Wombat

Yup, I’ve always left it as ‘I’m the sound man’ and sometimes I need a little more without tweaking the desk. And the desk is set for me to have the stomp at 12 o’clock generally. Possibly need to rethink that logic…

My HX Stomp ‘died’ during a gig. Lights on but no output. 3 songs left so pulled my cable out and went straight to the desk (small pub, no back line). Spent the rest of the gig wondering how expensive it was going to be, and then how I was going to replace it for the wedding gig we had the following weekend. Got home, had a sleepless night, but in the morning realised I’d pushed the volume down when I put the tuner on! 🤦‍♂️. Did make me realise that a ‘spare would be a good idea!

I’m still not 100% certain I can attend but I was going to bring my Livetrack-12, NUX MG-30 & Stomp so people can have an idea of what ‘no amp’ can sound like. And be able to play as loud as they like without annoying anyone else. I have a few spare earbud tips and wet wipes but remember to stick your own headphones/earbuds in! Also if anyone is thinking of travelling from Bromley/Orpington area I have space in the car!

I ended up using a PC to contact them to start with. Whilst the contact button appeared on my phone and iPad it didn’t do anything. The contact took me to a ‘chat’ and a real person came on quite quickly. But although it suggested I was chatting with the vendor you could tell that it was an ‘Aliexpress’ person. I just said I hadn’t received what I thought I should and they raised a ‘return’ for me but I didn’t have to send anything back and I got emails about a refund that day and the money a couple of days later. There is a return/refund button so you can do it yourself. I just needed to upload a photo. I did this with the packaging in the shot as it was obviously too small to have the pedal in it. For you you have a product that is different to what you (thought you) bought. You can show a screenshot of what you bought. For me the description constantly showed ‘chocolate pedal AND wireless’. I did buy my KZ earbuds from Ali and that went fine. But although I got my money back pretty easily - the chat person said ‘so I can buy the right thing’ - I’m not enthused to buy anything else from there.

Aye, I was trying to buy a M-VAVE chocolate midi foot controller- just to have a bit of (cheap) fun seeing how midi works. But I ended up with just the wireless midi bit! Going back in I saw what they did - give you a pick of the foot controller with several options, with the cheapest being ‘not what you thought you bought’ (the wireless dongle on its own in this case). I did think I was going to have a fight over it and have the hassle of returning it but they just refunded my £10. Turns out if I want the foot pedal that’s another £27. And now I have a wireless midi dongle and no way to use it 🤷‍♀️😂.

We're young but we fart?

The foam has long since rotted and I can’t remember what it sounded like before. This bass has been in my brothers wardrobe for the last 20 odd years 😂. And Headlessbassist made me realise that it WAS Marcus Miller that I saw resting on the pup cover! Saw him at Koko in London last month! 😂

And literally no one has said why we take them off! Are we just sheep? I saw someone recently rest their palm on the pup cover while they slapped. Seemed a neat way to avoid damping the strings accidentally?

Thank you for your thoughts. I did think about the weight saving for the boat anchor of a P bass in question. But then decided I was a bit of a muppet thinking it would make a difference. Any thoughts on the type of tape to use? I don’t want to ruin the chrome, but I also don’t want the tape failing over time and losing the screws 🤷‍♀️.

So, most of us take the pick up covers and or bridge covers off. Various reasons but please discuss! My question however is…. Do you put the screws back in holes in the bass (so they don’t get lost and the holes don’t get filled with crap (technical term))?, or Do you store them carefully with the removed items (and then find you’ve lost them when you go back to having the items on the bass)? Answers on a postcard….

What sleepless nights?

You could put them in the raffle? 😉

They REALLY are Pirates 😂

Loss leader owned by Russian (insert county of your choice) billionaire?

You’ve taken two of your favourite basses in but the inferno starts up! Which one do you save?!?

Just bought a multieffect from Pete. Great comms, easy transaction, goods as described and received quickly. Thanks Pete!

Ooo, had a quick chat with him at the Bass Show in Birmingham. Very nice chap!

Year started playing: 1978 Number of basses: 4 (if my wife is reading this) (7, shhh) Music theory: 4 Technique: 7 (if I'm not being lazy) Groove: 6

SMILE! Big cheesy one otherwise you can’t see it from more than 10 ft away. Makes you look like you are enjoying yourself and if you look like you are it helps the punters enjoy themselves too. Doesn’t matter if you don’t feel like it but every ‘concentration face’ (that you (anyone!!) would naturally make) will make you look moody & distant. I’ll echo look just over peoples heads until you feel comfortable to actually make eye contact. People will still think you are looking at them and feel ‘engaged’. And, above all, have fun… You will smash it!

Happy memories for me as I was in my 1st band recording our 1st album that day. As the drummer and I had been well rehearsed (because of studio costs at the time) we were finished quite quickly and so watched most of it in a side alcove off the Control Room.

It's Matt the Wombat for the next person who knows how to post in the list....

Me please!

I’d be interested.

I use a Stomp so completely change my rig by pushing a footswitch. Patch for slap with compression etc. I do find however that at some venues I use different patches as the tone I ‘wanted’ isn’t the one I ‘need’, if that makes sense! But it’s great to be able to switch from eg a GK to an Orange ‘just like that’ though. Alternatively, when practicing with my P I find when I use a pick by rolling the tone off 1/4 I ‘mimmick’ the tone o had with my fingers. Each to their own of course!