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To me, Tort always makes anything look cheap, probably because some of the first no name basses I had used tort. White and black work. 

5 hours ago, Stub Mandrel said:

I wouldn't have purchased my US made Fender in the last 10 months or foreseeable future.

Way ahead of you, I predictively boycotted them as I knew it would come to this

I think both of my rics and bongo are old enough, and will do for now!

I would assume that all budget guitars in the US have gone up, except maybe chinese builds where they can afford to reduce the price.

2 minutes ago, rory said:

now sold

Can you now edit the first post and add the word Sold to the title, which will close the post

Not sure at that pitch you would hear the difference!

22 minutes ago, Al Krow said:

What's your detailed thoughts on how it stacks up against your Ibby SR Premium for tone and playability? That will give me a very decent benchmark for a bass I know well.

Probably not a good comparison. It does bass bass better, but then it would do, it is tuned down to f# standard at the moment!

I would say it feels more solid than most of the ibanezes (with maybe an exception of the 5005), playability would be fine if I had longer fingers!

5 minutes ago, Rexel Matador said:

I'm conflicted now - maybe I'm inpatient or have unreasonable expectations

I figure that noone is ever going to make more of an effort than an audition, so if he can't be bothered with that he will never be bothered. 

Sometimes you can mess stuff up playing, that is reasonable but the late and hungover at 3pm would be a no from me.

I think most of them are already sold. I found it pretty hard to get answers from them by email when I was asking about my sei

38 minutes ago, Al Krow said:

No idea what he meant by "running in parallel to a power cable" or whether that gives any wiser folk than me a clue as to what might be the cause?

Like if you have a number of cables running together, he found that having a power cable and an audio cable running next to each other. But that seems not that likely

Oh thats really bad, I assumed you meant just like the occasional pop or click. Is it on one side or is it both? oh I see what you mean, it appears as a signal on all inputs. Are those inputs plugged into anything. It does rule out the speakers, and I would think it either has to be the power supply or the unit itself.

Is it connected to any bluetooth / wifi at this point?

8 hours ago, Al Krow said:

Would an extension lead with surge or other protection also be a sensible step to take? Any particular type you recommend?

Maybe I don't know, I don't use them. But its worth trying to rule out what is causing the issue. Does the AH have an external power supply or a proper plug?

2 hours ago, prowla said:

Arguably, Gibsons are wrong, because both Tone controls affect both pickups;

I was referring to the positioning. Ultimately any passive circuit unless you are using rick-o-sound the tones affect the other pickup. Gibsons are far worse because the volume affects the other pickup too!

51 minutes ago, Stub Mandrel said:

Do the speaker stands actually light up? Or is it an illusion?

You get those AJD lit up speaker stands, looks like that:

https://www.gear4music.com/PA-DJ-and-Lighting/ADJ-Colour-Stand-LED-Speaker-Stand-With-LED-Legs/27VU

On 24/10/2023 at 11:15, bass_dinger said:

Now sold 

Can you mark it as sold then by editing the title and adding the word sold to the end?

1 hour ago, peteb said:

That's fine, in that case the simple solution is don't go along to a blues jam.

Thanks!

1 hour ago, peteb said:

However, you said that you don't think 'there are many people who couldn't play at a blues jam'. That is certainly not true! Plenty of people think that because they know what a pentatonic scale is, therefore they can play blues because it's easy. Then they get upset when it becomes obvious that they suck. 

I didn't say they wouldn't suck. I would think many of them would suck, but then so do a large number of guitarists playing blues too, for the same reason. And they don't get upset because its obvious they suck because to them it appears completely unobvious that they suck, even if it is obvious to everyone else that it is painful.

Not criticising anyone for going to one if that is what they enjoy, and any way of getting new people their first exposure that is hopefully better than the experience mentioned above is good, but for me it is not going to be enjoyable. 

27 minutes ago, peteb said:

Having been in the house band for many blues jams, I beg to differ! 

You don't think that people might not want to be in a blues jam? Sorry to be the bearer of disappointing news but not everyone would enjoy that. 

41 minutes ago, TimR said:

It's similar to auto tune on vocals. Used on every recording - then when you see a real singer they don't meet expectations.

Not used on all recordings. And frankly you don't need the same thing live as you do on a recording.

41 minutes ago, TimR said:

I think we may already have covered bass players who can play several complex tunes at home in the bedroom along to the recordings, but can't play at a simple blues jam.

I don't there are many people who couldn't play at a blues jam, but maybe quite a few who wouldn't want to!

2 hours ago, prowla said:

Another "Rics are wrong because they aren't Fenders" issue. 🙂

Well, more not gibsons when it comes to twin tone and volume controls, fender have their own crazy ideas.

Yeh, they are certainly in the wrong place when you have used any other bass, but then once you have learned...

Still, one day I will learn which knobs on the bongo do what.

19 minutes ago, Al Krow said:

I guess the question is whether we use our own PA which we've been doing for several years there, and augment it with their in-house PA which extends into other rooms, or just try to use their in-house PA. 

Down to trust really. I did an outdoor gig and brought my PA, I turned up and one of the other bands that was on later had their PA and it was seriously a professional many thousand of pound worth of audio equipment and a guy who clearly knew what he was doing, sound was fantastic. The next year they said that they were supplying a PA so I didn't bring mine, thought it would be great. It wasn't the same guy, it was 2 guys with with an 8 channel behringer analogue cheap mixer, a pair or standard behringer PA speakers and sub that was no where near as good as my PA, sound wasn't good.

Third year they said they had a PA too, so I brought mine anyway. As it turned out they had somewhere between the two and it was ok, but I don't trust it anymore, and if I have the space I will take mine.

Obviously you can wire yours up and chain the output to their speakers and see which sounds right.

19 minutes ago, Al Krow said:

I was thinking the former for the first time so our own PA would be taking the main desk outs as usual, and their in house PA effectively becomes a glorified venue monitor? Given that we don't pan our outputs, I'm assuming that a single "monitor" lead into their house PA from one of our aux outs using their cable should therefore be fine?

I doubt it, if they have two inputs I assume they have two sides, so if you only plug into one you would only have one side of the system working.

28 minutes ago, wateroftyne said:

Just for clarity I doubt DG is comping 5 solos because of mistakes, or any shred of sloppiness. 

Why? He is human and messes things up and sometimes it doesn't work. 

18 minutes ago, dclaassen said:

Which one is Virgil? Poor guy!:)

Hes going to burn well!

53 minutes ago, TimR said:

 

That gets very expensive very quickly. Fine if it's your own money, but the record companies aren't going to live with that if it's taking months to record an album. 

An album lasts generally less than an hour - who was the last group to do their recording in an hour? 

Maybe they weren't quick enough to turn the offer off!

17 hours ago, Al Krow said:

We've been asked to connect to the house PA for a forthcoming gig and they've provided us with a couple of pics showing the set up, and they have a connecting cable provided.

I would assume they were left and right inputs to the PA, and would be expecting to ignore their cable and connect our left and right main output from the desk. However, I would also assume that someone somewhere had probably done something stupid and be prepared for that to be wrong and ask if they know what they are. I wouldn't be using that cable either way.

31 minutes ago, Al Krow said:

On an unrelated point - I seem to be getting loud crackles and pops coming through my home RCF monitors when the set up has been left on and unattended for a couple of hours. It's now happened on a several different occasions over a period of weeks and occurs when it's just the desk connected up to the monitors, which pinpoints it as being a desk issue (or possibly a monitor issue, but I would have thought less likely).

It could be a mains issue in your house. Do you have other monitors you could try? You can try leaving it with the other ones to see if it still does it to rule out your RCF monitors.

Just got an email that my delivery is pushed back to the 5th week!