BassTractor

[i][b]Start[/b][/i] playing? Baroque, or more specifically: only Bach. But then electronic music came along, as well as prog and jazzrock, and pop and punk and... ...and it made me not stop playing.

[quote name='BassBus' timestamp='1494705801' post='3298078'] the E word we're not allowed to mention here. [/quote] Er... that's not a Porsche! That's a Jaguar, and thus safe to mention! "Exit"... avec chapeau.

You nailed it.

[quote name='gary mac' timestamp='1492948792' post='3284285'] Winging a Yes song [/quote] Oh the Silent Freedom of Winging!

As a customer: 1 - Physical medium if possible - preferably CD or DVD/BluRay music formats. Vinyl if must. If it's an artist I wish to support extra, I'll buy the downloads in addition. 2 - Downloads if must. 3 - No streaming ever.

[quote name='Grangur' timestamp='1490206683' post='3263266'] It's the old one of getting you to click a link. [/quote] Ah. Thanks!

Thanks! Is the point here that they want you to click on a link, as usual, or is there a new element or principle in this one?

[quote name='Skol303' timestamp='1488554169' post='3249996'] Butthole Surfers [/quote] Good call, and one that reminded me of another love of mine, though one that has seen some mention on these boards: Flux of Pink Indians.

Bach --> Penderecki --> Squire --> bass.

[quote name='mateusz' timestamp='1487607167' post='3241150'] listen .. I put post because I fight with this man for 3 weeks. I was looking for help on the internet can someone also was cheated by him. flocks of my new account. I'm not a fan of guitars and audiophile equipment. my amplifier cost the 1,050 euros and I did not receive it from this man. [/quote] OK, and I apologise. This post sounds very reasonable. I now see English is not your first language, but initially went wrong when I thought that your first posts were written by someone with a great command over the English language who just tried to copy the style of a foreigner. all the best, bert

Gearslutz is actually a British forum and has a sales section. However, its main membership seems to be Mercan plus worldwide, so you'd have to somehow filter any search results. Dunno whether the forum software offers this type of filtering. I also wonder whether the Sound on Sound forum has a sales section. Good luck!

[quote name='dyerseve' timestamp='1487596455' post='3241003'] you need to be prepared for a certain degree of transparency IMO. [/quote] Transparency is good, and I'm all for it, BUT this is a forum where everybody can be expected to have strong opinions about every aspect, as evidenced in the past - especially when the fee was installed. Transparency soon becomes a Weapon of Mass Forum Death - so to speak hyperbolically. My old firm f.x. was extremely transparent, but its own forum was totally not. Practical reasons as well as principles.

Er... Mateusz made his BC account yesterday and within two hours wrote his first post in this thread. How can he have been scammed by the Germans in the mean time? I ask you... I mean everybody knows the Germans are meticulous, and would never take just one hour to scam people. Seriously though, i feel it's safe to assume the Mateusz account was made as some sort of a joke or scam. I for one don't believe for one second that what is said really happened, and would rather believe the "Mateusz" account to be a new account for the Gearmans character or a friend - for example.

Horslips and Gordon Giltrap were known to some in Holland - AFAIK only to music afficionados, who'd tend to know much more music than the average radio listener. Both were however played on the radio to some degree. Me, I owned Giltrap's album "Perilous Journey", which AFAIK was the first album of his that got any attention in Holland. As to my own: [b]Mo[/b] (I disbelieve the WP claim they're called "The Mo"). I've posted them here before. This is something as odd as post new-wave pop with prog leanings and a bassoon instead of a bass. They were not on a regular record contract, but Philips had a backdoor for tiny acts, on their Backdoor label of course, and the band thusly were given three chances to release an album. When, finally, a CD was released (24 tracks - 8 from each album), and I ordered it a few years later, the record company reacted: "What? That's the first time someone's ordered that CD!" [media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AEozWmF_YMw[/media]

No regrets, as every bass sold was a necessity in several dimensions. That said, nearly every sale did hurt, except my nasty Rockinbetter and maybe the Ashbory, whereas the one that unexpectedly hurt the most by far was this one, which happily went to a good BC'er: [URL=http://s1170.photobucket.com/user/basstractor1/media/1IMG_0046_zpsd220d997.jpg.html][IMG]http://i1170.photobucket.com/albums/r525/basstractor1/1IMG_0046_zpsd220d997.jpg[/IMG][/URL]

[quote name='mikel' timestamp='1487092627' post='3236997'] Yes, or as a second choice, Jethro Tull. [/quote] Ha! My immediate response to the thread title was: "Yes, or, as a second choice, Jethro Tull". Then I remembered I'd been through this before, and after some thinking had concluded: "Jethro Tull, or, as a second choice, Yes." Then again, I could also well imagine being a member in BassTractor, Lake & Palmer.

"This affect footpedal will effect my tone more than my affect handmanual will..."

[quote name='dyerseve' timestamp='1486069729' post='3229071'] Umm chainmaille or studded-leather durr!!! [/quote] Tru dat!

[quote name='hiram.k.hackenbacker' timestamp='1486066199' post='3229029'] Uh oh! It's gonna kick off again! [/quote] Ok then, so what tonegloves are best for metal?

Yeah, Scott Devine does this. I wonder why...

[quote name='crez5150' timestamp='1485641071' post='3225590'] If you look at their website it says that is a correspondence address only [/quote] Then again, I didn't say a department IN the UK, but a department FOR the UK. If they did set up a new service and/or sales department for the UK and got new semi-English-speaking employees for it, this might in part explain a perceived difference between Dutch and British customer satisfaction. It wouldn't make it right, mind - just possibly explain.

[quote name='crez5150' timestamp='1485640457' post='3225576'] There is no BAX UK.... they have registered an address but that is all..... all sales are dealt with in Europe [/quote] That's interesting. So that might indicate they've set up a department for the UK that doesn't function.

My own experience with Bax (the Dutch variety) has been far better than my experience with Thomann, BUT I see a pattern: people complaining about Bax tend to complain about Bax UK - not about Bax NL. So there may be something about British Bax or about British shops or about British customers, or a combination, Idunno, but the pattern seems to be there.

The Myrtle Corvid fuzz has a switch, and reportedly its three unmarked knobs are Volume, Tone and Sustain. Do the knobs have the same functions as those on the original Big Muff? Can anyone explain what these knobs do exactly? From hazy memory, I thought Volume is not just volume, just as Tone isn't just a frequency balance thing, and Sustain has more to do with fuzz than actual sustain. Thanks for any help!

Someone who tried one at NAMM reported that the FS keybed is toy-like, and not as good as the slim keys on the 86% size version. If confirmed by others, that would remove a lot of the attraction. I guess it's an 86% size desktop for me then, with my personal choice of full-size MIDI keyboard.