Frank Blank

This thread has become an absolute Chablis... Trying to think of another pun but I've drawn a blanc. Thnkyvrymch.

I am an outlier when it comes to railway enthusiasts as in I am ambivalent about steam, always have been since I became a railway enthusiast aged about nine. I'd be more interested in a Class 08 shunter than any of the great steam locomotives, horses for courses innit.

No competition, Deltic all the way.

☝☝☝ this.

Come on everyone, lets list our favourite shed felters. I'll start... Danny 'The Stuffer' Hobson.

Shed felters were they?

Oooohhh, collar felting now, quite the definitive felting compendium this thread.

A little out of column a), a little out of column b). Type D. ...and my arśe is a kipper.

First class advice. Textbook. @pete.young is clearly a force to be reckoned with when it comes to shed felting 👍

That was the case until the 2021 financing report that recommended, and I quote, Eels. Since then it’s been just the one form D27/3b - Application to Felch a Shed in an Uncontrolled Area. My dog knew that one and I don’t have a dog.

Felting a gazebo? This is Wantage not Rio Didgeridoo! Good grief man.

I'll be polling several Basschatters wives and partners this afternoon, we'll be keeping the results private, obviously. Should I ask them about how many bass players they know afterwards?

FTFY

I knew a bloke who got 18 months for shed felting, mind you, he didn't have the proper paperwork.

Likewise... Blimey, we're about as current as a sultana 🙄

Yes. They look deceptively slim.

I'm a Classic Dual Bass Guitar Case, Black — M80-2B-BLK man.

*awaits tumbleweed gif from @Stub Mandrel*

That's not hard is it? We could all s*** on our hands and give ourselves a round of applause and we'd still be doing better than Talkbass.

FTFY

The equally lovely @Osiris put me on to optical compression. I knew very little about compression at all really but after a few hours chat and some demos he saved me £££s and a lot of frustration by calmly and patiently explaining optical compression until I pretended I understood him. I began the hunt for an optical compressor and very luckily, @Osiris' first (I think) recommendation was the Effectrode PC-2A. I play in an acoustic duo, I play fretted and fretless basses built by our own resident genius @Jabba_the_gut. TBH I'm still not really sure what the hell the compressor is doing, really, I just know there is something missing when it's not on. @Osiris can define in technical/science terms what it does but as far as an description as to exact changes in tone... I dunno. I turn the peak and gain knobs down so I cannot 'hear' any tonal change but still it's quietly doing something mysterious that I can't do without. It is good with the fretted bass but, lord, with the fretless... I play through the compressor and a preamp straight into a QSC powered speaker, the PC-2A adds this organic warmth that it really is difficult to define, which is why I'm going round in circles repeating myself. I wouldn't play either bass without it but for fretless it's a must have.

Having heeded the superb compressor advice from the extremely knowledgeable @Osiris, I chose an optical compressor, the Effectrode PC-2A. Lovely piece of kit.