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That's WAY outside my comfort zone ...

The clickbait thing certainly has the potential to become self-defeating. At least a quarter of all videos that YouTube offers me unprompted involve thumbnails showing attractive women suffering some sort of wardrobe malfunction ... their synthetic boobs are just about to escape from their blouse, or their split skirt is just about to ride up and show her crotch. If I spent my time watching porn or clicking on insulting thumbnails like that, then I can see how that might be happening. In practice, the opposite is true. I refuse pointblank to click on anything that's obvious clickbait. End of. And still YouTube drenches me with boobs and crotches.

I get what he's saying about the importance of thumbnails & titles, but I can't help feel that part of his poor YouTube performance may be down to needing 9:23 to tell us something that requires two minutes tops. The rest is endless padding, repetition and irrelevance.

Real Pirates don't surf.

You guys need to get out more ... 😂

£5k for a 1974 Gibson ... Bwahahahahahahahahahahaha!!!

Korg MicroKorg 2 I know, I know, but it does really good bass sounds too ...

There's no clickbait like fretless clickbait ...

Just a quick heads-up that Andertons currently have a Xmas Sale on these pedals. You can find plenty of pre-owned Mic Mechanics & similar on eBay at very silly prices - £150 is not unusual, despite the fact that you can buy them new for that price at most online shops. Andertons are selling them at £105.

And I'd say that's the real secret in any band. As soon as one (or more) members are seen as easily replaceable or not pulling their weight then friction ensues.

At least it won't be in Turkey ...

Deal: JOYO 5.8Ghz Wireless Guitar Transmitter and Receiver Wireless Guitar Bass System with Charging Box 4 Signal Channel for Guitar Bass Electric Instruments (JW-06) https://amzn.eu/d/gq0JGBQ

Now if that said RonnieBarker I'd have it like a shot ...

I've tried this with the Line 6 system, with the Smoothound unit, and with wireless bugs (X-vive, Joyo, Lekato). When they work they all sound exactly the same - as you'd expect. The Line 6 was the most 'stable' once in position, i.e. the least likely to give connectivity issues, but was far and away the most additional faff at a gig that I really didn't need, especially since almost all my DB gigs are doubling gigs. The Line 6 requires the most extra kit, the most pluggery, the most extra options to trip you up just before the start of set #1. I have a Line 6 unit in perfect nick in a protective case safely gathering dust in my studio. Haven't used it in several years. All the 'bug' systems (and that includes for these purposes the Smoothound) are far easier to use and have far less to go wrong. The Smoothound requires a plugged-in base station with very fragile antennae so I sold mine. The expensive X-vive and the cheap Joyo/Lekato (basically the same units but badged differently) are indistinguishable in use at a gig but share one common but intermittent problem ... they seem sensitive to the combination of vibration + angle of dangle which can produce a sort of juddering cutting out when you're pushing hard. The angle at which you have the main bug to the jack going into the socket - these are usually hinged units, remember - can encourage or damp down this vibration, but whatever angle you start at can change during the gig as gravity does its thing. For this reason I now use only https://www.amazon.co.uk/JOYO-Wireless-Transmitter-Receiver-Instruments/dp for DB, whilst continuing to use X-vive and Joyo bugs for electric bass. The fact that the bug holder is also a recharging unit can be an absolute life-saver if you're gigging intensively.

I'd pay serious money to be able to deliver a song like this ...

The OP specifies a Frontman and that's where the rot sets in. A singing guitarist or bassist or even (God help us) drummer can express their creativity through their instrument. A dedicated vocalist frontman HAS to think of himself as the epicentre of the band just in order to function effectively. Nobody wants a shy, retiring, ego-free frontman.

I'm pretty sure that they're trying to sneak through the legislation while we're all binge-watching Hidden Secret Mysteries of the Lost Nazi Gold on the Titanic. With Dinosaurs. And Vikings.

Does it really have to be The End Of Civilisation!!! every bloody week?

Slightly OT, I know, but I've never really understood the thing about avoiding side markers. I can see how playing without them can be achieved relatively easily if you always play the same intrument, but I don't. I routinely move between four upright basses but at least they're all more-or-less the same scale length; on electric I jump around from 30" to 32" to 34" to 35" whilst also moving from fretted to fretless. Side dots make life easier - why wouldn't I use them? On an associated note I once took a DB into a very respected luthier's workshop to have a new bridge fitted. He'd just taken a delivery of DB's for set-up & fettling from one of the big London symphony orchestras and they were laid out on the floor in a long row of side-on DBs. Almost all of them had faint (but clear) pencil marks on the neck where the dots would be ...

That was never 10 months ... felt more like five minutes. 😁

Deliberate - the description is correct, it's just the attention-grabbing headline that's obviously wrong.

I've never understood why people ask this question, requiring people to choose between cheap basses and expensive basses. I own both. Simples.