Woodinblack

Although as mentioned above, I have a Smoothhound which I am happy with, I got some of those cheap 2.4ghz dongle type wireless things as an 'around the house' thing a few years ago, used them at a few practices too. Range not as good but pretty reliable, and it meant I didn't have to take my pedalboard. Then they went missing, so later I wanted some more and as I had had trouble with 2.4, I went for some 5GHz ones. They are bigger (no heavier though, a couple of grammes!) and they work fine. Again round the house and practices, but tbh, I would have no problem using them live either, they are very good, and the battery life is good enough for our gigs (3hrs+). The others turned up in the end, in a gig bag of my backup bass that I hadn't taken anywhere since the pandemic!

Who stopped supplying them? Was it a deal on a shop where you got it?

Had a good gig on Saturday, not doing too many at the moment as not really fully back from the plague and also the band is a bit in flux. However, a place we had done before with an awful building, a skittle alley, aka a long thin tube especially designed to make everything sound bad. As it happened, not sure if it was the decorations or the number of people, but the sound wasn't as terrible as last time. It was well populated as they were also having a haloween party, people had made quite the effort to dress up and were out for a good time, as the first gig in that village. We used to do ghostbusters but dropped it several years ago as we didn't like it and it always messed up. Decided on the thurs practice to resurect if for saturday if we could get it right. Practiced it in the sound check and it still wasn't right but it worked out ok as instead of playing it, we did the rif as a background music when they were doing the fancy dress competion, and it worked well for that. In the end went on well, everyone enjoyed it, usual collection of over drunk girls wanting to sing and talk to us while we were playing, but occupational hazzard. Way more enjoyable than I expected.

It is perfectly possible to go to a live event and while you are there, watch a streamed event. Don't know why you would, but it is possible!

If you have something crackly, have a word with them. I had the metal body of mine replaced when the plug fell off. Although if you have two crackly, are you sure it is not the thing you are connecting to?

Maybe he had remembered at that point he was Adam Clayton?

Almost certainly someone somewhere has bought pretty well everything not realising the liability to pay duty and got really annoyed about it. It is a huge change, for years we didn't have to, now we do, and people don't read. You can plaster anything with warnings and notices and it still won't get read. My wife has a shop and she will put a notice on a front page, the item page, and the email conformation about something and if there is one thing you guarantee you will get someone contacting you saying they didn't know whatever it was.

Trouble is then you have a lot more topics. Basses for sale UK, Left handed basses for sale UK, Amps and cabs for sale UK, Amps and cabs for sale EU, Amps and cabs rest of the world. It would be better to have a flag for restrictions, but that makes a whole heap of trouble with updates etc.

except I never said that, so your quote appears mangled

I have a load of luminous ones that I got as a present. Work well with the right light!

I didn't misread what you wrote. The danger of the non swamps is their human fauna.

Not so sure, I have driven round Louisiana, and frankly, there are a remarkably large amount of urban non-swamp areas where a bit of radiation would be the least of your worries.

They got to pay for that fancy new station somehow

Yes, would be keen on getting one of those. I assume it is basically the SY1 with presets?

If I wanted a 24 fret 5 string Jazz, I would have got a second hand maruszczyk Elwood L, there are plenty of those around on the sale pages. - edited as I wrote Maruschyk, and then did a search and realised every post with that spelling was wrong, and also, mine on the PC (if I write it on the mac I just type mzk and it fills it out)!

I love the argon, although I haven't been doing much synth work at the moment. It seems really well built although I suspect the Cobalt would be a bit more accessible as it is easier to picture what you want on an analogue synth layout rather than the wavetable.

Pickup change?

Not really, its a factual statement (I assume) about how he found the shuker basses. Some people don't get on with some basses. I have had that feeling with a couple other makes (that are not relevent here) I love my shuker bass, and the one I had before that would have been good except the string spacing was too high (which to be fair, I knew when i got it, but it was a bargain!). In fact, all my basses are there because I love them. I love the looks of the ACGs, Overwaters, dingwalls but never really got on that much with them (although I am sure there is an ACG out there which i would love), which is down to me. I love the looks of the Alphers but not had a chance to try one, and before buying i would want to try one. Which proves we are all different and trying one out is not a bad plan. Harder with custom ones but if you are going to sink a few k into something, its worth seeking an example out that is close to what you were looking for, although be aware that with a custom bass they can differ drastically. These forums are full of expensive custom basses that someone who thought about it long enough to sink money into didn't get on with in the end.

No, but I have the 215s sat in a bag as a backup in case my KZ ZS10 earphones that I got from eBay for £25 ever got nicked and I couldn't get a replacement.

Quite a brave decision, although with the current shipping issues probably makes sense.

They start in the same ballpark as the others. Possibly the difference is less actual flexability in that there are just a couple of actual shapes to do. I did spec one up for myself, and maybe one day!

Sounds like the best plan. It is a big commitment and by giving some of them a try you can find out what really works for you and what doesn't. That is very far from the truth. Although there are some amazing amater woodworkers that can do professional work (including a few on here), there is nothing amaturish about ACG instruments.

I think if it was me I would probably want to go to some bass guitar show where representative instruments were at. The bass guitar show in london was the one where I saw the shuker I have now and played some of the ACGs (although I had an ACG, it wasn't really representative).