What are your irrational prejudices? I have some bonkers ones...

[StingRayBoy42]

22 minutes ago, Mickyk said:

Just as a side note,why are Boats always female.

Because they're dangerous, unpredictable, difficult to control, at the mercy of the tides, expensive, slow, fun to helm and it's difficult to get them to change course.

[Jonesy]

8 hours ago, Terry M. said:

Curious which Yamaha bass models you mean or just Yamaha basses in general?

 

Can't tell you I'm afraid, I'm not too well up on their models.

 

Annoyingly, the few I've noodled on have been nice basses and I know they make good instruments. It's more just a mental thing that my brain doesn't like 😂

[Norris]

• Pickups with prominent branding
• Single-cut coffee tables
• New reliced basses
• Basses painted brown
• Signature basses, especially of people I've never heard of
• Singers who can't/won't learn the frigging words
• Bands that play songs that every other band plays
• Bands that spend 3 hours sound checking in the Dog & Duck and then end up being far too loud
• On stage noodling/widdling during a performance

[Terry M.]

Needing a screwdriver to break into a battery compartment. It's literally broken many deals for me in the past.I was miffed when the 2nd generation Sires went that way when they were first released especially after the 1st gen didn't. 

[Belka]

Individual string bridges - I can understand their use on fanned fret basses, but they just look wrong when the frets aren't fanned. And even the most skilled luthier can't seem to make them line up properly:

 

[prowla]

3 minutes ago, Belka said:

Individual string bridges - I can understand their use on fanned fret basses, but they just look wrong when the frets aren't fanned. And even the most skilled luthier can't seem to make them line up properly:

 

 

I agree - I think they look daft.
I suppose it makes it easier to buy stock for building 4/5/6-string models, but it doesn't seem to be reflected in a price reduction.
The worst example was Status Graphite basses - I just don't like their more recent models.

[Bagman]

Using a Fender strap on a bass that isn’t a Fender 

[itu]

3 minutes ago, Bagman said:

Using a Fender strap on a bass that isn’t a Fender 

Advertising something that you are not being paid. Canikon, Fenquier... 

[Count Bassy]

21 hours ago, Terry M. said:

Do you think it might be obvious because it exists already? It certainly makes nut adjustments an absolute breeze either way. 

Possibly, but I suspect that if you told any engineering minded person that you wanted a nut with adjustable string height then 80% would come up with either the two screw tilting nut idea, or the 4/5/6 screw individual string adjustment idea. The rest would probably suggest shims.

 

[Stub Mandrel]

4 hours ago, Terry M. said:

Needing a screwdriver to break into a battery compartment. It's literally broken many deals for me in the past.I was miffed when the 2nd generation Sires went that way when they were first released especially after the 1st gen didn't. 

 

I took off the battery cover and screwed the four screws int the body recess until flush. 

 

Then I glued four neodymium magnets into the sfrew holes in the cover.

 

Simples!

[Stub Mandrel]

2 hours ago, Bagman said:

Using a Fender strap on a bass that isn’t a Fender 

 

If Fender would release a Squier strap in the same designs, I would swap the straps on my Squiers.  

[PaulThePlug]

3 hours ago, Belka said:

Individual string bridges - I can understand their use on fanned fret basses, but they just look wrong when the frets aren't fanned. And even the most skilled luthier can't seem to make them line up properly:

 

Don't like em

And i don't think they should line up... would half the point of single saddles be to place them to follow the string run, Same as to the pegs past the nut.

[Terry M.]

21 minutes ago, Stub Mandrel said:

 

I took off the battery cover and screwed the four screws int the body recess until flush. 

 

Then I glued four neodymium magnets into the sfrew holes in the cover.

 

Simples!

I would never have thought to have done that but fair play. Just as well the vast majority of basses I would actually buy have clip out compartments which I would prefer anyway. No chance of losing a battery door that way.

[Terry M.]

43 minutes ago, Count Bassy said:

Possibly, but I suspect that if you told any engineering minded person that you wanted a nut with adjustable string height then 80% would come up with either the two screw tilting nut idea, or the 4/5/6 screw individual string adjustment idea. The rest would probably suggest shims.

 

Maybe it should be an industry standard?

[PaulThePlug]

More to go wrong, how often is a nut in need of adjustment.

A proper 'channel' to facilitate a nut swap for say string guage - Light, Med, Heavy would improve a lot of tuning issues, and maybe Hi and Lo starter options.

Edited 44 minutes ago by PaulThePlug

[RhysP]

Sunburst Finishes, especially cherry sunburst & shitburst (I think the correct term is tobacco sunburst)

Oil finishes

Open Pore finishes

Relic'd finishes

Pearl scratchplates

Basses that don't have a passive tone control

Looper pedals, especially when used by acoustic guitarists at open mic evenings

Keyboard players - never worked with one that wasn't a complete & utter c**t