Frank Blank

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.

Yes, I've seen her with a couple of different Wem basses.

That's excellent, thank you very much!

Does anyone know what bass the excellent Rozi Plain is playing in these shots? Is this within @Bassassin's superb breadth of bass knowledge I wonder?

@Woodinblack could you close this thread? Cheers.

@Troop Dogg & @Beedster Apologies, bass position now filled. If it becomes available again I'll contact you both directly.

Just emailed, will PM you when I get a reply.

Will check for you.

It might still be available, shall I check?

Ah, allow me... Shoegaze - when you are tying your shoelaces and your shoes look back up at you because they don't want to go for a walk, they want to eat chips, sit on the sofa and watch Casualty. Dreampop - that awful moment when you are finally about to engage in tongue Kung-Fu with *insert attractive celebrity here* and you are woken up by the fourth slash of the night. Thanks enlarged prostate. Hardcore - broken bricks, rubble, or similar solid material used as a filling or foundation in building and nothing whatsoever to do with Pr0n M'Lud. Post-Punk - a service whereby pink-haired thugs gob through your letterbox. Sludge - an obscure animated character who appeared in only two episodes of the 60s Hanna-Barbera cartoon series The Flintstones. He was a bouncer who worked the door of the club where Fred and Barney attended drunken parties held by The Loyal Order of Water Buffaloes. Stoner Doom - a term used in dry-stone walling circles in North Yorkshire, essentially a wall collapse due to furtive sheep action or drunk-driving veterinary incidents. New-Wave - the latest type of wave employed by any of the younger royals upon their inaugural trip in a carriage. Midwest Emo - the initial name for the act that subsequently went on to great success renamed as Rod Hull and Emu. Indie - Short Stop's nickname for Doctor Jones as used with annoying frequency in the 1984 film Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom and played by Vietnamese actor Ke Huy Quan. Alt-Rock - a sugar free vegan tofu alternative to the teeth-demolishing confection sold to unwitting children on Blackpool's 'Golden' Mile and certainly not a county lines soubriquet for crack cocaine. Yes.

I think it’s an amalgam of many things but the sum of those parts is I’m just not enjoying any of it, rehearsing, writing or performing. I’ve got to an age where I don’t want to waste any time doing stuff I don’t want to.

@scrumpymike - everything he owns unless he sells it between now and then @Rich - Shuker 5-string, OLP/Jaydee fretless 'Ray, Genz Benz Shuttle 9.2, Barefaced Super 12T cab. @Kateplaysbass - Ashdown CTM-100 and LB212, Pawn Shop Mustang, medium scale ACG Finn, and maybe also ACG Recurve and Bass Collection 5 string fretless, since I'm thinking about offloading both of those @Woodinblack - Bongo, just to wind people up @Richard R - Brawley 5 string, as usual, HB 5 String thing with Roland hex pickup and V-bass COSM synth. @BreadBin - something interesting @chyc - a very nice double bass, an Ashbory Bass, GSS 06B400MKD combo, and possibly Warwick Streamer fretless, Sandberg Custom 5 with Delano XTender, Sandberg TT Marcus Miller rip-off, BC 110T cabinet, BC 112mk3 cabinet, Acoustic Image Coda @TRBboy - Frost Custom Basses PJ5 (my first build from scratch), Sandberg California TT5 Passive, possibly my customised Yamaha BBN5, Markbass Stu Amp 1000w, GR Bass GR 410+ (1200w, 4 ohm), a fairly unexciting pedal board 😅, & converted Trace 1x15" cab, if it's in a satisfactory state by then @Stub Mandrel - Joyo BadASS & PJB C2, three or four hopefully 'interesting' basses.

I doubt I'll be the owner of them by the time of the bash, edit me off the list old man.

Your reinstated me @Stub Mandrel..!

You can't. I don't suppose they are really, although is does alert folk when a change to the list has been made.

UPDATED LIST: Just removing myself from the list. I have just given up playing and, a matter of days later, the QSC packed up! I'll be selling up soon, apart from the QSC obviously. @scrumpymike - everything he owns unless he sells it between now and then @Rich- Shuker 5-string, OLP/Jaydee fretless 'Ray, Genz Benz Shuttle 9.2, Barefaced Super 12T cab. @Kateplaysbass - Ashdown CTM-100 and LB212, Pawn Shop Mustang, medium scale ACG Finn, and maybe also ACG Recurve and Bass Collection 5 string fretless, since I'm thinking about offloading both of those @Woodinblack - Bongo, just to wind people up @Richard R - Brawley 5 string, as usual, HB 5 String thing with Roland hex pickup and V-bass COSM synth. @BreadBin - something interesting @chyc - a very nice double bass, an Ashbory Bass, GSS 06B400MKD combo, and possibly Warwick Streamer fretless, Sandberg Custom 5 with Delano XTender, Sandberg TT Marcus Miller rip-off, BC 110T cabinet, BC 112mk3 cabinet, Acoustic Image Coda @TRBboy - Frost Custom Basses PJ5 (my first build from scratch), Sandberg California TT5 Passive, possibly my customised Yamaha BBN5, Markbass Stu Amp 1000w, GR Bass GR 410+ (1200w, 4 ohm), a fairly unexciting pedal board 😅, & converted Trace 1x15" cab, if it's in a satisfactory state by then

The OED definition, just for reference of course... Thump (v) - To strike or beat heavily, as with the fist, a club, or any blunt instrument, producing a dead, dull, somewhat hard sound; also, without reference to the sound produced, to hammer, pound, knock forcibly. Thump (n) - 'hard heavy dead dull blow with something blunt’ (Johnson), as with a club or the fist; a heavy knock; also, the heavy sound of such a blow (not so dull as a thud). Also figurative.

@scrumpymike - everything he owns unless he sells it between now and then @Rich - Shuker 5-string, OLP/Jaydee fretless 'Ray, Genz Benz Shuttle 9.2, Barefaced Super 12T cab. @Frank Blank - Short scale @Jabba_the_gut fretted and fretless basses, QSC K12.2, Grace Design Alix. Keep it going folks

☝☝☝ this exactly. It's a difficult to define effect but I have set mine in exactly the way described above and everything just sounds tighter, as if the speaker is working more efficiently, which of course it is.