Woodinblack

1 hour ago, kwmlondon said:

That's all fair, but how do you rate what's reasonable and what isn't?

I look at it and go 'Holy cr*p, how much???'

Seems a reasonable rating system to me!

1 hour ago, kwmlondon said:

Is a Fender Custom Shop overpriced for what it is? Yes. No. Maybe. Probably. Possibly. It's so subjective - what's great value for one person is hideously and criminally too much money for someone else. I still haven't told my other half how much my Canadian Dingwall cost - our ideas of what's overpriced are not in alighment when it comes to musical instruments.

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.

1 hour ago, Stub Mandrel said:

 

Shows much more detail. At leadt I know I'm not in catastrophic brain bleed or tumor the size of an orange territory.

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!

3 hours ago, kwmlondon said:

Personally, I can't get up any kind of anger or indnation that someone makes an expensive instrument.

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YOU pay YOUR money and YOU take YOUR choice and I will not judge.

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.

28 minutes ago, Stub Mandrel said:

The bloody mri scanner is broken. I will get one tomorrow but have to go to a different hospital! 

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?

10 hours ago, Stub Mandrel said:

This is a good price for a decent quirky 60s bass.

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!"

14 hours ago, prowla said:

It's clickbait - the person posts junk to get folks attention.

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

4 hours ago, Al Krow said:

how did they get the vocal echos done so well?

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!

41 minutes ago, dave_bass5 said:

Oh down get me wrong, im the same. Dont like 20mm spacing, wide necks etc. Im talking more about those that say they HAVE to spend £1000's on a bass to get something playable, and then play something much cheaper. If you can use the cheaper bass, then you didnt HAVE to spend all that money. Not that it isn't fun, its just the false justification a lot of the time 

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. 

2 hours ago, neepheid said:

When I saw the title, I thought/hoped you meant one of these:

Who knows what it was when it started!

1 hour ago, dave_bass5 said:

Over the years ive read many posts about how player's MUST have certain spec's, its all they can play etc, and they spend a lot of money to get this 'perfect' bass, but then get a cheap bass to play pubs etc. I get it, but always chuckle when I read things like that.

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

23 minutes ago, Al Krow said:

 

First dibs on yours please when you sell it on then! 😅

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

2 hours ago, Stub Mandrel said:

Cutting it short, it's probably severe positional vertigo. I puked so much I had to go on a drip but thanks to the wonderful NHS and lots of pills/IV, I am recovering and hoping to go home soon. Waiting on a cat scan to be sure it's not a brain injury.

Well, that beats most of my bad gigs!

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

1 hour ago, Leonard Smalls said:

Just hoping drum-man doesn't start every song far too slow!

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  

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!

1 hour ago, Al Nico said:

@Woodinblack Hi. I asked Chat GPT about setting up a blend from series to parallel and It's technically possible, however:

Chat GPT: It’s Not Perfect

The transition isn't linear (you don't get a smooth tonal gradient — it’s more like a shape-shifting zone between the two extremes).

You’ll likely lose output level, clarity, or introduce tone weirdness in the mid-position.

Requires careful impedance matching to avoid phase cancellation or signal loss.

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.

1 hour ago, Wolverinebass said:

Due to the lack of a SE Bash for the last few years I wondered, would it be okay to attend this out of region? 

Its ok, the security checks are very lax!

4 hours ago, Stub Mandrel said:

 

You could have learnt it in the time it took to write that message.

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.

4 hours ago, Ramirez said:

 It’s like we can’t accept that something we don’t like might hold emotional value to someone else.

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

52 minutes ago, Obrienp said:

@RichT I’m surprised you are getting hum from an active bass but perhaps you use it in passive mode? I’ve always found the active circuit does away with the hum but perhaps I have been lucky with my active basses. 

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.