Owen

Thanks everyone for your input. The Lace looks very interesting, but I am suspicious of tape that "does not damage finishes". Just to make it more fun, the mouse has the fingerboard extension as a thumbrest so getting purchase onto both sides of the end of the fingerboard is not an option. I really like the concept of mounting it over the strings. I could craft (obv I mean pay someone else to) an all in one wooden pickup cover which would be like a P pickup cover, but wooden. This could contain any sort of pickup I like so depth would not be an issue. I welcome further thoughts from the BC Masif.

So, how thin can I have a properly functioning magnetic pickup?

So, how thin can I have a properly functioning magnetic pickup?

Thanks BRX, that is the kind of design idea I needed to access. BC always delivers.

I am thinking of it as a clip on/off thing and would not want any mods for controls etc. I could run a cable straight from the pickup. This thread is brought to you by "Owen just cannot leave things as they are". I will ask him as well.

Thanks Frank, my own thoughts are some sort of floating pickup mounted somehow into a single fixing point at the end of the fingerboard. I realise that there are a lot of "ifs, buts and maybes" along the way and it is entirely possible that it will just not work. However, here is the best place I know to throw ideas around. I just fancy a short scale magnetic thump now and again and realised that I have the instrument just not the pickup.

............ I have a Rob Allen Mouse which is very much floating my boat. I do wonder how it would sound with a magnetic pickup on board as well. Obv installing one with a router would be the height of stupidity, but can anyone think of a way of doing it with perhaps one screw hole into the end of the fretboard in an unobtrusive place? I am merely thinking aloud here and am not rushing into it, don't worry.

It is great drumming, but the space the band creates around him is also superb. No one is getting in anyone else's way.

I went to see Nate Smth and Kinfolk at the Jazz Cafe in Camden last week. Fima Ephron was on bass (Tokai P bass with added bridge pickup - cos I know you care about that stuff). What a sublime bassist. Always playing the right thing, always supporting, getting funky when the time was right and locking RIGHT in with Nate Smith. It was everything you hope for - but not for the technique or the flash, but for the ensemble playing. Proper lush. Respect is due.

I guess I could change the actual potentiometer in the volume pedal. But which potentiometer?

I would love to design a bass and have it CNCd into existence. I would happily pay someone to make it happen.

I am souping up the church keyboard system. I am using an Ernie Ball volume pedal between the macbook and the stage box. It works on the last 10% of travel. Clearly not the ideal taper! What do I use? While I have your attention, the PSU for the mac is not earth friendly. I can run it on the battery but inveriably when I am not there we get user error and I would like to make it as difficult as possible for them to get it wrong. New PSU o'clock?

Good morning all. The college I work in needs some new microphones for basic live vocal work. Obviously I could go for the good old SM58 but I am more than aware that there are better options. However, the option I am looking for is what is fine and dandy and much cheaper. There is no point in spending serious coin on micrphones because they will be abused constantly and/or be nicked. Am I happy about that? No. Am I being realistic? Yes. We also could do with a pair of 414 mics for overhead work - but the same circumstances apply to their use. Any ideas what woud work nicely but not make me cry when they are droppped? TIA.

Smooth like velvet.

I bought a bass from Andrea. It was very easy. The communication was very good. I would do so again tomorrow. Especially if it was a Deep 5.