Woodinblack

My last two proper bands were JoinMyBand, another one due to people who knew me for the first band, and a band I have just joined looked me up on bandmix (but I can't reply on that so I did a search for them and saw them advertising on my local facebook music scene group)

This, which was trickier as I hadn't heard of it before last week.

2 hours ago, rwillett said:

I think this is the key line here

 

"Websites will have to change the algorithms that recommend content to young people and introduce beefed-up age checks or face big fines, the UK media regulator has confirmed." My emphasis added.

Which is pretty well what you quoted that I said - we don't have a feed, we dont' have algorithms that agrigate content and decide what to push to you or recommend. what you see is either everything or topics you have posted in, or been quoted in etc. and you could choose that.

We can't rely on not having young people, there is nothing in place to establish the age of the users, which is why we try and keep the worst stuff out of the topics like the meme threads - yes, I know as people say kids see worse stuff than that at school and at home, but we are not liable for that.

2 hours ago, rwillett said:

Just for information, there are circa 11.1 .co.uk domains registered,

I think you will find there are more than that. I can think of over 20

45 minutes ago, Tech21NYC said:

 

I'm not quite sure what your trying to say. Are you saying in 2025 there is no way to play a 100 watt guitar amp at a low volume vs playing a modeler through my 1000 watt FRFR wedge? 

 

Of course there is, there always was. I just don't believe a guitarist who says he is going to do it

10 hours ago, Dad3353 said:

 

It's not a Quantic computer, by any chance..? 

Quantic? Not sure what that is. If you mean quantum then no, otherwise it could have both values at the same time

2 hours ago, Si600 said:

Could it be a reputation thing? The new host may not have enough traffic for the pointer to "stick"?

no, its a number, one number is much the same as another number to a computer.

Something is changing it, unknown what it is.

5 hours ago, Tech21NYC said:

I can turn down my 100 watt guitar amp

And other such believable lines such as "cheque is in the post" 😀

3 hours ago, Stub Mandrel said:

If you buy an 'official' reissue there are plenty of markings that make it clear it isn't original.

Obviously - a reissue isn't designed to fake an original, it is designed to look similar, have the same design cues and capture the same asthetic. It doesn't fake a 60s serial number, or other such things.

3 hours ago, Stub Mandrel said:

As for relicing, I was a sceptic until I bought a Flea Jazz. It was the only bass in the shop (Guitar Guitar Birmingham, so plenty of choice) that had the feel and sound I wanted. Wasn't sure about the finish, but now it's my go to instrument if I want/need an easy time of a gig.

Nothing wrong particualy with relicing, if that is what people want, that isn't trying to fool anyone, I mean one flea jazz looks exactly like every other flea jazz, and again, is a copy of a thing, not trying to fake.

6 minutes ago, Stub Mandrel said:

The existence of such accurate 'copies' with 100% honesty in what they are, from serial number to neck and body markings, defeats most if not all the justifications for creating these 'fakes/forgeries'. Whatever justification people use, it's clear that one or two owners down the line someone will get scammed.

Not sure there is a justification for an accurate copy other than scamming people. Even if your justification isn't actually money, your intent is to fool people to thinking that a bass is something it isn't when examined close up

Yes, there is a big issue that makes no sense and is causing problems, the front end (cloudflare) has a pointer to where the site is, the pointer decided to point to the old site (basschat and guitarchat as I am sure you will remember changed server at the start of feb), now the old site no longer exists, we revert it to the new site, it stays pointing at it for a few hours and then it changes itself for reasons unknown to point to the old site again (which isn't there) and goes offline.

1 hour ago, Dad3353 said:

@ped, @wateroftyne, @Woodinblack

Undergoing updates..? Broken..? Lost in space..? It's not been responding for the last day or so. Any explanation, please..? 

Hmm.. Yes, seems unresponsive - it was up yesterday as I went to it during the day. Will check

1 hour ago, Beedster said:

 

Is there a level of BC membership we can attain that gives us full access to all the hidden stuff  

Yes, Moderator. You arent missing anything

1 hour ago, police squad said:

I initially had success with the MS1 but it dropped out at a band gig twice on one gig. Its a shame because it sounded great and was small and light

went MIpro 58 and haven't looked back

Well, I will give it a try for a bit, and if it lets me down try something else. I do have my original stereo IEM tbone thing, if I can find the rx unit. However, i figure there has to be something between the £30 of the MS1 and the £450 of the MiPro!

I joined a new 'second' band last month, and at a practice with them they have an XR18 and each have a P16-M, and it is genuinely amazing - I have been playing with a mono IEM for many years now, but after that one practice, I don't want to do that any more!

Luckily for me, I don't have to as the singer and guitarist don't have IEMs, they don't like them, so it is me and the drummer, so no problem getting stereo apart from the wireless.

I use an XVIve iem, which I am happy with, but la while back I bought a really cheap lekato MS-1 that was just over £30. I assumed it would be poor, and because I got something else at the same time, I never got round to trying it. I tried it last night, and it really worked well.

So I have a gig on Sunday and I am going to use it there.

1 hour ago, prowla said:

Technically it was verbotten, but factually it generated income for the industry.

It did, and by listening to an album from limewire or wherever you were probably more likely to buy the real thing from those artists so it made more money for the artists, not just the industry. Generative AI has the opposite effect, if it is generating the music itself, it will still make money for the industry, but less oportunity for artists.

Actually in that photo the headstock was just behind the drummers head. He was known to be deeply embarrassed about his headstock, so he always hid it.

4 minutes ago, MrPring said:

We're only using the unit for IEMs never FOH so can I just use the Main outs for an additional stereo IEM mix? What would the drawbacks be and how would I avoid affecting any of other aux mixes.

Well, no drawbacks really, other than the way the system works. The main out is just another bus really, and if it is not used for anything else you can use it for that.

On 22/01/2025 at 22:14, GisserD said:

These look amazingly good value. 

 

Does anyone have one?

Not that it matters 3 months later, but yes!

Interested in that too as I am thinking of making a case for my superlong sei

57 minutes ago, SurroundedByManatees said:

It's possible to put a refin body in a time frame by marks in the neck pocket or pickup cavities, and the dowel/pin holes that should be in the right place.

And by the same token, having the knowledge of where they should be it is quite simple to recreate them in the right place, and as the art of doing so takes a £60 body to a £3000 body, quite an incentive to do so.

Specially with the raretly of pre-cbs fenders, I am sure by now we are down to only about 3 times what they made!

26 minutes ago, basexperience said:

The wide ones look really comfortable. What's on the other side? Would it grip a little and counteract neck dive a little?

They vary, often stickier vinyl, or the same as the front - some are grippier. I have another two that aren't shown in that picture, one is pretty sticky

15 minutes ago, basexperience said:

Wish I could get one of the 3D printed recase kits to turn it into the mini version, then I could pull it into the board a little and off the back edge, which would protect that pot.

Why can't you?

2 hours ago, Stub Mandrel said:

If I buy a vegan strap, I go out the back and whip the donkey with it

I am correct in assuming that is a euphemism right?

23 minutes ago, tauzero said:

 

Is that 269 that those straps have been made out of?

Couch straps are all vegan

49 minutes ago, Cat Burrito said:

I am impressed - indeed it is. 

There was a certain level of familiarity!