Woodinblack

No, I won't play that. But there are a few that we have to play apparently, like 'i get knocked down' or whatever ever it is called. And Sex on fire - why does anyone like that, its not that its actually bad its just.. well, nothing special. Mustang sally, but honestly, I don't actually mind that for some reason. Oh 'Run' by.. whoever that is by, so dreary, luckily the rest of the band got bored of that too. Need your love so bad, and other blues songs.

Is it an unpopular opinion that a lot of people, like me, had to google who that was and still have no clue?

read the manual.. for a bass.. ummm.. sorry, not with you there I have a manual, probably, somewhere!

But having done it that way, people know they are reversed, so if they started doing them the right way round, other people would break them!

The logic is that the coils couldn't be placed close enough to be under the poles.

I knew they made guitars too - pictures of the beatles were around most places. Very true, they are very beige. TBH, most bass players I remember in glam had stuff made of stars or odd shapes.

Certainly not here, but it does pay for all its expenses and GAS, so that is all I could expect

Well, I am 57 today, and I haven't started yet!

Same here - when I started in the mid 70s, if you were a guitarist there was a strat or a les paul, but if you were a basist, fenders where quite a long way down the list of basses to get. You would see them but they weren't really something you would notice. It was kind of rickenbackers with a few gibsons.

I don't think that is entirely true, I think back in the past before mass production the quality of things was really variable, so for instance, if you had 10 les pauls, 1 would be fantastic, 2 would be very good, 5 would be ok and two would be firewood. Over time, the ones that were ok and firewood weren't really looked after or cherished and broke or dissapeared, but the fantastic ones were kept. So it provides this myth about them being great - no, just the good ones were.

Now just the small matter of making the next greatest album!

I absolutely would for the second. Not the first as I don't like those basses, and short scale thuddy bass probably not so good for downtuned.

Is there a reason you can't or don't want to update to 11.5?

When I was young, it really mattered. Now it doesn't matter at all. I can't think of anything I would or wouldn't play because of the connection of any artist. I would certainly never pick an artist model, because it was that artist model, but if it wasn't specifically custom (ie, just a colour etc) I might if I liked it

The floor controller on those was absolutely massive. Played the bass (not with the controller), played well.

Well, I have certainly lived in worse places!

That is how it would be written yes, but I couldn't bring myself to do it!

Yep, was going to say, now every darkglass advert will say 'genuine pre-korg sought after model'

Rush have certainly written about fast cars, doing drugs and s**gg**g. Not sure about the sh**gg**g in fast cars while doing drugs, but probably cars that were stationary at the time, which is obviously much more responsible.

No. Not my number one bass. Or my #2 or #3. I would let someone I know play it while I was there.

My newer SR1000EFM has monorails

The X-Touch is not tied to the X-Air, it does makie protocol and a few others so I am sure it could be made to work well with other things. It has been great for gigging though - it is exactly the same footprint as the ABM600 amp to sit on top of it, and rather than trying to jab at the iPad screen when you are playing, just changing a slider is so much more accessible.

one of these: https://www.currys.co.uk/products/tplink-tlwr902ac-wifi-cable-and-fibre-router-ac-750-dualband-10173672.html weighs nothing, you can tape it to the side of the xr18, takes little power and is solid. I actually have 2 as I also run an X-Touch which is the mechanical slider interface for the X-Airs

The internal wifi always causes a strop, especially if anyone in the audience happens to have a phone! But with an external router (I use one of those mini usb powered 5gHz routers*) they are hard to beat. * I used to use one of those mini usb powered 2.4GHz routers, but then I got an XVive IEM, and the two do not like each other at all!

You are of course right, but due to the fact the whole processing is analogue, the latency isn't the same sort of thing as on modern systems. And the polyphonic distortion, first time I heard that on the GR300 I was in love. I would probably still buy one if one was around!