Twigman

Then the shielding went in - the bridge earth was soldered to a tag which is screwed down in a rout under the bridge with shielding foil ensuring connection to the underside of the bridge.

progress.......tuners went on

http://www.facebook.com/pages/Sad-Lovers-Giants/104860292879894 Here is ours again!! Only 998,556 to go to get to the[i] first [/i]million 'likes'. there is another page run by a fan which has more 'likes' than our official page http://www.facebook.com/pages/Sad-Lovers-and-Giants/70192439636 How did a fan's page get more than 1000 'likes' more than our official page?

Can you bypass the pre-amp by selecting a passive mode perhaps?

[quote name='mushers' timestamp='1337961312' post='1668131'] when i have spoken to hmrc i have had very different answers to the same question from different people it can be a minefield [/quote] I am an accountant by day. This is very normal for HMRC. Even their website carries exactly contradictory information on certain topics - sometimes only 2 or 3 paragraphs apart on the same web page . It is my belief that all advice is deliberately ambiguous so that all their bases are covered and they leave things open so that they can interpret 'law' whatever way they see fit (in whatever way will generate them the most revenue). Tax law is NEVER black and white, only all shades of grey.

[quote name='Phantomnin' timestamp='1337940082' post='1667619'] Why? Because bass is not the instrument people start on. [/quote] Rubbish!

[quote name='WalMan' timestamp='1337950707' post='1667915'] You are lucky then. They should have stopped it after 5 years if not sooner. [/quote] i think if you can show them recording/publishing contracts etc then they let you carry on. I did get a letter once a long time ago and sent them copies of these.

[url="http://www.gak.co.uk/en/fishman-pro-eq-platinum-bass-instrument-preamp-eq-di/2538"]http://www.gak.co.uk/en/fishman-pro-eq-platinum-bass-instrument-preamp-eq-di/2538[/url] next day delivery from GAK ???

[quote name='WalMan' timestamp='1337934215' post='1667516'] Although the chances are that HMRC will (or should) if not immediately then within the first few years of such claims knock you set off claims back on the grounds that you are not "trading with a view to a profit". [/quote] In 30 years they've not complained. Not made a profit once in any of those years.

If you collect all your receipts from the rehearsal studio, the money you spend on your basses/guitars/saxaphones/, all the money you spend on your music software oh and the equipment you need for your home demo studio then unless you are making reasonable returns from gigs I would imagine most folk make a loss. If all of this is declared on your tax return and offset against your music income then you will get tax relief on your losses and a mice cheque from HMRC.

XLR to TRSjack is balanced too

Ok so the bushes are in.... I had to use the nickel bushes from the Fender Vintage set because I sanded the tuner reams open a little too much the other night for the Gotoh nickel bushes...DOH!! [despite the tech specs suggesting that the Gotoh bushes are 0.1mm wider!!] Still no harm done really...

The Gotoh res-o-lite GBR640 things are here. featherweight and rather yummy:

BBC Radio 4

[quote name='markstuk' timestamp='1337707293' post='1664348'] Remember saying this? "Many keyboard players may have a piano at home on which they hone their skills but may not have keyboards per se. I doubt they'd call the removers to transport a piano to audition." [/quote] Of course....that is an explanation of why a keyboard player might not have a keyboard to bring to an audition. Neither did the chap who got the job in my band. Now that he has the job he gets to 'keep' our D50 and also now has several other keyboards of his own (none of which get used with us).

[quote name='markstuk' timestamp='1337705262' post='1664315'] But the image of keys players practicing on a grand piano at home and only getting onto an Virus/Moog in the studio or provided by the band is, I suspect, abnormal.. [/quote] LOL Once the keyboard player got the job, he became custodian of the keyboard...and he actually does get to take it home and use it between rehearsals!!

[quote name='markstuk' timestamp='1337702700' post='1664256'] The point I'm gently trying to make is that you seem to want a keyboard operator rather than someone who brings something creative to the party.. [/quote] No We recently did recruit a new key player. Of course it's important that someone brings creativity to the party but it's also impossible to perform our back catalogue on a Moog (for example) so during audtion the audtionees were provided with the correct synth and instructed which sounds play which songs. We also spent some time jamming to test spontaneity and creativity. Maybe you would call it an operator but even playing preprogrammed patches there was much difference between the auditionees. I can't understand how we might have auditioned a keyboard player on anything but the synth that creates the live and recorded sound. We don't want our back catalogue re-arranged by an auditionee.

[quote name='markstuk' timestamp='1337700861' post='1664200']Ah, keys as the special effects/weird noises department.[/quote] No - not at all. In the band I play in keys are far from sound effects and weird noises - they are often melodicand often textural. We attempt to replicate as close as we can the records we made. Those records were (mostly) made using sounds that we have programmed into our keyboard. The songs would not sound right with some other sound being made by the keys. [quote name='markstuk' timestamp='1337700861' post='1664200'] .. Also, like most musicians I would like to make my own noise, not press the buttons for someone elses patches... [/quote] Would you expect to use your own sounds when performing songs that have previously been released on record by the band?

Actually I'm not going to use the Fender Vintage RI nickel tuners. They are going to be too heavy. Luckily I have not drilled any holes yet.... So in a rush of madenss I have a set of Gotoh GBR640 tuners on their way to me. [66grams each!!!! That's 2/3 the weight of the Schaller BMLs i used last time!!] The Fender Vintage Nickel reverse wind tuners will be sold.....soon....probably.

[quote name='ZMech' timestamp='1337676691' post='1663664'] In terms of providing keyboards for an audition, I'd say the fault lies equally with both parties, since neither of them thought to clarify that the other understood what the situation would be. Not even owning a keyboard yourself though as a player is generally pretty strange, although very common with my mates at uni. [/quote] [quote name='wally8' timestamp='1337672350' post='1663605'] That is a bit bizzare turning up for a audition as a instrument player and not bringing your gear, unless the band stipulate. Ive tried out as a singer before expecting the rehearsal space to have a PA which is usually the norm and the band looked at me as if i was the weirdo not bringing a full PA with me to sing through!!!! Luckily i had a mic and lead and sang through a guitar amp - that sounded doggers [/quote] [quote name='ThomBassmonkey' timestamp='1337604289' post='1662548'] I'd say so, having your own instrument is part of the job. How would you practice if you don't own an instrument? Edit: Wewt, 2000th post! [/quote] I hear you but I think keyboards is different. Many keyboard players may have a piano at home on which they hone their skills but may not have keyboards per se. I doubt they'd call the removers to transport a piano to audition. Keyboards are capable of such a huge range of sounds that it is likely that a keyboard owned may not be capable of making the right noises for the songs. If someone turned up with a Solina String synth to audition for a band that used sounds from an Access Virus then that is never going to work, is it? Even if a keyboard player had roughly the right keyboard for the sounds required there's be little or no chance that he/she actually had the appropriate sounds programmed in.# Nobody uses pre-sets do they?

Job #1 Fitting the tuner bushes to the neck... Ahem not as easy with the Fender Vintage Nickel RI as it was with the Schallers on the last one I did. Took some dowel wrapped in 180 sand paper and attempted a push fit of the bush after every few strokes. Only taken me an hour to fit the first bush!!!! This could take a while!!

[quote name='jonthebass' timestamp='1337611609' post='1662732'] How do you do this? [/quote] The UPS invoice is made out to a VAT registered business.

[quote name='umcoo' timestamp='1337606967' post='1662620'] Heck, that came quick. I think there's something really cool about yellow guitars. You don't se them that often. Looks good twigman [/quote] Quicker than a custom build - I chose these 2 from Warmoth's showcase and got Warmoth to finish them. They quoted 4-5 weeks - it was despatched on Thursday which was actually 16 days after ordering!!!!!! It arrived on the 3rd business day after shipping.

UPS man has just been:

Just landed on my desk is a set of D'Addario chromes 50/70/85/105 I've never used these before. I've always used EBGroup3Flats 45/65/80/100 So what might I expect from these in comparison to what I am used to?