MoonBassAlpha

Sorry, missed this, on holiday. Probably too late but: https://bigstirrecords.bandcamp.com/track/where-are-the-living This is a home recording done on a Zoom r24 so the raw recording is what it is, but the label seemed happy with it.

Tim Turan is the go-to guy for many. https://www.turanaudio.co.uk/clients

Thanks everyone! I've been thinking about the photo and this came to mind. I was working a short contract in Oxford with a group who make instruments for satellite and lander missions and had a spell in the clean room. I thought this could suggest more sinister stories though...

I haven't listened yet, but that's quite some build-up!

I confess, after reading this, I rotated the picture to put it "on the level"!

That's really flippin' odd!

Glad to help!

Early for me too this month. The Blurb: February 2025 Basschat composition challenge entry. I'm trying to capture the feeling of a slow, peaceful trip along a canal. Things happen slowly and I've deliberately kept it repetitive and relatively uneventful. Recorded using a parlour guitar with light gauge strings and employing the internal mics of a Zoom R24. Fretless bass through a Nux Mighty Plug pro modelling an Aguilar amp. That's the lot! Didn't get around to recording the ducks at the lake...

I've just done mine in record time, just trying to decide if it needs some birdsong and duck noises added...

My bridge went the other way, and I miss that very bridge-ey element blended in for fretless. It's just more mellow now

I fitted a 30" neck on my 34' fretless. I had to move the bridge back about 15mm only, due to a difference in neck designs , but it did mean the pickups were in slightly different relative positions, which I haven't altogether learned to love yet, most noticeably the bridge pickup.

I've just heard that Dan Coggins (Lovetone pedals and some Thorpy Pedals designs) is taking on amp, pedal and synth repairs again. Oxfordshire He is incredibly knowledgeable in these fields, with the focus on vintage valve and solid- state gear, but won't touch digital or much surface mount gear. If permitted, I will add contact details, or will provide them by pm

Cheers Pops!

Thanks folks! Just seen all this, was feeling rather sleepy today! Glad I didn't have to go to the faff of coming up with a picture too! Thanks again to friends Dan Coggins and Matt Sewell for guitars and lead vocals respectively!

I've always found your stuff sounds great. I miss it from the composition challenge

I wiped it on. Used Screwfix No-nonsense stuff, cheap as chips. Took a bit of sanding back. I don't think wear will be a problem as I put on tape wound nylons after trying a Rob Allen Mouse in Bass Direct..

I did exactly this a couple of weeks ago. Makes one feel a proper ninny!

This tune is for the BassChat December 2024 Cover Challenge. Fire Brigade is a tune I've known and loved since it came out. I would have been 6 or 7 This year I have enlisted the help of the following lovely friends: Dan Coggins, pedal designer extraordinaire, 12 string Electric guitars (Rickenbacker and Gordon Smith), Godin and Eggle Electric guitars. Matt Sewell, Lead vocals x3 Phil Beavis, Piano glissando I did the drums, bass, backing vocals and Tambourine myself. You can tell! I had a poorly wrist. 60s psychedelia, love it!

I was wondering why my cover sounds so different to the 1968 original ( apart from the obvious), then it struck me. The original is in MONO! So, should I go MONO or bring it up to 70s modernity and be all stereo and that?