Roger2611

11 hours ago, ubit said:

There would be no Basschat!

Yes but Asschat would have a free run at things!

4 hours ago, Happy Jack said:

Which piece of gear would you run a mile rather than buy?

 

 

Each channel has seven knobs, nine switches, two LED meters, and five LED indicators.

And there are eight channels.

And all of it to do something I never understood in the first place.

Where is @51m0n anyway?

 

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!"

8 minutes ago, Dad3353 said:

In order : Bad, Worse, Awful.

Over to you, @Leonard Smalls 

Edit : Overdrive = 'Too Loud', Distortion = 'Amp/cab needs repair',  Fuzz = 'Swarm of Killer Bees Nearby'.

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!

9 hours ago, Hellzero said:

@lownote12 Same for me, for now. GAS indicator is very very low. That said, I have owned so many basses and amps that I almost can say that I have tried everything and the ones I didn't try have absolutely no bass appeal. My last GAS was 2 Trace Elliot combos (BLX 130 SM and 1210 fridge) bought for very silly money and sold back immediately because there's nothing decent (to me as a fretless player) coming out of these really way too heavy boxes.

That said, I keep watching the ads, but there's nothing I fancy.

I have SES (Selling Everything Syndrome) now, just keeping what I like and use, but certainly not wanting to start another collection.

And I'm really HAPPY !

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

5 hours ago, Paul S said:

The thing is - it did work and now doesn't.  And it does work in some circumstances such as playing my bass through it or in Jamkazam.  But playing back music has now stopped.

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!

Wow, I sold a complete one for £240.00 a couple of years back, had it up for sale for ages with no interest!

6 pages in and no mention of Stiff Little Fingers "Hanx" album, a perfect illustration of just how good this band are live!  

6 hours ago, Skinnyman said:

Not an option I’m afraid. She’s very, very good and plays a very nice Yamaha piano. 

Headphones are an obvious choice late at night but in the daytime and early evening I’d like the option of playing through an amp or just listening to the stereo without causing the neighbours any issues.

It obviously makes sense to talk to the neighbours and I’ll do that but I’m also wondering if there are any practical solutions that might help too....

My mum has a lovely Yamaha Clavinova which cost her about £5000 5 or 6 years ago, it's an amazing bit of kit, it sounds and plays like a real piano but with the flick of a switch it will convert to silent with headphones out or output to the stereo, she was a concert pianist with a hand built upright piano for over 40 years so she was extremely picky about replacing it but she has been really happy with this Yamaha, I wonder if that might be an option as I know how loud a piano at full Rachmaninoff can be!

12 minutes ago, taunton-hobbit said:

Just look over your cd collection and realise that most (if not all) of them are dead.........

😎

CD's pah, I offer you vinyl and cassette tapes and yeah half of the artists are dead already! 

The Smiths at Dergate Northampton, arrived late, missed James as the support band doh! stayed for about 5 songs whilst everyone around me stood on one leg whirling Gladioli about, I though they are never going to take off doing that, left and went down the pub instead!

Sisters of Mercy Rock City early 2000's ish, having seen them there on their first tour they were brilliant, this time they were dull and boring so we left!

20 hours ago, AndyTravis said:

These crop up as b-stock...

I owned one of these for all of about a week, I donated it to cat rescue after that, it was supposed to have been a B stock instrument which had apparently already been sold so they sent me a brand new one....given how bad the new one was I dread to think how poor the B stock instrument would have been! It arrived with the bridge pickup not wired up, an action you could through a blanket over and go camping! I wired it correctly set it up as best as could be done with it and got rid of it...for me this was a classic case of you get what you pay for!

You might want to get the mods to move this to the amps for sale section!

I am in, doing well so far, not brought anything yet, but finding the going tough, still Friday is only a couple of days away....be strong Rog you can make it.....we are only talking about a week here aren't we! 

Blimey, I doubt it will see at that price!

I had the misfortune of owning a Rockbass Corvette $$ for all of three weeks, I was pre-warned that the control pots were not the correct value for the pickups so out of the box they sounded pretty ropy, boy they were not wrong, despite fully rewiring it it still sounded awful, I can honestly say it was the most disappointing bass I have ever owned. I later owned a LTD edition German Corvette $$ and although it was massively better than the Rockbass I still found it underwhelming! I sold it on, it was sold on again soon after and indeed appeared for sale again on Ebay recently!

As @Lfalex v1.1 said if you have decent basses already in your collection I also think you will be disappointed with it and like @TheGreek I scratched my Warwick itch by buying a Spector!