Richard R

Excellent! Don't need a big rig to be honest. With so many basses about folks generally keep the volume down so we can all hear ourselves/not embarras ourselves 😁

Quick - create two more accounts and vote "definitely not" with both of them to counteract your earlier mistake. This stuff matters.

I just hide behind a pillar and try to play the right notes!

A rare breed - do you wear a hat on stage?

That, and because we're sensible, hard working and dilligent musicians, not attention-seaking lead guitarists 😎

Hi, Get any decent USB audio interface aroind the £100 mark and plug the bass straight in, or via an amp simulation pedal, and use headphones. Your recording will be much better than trying to mic up a cab, you will be able to balance your bass volume to the other tracks in your headphones, and most importantly your wife's headaches will go.

I had heard the same origin story, and you're right about the term changing over time now I think about it. To pick up @hiram.k.hackenbacker's point, I think the reason people want to subcategorise music, films, etc., is because we naturally want to understand what we like and what we don't, and often those distinctions are very fine. Without analysing every song or piece of muisc individually, we want and need a way to group things together. If those who like "metal" can hear generally applicable trends and differences between songs they have categorised as "thrash" and "speed", and it improves their communication about the music they like, good for them. We don't need to join in, and equally we don't need to be dismissive. Every hobby has it's subdivisions.

Which brings us onto the question of what defines Heavy Metal, as distinct from Hard or Heavy Rock. I have no idea, except that I like the latter but not the former... 😉

Belated greetings!

Welcome aboard! You mentioned the cab, but what's your bass? Come on man, don't be shy! Anything from a pristine Tanglewood to a knackered Alembic, everything welcome here. 😁

Welcome aboard Step away from the marketplace. 🤣🤣

Welcome aboard! Hope to see you at the Midlands Bass Bash:

Excellent! By then I hope to have sold the S-max and bought something sporty and impractical instead, so we may not be able to all pile in together.

S'what it says in the rules: 😳 Events Members often organise 'Bass Bashes' all over the country. We also attend major music shows and events. This is your chance to meet a Basschatter in the flesh. Clothes optional.

But when he said that, Rorschach wasn't actually wearing his face. 😉

Simplified version, for those of us that don't play jazz: https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/203221794216

Welcome aboard! Interesring guitar. You'll probably get more replies/ answers if you post the questions in the Bass Guitar thread, lots more people there who can help. (This thread is more like the lobby to welcome people.)

Like the paint. That's going to look great under lights 🤘

Collecting Dust - Recycling - Basschat Small pots with desiccant in the lid, ideal for collecting wood dust. Or small screws, or little beetles, or whatever. Don't want them to just go to landfill so advertised in the free recycling thread.

I have 32 of these small pots, ideal for collecting dust in. If you think that's ridiculous then you should probably spend more time in the build diaries thread! They are about the same size as 35mm film canisters, maybe a little smaller, but the cap has a dessicant in to help keep the contents dry. They are the canisters that blood test strips for diabetics come in, and I get through a pot of 50 in about 12 days. I'll post them in batches of eight, as they are too thick to post as letters so will have to go as small parcel, and it's not worth posting ones or twos. PM me if interested, and if you miss out then more will be along soon.

That's a very classy place to put your monogram 👍

Welcome aboard! For some reason the idea of a Fake Gibson named Givson amuses me no end. Plenty of fake Fenders about here too.

Welcome aboard! Love Barcelona, one of my favourite cities 👍

Welcome aboard! Though if you're still on the canal perhaps that greeting is irrelevant 😁