the UK so I know how that stuff happens when you pay salesmen commission It looks the same except the knobs are white on the production ones. And they have a serial number which has more than one digit. I assume it sounds the same, I haven't heard it alongside anything else.

I did wonder if they were that bad. in fact I couldn't swear there were more than 4 different thunderbirds

I saw Placebo a few years ago, the bass player changed bass at pretty well every song. It was an odd thing, seeing as almost all the basses were different thunderbirds that obviously sounded completely identical. And it was very noticable because it was almost every song. I assumed he just wanted to show off his thunderbird collection.

I would agree with that. Otherwise there would be a big gap between the 20th and the 22nd!

If you are a guitarist maybe, to 95% of the audience a strat and les paul sound the same. An acoustic, that sounds different, and there is justification if something else is in completely different tune. In my last group, the guitarist had an acoustic guitar, his strat for almost everything else, and another odd guitar that he used just for plug in baby, which sounded just right and was apparently easier to play it with.

Here we go, the Master CTM-100, daddy of all other CTM-100s. And very nice it is to (although I would imagine probably as nice as all the others, even if it has different knobs). Currently using it through my pair of TC 112s, but the downside of that is that it only fits lengthwise on them. Currently not that much of an issue as it tends to be beside me rather than behind me everywhere I play, so I can access it well. Probably would be nice with a barefaced twin or something. The knobs are nice. Can't say that most of them do anything you would expect, but nice to have options!

Probably the same, yes, it has quite a wide range, you can do a passable wahwah effect with it! Oh yes, looked on bass direct, that is the same model line, so by default it is volume, balance, bass/treble stacked and mid/mid frequency stacked. Its the 4 string that even though I only really play 5 strings I wouldn't sell.

My ibanez SR1000 has one of those from the factory. They used to be more common before the switchable frequency thing they have now. Well, the 5005 also had one but its control was so poor I replaced it with a glockenklang

Cool? It can be b*** freezing!

If the passive circuit doesn't work without a battery, it is, by default, not passive!

Any bass with a locking bass socket is likely to be changed. Although I use wireless most of the time, if I am using a cable and someone trips over it, something on the cable has to give, or the bass gets dragged across the floor. The other option is the plug comes off the cable or the socket comes out the bass. Or the socket comes out of the amp, which is harder to quickly fix! other than that, the normal. 24 frets active 5 string battery compartment luminay side dots (if not leds)

You think if they hadn't stopped you playing, it would be easier to keep everyone inside!

I assume that the preamp - the Spectradrive Bass Preamp & Drive Pedal does