ped

I missed this reply - shame I couldn’t make that bash but you’ve got me looking at those!

This bass just inspires me to pick it up and play. Since getting it I’ve played it almost every day ‘for ten minutes’ - next thing I know my wife is tapping me on the shoulder saying she’s going to bed! It sounds sooooo good. I haven’t even missed my Ken Smith much yet - I’m still planning on replacing that with a four string but this bass is just so much fun I’m wondering what’s the rush? Leo might have got it all wrong with Fender but he nailed it at last 😂

Thanks for the flight number, now I know which luggage carousel to wait by

Great stuff so far people - do me a favour and share the competition of FB and so on if you can?

Just use the code BASSCHAT20 at checkout!

Hi folks Long time BC friend Jason at Rotosound wants to offer you the chance to win big in a new BC exclusive competition. The prizes: 6 people will win a year's worth of Rotosound strings (8 sets) and a factory tour. 20 runners up will win a Rotosound T shirt! All you have to do is tell us who your favourite Rotosund endorsee is, and why. We'll pick the winners from the thread in one month's time and arrange the prizes. So please comment below for your chance to win! Cheers ped If you're interested, BC visited the factory a few years ago - you can read about that here!

Glad you went for it!! I've cost you a fair bit of money this month haven't I!!

I only ever use 40-100 or 40-095. Or as near to that as possible. For the same reason @Davo-London says and also becuase I like to play very lightly and occasionally dig in for some clank. my slap tecnique also uses very little physical effort when using light strings. I usually have my 4 string basses in drop D and have no problems tuning down even a 0.095 string with a super low action, too.

Could have been @Sibob ?

My setup is American, French, Japanese, Swiss, Danish and German. And probably largely Chinese!

If you like the way they play and sound, Elixirs do! I honestly felt like they were a miracle when I first discovered them. I've got one set here that are over two years old!!

They must have set aside a special 'ped batch' - maybe I've been rude to them at some point 😂

They’re in a sealed bag yeah. So should be fresh!

My black 1991 SB-1

It wasn’t, it was excellent! Actually we do have the ability to have blogs as a section on the site, how about we use your blog as a test to see how (and if) it all works? Do you have it all? If not I may be able to locate some episodes.

OK so they say I'm just unlucky because they haven't had any reports of this before. They're sending me another set but they're going to open them up and check them over first before sending. Please cross your fingers.

Meanwhile I’d better book a tetanus shot

Sterling’s dropped the ball big time here. Interested to hear what they have to say..

New strings arrived.... rusty!!!!

Very cool indeed. Looks great. Really nice balance between ‘special’ and ‘standard’ if you get what I mean.

Generally I try and support shops but some make that quite difficult. What I worry about is the likes of Amazon, Facebook, eBay etc becoming so ubiquitous that even the good guys, smaller more specialist firms (like BC!), get passed over because default behaviour becomes to use one of the giants.

It depends on your devices really; for example if you use an iPhone and a Mac then the built in 'Keychain' is pretty seamless. Another good one is LastPass, which my dad uses - I think that works across different operating systems. Some of them seem quite expensive though, so you can also set things like two factor authentication on sites you use which contain sensitive data like anything that stores your card details or where payments are processed. I think some browsers like Chrome have the ability to set a two factor process using a google phone app in tandem. It's a bit of a faff at first but I decided to make the jump about five years ago and get my online activity game tight, part of that was to move to a completely cloud based system.