Frank Blank

Excuse this ramble, it’s as much for me as anything else, thought jotting. I dropped off the ACG Recurve SS in Warwick for a setup in early February, I was emailed to say it was done and that I could pick it up on 29th Feb. I took the opportunity to drop off the ACG Harlot when I picked the Recurve up and by the time the Harlot was ready for pickup, yes, we were in lockdown. I’ve been writing and recording quite intensely lately, flipping files of new bass lines over to the singer/guitarist I work with and I have really started to gel with the short scale Recurve. I was unsure at first, I bought it because it was an ACG and because it was short scale but I really didn’t gel with it at first but after this intense period of working with it I have found myself improving as a player and writing stuff I would have thought beyond me just a few months ago. Now naturally this is to do with having acres of time to fill with practicing and writing (I’m putting in roughly a normal 9-5 working day) but after the initial ups and down with it I’ve really come to dig that bass, there’s something very ‘workhorse’ about it, the simple design, the plain woods, I often bang on about basses being tools of work first and aesthetic items second, Alan tends to make basses that are sublime in both ways but there is just something very humble and honest about the SS Recurve, very much my bass of the moment and hopefully the end of my fretted short scale bass search. So yesterday I finally managed to get back up to Warwick and in a socially distanced exchange via a porch I picked up the Harlot. I got it home and after so long with just the little Recurve I’m a bit freaked out by the Harlot. I mean it is a ‘freak out’ bass anyway because it looks so incredible but it just felt so alien. I mean, finally, it’s correctly setup and playing great but I just wasn’t getting on with it, perhaps I really am just a short scale man? I will persevere with it and see how it goes.

Then again what will... what will?

The agreement threads are fine, albeit, as you say, dull. It's the I thing this way and I'm right threads that need the sign.

True, thus the demand for this signage will be huge.

Thanks. What’s a DMM?

I think the battery is going in my preamp. I was alerted to this by the fact that it appeared to begin picking up radio signals. I thought someone had slipped acid in my Earl Grey. Thinking I’d made some schoolboy error or had actually entered the Twilight Zone, I tentatively googled it and it turns out it’s a thing, is it a thing anyone on here has experienced? I assumed it was the battery because if I unplugged the bass for a while it stopped and was ok on initially plugging it in again but soon returned.

Nonsense, this is superb.

I have the Scarlett 18i20 Gen2 and have just bought the Focusrite Solo, can’t praise the Focusrite gear enough, superb.

Isn't @TheGreek selling his Bass Collection?

See, now, this good example of tasteful and damn funky.

Yup ...

This man drives a capri and has never known the touch of a woman.

Oh no, that’s class.

I've been around them since around the same time but managed (thankfully) to avoid them. Welcome @WingedWords

Chas & Effin' Dave...

Ordered the 3rd gen Solo, cheers again @Sibob.

'Arold..!

Great songs though, more notes and technical prowess does not a good song make.

You know what, after reading a few reviews of both I think I'm going with your advice, I'm on the Macbook mostly at the moment and I can go straight into Logic Pro X via the Scarlett Solo, which is even cheaper on Amazon. Thanks for the advice Sir.

Oh no, just curious. I think he'd prefer a wood finish Wal but I don't think he's thinking of selling, nor is there anything wrong with the Wal, I just thought owners with oldies like these had them checked over.

Thank you!