Stub Mandrel

Perhaps the initial experiments could start with ash, alder and maple...

Lots of people make stunning, beautiful, eminently playable and gorgeous sounding basses. A minority of those people are also excellent salespersons and become rich and famous. That's all I'll say on the matter for now.

Can't resist sharing this pic. Haven't got many pics with me and my rig!

Signed out, saw only Rotosound ads (one very annoying as it keeps cycling). Signed in, got six new message notifications for messages up to a year or more old that I've already read...

Personally, I got fed up with worrying about this stuff years ago. I just ticked OK and got on with life. But all this discussion piqued my interest. I see that despite being a recently renewed supporting member Adblock is blocking 17 items on this page. But turning adblock off doesn't make them visible. So what are these invisibles? Incidentally, I have 'show acceptable ads' enabled in Adblock.

It is if you don't want to sign in afresh every time you visit the site.

So info on this page is no longer correct? @ped https://www.basschat.co.uk/cookies/

When improvising I use: Root-fifth-b7-octave until I know if its major or minor. Pentatonic minor Mixylodian mode Major scale Minor scale Pentatonic major Chromatic But with blues you use loads of accidentals e.g. adding b5 to the major or blurring the lines between major and minor. Most of this just happens automatically, you have to listen wjere the guitar is heading. Should add the big choice with blues is do you play a riff based line in various positions or a walking line (or some sort of hybrid).

Last night my partner was live streaming Hawkwind and a notification popped up "Dai Shell is watching" 😎🤣

Phil Campbell and the Bastard Sons supporting Hawkwind. Double header of my dreams 😁 front row too 😎

I shall share that with my partner 😁

Last night.

I use post-eq di so I get a decent say in my sound foh. I always start with eq pretty much flat and boost what's needed for a good sound. Saturday afternoon in a field needed extra bass as not through pa. Evening in front of a wall in a long thin pub mids needed boosting. Sunday on a proper stage, pretty much flat but a tiny amount of boost to treble and bass, hit the sweet spot as when I switched to my jazz was able to really change my sound with the controls on the bass and hand placement. Fwiw that's the real test. If your rig/pa sound is unbalanced, you will struggle to achieve a range of tones.

Tasteful!

Hope your dad is ok. I see what you mean... looks like a fag!

Well given the number of fires caused by inadequate speaker connections I'm not surprised action had to be taken...

Today, the big room at the Earl Haig. Got a last minute call saying venue PA is out, can we bring our own. Caught alex on phone just as he was leaving, so sorted. But meant late set up. Opened to punters at 5, very empty big hall with maybe a dozen or so as we got close to soundchecking. A few verses of Johnny B. Goode with ten minutes to go and more like 20-25 people. Got a cheer, but then nervous discussion about rain, bank holidays and record numbers going away for the weekend. It's a pay to enter gig and we were worried we mighg play to a couple of dozen people. We need not have worried, it didn't get packed but we had as many people in as I've seen for one of these Sunday gigs. First song was ok, second was Oh Pretty Woman and my sound was glorious, huge throaty growl. Went down a treat. All three of us played the best we ever have, Alex's vocals have really strengthened and his guitar work was on fire. We had a great time and really put on a show. Tried to finish on time but no option but to do two encores. Afterwards great feedback, happy punters, happy venue and very happy band. That was definitely the best gig I've played ever, just felt spot on. Downhill all the way now! 🤣

So did my two Dep gigs with Up To Eleven. A rocky covers band doing unashamed crowd pleasers. First was a local fete second a rugby club so very different crowds! Despite most people just carrying on doing bouncy castle, space hoppers cake eating etc. We had a good receptive audience for the fete if far away! Not helped by the damp but the rain held off. The club crowd ebbed and flowed, times were 8 to 10 which was unusual! Lots of very rowdy dancing and singing and it really was good fun. I did get lost when they did a medley of play that funky music and superstition and changed songs a verse early...

My first two deps 4pm and 8pm today! No safety net!

I fitted a blackout blind instead of curtains. But light still gets in around the edges.

After >9 hours of rehearsals in four days (plus practice at home) Ibuprofen is your friend...

It really works on bare wood. The hot water softens the fibres, then as it becomes steam and expands it forces the fibres to push out. If done right they keep their shape. I was surprised how well it worked.

Fair enough, but I'm not crazy! Someone posted notation for Dancing Queen on Facebook yesterday... with a note to play it a semitone flat!

My better half met me because she came to one of our gigs to see if we were worth booking, so she understands! 🙂 She's coming to all three of my gigs at the weekend as she's never seen the dep band and the Sunday gig is at our favourite venue... but we go to see a band she book on Friday and Son of Man, Phil Campbell and the Bastard Sons, and Hawkwind on Monday. What a weekend!

Not trying to be dense, but why not just teanscribe in C and add a note to play half a tone up?