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There's been a few threads from Basschatters who have taken a punt on this sort of thing from Chinese online marketplaces over the years. My impression is it's a bit of gamble, while some have been pretty pleased with what turned up, I think most of the instruments have required at least some additional work to get them up to standard. And , as pointed out above, if you're unhappy enough to want to send it back or nothing turns up at all then the usual consumer protections may well not apply with a Chinese based exporter

I am tempted, my musical tastes have gone in a very diferent direction over the years, but a lot of that line up is the soundtrack of my teenage years. Doubt I'll find the time to watch the whole thing in one sitting though so it would work better for me if they gave us at least a couple of weeks to work our way though it.

Just had a bit of a play on Fender Studio. Used my Katana Go as the interface with the phone, works pretty well but I'll probably try the focusrite as well when I've got the right cable, just to compare. The app itself is pretty intuitive to get started rough recording a few tracks, but I tnink I'm going to need to read the instructions/ watch some tutorials to start unlocking it's full potential. Pretty impressed so far tbough.

I guess with the Fazely stuff there's a chance that Bax's earlier financial problems might have disrupted the manufacturing process if they weren't able to pay the factory at any point.

Did he actually hear it? I was gobsmacked the first time I heard the double bass noises coming out of a tiny uke bass. Not sure what I thought I thought it was going to sound like, but certainly not that!

Why do they need 7 double bassists? "THE CALL is a durational performance exploring resilience, identity, and the politics of the body. The work poses the central question ‘Is the body an enabler or an entrapment?’ Rooted in ritual and endurance, Mahsa Salali stands motionless, bearing 20 kilograms of chain, connected to seven double bassists." Obvious really.

It should do. This should work for most focusrite style interfaces. Fender sell a much neater gizmo, specially designed for the job, which I suspect is where they hope to make money on the free app, at least until they start charging a subscription fee a few months down the line... https://uk.fender.com/products/fender-link-i-o

This one has caught my eye, seems iike a pretty simple plug in & record type set up, especially compared to some of the PC DAWs I've used with various degrees of success. I'm planning on giving it a proper test drive when I get back from holiday in a couple of weeks.

That was unexpectedly disturbing.

Interesting litytle article from the current Private Eye about Meta & scams. The last paragraph says it all really.

My experience of reporting a similar scam page to Meta on Instagram was that the post in question did not breach any rules. I also contacted Andertons directly and got the response that they also struggled to get the scammers impersonating them shut down. The bottom line is that Meta's complaints procedure seems to be entirely automated and unable to detect this kind of scam so it refuses to remove the ads. Meta must be fully aware of the issue, it's been going on for years, you have to conclude they value the revenue from scam ads more than they value protecting their users from scammers

I've had a few goes on the configurator, but the options were just too limited to spec out anything special enough for me to actually seriously consider a purchase. Last time I looked, which, to be fair, was over a year ago, they weren't even offering matching headstocks.

I doubt your complaint was ever even seen by a human being, just instantly scanned and rejected by an automated program, with the the response witheld for 2 days just to give the illusion that some kind of considered process had taken place. The big social media companies have always taken the position that they bear zero responsibility for how people use the platform that they provide, to the point where they are extremely reluctant to acknowledge that they are even aware that any criminal activity takes place on their services in case that implies they have any kind of moral duty to police and prevent such activity.

That was my thought, reading between the lines of the letter. The Hiscox brand has too much value to just throw on the scrap heap, I'm certain it will continue, probably manufactured in the Far East although they may wait a while to see how all the Trump tariff nonsense plays out before they make the decision on exactly where, which would explain why they're not taking any more orders at the moment.

I prefer it in the 'new' colour, adds to the retro chic, as do the lipstick pickup covers, it looks amazing now, like a forgotten entry in an old Danelectro catalogue