iamtheelvy

Had a shift in focus for the bigger board. New band requires more heavy tones, so tweaked to add more drive.

Nicely done. Thankfully, I avoided booking the travel and accommodation, so sitting this one out, but hope all who are up there have a good time!

Mrstheelvy raised a good point when I mentioned this, namely that 'postponement' is not equal to 'cancellation', in name at least. So refunds may not be as automatic as would be liked...

I was willing to give this the benefit of the doubt and see what the reports were after it had taken place, but I do wonder how long this 'postponement' will be...

It seems the only announcement on this has been the website page. Nothing on their social media apart from all posts being removed from Instagram. I'm still 50/50 on scam vs disfunctional shambles...

Not looking good there is it? I'm heading over to Brighton in a couple of weeks and was hoping to have a browse. The website's always been super useful for ordering a variety of bits and bobs.

Things are slowly looking less sketchy for this, but still could do with some better organising. Was amused when I caught the comment below on their post… Also, any word on their venue changing again yet? They’ve been stating the CLS centre for a while, but at last check none of the rooms were booked for that date yet…

Appreciate the input guys. In general, it’s probably overthinking things - the difference in height is about half an inch, but it makes the difference between obvious tension and a nice even weight distribution across shoulders and back. The lower setting is still higher than many wear their basses, so guess I’ll just get on with it!

Any advice on keeping your back free of tension? I’ve always tried to keep my basses at the “correct” height, ie no strain to either wrist, but with my strap set to seated height, or even just below I get a lot of tension built up in my back and shoulders. Lowering the strap, even just a notch or two, almost immediately relieves it, but leaves the bass in a slightly sub-optimal position. Anything I can do to make this better, or should I just embrace the rock stance and get on with it?

We haven’t had a drummer explode, but we have had one disappear… Woke up one morning to a message along the lines of “sorry, but I’ve got to go…”, and that was it. No further contact, social media disappeared, not one sighting… In my day job I even work in the same building as the guy and haven’t seen him since…

I see that Bass Review Magazine are now advertising this event… 🙄

Response vid up from Danny Sapko:

Supposedly, the CLS Conference Centre, 107 Queen Victoria St, City of London, London EC4V 3AL. However, at last check, none of their rooms were booked for that day, so who knows?

Well, I'm swinging back a little from 'scam' to 'disorganised but legit event'... However, if so many people are questioning if your event is legit, surely its time to get some details out into the world? The thing's only four months away...

I think most folk on here are waiting to see if this is actually a legit event. Very little info on who's actually running it, what's taking place (few names mentioned, but hardly anything about it on their social media), and the location seems to keep changing every few weeks...

Hey, we’ve moved again… Now Queen Victoria Street somewhere (no given address)…

MonoNeon Whammy - Interesting new pedal, or a Whammy in horrible colours with some of the useful settings removed? I'm siding towards the latter... digitech.com/dp/mononeon-whammy/

Where did you get the top-mounted extension pedal for the HX? I’ve seen a few around but not many in the UK so far.