Happy Jack

That price ...

We use 4no Zoom Q2n 4k video recorders, and 1no Zoom H4n audio recorder.

Stereo jack split into two mono jacks going from the Headphones Out on the PA into the L/R Inputs on a Zoom H4n. I place the recorder as near the drums as I can, so the L/R microphones on the H4n can pick up snare & hi-hat (we always mic up the kick).

Paging @Silvia Bluejay

IMHO these can't be beaten: https://www.bax-shop.co.uk/guitar-stool/konig-meyer-14044-performance-stool-black?utm_source=google&utm_medium=organic&utm_campaign=surfaces&gclid=CjwKCAjw3ueiBhBmEiwA4BhspC7eN5VfvECNYAwL0wb-9BBNX9FoQDY3gNz4iKd59C07eXbzz6zv1BoCuPAQAvD_BwE Especially if you get the back-rest too. Cheap they ain't, but they'll last as long as you do and they're very well designed and well made. It's not as if you'll need to buy a replacement every few years.

Honesty is always the best policy ...

Needs more access to the higher register ...

2157 Euros (plus Import Duty & Shipping, plus VAT on the lot) and a 12-month waitlist for an instrument where the only evidence of actual craftsmanship is (might be?) the shaping of the neck? I have a Westone "The Rail" parked next to me as I type this. I think I know when I'm well off.

I attended the Homeopathic University of Little-Spalding-in-the-Marsh. I got my Honours Degree by attending no lectures at all.

https://rowlandearthing.co.uk/pages/earthing-sheets-uk?fbc_id=23854102888400603&h_ad_id=23854102888340603&fbclid=IwAR0ezsd_-PthwcVvOtsWDP8x7EbL_Iav4j_mZkebfwy9mbgrfLHnDVEiM2o Some weapons-grade bovine faeces being dumped there ...

Florida innit?

Assuming that you are terminally bored, or desperately underemployed, here's a meaningless distraction for you. https://www.standard.co.uk/culture/music/spain-luxembourg-none-london-montenegro-b1078062.html

Don't get me started.

So anyway, about keys players ...

I record with a Zoom H4n rather than a Tascam. I always use a stereo 1/4" jack plugged into the Headphones out socket on the Mixer, splitting to two mono 1/4" jacks going into the H4n. The Headphones socket should have an independent Level control, so you can trim down the signal to match what the Tascam wants to receive. Having written that, I'd be astonished if the Tascam was overloading due to its own limitations ... it's far more likely to be user error. He's got something set to Mic Level instead of Line Level would be favourite.

Thursday 29th May 2008 in Kilburn with a scratch band put together by the Weekend Warriors program. I was 51, having picked up a bass for the first time on my 49th birthday. In the 15 years since then, I've played just short of 500 gigs. Why do you think I'm Happy Jack?

Nope ... just that it's wood rather than a laminate.

So how close is it to the real thing? As luck would have it, I bought @Silvia Bluejay an SB310 a few years ago. Since she's (famously) a lefty, her bass and mine make a book-matched pair. You judge ...

The bass felt absolutely fine and played perfectly well (apart from the high action). I'd expected it to be way heavier than a genuine Bass Collection but it weighs 8.25lbs which is very much ballpark for these basses. So I bought it and brought it home. Obviously it was in dire need of a setup ... a shim to the pocket-end of the neck, tighten up the sloppy tuners and the loose control knobs, replace the battery in the preamp, re-string properly, and Hey Presto! a very passable bass for £110 plus a little petrol money. One oddity was those neck screws. When I took the neck off I discovered that the factory had used four identical screws (as you would expect) but the slim-ness of the neck, especially above the 24th fret, meant that the two screws closest to the pickups would have protruded through the fingerboard. You or I might have chosen to substitute two slightly shorter screws to avoid this ... the factory had roughly 'snipped' the last 5mm of each screw to leave a blunt 'point' and gone ahead regardless. 😂

The guy was in Christchurch and I happen to be visiting Salisbury a lot just now, so it wasn't much of a detour to take a look at it. He wanted £110 for it. Now I know you'll think me naive, but up until this point I'd never realised that such things as Chase Collections even existed. I've never before seen a "cheap Chinese knock-off" of an SGC Nanyo so I was really quite curious, especially since there are frankly very few cr*p basses coming out of China these days. Apart from the usual screw-up with the string routing at the headstock, other features included a very high action (even for me) despite the saddles sitting flat on the bridge, an odd-looking neck pocket, and at least one of the neck screws sitting at a slight angle.

So me old mate @TheGreek spotted this on Gumtree ... at first glance an SB320 with an unusual finish, but the backplate ... oh that backplate.