Woodinblack

I look at it and go 'Holy cr*p, how much???' Seems a reasonable rating system to me! So good case in point. A canadian dingwall considering the work put in and the wages required etc, yes its expensive but not excessively so. But the new indonesian dingwalls, yes, way overpriced, considering the costs to make those and indonesian average wages.

I would hope they had worked that bit out quite early!

Not sure i would - I played my ibanez fretless at one gig and when I listened to the recording back my intonation was not the greatest!

I absolutely couldn't get any kind of anger or indignation about the expense either (and I am not sure why when someone says 'thats a lot of money' someone allways comes along and marks it as anger?) and I don't judge people on what they buy (well, I actually do, but no more than everyone else), but that doesn't stop it being overpriced for what it is. But I guess this is the thread for it.

So I guess they haven't really found anything if they have already given you a catscan but now want to give you an MRI?

I love how these adverts say: "Rosetti (Egmond) Guitars, were the very first guitars of John Lennon, George Harrison, Keith Richards, Brian May, Rory Gallagher and Paul McCartney" without adding the 'Until they got enough money to be able to get something else, and then they never went back!"

Well, he got peoples attention but he isn't selling anything!

Well, that isn't hard, we do that on that song, just comes from the mixer. Just less appealing to look at.

The £3799 isn't a relic'd one, it is just the right style of bass* But I mean the 6k one, they say it is an exact copy of his bass, and also that it is hand signed. Which makes me wonder why he signed his own bass? thats weird! * not that I am not saying that paying almost 4k for a machine CNC'd bass that doesn't even have any frets is a crazy amount of money to pay!

No argument there, honestly on most gigs people really cant tell what bass you are using. A playable bass isn't a price item, I am happy to play my OLP or my Shuker or my Ibanez - hugely different price points. over christmas I played my Aliexpress acrylic bass, its not as nice to play as it is really heavy and the pickups aren't great, but it plays and it lights up with LEDs and people notice that much more than the sound! I buy the expensive basses for me, because I like them but if I didn't care about that, there is no gig I couldn't have done without a sub £200 bass and a sub £200 amplifier / speaker.

Who knows what it was when it started!

Mines the opposite to that. I can play whatever bass, although I don't enjoy it if the string spacing is wide or if it has bits that dig in, or its too heavy, or there is some random piece of metal where I want to put my hand. However, if I am gigging, because I am also singing and playing keys with my feet, if the string spacing is wide, i WILL mess it up, because I don't have my attention on playing as I would have at home. For the same reason, I won't bother with a non 5 string, because I don't want to have to change basses when I am playing live, though obviously at home it doesn't make any difference

Good plan, then I can buy it off you a few months later!

Our singer is a great frontman. He is a much better frontman than he is a singer, I have been in groups with better singers, but never been in a group with a better frontman, so I prefer this!

I am sure I saw this before but I can't find it anyway, but if you have just over a grand to spare, you couldn't do much worse than throw it on this: https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/177235717435

Well, that beats most of my bad gigs!

You can, just report the post and ask for it to be reopened.

Too slow? Luxury, I dream of too slow!

Busy weekend, after a while of not doing anything. Had an hour slot at a local festival, Party by the Parrett, and got the 6pm slot which was nice. We had played a wedding and a party at the venue, and the guy that run the club liked us. Very well organised (stocked fridge back stage and everything) and handily the two main sound guys were the guitarists friend and one of the guitarists in my other band. We had argued a bit trying to get the set list down, we had been asked to do mainly rock (there was a more poppy band and a ska band on after us, so we stuck to the rock mostly) seemed to go down well and we managed to get it down to 1hr and 3 minutes, so went over a bit, which messed stuff up a bit but not too bad. We had quite a few dancers . My guitarist / sound guy did a video from the side WhatsApp Video 2025-07-05 at 18.45.55.mp4 Today we played a pub, outside, on shingle which is a bit of a pain for getting dust everywhere and trying to stand your drink up. Also not good for wasps (or well, good depending on if you are a wasp or not!), back to the normal 2.5 hour set. To be honest I wasn't really feeling it as my hand hurt for some reason but it went well with only a few notable mistakes, like going to do the organ backing section of Brick in the wall, and not realising I didn't change my patch from the backing track of Baker street (which is like a bell), which was quite amusing. We had a request for timber which we hadn't done for a year or so but the singer couldn't remember how to play it! Glad to get back to work tomorrow for a rest!

Indeed - that sounds like the sort of bollocks that Chat GPT regularly comes out with, just enough to seem reasonable but not enough to actually make sense.

Its ok, the security checks are very lax!

No you would still mess up the change as you had got into a sort of daze of playing the same thing over and over.

Is that true, I can accept that something might hold emotional value for someone but that doesn't stop it being bad? I mean I understand that people like oasis, I don't know why, but they clearly do, and that is ok. I am a lot more tolerant of other peoples music over 35 than I was before 35.

I think it is a waste, and would encourage people to leave them as a locked thing, but there is nothing to stop someone editing their posts, and if someone doesn't want their images there they can just remove them and there isn't anything that can be done about it. Luckily it is only a small minority of posts that go like that

An active circuit would get rid of a hum induced in the cable, but if the hum is induced in the pickups there is nothing an active circuit can do about it. If I sit by my computers with one of my basses with the nordy singles, I get a hum, but can get rid of it by just tilting the bass at another angle.