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I guess the good thing is it will be a one time payment as they'll never need replacing. Still, I doubt they are any different to regular Ernie Ball Flats so you are paying for the name.

Brian's the man!

It might be catching on the pickguard also...

I use EB cobalt flats on four thunderbirds and a rickenbacker. Never understood the 'sticky' complaint — they've always felt fine to me, and I have never had any with rust or discolouration. They are a lot brighter than all the other flats I have played and the brightness seems to last a very long time. I really like them. I use the lightest set, the one with blue on the packaging.

"A piece of rock history"? Oh dear

Sounds like the PJB earbox https://pjbgear.com/product/ear-box/ Never tried one myself, but I saw a comment flash past on this forum that they're very good at solving the problem they're trying to solve. This is for personal monitoring, not for adding highs to your stage sound.

I think this is the key line here "Websites will have to change the algorithms that recommend content to young people and introduce beefed-up age checks or face big fines, the UK media regulator has confirmed." My emphasis added. This is targetting the social media apps that push things to you. Basschat doesn't recommend things, also we don't have any young people. I will get around to reading the legislation and the Ofcom stuff once the bass bash is over and I have a free few hours. Just for information, there are circa 11.1 .co.uk domains registered, not all of which are live. A simple thought experiment on how much work is needed to process this information if its only 10 mins per website per year manually. You can't do everything by computer yet. UK law isn't very happy with fully automated decision making by UK Govt depts. Assume 50% are live so that's 5M websites = 5,000,000 * 10 = 50M minutes So 50M minutes = 833,333 hours. 833,333 hours = 120,000 days (ish) Assuming lunch breaks 120,000 days = circa 550 people As of 31/3/23 Ofcom had circa 1,300 employees. So even a cursory 10 min check will require a 41% increase in employees. I know that the civil service is doing it's best to cap new recruitment. Ofcom is considered a quango and whilst it is not subject to civil service recruitment blocks, its funded by frees from industry as well as grants from central govt. It will not be capable of recruiting 550 people or 275 people or even 140 people for a 2.5 min check. Somebody has to answer the phones, report on how many websites are checked, this is all manual. There are no robots here. I'm also not aware of any software development that might be taking place to do this work. That doesn't mean it hasn't happened as I'm focussed around certain areas of UK Govt, but I might have heard. As I've said before, the focus here will be on the large social media companies. Basschat is in the low level noise here (pun intended) Rob

https://www.ebay.com/itm/135769928993 The same bass is continuously relisted and sold. The price is surely tempting and many people are following these Buy It Now sales, it appears that many of them fell into the trap, as the seller has sold seven of them in the last few weeks. The pictures are always the same, the descriptions identical, even the serial is always the same. My advice: avoid!

Extend your search beyond music sites - for example a fairly quick search for "fishing box" or "fishing bag" brings up all sorts of usefully sized things

But they are unlikely to do so. They won't appreciate having got caught up in this and pursuing him through the courts is likely to be embarrassing and won't do any good to the brand. Far better to cut ties with him and draw a line under the whole affair.

Message Brian here: https://www.ebay.co.uk/str/earlpilanz

It reminds of an old joke told to me by a drummer... Q: Do you know how to create a bassist? A: You take a big pile of shìt, but not too much or it will turn into a drummer. Sorry @Dad3353... 😉

The EB Group flats are a lot cheaper on Amazon too - far cheaper than places like Strings Direct. I wonder if Amazon has a deal going with EB.

This. Before anyone says it, I know you'll probably have to kiss a few frogs before meeting a handsome prince, but that's just life. Perseverance brings reward. You might try Bandmix, too. It costs, but isn't expensive. Attending jam nights, etc, as others suggest, can be helpful, too.

I think Charles is a really clever person and he sums up the issues in the video very well. His proposal at the end proves his empathy for the people who have had their music stolen, with some good exposition for them too afterwards. Congratulations to him for that!

For me, the most round wound sounding of all the flats (that I’ve tried). Never had any stickiness or fret wear (I equate stickiness with LaBellas, easily remedied). There was a period when there batches with spots of rust/discolouration (I had one string with this, but it was free set, so no cause for complaint), but this seems to be in the past. Buying from the Ernie Ball shop on Amazon seems to be the cheapest option for particular gauges (£42 for 45-100).

You should be able to raise it - they're just screwed in like Jazz bass pickups, so maybe the pickup cavity is a bit snug.