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4 minutes ago, Crawford13 said:

Not illegal at all. Even if the wrong price is displayed the retailer has no legal responsibility to honour the price, as all displayed prices are an invitation to barter.

Trading Standards can make recommendations to retailers regarding trading practices, but I believe they have little power to enforce anything, the retailer  may need to show due diligence, however there are many loopholes.

All that being said in the age of social media, the customer has truly become king, and most large businesses will honour wrong prices etc as an act of goodwill in order to give “good service”.

"If you’re a retailer, you must display:

• the price of products - this must be in sterling (pounds and pence) and include VAT where applicable
• the price of a single item (the ‘unit price’) for products that you sell loose
• metric measures (like kilograms, centimetres or litres) for unit pricing - except for some products (for example, beer is still sold in pints)"

https://www.gov.uk/product-labelling-the-law

I could be wrong but I believe this practice is not legal. 

Having been in retail for over twenty years it was always drummed into us that there is a legal requirement to clearly display the price of a product and trading standards backed this up several times when there were things went wrong. 

I seem to think there is a allowance for smaller stores, below a certain floor area, but I think that was in relation to the level of detail required to be displayed rather than being able to not display a price at all. 

I'm sure trading standards would be interested in this case..... 

The first cheapo pedal case I bought was lined with loop so there was only one way to go. 

American Babies album An Epic Battle Between Darkness and Light was probably the last to just grab me. 

Probably not to everyone's taste but it really got me. 

https://youtu.be/vIPAevNFwEE

On 02/01/2019 at 09:48, AndyTravis said:

TTB are recent for me, I really like Nathaniel Rateliff & The Nightsweats. Might be worth a listen.

Love Nathaniel Rateliffe & The Night Sweats. 

 Off to see then at the Barrowlands next week in Glasgow.  Cannae wait.  Think they are the only band me and my wife agree on. 

Or electronic shelf labelling?   Automatically updated from your Epos price database.  Always the live price on display. 

Currently being trialled by major food retailers but much easier/cheaper to implement in an environment with fewer SKU's to manage. 

Mike bought some strings off me. 

Very easy transaction.  Good comms. 

... And let's you know its arrived 😁👍

Sold 👍

Been on my bass for about 6 months but have not seen a lot of use in that time.  £20 posted in UK. (not in original packaging) 

P. S. My bass is a 2:2 headstock

La Bella 750T White Nylon L, 4-string set for electric bass, light tension, long scale, material: nylon on steel core, nylon tape wound, white nylon tape wound with extra smooth surface, packaged using modified atmosphere to prevent tarnishing and ensure freshness, string gauges: .050, .065, .085, .105, made in USA

Tha ks MBA, 

I'll look into those cans 👍

Good morning,

Looking for some advice re. headphone choice. 

My current set up for recording is Cubase on a laptop, Zoom r24 as audio interface and various bits n pieces main recorded direct in but sometimes amped bass/guitars recorded through cheap mics. 

I have been using my Goldring Dr150 headphones  as good as they are for listening, they are too coloured and dark to be suited to recording.  So I think it time to buy something more suited to the task. 

I was considering beyer Dt880 pros 250ohm but I am gettting a little put off by the reviews all mentioning the need for a headphone amp.  Would the R24 be sufficient to drive these? 

Any other suggestions in a similar price range? 

Very nice chap! 

Congrats 💐👍

These types of ads seem to be prevalent in all sectors now. 

There are similar sites advertising £3k bikes for hundreds of pounds.  

They all "take" paypal.  I get a feeling that the real scam is the harvesting of your PayPal details via a phishing site that looks like PayPal. 

6 hours ago, RedVee said:

I can't see what all the fuss is about! I read the article about John Deacon in The Mail as I get it every day and it was fair piece of journalism.

 

What was the actual story? 

As far as I could work.out it was rich rockstar keeps himself to himself.  Non-story.  Poor journalism. He clearly doesn't want the attention and isn't doing anything to attract it. Why even print it!?

What a shocking piece of journalism.

The headline basically spells it out. 

NOTHING TO SEE HERE!  WE TRIED BUT COULD NOT FIND A STORY SO WE PRINTED THIS

On 27/08/2018 at 11:13, Cuzzie said:

 

https://www.darkglass.com/creations/hyper-luminal/

 

well we all knew one was coming, and the fact they stopped making the SS this comes as no surprise it’s a compressor.

Compressor haters, turn away now, this thread is not for you

 

Jeezo... Scott Devine gets about. Building pedals for dark glass now. 😋

Saw Colonel Mustard and the Dijon 5 a couple of years back at a festival and always keep an eye out for them locally. 

Mission of Burma - that's when I reach for my revolver 

A car drove past me at 7am pumping it out and now its stuck

6 hours ago, Al Krow said:

What the heck is that?! 😎 

And how is it going to help with songwriting (I'm all ears for anything that is going to do that)?

Is a midi controller type thingy! 

I try with DAWs but all the mousing and clicking and keyboard shortcuts leaves me losing the will...  This has buttons and knobs 😎

I've not bought anything bass related for a couple of months... Cog Rogue One was my last big purchase and it's still my best buy this year.

Thinking about maybe buying something a bit different next... Native Instruments Maschine... Try a different approach to song writing. 

6 hours ago, Al Krow said:

I'm feeling positively virtuous!  

How long have you managed to go without getting a new piece of bass gear (other than replacement strings)?

What was the last thing you bought that really made a positive difference to your sound and which you're never going to move on?

 

 

 

...Just to make this vaguely useful (as well as hopefully a fun / interesting / entertaining thread!) we've said so far, that the single piece of kit that has made the most positive difference to our sound and we're not ever planning on moving on, is:

Ibanez SR1800 bass

Pedals

Tech21 ParaDriver

Tech21 Dug Pinnick DP-3X

Or serious Bass-GASser has run out things to buy and is looking for ideas? 😁😂

Sold

Bump! 

Not straight blues on the common definition but a very cool take on them.  They have a kind of raw sound that reminds me of John Lee hooked. 

I use a Pedaltrain Volto - which looks identical to your rechargeable unit except its black and about three times the price 🤔 - and I can get about 5 hours out of mine using an always on drive pedal and a few other effects. 

I guess your bass ofd must be a massive power drain. 

You can use a power bank to supplement your rechargeable unit.  I've never implemented it properly but I have had a test run in the bedroom of plugging my completely flat volto into the powerbank via the USB and it ran just fine with all my pedals engaged.