Stub Mandrel

Hard to give a rational reason but it puts me off too... Not an issue with Adam Clayton, I like the bass but I'd want it to look more 'vintage' - like the Flea that just has an engraving on the neck plate.

I'm reminded of the old Arion effects that were all 'stereo'. Fine for the Chorus, but a stereo compressor? As far as I could see it split the signal into wet and dry channels. Wish I still had it, I used that pedal live for years. It was probably crap... But the point is the three easiest ways to make a mono source stereo: Use the pan control to position it on the sound stage. Use a true stereo effect to split it into two close but different signals in each channel. Use two microphones (or di and one mic) to record so one is close up and one is 'roomy' with more ambience.

Blend means you can't get either of the classic 'hollow' both pups on full sound, or my usual neck full on, bridge ~20% sound. It's interesting, I often gig a p-bass and rarely back it's tone off, butwhen gigging a Jazz I often tweak the settings. Being able to set both pups full when stuck under an electrically noisy light fitting is gold too.

Nice mwah

Expensive is so relative. The two basses I paid over my 'expensive' threshold, were both made possible because I completed large chunks of work. I've been through long periods where spending £50-100 could mean many months of saving. I am having to be careful now, as I need as many savings as possible to buy somewhere when dad's house is sold and split three ways. So those two big purchases (and my rig) were really special; both were cheaper alternatives to genuine vintage instruments I could never afford but give me a feeling of connection to music I love.

Hmmm...

Good god! Makes spaceflight look simple. That was awesome... I hate musicals but I'd love to see that!

Great idea! Good luck.

I would live to play my AVII enough that the finish starts to wear off it. Aside from that I like rotating basses, especially to rehearsals. Took my Epiphone Embassy to a rehearsal for one band. They couldn't believe its looks or sound and asked e to play it at every gig...

Any correlation between Chris' hand movements and te vass sound appear entirely coincidental...

Yes and maybe. If you wire two in series they may work at 9V, but these £2 cheapies rely on the internal resistance of the power source to limit current.

Oh no it doesn't! 😁

A Honer B2 is the equivalent of a Steinberger Spirit these days, which retail at about $400. We live in glory days of inexpensive basses.

To me, expensive means paying more than you need to. So I'm firmly at £1,000 as that's where the law of diminishing returnd really kicks in. These days you can buy a bass perfectly capable of the standard required for any stage in the world for comfortably under £1k. I paid over that for a couple of basses and a couple that would have been more new. The extra pays for things that aren't actually necessary that take them into the realm of being luxury items where you choose to pay more. 25 years ago or more, you had to pay proportionally a lot more to get something of the quality you can get for £500-£750 these days.

Thanks. We're home now and she's sleeping at last.

Excellent, hope it's a banger!

It's also a demonstration that although high mass is different, different doesn't automatically mean better.

A few things have got in the way! I'm sitting next to my partner in hospital, she broke her humerus. Hopefully heading home soon, but as I will be at hers* for about a week things are on hold! *I'm not sure she would appreciate me setting everything up in her lounge.

Looks a cool venue. How did you tame the drums on stage? Surely you didn't actually get a drummer to tone it down?

On selling tickets, seems I missed out on a banger of a gig by my brother's covers band & support on Friday. 110 capacity, the sold 100 tickets at £8 in advance and kept back 10 for the night. They worried about struggling to sell them.

This is all fascinating.

This is interesting. Apparently in the early years those exported to the uk had the spelling 'Hofner' to downplay their German origin at a time when that was disadvantageous in the UK. In English the nearest equivalent of ö is œ. I posted a link to the German pronunciation above, closer to 'herfner' than 'hoffner' although the latter is almost universal in the UK. Œ is often pronounced as an 'e' in the UK (compare 'Phœbe'), I suspect Hugh Heffner's original family was closer to 'Höfner'.

Luvvit!

Nice lateral thinking.

Thanks Bill lots of useful stuff there. As far as I can tell the transducer in the horn is pretty well aligned with the main driver, so I'll experiment with changing its polarity to see what happens.