Stub Mandrel

A pub we've played a couple of times before, really small and challenging to set up in. Before we started it was prety much at capacity (that's not a huge number of people!) Went really well. At the end we finished with Purple Rain and everyone was singing along to the wo-oh-oh-ohs. Never had so many people doing the rounds to say how much they enjoyed it and even buying us drinks. Even the landlord came and congratulated us all. Nice 😁

I use one of those, silly cheap and never had an issue with it.

Go a gig at my boomiest venue on Sunday. Stone flag floor, awkward layout, two bare walls facing each other exactly one 110Hz wavelength apart...

That's why people should use the median salary, 50% of people earn less, 50% earn more. The median average salary for all workers in the UK is £25,971.

Hopin' y'all get yo' hugz!!

The lovely (I may be biased) Ms. Stubette has asked me to say: "thank you for making me feel welcome, lovely food and a very interesting day, thank you". I think she enjoyed your company folks 😊

That bastard blank baled before I could steal his Jabba 😞

"What sort of job do you want?" "A total doss. Something requiring minimal qualifications, skill and knowledge, no real work, just sitting round chatting to people and making things up off the top of my head. I thought, maybe I could get a job as a careers officer."

Me Jabbaring:

My elf had its vital stats taken at today's bass bash. Looks like a slight mid scoop. Warwick Gnome looked like the himalayas...

Absolutely, excellent organisation, scrumptious nosh great company. Even the non-bassy Ms. Stubette enjoyed the bash 😁 Some random pics, one is my Elf being tested!

May not be there until after 10:30, so @Frank BlankB lan k I'll be relying on you to keep discipline. what has happened to my formatting!

Flea jazz, epiphone embassy and anniversary Squier P in drop D. With new fender nickels the jazz was at the top of its game.

Just done an lf, as we've both had cold symptoms from Wednesday. Negative 🙂

I've made the wise decision to take the same stuff tomorrow as my gig yesterday, plus a few bits. Means I don't have to go back to base today.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=124I9Ps2Ow0

Not a huge crowd last night, but very appreciative. Three basses is a lot, but sound frombthe terror/AT212 was grest with new or nearly new strings on all three.

Feel I ought to bring one of my brace of Hohner headlesses...

Tip: Not beans on toast.

Actually this was last night... Laurence Jones at Cardiff Globe supported by the Mark Pontin Group, a blues-tastic evening! This vid features Alex Ainsworth, whose band I play bass with, guesting with Mark Pontin.

It's all about never having an opportunity to play with the band at gig volumes for a whole afternoon doing nothing but set up my sound and diddle with pedals! I might suggest we have a rehearsal dedicated to playing with our sounds ratehr than songs.

I have stopped using compression - even though my compressor has the general quality of being a 'better knob' (I suspect it limits my bottom end bringing out the overtones rather than killing them). I use it with everything at, or close to 12 o'clock - largely on the basis that most pedals are designed to work best at middle settings and the extremes are usually exactly that (classic example, the HM2 where everything dialled is the classic tone, simply because it is so extreme!) This bit of your link possibly explains why: I set the gain on my hybrid amp (Bass Terror) individually for each bass so that I can go from a clean sound to an overdriven one by digging in, and get real dirt/clank if I need it (almost exclusively fingerstyle player). I suspect a compressor could make finding that point more difficult and make me have to work harder to change between the sounds with my technique. Thoughts?

To the right of the PA speaker on the bar, under my headstock - lit up. What a ridiculously cramped venue - we did three sundays in a row, playing to a virtually empty place 😞 But they liked us, and we got booked for another one of their chain as a result. Twice the fee, and it was rammed...

I can't understand why some peple feel so strongly about jazz vs precision. I've decided I like both, although they are different.