King Tut

Welcome fella!

I bought a Yamaha fiver from Mick today. We arranged a halfway meet up in Dunstable. Mick got there half an our early and me five late - darned traffic! Anyway we had a nice chat, he gave me a nice bass and I gave him many coffee tokens. All comms were good and everything fine so deal with this fella with confidence!

Gotta say, the synths and filters aren’t a patch on the zoom but the parallel processing is nice for the distortions!

I've just gone over to the dark side and bought an HX Stomp FX

That vintage switch is pretty useful when you're using both pickups.

So is it photoflame or a veneer?

I’ve had two BBG5s. Loved em both and regret selling. Would pick one up for sure if one popped up!

I’ve just bought a HX Stomp XL from Ian. It’s as described, coms were perfect and it was well packaged. Deal with confidence!

Yea yeah that’s right - I was there!

Anyone know what the string to string distance is on the fivers?

So I think different desks have different apps. His was an Allen and Heath desk and the app was SQ4You. Our drummer says he’s got about seven apps on his phone for various desks!

We’ve literally just left Greystoke on the road to Kinross. We decided to break the journey there and have our meal and breakfast rather than post gig tomorrow - was lovely. Had a look at the band area and it’s going to be very intimate! Who did you play at Greens with?

Red Arrows Club

Played in Ramsgate last night with Verity Bromham. Had Kev Hickman depping on drums who did a marvellous job. I tried an XVive in ear unit that John lent me along with my rig. The engineer pointed me to an app to put on my phone and I set up my own monitor mix - bloody amazing. Journey home was a nightmare due to road closures, road out of Ramsgate was shut as was the M25, A1 and M1. Bolleaux! Got halfway home and realised I’d left my house and car keys at the venue. So I had to leave my car at Johns, get Del to go right out of his way to drive me home then wake the misses up at 3am to get in! Why the funk do I do this?!! Was a cracking gig though!

I’ve got three gigs coming up with The Verity Bromham band. On Thursday we’ll be at The Red Arrows Club in Ramsgate. Saturday we’re at Backstage at The Green in Kinross, then on the way back on Sunday we’ll be stopping off at Penrith for a 4 pm gig at The Boot and Shoe, Greystoke.

Nah nah nah!

. . . the debating society!

I’ve got an SR305 which is the five string version. I bloody love it. It’s light, resonant and sounds great.

RIP Nick. I dealt with him several times - lovely fella.

I acquired an Epi pro IV in white recently in a trade - equivalent to about £250. I’ve always loved the look but was convinced I’d scratch the itch and move it on. As @NancyJohnson said - negligible neck dive and it’s one of my lightest basses in a 20 odd bass collection. I was lucky to pick one up so cheaply. Side dots disappeared in the dark - easily fixed with some Graph-Tech dots and the only issue I have with it really is access to the dusty end when I’m standing up. Got some gigs with Verity Bromham this month and might well use her on those - don’t really stray up the dusty end in that combo!

Maybe that’s why (at least in my case) the Epi’s don’t seem to be so renowned for massive neck dive? Could they have changed the geometry to improve the ergos?

Welcome fella! I love a bit of Sabbath too!