Happy Jack

https://therecordshopnashville.com/how-to-get-the-tic-tac-bass-sound/

I really can't imagine having a bass guitar with a neck anywhere near the depth of that on a DB. I've had both the Takamine TB10 (a great instrument) and the Safran Iris with which I replaced it. Both of those have necks - unsurprisingly - far more like a bass guitar than a DB. Playing a bass on a strap in an upright position is a very awkward thing, unless you happen to be Bill Wyman. I strongly recommend you start by simply buying a cheap fretless to experiment with. Lots of bassists buy a fretless and find they don't get on with it, so they are easy to find pre-owned and often at very reasonable prices.

I spent ages trying to find a Quantum neck in the early days of Basschat (so we're talking 2007-09 here) without success. I love graphite necks (hence my Status Streamline) and I love the 35" scale (hence my Mike Lull) but putting them together has always been a bit of a problem. Rob Green (Status) wouldn't even talk to me about it. 😂

Yup, the Toon is not how it used to be. 😉

The greatest aphrodisiac known to man ... the smell of money.

Can't wait to see how much they get when they finally auction Mark Knopfler ...

Sancho! My armour!

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Bwahahahahaha!!! In truth, I have ... ahem ... well actually I have ... erm ... four DBs of varying size and design. BUT (and it's a big BUT) there's no real overlap between them and they are all for different purposes. So there. 😏

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DB luthiers are very slow and appallingly expensive ... any job that you can tackle yourself is almost certainly worth doing. When you say you been "given the chance", do you mean someone is trying to sell you a DB that's in need of work? Or do you mean someone has offered you a valuable bass at a knockdown price because it's in need of work? And do you actually need two DBs?

Just buy two Zoom Q2n-4K units, Chris. They'll do a perfectly fine job so long as you take the lighting seriously, they'll also act as a backup for the audio in case your 'main' recorder lets you down, and best of all they'll be available for live gig recordings. Both cameras plus all cables plus two power packs plus two table tripods will fit easily into a standard bumbag, if you're sufficiently tasteless to use one of those. 😂

Absolutely this ^. Like Dood, @Silvia Bluejay and I own or have owned most of the Zoom range and we have yet to have a bad experience or own a duff unit. All the handy recorders from the H1 up to the H8 will do a fine job of instant, on-the-spot audio recording and teh video recorders in the Q range have pretty much the same audio capsules. All I'd add to Dood's post is that the Q2n is no longer current and - unless you get a stonking deal on a pre-owned unit - you should instead go for the Q2n-4K.

As a long-term user of the whole range (old H2, late-model H1, H4 and H6, not to mention all the Q2n-4k's we have lying about) I like these new versions and the upgrades that come with them, but certainly not enough to warrant spending still more money to get them. The extra features would be nice, but none of them are - by any definition - essential.

I thought we agreed to keep that between us, Chris? 😂😂😂

The great thing about jam nights is that even when it's a complete train wreck it's still entertaining.

Here's the same song, same band, same drummer, but now a live gig in a fairly large Club on a Saturday night.

Here's the leccy kit in action at a low-volume semi-acoustic gig on a lazy Sunday afternoon.

The Junkyard Dogs have used a leccy kit at small / low volume gigs for years, initially a Roland TD-1 and then latterly an Alesis Crimson. They're both very much entry level kits with virtually no bells & whistles at all, and no attempt to look like the real thing. A leccy kit takes up significantly less space at a gig (especially while being set up and broken down) plus Paul the Drums is a bit of a shed-builder ... he don't do 'quiet'. Paul whinged incessantly at first, and especially about the Roland, because the feel wasn't right. He is a lot happier with the mesh heads on the Alesis, plus (despite being a total luddite) he now routinely re-configures drum sounds on the fly, sometimes in the middle of a song. @Silvia Bluejay and I record every single gig we play. Listening later I really struggle to hear which gigs were live kit and which were leccy. That may be down to my hearing, but that's at least as good as the non-muso punters in the audience - if I can't hear the difference then they can't either. As to the look, I got a small banner made up with the Dogs' logo which attaches to the frame rail of the leccy kit. Effectively it's an over-sized kickdrum head showing the band's name and that's what the non-muso punters see, not the wiring.

It doesn't matter how good you get; there will always be someone better than you, or at least someone you think is better than you. It doesn't matter how bad you are; there will always be someone worse than you, or at least someone you think is worse than you. Forget the destination and enjoy the journey. What scares ME late at night?

Yup. Basschatters bought the lot. 🙄

We have the same leads ... two of them. In fact, I remember when a Basschatter first discovered them on special at Lidl in "the middle aisle" and posted about them. We nearly lost long-standing members in the rush to get them. 🤣 The problem here was that we had those leads at the back of the stage (for backline & lighting etc.) but we were using the stageboxes - if that's the correct description - to power things at the front of the stage.