Woodinblack

When I buy something with the word asus on it I consider it disposable! Having said that, no you should have been able to expect it to last longer than 18 months, and in fact I believe that as you must have bought that while we were still an EU member you have a right for it to last a 'reasonable period', which in the case of a laptop of that cost should be the full 6 years. And yes, friend of mine did get a full refund at 3 years on a laptop that failed that way, but he had to make a bit of a fuss.

There are a lot of budget laptops that are basically thrown out cheap to give people something to connect to the internet. My macbook is a 2011 version which I am considering updating when the new processors come out. I also have a Microsoft Surface book that I think is 2018 that will annoy me greatly if anything goes wrong on it in the next 6 or 7 years. Unfortunately they are not cheap but if you want something you can use hard day in day out without trouble, you need to pay for it. Disposable laptops are disposable, that much is true, but also true of everything.

Before b*xit they had gone up quite a bit anyway, so with the exchange rate and all, they were already a lot more expensive than they were in 2016, before any vat or import duties. Looking now a standard elwood (jazz) costs more than a standard Shuker J (jazz) bass, and owning instruments from both of them, although I really like my Maruszcyk, quality wise that is the wrong way round. Haven't looked at what it is like when you get to the configurator, both of them go up a lot when you start adding stuff.

Ultimately, although its not getting the playing it once did due to the arival of the shuker and the Ibanez EHB, my 1605 is still #1 bass. It wasn't specifically cheap or at least what I traded it for wasn't, but it isn't worth that much compared to the afore mentioned.

I had a sterling sub ray 5 and it was considerably lighter than that. I never weighed it but it was not a heavy bass at all (and I have had one or two that were). Anything 4+ is heavy for my liking. It wasn't specifically light though, in that of my SRs, I have one lighter, one about the same and one much heavier.

Yep, it isnt exactly a huge difference is it! The buttons do more than the knobs, but best just left alone. I know if you contact ashdown they will send you stuff to change that, but I never bothered.

I find the ideal setting is to let the amp do what it is going to do, put the volume on flat out, put the gain at whatever volume you want*, and do any tone corrections that you need elsewhere. The knobs look cool, I don't think its fair to expect them to do anything else * unless you want real crunch, then put your bass into the low output socket, put the gain flat out and control the volume with volume. Or better still, turn everything flat out and let the band adjust to you!

Fantastic sound, eq next to pointless but really clear powerful sound. Also, a little heavier!

Me and the drummer often relapse into the mission impossible theme by limp bizkit for no readily apparent reason Hmm.. not sure that counts as 20-30 minutes without extensive memorising! Aint no mountain high enough by wossiname and wossername. Its really fluid and mobile but I find it interesting due to the sudden octave changes, as well as making the pairs of matched notes fluid - you know the G|-----4-------------| D|--4--------2-------| A|--------2----------| E|-------------------| Obviously not hard at all, but making it really smooth without trimming the top note. I should write somethings down as I saw a review of a bass sometime recently, and what the guy was playing was really good as a pattern and I thought 'I will try that', but I can't remember what video it was now, and I wasn't logged in so it doesn't appear in my history!

I got an ABM Evo IV 600 B-Stock before christmas, and it sounds fine in my room, just waiting to be able to have some gigs so I can try it out at a reasonable (or maybe unreasonable) volume.

I have wanted one for a while. would really love one in that colour and the string spacing sounds great. Only as a 5 - the 6s just seem a bit too fat of neck (I know there isn't really a way round that). Almost got a stealth black on that was heavily relic'd (and not synthetically) as it was cheap but it was too far away / couldn't risk the sale. Used to dislike the looks, but really that just comes down to the round pickgaurd thing like MMs have got (where I dislike it also). Trouble is they just dont come up often and when they do they are quite expensive, and I really don't need one. Looks wise, not ugly - ugly like a telecaster headstocked slab P bass ugly, but certainly quirky and more interesting for it.

One of those connected to an iPad works well enough for me

Think it must be a typo, there is a 1005sms and a 1505ms, not a 1505sms https://www.andertons.co.uk/ibanez-ehb1005smsemm-ehb-5-string-bass-in-emerald-green-metallic-matte https://www.andertons.co.uk/ibanez-ehb1505ms-plf-5-string-bass-in-pacific-blue-burst-flat

So you are ok if you are a shadows tribute then?

The vaccine news is good, but I suspect not may. If I check out the vaccine roll out and the groups in line to get it, I am due to get it it about mid may, because I am in my 50s. Assuming that all goes well, it means most of the audience aren't due to get it until autumn. And if they do this half dose thing, then it isn't going to be totally effective, so who knows. It would be nice if I can do gigs in the later part of 2021

Err.. yes, we noticed, just up there ^

I am not sure they hate, just don't see the point of.

Well, I looked at statistica and it had gone down from 1.2m to 1.1 up to 2019, but that is as far as the data has gone. Then I looked at Reuters, The latest Morgan McKinley Spring London Employment Monitor, which details hiring trends across Britain’s financial industry, showed the number of job-seekers fell by almost a third in the three month period from April, with available jobs plunging by 72% year-on-year in that month alone. maybe some of that is pandemic, hard to say, although comparable figures for Frankfurt are up in the same period I would like that car please certainly sir, you can drive it away now oh but I want it red, and with wider tyres, and no roof and only two seats and a smaller engine, and I want be shorter but that would take a long time to do Hey everyone, the car shop is bullying me to stop me having what I want! -- if a deal is already written up, it can be just used. As it took the negotiations 3 months to shave 6 months of the reduction time in fishing rights, a separate deal would have taken a long time.

I think visa free travel is free to anyone who has a reciprocal arrangement in place, which we refused. So we don't get it. The UK seems to have a strange view in these discussions that the EU should grant them rights that it is not prepared to echo, just because we once had the same rules. Such as your question on Equivilance. The reason that they wont (indeed, can't) grant us equivilence is that we refuse to be bound by the rules on equivilence. It is irrelevant that our rules are similar to theirs now when we have made it clear we want to change them as and when we want to and won't accept the standard arbitration method. We have demonstrated quite clearly if we don't like the rules we are happy to break them. And lets face it, its not like they need to. Our financial jobs are flooding away to their countries, so its not like it is that important for them.

This was actually part of the Canada deal documenation, but it appears in other places too*, so I assume it is what is meant by their musician visa. It is different to the tourist visa as it allows you to earn money, and the definitiion of musician was quite wide to cover support crues etc. * It is on the EU website, which is pretty hard to navigate (or maybe it isn't if you know how it is structured).

I had developed gas for those, which is why I searched for and found Quillys thread and brought it back to life! I think I saw it on an advert for G4M

Just looking on the EU website, there is a touring visa which allows non EU nationals to travel in the shengen area for 90 days without additional requirements. So I assume this is what was offered. It is a lot easier to offer something you have already established the rules for.

Which to me sounds like they didn't want to roll the standard contract out, they wanted to wrap up touring musicians with business travellers, which I don't think is the same sort of thing, and would have complicated it. Seems very much - here is our standard cut and paste musicians scheme we already do for the rest of the world, can we have that - yes / no. Not like they had any other time to negotiate as it had been left so long I have met DJs who believe they fit in the musician category. Obviously free to talk about what you want, but we have done the vaccine and covid to death in other threads, and to avoid al riding in here on his spitfire to save us, can we sort of have a thread where we can talk about touring musician issues rather than end up at the same (locked) thread about b*xit?