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[quote name='blue' timestamp='1411500733' post='2560184'] Patronizing, to me, would be the person asking you about your job and you know instinctively he/she has know interest in your job or hearing about it. [/quote] Or telling someone to "Have a nice day" perhaps? I wonder if we've struck the tip of a 'cultural differences' iceberg with this topic? If the above example is patronising, what would you make of the commonly used and friendly greeting "Hello, how are you?" knowing that the greeter really doesn't want to engage in long drawn out details about how you've ricked your back and are having trouble walking without severe jabbing pain but will be visiting the doctor later today and hopefully he'll be able to prescribe something to ease the pain. In such circumstances, social etiquette demands that the correct answer is "Fine thanks, how are you?", which requires no more demanding a reply before moving on to other things. Nothing patronising about any of it.

[quote name='xilddx' timestamp='1411451973' post='2559556'] I think we should be careful judging people and how they like their music. Music is for all, in whatever form they want it. If they get a kick out of One Direction but don't dig Gil Scott Heron, or love operatic arias but can't understand how anyone can enjoy Peters and Lee, that's cool, and it's fine with me. Why judge them because they don't 'get' Weather Report or Opeth? Try starting a thread on Hip Hop on here and you'll get the same sh*t. 'Wha wha wha, it's crap, it ain't music, them rappers can't even sing, it aint f***ing music, there's no skill' etc etc. And it's bullshit because they only know about the hip hop they hear about in the news and on mainstream music channels, they don't know about the political rappers, the rappers that want to have a positive influence rather than rap about hos and $$ , the underground hip hop scene - they are ignorant, and yet they are musicians. All of us 'don't get' certain other art forms, judging that 'modern art' is crap compared to the Renaissance, that Michelin starred restaurants can't beat beans on toast, taking the piss out of Damian Hirst from their magnolia homes with the avocado bathroom suite while lauding Banksy. This is a musicians forum, where a thread about cats or a thread for word association will get a thousand posts, and the members who post their music in the recording section get two or three responses. A forum with over 30,000 members that has a monthly composition competition that attracts about 36 votes. We are all deeply ignorant of most things, so don't get too self-indulgent about people not understanding your music. [/quote] Yes, all of that, but with one observation. I'd say that when people say things like 'modern art is crap' or 'rap is crap' it's usually just a colloquial way of saying they don't like it personally, rather than some absolute judgement - which of course it can't be. There is no 'bad' art, music included, but each piece or song will cause different people to have different feelings. Seems to me that the OP is about a passion for something. Music in this case, but it could be anything, and by the sound of it music to the exclusion of almost everything else. Well that's fine but it won't be for everyone, which is also fine, so it's a bit futile trying to understand why other people don't have the same passion.

[quote name='xilddx' timestamp='1411405214' post='2559210'] Let us face it. The weakest part of the signal chain is the player. sh*t player + amazing bass & rig = sh*t bass. Amazing player + sh*t bass & rig = amazing bass. [/quote] Exactly. And not just for bass either. I dread to think of the noise I'd get out of a Stradivarius. I suspect there is a tendency to obsess over gear because it's easier to change what we play than how we play.

I suspect there's no real loss of fidelity. Indeed, it may even improve over time

I keep one of these cable testers in my gig bag. Very handy, usually for proving to our guitarist that, yes, that crackling IS because he has a faulty lead! http://www.studiospares.com/test-gear/behringer-cable-tester-ct100/invt/370030?VBMST=Tester

[quote name='spinynorman' timestamp='1411334430' post='2558592'] Just finished reading the Walter Isaacson biography of Steve Jobs. You iStuff users should think yourselves very, very lucky it's only one U2 album and not the entire Bob Dylan back catalogue, including bootlegs, that appeared on your devices over night. [/quote] Yes, it explains a lot doesn't it.

[quote name='JTUK' timestamp='1411325877' post='2558473'] I think if you paid for it in the first instance, then another copy/copies for your own use is fair game even though that might have been technically illegal. The grey area is when it gets into someone elses hands and potentially stops a sale... Well, not so grey, in fact. [/quote] Agreed - it's a technicality being fixed. 'Natural justice' implies that you buy the right to listen to a piece of music. The physical form might be vinyl, tape, CD or bits (er, ok, that's not physical, but you get my drift) but it's really the right to listen to the music that you really want. However, I wonder what the new law says about buying a CD, ripping it to a PC and then selling the CD? That's clearly not right, unless you delete the ripped copy at the same time.

I had an Akai 4000DS open-reel 4-track tape deck that had 'sound on sound' capability - basically bouncing one track to another - and me and a few mates would spend hours recording songs. But it was only 1/4 inch tape running at 7.5ips and no dolby so the sound quality got pretty bad after a few bounces. Great fun though, as was playing around with tape loops and backwards instruments. @Dad - regarding old and 'brittle' tapes, I'm sure I've read about baking such tapes in an oven to stabilise the oxide layer. It doesn't work for long but long enough to run off a copy. I'm not entirely sure though, so don't take my word for it! Regarding the Wem copycat, the guitarist in our school band turned up with one of those one day and it was like science fiction right there and then. I don't think we played anything without massive echo for ages afterwards

[quote name='Chienmortbb' timestamp='1411044146' post='2555851'] Your ears will tell you when you need to change. [/quote] Well yes, if you can trust that it's not your ears that have changed. Over a few decades, my bet would be on ears changing more than speakers.

Are there not any drugs that can actually lower the levels of uric acid in the blood?

Good or no good, SRVBob is clearly not the right sort of personality for the OP so forget him and just move on.

Any indication from the Doc about why? I thought there are specific reasons for gout attacks rather than it being a general arthritic condition. if so, and you can identify the particular cause in your case, then it might be possible to avoid further attacks.

Well, I've got a Windows PC, and iPad and an Android phone - will that do?

I wasn't trying to revisit the 'fairness' angle, it's more the inconsistency in the way that these sort of things seems to be treated, which gives us those wonderful scenes during the 'occupy' protests . . .

Not much love for Bonio or Apple in Private Eye this week as it points out theirs is a "match made in havens" . . . . tax havens, that is, of course. The piece goes on to describe how Apple avoids 'tens of billions' of tax by funnelling sales outside USA through the Irish Republic, while Bonio and fellow U2ers ramped up their tax avoidance by switching their songwriting, royalties and licensing business to the Netherlands, helping to boost their £500m+ fortune. With all this tax being saved, no wonder $100m can be frittered away so trivially. Funny how some people can get up in arms about tax avoiding 'fat cat bankers' but appear to be fairly relaxed about their favourite gadget company or band doing exactly the same thing - and on a far greater scale.

Tacky, tacky, tacky.

My understanding is that the Speakon connector specification allows up to 4 connections (well, 2 or 4) so it can support 'bi-amped' configurations in which a crossover unit is positioned between the pre-amp and power amp and a separate power amp is used to drive two speakers in a single cab, which would normally required two cables with two conductors each. A 4-pole connector thus allows a single 4-core cable to be used for neater system wiring. Probably not of any great use for bass rigs but it makes the speakon connector more widely applicable in other applications.

[quote name='cheddatom' timestamp='1394024967' post='2387016'] people are always whinging about the local scene here in Stoke but depending on the genre there are plenty of good gigs around. The problem is if you want to play doom-death-grime-core-step-hop no-one will come and watch. [/quote] Yeah, but that would be true in any town wouldn't it?

[quote name='BassTractor' timestamp='1410945412' post='2554841'] The point of course is that it can mean so much. Sellers are wildly different in their approach, and will assume differently about their audience or audiences when crafting their texts. Some of it is honest and dead serious, some is an attempt at manipulation... the works. [/quote] Exactly. And because a buyer can't be sure what the buyer really means in practice it means absolutely nothing and should be ignored. It's all quite simple isn't it? If you like the asking price then accept it. If you don't, then offer the price you are prepared to pay. Ignore all the 'low-balling' jibes, that's just disaffected sellers who happen to value the item at more than you do. Fine, let them sell it someone else for their asking price. Keep the emotion out of things and it's all good . . . . Until you really, really, really want something and can only afford half the asking price

[quote name='spacey' timestamp='1410946126' post='2554860'] If spending your own time and money on instruments and fuel and transport so a brewery can make money and some charity bosses can drive around in E class Mercs earning £250k a year + benefits , then that is great for you. [/quote] I already spend my own time and money on instruments so why shouldn't I maximise my enjoyment by gigging wherever I can? I'm not going to change the world with my music and I'm not trying to - it's just something I enjoy. If I didn't enjoy it then I wouldn't do it. Money doesn't come into it and never has done. I didn't decide to play music so I could make some pocket money - that seems like a very marginal justification to me. As for E class Mercs, the estate versions are great for carting around band gear and I always try to make a point of parking next to the charity bosses Merc [size=3](Lest you erroneously conclude I'm in the £250k + benefits bracket, I should perhaps confirm that I was recently offered £800 in part-exchange for my E-class, so appearances can be deceiving [size=3] [/size])[/size]

To be honest, I think that's the best long-term real solution. Obviously the bass in question is in need of a hole repair as well, but I would definitely use a much longer screw than supplied with strap locks, or originally used for the studs. In fact, I have done. There's a lot of leverage on those two points of attachment!

[quote name='Geek99' timestamp='1410872975' post='2554124'] They don't need an opinion - it's perfectly simple legally. Basic contract law, year one. If there are terms that are applicable and made available, you should read them and cannot rely on ignorance of them or their implications. [/quote] You might be surprised what directors of American public companies pay their corporate lawyers for 'opinions' about, such is the concern about being sued for getting things wrong. They'd probably get a legal opinion about whether they could release a statement about the sky being blue Not because they don't know that the sky is blue but because they could then prove their diligence in obtaining professional advice about its colour and not 'shooting from the hip' in an irresponsible and negligent manner. Daft? of course, but so many things are when it comes to arse-covering and public liability when you've got ambulance-chasing law firms out there just waiting for a juicy class action lawsuit to pounce upon. How about paying a PR firm around $4000 to release your quarterly financial results just so that you can't be accused of being negligent in getting the information out there - meaning onto the newswire services rather than simply posting on your website for all the world to see? of course it's a waste of money, but it's also cast iron proof that you have not been negligent in publishing the information as required by law. And yes, I'm speaking from personal experience.

A bit late to this but I think you've chosen the best repair method. Mechanical repairs of such small components are rarely as robust as the original and you have to question why it broke in the first place. As you've said the pots 'legs' are soldered directly to the circuit board, I would suggest cutting the legs to remove the pot first. Then you can easily desolder each pin individually, pulling it out of the circuit board using thin pliers (or tweezers etc) before. This is a much faster method than trying to remove solder from around 3 'legs' and freeing them all up so the intact pot can be removed - and in these cases, fast is good because you don't want to apply heat for too long otherwise you'll likely lift the copper tracks off the circuit board and then you're getting deeper into even trickier repair territory. Photos of the intact pots before you start removing them can also be very helpful when soldering in the new ones. Good luck!

This all sounds like politics of envy to me. [quote name='Dad3353' timestamp='1410883611' post='2554296'] There seems to be quite a mix of events here, all being lumped together. This ^^ is what I call a charity gig, and we do exactly this ^^ a couple of times a year. It's like a very small local festival, 'organised' by neighbours and friends mostly looking for an excuse to have a good day mixing and socialising, grilling bangers, operating the bars and raising funds for a cause they've chosen (often a local kid in a wheelchair, for instance...). [/quote] Yep, that's pretty much the sort of thing I've been involved in, not a charity night at the local pub which is business as usual but with a raffle for the charity thrown in - so perhaps we're all talking a bit at crossed-purposes?

Indeed. And I'm sure Apple spent a few $m getting a firm legal opinion about the whole exercise as well as the $100m for Bonio and pals. The irony is that all the people moaning are the ones who have paid inflated prices for their Apple shiny in the first place and thereby enabled Apple to amass such a huge cash mountain that it can easily afford to p1ss away $100m on upsetting people