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Oh I’ll add to this. I was responsible for dual fuel at a house for one week. I got start and end readings. You’d think it’s that simple right? Only they f***ed up the start and end dates and then closed the account with estimated readings. They were then (they said!) unable to change the dates on a closed account. I worked out what I owed cost per unit, daily standing charge, VAT), I’m going to guess it took 3 months to sort out with perhaps 40 emails and a good few phone calls. And multiple - multiple! - photos of the meters. They even denied that the meter in the photo was the meter they had the serial number for in the house at one point, I can only quote my response, “that is a you problem.”

Bought a heavily edited Jaco Pastorius signature from @Lukasz Chyla, the editing was much of the appeal! Very responsive, very swift shipping, robustly packed, very happy to recommend all round. Cheers Lukasz!

Cheers for this, actually my intro to cissy strut. Went and found the tab, have been playing it for a solid week. Greatly enjoyed. reminded to post bc I’m in the gym atm, listening to apple’s essentials The Meters playlist 😂 Cheers!

Spent my last £1k on a top end Dell that was meant to see me through a masters and PhD in 2006-7. Timing was peak Vista, it crashed about once a day, and had the blue screen of death needing a full factory reset at least once a week! Before I bought it, other students had recommended macs, and I was fully “nah! Look how much better the specs are on this dell!” But within 12 months I’d bought my first Mac and I still buy my own macs so I can continue to avoid my employer’s freely provided windows machines 👀 Windows trauma. I swear.

I have this problem back to front, I'm convinced the riff going through my head on repeat for the past 5 weeks is ACTUALLY QUITE A FAMOUS TRACK, but I've come to think it actually isn't. Because it's none of the things I thought it was. So, thought I was hearing non-new music, may have accidentally composed what should frankly be a phenomenon.

Or Poultry in Motion. A lot of them have hidden text on the rear of the panels too, often referencing obscure Aussie films and / or mid-90s gabber. There's one of everything he's designed in that rack (apart from the most recent releases, which are on my desk but haven't yet been built). It became a bit of a lockdown mission / obsession 😂 I haven't used it for anything bass related, though it should be possible to do so in principle 👀

A scout of reverb was showing one of these at $4180 (or so) preorder in the us. Not that I was looking. 👀

Replaced a flat tyre myself. Took the wheel to Halfords. £20 puncture repair check, £20 off a tyre if it’s unfixable. Called within an hour; unfixable, we can put on a £210 replacement tho. I’m between meetings, sounds steep but running, so ok. Check Halfords website. They don’t sell any tyres that fit for north of £170, and that’s a specialist winter tyre?! Seek clarification later; it’s a £156 tyre. If you book to have your tyre replaced, it’s £156. However, this was an unbooked replacement following a puncture check, so that’ll be £210 minus the initial £20, thanks. I kicked up enough of a fuss that i was “only” charged £170, but what a scam! Never again.

Appreciate all of this, similar to some of the truss rod content I’ve been reading up on 😂 I have a p bass that I keep on parking. Even when the truss rod is fully tightened (and locks), there’s still more of an 8th fret gap than I’d like. There are indications that the previous owner also struggled with it - both pickguards that came with it are heavily chipped around the truss rod adjustment access point. I’ve thought, several times, that I should get a luthier to do a professional setup. I’ve spent the weekend tinkering with pretty much everything and it is currently playable. But the truss rod limit nags at me. Is it usual to have a bass that may be just about right when the rod is fully tightened? I feel there should be more play in it. Haven’t had anything like this much beef from any other bass!

The Diva was my second bass. I figured, if I’m going to be shit and out of my depth on an instrument, I might as well be shit and out of my depth on something that is both gloriously beautiful and unnecessarily hard (ie, fretless). That it is so utterly lovely also convinced me to spend a lot more time with it. My very first bass was a 4003s. And I loved that bass very much, too. Tbf, I loved the 4003s and the marleaux so much between them, that when I discovered fretless rickies existed i couldn’t resist. I absolutely 💖 both of these (tho if I’m entirely honest, the 4003 slightly more). The 4003 was also my intro to tapewound strings, which was yet another a very lovely introduction indeed.

I'm only aware of this thanks to eurorack! I have a few WMD bits upstairs (but not one of these. Which I still don't fully understand 😂)

I think this may be an autism thing (or tbf a 'ways of learning' / not knowing what I'm doing & learning on my tod thing) but I moved from trying to play bass like a guitar - reverb, delay, chorus - to wanting pure tones and just throwing in a bit of EQ / filter, to now being much more interested in fuzz, grit, distortion and drive. I have a darkglass vintage ultra microtubes, I wonder if I would have gone for something more aggressive if I'd bought it a year later.

I picked up both of these on weds. Haven’t had much time with them yet. I’ve had a look at the c4’s interface and, whilst I’ve built a tonne of eurorack, am currently baffled (but enjoying a few presets). I want to get an adapter so I can connect it to my phone. I am enjoying the big muff! But want a proper chunk of time with it (and the manual). First new pedals in some months.

Can I ask, what are the shelves? Keen to establish something similar, I've been cluttering my pedal board for too long, and tbh I need a better solution than sticking unused ones to the side of my Minimark with board tape 👀

Ok so not my only fretless, but oh my god. Is it absurd to say I was expecting just a touch of buyer’s remorse? Not even a smidgen. Just glorious in every way. I have been lost in it since it arrived - I think only a couple of weeks back, but it feels like a year 😂

Ooo. that’s interesting but I don’t think (?!) is what’s happened here. The schallers went in flawlessly - and I’d expect there to have been some grip from the brass if it was in there. The originals were wobbly, and one of them really did feel as if it just hadn’t been drilled enough. I think I would have seen if a brass casing fell out 👀

Blimey, yes. Side by side with another pair recently removed 👀 the s locks are in now, tbf they feel pretty secure, wonder if this was part of the problem!

More glue? 😂 I’ve heard of this fix before tbf (ex had screw holes too screwed on her door handle). I’ll see how the schallers go and give it a shot if needed. Thank you.

I’m utterly bemused. I’ve just set everything up to finally take a deep breath and have a go at this and… there’s no glue? I’m wondering what on earth happened here! Perhaps I got everything prepped then backed off?! And dreamed it?! Anyway. This looks like a problem solved - except maybe for the original problem; the too big button hole. Gonna attempt putting schaller s locks in, are there any cures for a too big hole? Many thanks for the input! Incredibly glad I haven’t destroyed this bass 😂

OK, amazing. Thank you. So heat the button - I was thinking this was for general area-based glue removal. I can't honestly say that I understand the nature of the finish (it's a Sienna stain, so presumably... well. Staining), but not wrecking it in the service of dewrecking it sounds sensible. 'To save the village we had to destroy it' etc etc.

Amazing. I have a heat gun which may work better than an iron! 😁 I suddenly have hope!

A couple of years ago and in the very early days of my bassing I bought a Spector euro4 rst. Lovely bass in many ways, but it took me a while to gel with it. Within the gelling timeframe, a strap button just… fell out. Like the hole had been drilled / bored too wide (?!) I thought about all the sensible options for a fix and then, knowing nothing about basses and (I think) compulsively impatient to try it strapped with some new strings I…. glued it. I’m fairly mortified, with the benefit of hindsight. It was only a couple of months old. Factory problem. Fix would have been easy. If I hadn’t glued it. The felt button on the original strap lock is glued. Looking at it, you might not know it’s glued. I’d like to work out what next tho - ideally to put on some schallers, but tbh also to scrub out the deep stain of shame that lurks at the back of my conscience. Not averse to just taking it to a local luthier. Any thoughts welcome tho! I haven’t fiddled with it since gluing. It’s wood glued. I just sort of look at it. And feel lurking shame. cheers!

I divorced and got labradors, highly recommended. (Note the puppy screen, I'm not sure whether or not it's a saving grace of my ex that she didn't chew any and all available sources of wood.)

It’s an attack release sequencer. It runs four sequential AR envelopes with A and R varied by the mini knobs. It’s only guaranteed to reset to 0v after the full sequence (an envelope might finish on 2v say so the next one picks up from there), so you can get some complex “envelope” patterns going. edit: https://www.nonlinearcircuits.com/modules/p/arseq all those modules are ^^^ his designs.