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AI "music" is very clean down to perfection. There's no "fear" in the music anymore and it becomes muzak. If I could contaminate the material, I most probably would do it.

Popped into Outback Guitars today which has opened in the small corner section of what was GAK. It's run by the guys who used to / possibly still do, run North Laine Guitars. Will be s/h gear only, no bass gear yet but if you are in the area pop in and say hello - would be good if it works out for them.

If I have a job offer, I’ll be there

I would like to think people are becoming more aware that these ‘free’ services are anything but free.

That one touch of "bling" is tasteful. I find the use of gold, faux or genuine, to be vulgar when it is applied liberally. Where it is used to display the owner's wealth (one example being the current resident of a big white house) it is beyond vulgar and well in to perverse territory. You now have a great looking bass. That's a respectful modification. Thanks for sharing.

More people are doing that now and AI is a common reason for leaving social media. People don't want fake videos and rip off music

It seems that the solution is simple. Delete your social media accounts.

If you’re bringing a TE1200 I shall not bring mine - gives people more chance to try the one which is actually for sale! I’ll bring an ACG (or 3) and a Conway probably, and maybe my Handbox WB100? Cabs - Barefaced Super Twin or Two10S can be brought if anyone wants to hear cabs they’ve probably heard at all previous bashes 🤓

any bands that actually push their own envelopes and develop artistically thus challenging their fan base with each new release need not worry ... ai is like the formulaic approach ...no innovation, it gets boring pretty fast.

We all know that speakers distribute sound in a certain way. Habit tends to be firing straight forward. That is unlikely to be the optimal solution, so how should we aim our PA top cabs for best results?

A friend of mine has a 300 W Dynacord combo that I have tried to buy from him many, many times during the years. Excellent sound, a true workhorse. Has been in use since 90's!

I have the same problem as Chimike in that I don't know how to add my name cos I'm old too. I will bring my Mike Lull P4/30 and my ACG headless short scale and a couple of amps I'm looking to sell if anybody has an interest namely a Mesa MPulse 600 and a Trace Elliot TE 1200. John

I know there's a lot of love for these, and I share it. This is my second one - the previous was identical, but a victim of one of those 'perhaps I really do have too many basses' moments of doubt which can strike the unwary. This one cropped up on our local Irish small-ads site for a price not dissimilar to what I sold the old one for, so having watched and wondered for a while I eventually did a deal for it. When I got it home, though, I realised that it hadn't just been the 'too many basses' feeling that had prompted the previous one's departure - I was also not loving the bling. So in a move which I'm sure some will regard as quasi-sacreligious, I set about replacing all that fine gold hardware with something a bit more, well, restrained. And here is the result: There's no 'before' picture as I'm sure you all know what one of these looks like when it comes out of the factory (if you don't, there's one for sale in the classifieds at the moment). I bought all the parts I needed - tuners, string retainer, pick guard, bridge, neck plate - on Amazon.ie, all sold by Musiclily Direct UK, for the grand sum of €62. I already had some vintage-style telecaster knobs and some regular strap buttons, so I didn't need those. I think the quality of the parts is every bit as good as those I took off it. I particularly like the pick guard, which fitted perfectly with no need for any fettling or redrilling of holes. The tuners, despite being shown by my (admittedly crude) measurements as having the same dimensions as those I took out, did require me to fill and redrill, and the ferrules were slightly too small. Still, a few minutes work with some cocktail sticks and duct (duck?) tape (I couldn't find the PTFE) sorted that: I'll get round to adding the other two screws to each tuner at some point. Maybe. I was particularly pleased that I managed not to drill through to the front of the headstock... The only evidence left of its illustrious origins is the output jack - I'm sure I could find a silver one in the parts drawer if I looked, but I a) couldn't be bothered with the soldering and b) quite like leaving this little marker for 'those in the know'. A few more pics: the new bridge (somewhere between a hi-mass and a BBOM, and perfectly functional - it even came with a shorter spring on the E saddle to allow for intonation), the pick guard (which picks up the blocks quite nicely I think), and the rear with its new plain neck plate (and my foot). And done! I'm very pleased, and much more likely to pick this bass up in its new guise. Fickle, fickle, fickle...

I absolutely hate AI. It's theft.

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I would like to ask, whether it is the bass or the pickup? There seems to be lots of discussion about particular basses, although many of them share similar pickups (even in the same positions). This discussion is about the bass, although this could be about the pickup with basic hi-Z electronics (VT). Otherwise we may have to talk about the bass body, and neck specs, do we?

How have you stolen my desk and all my stuff? At least it's now tidier than when I had it. Rob

Bridge the fx loop with a short cable. Sometimes corrosion in the jack sockets cause semi shorts.

I should update my collection on here. Since getting my dream RetroB 5er, I decided I wanted a 4 string almost-identical sibling. Almost identical in terms of shape and pickups combo, but almost a bit yin to the 5ers yang. My other ACG is my gorgeous TKO Custom - I suspect one of very few white finishes Alan has (and will?) do. Certainly one of one in terms of body binding 🤓

Id sign up for that streaming service and Id pay more for it. AI music is a parasite. It feeds off real music while also killing it.