Velarian

One thing to be aware of, if it’s authentic to the original, it will probably have reverse wind tuners. When I first came across these they threw me a bit but you soon get used to them. However, some modern interpretations have regular tuners.

Here are some screen shots of the email

Hola Jose.

Funnily enough, Yamaha is the exact search term I was using this afternoon. It returned some results but not the content I was looking for so I expanded the phrase and suddenly it wasn’t working anymore.

Same here. I thought I’d broken something so it’s good to know it’s not just me. It seemed to happen in the middle of this afternoon. It also coincided with a number of posts disappearing from the Yamaha BB Mega-Thread, which I assumed had been deleted by one of the Mods.

I don’t think it is much of a stumbling block actually. The DPA has specific provision for law enforcement agencies to make such requests for the purposes of investigating or preventing crime. All police forces have a simple form that they can fill in and send to the relevant data controller. When I worked in financial services we routinely received and responded to such requests and in my experience any business operating in the regulated financial services space will have a data protection team dealing with this kind of thing. Unless there was a strong compelling reason not to respond most will. If there was an equally compelling reason to get information that has been refused then I guess a court order might be required but I would suggest that’s a last resort. It might take a few weeks to get a response but that’s better than letting a scammer continue indefinitely with impunity.

True but based on the publicly available information there appears to be a strong correlation and, with access to right data, which the police can get by making a DPA request to the likes of Facebook, PayPal and connected bank accounts, it should be a relatively simple matter to connect the dots. I suppose it might turn out to be another person or it might even reveal a conspiracy between him and others but stopping any or all of these people would be a good thing.

TBF @stu_g posted a link to a Stranglers video on the first page but it didn’t embed properly so you’d be forgiven for missing it 😉 However the video you’ve posted perfectly nails the brief of this thread. JJ would have my choice too.

Given that he’s already a convicted fraudster it should be a relatively easy win and I would have thought any force/officer wanting to improve their conviction rate would want to jump on this low-hanging fruit!

Northwest Guitars? https://www.northwestguitars.co.uk/precision-bass-style-necks/ Edit: for transparency I should add that I’ve not had one of their necks but I got a P Bass body from them and the quality was excellent. P.S. If you sign up to their mailing list you get 10% off your first order.

Another welcome from W. Yorks.

The whole thing has become confusing and, as has already been mentioned, the terms have become meaningless. If I’m interested in a genuine 1962 precision for example and search for “62 Precision” or “Vintage Precision” I’ll end up with numerous reissues of various flavours but very rarely the real thing. Even terms like Fender Original don’t relate to actual original instruments.

Only the ones knitted in chain mail.

How about this? https://apps.apple.com/gb/app/scales-for-bass-guitar/id1509697613

They clearly have no style.

Looks like this thread was started by originator: - A bit spammy I think. Nothing like engaging with the forum beforehand eh?

So, I’m sat in the pub having a pint and a bite to eat whilst reading this and there’s a bloke at bar talking about Benny Hill. Weird eh? 😂

AFAIK they didn’t actually remove any bass amps/cab sims but they did away with the dedicated bass mode which had preconfigured bass settings. They did this in favour of having 7 program presets available for both guitar or bass to use however you choose with the various amps cabs and effects available. The downside of this is that the new default program settings were guitar focussed and not that great IMHO. However, with a little experimentation you can create program settings suitable for bass. EDIT: It looks like there is now a Mighty Plug Pro available. Not sure what that adds to the existing unit.

I wonder if these issues are caused by the mixing console being optimally positioned in both distance from the stage and the height so that it sounds spot on there, but as soon as you move off-axis the effect of the crowd and room change the balance of frequencies? I'm reminded of a situation in a small room where just a couple of feet lower that than the optimal position produced a significant uplift in low-mid/bass frequencies. You would think that the FOH team would have someone checking different positions in the audience to provide feedback to the main desk, although I guess that might be easier said than done in a densely packed venue.

I was at a local garden centre yesterday and they had ‘Get a Grip on Yourself’ by the Stranglers blasting out which amused me but this sounds much cooler. 😎

How about Alesis V25 or V49? They have full size velocity sensitive keys. However, they have a usb midi connection rather than the traditional din connector.

Looks like a neck through. The bottom edge looks like it would be really uncomfortable to play sitting down.

I tried to fit a Fender licenced replacement neck (which came from and had fitted a US precision) to a squier affinity body. The neck pocket on the body was a couple of mm narrower than the neck so not all “Fender” parts are the same spec. I figured this might have a deliberate move to discourage people from fitting Fender branded necks to Squiers and passing them off as fenders.

Just bought a lovely black/maple US Precision from Brian. Excellent comms and Brian got it shipped to me safely and really quickly. Brian was a pleasure to deal with. Many thanks.