uk_lefty

That is awesome.

Where do people put their receivers, pedal board or amp top... Or somewhere else? Also does where you have the transmitter affect things? I got a pouch for mine and might run it through my belt... Got a knock about gig on Thurs night that is likely to have less than ten punters so might fly by the seat of my pants and go wireless making sure I use the scan function .. fingers crossed.

I wouldn't buy near a live music venue unless I had no choice, I want my kids to sleep! Same as not buying a flat above a takeaway because of the smell, noise, etc. Isn't it just common sense? Or are there just loads of misguided social justice warriors who love fighting for their cause no matter what?? No wonder there's fewer venues left (other big factors also recognised here!)

Line 6 G75. Not yet confident to gig it. When using in rehearsal it has dropped out a few times but my issue is once it drops out it doesn't reconnect. I think I've not been scanning for the best channel to use first, combine that with rehearsal studios being full of electrical interference, I need to experiment more before it goes out to gig so jury's out for me.

I bought a USA Stingray brand new in December and on discussion with my drummer this weekend we agreed I probably never need another bass. The feel of the neck is the big draw for me, the shape and finish are just perfect. Then there's the kick you get from the pickups, a big full sound, moreso than you'd ever get from a P. I tried the Sterling Ray 34 a few years back and probably didn't have enough experience of active EQ to get much out of it, but the US Stingray is just instinctive to play. If cash is an issue and you're not sure I'd always encourage to buy second hand, you'll save loads. I'm not niave enough to think I'd recover half the new cost of my US Stingray if I were to sell it now... Give it twenty five years maybe

What an instrument for a 12 year old to be having a go on! And good on you letting him loose on it. I thought I'd had good quality basses with an MIJ Fender and some others but when I got a Stingray it all stepped up a gear, best basses for playing live (for my style anyway), can't imagine needing another bass for the same job.

It's more to do with where the strap buttons are and how it naturally sits on a strap it just pushed the end of the neck almost exactly two frets further away from your fretting arm than they would be compared to a fender for example, screws up the muscle memory! Am sure other brands and styles are different

They take a lot of flack but if I wanted lightweight I'd go back to a Hohner "cricket bat" B2A, just make sure you get one with the EMG pickups and get decent strings, they sound great. I think they look great too, many people don't though! They also confuse the natural playing position and you're playing an A when your muscle memory was taking you to G.

If it had an onboard tuner many people could have that as their only pedal!

I was there. Thought the sound could have been better. His backing band were local students I think, what an opportunity for them!! I was grinning from ear to ear throughout, such a nice down to earth guy who can really tell a story. Great experience.

Did notice the German stuff on the desk but didn't know if it was "case candy" type stuff. Also didn't know Sandberg sent out build updates, thought they'd be too busy!! eBay throws me these days with what's an auction and what's a buy now... See what you mean being handbuilt etc but surprised that they'd let a decal out the door like that. Decent bass, hope someone gets a bargain.

https://rover.ebay.com/rover/0/0/0?mpre=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.ebay.co.uk%2Fulk%2Fitm%2F254273160903 Very low starting price, wonky decal, why take it all apart for photos like that?? Something doesn't seem right to me. £500 starting bid for a Sandberg I'd be tempted but very cautious. Hope I'm being too cautious and there's a bargain out there for a lefty who wants a quality fiver... Thoughts?

Look for second hand OLP stingrays? Obviously not the real USA Stingray but should go some way towards the feel and tonal style. The cheapest Ernie Ball do are around the £350 mark new so again, not the real thing but it should be as close as you can get if budget restricts.

It would seem so but someone must be translating his kindergarten bully routine in to adult sentences at least.

Jeez, what a place to go on "holiday"

Autocorrect is a git isn't it?! Stage names is one for another thread... Yes I use one, but it isn't the name of the setting of so much drunken shame in my youth.

I once told a mate that a random long haired bloke I'm Scarborough Weahterspoons was Nick Menza, the drummer in Megadeth... Once he stumbled over for a handshake and a photo the bloke got quite a line of people wanting to talk to him. He wasn't Nick Menza.

You'd think that. I've spent my career working in offices and you wouldn't believe the state most men think it's ok to leave the loos in (never been in the ladies myself on account of not wanting to get fired). Honestly, some people are either so proud of the massive jobby they've just left that they want all their colleagues to see and smell it, or they're too scared to flush it. If that's how people behave in offices imagine what those fiends do when they see a row of fifty portabogs that others are expecting to be dirty???! There's some weirdos when it comes to loos.

I have tried the boss limiter enhancer, line 6 constrictor and Ashdown amp onboard comp. The line 6 was more of a guitar pedal but it has three settings that are very easy to use and some knobs to tweak, quite cheap second hand. The Boss unit I preferred to use on "enhance" for my fretless. The Ashdown amp compressor I was leaving on most of the time of I had no compressor pedal and couldn't really tell you what it was doing but it certainly wasn't making anything sound bad. I've now got quite a sophisticated Boss multi FX with loads of different compressor models so will be playing around with that when I get time to create my own patches. Overall I'd say use one for live or recording to add presence, but that's just me with my kit and my playing.

I don't think "hard rock calling" counts as a festival in that you don't stay on site, so my first festival experience was Download 2016 aged 32. It pished down from the Friday lunchtime onwards. Security staff were forcing people out in to the elements for no apparent reason. We camped next to east mids airport runway which was active all night on the Friday. They sold more camping plots than there was room for which led to arguments and your tent not always being where you'd left it. On the positive side... Saw some great bands, ended up following a few bands I'd not heard of before, saw Megadeth live which fulfilled an ambition since age 13, thought Jane's Addiction were ridiculously good and was gutted to have to leave them to see Iron Maiden start up, had a good weekend with old mates and made some new friends, but the severe lack of sleep was draining and meant I slept and missed most of Rammstein. I went last year on a day ticket but stayed in a B&b in the middle of nowhere, had to queue two and half hrs for a taxi back and ended up unable to sleep when I got to the b&b anyway. I would go again but at my age, with enough sleeplessness from my toddler and another baby on the way the only way I would do it is to hire a camper van and stay in the premium quiet camping bit and hope the camper van survives. And take two days off work after for recovery. What I find with a rock crowd in general is that people are really friendly and polite, in the camping area everyone was sharing drinks, there was only a few small crowds of idiots and they were pretty quickly ignored until they moved on, and they were irritating idiots but not stealing stuff or fighting from what I saw. The worst behaved people were the staff. I never saw any violence apart from this weird fixation with "pro wrestling" which is all pretend anyway, and considering the age range I'm surprised it's popular there, everyone is older than eight. Seeing Dave Mustaine have to read out some bullstuff about giving some wrestler a "Lemmy award" for embodying the spirit of rock and roll was bollocks, and Dave couldn't have read it out more disinterested and sarcastically. I think part of the attraction is the "experience". I'm glad I did it but on the sleepless Saturday night I did think seriously about packing up and just walking at 4am to get home. When I took a day ticket last year the weather was glorious. The shitty weather and the mud does really strain though, but there's no way you can know what the weather is like when the tickets come out.

Mine is "kickstart my heart" by Motley Crue.

I saw them advertising lefty stingrays in a pop up ad a while back. The ad claimed they were genuine, etc. All for £283 or something daft. They had even done the "made in California" sticker on the back of the headstock. I would never buy from one of these, not only because it's a rip off but you just don't know where your money is going, what shady practices may be going on in the factory etc. I know you can say that about many big brands but when the end product is blatantly illegal there's less chance of them having a CSR policy and all the checks you'd expect a supplier to say Tesco to eventually be subject to. You just wonder how many people take a punt like many BC'ers hoping they get something useable and how many genuinely think they're getting something of a good deal from the back door of the factory. I once bought some sports gear off eBay from Pakistan thinking that's ok it's where all the factories are. On eBay he had one bit of feedback saying FAKE DO NOT USE but loads of good feedback, so was it one person not knowing what they were looking at? Not so. What was supposed to be carbon fibre was a well painted piece of wood using the manufacturers stencils, a blatant inside job at forgery by either one or two of the workers or the factory themselves. I threatened the seller with trading standards and reporting to the brand, I even got offered "fifty genuine Figueroa Armani leather jackets" as compensation!! 😂 I got my money back and reported him anyway.

One thing you can't fault Ashdown for is having a go, the Superfly was ahead of its time. Ok they don't always get it right but they support people with any of their kit, not just the newest flagship models. I just wish they could do a proper Trace clone and hope thegreek doesn't buy out the whole stock

Interesting concept. I suppose it depends how important that individual is to the overall makeup of the show and the sound of the band. People have already mentioned a MeatLoaf show where the bassist was easily replaced, yet would you go and see, say Motley Crue without Nikki Sixx? He doesn't sing but he's integral to the performance even though the guitar tech could probably come out and play his parts. If you went to see someone like Jeff Beck and you know he has put together a quality band would you mind if the drummer was substituted at the last minute for the show you attend? Probably not, you know you'll be seeing and hearing someone equally good. Extreme example, if *insert name of favourite comedian* gets food poisoning hours before a show you have tickets for would you be happy if their PA or even an actor/ actress friend of theirs who is relatively well known came out and read the jokes? (Incidentally I have heard of "tribute" comedians and I don't get it!!??)

Son I'm thirty, I only went with yer mother cuz she's dirty Another by Black Grape