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1 hour ago, wateroftyne said:

I also miss the classic bass / drums / guitar instrumental breaks... A Farewell to Kings, Digital Man, Freewill, Distant Early Warning, Marathon, Camera Eye etc. the bits of interplay you'd really look forward to.

They're noticeable by their absence on most of the later albums.

Thats how it seems to me. There isn't too much in it, and my favourite album changes depending on when I am asked, but it never goes past Hold Your Fire

8 hours ago, prowla said:

I saw the Scorps on the Blackout tour.

I saw them on animal magnetism and blackout. Gigs were so cheap back then.

6 hours ago, RAY AGAINST THE MACHINE said:

She is phenomenal..but I can’t imagine her moving around so much as Neil did . I can’t see the warmth .

Moving? I am sure she has to move to reach all the drums! I am sure she is going to be fine and don't really get the 'it isn't rush without Neil' - i mean it was rush before he was in it, so it can be rush afterwards.

6 hours ago, RAY AGAINST THE MACHINE said:

Plus of course Geddy’s voice is not what it was.

That is why I wouldn't go.

I am sure it would be expensive etc, but all those things are now, especially when there are only 4 in the uk, so sound is going to be bad because it is in the O2, and geddy hasn't been able to sing rush songs for a very long time, so hardly seems worth it. 

They were always my favourite group for most of my life, so I will leave those memories intact!

Hmm.. tricky one - not really got much new that is interesting. Obviousy I have my £62 jazz, and a polyshifter XS1.. I guess I will have to bring some older stuff unless (perish the thought) I buy anything new

26 minutes ago, JPJ said:

Sunday afternoon gigs are the best aren’t they? And how about one that ends with a standing ovation - aye I’ll have some of that thank you

Well, thats not surprising, the crowd spend 40 years yelling freebird to every band that plays and then someone actually plays it!

21 hours ago, Jean-Luc Pickguard said:

For all the oldies like me who were playing before electronic tuners were widespread, how did you used to tune your bass and ensure all the band were in tune?

A piano

1 hour ago, Stub Mandrel said:

If they did that four tmes it would be off the end of the body...

See, anyone coming to this thread now means that comment doesn't make sense

Yeh, I looked on line but the only demos are people spending time adding reverb or doing robot voices, neither of which are things I need to use ever!

4 minutes ago, Happy Jack said:

My curiosity piqued by all the above, I've just bought a pre-owned Zoom V3.

interesting to hear views on what it sounds like!

Yeh, listened to the demos, I can see it would work for some singers with no backing vocals, but for me that wouldn't work at all. I am a backing singer and as such I don't do a 3rd or 5th etc of what the singer is doing, I do a contrasting line so for instance I can be going up when he is going down, or just on one note etc, so if I had a harmoniser on that it would enforce the backing over the primary vocals and not work well. I can see as one of those singer song writer acoustic acts or country or a solo singer in a group it would be good. Like all of these things, it really is group dependant

I would add, the up down in the H1 demo is exactly the same as the VoiceLive 2, and sounds the same as the harmony mode, just quite a bit cheaper, i have one but just don't use it for the above reasons, and pedalboard space. 

Slightly smaller monitor?

8 minutes ago, Phil Starr said:

I must admit to struggling with these. I've tried a VoiceLive 2 and the Critical Mass and just hated the sound of them. It may be me and lack of patience but they all seem to go from doing nothing to full on Pinky and Perky in the tiniest tweak of a setting.

The critical mass I only use flat out - i use it for the 'hey teacher leave them kids alone' bit of brick in the wall. 

I think it sounds horrible in in ears where you can hear it perfectly, but in the PA into an audience, it sounds great.

Like you, I don't like pitch correction and I don't use it, I do the BVs but also do the high bits of some songs (beatles songs etc) where I fade in and the singer fades out. 

I used the critical mass with the sax and it sounded great

Not sure there is much to fail, and if it did, it would only move round so you couldn't adjust it, in which case you could tune it back up,.

Anyway, I contacted all the people who had the ric tuners and they didn't have them, so I contacted hipshot who told me that as long as I didn't mind putting a screwhole in my ric (which I don't), the 3/8 tuner with a 12mm long bush is a perfect fit.

I would point out that both of my Evox 8s are second hand, so between them they were less than 1k. The XR18 is now cheap as anything. 

10 hours ago, AndyTravis said:

sorry i stepped out of line.

You didn't, I was just saying.

3 hours ago, Useless Eustace said:

It wasn’t that clear.    I understood it to say only forum supporters could ask for prices.  So that’s what I did.

ok, well the rule is to only ask for valuations in the wozzit worth forum, which you can only see if you are a member, so if you want to post it there, thats fine, just not here.

1 hour ago, AndyTravis said:

maybe a relatively new member not 100% certain on the etiquette of the forum?

Except part of that conversation was someone mentioning to them the rules of off marketplace selling, including showing the actual rules, so I think it was clear. 

Hidden the posts that are based on pricing a specific bass, because thats against the rules, as mentioned. If you need help with a specific valuation, please use the wozzit worth forum.

24 minutes ago, andybassdoyle said:

would it make sense to start with one and add a second if we need more horsepower? or doesn't it work like that?

You can - only you know if it would work for you, if you don't have a loud drummer, maybe you can - we used to practice with just the one and it was loud enough, but obviously a large amount of people absorb sound quite a bit!

4 hours ago, RichT said:

*Many other opinions are available. I seem to be the only person in the world who preferred the tone of Bart BH2's (in my SR500e) to the Nord Big Splits. 

Absolutely, I never managed to keep any bass that had the BH or similar OEM barts in.

Indeed - I love the RCF Evox 8s that I have, just two boxes, no extra poles or anything, turn up and plonk them down, connect them up to the mixer, or if you got a JMix8, which is basic but functional, one to the other, plug the power in, jobs done, no poles etc. Plenty loud for a pub or basic outdoor stuff (including the bass and bass drum going through them).

If you haven't got the one with the mixer in, get a basic digital mixer which are really cheap now, a XR18 (or even smaller), or even a flow 8. But if there are 6 of you and some instruments, something like an XR18 would give you a microphone each, all the instrument, then speakers to out, and 6 outputs to IEMs, or monitors, or the cheap P-16 personal IEM things (which are fantastic) for an individual mix.

That is what I have done a few hundred gigs on and no problems (actually the evoxs, probably still under 100 gigs, but the mixer and everyhing way over).

Might help with confidence

2 hours ago, MoJoKe said:

Picking up on this old thread, I've recently joined a project where nobody else wants to sing BVs, and a lead plus a single BV sounds weak/wrong...

I only use a gang harmoniser for a few things, but I would say I never have thought a single BV sounded wrong or weak. Its a lot better than just a normal solo singer.

ok, looked into it a bit further on my main basschat machines, which is a windows computer 8:30-5 and a mac with safari the rest of the time, and the one that controls this is 'notificationPushRejected', which in your cookies is ips4_notificationPushRejected. I have it on both the PC and the Mac, which as far as I know has standard settings (and just checked my other mac up here, it has the same cookie and is standard).

In the cookie window in safari it shows as:

ips4_notificationPushRejected   true   www.basschat.co.uk  /   16/02/2027 11:11:38

which I notice is a year away from when I opened basschat on that machine this morning. Quiting and restarting safari doesn't seem to change it.

Yep, looking at the javascript, clicking the close box on the 'stay up to date' box writes the cookie ips4_notificationPushRejected with a timeout of a year + 100 seconds (no idea why the 100 seconds).

Everytime there is a notification, the first thing it does is check if that cookie is present, and if so it doesn't put the box up and goes on its merry way. If it isn't present and you haven't actually had that box displayed to you in the current session it puts the box up.

It seems like maybe somehow that box is getting dismissed without pressing the close box somehow?

On 13/02/2026 at 13:44, BigRedX said:

These are the cookies currently associated with Basschat. Can you let me know which of these is responsible for the Push Notification reminder, or if it is missing what it is called.

Thanks!

While looking through the code (which is slow, I am not an expert on javascript, nor do I ever want to be), I did find out where the cookie was heading and made, but while looking at other things, I noticed that if you go to your notification menu, on the top right of the notification menu is a section marked 'notification settings', in that page, at the bottom in the middle there is a section for push notifications. The second option of which says "Stop all push notifications". Does pressing this fix the issue?

But in answer to your actual question of 'which cookie controls the notification'. its 'ips4_browserNotificationDismiss' which on my machine has a date sometime in the past (23rd Jan), 

1 hour ago, Chienmortbb said:

Unbalanced TS or balanced TRS?

Unbalanced TS. Can't think of any keyboards that used balanced, however handy that would be.

Thats for all time, so from the moog modulars* in the 60s up to the latest. Even with other things changing, it is one thing you can rely on (apart from those tiny sockets on modern modules with the mini jack midi and output)

* to be fair, I guess moog got a bulk discount on jack sockets with the modulars.