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8 hours ago, Ed_S said:

When I was in Y3 (age 7-8ish?) at school, I got sent to a room with a group of other kids to take a test. Turned out to be a musical aptitude (Bentley) test, and off the back of it I was offered lessons...

Can I any a big thank you - I did a similar test at primary school (I ended up with a tenor horn), and have often wondered what it was, details are sketchy after this long.

Anyhow...The Bentley Test. Good chance this is what I took, after a bit of research. Thanks !

On 23/11/2023 at 19:54, Frank Blank said:

Thus in contemporary quantum theory it seems that the world must be divided into a wavy "quantum system," and a remainder which is in some sense "classical." The division is made one way or another, in a particular application, according to the degree of accuracy and completeness aimed at. For me it is the indispensability, and above all the shiftiness, of such a division that is the big surprise of quantum mechanics. It introduces an essential ambiguity into fundamental physical theory, if only at a level of accuracy and completeness beyond any required in practice. It is the toleration of such an ambiguity, not merely provisionally but permanently, and at the most fundamental level, that is the real break with the classical ideal. It is this rather than the failure of any particular concept such as "particle" or "determinism." In the remainder of this essay I will outline a number of world views with physicists have entertained in trying to digest this situation.

 

Drives me effin' mental that one.

I love it....it's like opening the Haynes Manual for the Universe and finding it was written by Lewis Carrol

On 24/11/2023 at 23:00, ardi100 said:

What do the good folk of basschat think about this?

First of all, how disappointing, not at all what you wanted to happen !

Hope it's an easy fix 👍

God made me do it.

If you kept the strap inside the case, you'd not need to put the Cambridgeshire badge on that strap, so you'd have a spare badge.

So...you'd need to buy another bass from Cambridgeshire. 👍

No charge, I like to do some work pro bono...just to give something back.

14 hours ago, Johncee said:

Cheers for the replies. I gave Gemini a call, and the chap there was really helpful so I ordered a pair of their “mountain lightnings” which will hopefully get my trousers flapping.

That's great news - glad you've got some on the way 👍

Do report back and let us know how they sound...

10 hours ago, smithy said:

That´s the poodle´s core (does one say that in english ? I´m german ) -  if it warms your fingers , it´s part of your gear.

Lovely phrase ! I had to check, but I think in English it would be something like  'That's heart of the matter' (Other linguists are available)...or more colloquially 'The thing is...'

Thanks, every day is a school day, and that's just fine by me !

Risky. Now you're only one forgetful moment away from total baseless panic.

4 hours ago, Dan Dare said:

 

You win the internet today.

Also, most kind

On 21/11/2023 at 12:40, steantval said:

Surprised your plumber didn’t fit a Magna Clean filter in the new system, unless you have it located elsewhere or that canister thingy in the bottom right of your picture is a similar device.

 

 

Now, that is good for metal

33 minutes ago, Dan Dare said:

 

You win the internet today.

I won the Internet once. It's made out of cheap plastic and that funny foil stuff that tinsel is made from. The dial fell off too. Jeesh, wish I'd gone for the speedboat.

1 hour ago, Johncee said:

 

Thanks - just checked out their web page. Which jazz pickups do you have?

Dawn Lightnings. They're quite mellow for Jazz pickups, so if you wanted more bite I'd maybe go for another model, but they're really rather nice. Defined but more Caramel than Crunchie.

10 minutes ago, bremen said:

Ice cream was so much tastier when it was analogue

Exactly ! You didn't go the ice cream van and ask for 'A 1100011 please !', did you ?

I used to love The Cure.

Apart from one album* and a handful of other songs, I just can’t listen to it anymore. Perfect for teenaged moping, I suppose, but these days it just sounds like teenaged moping

*The Top, btw. It's a psychedelic jewel.

Maybe have a word with Gemini Pickups - they're very helpful and willing to chat about special orders. I have a set of their jazz pickups and they're lovely. They also wound me a modded set of soapbars and some mini-humbuckers for a guitar I put together for a friend...all great stuff.

https://www.geminipickups.co.uk

On 19/11/2023 at 10:39, Marky L said:

She

...is wearing.

My old NRV-10 has insert points on each channel that come after the input gain stage, so you can use that to bypass the preamps.

Might be worth looking for an interface that has a similar thing.

20 minutes ago, bremen said:

"digital" is such an abused word it just slides past me now. I have a pair of headphones branded "digital". 

 

I heard that WC Boggs had trouble deciding whether to brand their new crapper "digital" or "quantum" 

I hope it's digital - who wants smearing and, God forbid, tunnelling in that situation ?

🥺

🍿

26 minutes ago, kwmlondon said:

I can get my whole rig to a venue on the bus!!!

I salute you, sir !

13 hours ago, Burns-bass said:

I paid £3000 for ours, including boxing in pipes, flushing the old system, and a boiler big enough to provide the water pressure needed for our 3 story house. 

 

Some of the best money I've ever spent!

It certainly made my eyes water when we replaced ours and got the bill..it's an expensive business, but who wants to play bass with freezing fingers?

And that temperature fluctuation sure plays havoc with your intonation

1 hour ago, tauzero said:

 

That would have been a 1976 Hayman 40/40 for me, and I know when it was made because I made it. Sadly, I've sold it since then.

I didn't make mine, I bought it from a shop in Stoke.

So it goes

One huge advantage over a bass.

By law, this one comes with a full-set up

To me, a bass from the year I started playing bass has much more relevance to me than one from when I was born.

My 1986 Fender Jazz commemorates that excellent decision quite nicely

Should've got a Barefaced