Beedster

Absolutely, bass is a crude vehicle for studying/learning compression, or perhaps more correctly a difficult one. The fact that the brain is so attuned to nuances in the human voice allows us to hear compression effects so much more clearly than on nearly any other source. I'm very interested at present into the payoff between compression making a track easier to listen to (and therefore more likely to sustain a listener to the end of the piece) and compression inhibiting/accentuating the non-verbal component of speech, and it's fun to record a vocal and play around with this question in mind (and I recently bought a very nice Avalon VT-737 to do the playing around on, which makes it even more fun)!

I hadn't noticed that Al joking aside, your 'banging on' has been extremely helpful to me as a musician over the years, and even more so now that I have tentatively taken a step into (a form of) professional production. Please keep banging on mate.

Which is why these threads run and run

Ouch! I suspect that if you speak to the people who came of age in the 50's, 60's, 70's and 80's, most would agree that many of the the then current musicians looked like drug dealers! What do you think dealers looked like in the 60's, or more to the point, what did people then think that drug dealers looked like, Laurence Olivier or the Grateful Dead

Totally agree, although 'grind' sounds a bit negative! I remember the 90's as a decade of huge energy in music, of live bands playing live (I saw a few in the 80's who certainly weren't), and of bands pushing boundaries, as opposed to extending cliches (80's hair metal being the best example; where did the genre end and the parody begin?). I was living in LA in the early 90's, albums such as BSSM, Nevermind, Shake Your Money Maker seemed to herald a revival of all that I had seen as important in music, but which IMO HAD been largely lacking in the 80's. There was some dross in the 90's for sure, but that's true of each decade, but IMO the high points of the 90's were as high as any other decade, something not true of the 80's by a long shot

Seems reasonable

Funny how my immediate response was to agree. But sitting with the family having a BBQ this evening, with phone playing random tunes, I realised that with Nirvana (Teen Spirit), Chilis (Under the Bridge, Californication), Prodigy (Firestarter, Breathe), as well as loads by Pearl Jam, Oasis (I know....), Lenny Kravitz, Faith No More, Supergrass, it perhaps wasn't such a bad decade, especially when you also factor in the great hip hop that was coming from Dr Dre etc?

I think 80’s and I think REM, RHCP, and U2, two of whom I like

Absolutely. It saved me a lot of money doing it that way a while back. Many businesses don't intend to sell via Reverb (or eBay), but to get the casual browser - and there are a lot of those on Reverb and eBay - to visit and ideally buy from the shop's website, which is why they often list them at higher prices on Reverb/eBay. And of course, many of the shops price their goods high on eBay and Reverb because they don't like either site's buyer-friendly T&Cs

Why I won't be buying internationally again for a while, UK Customs evidently a bit behind, this was only a small/cheap item also

Agreed, if you have only one item to sell, I'd guess BC is your place, fees here are VERY low by comparison

Did the same for me earlier this year, a BC legend

I'm not sure I paid a set up fee, best thing to do is check the T&Cs. I will say that selling on Reverb is like selling here (BC) and and therefore nothing like selling on eBay! In short, it's generally polite, calm and honest, at least in my experience. Info here https://reverb.com/page/seller-fees#:~:text=As a seller%2C Reverb charges,transaction fee to only %24350.

It would certainly make the Great Precision Heist less hassle for me Paul

....or music sufficiently loud to cause people in the venue to have to raise their voices apparently. A low volume Shadows tribute act might have a chance, but that would of course deter the clientele

I’ve used capos very high up on a 12 -string with the aim of a mandolin tone, forget how high I went but certainly to the pointy hat it was VERY hard to position my fingers. Sounded nothing like a mandolin solo’d, but sat in the mix well. Tuning the bloody thing took hours however

Keep me posted, I'll get a van booked

Absolutely, what a therapeutic thread this is. Had I known this was taking place and that so many glorious basses were going to be in the same place at the same time, me and a few 'like minded folks' might have rented a Transit, put the stockings over our heads, and made the journey up North with evil intent

That's a very good point, as is 'at the moment', as apparently the backlog of imports is extraordinary. I'm still waiting on a package that Parcelforce say was imported to the UK on 25th April. I assume that lockdown/social distancing have messed up what was already a pretty slow service.

Yep, an interesting example of a courier insurance get-out I heard about (so possibly apocryphal) was a dropped tube amp, so being electronic equipment was covered by the policy the guy paid for. But no, the courier didn't pay out because the £200 set of tubes that were shattered, being glass, weren't covered! They can be tricky customers can couriers! I'm not going to use couriers any more unless I absolutely have to or unless I can afford to lose the item, period. They're increasingly a law unto themselves, to the point that even if it's 100% their fault that something is lost or broken, and even if they accept this, their T&Cs often give them a get-out. I battled with Interparcel over two cases of trashed gear a few years back, and although I got compensation for both, it didn't make up for the hassle, and I still lost in real terms both times. But then there's the fact that the customer is expected to pay the courier's risk (i.e., despite it being their fault both times, I only received compensation because I'd paid for extra insurance). It a great business model they've got going; imagine you went into a chippy, ordered a portion of chips, and after about 10 minutes they haven't arrived and the chippy's closing. So you politely and reasonably ask for your money back, and the bloke behind the counter says "I can only refund you if you paid for our chip-non-arrival insurance......?"

I would have a look at the closing posts in this thread before you use Eurosender

If you're sending it in a hard case, you could wrap the case in bubble wrap and then gaffa tape it in heavy duty bin bags, which I've done a few times. Offers good protection, meets the jiffy bag criteria, and might just keep you under the maximum dimensions limit?