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I suggest you simply deposit your credit card at your nearest music shop... You'll get to know all the staff by name very soon, probably be in their Xmas card list for this year as well... Rob

We can but dream... Following this thread with interest as one of the projects planned for this year/ Rpb

Apologies, I missed this. Just to back up what @JohnH89 says. Andre is a gent. He is on Basschat and his equipment is excellent as is his service. I gigged with my headless a few days ago and never even thought about the bridge and string locks as they just worked. I have nothing but praise for them and Andre. @JohnH89 is also a great bloke as well and full of useful info. Rob

Looks like a poor mans Morningstar. Useful to know about, but no idea how good it is or how robust it is. The comments on the Amazon site seem to indicate that support and documentation is pretty non-existent though. If you have an inclination to work through stuff like this, it may be a good product. However I recall trying to get the MVAVE Chocolate pedals to work and that took a long time. I consider myself pretty technical and have developed stuff like compilers and worked on operating systems, but I struggled to get it all working. After that, I put a value per hour on what I was prepared to pay myself to get around poor or non existent documentation. So if I assume my time is worth £25 per hour, how long was I prepared to work to make it do what I wanted? So if I assume it would take 6 hours, then is the product worth the purchase price + £150? I look at the Morningstars and the constant excellent reviews they get, and think how long I spend fighting poor support and incomplete docs. Of course everybody is different and has a different value of their own time and what they want to pay. Now if that box was £30-£40 it might well be a good price. I found it on AliExpress for £76.19. No idea what customs would charge for this. https://www.aliexpress.com/item/1005006542236297.html I did giggle at the advertising for it. Not sure that "Switches Work More than Expected" is quite the flex they think it is

Can you expand on this please? Be interested in which app and able. Thanks Rob

I played one for the first time a few months ago and liked it. Thankfully it was too good a bass for me and a little too expensive. However I love Motorhead and I'm sure getting one would immediately make me play like Lemmy. Please don't disabuse me of this notion 😊

So after a lot of thinking over Xmas, I decided I didn't like the pedalboard that I downloaded from elsewhere and wanted to design my own so that's its smaller in height, quicker to print, looks a lot better and has exactly the same surface areas as before. I might even sell them if I get any interest Here's the design, its about 20mm lower than before, prints around twice as quick as before, is just as strong as before. Each piece can take 100Kg of weight, so between them, that's over 600Kg so it'll support the corner of a small car, it uses less filament (50%) than before and has the same surface area as the old design. It still uses the same 20x40mm aluminium extrusion but now it looks a lot neater as the extrusion fits into the sides rather than sits on top of the sides. I also raised the back by 25mm so there is no need for risers under a pedal. This is now designed properly so I can easily adapt it to make it wider or taller or longer. The Cioks power supply will still go underneath it and be bolted to the bottom of the extrusions. I'm printing this up now and will post pictures when it's done. Rob

Are you Spinal Tap by any chance...?

Good question to which I have zero answers but have wondered about this myself. If this was expensive hifi cables, the answer would probably be something to do with the way that the electrons move better due to the premium highly directional electric cable.

Done

The numbers grow: @neepheid @ossyrocks @doomkeeper @Richard R @peterjam @Frank Blank @rwillett Rob

So we have confirmed as opposed to not 100% sure... @rwillett @neepheid @ossyrocks @doomkeeper

RWB guitars are very laid back. They have a lovely Vintage (the brand not aged) semi acoustic which was very nice to play. Quite decently priced as well. There was also a nice reliced non Fender Telecaster which played nicely. T'other half rang me whilst I was there so had to hot foot it out to meet her. Didn't have a chance to look at anything else. Back in York centre now so may have a second trip. If you go, say hi to them. There's zero pressure to buy. Indeed I think they should push more IMHO. Rob

We're in York today. Just popped into RWB guitars and managed to avoid spending lots of money

My family is from Chesterfield so if you organise one that area, I'll pop down.

Most Ethernet cable is sold core so is not designed to be constantly reconnected, coiled, uncooled etc. As previous posters have said, I'd be amazed it lasts a year. It will also go wrong at just the wrong time. Cabling has this inherent property of knowing the worst possible time to fail to cause the maximum chaos. Rob

You are more than welcome to come down

I've now confirmed the NW Bass Bash for Sat 10/5/25. Format will be much as before unless people have a better idea. If people do want a place to stay Fri night, please let me know as I do have space in the house. We can fit a fair amount in real and actual comfortable beds and we will still have space for camp beds and the like. People are welcome to turn up late as well. There's plenty of space to store gear safely. I'll get the ball rolling with gear I may bring along. As I live next door, it's easy to change. Fender Jazz Bass Fender Mustang Bass Fender Telecaster - Yep six strings, I have no shame 3d printed Jazz Bass 3d printed headless bass Maybe a 3d printed reverse Thunderbird headless bass if I can pull my finger out. Ibanez short scale bass - ex building site by the looks of it Yamaha HS7 monitor A weird and unusual pedalboard setup. That'll probably change anyway.

Not sure if anythuing has been arranged for this but the NW Bass Bash (which is in Yorkshire, albeit North Yorkshire) will be on Sat 10th May 2025. It will be in Clapham, North Yorkshire and be all day. We have the village hall basically from the night before to as late as we want it on Saturday. Here's the village hall: https://claphamyorkshire.co.uk/locals/clapham-village-hall/ Here's a link to Google Maps which shows you where we are: https://maps.app.goo.gl/vGE1aCW3TDPBPFVcA If you are interested, let me know Thanks Rob

Nope, i am not proud that we don’t have a absolute right of free speech. Please do NOT tag me with that. I am a great believer in the right to say most of the time most of what I want to say. i was pointing out that the right of free speech is not and should not be an absolute right regardless of what was said. Words can have serious consequences and that people deliberately use words in certain ways to deliberately create chaos and disorder (disorder here is not legal disorder). We see this with people retweeting things that are made up lies to further their own agenda. I chose an extreme example to illustrate how this happens. Americans have their first amendment which gives people a lot more protection than people in this country, as to what they can say, however even that has limits on what people can say, you defame somebody and it can have serious consequences as Rudy Gilliarno has found out. Fox News settled a legal case for libel for circa $700M for stating that voting machines were fixing the election. Where should free speech sit on the censorship continuum of you can say anything without any consequences whatsoever up to the other end where you can say nothing unless it's govt prescribed? I personally am a long way down the say as much as you can end of the spectrum. I have actively supported free speech by speaking at meetings about it, by demonstrating against laws that try to limit it, Section 28 anyone? I donate to free speech campaigns as well. However we are now finding that people are abusing that privilege. It is not a right in this country as its not enshrined simply in a law or constitution. We have a patchwork of laws governing what can be said and what cannot be said. Sophisticated actors take advantage of that to promote hate through various arguments, such as "I was just asking the question that everybody wants to know" when really they are knowingly lying through their teeth to further their own agenda. Free speech is very difficult, people are constantly pushing the boundaries as to what is legal and what isn't. I find a lot of what some people say about immigrants very, very hard to take, I have a lot of close friends from many countries around the world, but I recognise that the law doesn't make it illegal. I also realise that other people have different views to mine and that for me to have my views, other people will have views contrary to mine. That's what a more or less free society encourages. We are not all the same. Laws on free speech have evolved in this country over the last four hundred or so years. I have no doubt they will continue to evolve as our society evolves and that the free speech pendulum will swing back and forwards. (Note I deliberately did not say left and right) America has the first, second and other amendments guarantjng certain rights such as free speech, the right to bear arms, the right to vote and so on. In.this country we do not have those amendments as our civil and criminal laws have changed over time. I do not know which system is better as I can often find contradictory comparisons. However as I have said before, even in the USA, the first amendment right to free speech is not absolute as defamation is against the law. You can say a lot of things that are brutal and hateful and not be prosecuted in the USA which if you said in this country would lead to a prosecution. I worry that we criminalise things that we shouldn't but I also worry that we allow unfettered hate speak that creates violent riots. We can't have it both ways but I don't know the answer. However I am not against free speech, quite the opposite, but I do not know the answer, if there even is one, of how we address the lies that some people clearly make up to stir hatred and violence. I want people to say what they think, I do not want those thoughts and words to create the violence that ensued last time. I really don't want anybody to think I'm against free speech as I'm not. We have now gone way off topic. Possibly more than any other thread. I am happy to have this discussion elsewhere but

Would love to see that build. 2 x 6" sounds interesting. Rob

I'll take you up on that and throw in a slap up meal at Mrs Miggins Pie Shop...

... The TTL is very low and the retry timer is probably a few months for the next brood Rob