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Thats two of us then, and not a thing "ordinary" folk kinda talk about or understand. Ive had the same problem..started in my early late 30's ...Hypersensitive to just about anything and everything, big struggle living in the modern world..

The only plugs I can gaurantee work for me nowdays are those awful purple +30db industrial ones which pretty well block out all noise....albeit at the same time making me look like a martian or something...but it has to be done. Even practising my cello I have to wear some ER20's..

Luckily Ive managed to deal with the light thing by using prescription reactalights...but noisy kids, babies, motor transport, public places people in general....haha ..has me running to the nearest public library!

Nice bit of semi awkward fusion.....

Just now, Mykesbass said:

There is that. There is also the UK TV audience demographic with over 65s watching the most. 

The ads Im seeing are full of 20-30 somethings.. and even younger. 

Was trying to think of those two....ELO popped up the other night too....countless others I cant remember.  

Seems every other TV ad aimed across the demographic at the mo is using "old" music from the golden years. Why?....And yes Iam playing Devils Advocate here to some extent.

Difficult, progressive, modern jazz, basically a showcase vehicle for accomplished musos to show their brilliant reading chops.....I dig it but Ive gotta be in the mood...sadly not at the mo.

Just now, Baloney Balderdash said:

What the hell are you on about, you talk like you know me and my preferences

Remain calm. Your preference was to leave a sarcastic emoji after commenting on the Beatles intonation?...( I have never in my entire life heard anyone comment on The Beatles intonation before)  Thats good enough for me.

@Baloney Balderdash

I despair when I read posts like yours. This obsession with digitally perfect sound at the expense of good song writing.....hear it all the time. You can keep todays grey indestinct but perfectly rendered mush. Think I'll go put on some Sinatra and then some Motown even tho of course it's all over the place.......technically.

On 14/10/2023 at 17:36, Baloney Balderdash said:

That intonation... 

Yep real musicians playing real music together in a studio. Those little fluffs and whatnot are there for ever and I for one would never ever want them messed with or altered.

As Pete Waterman famously once said.  "I dont need Kylie to sing, she just has to look good and dance". He was right. This type of 'show time' entertainment has nothing to do with live musical performance and everything to do with the visual spectacle, just shove a disc in the machine and dance.

3 minutes ago, Beedster said:

No amount of bubble wrap stops them losing it

Yep, heard this many times before. Pretty sure in the all the years I used Hermes never lost a single package, tho had the odd return dumped in the recycle bin! I do wish they wouldnt do that.

Ive recently had to shift a lot of top end camera gear and cause Im cheap I use Evri, plus insurance works out well.. Seems the key is to use excessive bubble wrap and to encase the parcel in rolls and rolls of Fragile tape. My parcels are practically bullet proof. So far no pobs at all.  

1 minute ago, Barking Spiders said:

unless it's funk, soul or disco then they know it's the bass that carries the songs

Totally. But Ive never had anyone, band wise or audience wise complain at the racket my ole Squire P bass makes in that department. In other words it doesn't really matter what bass or gear you use.. it will always sound to them like bass.

I had to play Lil L a while back.. that grt envelope tone etc. I just played it up the neck and they all went wow!  Total BS but within the noise of a live performance and well played it sounded good on a lowly 200 quid Squire.

The opposite of GAS?  Ok a bit left field this.......The audience.  They could care less what ur playing as long as they hear some sort of bassy drone....even then Im not convinced they're to bothered. Ive heard bands with two guitarists strumming on the neck PU...keys, and other assorted stage noise...and the bassist might have well packed up and gone home. Whatever you play or fuss over will always bow to those instruments that the audience can hear without bothering to hear...if you get my meaning.  Bass is the last thing the audience care about.

5 minutes ago, ahpook said:

What's on the playlist at the mo ?

Haha. Well Sinatra as I mentioned (forget pop and rock, open the windows and crank Fly Me To The Moon, its bloody liberating)... Anyway, the usual, Autumn leaves, some Glenn Miller....any showtime stuff I can find, then finish off with Steely Dan and ABBA. That kinda satisfies the itch....it'll do.

Just to add to my above post of semi doom and gloom. My P bass resides in the corner of the living room, plugged into my BA110 and ready for what I euphomistically call 'The Lunchtime Recital' where I open up any old random playlist and have a blast...No complaints from the neighbours so maybe they enjoy it too...haha, tho with them being old I make sure I do some Sinatra, or old time jazz etc.....I bet none of us can actually quit for good.

Im a failed classical musican (did violin up to 19) So in my late teens started bass and I played it consistently for 40 years, however the last 10 I started getting increasingly bored with it.

The straw that broke the camels back 6 yrs ago was a round trip of 300 miles depping a private party outside in the rain, (covered stage)  Rich dude, good money...... but we end up sat around all day just to play to a handful of tiny tots and their mums...in the rain.!  That was it, finished. Im done.

Up shot is Ive got back into the classics and started studying Cello and I couldn't be happier... Hard work. Hard study and maybe in a couple yrs I may just be good enough to join the local community orchestra...Ok I'm only 63 but to me now pop and rock just seems so dull, even the old stuff I love...Ive played it all, loved it all....But its time to move on..do something totally new.

Might as well fess up. I can't play to a click track, there I said it. It just gets in the way of the groove for my liking, messes with my clock, and my clock is always pushing an pulling, as it should be imo, its how music breathes ....How those guys on the ships do it with guest artists is extraordinary. Some sound like they've got a full percussion thing going on in the cans.....clicks, bongs, half time, double time.....speed up, take it down....Its all rather clever.

Not for me but a guy I knew bk in the 70's used one though an old Marshall stack...massive sound...sounded like an orchestra, kinda boomy but clear to and in a three peice with a Tele it worked so well......Always impressed me.

Back in ye days of olde we would sack the offending musician who couldn't keep time......That way the band can play any time, anyway, anywhere and still be tight as a ducks whatsit.  Oh and time shifts in a tune is good. Ha.. the modern world and its technical perfection....its all a flippin mystery to me.

2 hours ago, Osiris said:

That widely imitated Ampeg sound, the bloated lows and clanky high end with nothing in between. 

Not im my world. Low grindy mids and that Ampeg honk cannot be beat in my book. People dont like them cause theres just to much bass eq, which yes can get bloated...dial it back push the mids....heaven.

Overated.

Stingrays, (thin and to Jacoish for my liking).  Rumbles (not enough low mid range grind for my liking, too smooth and why I play Ampeg)

Underated. 

The latest Squire range.....old Peavey gear (superb generic bass tone but so flippin heavy) 

As long as Ive still got access to 70's Prog, old folk music, Bach and all those incredible 60's 70's 80's pop/soul masterpieces I dont have to give a fig....and I dont. 

Technically, yes the very best of all time, quite incredible....but my go to female hero is Gladys....warmth, depth and hutspah. But yes WH was an extraordinary talent.

Assorted cables and power supply, everything works well and is in good condition. Afraid I dont have an editot to annotate them.