bass_dinger

I had already had a long day (piano lesson in the morning, met a friend in the afternoon), and arrived an hour early. 

I chatted with Steve, and others, and listened to the first performer.

By 8:20, I had run out of stamina, and decided to leave - before Steve had even started his set!

Back home by bedtime. 

Steve Lawson is back at Ron's in Peckham, 7pm on 17th October. 

I am here, at 6pm, watching them set up.

52 minutes ago, Sibob said:

Did anyone ever explore this further? Legit?

 

Si

I didn't take it any further - it didn't feel like a risk I wanted to take with my basses.

However, their website tells me that the company has gone from three reviews, to over 17,000 reviews,  in 6 months.  That's equivalent to around 3,000 reviews per month or 100 per day, every day of the week. 

So, for all the healthy cynicism displayed by basschatters, 4 people an hour (throughout the day and night) are happy enough with the service to leave a positive review. 

Does that amount of shopping traffic sound plausible for a business that is less than two years old?

Companies House entry here. 

https://find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk/company/15411845

4 hours ago, Norris said:

It's like the advert that's on at the moment where a young kid is playing a strat, then jumps on a pedal. The guitar sounds exactly the same. So he jumps on it again... and it still sounds the same.

 

Just looked it up... EDF advert

 

Edit: apparently he can actually play a guitar though

@Norris was so annoyed by an advert containing Fake Playing, that he looked up the advert for us, just to be certain about the detail. That's commitment!

So, I ended up attaching a small mixer to the front end of the AG03, so that I could use the the additional inputs on the mixer, and bypassing the faulty channel. 

Eventually I replaced the mixer and AG03 with a Behringer UMC1820, which gave more inputs and a neater profile on my desk. 

I had planned to sell the AG03 and tested it to make a note of which channels didn't work  - and it was all working again!

So, I likewise suspect that it was a software glitch. 

On 14/10/2025 at 17:24, bass_dinger said:

 

Am I the only person who is annoyed by this sort of thing?

Clearly not the only person...

Rockin' all over the world? 

Not if she's in the band, you won't be. 

Sometimes I will see a photo of someone posing with a guitar or bass, and it annoys me to see that they are clearly not playing it.

Thumb on the strings.  The other fingers holding the guitar up. No strap. 

Am I the only person who is annoyed by this sort of thing? Probably....

9 minutes ago, SimonK said:

 

Is it lined? I have a non-lined fretless and find I can tolerate fairly out of tune strings without a problem so long as I don't play the open note!

Edge-lined. So, lines under the B string, but not under the E to G strings - I have got used to where the correct note is on the string, and mis-tuned bass messes with my muscle memory. 

Here on the latter pages  

So, an update. 

I have spent the last 9 months playing only the fretless bass  - I decided to commit to the new instrument. 

I found that they need to be perfectly in tune - an out-of-tune string confuses me and I  struggle to adjust.

Earlier this week, I took the bass for a second setup - less relief and more mwah. 

I will be learning how to incorporate the mwah into my playing, and have got my chorus pedals out, so that I can get used to the sound of the effects pedals.  Yummy!

Very natural, very organic  - as if the body has been worn to shape by wind erosion. 

Lovely. 

On 20/09/2025 at 10:45, Hellzero said:

You were lucky to have a Hohner back then, I started noodling a decade before you on a crappy Maya EB-2 with the strings at around 1 cm away from the fingerboard... 🤦🏻

 

And people nowadays are selling these pieces of shīt at silly high prices, simply because they were made in Japan... 🤢🤮

You were lucky. I practiced for three months on a rolled-up newspaper that I found in a septic tank.

I used to have to get up every morning at six o'clock, play the newspaper for 14 hours a day - and when our Dad got home from working in the orchestra pit, would thrash us to sleep in 7/4 time, with a curly guitar lead.

7 hours ago, Basvarken said:

Another addition to the Blue Bass family.
The Brooks SparkleBird.
 

The pics don't do the colour justice. In real life it is much more teal/turquoise.




This pic comes close. But still misses the vibrance of the colour

An engineering marvel.  The tailpiece is so simple, but so effective.  And the headstock, very neat for something with 12 tuners. 

Very pretty  - I'd be all over that if it was a 15-string....

7 hours ago, TrevorR said:

Don’t laugh… that’s exactly how luthier Rob Armstrong came to design his “Baby Guitars”… he mucked up a case order and decided to build something to fit the mandolin cases that arrived. 
 

 

Beautiful sounding guitar from Rob Armstrong  - and thank goodness he didn't accidentally order two dozen saxophone cases...

Done.

And hats off to any ambidextrous bassists out there. 

On 13/09/2025 at 15:07, Baloney Balderdash said:

And what is a credit card supposed to test in relation to truss rod adjustment?

It's to pay for the truss rod adjustment to be done properly. 

1 hour ago, Stub Mandrel said:

 

Saw a tall guy in the supermarket the other day, well over a foot taller than his partner. They both appeared to have legs the same length...

The obvious explanation is that the tall guy is accidentally wearing his partner's trousers. 

On 08/09/2025 at 18:07, timo said:

@handman got one ordered a few days after that last message, £25 + p&p for a 5 string gen1 maple board neck. 4 month lead time for mine though...

It's at times like this, that basschat needs a "wow" response icon. 

That is almost a nominal fee, or £25 for administration and the neck is free. 

"Thanks for buying a Sire. We are committed to providing you with ongoing support for your instrument."

Hi @DylanDavid, and welcome. 

Perhaps you can show us some photos of the string height above the fretboard, so that the bass experts here can give you advice. 

While you are making those photographs and waiting for help, there is no need  touch the truss rod yet.

Graeme sold me a bumper bundle of cables, for a bargain price, and included free postage!

Great seller. 

Robert 

4 hours ago, Si600 said:

 

 

Don't care.  It's irrational, remember?   I still hate regardless of what the dictionary says 😘

Hurrah for @Si600's admission of irrationality!

4 hours ago, TimR said:

 

Planning permission takes ages to get passed. 

2 hours ago, tegs07 said:

And back on planet earth. Building contractor sorry guv we are booked solid for the next 8 months with actual real jobs that we have been to the property and provided a quote for.

 

Edit: I don’t know your area but the building contractor guys i know doing big jobs like lofts and extensions don’t work on ifs and maybe. There are too many third parties to keep on the right side of and permanent staff to pay to do this.

 

In addition the stamp duty bracket has got so high that people extend rather than move and they have more work than they can handle already without a tepid maybe.

 

 

Thus, my prejudice is provably irrational, and I have met the requirements of this thread.  Hurrah for me!

People who buy a house, then put an extension up, or convert the loft, within six months of moving in.   

If they did it within a month, then it was clearly part of the plan when they purchased the place. 

If they did it within six years, then the family grew, and needs more space after they purchased the place. 

But six months just feels wrong. 

1 hour ago, Burns-bass said:

What happened?

 

Hopefully they chopped off his hands.

First hearing, apparently. 

Perhaps others on basschat will be better able to explain what this means? 

33JJ0821825 was the case number, heard at 10am on 10th September 2025.

https://courtlistings.co.uk/magistrates-court-listings/leicester