SpondonBassed

Many thanks young man. I should take offence at you calling me "old chum" but since young chum looks no better, I'll let it go. Now... where's me ear trumpet? PS: I think that might be the actual post.

Maybe it was only a Basschat thing but it was posted here a couple of years ago. If I could recall more than the one term I could peg it down but with just the one term I get too many search results back to go through. I won't be the only one to have read the post though so it's only a matter of time, if enough members read this, before someone remembers and at least I'd have that. Honk IS used widely. You'll hear folk like Guy Pratt using it. The other terms were suitable descriptive of the frequencies they represented too. I've flogged this horse for long enough. It's either a dead 'un or it's got no legs. I'm past caring now.

Thanks for the encouragement. While I take your points about terminology, there was a list that, if not widely accepted, was at least recognisable by a lot of musos. I'll find it eventually. You know what search engines are like... helpful one day, next-to-useless the next.

My understanding is that Honk refers to the tone when you boost it in the 500Hz region. There was also a term for each of the other regions in the audible range. I think there were eight or nine altogether. So far no-one has listed them. Woodinblack has come close but his image is not bass specific. Thanks though. It is a comprehensive diagram that contains a lot of information about the range of lots of instruments. It will be useful at some point I imagine. I'm still hoping someone else can remember what I'm trying to... the list.

I once read a post here that described tone using terms such as Honk. There was a name for each of about half a dozen frequency ranges. Apparently this is more widely recognised than I thought, possibly among sound engineers in particular. Yet I can't find a list of terms by searching. Has anyone got a link to that post. Failing that, can someone list those terms and the frequencies that they cover please?

That inlay is okay for a first time.

Welcome Upa.

Welcome Euan.

! What's it made of? Ivory?

That grain is astonishingly good!

Violated... as if with a root vegetable?

Does anyone else think that YT is getting a bit more intrusive just lately? I rarely stream anything from them now. Much better to download and play clips offline. No banners suddenly covering the fretboard just as you try to copy the notes. Great playing though. Well worth looking at.

That's got to be a hard alloy of aluminium to last any length of time. How do those do on wear and tear on both the plectrum and the strings?

Can I borrow one of yours on a month's trial seeing as you aren't using it for gigs...? Thought so. Sorry to bother you. Heeheehee

True enough. It had Hipshot machine heads and Dunlop straplocks fitted. In addition the headstock was colour matched (black) and branded with the name "Stingray" in a custom typeface by David Wilson. I didn't have to do anything to it other than fit a new battery and tune up. I wouldn't change a thing about it. PS: It looks like I should have said "Welcome back". You've been a member for a while.

Welcome Abe. As a hobby bassist, I only recently got into pedals with my first and only purchase, a Zoom B3. I can see the advantages as you put them. Then I got a gift of a SBMM Ray34 with upgrades. Included were a Nordstrand pickup and a John East preamp, the three band one with mid sweep and the Bass/Treble modelled on the classic Stingray two band. As a newcomer to anything MM, I am seriously impressed. I might even try to get a classic Ray since I'm enjoying this one so much. Funds don't allow for that however so it's a nice dream to hold. As I haven't yet got used to using a three stop pedal, I favour the onboard amp despite having to keep batteries fresh. If I was gigging though, I might go the other way and run everything flat through the pedal.

Good luck!

I think they're proper tasty. Peach Zefir Torte

I bet they're hard to light.

I like to use a plec carved from the toenail clippings of giants. It's a bit difficult unless you have some magic beans with which to grow a beanstalk. In the meantime, have a search within the forum for "plectrum" and "pick". There have already been lots of discussions and suggestions that may be of interest. Jack

That's been dropped, hard. It might have displaced the magnet inside the speaker too.

A good pair of scissors should work fine with light gauge aluminium.

I was like that. In the end I promised myself a five if I got to the stage where I could play through a set uninterrupted without a lot of mistakes. I put in some serious practice and got there. Then I started with my first affordable five, the Steinberger Spirit in my signature file* below. I had a few songs in my set that needed drop D tuning or a low B string. My latest bass, the Yamacore is tuned BEAD just for a laugh. I have a couple of fours and fives now. I won't look at a six (er, yet). *To see this you must have viewing of signature files enabled in your account settings.

One of these? They aren't great for the smaller diameter bits. They tend to wobble at the speeds needed for the smaller bits and the bits can break very easily.

That's odd. When you say "chuck" do you actually mean collet? If it looks like the one above, you only have four diameters of collet to choose from. If you get a chuck; It allows you to grip a greater range of bit diameters. It is not as good a method of gripping a bit as the correct diameter collet but it should not matter for a drill bit going into timber. If neither of these work and you have a tiny drill bit to use, a pin chuck might work for you; This can either be used in a larger drill or you can spin it by hand if you are skilled enough not to bend the bit and break it off. As you've already found how unwieldy a full size drill is for a small bit, I would recommend spinning it by hand after you've tried a test piece and are confident in its use. New items made to look old are not really my thing but I do admire the project. I think you will end up with a nice instrument at the end of it. You will likely be looking forward to your next build too.