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  1. Rich
    Yup, they're definitely full size keys. I'm having some fun putting sounds together. If I can find a K-Station in the New Year I think I'll pounce on it. I really wish I'd never sold mine, a couple of years back. It was a superb machine.
  2. Rich
    I fancied a wee synth for some phat & pharty synth bass noises, so I picked up one of these little old ladies. It really takes me back to be mucking about with oscillators and LFOs and ADSR again!
  3. Rich
    Well, it could be worse...
  4. Rich
    The manufacturer's blahblah can be found here if you're interested. It's a great little unit, extremely clever, but not for me alas. Superb near-factory condition. No box but it does come with a little right angle USB adaptor which I bought to make it easier to program in situ on my pedalboard. No velcro on the base, but I've fitted some little silicone feet. £55 posted within mainland UK, or if you're nearby you can collect from me and I'll knock a fiver off and put the kettle on. No offers please, I really need the cash.
  5. Rich
    Level 42 are playing at Bristol Beacon (ex-Colston Hall) the previous night. Anyone else going?
  6. Rich
    Sanding Bridge Feet? I'm pretty sure I saw them at a folk festival some years ago.
  7. Rich
    I'd be more than happy to do the resistor mid-mod for anyone in or near Bristol. As @paul_5 says, it takes longer to dis/reassemble than it does to do the mod and it transforms the sound. The scoop that @Supernaut refers to is instantly eradicated. I did the FrankenP mod and to be honest the unscooped version was so much better that I never touched the switch. If I was doing it again, I wouldn't bother with the switch and would make it permanent.
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    The power of music... I've just been moved to a tearful wreck by this lovely piece, 'Going Home' by Charlie Haden and Hank Jones. It's basically the Hovis theme from Dvorak's New World Symphony, for piano and bass. Maybe it's just that I'm just feeling fragile atm, but there's something so beautifully sparse and plaintive about it that I ended up with tears rolling down my cheeks. 

     

  10. Rich

    Ah well, there's a nice start to the week. Redundancy looms.

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    2. Marc S

      Marc S

      Hi @Rich
      Sorry to hear of your redundancy woes - however, it might be a blessing in disguise. Perhaps a career change? Or a short break? I'm sure you will be able to find something else in the same field. Hope so, if that's what you want.
      BIG changes for me too, very shortly (more of that later). Best of luck good sir 

    3. Beedster

      Beedster

      Best of luck Rich 👍

    4. gjones

      gjones

      Just a heads up, if it happens. My sister took redundancy this year, which was the equivalent of two years pay. Although the first £30,000 redundancy was tax free, she got taxed at 40% on the rest. If she'd arranged for her redundancy to be paid over two years she could have saved herself a big chunk of tax.

  11. Rich
    I too have made myself unavailable on the band calendars for that weekend..!
  12. Rich
    "We are Ver Management... If yer name's not dahn, yer not comin' in."
  13. Rich
    "Ere's one for yer 'usband darlin', I don't want 50 quid, I don't even want 20 quid, gawd I'm robbin' meself blind 'ere..."
  14. Rich
    Even Mrs Scrumpy got in on the bass action, after falling in love with @chyc's lovely old doghouse.
  15. Rich
    Seven Years - Level 42
  16. Rich
    I've just put said duvet cover on, and can confirm that I would gladly have paid someone 30 quid to do it
  17. Rich
    I'm happy to help out in the kitchen for a bit @scrumpymike
  18. Rich
    I'll get there as early as I can. I've got a gig the night before but it's only half an hour from home.
  19. Rich
    Proper bargain that. Following this with interest. I remember trying out a US Curlee in Hickies Music in Reading, back in the day. I'm sure it was double P, but my memory might be playing tricks on me.
  20. Rich
    I have a spare bed you're welcome to. If you help me put the duvet cover on, it's yours. It's not that close to the Bash venue alas, but it's in the right direction to your house.
  21. Rich
    I use Elixirs and I get at least a year out of them. More if they don't see a lot of action. I tend to put the used ones on other less-used basses as there's generally a decent amount of life left in them. The ones on my fretless, acoustic and Wal basses are at least 3 years old.
  22. Rich

    Today I heard Led Zep's "No Quarter" for the first time.
    The dullest, most morose waste of 7 minutes I have ever listened to.

    1. BassAgent

      BassAgent

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    2. prowla

      prowla

      Well that's Rich, isn't it!

    3. Johncee

      Johncee

      Try the live version from the "Song Remains the Same" soundtrack. Even duller and more morose than the studio recording. Plus the added bonus of 4 extra minutes 😂

  23. Rich
    Yeah, that's one of my favourites in my ska band's set. Bit of pick action and a driven SVT tone, and as close as I get to leaping about. Other ska favourites are: Nite Klub (I get a wee solo ) Ghost Town (gorgeous dubby bassline, Horace is a genius) Night Boat to Cairo (great fun) Is This Love? (love it to bits)
  24. Rich
    Whispering Grass - The Ink Spots
  25. Rich
    Latest list: scrumpymike - everything he owns unless he sells it between now and then Rich- Shuker 5-string, probably Status S4000, Genz Benz Shuttle 9.2, Barefaced Super 12T cab. Kateplaysbass - Ashdown CTM-100 and LB212, Pawn Shop Mustang, medium scale ACG Finn, and maybe also ACG Recurve and Bass Collection 5 string fretless, since I'm thinking about offloading both of those Woodinblack - Bongo, because its lovely and uncommon, Acrylic bass, for shits and giggles, Chapman stick, Lava Me guitar Richard R - Brawley 5 string, as usual, HB 5 String thing with Roland hex pickup and V-bass COSM synth. BreadBin- something interesting chyc - Double bass, Ashbory Bass, GSS 06B400MKD combo, BC 112mk3 cabinet, and on the request any of Warwick Streamer fretless, Sandberg Custom 5 with Delano XTender, Sandberg TT Marcus Miller rip-off, BC 110T cabinet, , Acoustic Image Coda TRBboy - Frost Custom Basses PJ5 (my first build from scratch), Sandberg California TT5 Passive, possibly my customised Yamaha BBN5, Markbass Stu Amp 1000w, GR Bass GR 410+ (1200w, 4 ohm), a fairly unexciting pedal board 😅, & converted Trace 1x15" cab, if it's in a satisfactory state by then Stub Mandrel - Joyo BadASS & PJB C2, American Vintage II 1960 Precision & Squier 40th Anniversary Precision for side by side comparison. Teisco/Kay Tulip for sh*ts and giggles. Sire P10. obbm - '71 Jazz, '73 Precision, Sadowsky HPJ, Genzler Magellan 350, BF One10 x2, Pedals plus TBA plus raffle donation. Chienmortbb - Fender Aerodyne Jazz Bass, Sire Marcus Miller M2, Bugera Veyron. LFSys Monza Cabinet, Zoom B2Four. JapanAxe - Fender Precision 1973, Fender Precision 1963 RI, Dingwall NG2 5, Dingwall D-Roc 4, Demeter VTBP-M-800D, Fender TB600, Barefaced Super Twin, Barefaced One 10, DIY Ampeg B15 clone, deal to be done on for-sale EBS HD360 30th Anniversary MichaelDean - Dingwall Combustion 5, 76 Fender Mustang, Revelation RPJ-77 (maybe? Still haven't finished that build 😅), pedalboard, Laney Digbeth DB500H, Zilla 212 MoJoKe - three JVs, Sandberg VM5, Caveman BP1C and BC1, and some other hopefully interesting stuff spyder - Serek the Grand, Serek Midwestern 5, GR bass Dual 1400, GR bass AT212, Warwick Gnome, Sonic Farm 2di4, Vovox instrument cables
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