Woodinblack

Did that come through reverb or through an email, make sure that who you are talking to is definitely reverb, not someone else.

Or a disadvantage, depending on your point of view.

Just so happens i have a twin pack of D'Addario XLs on the table just over there!

So I got to play it last night for a few hours (more hours than I had) and it was hugely enjoyable. Did all of my new songs that I have to learn, and then went through whatever was next on youtube. Bad: The strings, they are not good, but I am not really holding that against them, my normal strings aren't far off half the price of this bass. As a result it sounds a bit scratchy and trebly - who knows, it could also be the pickups. It is a bit headstock heavy. The body is really light and the tuners aren't. Not a lot and nothing that would be noticed on a strap, but on your leg, especially considering how smooth it is, it does try and go headstock down. Obviously it hasn't been setup, and I haven't had a chance yet. The strings are too high, they can go down quite a way. The bridge pickup is way quieter than the front pickup, probably because the bridge pickup is miles away from the strings. I will do an adjustment today. Good: The body and neck are really smooth and slippy. Both matt (which is great), there is no grip at all on them, which is pretty good. Fit between the neck and the body is good. Machineheads tune fine, smooth, nothing much to say other than they are heavy. General fit and finish - I don't have any frets like the picture above, they are all very good (not like my rick, but that has a varnished neck, and this is unfinished). The ends of the frets dont snag or catch. The neck in general is lovely. Because I haven't put the strings down, I don't know how good it is, but it seems good so far. Knobs are good, no noise, turn smoothly and have an effect all the way through their travel. Haven't had a look what the electronics are like in there yet, probably won't unless there is an issue. Didn't get any noise, but my living room isn't that noisy in general.. Pickups, probably fine, they seem a bit trebly but that might just be the strings, hard to tell without having decent strings on it. I assume they are fairly generic. Bridge, BBOT, does the job, shiny, solid. Body. Can't get over how nice this is, very smooth in its oh-so-green, with a good grain coming through. Overall finish is very much like my Maruszczyk, but lighter - my Maruszczyk is chambered swamp ash - no idea what this is, probably paulownia, but more figured? Plastic - again generic, fitted well. Overall I have a great time playing it last night, it handled just fine, and I would happily use it gigging if it had another string. I probably will take it to a gig to try it live, but only for one set when I didn't need the other string. Will try it in the metal band in drop D. This is well worth the entrance fee.

Ah yes, this is true, the text you type in a normal reply box is saved by your browser and has nothing to do with the forum (specifically), other than the ID of the post you are replying to. On my machine they are contained within a database in my user profile area, this is on a PC, but it is browser and OS dependant.

Unfortunately not, as I do not understand what you are reffering to, or what process you are having issues with. Where are you writing this text, how would you be expecting to save it, and where would you expect it to be available for acceptance or deletion after relogging in?

So it turned up today, my £63 (inc shipping) bass. Took it out of the box, and out of its gig bag (not great, but.. £63 and it has one, which is more than many do) and marvelled at how really green it was, seriously more green than the pictures. Really nice dark neck, a bit thicker than I would like ideally but ok. Good frets Tuned it up (tuners are ok), and played. It plays well, very impressed. I haven't plugged it in yet, that is tonights thing (comes with a lead too). Knobs feel solid (more solid than the ibanez EHBs). All in all its pretty amazing what you get. I will give it a try at a gig at some point, although they are a bit thin at the moment

This one:

Which one was that?

I must admit that uniquely amoung basses that I have used, the detuned E seems a bit too loose on the ric, which is a pain as they have such odd specific sizes (which it didn't have when I got it, it had 100-80-60-40, which didn't fit well), and I think the E is snug enough that I doubt I could get a wider string in there.

Well, it should be fit for purpose for a period that would be reasonable of its type, which probably in this case is at least 3 years. However, as it is a refurbed unit I am not sure how that plays out

I thought it was repaired really well, but then the guy is an organ repairer. I never saw the jazz bass, wasn't it hot chocolate? Still, plenty of jazzes around! Sort of coincidently as last week I had watched a whole video of a rhodes bass piano being serviced, which was way more interesting than I expected.

I just have the one ric - well, 2 but one is a 5. So are they all the BT-5? I asked BTN music who until recently had one, but no such luck. At the moment it is not too bad as I am only using it in drop D, so I take a 5 string and the ric drop D'd, but it would be handy,

Yeh, and guess which one I have been looking for, the only bass I want to drop tune!

Oh look, its feb.. "HI Woody, Thanks again for ordering your new gear from Bax Music. We've got great news! Your order has left our warehouse and is on its way to the courier."

Glad it worked in that time, but no, I don't think so. Its not some dodgy product off aliexpress (although I have had some great things from aliexpress). If they could only be used for a few hours a day the internets would be full of bad reviews and they really aren't - I looked at reviews as it is something I would maybe consider if my X18 ever died (although I have an XR16 too). I have had my X18 on for over 16 hours without any problems, and that is what I would expect from yours.

WHSmiths? Not unless you happen to be an airport these days!

Absolutely - if you buy online you get a lot of protections that you don't have in a shop, regardless of price.

Hmm.. not sure of the relevance as punk didn't try to do what the conservatories were doing, but cheaper, it produced a new form of music. whereas the AI thing is to produce the music without needing the people of the punk and the conservatories at least on recorded materials.

Or on a 5, +1, and that works well.

What tuning are you doing that in? I have done it a few times in its original, but that was when I had an actual tuned to C bass. I guess now I would just do it with a 5 string with the Boss XE on +1

Has it been shipped? If not can you not just cancel your order and then order again?

Absolutely none of it is just accessing a database. Computers are very good at accessing data, humans are absolutely terrible at it, there is always some kind of interpretation of that data and revision based on unrelated items, rather than literally recalling the data, ie storage. The 'people who liked this also liked...' problem is a big data lookup issue. You have a database of 100 million peoples listening preferences and what they like. User A liked this song by this artist? Well, we have another 5 million that liked that, and of those, 1 million also liked this song, 900,000 liked this one, 800,000 liked this one - thats your list. A straight database search is really easy, and cheap, a neural net lookup requires a ton of more power.

I wouldn't but you have the device, try it!

That really is the weakest definition of AI - ie, its AI in the same way as a spreadsheet is AI. But that is the trouble now, marketing is putting everything done on a computer as AI, as by some definition it is. I would just call that a database. Or probably more normally Big Data.