Velarian

That’s a bit special. I bet it goes for a bit more than the starting bid. Drool 🤤

I get the hi-hat bit but surely the lower frequency tuba hum would be less directional and not give much clue as to where the scooter was coming from?

YouTube is your friend here as there are loads of videos on all aspects of how to do set ups. The only thing that does my head in is, having committed to metric measurements a long time ago, many of the US videos insist on quoting imperial measurements which just confuses the hell out me. 😂

Like most people I’ll happily do truss rod, bridge saddle height/intonation adjustments and perhaps a little light nut tweaking. I’ve installed a couple of KiOgon solderless wiring looms and adjusted pickup heights but that’s about it. I’ve yet to do any fret work. I did put a bitsa p bass together which involved plugging and re drilling the neck bolts and also positioning the bridge and shielding the body cavities. I learned a lot from that process and would recommend it to any one wanting to learn more about the instrument

I’m the same. BITD it was a p-bass, new roundwounds, tone fully up, played hard with a pick. Nowadays it’s tone rolled off about halfway, older strings or even flatwounds, finger style. I agree it’s a taste thing. My musical preferences have mellowed over the last four decades.

There is some truth in this. One drummer I knew used to joke that he had too much blood in his alcohol stream. Sadly he passed away a few weeks ago. It takes its toll eventually. 😕

Proper laugh out loud moment there 😂😂😂

The sunburst is lined but they’re very subtle.

I've just remembered another story which happened to my mate's band. Before I get in to the detail, I should just preface the story by saying that this event occurred prior to the much stricter firearms controls that were introduced in the 90s. After I'd quit gigging I often helped out with my mate's band with the sound on some gigs and, like many bands, there was always a few hangers on who ingratiated themselves and tagged along to gigs. They were always tolerated because it was useful to have extra hands to lug equipment about. In this particular case a lad starting coming to gigs and, as it later turned out, he was a bit of a nutter. It wasn't the gig itself that was the train wreck but the aftermath was. This lad was ex-forces and thought it was a bit macho to carry around a blank-firing pistol that looked pretty authentic. He suggested to the band that it might make a great finale to the gig if he came through the crowd at the end of last song and pretended to shoot at the band! With hindsight they foolishly agreed and sure enough, at the end of the gig this is what happened. He let off a few blanks and the band collapsed on the stage with guitars ending in a cacophony. It had the desired effect and it was pretty shocking. What nobody had realised was that a week or so before, in the same town someone had actually walked in to a bar and let off a couple of barrels of a shotgun so, needless to say, there was extra sensitivity about this issue. What also didn't help was that after the gig, when the van was being loaded up this idiot also let off a couple of blanks in the car park of the venue. When we ready to leave my mate said that the venue had asked him to hang on for half an hour whilst they cashed up so that they could be paid. So instead, we piled in to the van and went off to find something to eat. When we arrived back at the venue to collect payment, there were police vehicles everywhere. There were floodlights erected in the car park and a line of police officers on their hands and knees looking for spent cartridges. Needless to say we were all detained and taken off to the local nick. It was quickly established who the main culprit was and he was taken away for questioning. There were around 8 or 9 of us left sitting on the floor making the custody suite look untidy. Looking back I think the Police were remarkably easy going with us and it didn't feel very serious. They even made us a cup of tea but when we'd finished one of the lads put his cup on the floor and pushed it away with his foot - it fell over and broke, which was really embarrassing but it still didn't elicit any adverse response. After a couple of hours of questioning the lad managed to convince them that it was just an ill-advised prank. He received a warning and we were allowed to leave without any further action. We were then escorted to the county border by a couple of police cars complete with blue lights! We breathed a sigh of relief 😳

Awesome tale 😂😂😂

Thanks, it’s great. As you can imagine with a Japanese Fender, the construction and build quality is excellent. The the neck feels slim and everything you’d expect of a Jazz neck. I’ve got Dunlop super-bright round wounds on it and it’s got plenty of mwah, and sounds lovely. The only thing I didn’t like with it as stock was that the tone control was pretty ineffective and there was no noticeable roll-off of the highs. So, I replaced the wiring loom with a KiOgon VVT with series/parallel push-pull tone pot. Plenty of tonal options. I’m not thinking of parting with it at the moment but you never know. If I do decide to move it on I’ll certainly let you know.

Yep I’ve got one. I picked it up off eBay last year. It was for sale for a while and kept getting re-listed so temptation got the better of me and I pulled the trigger. I’m glad I did, it’s my go-to fretless now.

Going back four decades now our keyboard player had borrowed a synth off mate for a gig. As luck would have it our normal gig van was out of action and the only thing we could get our hands on was a open-back drop-side Transit with a tarpaulin cover. We loaded all the gear and set off to the gig. Of course the heavens opened and it poured with rain and if sod’s law wasn’t already playing its dastardly hand it turns out there was a rip in the tarpaulin, and just to rub it in even further this rip was right where the borrowed synth was. When we unloaded the gear the synth was completely waterlogged and unusable😩. Afterwards we spent a couple of weeks avoiding the guy who’d lent us the synth in a desperate attempt to let it dry out naturally before giving him it back. It turned out OK in the end and he was none the wiser! 😂

I was wondering how you were getting on, both bass and injury-wise. Best wishes for a speedy recovery and hopefully warmer weather won’t be too far away. I seem recall a few years ago we had a cracking week one March where the temperature was pushing mid-twenties celsius. It would be nice to repeat that. Wishful thinking I know, but I like to live in hope. 😊

Notwithstanding that we maybe talking about trademark infringement rather than copyright, isn’t this analogous to YouTube dealing with copyright claims? People regularly post content who’s IP is owned by others. The owner can notify YT and they oblige by taking the content down but if there is no challenge then it stays up. I think, In the case of BC, if there was a clear notice setting out the basis on which Rick adverts can be posted (i.e. genuine items only) and someone then posts an ad in contravention of those terms then BC could not be seen to be soliciting such content. It would be incumbent on the Rick people to serve a cease and desist notice and as long as BC reacts to such requests then I can’t imagine any court awarding punitive damages. Companies regularly serve cease and desist notices and might only take action if the notice is not acted upon. This would put the onus on the Rick people to police this rather than the mods of the forum. N.B. This is in no way an informed legal view, just what seems sensible to me.

Don’t forget the earthquakes.

I have a Nu-X Mighty Plug which has amp sims and effects and allows a device like an iPad or phone to connect via Bluetooth to stream music to play along to. It also has built in drum loops and a metronome. https://smile.amazon.co.uk/NUX-MP2-Might-Plug-simulation/dp/B084JB519R/ref=mp_s_a_1_1?crid=3SQTP6200GS5O&keywords=nux+mighty+plug&qid=1642512957&sprefix=nux+mihht%2Caps%2C1001&sr=8-1 I can’t comment on the best headphones to use but I don’t think Bluetooth headphones would work very well as there would be latency between your playing and what you’re hearing. With a device like the Nu-x which plugs directly into the bass it’s only a short headphone lead anyway so it’s not really a problem.

The bass has now been relished with a £50 higher starting price! Cloud-cuckoo land.

Looks like it could have started life as a Squier Tele but it’s heavily modified. Two of the pictures are actually a p-bass, perhaps the back of the dodgy one?

Make sure the seller isn’t charging local VAT in their price to you otherwise you’ll end up paying VAT twice. If it’s for export they should supply ex-VAT. As far as I’m aware the courier will act as an agent for HMRC and you’ll pay them. In other words, they won’t deliver the item until you’ve paid them for all import duties, VAT, oh and probably their admin fee for processing all of that!

I came across this guy a couple of weeks ago listening to the Pat Metheny track Minuano. I found his incessant analysis a bit annoying though, but I guess that’s his USP. He was listening to it with a friend of his and she was just really enjoying the music and getting off on it. Listening to this track is more of an acquired taste but on some other, more mellow stuff he’s done he made me laugh when he pulled out either a bong or a pipe and smoked some weed. 😂

That would be my guess too.

Ambitious! 👏

If anyone goes to have a look at the album cover to remind themselves of what the fuss is all about, could they also be charged with making a copy of an abusive image? Quite ridiculous but one to avoid I should think!

The right-angle jack plug is described as “offering a smooth form fitting profile”. It looks like this might be somewhat proprietary and I wonder whether other right-angled jacks would fit properly. The cable could become a single point of failure and replacing it could be problematic. I’m not entirely convinced about this particular bit of the design as it doesn’t seem like they’ve thought through all of the use cases. Time will tell I guess.