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Is it designed for guitar or bass or neither?

Hmmm. It's gonna be something really unlikely like... an Argos baby monitor!

I always thought it was the keyboard player (something Tork?) or is this another one of those things that I should have known... but didn't?

[quote name='fatback' timestamp='1364481043' post='2027062'] Other than that, frustration is... learning to bow the double bass. No doubt about it. Reduces me to an infantile state of weeping and gnashing and throwing my toys out the pram in minutes. [/quote] That was probably one of the hardest things I've had to learn to do in years. Dry your eyes, pick up your toys and try again, you'll get there in the end.

There's no way that a Fender Bassman and a Fender PB aren't compatible with each other and you've removed all the other possibilities by substitution. You've got a faulty amp mate.

I got very excited there until I realised that I was thinking of Cannock.

[quote name='skankdelvar' timestamp='1364479504' post='2027038'] Now that BassChat has become a monstrous, corporate machine designed to funnel the little peoples' hard-earned cash into Ped and Kiwi's bulging wallets, I think it is entirely disgraceful that they haven't set up a phone-tree. And if such an inititititiative - like so many other recent 'enhancements' - is (as I suspect) beyond their pathetic technical capabilities, they could have at least organised for someone to pop round to our houses and tell each of us in person. Don't tell me they can't afford it. [/quote] We trialled one in the Top Secret BassChat Weapons Research Laboratory (code named pedshed), but we forgot the number...

[quote name='Mr H' timestamp='1364491968' post='2027272'] [url="http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/shortcuts/2013/mar/28/spamhaus-internet-attack-pr-stunt"]http://www.guardian....attack-pr-stunt[/url] try not to get mad, but maybe they were just teasing! [/quote] I love reading stuff like that from self proclaimed experts, there's always a conspiracy going on somewhere. It was a botched attack by a currently unconfirmed group. Instead of just calling it a day and going back to their favourite daydreams (moving out of their Mums house and having sex with a fashion model), they decided to just blat anything they could find. Three IXPs in London, Frankfurt and Amsterdam were attacked in a vaguely successful manner and caused some disruption for a day or three. CloudFlare may have capitalised on what happened, I can't blame them for that, but from the albeit patchy evidence I've seen so far, they certainly didn't cause it.

[quote name='Skol303' timestamp='1364427021' post='2026507'] White settlers essentially got rich by deforesting the local environment (and truly messing up the local people... but that's another topic). And now the same white settlers are preventing native people from earning a living felling trees on environmental grounds… so it's easy to see how conflicts arise with so much hypocrisy and painful history involved. [/quote] Yep. I think I saw the same scenario with Eskimos and polar bear hunting recently. The West has always been very good at taking advantage of other peoples natural resources and then, once the financial rewards are diminished, deciding that everyone else has to abide by an 'environmental policy' that wouldn't have been required if we hadn't raped the resource in the first place. My personal feeling is that if the West is going to try and dictate their environmental policies on indigenous people, they should, at the very least, compensate them for that loss. Imagine the furore if there was a policy banning Project Managers tomorrow!

[quote name='EssentialTension' timestamp='1364430021' post='2026556'] I think we chopped down most of our forests some centuries before there was a forestry commission. [/quote] Quite a few centuries in fact. Henry VIII is often falsely cited as a major contributor to the deforestation of the UK (he wanted a lot of ships very quickly) but the damage had been done long before he arrived. The most major deforestation actually happened during the Neolithic period when our ancestors invented axes and moved to an agricultural lifestyle. I read too much

[quote name='discreet' timestamp='1364418538' post='2026333'] A man humming a tune into a mobile phone - nothing weird about that. [/quote] I did get a strange look humming a tune into my phone whilst walking across the local Co-op supermarket carpark a few weeks ago. I just grinned and said 'strippergram'.

[quote name='Gust0o' timestamp='1364424984' post='2026463'] I blame Ped. [/quote] It's my default setting.

[quote name='Johngh' timestamp='1364422753' post='2026416'] Your all wrong, it's our fault all along apparently [/quote] It's certainly not my fault. I point blank refuse to take the blame for anything I haven't been paid for.

[quote name='SimonEdward' timestamp='1364417586' post='2026306'] my only frustration is having some ideas, usually when I'm outdoors - and not being anywhere near the gear!! [/quote] I used to find that as well. Now I just grab my mobile and use the recorder thing to hum the melody so I don't forget it for later.

Here's a nice little confirmation of what I stated the 'problem' was with CloudFlare several days ago. http://www.nytimes.com/2013/03/27/technology/internet/online-dispute-becomes-internet-snarling-attack.html?_r=0 Any further bitchy comments should be sent to those responsible for the attack, I don't want to be seeing them here any more. As there's nothing that BC can do about this, I'm just gonna slob off and watch some porn without a firewall now.

Although some DB techniques are applicable to an EUB, not all of them are - particularly, as you've discovered already, when you're using it on the stand. I position it so that one leg of the stand points forward and get myself into a comfortable playing position, left foot behind the stand and right foot to the side of it. If I'm playing something requiring a degree of intricacy and precision I move close to the stand so the neck is resting against the left hand side of my body. It keeps everything mechanically rigid and leaves your left arm relaxed. For 'standard' playing I move out slightly and rely on the stand to support the EUB. I'm an NS user as well.

[quote name='EssentialTension' timestamp='1364345989' post='2025344'] CIA needs to get the BC admins on board. [/quote] Blimey The CIA must have really p*ss*d you off...

[quote name='bigjohn' timestamp='1364346147' post='2025345'] I'm backing out of this discussion slowly... [/quote] How on earth did I miss that one?

[quote name='EssentialTension' timestamp='1364344371' post='2025328'] I'm shocked to hear that BC is not as secure as the CIA. [/quote] Actually, we got hacked once last year. The CIA were hacked on three reported occasions.

[quote name='xilddx' timestamp='1364342942' post='2025308'] You are probably a frustrated musician, but what is it that stops you accepting that the way you approach life and music is what you are? [/quote] Nothing at all I'm content and happy with my musical ability and am lucky that others are as well. As for my approach to life, well it's perhaps a little out of the ordinary but I wouldn't want to change it, and that's the important thing.

Oh well done mate. I've always loved it when a story has a well deserved happy ending.

[quote name='Spoombung' timestamp='1364329559' post='2025036'] I typed an answer then deleted it. It's always the same with your questions, Silddx [/quote] Yep Nige has got a great knack of getting people to think 'outside of the box'. When you've done that, you turn round and find that the old b*gg*rs gone and redefined what 'the box' actually was when you weren't looking.

Thinking about this, I think it's because the 'favoured' hand has more dexterity [b]and[/b] strength than the other one. Your fretting hand is only doing one job - it's fretting a note using (hopefully) a mediocre amount of strength and a fair amount of dexterity. Your playing hand is doing two jobs - it's pulling a single string (dexterity) with an appropriate amount of strength to make the note ring clear and true.

[quote name='seashell' timestamp='1364327651' post='2024994'] You're using all four of your limbs anyway, so it doesn't matter which hand or foot does what. [/quote] You've seen me dancing then...