Happy Jack

Oy!

Why did I not think of this? Doh!

I've just upgraded my 2016 Dell Optiplex 3020 from 2 x 4Gb DIMMs to 2 x 8Gb DIMMs. The PC only has the two slots, so this leaves the old units surplus to requirements. These units are 4GB 1Rx8 PC3L 12800U 11 13 A1 HMT451U6BFR8A PB N0 AA 1513 They're in perfect nick, no issues, and I can't be bothered to try to sell them on eBay! £5 for P&P (in the UK) and you can have them.

Those prices are borderline insane Mick ... the basses are inevitably 'no longer available' and it's really not clear if those were the pre-import costs prices (not that it matters, of course).

Outstanding!

I have Bass --> Tuner --> Fission --> {UNeffected signal} to the rest of my bass chain AND Fission --> {Effected signal} handled completely separately, either to a guitar combo or to a different channel on the PA My suspicion would be that the Compressor in your signal chain is the culprit. To get any sort of decent response from the Fission effect it needs to receive a completely clean signal to start with. I put my tuner first partly so that I can mute both of my signal paths simultaneously.

I'm more impressed that I've managed to successfully post on a Topic without getting it locked.

Surprised to see that. My own style is best described as 'agricultural' and I often brush the wrong string, but I've not had any trouble with my Fission. It sounds like a signal chain issue ... perhaps you have another gain-adding pedal in front of the Fission? Incidentally, you can make the Fission sound WAY better by dialing down the disappointing in-built Distortion control and instead feeding the effected signal through a proper distortion pedal such as a Boss DS-1. I actually run mine through a Joyo Orange Juice: https://www.joyoaudio.co.uk/bstock-joyo-jf-310-orange-juice-amp-sim-mini-guitar-effect-pedal?language=en&currency=GBP&gclid=CjwKCAiAl4WABhAJEiwATUnEF6ze_RpfL4RcCMQauAX4aLs-RkALMPj31WfgTvu9jHCK2yS6oe4MDhoCI6kQAvD_BwE It's cheap, it's tiny, it sounds great, and there's a flip cover to protect the controls from accidental knocks when you have the sound you like.

Nah ... it's all done with Green Screen these days. 🤨

So then I clicked on this link and - wonderfully, absolutely wonderfully - it appeared on screen with a warning in the address bar: Not Secure. 😂😂😂

Late to the thread, but I finally had a look at this link. Ye Gods and Little Fishes, a piece of right-angled plastic just 5mm thick, held to the wall with electrical screws salvaged from an old plug, and with edges sharp enough to cut instant grooves in your headstock ... possibly the worst designed guitar accessory I have ever seen.

https://liveforlivemusic.com/news/cory-wong-wongnotes-variety-show-album-trailer/

Also worth a look: https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Hofner-Logo-Schriftzug-Gold-Lange-ca-11-cm/124197386430?hash=item1ceabdb8be:g:kU4AAOSwP1deyRZo https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Hofner-Logo-Schriftzug-Silber-Lange-ca-11-cm/124192738340?hash=item1cea76cc24:g:mh0AAOSwR-texEeS https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Hofner-Logo-Schriftzug-Schwarz-Lange-ca-11-cm/124193872416?hash=item1cea881a20:g:Rm0AAOSw~rxexWG9

I'm waiting for Peter Jackson to buy the movie rights ...

Probably not helpful during a lockdown, but the numbers are really no substitute for actually hearing the thing in action. I've owned 2000W power amps that left me thoroughly underwhelmed, and 200W heads that are just ridiculously loud. And I'm only talking about solid state amplification. Move to valve amps and you have to start all over. This last two days, I've been playing through my old WEM Dominator open-backed combo (built 1971). Way too loud in the studio to crank even to the halfway point, and that's rated at 15W. Which is rubbish because everyone knows they actually put out 17W. With modern amplification it is highly unlikely that you will manage to blow anything up, and extremely likely that (in real world gigging volume terms) you will have more headroom than St. Paul's Cathedral.

Who did you bury under the patio, Chris?

I'm with Mick ...

Tempting, tempting, very very tempting, that's very tempting. But I shall act like a grown-up (stop laughing @Silvia Bluejay) and leave alone ...

Is it a very short song? 😂

Incidentally, having dissed so many choices by other Basschatters, it's only fair that I put one up for people to shoot at. For me this is easy. I am a HUGE fan of The Beatles so the only covers I actually prefer to the original song are when the original song was either complete **** or was a throw-away joke song, of the sort usually given to Ringo, one on each album. And that takes me straight to

At the time of writing, the best price online for a new Boss LS-2 is just £79: https://www.scan.co.uk/products/boss-ls-2-line-selector-pedal-connect-and-switch-between-multiple-amps-and-fx-devices-provides-2-lin?gclid=CjwKCAiA_9r_BRBZEiwAHZ_v12anRUQKA8Ru0RX1zdeHVgt3LPPjClPt6D-eynxjdaotmxUNOcHXuBoCW3sQAvD_BwE Alternatively, you could buy one pre-owned on eBay from ed_stratospheric of Coventry for £69: https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Roland-Boss-LS2-Line-Selector-Guitar-Channel-Amp-Effect-Switcher-Pedal-LS-2/124492605851?epid=1004331537&hash=item1cfc56699b%3Ag%3AUukAAOSweGVfeGEJ&LH_ItemCondition=3000 Do note the distinctive white brickwork and fake wood of the desk. Another option would be to buy from steveskingle of Coventry for £69: https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Roland-Boss-LS2-Line-Selector-Guitar-Channel-Amp-Effect-Switcher-Pedal-LS-2/324423876005?epid=1004331537&hash=item4b892b7da5%3Ag%3A64oAAOSwDiZf3e6h&LH_ItemCondition=3000 Do note the distinctive white brickwork and fake wood of the desk. Even better would be to buy from steveskingle of Coventry for £69: https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Roland-Boss-LS2-Line-Selector-Guitar-Channel-Amp-Effect-Switcher-Pedal-LS-2/324425387179?epid=1004331537&hash=item4b89428cab%3Ag%3ANU0AAOSwjGte5I8P&LH_ItemCondition=3000 Do note the distinctive white brickwork and fake wood of the desk. Don't be fooled into thinking that this is one person trying to sell the same pedal three times. It is clearly three different pedals, all identical, that one person owns. Or maybe two but they have similar taste in decor. You can easily tell that they are different pedals because the knobs are in different positions. 🤨

A perfectly reasonable question. The answer is, if you want to record a 'cover' that is completely unrecognisable as the song you've copied, then your time would probably have been better spent writing an original song. Or in SRV's case re-writing the same song as last time. Again. YMMV For the avoidance of doubt, I am actually an SRV fan. No, really I am. I like his style and his sound, and I'm no more bothered by the fact that all his songs sound the same than I am about many other musicians where the same applies. I just don't see how the piece of music linked to managed to achieve anything. He made The Beatles sound like SRV. Congratulations. Well done that man. 🙄

I'm assuming that many of my Basschat friends are genuinely posting cover versions that they genuinely like, and that they genuinely want to share them with their friends. That said, most of the versions posted above are such complete and utter **** that I am genuinely staggered that anyone would waste a few electrons on posting them anywhere except to Trump supporters they're trying to wind up.