Happy Jack

Only just stumbled across this thread, and deeply puzzled at the enthusiasm for foot controllers, midi, and DMX. All these things will eat up your time like you wouldn't believe, cause endless frustration when they don't operate as planned, add to the complexity of your set-up and break-down, and distract you at critical moments when you're trying to play. For anything up to a large social club, you can put on a "light show" with five carefully-placed lights, or even fewer. You almost certainly have to have a couple of pole-mounted PA tops anyway, so mount a single LED flood on each of these firing across the band. Put an LED lightbar on the floor behind the drummer's throne shining straight up the wall. Put two more LED floods on the floor according to taste and thr requirements of the room, firing up into the dark places around the band. Don't try to connect the lights, don't try to control or synchronise them. Just set them to flash, either randomly or in a set repeating pattern. You really don't need any more than that. Job done. I've bought most of the band's lighting from Thomann and I'm very happy with their stuff. My favourite units are https://www.thomann.de/gb/stairville_led_flood_panel_150_40.htm (€38 each) https://www.thomann.de/gb/stairville_led_bar_2408_rgb_dmx_30.htm (€66 each) So buy four of the flood panels (€152) plus one of the bars (€66) and you've spent €218. You'll need a couple of clamp/brackets for the PA polemounts, which will take you over the limit for free delivery. I've also experimented with cheap lasers for pub bands. Surprisingly effective BUT only when used in conjunction with smoke ... and the smoke will set off the pub's fire alarm. If you think the landlord gets pissed off when you trip the noise limiter, wait until you see his response when the Fire Brigade turns up.

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Those Status P-bass necks are simply amazing. The punch and clarity are hard to beat.

The last time I was there was 20 years ago for a County match. With the game pretty much wrapped up there was Curtley Ambrose guarding the boundary in front of us. A bunch of us invited him to come and have a beer with us - so he stepped over the rope and did exactly that.

Never realised that Al was a Montclair boy ... I just assumed the Wailers were all Jamaicans.

Followed this with interest and went to look (online) at the AKG D5. Surprised to find it's only about £15 cheaper than the original SM58 ...

Pick or fingers? I find playing ska lines with a pick leads eventually to cramp, but the 14mm spacing on my Hofners makes playing it fingerstyle a mite tricky.

Nah, you'd never dare put a coffee mug on it in case it left a ring.

I have the current model and I use it all the time. I can put the reference tracks onto an SD card, take the Tascam to a rehearsal, and have instant access to the tracks if the band needs to check back against them. Just use the headphone socket to run the signal through my bass rig or the PA. Play in a different key? Want to change the tempo? Easy. I don't use the record function because I prefer my Zoom H2.

A violin bass is also an archtop, so it is critical that the base of the bridge is in full contact across the radius. It's a tricky job without being particularly difficult. Usually you remove the bridge, place a piece of sandpaper facing UP on the archtop under the bridge position, and then sand down the base by leaving the sandpaper in place while moving the bridge - do you follow? That should create a curved base to the bridge which exactly matches the shape of the bass. Before you decide whether or not to do it, have a really close look at the base of the bridge as it is now. If it has already been contoured in this way then you might be best advised to leave well alone. If on the other hand the base of the bridge is completely flat and therefore only really touching the bass at the inner edges, then it's almost certainly worth doing the contouring because of the improvement you'll get in tone and (maybe) volume. If you want to use the top Hofner luthier in London, drop me a PM.

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If you liked that then you're gonna LUUURVE this ... http://youtu.be/QsBctMl5t3M

Why thank'ee kindly, young gennelmun, thank'ee.

s/n 1786932 and a gold Made In Japan sticker just beneath.

So if mine is a 1970s Ibanez with a sort-of Toaster pickup and a through neck, does that make it a 2338? And is a 2338b the same but with a bolt-on neck?

Always a surprise to me how much bigger a J is than a P ...

Sacre Bleu!

Threads like this really piss me off. I have a Fishman SA-220 column PA for those small, intimate gigs and I love it to bits. Every musician who has played through it has commented on how great it sounds. It works perfectly. There's nothing wrong with it. I have no need of a replacement or upgrade. Then this thread catches my eye, gets me interested in seeing how things have moved on since I bought my SA-220 a few years ago, and I discover the SA-330x with sub and mixer extension. And guess what? Now I want one. Bah!

Try it in Google Translate ...

Also, the larger gigbag you need for a Jazz will allow you to carry additional kebabs ...

It probably sounds better in Spanish. Any language that can turn [color=#006400][b]'Bye!'[/b][/color] into [color=#0000cd][b]¡Hasta la vista! [/b][/color]must have something going for it.

They seem to change more or less randomly each time you visit ...

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