Happy Jack

I have to tell you that on my screen this abbreviated to: Drummer needed for wedding Which is one of the best thread titles I have seen in ages.

The thing about all these really wonderful warm-up-your-sound get-that-vintage-tone persuade-people-that-you're-Jamerson DI boxes (and believe me, I'd be happy own each and every one of them) is that a far more economical approach would be to buy a top-quality vintage combo and stick a mic in front of it ...

Thanks. Astonishing tone, but only with the right strings. My kneejerk reaction to buying a bass is "just stick flats on it" and that invariably improves the tone hugely ... well, to my ears anyway. This is the first bass I've owned (of well over 100 of the buggers) where the opposite is true. Fitting LaBella FLs (one of my go-to string sets) simply deadened the tone and closed the sound down. It was still a great-sounding bass, of course, but the magic had gone. The second I put the D'Addario rounds on, there it was again ...

http://s1128.photobucket.com/user/h4ppyjack/library/Basses CURRENT/Ovation Magnum III 1980 CURRENT

Was this really four years ago? https://silviabluejay.blog/2014/08/05/visit-to-foderas-workshop-brooklyn/

My best guess would be that, whatever DI box you use, the personality will be Markbass!

And the winner is ... D'ADDARIO!

Outstanding!

The Jesus Plank?

Are you a Corbynista?

That is a GREAT photo (and a great story).

Looks like a perfectly usable bass to me, the only thing I don't like is the rather rustic logo on the headstock, which seem to have been written & drawn with a Magic Marker. Does it weigh much?

Given the presence of the 'Report' button plus the introduction of the 'Like' system, it would hardly be beyond the wit of Basschat for such a section to be largely self-moderating. As a doting Dad I am well aware of the need to keep children away from bad language. After all, who ever heard a teenager swear? But recent polls seem to have shown fairly conclusively that being over-run with little children is not a problem that need concern us. Seeing as we are overwhelmingly a bunch of mature grown-ups, why not treat us that way?

I know which part of the spec I was most interested in: Guitar Weight 5.0kg

He's got a little list, they never would be missed ...

Some sooper-dooper DI boxes can add something to your original signal (let's go for a cliche here, how about "a warm valve sound") but that rather pre-supposes that you feel your original signal is lacking that something. I use passive non-valve Radial boxes which don't interfere with the signal (at least, not in way that I can detect) on the basis that, if I'm recording something, then what I want to record is me and what I really sound like.

That pattern in the wood grain looks just like the body of a bass guitar ... amazing!

Trouble is, take that to its logical conclusion and you need to be (at least roughly) AJ's shape for his ergonomics to work for you. That's a sacrifice I'm not prepared to make.

Have you tried offering to help carry the stuff to the car, you know, don't leave it all for her to do? I mean, don't strain yourself, obviously ...

Yup, that's how I feel. The chances that I'll carefully note the name of the band, then get up the next morning, search for the website, find the download section, and download the music ... negligible. If there's a pile of CDs at the back of the room though,