Roger2611

I seem to recall there was an Irish rapper who went out under the name Duff Paddy! That one still makes me chuckle!

The rock band I have been playing with a for couple of years is in turmoil yet again! We have management, we have a stunning vocalist, we have an album, we have some good gigs and festivals lined up but no drummer and no lead guitarist now.....here's a brief summary of recent events (last 3 years) I join band at the same time as the now departed guitarist We write and record our album, I have to write and record the drum parts as the incumbent drummer was far more enthusiastic than he was talented. Guitarist decides drummer needs to go if the band is ever going to move forward Drummer is asked to resign and guitarist brings in his drummer from the other band Band gets back up to speed however drummer bails out of rehearsals at short notice and finally bails out of a video shoot 2 days before we were due to do it Band sacks said drummer and I recruit a pal of mine to try out Wednesday night we rehearse, it goes really well...after the rehearsal guitarist says "he's not a rock drummer" and goes home Friday, guitarist says the band is not going where he wants so is leaving, half an hour later, drummer comes back and says he can't commit to 2 bands so won't be joining us! What do we have to do to get a settled line up! Bands, who needs em! Rant over!

I am slightly confused, I have a bitsa Precision with a genuine Fender neck on it, should I now sand the genuine decal and serial number off just because it might not be a Fender body? (I do actually have a MIM body which wears a Squier Matt Freeman neck so really confused as to what I should do with that one!) I suppose I could swap the two over and have a bitsa bass which was all Fender....it all seems a bit futile really!

The Deco theatre in Northampton

Somewhat hard to spot in the distance but a Markbass 102 cab a LM3 head and a Status bass......and a bloody good FOH pa to play to absolutely no one!

Pino....the end!

It's surprising just how many errors do make it to release, with a good quality amp and speakers there are an awful lot of minor mistakes to be heard that are buried in the general noise stage created by lower quality HiFi, earbuds and blue tooth speakers!

I would like to offer up the often forgotten Stuart Morrow as having delivered some awesome bass lines, all done with a Westone Thunder Jet as a weapon of choice!

I picked up a Japanese Fender Jazz in 3TS a few weeks back, it came with a Red Tort guard which I immediately swapped out for a black one!

The Smiths, I hated them when they first came out, went to see them on their first tour (only because we had guest tickets) and only stayed for about 5 songs, ignored them for 10 years or more, mellowed slightly, quite liked a few songs for a bit......didn't listen to them again for a while, played a few songs recently and decided young me was correct and they are pants!

Did a trade with Russ for some Spector tuners, all I can say is, a top fella to deal with Thanks again Russ and hope you enjoy the new pedal! Rog

Yes but Asschat would have a free run at things!

Wow, lots of lovely buttons and switches, a real geek can never have too many dials and buttons and lights....Lights that come on when you push buttons....heaven, I am sure most of walk into a recording studio and think "perfect thousands of buttons and switches, I could spend days in here making lights come on and off without having a single Scooby of what I am doing and if I am really clever I could probably make smoke come out of something!"

TBH is difficult to argue or add anything to Dad's description.....if I had to choose, I think I "prefer" Overdrive, and dislike Fuzz the most but usually go back to a clean sound within seconds of thinking "I am sure Overdrive / Distortion / Fuzz will sound good in this song!" We spend a fortune on high quality amps and cabs and top notch pickups only to make t all sound flabby and crappy by adding something that sounds like your gear is broken!

And gone! Sorry folks

Anyone want a pair of EMG-HZ soapbar pickups removed from a Spector Legend Custom 4 string? I upgraded both the faulty preamp and the pickups to Glockenlang and Delano respectively, I have junked the preamp as it kept cutting out but the pickups were fine. You cover the postage which I think will be about £5.00 for standard UK postage and they are yours unless of course you want to collect them from me in Northampton Rog

Just seem starting to appear on line that Jim has passed away Bat Out Of Hell was possibly the greatest ever rock opera RIP Jim

As @PaulThePlug suggested, cocktail stick cut flush and use the same screw, I have lost count of how many cocktail sticks have been used in my basses!

Fortunately it says price negotiable, I offered 67 pence but for some reason he refused it, I still reckon it's the best offer he is going to get!

Same here, my desires are gone, I keep looking but I am dead inside, I know I have all the basses and amps that I am ever going to need so looking seems futile now, send help!

I was never a big fan of the Clash's White Riot but loved everything (up to the final album) they did from there

Derek Birkett played bass on this one, very much a Crass type bass line, another one to listen to would be Securisor by Crass featuring Peter Wright (no not the darts player) on bass

It wouldn't be unusual for an interface to change over time how it interacts with an operating system, good old Microsoft have now made my Gen1 Focusrite 18i20 unusable with Windows 10 due to their last updates / built in obsolescence plan! The fact that it is still working to some degree suggests that a re-install might solve your issues

Fad Gadget were hardly a fad and never a gadget!

Sounds like the problem is with the link to the interface or the interface itself, the first thing I would try is swapping the USB cable, if that doesn't work, swap back to the original cable (as we can be pretty sure that is OK) uninstall the interface completely and reinstall it, if still no joy then try the interface through another laptop or PC if you can, hopefully that will tell you whether the interface is faulty, if none of that works, get in a huff, sweep everything off the table and announce, theatrically you are going for a walk and may be some time, proceed to flounce out of the house!