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Even when insurance is regulated if the insurance is provided by a third party but merely arranged by the one in between (EG if the PF cover was actually an insurance product from an insurance company like AXA or something) then a disclaimer stating "you agree we have not advised you as to the suitability of the insurance product you have asked us to arrange and you have made your own determination as to whether it meets your needs: we do not offer advice on this or any other financial products and we do not offer to arrange any alternatives" is usually enough to avoid liability. This is also why I refuse to accept any offers of "Free Financial Advice" even if it comes from my own bank. If it's free then the advisor doesn't owe me as much care as whoever it is that is paying him. I always pay for professional services so they owe me the duty of care and not someone else.

Oh, S**t ! I have oodles of Komplete and Kontakt stuff, and find them very good. I hope they manage to salvage the business

Does this mean i am due you a massive fee?? Jonny

Mmm I like the colour of that bass! If I find it, I'm keeping it! 🤣

Attendees @rwillett - A couple of 3d printed basses or guitars, this will encourage me to finish my next two off. A couple of 8" Basschat cabinets. Might be interesting to try these with other peoples amps. One is quite loud, not quite finished the other one so not sure quite how loud they go. Since I'm about 100m away, I might bring anything or everything. Might even bring and setup a 3d printer if people are interested. If there is any interest and you need something thats more than a few hours to print, let me know well in advance. @neepheid @Frank Blank @Stub Mandrel - TBC @zbd1960 - TBC @ead - For some reason prefers Iceland (the country) to the Yorkshire Dales @ossyrocks @lee650 @80Hz @peterjam - TBC Lots of TBC's so hopefully we can firm up on numbers. So as you confirm, please add any equipment you might be bringing and update this. Would like to @rwillett Love to play some older basses to see what they are really like preferably with some old school valve amp heads. Would also love to play around with some amp modellers (I already have a Mod Dwarf and a ToneX) to see how they sound in comparison.

Absolutely! TOP TIP for home insurance - some insurance policies even give cover for damages won at court from others who then go bust! So you sue someone and win (the usual type - shoddy small builder type) and they go bankrupt once you get your official Judgment. So you can't get the money anymore. Some Home Contents Insurance will actually pay out the same sum as the Court awarded! It's not in every policy but certainly worth a look if anyone needs to go after someone likely to go bankrupt in response. If it is there, it's usually called something like "Unsatisfied Judgment Cover" or words to that effect.

@Kev and @fretmeister interestingly after a bit of reading it appears that this is not regulated insurance, and so is to technically covered by FSMA in the same way house insurance etc is covered.....just goes to show. Probably why its referred to as protection and compensation.. jonny

Yep, dont want more than one box on the floor, but do miss the BDDI. What always bugged me with it was I could only have one tone at a time AND have the mid control of the V2. So the Deluxe and Programmable were not the solution, plus they only did one thing. The GP-50 is great for what it is, but I don think id want to gig it. its working for rehearsals at the moment, and I do love using IR's, so this new one should cover that. The GP-50 doesnt have a decent BDDI.

Honestly surprised that the CQs have an external power supply, seems a design flaw on something so well made.

Just seen this in a data feed https://www.musicradar.com/music-tech/native-instruments-has-been-placed-in-preliminary-insolvency Doesn't look good Rob

It's my experience that means I never use PF for anything worth more than £200 even if it isn't the subject of a limit or exclusion! RM Special Delivery is fine for amps so I use that. For guitars I'd go with Overland Express or buy a separate policy - but mostly if I want to buy an instrument that much, I'll go and get it!

Thank you kindly

Sorry I didn't use the best term, what I was alluding to more was the legal protection insurance you have bundled with your home insurer that can assist sometimes in cases like this. They usually have a 50:50 threshold of success that needs to be met before they take a case on, which is at no cost to the policyholder either way. Hence, they don't want to lose, so they'll almost certainly never take on something like this.

Nope. It's cos it's what the training data comprises of. To emphasise the point, if 80% of your training data was to be country, it should come as no surprise what the output sounds like.

Something I do enjoy that AI couldn't replicate is when musicians try something weird. Like a band I saw at the weekend with a funk metal song about being a fish farmer or everything Igorrr has ever done.

You can't actually change the price, so what you do is add 'price drop £xx' in the title or similar, as you will see from other posts. Every other thing of the add you can change, just not the price

I find learning songs is a lot easier now we have decent stem splitting, I use it all the time. I also can't sing to save my life, but have musical ideas that would just be pointless without a singer on them. Again, Ai is a big help with creating vocals to go on my instrumentals.

Lawyers don't really do "no-win no-fee" for Small Claims stuff because in the Small Claims process there is no ability to reclaim legal fees from the other side if you win. Each side pays their own legal fees irrespective of the outcome, so a person suing over something with a value of under £10,000 either has to pay their own lawyer win or lose, or do it themselves - or with help from Cit Advice or the FRU and so on. On the other hand RM/PF will walk in with a 20 year experience barrister and they won't care about the expense as long as they do win.

You've had and loved several BDDI's over the years. You know that it nails the BDDI tone? 😅 If you're liking the GP-50, any reason not to just get a BDDI to sit alongside it, and job done?

sorry to be a luddite, how does one edit an ad ? For example if you want to make a price drop, cheers.

I don't know what else to say or how else to say it Jonny. You have two people very experienced in the industry giving advice, it's up to you if you choose not to take it

Sorry to hear this. Lovely looking bass. Mark does a top notch job, I must say. Sadly, this all adds to my reluctance to use couriers 😞

Hi Kiwi Thank's for the reply, Im contemplating do my own 90-10% CF/Wood neck or i could just buying one to avoid the faff..(i have a cnc and access to a vacuum system) Profile and Radius sound good but Bridge spacing is/would be directly related to the nut spacing,you want a consistent overhang so your strings aren't falling off the board at the 24th Cheers

I dont work in general insurance but I'd say thats apples and pears, an insurance policy that covers mulitple options with exclusions is different to a one off contract for a specific purpose. The point i made is that when the agent is presented with information on the item being transported, the exclusion shouldnt apply if they have accepted the insurance premium. Contracts are two way, if the insurer doesnt know whats in the box the exclusion can apply but i still fail to see how if the insurer knows whats being insured, that the item cannot be insured that they can accept the premium. that act in itself would fail to meet FCA principles surely? Jonny