Silvia Bluejay

Not me. Strict Firefox and Adblock on everything, no Facebook, Amazon, Ebay etc. apps on my phone, no logging into anything via my social media. It's all actually far less inconvenient than those sites are trying to make you believe.

I share everybody's displeasure at the situation. We do not need Ezoic to ruin our enjoyment of this site. My default Privacy panel on this site was almost completely unticked by default - which is OK - but had a few ticked items that can't be unticked - which is bad. I have unleashed both Adblock Plus and Firefox against this plague, but I'm still feeling very uneasy. Firefox: Adblock Plus:

LOL the last time I was single, in my mid-40s, music was my obligatory topic at dates. I don't mean I wanted my date to be an accomplished musician or able to discuss the finer points of musical composition, but music, as a player or as a listener, had to have some role in his life. No interest whatsoever in music? Next please, don't care if you look like/are worth as much as Brad Pitt. If something is important to you, you do need a partner who can at least understand, but preferably fully share it, whatever it may be. I'm now married to a musician and only a small number of my friends are non-musical. Even those I've known since childhood are fans of bands and sometimes go to concerts, so we talk music even if they may not share my own taste. It's rarer for me not to end up talking about music with someone than the opposite.

Plus one! : D

@Paul S, I may have been thinking about your solution, rather than a drumkit modification. Thanks for adding that info on here. @Rosie C, @Paolo85, incidentally - and sorry if I sound prescriptive - with anything long scale and held vertically you should always use the proper double bass method of plucking and fingering. Never play an upright like a normal bass, your muscles and tendons will soon let you know that they're not happy. Hence, as you both note, the need for the damn thing to be comfortable to hold. In theory I could get away with playing my NS NXT like an oversized bass guitar when the action is low, because it's been designed to basically play itself (like butter? Let's not go there!). However, I deliberately raise the action a bit and play it like a DB. Just to be safe.

@Paolo85, if you can get hold of the tripod from an NS Design (or similar) and adapt it, or even modify a tripod from a drumkit - as a BCer* once did IIRC - you can attach any cheap EUB to such contraption and simply have it stand up of its own accord with no effort or contortion required of either your plucking/bowing or fingering hand. Some will say that the beauty of playing double bass is hugging the body of the instrument in order to hold it in the most comfortable position. -- slightly OT -- My experience: Since I'm so small that a 'proper' double bass would have to hold me upright, rather than vice versa, I have one of the abovementioned NS Designs (an NXT 5) and an Eminence. Neither, I'm afraid, would qualify as remotely 'cheap' as per your request. The former I simply couldn't afford to buy new now, as I did in 2011, and the latter is a present which, in any case, does need a spacer bracket; however, being slimmer and shallower than a DB, it's less hard to keep in place in a comfortable position, at least for me. Good luck with your search, don't give up on playing upright. * Can anyone remember who that was, or even better find a link to their thread?

Good. But I don't see any reason whatsoever to change the current state of affairs. 👍

Please don't default to most recent. That's exactly how I do NOT use the forum. If you prefer to add a setting that allows each user to choose their own default opening page when they log in, that's fine, but please don't impose such change on everybody with no way out. I'm usually completely uninterested in what the latest threads are. I tend to either have a quick scan (with mod hat on) or go to my favourite threads, which I also follow by email.

While I see your point, guys, in that there will always be scope for tinkering with the exact positioning of the PA forum - and possibly others! - I think we can stop fretting (😉) for now and leave the subforum where Steve has put it. While the PA is definitely not an Other Instrument, it's usually made of (power) Amps and Cabs and speakers etc. For someone looking for PA talk, finding the forum now is a slightly more logical process than before. Let's see how it goes. 👍

OK this has been fixed, I'll lock the thread. 👍

Excellent, thanks Steve, I think the new subforum will be a very useful addition to Basschat. 👍😎🙂

Again, guys feel free to tag me in those too!

Unfortunately as a mere Mod I can't move entire subforums, only threads, so fixing the mistake is down to @Kiwi. In the meantime, anyone finding a thread that's about PAs, please either report it or tag me in it and I'll move the thread to the new PA subforum.

Done.

@Kiwi the new subforum should definitely be under Amps And Cabs NOT Other Instruments, which would make it very hard to spot. Could you please move it?

The more I delve into the Privacy Policy and list of advertisers on Ezoic the more horrified I am. I've turned off all I could turn off, but the Strict setting on Firefox and a similar setting on my newly-enabled Adblock for this site will stay. Remember that GDPR does not exist in the US, where Ezoic is based and where our data is open to far more manipulation and selling than anywhere in Europe. I'm not a happy bunny.

Thanks Steve @Kiwi. My Firefox cookie handling is set on STRICT so it will reject most of whatever Ezoic is trying to ask my browser anyway. However, I must say I'm still uncomfortable and I have activated Adblock Plus on this site for good measure. I prefer to actually see any ads that appear on this site, for several reasons, but for the moment I'll go with this over-defensive setup. Hope things improve soon for the site on all levels.

I think the bit about sharing info with their partners is a third-party cookie matter, which the user should definitely be allowed to reject from this page, not just from their browser's settings. (That would apply globally to the user's browsing experience, not just basschat.co.uk.)

Yes I got the Italian version too, @DGBass! I thought it was because I visit a lot of Italian sites and type a lot of emails in Italian, and that my computer perhaps already had cookies indicating the presence of that language somewhere in the system. Interesting to know that's not the case, and instead the message is simply random. Curioser and curioser.

I get this message when I log on: Well, I don't want that to happen. I don't want this website to share any information about my use of this site with your partners. But I'm only offered a button called "Got it!", so I can't deny permission. I'm not sure this is legal in the UK?

I see your point, Dave, but the same happens with amps, cabs and quite a lot of accessories. When the main subject of a thread is clear, and it's not posted in the correct place on the forum, we move it. If it is posted in the correct place, and any references to other bits of equipment (usually inevitable) don't radically change the main subject, the thread can stay in its subforum. This would mostly be to make following or contributing to such a popular subject easier than it currently is.

Also, why is the choice "either/or"? I would be interested in both contributing to AND reading a PA subforum.

Definitely. Seems silly to relegate something as important as the PA to such a generic section as Accessories and Misc.

Can't do the same with The Big Alikat.

So Damo And The Dynamites had a residency at this year's British Motor Show in Farnborough, where we played on a sponsored stage under a (thankfully thoroughly waterproof) canopy. The pub benches provided for picnicking attendees proved to tempting for @Happy Jack...