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No. And I hate the attempt at creating a class divide wherever people want to find one. One of the old music magazines, Q or NME used to be awful for slating bands who had a "public school" background as if it mattered, I remember Keane being made an example of for this. Hate them because their music is insipid, boring shyte, not because at aged 4 or 11 or whatever their parents decided that they would pay for their kids education. Same the other way too.

I went to see Bryan Adams a few years back. Most polite audience ever. A relative was working on the Ambulances and was behind the barriers at the front of the stage. We walked through to the front by saying "excuse me, thank you, sorry, excuse me..." and got there in seconds without upsetting anyone.

I usually like to find a good spot and stand there watching. I don't need to be at the front, back or whatever. While waiting for the delayed start of a stadium gig some years back a short rotund chap with a backpack on was weaving his way through the crowd bumping off people as he went and dragging his apologetic wife by the hand and decided to perch almost on my toes. He must have been able to feel that his backpack was smushed up against someone. Loads of people around us were looking at him in disbelief. Well, during the music that was playing I had a little dance and did that move that involves one hand behind the head and the other spanking the person in front (without making contact, was all jest, your honour). He soon moved.

My ebay app/ the phone doesn't like me sharing ebay links here for some reason!

Nice looking Aria PJ on ebay at £75 starting bid. Looks like it's had at least one pickup swapped out.

Billie Jean does that to me too. Tried it in an old band, and think I've still got the recording of me stopping and shaking my hand going "aaaaaaaahhhhhhhh f***!" then starting again and it all falling apart. Luckily in rehearsal. But we couldn't gig that song. This is what loop pedals are for. If only I knew how to use one...

Oh mate... I've got a female fronted 80s band starting up. I really don't want to bring in a keys player so I'm trying to cover a lot of ground with what I play and the sounds from the HX. I had a perfect sound for the opening of kids in America which has a wobbly synth bass bit (Throbber on the HX Stomp but mixed with flanger and all sorts of stuff, took me ages) perfect it was. Sounded crap in the room with the band 😔

Awesome collection! What's the middle one?

I've been through various set ups with a few variants of old zoom pedals, a load of separate pedals a massive Boss multi and now a Line6 HX Stomp. I find I spend more time P!ssing around trying to get an effect to sound right than I do actually practicing! Having said that, a multi is a great way to get hold of effects that you think you need as you start to work on a song that MUST have a flanger, only for the guitarist to dand its dropped off the set list because they always fluff the beginning of the solo. Buying separate pedals can be a rabbit hole of finding pedals that play nicely together and don't interfere too much with each other. Then you need different configs of turning each on and off... Notes on which knobs to tweak... I'd always go multi, especially if you're not a big effects person. A lot of the good multis for bass have subtle EQ presets such as amp sims etc that can open up a lot of possibilities. For different depths of drive, chorus, then driven chorus, a multi can help you set all these up to kick in under a solo or whatever.

This has sent me down a Falco YouTube wormhole. Love everything about this. I work for a Swiss company and every day talk with Germans and Swiss Germans and will be ending every conversation, meeting and training session with "Alles Klar, Herr Kommissar?" I sent this to a mate who moved to Vienna a year or so back with his German wife. She's lived in Austria for years but she really struggled to understand this!

A few lefties have turned up over the years but usually in a bad state. Shame because I reckon there's a decent bass if looked after well.

It's a tough one because people want a lot of money for low powered amps. You may be just as well getting something with more wattage for similar money.

I wanted one so much I tried to build my own lefty version...

I was terrible at French at school.

Dans la piscine cest un cheval.

It looks great. Superficial I know, but it's a start.

Speak up! We change some words in songs because even though they're maybe meant to be ironic, sarcastic or whatever we aren't comfortable with them and how they can come across. I want to raise the use of b!tch in Uptown Funk as another one we need to get rid of. I hate the word and how it's used. If I get my way with that I might try and get the band to remove some rubbish songs too...

It's this kind of inside-the-box thinking that's going to take this organisation to new heights!

That is very classy.

Yep! And things that sound great at home sound awful at volume with the band!

Well... Since writing this I got a Facebook notification one day and within ten mins had done the deal for this beaut. I've got an 80s band starting up, OK I've already got an 84 Aria SB but this has more of the obvious 80s look. It sounds great and it was 1/6th the price of a real Status. So where are all the Washburn basses, I can't answer that. But one of them is in my office and I'm very glad of its company.

That's a good looking bass! What is the model name?

They've been saying 3+ months for 3+ months now. Which isn't wrong. But it's a bit like sticking a sign in a shop window saying "back in 10 mins" but nobody knows when you actually left.

Great. I'm starting to like Dingwalls now AND they do lefties. Should not have opened this thread...!

Sigma Audio's bass essentials are not exactly "wow" but they're good solid settings. Plus they do a Trace Elliot IR which is OK. They're good ones to build from though. I have said this before in this thread I think, but I just don't understand how the expectation is that bassists just want ultra high gain noise sounds all the time. So some of the essentials pack are SVT, SVT pushed, SVT Dirty, when really you could just do an SVT and have two snapshots with ever increasing gain if that's what you want or whack a distortion pedal in it. Even in the heavy music I listen to I rarely hear ultra high gain bass. If anyone out there is doing SWR simulation please let me know! I'm starting to miss some of the presets on my Boss GT10B, Super Flat, 42 Level, Oakland Slap, etc. Those clean, punchy big bass tones that just get the job done. Even my old Fender Bronco modelling amp had great clean amp sims. Hearing one amp "dirty" is pretty much the same as hearing the others "dirty" just maybe a bit bassier or a bit more mid from one to the next.