MoonBassAlpha

That's a relief! I find it hard telling dreams from reality these days

I think it might be the case with these pickups that it is the hook up wires are soldered to the coils with an aggressive flux that corrodes after many years. This could make it a simpler repair (hence cheaper), but I may have just dreamt all this up, I really can't remember where I got that nugget of info from.

Well done Lurkio. Mid-table mediocrity for me once again!

Probably Idles.

Yeah, more of a character voice than an in tune one. Never thought much of them anyway.

Touch of Zappa about that- nice.

I think the tune you're thinking of was "I don't believe in a thing called God"

Great solution to weighty problem!

That would make a cracking advert for Fixadent, or somesuch.

You're most welcome. Everyone in this area uses Tim, but he's clearly a go-to man for many labels getting their back catalogue remastered, and for folks making their material sound the best for i-Tunes releases and YouTube.

Voted! Bit thin on the ground this month, maybe I should have entered both my tunes after all

You should check out Ally Craig's rather wonderful version of Smelly Cat on soundcloud. (can't link to it at work )

What about things for Mrs RLP though

I'm minded to pull my first entry, 'Nothing', out of the voting, for possible rule violation, and it does seem a bit greedy having 2 entries in one month. So, just Gardening on MoonBassAlpha from me, unless re-entry is demanded by popular consent. No, I thought not!

Tim Turan https://www.turanaudio.co.uk has a very good reputation as an independent mastering house. I've not used him, but the pro client list speaks for itself.

Never mind the pictures, how does it sound?

Very impressive work @Twincam. Nice one!

Oh yeah, the other Hofner oddity is that the tone controls operate in the opposite sense to everyone else's, 10 is treble rolled off, 0 is wide open. Those crazy Germans!

The little Ashdown ctm15 does this too, it's quite noticeable when playing quietly. I attach my d.I. box to the speaker output, and you don't really hear the hum through the balanced output to the recording interface. The speaker attaches to the d.i. parallel output, but at only 15 watts it would be easy enough to hook up a power resistor as a dummy load for recording.

Ha! Coincidentally, my band Charms Against the Evil Eye has a song called Dark Matter, but it's more than 10 years old, so I definitely won't be adding that one to my entries this month!

I forgot to mention, all the guitars and bass on Gardening were recorded using the direct out from the Blackstar beam (supposedly speaker emulated ) . Most of the effects were done on the unit too, except for the infinite repeat on the vocal and some of the guitar. It does introduce a bit of hiss, but I can pass that off as cosmic background radiation

I bet, if you applied some wax or thin layer of oil or grease to the finish, any excess superglue wouldn't stick to that very well at all.

Pleasant. The end bit brings to mind incidental music from 60s Dr Who.

The other oddity I noticed was that there is no earth wire to the bridge or string anchor plate, with no noticeable adverse effect.

A nice leather strap handle would really finish that off nicely. Great job!