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No, it’s not you. The quality of recent stuff is poor. Another one here who drills pilot holes and uses candle wax……….but I’ve still wrung a few over in my time. It goes without saying that not all Phillips-head or Posidrive screwdrivers will correctly fit every time, thus creating yet more chance to foul it up for you. If they snap midway it can be a pain to restore cleanly.

I have a few active basses. I prefer passive ones for various reasons, although active ones have their place.

I bought the original one yesterday. I decided the v2 wasn't worth the extra £100 for 80 more Watts. I definitely would have gone for this though had I waited a day!

Blimey Google Lens actually correctly identified my pic as from the early 80s.

Just wish I could remember what happened...

I guess you are the proud owner of a gold plated wheelbarrow with a square wheel...

Hi all I've always used roundwound strings and prefer them when they've lost some of their brightness, but not when they've really gone dead (they sound duller than flats then to me at that point). I should probably just bite the bullet and try a set, but wondered what opinions others have of EB Cobalts. And is there a big variation between Slinkys and Super Slinkys? Comments welcomed. Cheers

Rise ... if s/he still can with a triple hernia and some broken vertebrae... 🤔🤪😂

All of our gigs were in the Greenfields area apart from one which was on the main drag down to the West Holt stage I think. We played at 12pm, 2pm and 5pm and for all four gigs, we played to probably anything from 100 people to a couple of hundred people. Our guitarist quickly counted on one of our gigs and there were about 60 inside the tent and a further 100 sitting outside on the benches or the grass listening. I witnessed on most of the larger stages and tents, there was a very large crowd watching that could range from a a few thousand to 10's of thousands, depending on the artist and the time of day. For some artists, the crowds were so large, for example Kneecap and Tom Odell, they had to close access as there were simply too many people wanting to watch. Some of the smaller fringe tents did suffer from only a handful of people watching but this could depend on the time they were playing, the music they were playing, the quality of their playing and if anyone big was playing elsewhere. For example, one of stages we played at, we played at 12pm and had a couple of hundred watching, however, if we played at 5pm, it would of been anything like 500 plus.

I'll think you'll find that was the ShakeyCam 😁

That's actually a plus point for Fender.

Hello @Scott 999 - is anybody out there?

What you have done is pass all the love stored by this speaker cabinet on to a new player. Hopefully he/she will rise to that history and make you proud.

You're right, it's just a regular uke - the VFU-1 to be precise. Presumably stands for Very Funny Uke, although there could be much ruder interpretations using a different f-word! No doubt a bass variant will follow.

Good work @Chienmortbb. While I do gig my old precision bass quite often, my main go-to bass is a Yamaha BB604 that cost me £200 about seven years ago. Both sound ace, despite probably having a £3k price gap between them.

Funnily enough my mum's piano is still with us... Her parents bought it thinking it was new from the makers (Pfeiffer) in 1932. My mum learned to play on it, then did all her practice for LRAM, I did lessons on it, my mum gave lessons on it and recently we decided it needed a good service. So we found a really good piano builder who almost fell over when he saw it! He spent a quite few hours re-felting, adjusting hammers, sorting out the pedals and putting on a couple of replacement "ivories". It cost us about £400. Turns out it was actually made between 1872-74 and had been sitting in their warehouse for 60 odd years. And pianoman said it had possibly the best bass he'd ever heard from a piano - as good as a concert Bösendorfer he reckoned. So if you can find an oak overstrung Pfeiffer, buy it! And find someone very strong to move it. I've been involved in 6 moves with it so far and 'er's a reet bugger!

Recently bought a nice comp/DI pedal off John. All was hunky dory, very pleased. Thanks John!

That's quite interesting. I can see how that would work. Dave

Be interested to see what bass gear they use for the reunion. As mentioned here it is pretty much confirmed to be Andy Bell on bass. First time round he was famous for using a black burns bison including several reissues (generally through an Ampeg SVT rig) Later he seemed to switch to a couple of 70's Precisions through a Marshall VBA 400 rig

One band plays Milk and Alcohol with a different timing on the signature riff. It's hell for me as I've bought that single when it came out, and it's ingrained in my soul...

Initially yes to the presets but tweaked a fair bit. I use a ~Presonus AR12 but have unsold used various digitall desks

Bought an MXR Phase 99 from Lee. Prompt communication, quick postage, well packaged - what more could I ask for?

I've thought about this situation and plan A would be to switch to a keyboard bass.

Well, after a couple of recent buys that didn't work out (for weight reasons), I messaged Tony about the Spector Ian Hill. He sent videos of its condition and him playing it and we agreed a price that both felt was fair (which took i to account my comments on the post I have quoted). Totally legit guy, very friendly and clearly his prices are flexible. Hope this is helpful