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Nah, it's just a pathetic cliched insult thrown around by (usually) right wing pseudo-macho keyboard warrior types in a fit of pique at their inability to deal with the rapidly changing modern world, which they perceive as threatening their way of life, their fragile little egos, and ultimately their complete lack of self worth. It probably gives them a little frisson of excitement when the say it, they may even become mildly aroused and as they verbally lay into someone they perceive as being less tough than them, in the same way they probably enjoyed pulling the wings off flies when they were an unhappy child. That's the problem I have with it.

When people say tried and tested Stingray do they mean the slab three-bolt, the contiured four-bolt, the contoured six-bolt 2eq, the contoured six-bolt 3eq or the slab six-bolt 2eq? The Stingray has been continually improved since it was released, not one of them has been a let down. These are smart refinements by a company who don’t usually get it wrong, why such groundless negativity when none of us have even played one yet? Silly.

Here you go chaps... wanted some new driving playlists! Will try and keep it updated!

And you have come back with the perfect example of why we call people like you snowflakes...

Most of us can manage to understand things without the need for signs everywhere, I like the grumpy guy and would have been thinking the same as him but wouldn't have been brave enough to ask you to stop

One does not simply 'move along' from a marmalade sandwich.

Lots of people have lots of things going on in their lives, it doesn't matter if people want to text all night as long as they're not holding their phone aloft all night does it?

It's been suggested that we get the site's profanity filter amended to turn the hackneyed and frankly boring 'snowflake' into something more innocuous and daft. I think it's a great idea, because quite frankly I am sick of the sight of that bloody word.

None here, either. I'm not keen on any notices at all, in fact.

I have a Line 6 Sonic Port, and have managed to get the latency down so it’s not an issue (and I’m sensitive to it like you). Most audio apps have latency settings in the menus but they usually adjust have fairly generic descriptions like high, medium and low. I discovered a trick however where you can drop it as low as 64 samples (1.5ms at 44.1kHz) if you run Audiobus with your chosen app inside it! You adjust the latency within Audiobus then everything gets locked to that setting. The Zoom is much less faffing about though, but the iOS route is worth considering if you hadn’t thought of it before, especially since you’ll be able to record with it.

You can change a set list?

Oddly enough all the people I know who use the term (and by extension go on long protracted rants about soft lefties and how we need to take our country back etc.) are usually overweight middle aged blokes who couldn't fight their way out of a wet paper bag and would be blowing out of their @rse running up a flight of stairs. Maybe the hyper-macho posturing is compensating for something?

People who use the term "snowflake" probably also say "Twenty four seven" (5 syllables) instead of "All the time" (3) and refer to inanimate objects as "bad boys".

I just think it's great that a British manufacturer (and one from Northampton no less) is releasing new bass gear in 2018!

Where no-one else looks at them either.

charming...

I went to see Public Service Broadcasting last year and they do a thing before the show starts; they played a pre-recorded thing saying 'a few photos is fine, but no one really wants to watch your blurry, distorted camera phone footage.' This met with a huge cheer. It was almost as if that statement simply ridiculed the proposed usage...I saw one or two people taking stills, but that was about it.

Its so you can prove to other people on social media that your life is better than theirs...? that's right isn't it?

Gigged ?

Yes you can. Also it has a built in looper and drum patterns.

Thanks for the quick reply. I’ll have a look at that then. And I can plug my headphones/aux connected to iPad/iPhone straight into it? thanks Martin

You don't have to use real gold leaf. As a boredom killer we used to use the foil from cigarette packets and rub them onto other objects with the back of your finger nail. Dead easy to do. Mind you with the price of fags now it may be cheaper to use real gold.

Paul will make anything you ask. I presume there would be some form of charge. Normal nut width on a 4 string is 42mm and the neck profile is a soft V shape.

IMO everyone should have one. It's one of those things you don't realise you need until you have it. I built my own (fdeck HPF-Pre clone from this layout) and was absolutely amazed how much amp power I had been wasting. I immediately had to turn my amp down around 25% as it was no longer trying to reproduce a load of inaudible sub-frequencies and therefore was working much more efficiently. It seemed to make my bass sit in the band mix a lot better, and dramatically improved the string-to-string balance of my bass (prior to the HPF I suffered from a boomy E string and struggled to get the EQ to compensate well enough). I suspect my speaker cabs are a lot happier as well. As always, YMMV, but I'd highly recommend one. They can seem "expensive" (obviously mine wasn't as I built it) but once you compare it to the cost of speaker recones/replacements etc caused by driving them with inaudible subsonics, I'd say they're worth every penny.

It's a great album with a few really excellent tracks on it,my band play four of them in our set 😁

I cant stand how mobile phones are almost completely attached to people now. People have a genuine problem / addiction with them. How did we ever survive before them? As much as i can understand the emergency call issue (and i can) by the same worry how do people gig? Go swimming? Go to the cinema? Go for a job interview? Get married? All those things take approx the same amount of time as a concert. Its just a sad fact of life now. The people arent doing anything wrong, and younger concert go ers wont know any different. But i remember when you went to a gig to encapsulate all what was good about it - the atmosphere, the music, the performance, the dancing. Everyone had the same intention. Go online and look at Queen at wembley 86. 100,000 all getting involved together and truly loving it. Then look at a modern day concert. Lifeless, cameras everywhere, half the crowd not interested in living in the moment because theyre too busy standing still to get a good video..... Such a shame.

It was £450 with a nice, clean Fender HSC thrown in as well, and as you say, the neck is fantastic on this one - definitely a keeper!

This is a big fave funk track of mine by the not well known Rhythm Makers. Has a very insistent and catchy bass line

Unfortunately some of these smaller companies have to decide between comms and falling even further behind schedule. Depends what their workload is like I guess. Something like footswitches must be an absolute killer for them!

This is the person who, in another thread, proudly listed all the bands he's spat on.

Holland says welcome

I'm happy not to use my phone to film or take pics at events , but I do want to be able to use it to text my kids should they need me , so I don't want it locked away

Mr Collins at his best - another essential bass part for a funk/soul/groove player to learn!!

I thought this was the best groove and especially bass groove I ever heard 40 odd years ago and still do - so hard to play this and create the groove

I think the problem with 'snowflake' as a term of of abuse is just that it's just a generic catch all term for anyone who challenges your opinion. It lacks imagination and creativity. Proper verbal abuse should be carefully and personally tailored to every individual you wish to insult.

Although they do not bother me as much as other people... I don't get the obsession and I'd rather people refrained from constantly filming everything. However, the pouch thing, I'm not sure I like it... it seems an unnecessary extra that will definitely make money for someone, and I detest being treated like a child. My phone is with me most times and I'll bring it to the gig, but it stays in my pocket. I don't appreciate having to queue again for a stupid pouch thing and being treated like I'm in kindergarden. There are behaviours that annoy me far more than telephones: people throwing their plastic beer glasses (not empty) above me and sometimes partially on me, people who feel the need to test their strength by pushing everybody around (it's very tempting to turn and show them that I'm probably a hell of a lot stronger than them), people who dance like they're alone and end up punching the bodies around them (again, so tempting to place a single well aimed fist... and see them drop to the ground... but I control myself, for now)... people 'crowdsurfing'... It used to be that there was an area where those activities would happen but you could easily avoid them without having to stay at the back. I find that more and more if you want to be close to the stage, you need to endure that. So... you want me to have that, and wear a sodding pouch for my mobile as if I were a 5 year old? Is that how we really want to do things?

Dude, that is sick. Great playing.

I'm more concerned with the dubious town planning going on in his neck of the woods.

I think so. An alternative would be 18 1v batteries, but it might make the basses too heavy.

Nice blue light, im sold :-)

Copy of the life of Brian and £12? the DVD is much like the bass, well used and covered in scratches...😉

I joined a ska band about a week ago, had my first gig with them on Saturday. A quick 45 minute set at an indoor event, it was an ideal introduction. Had a whale of a time, loved it. They have a big following and so there was a very decent crowd, all up and dancing from the B of the bang. Set list was: The Prince 007 Gangsters Is This Love? Israelites Ghost Town Tears Of A Clown A Message To You Rudy On My Radio No No No Baggy Trousers Special Brew Night Boat To Cairo I've really enjoyed learning these songs; I was already familiar with them, as ska was the sound of my youth and I've always loved it, and it was great to finally play it. There are some wonderful basslines in there -- my personal highlights are Ghost Town and the utterly gorgeous Is This Love?. Next gig is in two weeks; a longer one this time, more songs to learn!

It's more more iconic than the west Ham logo'd one.