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I appreciate I’m in That London but I hadn’t heard of this :-(. Could even have popped in to No. 1 daughters but I’m spoken for now.

Have a great time & I hope it’s successful. That ‘63 P is awesome!

But we haven’t watched it all on Catch Up yet!

Haven’t ALL of them passed?

Nah, you’ll probably get a little ‘otter….

I’ve not see the Libertines before. Is not singing in tune part of the song?

Playing Koko at Camden on 12 July. It’s 5:30 doors. Mr Miller must be at the stage of wanting his bed…

4 minutes ago, YellowLedBetterBass said:

In fairness, he's doing a lot better than some of the dinosaurs still trying to play these sorts of shows over the past few years. That GnR set from a couple of years ago still makes me cringe just thinking about it - such was the "quality" of Axl Rose's "singing".

Aye, I was more trying to ‘lighten the mood’ a bit. I loved the LP painted with the blue check to match his shirt! Doing amazingly for 80!

John Fogerty looks like my grandad! And I’m 60! 😂

I give in, what bass was Badbadnotgoods Chester Hanson playing? Def wasn’t a Grabber that his webpage says he ‘always plays’!

edit; found it. An F Bass VF4

It’s just Badbadnotgood is a bit shorter I guess

Badbadnotgood or something similar is a bit of a mouthful for a band name!

Watching a bit of Glasto today the singer in Shed 7  is obs falling foul of the ‘needs glasses/bigger set list’ as he was constantly bending over to look at his. Even announced the wrong song and the guitarist had to correct him!

it’s horrible being old! 😂

1 hour ago, prowla said:

I tried some varifocals spectacles and they were awful: the edges of my 32" 4k monitor became curved and I couldn't read things by moving my eyes but instead had to keep them still and move my head to read; I also couldn't use my peripheral vision.

I really couldn't recommend them less..

As for contact lenses: I was recommended not to have them for astigmatism, as every time you blink you slightly shift them.

I think that varifocal contacts would exacerbate that issue and you'd be looking at the world through a wobbly fish-eyed vision.

8 hours ago, Rosie C said:

 

 

My optician suggested one eye short vision, one eye long vision, but I dismissed that out of hand as a crazy idea.  

 

As it happened, I failed the test for contacts - the callouses on my left hand fingers from bass-ing and mandolin-ing meant I couldn't feed the lens, and I couldnt' manage the "left lens in with the right hand" thing. So I wear glasses, though I am considering a monocle!

 

I’ve been round both these blocks.

i used to have the ‘one eye reading, one eye distance’ and, as only an occasional wearer, it felt like you were walking round in circles for 5 mins but  the brain quickly compensates.

I struggled with early ‘versions’ of multi focal lenses so went back to one short one long for a while.

Recently they bought out lenses for astigmatism so I now have one for that and a multi focal and I can see so well I’m thinking of wearing them more often.

Anyhoo, I can’t see without glasses so play in them if I can’t be bothers to put lenses in ( or we’re playing somewhere posh and it’s unlikely there will be a fight 😂).

The bass player is the studious intellectual anyway so we look cool in glasses anyway?

You can get varifocal contact lenses now too…

13 minutes ago, BigRedX said:

 

But the old devices don't stop working. I was using a Bass Pod XT until I bought my Helix, which was bought on the strength of the features it had at the time of purchase. The firmware upgrades since then have just been a pleasant bonus.

 

Unless/until the new Stadium version offers new features that I find indispensable, I'll be sticking with my Helix Floor

Aye, I'm only stating fact. I used HD ages after HX - only recently sold my 500x. And it can be annoying that they keep updating. I've got my sound 'exactly how I want it' a few times then been drawn in to change it after an update dropped.

They have 'history' with this sort of upgrade. When they went from HD to HX (albeit a big step forward, support for HD stopped pretty quickly.

DV24 now in Germany 🤦‍♀️

And in Leeds? Plus DV24?

Get yours for $2000, which will be £2500.. looks great though

It can all be wirelessly done from your phone. Eventually 🤣

6 bass amps..

4 minutes ago, BigRedX said:

 

IME it makes no difference to the global settings whether I do a wipe and restore or not. Neither way has reinstated them for me. All it appears to do is add another 30 minutes onto what is already and overlong process, and the last time I did a complete wipe and restore on my Helix, it insisted on rebuilding all my Presets for a third time when I next powered up the device.

Possibly a pain. Well, definitely a pain. But it's the way they've been doing updates for ages. I've not lost anything - apart from the time to do an update.

So Helix 4 is 'buy another unit'.

New Helix in the autumn!!!!

Gear4music is still there?