Cuzzie

10 hours ago, gobasserk said:

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10 hours ago, gobasserk said:

I will record something but want to do it over a cab not direct...the sound ist soooo ...-I don't have an expression in English ...🙈 😂
But for this I have to be alone in the house........... 🤣

Best pedal ever - simple

The DI has an inbuilt can sim to ‘tame’ and this is different to the ‘normal out’ or you can even run that into the front end of the amp

On 12/08/2021 at 08:27, Obra said:

 

Nice work my man

5 hours ago, 12stringbassist said:

Live fun.
 

 

Good lad 🤘🏾

14 minutes ago, Al Krow said:

Went to a Prom at the Albert Hall with my 21 y/o last night, lovely night out. Maybe all the more special as it was the first such outing in 18 months. Everyone was asked to show either a negative lateral flow test or a vaccination card before entry; didn't seem too onerous.

 

Coming back to not getting sacked for smoking in a public place: actually on reflection I don't think you're correct - I suspect that if someone was found smoking in the work canteen their first offence would be a yellow card from HR and a second would be a swift red card, so yes they could likely lose their jobs over it.

 

Having said all that, I'm very much with you on the general principle of personal liberties i.e. massively pro defending them, where they do not cause harm to others - that is the key balance; my beef is primarily with anti-vax propaganda leading to too many entirely unnecessary deaths. 

that smoking example is people being plain dumb where they probably have a designated smoking area - if that’s the case - they should lose their job.

No problem with lateral flows - in all likelihood should be for vaxed and non vaxed to be completely fair/true as both can carry and pass on.

propaganda and scaremonger artists without solid evidence are idiots - I have met people who think the vaccines are made from foetuses.

The people who may have genuine and personal concerns are more the group I am thinking of

11 minutes ago, Al Krow said:

Good post @Cuzzie, thank you. Couple of points:

 

The only reason for illustrating with people seeking to ban the N-word is that it's another example of society not accepting anti-social behaviour which can cause hurt i.e. of society restricting "liberties" for the greater good. But let's drop that if it's not a pertinent example and stick with the bans on smoking and not wearing seat belts as more on point comparisons.

 

I do entirely agree with this from Count Bassy:

 

 

You make some good points in your post to counter. However when you say:

 

 

There's a very simple reason for this isn't there? Going into a public space just once and infecting others with Covid can directly result in many deaths. That is way more serious than smoking just once in a public place or arriving somewhere not having worn a seatbelt. 

If that person gets the virus, If it mutates, is it’s passed on, if it mutates further, if it’s passed on etc.

On one hand apparently Covid deaths are way down the list and everything should be opened up but not for everyone…..unemployment rates should where possible not be added to.

Look it’s a difficult argument and will be circular with points on both sides, examples given etc.

only way to check would be an animal study with animals of a similar immunogenicity to humans-vaccinate a load, infect them and see how the virus behaves and if a key percentage of animals are vaxed and no detriment happens to the Comminity - there is your answer 

Hate crimes are just that - crimes, this isn’t something based on hate.

6 hours ago, Count Bassy said:

 

As I read your post it seems to me that, from your own comparison, both seat belts and smoking are actually very similar to not having the vaccine. In each case you are putting others peoples' lives at risk.

I get what you are saying and it’s a longer discussion than grasped moments of typing whilst at work. Believe me, I get what happens with Covid probably more than most having worked on one of the first victims in my hospital and lost a relative to it (as just a couple examples).

Briefly speaking - There is work out there about unvaccinated potentially allowing themselves to be a reservoir for mutation.

Vaccinated can still pass the virus on but will hopefully suffer less.

The natural history of viruses is to mutate, but it must be mentioned the more ‘successful’ the virus is (as becoming more virulent) it will also kill itself off as it will die with the host.

We will Probably have too up boosters yearly (this is already being researched and volunteers testing) which will subtly tweak the vaccine to the ‘new variant’ which is essentially what happens with the flu vaccine.

There will be a key percentage of people that will need to be vaccinated to keep things in a decent status quo and under wraps - this may well be a big enough majority to be fine.

People will have genuine concern about 1 or all the vaccines (esp mRNA new tech) and you cannot choose easily which one you have.

Re smoking/seatbelts vs vaccines - I am not aware of too many cases where you smoke in a public place or don’t wear a seatbelt on your way to work and you lose your job, are not allowed to enter an entertainment place or are stopped from travel, which is the main crux of my feelings on this and how far civil liberties will/could be curtailed for people.

Now in my job I accept that I HAD to get various vaccines and do various things, BUT I knew in advance of starting the profession. For others, it’s a different kettle of fish conceptually.

Thats all I am discussing in a nutshell before we starting coming out with examples and even tying It to racist terms (🤷🏾‍♂️ 😡)

2 hours ago, MNY said:

 

I appreciate your input. I wish I had  listened when buying my Fender Ultra Jazz which I subsequently sold as it was the weight of a small planet. 

It’s all a journey and we are glad you like Sandbergs as much as we do hopefully

9 minutes ago, MNY said:

After years of curiosity and listening to some conflicting opinions regarding Sandberg basses , I decided to take the plunge earlier today and picked up a Greenburst California Superlight TM4. I have been having neck,shoulder and some arm problems in recent years which forced my retirement from playing drums, so I am hoping the light weight of the SL will make for a pleasant playing experience ergonomically speaking. Having heard the bass today I am convinced that tone won’t ever be an issue. 😀

Only conflict is good, very good or superb!

33 minutes ago, EBS_freak said:

@Dood- nice review enjoyed that. Only thing I would say for future videos, for me, the speed at which you need to deliver your narrative bits need to be more akin to the pace you get if you playback the video at 1.25x. Can't argue with the content though.

It’s funny because I prefer Dan’s slower delivery to some of the more chipmunk type high energy reviews that come out.

I like to sit and watch it with a nice cuppa and relax.

This is the beans

Origin Effects CaliCB

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Tech21 DP3X 

Tech21 PSA 2.0

1 hour ago, KinkMaster said:

Yes I do understand the argument, if I go for multi FX, I will go for the hotone ampero, I think that bang for your buck is the best ( road "gig" worthy, studio worthy, rehearsal worthy and home silent practice) as for the boss and zoom not my favorite (plastic construction), from what i've seen, helix do everything and a pair of boots, but i haven't seen in hotone, for example, build a double parallel signal, for example to replicate the signal of a bass Butler or ebs microbass, the goal was to create a parallel way, with compressor in the bass and distortion in the mids and highs

Which is entirely what the Tech21 DP3X is

It will do for sure, but if. You want rounds - they are very decent.

Enjoy the bass - it’s so much fun, and by no means a toy

Tech21 DP3X 

Congrats Tony, they are fantastic basses - I love mine.

The drop D lever is a godsend. It’s awesome as a travel bass.

Status double ball ended strings are great with it as well.

I ended up popping the EMGs in there but run them without the active EQ so just Vol/Vol/tone.

Enjoy!

4 hours ago, AndyTravis said:

@Cuzzie?!

Could be sooooooo noice - I am already a couple builds behind, but worth a thought…….

15 hours ago, Woodinblack said:

 

Thin end?

 

until a few decades ago, we forced women into marriage as the only way they could own property which was their detremement. We forced them to dress a certain way that was to their detriment, and they were half the population. Now a couple of people have got to get a vacine and that is the thin end of the wedge making them do something??

sorry I didn’t address this good point earlier and I am sure we can move on after.

I agree - the wedge is massive and none of that is correct. It was a turn of phrase incorrectly used by me.

What you say is correct, but what I think I was trying to convey was that with what you said smaller sections of society were/are pressurised - this is now expanding . Having experienced elements - it’s not right - that’s all.

1 hour ago, LukeFRC said:

Fair enough. The AZ-Oxford jab is available. 

 I agree

but

You cannot necessarily choose to have that one very easily.

52 minutes ago, Al Krow said:

Interesting that you're up for curtailing freedoms when it suits - the N-word is a good example of something that can seriously hurt feelings. Just as any racist abuse can. We both know that.

 

But with due respect, "hurt feelings" is NOT the in the same league as being willing to put others' lives at risk by pedalling a dangerous anti-vax message. 

 

Vaccines save lives and are our way of this mess, unless you prefer permanent lockdown, destroyed jobs, mental health issues for our children and millions more dead?

 

I can't really believe any medic would be willing to condone such behaviour in the interests of avoiding "the thin of the wedge".

Seriously?!

At which point did I suggest curtailing freedom when it suits.

You made some points with examples, I countered with real life examples I have seen and if you really want I can give examples of where a seatbelt was potentially to the detriment - but as ever you are confounding the issue, especially bringing racists abuse into it.

My feelings don’t get hurt, it’s not a term I agree with, that’s it.

The problem is when you posted an article slamming the musician, like a poor tabloid press without due diligence and then when someone told you the facts, you have to backtrack, by all means hold your opinion on anti vaxers, but do due diligence.

Why as a medic would I not want people to have a free choice whether I agree with it or not?

I chose to go on the Oxford trial and I chose to get vaccinated with it, but that was at least my choice.

13 minutes ago, peteb said:

People are free not to get vaccinated, others are free not to employ them because of it! 

 

Folks not getting vaccinated are affecting the rest of us, by possibly allowing the virus to mutate into strains that are immune to the vaccine. There has never been a similar pandemic with so many people alive, so there is a lot we just don't know, but the vaccines do seem to be working if we can get enough of the population to get it done.

 

My sympathy for the anti-vaxxers is very limited. 

All valid points - but from the other side, some are unproven vaccines or modified proven (I know a leap of faith is required). Some will be anti vax - they wont budge, some people may have legitimate concerns about long term effects of mRNA tech we do not know a lot about, forcing them to make an uncomfortable decision by taking away the ability to work and freedom feels uneasy to me - that’s it.

Another vaccine example - chicken pox - other countries do, why don’t we? You can get the vaccine privately, and chicken pox can be horrible in kids and horrendous in adults.

life has been so poo because of covid it will cause angst, was just a thought…….

10 minutes ago, Al Krow said:

 

There are lots of things we are banned from doing that infringe on personal liberties - like not wearing a seatbelt or smoking indoors in public or using the N-word (ok that last one's not strictly "banned"). Do you object to those also?

 

Anti-vaxxers putting out dangerous propaganda are putting not just their own but others' lives at risk. If you disagree with that then, given your profession, shame on you. That's my beef. If you are not in any way supporting anti-vaxxers, then fair enough.

smoking affects them and others with passive smoke.

Seatbelts save them and someone for example in front of them if you are in the back seat as you may cannonball against them causing an injury to another passenger, or if you are ejected from the car this causing another accident.

vaccines are slightly different.

And what Numnuts  kNights move thinking chose the N word to some out as a comparator?

You know my race, that’s just crass and ludicrous and a classic cheap shot - of course I am going to object to it.

10 minutes ago, peteb said:

 

But from the point of the view of the band (or any other business), would you continue to employ someone who is potentially a liability? 

 

I have a little bit of sympathy for Parada, given that he has some medical concerns (that may or may not be justified) about getting vaccinated. But I certainly don't blame the band. I know of someone else in a very similar position who is going to lose his job in the next few weeks unless he has a change of heart. The company don't want to sack him (he's a good worker and pretty popular), but that is what they are going to have to do. 

I get what you are saying, but personally I feel uncomfortable in making someone do something, which probably in their case is to their detriment as opposed to everyone else?

Its the thin edge of a wedge

8 minutes ago, Al Krow said:

This makes for worrying reading...Music’s great vaccine divide: the rockers who refuse to get the jab (telegraph.co.uk)

 

Particularly when reading about too many anti-vaxxers who are very sadly paying the ultimate price for their misplaced beliefs.

Taking a completely neutral view this is dangerous territory and an inflammatory statement.

People should retain the right to choose what they want as much as possible - much of the world now seems to be going the way of forcing people into a corner and making them do something or a whole myriad of things will be inaccessible to them from work through to entertainment.

I am not professing to know all the answers, but, it doesn’t feel quite right the way things are being packaged and it is meandering towards a dictatorship.

9 hours ago, Tío said:

Cuzzie,

You seem to know your stuff or have an educated opinion.

I opened up another thread “Pleking with diffierent string gauges”

From your experience, does it make a difference if a bass is Pleked with 40-100 gauge strings when you will be using 45-105? I did the math and there is about 12.5% more tension with 45’s over 40’s  

Also, the difference between tension on either side of the neck is greater with 45’s.

Example; for the low side E and A strings vs the high side D and G strings there is about 3.5% more tension on the high side with 40’s and 8.5% more tension on the high side with 45’s.

Will this 12.5% increase in tension and the increased percent of tension on the high side cause the neck to warp differently enough to be significant?

Should I ask Sandberg to Plek my bass with 45-105’s?

Should Sandberg be asking me what gauge I use? 

Thanks,

Tio

Plek happens with no strings present - it’s there to get perfectly level and crowned frets which is more accurate than doing it by hand.

The tension will even out across the neck and remember a well set up bass has the E and G string at a slightly different height to the A and D.

If it’s something that concerns you you can buy the perfectly balanced string sets, but I have never felt the need to. I have used heavy and extra heavy gauge through to standard gauge on the same sandberg bass and aside from setting it up slightly differently there has never been a problem.

A twisting warp will be very very rare indeed as opposed to a bow, especially in a Sandberg for either, but wood is still a cellular entity and once alive so it can happen, it has been reported in even the carbon fibre Status necks.

In short - I think you will be fine