SpondonBassed

So... it could be said that you need a darned good slapping. I think you'd be lucky to find such a niche thing taught in isolation but good luck anyway.

Wont those handles fit both ways then?

I remember a distinct change in attitudes towards me as a male. It was in my early thirties and it meant that a smile was no longer all I needed to charm the ladies. If I had kept up the band in my early twenties I might have got more, so to speak, in my thirties and possibly forties but in my fifties, I'm stuffed. I've taken up bass again but it's a bit too late. It's a good thing I've never wanted to settle and bring up children. When, finally, the only admiring looks I would get were from weirdos with dad fads, I grew out my beard and it effectively took me off the market completely. Life is much more peaceful now.

It's a bit like the Crossrail project this.

...and it isn't Tina playing the line either. Both bassists make that work for me. The tune would be nothing without that line.

Oh?

I Get by with a Little Help from my Friends! But seriously; Stairway to Heaven could be revived as a dance number if you gave it 125bpm in E flat with a funky horn section behind you. That'd make Saturday morning's musical instrument shop mosh-pit interesting for the staff again.

Being a bassist, it's no harm to enjoy a bit of slap and tickle now and again...

Yes, that is implicit to what I said.

That's the fun bit if you're pulled into a tempo that is quicker than the one you have practiced a standard at for years. If the ornamental bits are too fast you need to drop them for something simplified yet which punctuates the piece as before. Doing this on the fly was a great experience for me. One day I might even get good at it. If it's slowed down it's more difficult in some ways. For me, it gives me too much time to think and distract myself from the song. Imagine playing Michelle for years and then having to do it with Joe Cocker performing it! No. Not for me.

True. Nasty plastic mouldings can let a good build down.

I'm impressed with the copper foil lining. It looks like you've found some sheet foil. Was that self adhesive as bought or did you use a glue?

Thank you for The Music Locker. It's just up the road from me.

I'm glad you didn't go all Ringo like that 'click' quote he's known for. I am the walrus BTW and the eggman will be along shortly after he has collected all of the eggs from his flock of golden geese. It's not easy sitting on a cornflake you know. I may try Weetabix next time. I played with @PaulWarning and Wendy one night. Wendy on drums, Paul on guitar and vox, me on bass. He did advise me that it was intended as a punk performance. The BPM on The Letter was enough to make my fingertips smoke but the beat was consistent and relentless and fun. I prefer that to slowing a song down. It drags.

The car speaker idea has not been ruled out yet. I have a centre speaker in a long established 5.1 set-up. My Denon AVR X3000 does a self calibration to the room and I was quite happy with it. The intention is to have the new speakers positioned near the ceiling to take advantage of the 'Height' feature in 7.1 surround encoded blu ray films (for helicopter effects I suppose) so it's got to be a pair. They're going to be on a 180 Watt per channel (Peak) amp. The ebay examples like the one @RichardH posted are looking like good value. It would be difficult to match that with a self-build.

...and I thought it was just me! Hahahahaha

Yes. (Although I was aiming my comment at StringrayPete's comment above mine.) If anyone else but the drummer had brought it do you still think it would have gone down as well? I stand by my words. You'd get the weewee ripped out of you at any jam night if you were a drummer and if you were playing any other instrument the drummer would bottle you. 'Round here anyway.

Oakey dokey. Time to sharpen up your honing skills then. Do you sharpen stuff like chisels and saw blades by eye or do you use a set gauge? I use a dremmel with grindstone and a cutting angle gauge on chainsaw blades and other coarse saw blades but I do my chisels by eye on an oilstone and honing plate for speed.

Is he doing that for tax purposes like Hotblack Desiato? Interesting fact from the link above; 'Hotblack Desiato is the name of an estate agency in Islington.' It's good because the popular image of Estate Agents in general was of a bunch of cowboys. A squad of Space Cadets is a much better mental image for them, dontcha think?

PMd

It's not clear what it is so... okay. I thought your second last one was kinda cool however.

Try bringing a metronome to a jam night though Pete...

Frustrating to the band. It's not so great for the audience either. When a vocalist goes all self-indulgent with their take (on classics usually) on how a song should be delivered. It reminds me of Joe Cocker's cover of A Little Help. Bl**dy awful.

I like the saucy pose with her leaning against that cabinet.

I think I know what you mean but could you explain in case I've got it wrong please? What do bipoles or dipoles do? To me that suggests that sound would be broadcast from two axis. I'd like to understand that better because I've seen it said that Monitor Audio's BXFX is switchable between bipole and dipole modes but I am not convinced that the author knew what he was on about. It probably would be best to have wide dispersal for the ceiling installation. I want to use the height encoding for cinema viewing mostly. I'm happy with the distribution of sound at ear level as I have 2 x Heco Superior @ front, 2x KEF Q300 @ rear, Bower & Wilkins CM Centre @ centre and a Wharfdale SW150 sub. Yes. I had already considered stands and the odd shape of my living room makes the stands impractical. I am not really sold on the idea of having large speakers hanging from my living room ceiling joists either. You have however given me an idea of the sort of enclosure that would be less intrusive. I take your point about expense and £25 does sound attractive. I am still undecided whether to buy off-the-shelf, so to speak or whether to build. It would be hard to improve on those sort of prices but then I'd miss out on the pleasure of the build and its end result.