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

[LowB_FTW]

31 minutes ago, 40hz said:

Oh guys. I'm full of hatred. I'm practically a Bass Palpatine.

 

Mark

[Bluewine]

I guess I can throw a couple out there.

 

1.Synth bass pedals 

2.Knock off basses

3. 4 hour gigs

 

Daryl

[Bluewine]

On 07/08/2025 at 09:07, snorkie635 said:

 

 

SM58 mics - yes, I do

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Why don't you like 58s. Aren't they still the industry standard?

Daryl

 

[Bluewine]

On 07/08/2025 at 11:38, Steve Browning said:

 

You may have to take issue with Mr Fender about that one! 🙂

 

[snorkie635]

3 hours ago, Bluewine said:

 

Why don't you like 58s. Aren't they still the industry standard?

Daryl

 

I think they are, but I never got on with them. Prefer Beta model.

[Burns-bass]

One word:

 

Flea

 

I have literally no idea how the guy who can barely play and sounds awful on almost every record is venerated as a bass god. 

 

This isn't something I would share (as there's enough negativity in the universe) but this irrational hatred of a hugely successful musician emerged when I was a music teacher for 5 years. 

[kwmlondon]

7 minutes ago, Burns-bass said:

One word:

 

Flea

 

I have literally no idea how the guy who can barely play and sounds awful on almost every record is venerated as a bass god. 

 

This isn't something I would share (as there's enough negativity in the universe) but this irrational hatred of a hugely successful musician emerged when I was a music teacher for 5 years. 

I kind of know what you mean. I can't say I listen to RHCP for enjoyment, but I do use some of his basslines as warmups as they're brilliant string-skipping or slap exercises. 

[prowla]

People writing "gb" for gigabytes...

"g" is for grammes and "b" is for bits, so "gb" is gram-bits.

"G" is for giga and "B" is for bytes, so "GB" denotes gigabytes.

 

Also writing memory as "Gb", which is gigabits.

Nothing is measured in gigabits; data rates are often expressed in gigabits per second, "Gbps" or "Gb/s".

This is especially prevalent in the case of mobile phones, where there are both data rates (expressed in gigabits per second ("Gbps") and phone memory (expressed in gigabytes, "GB").

However, I did once have someone from a mobile supplier telling me that they were in fact the same thing.

 

Then we have data rates being written as "mb" or "mbps".

"m" is for milli (1/1000th).

So an "mb" is a milli-bit, which doesn't exist.

 

Whenever I see someone purporting to be knowledgeable about a topic writing "gb" or "mb", I inherently reject their post on the basis they don't even know their units.

[Leonard Smalls]

32 minutes ago, Burns-bass said:

the guy who can barely play

I remember seeing them at their 2nd ever UK gig - the Mean Fiddler in Harlesden.

After 2 songs Hillel couldn't cope anymore wot with being off his face (he died not long after...) and left the stage.

So the other 3 continued as they had no real choice.

And Flea managed to fill the gap beautifully - did his own lines and threw in some of the guitar stuff too which most certainly isn't a sign that he "can barely play"! So unless he's somehow forgotten how to do the bass thing in the intervening 37-8 years, I suspect that he can still do it.

And bear in mind, Stanley Clarke invited him onto the ultimate bassathon, Night School, so it would seem that the hatred is largely irrational - the low point of his career being that terrible StarSpangledGizmo he did at the Pooper Bowl...

[Burns-bass]

1 minute ago, Leonard Smalls said:

I remember seeing them at their 2nd ever UK gig - the Mean Fiddler in Harlesden.

After 2 songs Hillel couldn't cope anymore wot with being off his face (he died not long after...) and left the stage.

So the other 3 continued as they had no real choice.

And Flea managed to fill the gap beautifully - did his own lines and threw in some of the guitar stuff too which most certainly isn't a sign that he "can barely play"! So unless he's somehow forgotten how to do the bass thing in the intervening 37-8 years, I suspect that he can still do it.

And bear in mind, Stanley Clarke invited him onto the ultimate bassathon, Night School, so it would seem that the hatred is largely irrational - the low point of his career being that terrible StarSpangledGizmo he did at the Pooper Bowl...

 

Objectively he can play, this is a place for irrational dislikes. There's no logic to it. (I also hate Queen and can't listen to it and feel embarrassed playing it. But John Deacon is as cool as.)

 

He's sold millions of records and inspired thousands of people to play. I'm sure he's a good egg, too.

 

[Leonard Smalls]

16 minutes ago, Burns-bass said:

I'm sure he's a good egg, too

I once shared a "cigarette" with him while we discussed P Funk at the Chillis aftershow party in the Astoria that I'd somehow blagged my way into.

Seemed alright to me!

 

[Stub Mandrel]

The Soundgear by Ibanez logo.

 

I mean seriously? It looks like the logo on a combined guitar and amp package from Argos for under £80.

 

 

 

[AlexDelores]

On 07/08/2025 at 15:00, Lozz196 said:

Blue basses - I don`t support Chelsea

 

 

I have this with light blue basses. Man City blue, just can’t do it. 

[Osiris]

Toobs. Since when did the word valve suddenly become pronounced toob? 

For example, "man I hate those shi**y little modern class D amps, gimme somethin' with toobs in"

What are you talking about you gibbering idiot, you're from Wantage, not bleedin' Idaho. 

[Cosmo Valdemar]

7 minutes ago, Stub Mandrel said:

The Soundgear by Ibanez logo.

 

I mean seriously? It looks like the logo on a combined guitar and amp package from Argos for under £80.

 

 

 

The unofficial logo of 90s metal. 

[Belka]

7 hours ago, 40hz said:

 

 

Absolute winner is the phrase 'upgraded' to describe modified basses. 99.9% of the time it is not an upgrade either. I want a bass stock, not someone's interpretation of one.

 

 

Yes, I know a lot of people here love the idea of modding basses, imagining themselves as some kind of mad Frankenstein in a shed putting together a monster that they think will slay USA Fenders or boutique basses, but having a shed and a screwdriver does not make you the bass world's equivalent of Colin Chapman.

 

Harley Bentons/Squiers are fine for what they are. They don't need USA Hipshot Ultralites, Babicz bridges, Kiogon looms or Warman pickups. If you want a £250 bass, buy one and play it. If you want to spend £1000s, there are plenty of great options off the shelf already.

[AinsleyWalker]

8 minutes ago, Osiris said:

Toobs. Since when did the word valve suddenly become pronounced toob? 

For example, "man I hate those shi**y little modern class D amps, gimme somethin' with toobs in"

What are you talking about you gibbering idiot, you're from Wantage, not bleedin' Idaho. 

This is just a regional difference - though I work for a UK amp manufacturer so 'valves' all the way in my book  even if we are the only ones who seem to use it...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vacuum_tube

Edited 13 hours ago by AinsleyWalker

[AinsleyWalker]

On 10/08/2025 at 18:51, tauzero said:

 

The ones with male names, eg HMS Prince of Wales, self-identify as female.

What about the 'Stugots'...? 

[AinsleyWalker]

On 08/08/2025 at 21:02, uk_lefty said:

 

5. Effects sounding great sometimes but terrible others for no logical reason 

 

 

This is why I find it hard to get my head around how people dial in these complex patches on HX Stomps, Fractal, or said FX unit of choice, and have those patches translate well in every environment...
Some of these units aren't very tweakable on the fly, so I find the idea of being stuck in very specific/situational patches pretty unappealing. 
Surely tones, like amps, need tweaking based on room size, etc.

Edited 13 hours ago by AinsleyWalker

[tauzero]

37 minutes ago, AinsleyWalker said:

This is just a regional difference - though I work for a UK amp manufacturer so 'valves' all the way in my book  even if we are the only ones who seem to use it...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vacuum_tube

 

The thermionic valve was invented by an Englishman, John Ambrose Fleming, so "valve" is the correct word.

[tauzero]

30 minutes ago, AinsleyWalker said:

What about the 'Stugots'...? 

 

Ought to be a catamaran with one hull marked "His" and the other "Hers" (making unwarranted but not unreasonable assumptions about the gender and sexuality of the Stugots).

[HeadlessBassist]

2 hours ago, Burns-bass said:

One word:

 

Flea

 

I have literally no idea how the guy who can barely play and sounds awful on almost every record is venerated as a bass god. 

 

This isn't something I would share (as there's enough negativity in the universe) but this irrational hatred of a hugely successful musician emerged when I was a music teacher for 5 years. 

 

I know what you mean. He's a bit of a blunt instrument, as it were.

 

He does seem to have an irrational hatred of wearing shirts, though.

[HeadlessBassist]

1 hour ago, Stub Mandrel said:

The Soundgear by Ibanez logo.

 

I mean seriously? It looks like the logo on a combined guitar and amp package from Argos for under £80.

 

 

 

 

I always wondered about this, but I think I've got it now. The necks/headstocks on the SoundGear models are so incredibly narrow that they couldn't fit the IBANEZ logo at the top.

[AinsleyWalker]

6 minutes ago, HeadlessBassist said:

 

I always wondered about this, but I think I've got it now. The necks/headstocks on the SoundGear models are so incredibly narrow that they couldn't fit the IBANEZ logo at the top.

Not sure about that. Plenty of Ibanez basses have similarly small headstocks (tiny headstocks are definitely an irrational hate of mine while we're on the topic) which fit 'Ibanez' just fine

 

And there actually examples of older 'soundgear' basses that do include the full 'Ibanez' name like below. But at some point they must have switched the current logo.

Edited 12 hours ago by AinsleyWalker

[walshy]

Headless Basses

Amps that overhang the cab 

Basses on stupidly short straps

Furniture looking Basses

All IEM and no amps on stage