Bridgehouse

I have never, and never will pay for any recorded material that has any of Mr Richard’s drivel on it.

I’m no fool and my money is only parted with after careful consideration

You have Chromes with no silks?!

Though his £70m net worth is a bit more than your average lottery win. Looks like his numbers were better than the winning numbers...

You could reform as much as you can and then strengthen the crease with a strip of tea bag

For the benefit of @fleabag then - the little black wire from the battery

It depends on what way round the battery neutral and common ground are wired to the socket.

I’d say it’s odd. I’m in an originals band - we are effectively a backing band for an original singer songwriter - he even does the same material solo on his own. For bass duties I’m given a full free range - I decide what to play, when to play it, what kit to play it through and whether it fits or not. There’s the occasional song where he will say “I’m thinking drums and bass come in on V2” or “Maybe keep the bass going through that quieter section for a bit of dynamic variance?” But that’s it. It means we all have a shared responsibility to the sound overall - we have skin in the game. If we write well and it works we feel collectively responsible - and visa versa. Actually makes me want to turn up and play.

Ibanez tend to wire theirs in a way that doesn’t work with jack-charged wireless units.

I’ve been chatting to a mate of mine who came to our Jam day yesterday - he builds guitars, and brought along two of his own builds - a fan fretted job and a fully relic’d Les Paul style - he’s a very talented builder and really knows his onions. His speciality is complex historic copies and very authentic relic jobs. His initial comment was: ”From a construction point of view l liked the body contours on that bass, but the neck seemed a bit thick and square in comparison to the slinky body. Those who have played some of mine will laugh at that“ He likes a chunky neck and a lot of his builds follow the same formula! His general view was the body contouring was well done - different, comfortable, light weight and nicely proportioned. Interestingly, as primarily a guitarist, he actually preferred the chunky neck to the usual guitarist preference of a slimmer neck that feels more like a guitar. A couple of other guys played it in a second room in a more informal jam session - and most of their comments centred around the weight (liked it a lot) the chunkiness of the neck, and mostly around the pickups. Although the switching caused some confusion, they really liked the combination of a maple board and the bridge pickup that gives a raspy biting tone that they felt was quite different from many basses they had tried. It really suited the more punky rocky numbers that we did during the day - and really came into its own on the tracks which were definitely rhythm driven.

Completely agree - there’s a good reason we choose Quad to do our guitar jam days (nearly 30 people there yesterday) and Quad is the natural choice. I also agree that Bob’s backline stuff is a cut above. I guess my interest was piqued by variation amongst the same model by the same manufacturer!

I think ironically the room you use is the one that had the best Mark Bass setup in it.. certainly better than the one in the theatre room!

All mark bass amps were using Markbass cabs. The only mix and match was the Aguilar/bergantino I’m not convinced the different rooms made that much of a difference to be honest.. the rooms were roughly the same size/shape and flooring/walls etc so it’s difficult to argue that they would have affected the sound that much. The difference between the mark bass amps was significant - a number of guitar players who dabble with bass commented on it to me - I checked each amp and they were flat - including vle and vpf turned off. I guess my point was that I didn’t expect such a variance across same brand amps and what were essentially the same setups

It’s all the exposure they’ve had on this thread - supply and demand innit!

I tried a fan fret 7 string guitar today. After 2 minutes this happened:

In essence: if your wireless charges through the jack socket and if your Preamp is wired at the socket to use a jack to switch it on and off in one specific way - there are other ways.. then: (actually the above picture is not representative - you just get an odd buzzing sound and no output but I couldn’t find a picture of that)

Sings: “We’re all going on forever-itis”...

The issue is how the jack socket is wired. A lot of rechargeable wireless transmitters using a TRS socket use the Ring for charging. If the jack socket is wired with a TRS socket to use Ring to connect the battery circuit to switch the Preamp on and off then you have the two ring connections connected and thus connecting two battery circuits which may well have a voltage and ampage mismatch....

It was better live in the room 😜 Your bass held up very well though!

I warn you - crappy quality on a GoPro, and some odd angles (!) and some very ropey playing....

Oh you’d be surprised.... the first one was of me playing teenage kicks. I wasn’t supposed to be doing it and had the sum total of 10 seconds to work out the key, how it goes and what the bass did from memory

Some of you may recall that I run a jam day for a bunch of guitarists (keeps them off the streets for a bit)... We were at Quad Studios in Leicester today, and I played through about 8 different amp and cab setups.. the difference in quality etc took me back quite a bit. In the main room there was a Markbass SD800 with a 2x10 and 1x15 cabs.. it was loud, and trousers flapping but seemed a bit woolly and indistinct. In another room, another SD800 with 2 2x10 cabs - it was streets ahead - so much better. Like a lot better. Room 3 had another Markbass - a lil old LMIII, with 2 2x10s - it was squarely better than both the other Markbasses!!!! Firmer, punchier and cut through a lot better. I should add I eq’d each flat and used the same bass in all 3. Also tried an Aguilar TH500 with a Bergantino 2x12 cab. That was a lot more Hifi, but didn’t think it cut through like the LMIII.. There were also two Ashdown Mag 300s - I side-by-sided them and flattened the eq on both. One was a lot better than the other! (Tighter, louder, and thumpier) - checked the speaker in the weaker one and it seemed fine. Hmmmm. Also tried my pf20 with barefaced Compact. At full chat it sounds glorious. Crikey it’s a good amp. Wasn’t as loud as the others, but there was so much warmth, definition and punch there. Cor. The surprise was an old Peavey 300w combo with a black widow speaker. It was, um, bloody good. Surprisingly so. Like, er, I checked eBay when I got home and saw one for £100 and nearly bought it there and then good. I’m looking out for a combo for just these sort of occasions.. and I’m now totally stumped!