NancyJohnson

Mid-70s Aerosmith. Rocks, Draw The Line, Live! Bootleg. For me, these three are the only albums worth listening to.

Just as an aside, I saw a wiring video on YouTube where a guy was wiring a couple of the controls off a four/five knob unit into a stacked-knob configuration, so it is possible to do this into a three knob affair. The Uni-Pre 3 is three stack knobs (with one being a three function one (bass/treble/high-treble).

I'd been taking turmeric for yonks but had to stop on account of it affecting a blood thinner product I'm on (see elsewhere); after nearly two months, the deep hot throbbing in both trapeziums is back. It's crept up on me quite slowly. Double-edged sword. Turmeric does work to reduce the inflammation.

Addendum. Honestly surprised at the Harley Benton. Loud. I'm uncertain how transparent it is with everything set to the noon position; I feel 'flat' is more akin to the mid and treble at noon and the bass ramped up a notch or two. Running a Sansamp BDDI into it and it's feeding the Barefaced Big One I won at the SE Bass Bash a few years back. Sounds considerably more whumpy through that than the Darkglass 1x12s.

I had a playlist on Spotify that had seven or eight albums on it, all female fronted bands. Once a week I used to have to drive to Wolverhampton and back for work, and I'd shuffle the tracks. JH3 was on there, Bully, Chumped, Cayetana, Veruca Salt, Potty Mouth, Momma, Blake Babies (of course), Snail Mail.

The Juliana Hatfield Three.

I got a replacement amp from Thomann. All good.

One of the John East circuits I have installed has given up the ghost (see elsewhere), uncertain at this point whether it's worth just pulling it out and sending it to John for a service or just trying something else. Looking for replacement recommendations. Effectively a three knob unit for a two pickup bass. I did like the Darkglass circuit that was in my old Spector Euro LX, but specs just seem so vague on that. Help!

Brief meetup with Steve today - he bought an active monitor and tripod stand that I had for sale. Top bloke, tried to get him to the next bash!

I have an extender on my Euro-X, fitted recently. Ahead of the curve, it's strung with Elixir Nanowebs, 40/60/80/100. Interestingly, it hadn't seen much use since I left my old band and was still tuned to DGCF when I fitted it, so I was dropping to C. I didn't actually realise I wasn't tuned to what quantifies as standard pitch, no flappy strings or anything. It was only when I did a studio session a couple of weeks back that the producer questioned my tuning. Flappyness just seems a bit hit and miss all round. The Spector seems fine, another of my basses is the opposite with the same guage strings/scale length.

I'm really not a fan of Jazz/Precision basses, even less so copies thereof, but these look OK. Much as always is the case, the take on the headstock design is, as usual, horrific; I don't wholly understand patent law, but my understanding is that Fender hold the design patent for the headstock shape, but for body shape it's open season. Oddly, pretty certain that while we feel it's fine to alter the headstocks of the Harley Benton and Bass Centre models, this wouldn't happen with Sadowsky or Lakland derivatives.

@cetera I think we need to shoot a video.

Spotify tells me it gets over 100,000 plays a day and it's been played nearly 243 million times. Does anyone really care whether the narrative aligns with today's world view; life's too short and people are too often offended. Just read the lyrics (first time), it's storytelling, nothing more. There's a whole lot worse (and less intelligent lyrically) out there; have a look at 'Stupid Hoe' by Nicki Minaj.

When I saw them, I did a little bit of jizz.

I was up to about a dozen Thunderbirds at one point and I honestly couldn't keep track of those. There'd be a gap in the rack and you'd go, 'What's supposed to be in there?' I've been to the @cetera vault. There's a lot of stuff in there. An awful lot of stuff. 😂

Now then. My only experience was off a guy who owned one in the late 70s/early 80s. Distinctly remember the bass was a bolt-on and there didn't appear to be enough of the neck attached to the body in the rout/heel area and the thing was going like a banana. Horrific action.

$500 in £? £395.00. Bonkers.

So US/Sweetwiter $500 preorder, Thomann £611 (or $775). Bonkers. If I do pull for one of these it'll be though my brother in law on a US trip.

I know @tonyxtiger bought in some Tech21 stuff. The one thing that narked me with the Rocky Road distribution was that they didn't have a clue about the products they were dealing with; when my Ged rack lost its clank, it went to Rocky Road and their opinion was that, 'It's making a noise, so it's working, innit?' Err, no. For the salary they're likely paying their tech guy, they could just as easy have sent me a new one under the warranty.

They look nice. Eyewatering prices. I think the main problem I see with these is that I've never - from a Spector perspective - seen him playing anything except the honeyburst(?) PJ and JJ models. He's not associated with anything that looks like that.

I just don't get how hard it is to set up as a distribution company. We've discussed this previously. My brother in law spends a lot of time in Houston...

I have a meter - from memory the output jack is the same as the one in John's photo below (it just bolts into a jack plate). I'm getting some noise from one of the jumper points behind the rotary trim pots indicated below, beyond that, nothing. All the loom cables are in and tight. A while back I'd have been desperate to get this fixed, now you just kind of shrug your shoulders and pull out another bass, because fixing it is a job from future Nancy! :)

To be honest, I'd track down a second-hand Fender. Mexico/Japan. If I were you (not that I want to spend anyone's £££s for them), I'd stretch by budget and hit up Dave's Jazz, below. I've no idea what the current price is...it's been yo-yoing up and down.