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First: Either Sky or Mike Oldfield, Birminham Odeon, early '80s. Last: Half Man Half Biscuit, Leamington Assembly. (Great venue, closed last year 😥) Best: That's really, really, hard. Jethro Tull Crest of Knave, Muse Drones? Not sure. Worst: Dire Straits end of the Brothers In Arms tour. They were just tired and had an off night. Close second, HMHB at the Assembly were let down by a sound man who should be shot as the vocals were unintelligible! For a band where the words are everything, that was criminal. Loudest: Yes, 90125 tour at the NEC. I was chest-level to the flown speakers. Seen the most: Tull, probably. Or Marillion. Most surprising: Joanne Shaw Taylor, Birmingham Town Hall. Rock On! Next: Nick Mason's Saucefull of Secrets. Wish: Any Pink Floyd, but particularly 1996. Had to go to in-laws wedding anniversary. I did try to explain that the in laws would have many more anniversaries, but Floyd might not tour again...

Thank you for the compliment. I used to be a physicist and engineer before I moved to the dark side of IT. I definitely want to build a bass or basses, and have quite a few ideas about what I want it to look like and sound like. I also have the two most important items designed - the headstock shape and the brand/logo to go on it. (I have some very, very, long conference calls in my job) 😄 However I absolutely want to learn to play properly first, and also to play different types of guitar so I understand what sounds like what.

Got it! Thank you 🙂. Clearly I don't actually look at my bass from the back often enough to recognize the profile. Too busy looking at the frets with a furrowed brow. I suppose you could make the tongue on the neck as long as you wanted, up to the point you were trying to bolt through the pickups. Or if the body hadn't been carved, extend that wood forwards into the neck? Or are those both obviously bad ideas?

Thank you. And please remember that when you joined BassChat you didn't sign up to a contract with an SLA you have to achieve for replies. There's absolutely no urgency and that there "real world" is more important than some bloke you met once in a church hall and who asks lots of questions.

Question from the slow kid at the back: why does that joint combine the best of a neck through and a bolt on? Apart from the biscuit it just looks like a bolt on to me. Can we have diagrams comparing the two please Sir? And which internal radius is being referrred to?

The website says they won't ship to the UK. I emailed them out if curiosity to see why not.

Get thee behind me @TheGreek! Thankfully the 5 string brother of my bass I saw for sale is in the US, otherwise I would have had to buy it.

I was going to, then decided to wait and see who broke cover first 🙂

Urge for Offall, whose tragic tale can be heard here:

https://www.guitarcenter.com/Used/In-Store-Used/Used-Brawley-ARTEMIS-Natural-Electric-Bass-Guitar.gc While on a rather long call at work, for which I was required only for some parts, I did my occasional hunt for Brawley Artemis 5 string guitars, and came across this. It's in Manchester, NH rather than Manchester UK otherwise I would have bought it immediately. My bass is the 4 string brother of this, bought a couple of years ago -I'm half-looking for a 5 string and would love a matching pair. But shipping and possible returns to the US make it rather too risky as an impulse buy. I can't do my guitar justice, but everyone who can play has really liked it and agrees that they are really nice basses. Well built, sound fantastic, 3 band Active eq, dual humbuckers, 35" scale. The opinion across the 'net is much the same, that they are hugely underrated - Hardly anyone knows about Brawley as they went out of business after only a couple of years. (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brawley_Guitars, see also the references to the original Brawley web site, various reviews on Talkbass etc) So while I won't be buying this, if there is anyone on that side of the pond who wants to take a punt (only $350!) and buy this then I am pretty sure you won't be disappointed. And if it plays as well as mine I shall be a teeny bit jealous. @Mods - Not sure if this sort of post is OK or where it should go. I have no association with Guitar Center, but move/delete as appropriate..

🎶 I'm playing Graceland, Graceland, on my fretless P, I'm playing Graceland 🎶😊

I think I may have a suitable prize for that I can donate.

The fusion do look very good, but they're double the current price of the defender. Maybe we should have a "gig bag comparison corner" at the Midlands Bass Bash. @jebroad? 😁

Music created by Artificial Insemination?? That's a load of bull.

I think this thread may be derailed, and I (mercifully) have little understanding and no experience of what I think @dave moffat might be referring to.🙂 So as it's my fault we're here, I shall bring the thread back on topic: Backbone, Status Quo's current album. Which is actually a LOT better than you expect it to be.

That'll be flatworms and roundworms. Apparently, in the fishing community, "Diggin' for bait" actually means what it says, and isn't automatically assumed to be a sexual innuendo from the early days of blues music. Who'd have thought it?

Jean-Michel Jarre, Equinoxe. The album that first got me into listening to music, hearing my best friend's brother playing it when it first came out. It is unknown if Jarre used roundwound or flatwound mains cables on the bass synths.

@Andysylvia - I have updated the review with dimensions, and some photographs with the tape measure on the case. Hope this helps.

Updated with some internal measurements and photographs as promised. The internal length, if you keep the bottom padding in place, is about 117 cm. If you were to take that pad out you would have a length of nearly 123cm, at the expense of some protection. Max width about 34cm. The neck rest can be moved, it sticks to the case floor with wide velcro. Maximum distance from the top is 23cm, min is 16.

Thanks for that. It looks like the width of the body starts back from the metal. Will be ordering a couple 👍

p.s. I also had to use just DI and wedges for a couple of services, as the cab was playing up. It's hard to put enough bass in to be heard clearly, and I suspect they aren't voiced for that. If there's a wedge just for you then you could plug a £30 wired iem amp instead and leave the wedge where it is, silent and unused.

Sound for the monitors will be different to the FOH. In most cases the eq will be the same, as your monitor feeds will be Aux out post eq, but the engineer will have FOH as the priority, and so be eq-ing so that the instruments sit properly in that mix. Your monitor mix will have a subset of the instruments at different volumes, so will sound different. That will be true for wedges or iems coming from the desk. That said, if the band can't hear themselves, the performance suffers, and when I am FOH I find it is worth taking almost half the practice time to get the monitor mixes acceptable. If you're back at the same venue and approach the engineer along the lines of "Everyone liked the FOH mix last time, but we struggled a bit with foldback, can we spend some time on that this time?", you can build up a good relationship pretty fast. I've had the interesting experience of playing in the band for the last month, having been FOH for years. What was a real revelation is that a band really has no idea what is out front at all. I sort of knew that, but only appreciated it properly when I was playing.

This is an absolute pain. Almost every audio cable I have ever used or made up has the body of the 3.5mm connector just too large to fit into a phone/tablet with a case on. If I am running the PA then I often have to ask folks to take their device out of the case. At some point I need to butcher a pair of earbuds to make an adapter with a narrow body. But then I would worry the wires are too flimsy to withstand stage use.

I meant to post photos with a tape measure! Nag me if I haven't done it in the next couple of days.

https://www.soundonsound.com/techniques/inside-track-lil-nas-x-ft-billy-ray-cyrus-old-town-road A lot of work went into that track!