Richard R

I am impressed.  Especially since I cut the top rail of a home made compost bin ½" short less than an hour ago!

On 07/07/2020 at 18:04, Andyjr1515 said:

And here it is in position on my home-made MDF 25' radius dish. 

I missed the significance of this sentence the first time round!

In order to build your acoustic guitars, you took a piece of MDF and made a spherical dish in it with a 25 foot radius. That is emphatically the most specialist bit of tooling to appear on BC

How did you make it? What are the tolerances? How long did it take? How often is it used? Where do you keep it???

Budgie! There's a blast from the past! 

I was asked to put together "a slide or something" to illustrate what went on behind the scenes to produce an online service.  He wanted a slide to talk over, this is what we gave him instead.  It wasn't quite what he expected, but amused us and the congregation.

https://youtu.be/a37IJoBWAk4?t=883

Hopefully this will start at the correct time, if not then it's at 14:43

(or here https://youtu.be/a37IJoBWAk4?t=777  if you want the minister's preamble as well)

8 hours ago, alyctes said:

The Sinsonido is a nice bit of kit, IMO.  Good to travel with, makes a noise all its own.  Sadly they never made a five-string.

A friend lent me his Sinsonido 2½ years ago when I first mentioned I had always wanted to play bass. The action was like the Menai bridge and the electronics were shot and I got them repaired. But it was silent, went on holiday easily, and I could practice without annoying the wife. The start of a journey 😀. Worth investigating if you do want a travel bass, but they are very, very, bright!

4 hours ago, Si600 said:

 

'Tis a thing of beauty!  And, as often happens of this forum,  I find I have been on a journey from ignorance that something even exists,  through quizzical puzzling about how it works, through amazement that someone is making one, to deciding I will really really need one!

Hats off again, and thank you for a most interesting build diary! 😀

1 hour ago, Stub Mandrel said:

I did think of 'Imprecision Bass' but technically I'd argue a 'Precision Bass' as any one with frets... 🙂

Trouble is that's very rude in Welsh...

I feel a bit guilty about 'made by me' as aside from shaping the headtock it's just painting and screwing the bits together...

ScrewDup precision bass?

(No reflection on your build quality)

There ought to be a good name which is also mechanical engineering play on the term "precision" bass. The best I can think of at the moment would be something like Submicron precision bass.
Or if I were building it WideTolerance precision bass.

Good piece of kit. Also works as a 2in-2out usb audio interface, has built-in microphones, works as a control surface for a DAW and is a limited looper and sequencer. 

https://www.soundonsound.com/reviews/zoom-r8

Very tempted,  I need to think where I would use it.

3 hours ago, LeftyP said:

Some people spend thousands on weddings but this intimate marriage really focused the mind.  Hopefully, once the Covid stuff has subsided, we can hold a party for them at church.  It was a privilege to be a small part of it.

I wish them the very, very best. The daughter of one of our church families was due to be married in April down south. They had also not been living together,  but had bought a house and needed to move out of their respective rentals. They had a religious service in the back garden in June,  just them and the parents with the minister on zoom and a couple of hundred other virtual guests as well. It is not legal in the eyes of the law, but they made their commitments and as far as they are concerned that's their wedding day. Legal service next week, and reception next year 🙂

1 hour ago, LukeFRC said:

Check - but I think you can record inside the building As long as all the risk assessments are done, you are socially distanced and only one person sings.

i think we’re planning on playing and streaming live

That's my understanding too. Our big youth event is a week's camp which isn't happening offsite but will be a week's events on video.  The band are planning to lead the worship live from the church, spread right out along the stage with the vocalist facing away from everyone. 

35 minutes ago, Stub Mandrel said:

But it's also Billy Talbot's surname 🙂

I recognised the Crazy Horse image, but not the name. Googled, read, and now educated 👍

6 minutes ago, Stub Mandrel said:

No, but it does make me think what could be done by developing the idea of bass duets.

That's the sort of thing BandLab would be good for. 

2 hours ago, Si600 said:

But now it looks like you have very carefully thought ahead and made the top section of the fore edge deliberately replaceable so that when it gets damaged you won't have to replace the entire structure, just that one piece of wood.  "Designed for repair and maintainability"
Very clever and advanced thinking 👍

Of course, it could actually be their secret weapon in the battle against Covid-19.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-53274152

5 minutes ago, Newfoundfreedom said:

The bass playing was great. The melody track on the other hand..... Ouch!

Exactly! When I watched it through the first time it was all questions and the whole thing seemed bizarre. Having listened again,  and just listened, then I agree completely. The bass is great, it's everything else that seems bizarre. 

3 minutes ago, wateroftyne said:

I don't even know where to start with that. All I have are questions.

Likewise. What, why, how, why??? 🤔 

I tried again from scratch. Went to Ticketmaster, searched on Drive in, then filtered by city, and he was on the second page. Try that route.

Screenshot below to prove that I'm not making this all up.

Slightly off topic, but Gary Numan is playing a drive-in gig at Resorts World by the NEC.

https://www2.theticketfactory.com/default/online/default.asp?sToken=1%2C1b17ca4a%2C5efdb934%2C5F804FEC-73F2-41CE-8F52-99288F251597%2CT03yWk1gnZhGeHVE6h0KpHwN8pE%3D&BOset::WScontent::SearchResultsInfo::current_page=2&doWork::WScontent::getPage=&BOparam::WScontent::getPage::article_id=042454E0-9C2A-4C05-A960-E47706AD10F5

https://www.theticketfactory.com/default/online/seatselect.asp

"Here in my car, I feel safest of all..." 😁

@Frank Blank,  @Stub Mandrel @TheMaartian

This arrived randomly on YT's Autoplay:

That's a band that can ROCK!

Just noticed your signature @martthebass 🙂   Mine would be "Not enough of either"

I borrowed that from the Birmingham record library in 1983! I was doing sound for a play and wanted #6 "After the butler breaks wind". It was scratched and sounded like "As the butler excretes sandpaper".

We had to make our own silence, the director was very kind but it was never quite as good as I hoped. 😥

 My offer to do it in Lightworks still stands if you get stuck, but it sounds like you're sorted.👍

Will the service be on YouTube or such? There's a lot of affection for Penrallt from the Shirley Baptist Massive.

As long as you haven't changed the timing of the audio, then everything can be synched back up. Maybe not in iMovie, but easily enough in Lightworks which I use all the time. I'm happy to take one and work in parallel with you and see where we get.

Hi @owen,

I can probably cut one video for you, possibly both, though that would be tight on time depending on when/if  you need them for final assembly into a longer sermon. 

Is there a cloud drive where you have the audio and video and I can take a look? PM me if this would work for you.

Rich