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Def, in my last band we found that vinyl sold great in Wales and Europe, CDs not so much, whereas in England CDs sold much better than vinyl. And yes, L & XL shirts are the "sellers".

He doesn't half look smug. IIRC, this is the offence of "Appearing so self-satisfied as to outrage the Public Decency".

I have a few snares where the throwoff is very stiff and takes two hands to get off and on When I was playing quiet folk songs in pubs with limited PA, I would keep my snare off as much as possible in intros etc. Now I play bigger venues with big PAs I leave it on. You can't hear it FOH

Option 2 for sure. My amp hardly ever needs updating significantly but our guitarist needs to adjust for each venue, sometimes several times during the set but at least the base volume is about right.

Copyright theft. Taking someone else's work and passing it of as your own.

Looking at The Double Bass Room is fantastic. Is there anywhere in N. America that compares?

Pino must be demanding a decent amount of cash for his name…

Welcome back! I can relate to falling into periods of playing lots then not so much. Good on you though for only selling one bass and acquiring another in the intervening nine years! Glad also it was a G&L 😀

Good tip. I still use Helix Native for my bass tones, but I grabbed Archetype Rabea for my guitar this sale, and I already owned Archetype Nolly from a previous sale. Both are great plugins for sure. I've used the trial version of Parallax, but I was too geared for modern distortion for my tastes. If they release an Alpha Omega plugin I'm all over it.

Ah that's what it was - I didn't get a chance to speak to him but could see he had something smaller than a helix at his feet. I think he had a boss tuner as well. Mind you his bass wasn't even on stage before the show and I was initially worried there wouldn't be a live bass player!

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