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Yes I think we’re done here - our annual Finnbass recruitment drive looks like it’s been a success!

Well it was Tuesday actually. I had been fancying a P bass for a while now so popped into Gear4music to check out a Player series P. However they didn't have any on display so I checked on their fancy screen thingy & spotted the Vintera range,mmmm had to check it out. To me it looks beautiful,seems to be very well made,plays & sounds excellent too.(it was also substantially cheaper than the classic 50's P bass they have in stock) Over all I am very happy with it,although I've yet to play it with the band but I'm sure it will be mint 🤣🤣

Right this arguing has gone on long enough now. Don't worry chaps, I'll sort it! BREXIT (Thread locked)

Seconded. I remember a few years ago reading a scattering of very unpleasant posts about Ped and BC on Finnbass. I'd joined Finnbass because a couple of people I liked had gone over there. I visited on a number of occasions but the traffic was a little slow and threads took time to evolve (which is perfectly understandable and reasonable in a spin-off forum, NOI). It struck me that far from being a cross between TB and The Lord Of The Flies Finnbass was simply a bass forum where 99% of the members seemed entirely normal but a tiny number of them exhibited two striking characteristics. The first was that they were obsessed with BC and the second was that they were horrible c*nts.

*silently hands Tim his coat* *points at door*

Thought you were going to say earplugs don’t Wok.

Can I just put it out there, I'll be in Tesco at Shepton Mallet around about 3.00 pm tomorrow complete with handwritten shopping list.... if anyone wants a photo opportunity with me?

@Silvia Bluejay and I just love Trader Joe's in Pasadena. So does Lee Sklar. Guess it's a bassist thing.

The one I heard was: Why do elephants paint their balls red? So they can hide in cherry trees. What's the loudest noise in the jungle? Giraffes eating cherries.

Blimey. When did I pee on your fireworks, exactly?

Free giant chips here, come on down! You just need a ladder to reach the server's shoulder!

James Taylor or Jackson Brown if you're into West Coast stuff, Billy Cobham Spectrum if into funky Jazz, Phil Collins , Dolly Parton etc etc. You could listen to 10 albums a day and still be hearing his stuff 3 months later

Lee is from Milwaukee.YAY! Blue

Good job I fished this out of your dustbin last year. No, you can't have it back.

Here’s some of my stuff (seen be Raggae bass already 🤣)

I have no latency issues, in fact I think my fingers cause more latency issues than the wireless unit.

Sooooooo Classy.

My wife's just gone to the West Indies Jamaica? No, we've got a villa in Barbados we go to every year but she's gone out early this time because I've got a business presentation in Frankfurt and the nice thing is that the villa pays for itself because we let it out to friends we can trust and the woman who cleans and looks after the keys is an absolute treasure and costs peanuts; mind you, the only problem is there's one couple who go there every June and the husband always has a tendency to slip one or two of the books we leave for guests into his bag and brings them home with him because he says he didn't get around to finishing them and he always claims he'll bring them round to us but he never does and we always say we'll really have to mention this to him but we don't like to cause a scene over a couple of books although the last time he did it he took my copy of Polly Toynbee's book about social capital and a new one would cost £29.99 on Amazon and I just couldn't buy a second-hand copy, that would be simply de trop.

I love the little abstract tracks (I'm currently listening to a live bootleg with an improvised interlude). Many years I fell asleep listening to AEnima, after a heavy night in the pub, (-) Ions penetrated my dreams to such an extent I woke up, drenched in sweat, convinced the house was having electrical issues and I ran an flipped the main circuit breaker 😂

On the back of your recommendation, I applied to this scheme -- I'm not a pro musician by any stretch, but I thought "ah well, nothing ventured", attached links to yootoob vids and facebook pages etc of my various bands to the application, and they've accepted me. Just waiting for my appointment to be arranged. Thanks for the tip..!

I’m a member. But that’s enough about my general persona. I don’t do Farcebook, Twatter, InstantGran, or whatever other antisocial media is out there, so bass forums are my only internet outlet for the general nonsense in my head. I really like Finnbass, found the population there incredibly helpful, funny and met a couple of fine people from there in dodgy car parks (that’s another story though). I like the spit and sawdust back street pub feel to it. I also have visited TB a couple of times and, again, found some helpful info there. I like this place generally too, but this is the only site I’ve got into “arguments“ on, funnily enough never about gear. Once I was accused of lacking a sense of humour and another time my humour being inappropriate. My experience to date is that forums are fine places, but it’s too easy to take what is typed too personally, out of context, or interpret with attritional bias, etc, as I can’t see the face of the person typing so can’t read their intentions. It’s too easy for peeps to get carried away (me included) or type something they wouldn’t necessarily say face to face with someone. I would like to add that mods have been very helpful here ime. I’m still a member. An old wrinkly member.

Isn't that why we have the drunken rambling thread? Unfortunately I can never find it when I'm p@ssed. 😂

I'd wager the notion that everyone sometimes acts in bizarre, unusual ways - though admittedly some more than others. People go through many different kinds of stuff in their lives, and most of the time, one can sense those hardships in the background when they post in said ways on any forum.

No forum is perfect, that's for sure. No matter where you go, you will find people acting in bizarre, unusual ways. My mind wanders back to that thread about Scott Devine and the OP who seemed to have some bizarre vendetta against him, even making some not-so-subtle aspersions about his decision to make his wife a director in his business. I find Scott's YouTube personality a bit cringey at times but when he takes the mask off he seems like a really sound down to earth bloke. However, no matter what you think of him, he didn't deserve the abuse he got got in that bizarre thread.

Hiya! 🤪

Sexy and classy. Like me.

I should have guessed... it was all far too earnest 🙂

I feel for you, it must be awful you hearing us brag about where we are - not to worry.....

Been using mine at rehearsals and gigs and have never noticed any issues with mine at all. The purists will say the latency is an issue but if its a reasonable to small stage and your within normal stage distance from your amp / receiver and i'm talking maybe 3-5m then you'll never notice it. If you are playing large Wembley type stages and you are wandering to the opposite side of the arena stage then maybe you would hear it if really listening to it but your brain would simply adjust your playing to what you are hearing from the rest of the band IMHO. I'm no scientist or expert in anyway whatsoever and can only offer my own opinion. Pretty sure we've already discussed the latency issue on this thread and depending on who you speak to you'll get a different answer. One thing that did come out of the discussion was that if you also use in-ear monitors then latency between bass and then IEM will be more than likely longer and possibly noticeable. My summary is in most normal pub bands its perfect for the job. Dave

The pickup cavities have all been filled and I got a coat of paint on it to act as an undercoat that I can sand flat and the pickguard has been cut...............😀

Who was behind Finnbass? Was it BigBeefChief? I do remember his inane posting on this forum. There are always a few who desire to be 'edgy' and push the limits of what is acceptable, usually resulting in a ban. 'Makisupastar' on Talkbass was another absolutely prolific poster of rubbish. He had a startlingly high post count after a very short time on the site, and was always trying to push the limits of just what he could get away with saying. I just checked on Google to see where he had went, the first thread that popped up was one from two years after he had joined remarking that he was in the top 5 post count (some feat). On the subject of moderation standards, they vary but I think BC is about as good as it gets. It's still 'small enough' in terms of active members for mods to be accountable and fair, and of course their status is publicly known. Compare to that say, a Facebook group. I was given an admin warning (snort) by some twit on NoTreble or something a couple of weeks ago, when in polite discussion with some unknown, he referred to me as 'dyslexic' for not agreeing with him over a point of semantic dispute. When I called him out for the crass insult, he deleted it and noted that I had been given a mod warning for my part in the argument whilst also apologising for using the term 'dyslexic' as an insult. I did ask if he would also give himself a mod warning but received no reply, I guess that's not a two-way street. 😂

I’m up the north just at the bottom of Snowdon in the Vale of Clwyd and it’s lovely up here too but more rugged than down south tho...........😀

Yep, Dingwall even do a hot rod striped Z2 signature for him, as well as regular signature Zs. He and Tony Levin will still be sessioning happily in another 50 years. Not sure they’ll outlast Keef though...

What a cracking colour combo!

Here you go

Yes. Great gear indeed! I have their R400 and 2x12 cab and this is by far the best gear I ever had (and I had Ampeg, GK, Markbass, Taurus, Ashdown, Hartke, etc.). Still underapprediated company... It's a pity I must say...

With a beard like that? Get away!

Aye. In the background one hears the hardship of the Dogfish Head 90 Minute IPA.

I have just gone down this route and and am well happy. I run a EBS microbass 2 into a QSC 10.2 and I must say that the sound is the most natural, even and well produced sound that I have had for a long time! (I have been through Genz, MarkBass, TC, ETC.) I use it at quite a large venue and it really delivers, and it has loads of power!! Far more than I will need. I do prop it up on an amp stand as well and it has the added bonus that I can run my vocal mic into it and use it as a vocal monitor as well, using the thru output to go to the pa. It doesn't compromise on the bass sound at all. I don't know how it would fair if you played in a rock band with just backline, but if you go into FOH, and just need to monitor, this idea is second to none. A preamp pedal of some sort in my view is important for sound control. The 10.2 does have onboard EQ but would be a fiddle mid-gig. That to me is the only compromise. I was skeptical, but I am converted. No more bass specific amps for me! End of the day, it what works for you and this works for me.

'Bassist among the Veg' would have accurately described a couple of bands I've been in. Has Lee since posted about meeting the illustrious HappyJays?

Watch out for the exchange rate, especially if you have the option of paying using PayPal. The pound is pretty week at the moment, almost parity with the Euro. I ordered a new field recorder from Thomann on Sunday. It was B-stock, and quite a bargain, the advertised price was £70 less than the new price. I initially went to pay with PayPal, with their exchange rate though, it was over £20 more than the price on Thomann’s site, so I paid direct through Thomann and was charged the advertised price.

Yeah

How about - Earplugs Don't Work in situations where the level of attenutation is not enough to reduce the sound pressure levels acting upon your inner ear (through bone conduction and the earplug itself) to a safer level.

I took a detour on my home tonight and dropped in on the Robin. They had another hunt for the cover, and this time, possibly helped by my description, they found it. So all's well that ends well, sort of.