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

[Geek99]

22 minutes ago, Boodang said:

Came across a Hofner violin bass the other day in a shop. 

I’ve never been that excited about a violin bass - I hope you cleaned up 

 

 

Edited 7 hours ago by Geek99

[Stofferson]

• Scooping mids
• nuts over 39mm
• Just cos its old dont mean its vintage or rare
• Class d amps
• Sounding like a bag of wasps - see all other darkglass/dingwall posts lol
• Any bass over a grand from the far east
• every single "influencer"-  either an over playing twit or a crap, no inbetween and piss off with your freebies!
• Silent stages / in ears - PAH!
• Cheap Knock off effects pedals (blatent knock off's)
• Downtuning to point you might as well not bother having a bassist
• Strong opinions

 

 

[Boodang]

On 13/08/2025 at 06:24, Bluewine said:

 

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

Daryl

 

SM57s on instruments are great but 58s on vocals, not so much. Bought a warm audio wa19 and a vocalist friend of mine heard it in action and got rid of his beta. There's better alternatives to 58s these days. 

Edit; conversely, tried the WA in another band and the vocalist hated it. He said it was too clear and everybody could hear how bad he really was. We reverted back to the 58 to muddy up his vocal.

Edited 6 hours ago by Boodang

[Boodang]

On 13/08/2025 at 04:20, Rich said:

To which an orchestral musician would say "Bass what? Clarinet, trombone, sax..?".

Good point! It's a bass...... guitar! Not a double bass and part of the violin family.... it's a guitar, own it and be proud!

[Terry M.]

6 minutes ago, Boodang said:

Good point! It's a bass...... guitar! Not a double bass and part of the violin family.... it's a guitar, own it and be proud!

Electric bass for me ☺️

[RhysP]

On 13/08/2025 at 15:04, kwmlondon said:

My goodness, I never realised what a seething pit of resentment and hatred we had here on basschat! Get it all out and purge yourselves!!!

It's only my resentment & hatred that lets me know I'm still alive.

Without it I simply cease to exist.

[RhysP]

On 13/08/2025 at 08:01, 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. 

Totally understand this, can't stand him or his godawful band.

If I want to watch a bunch of toothless, semi-naked gibbering smackheads making c**ts of themselves I'll just go into Cardiff city centre.

[petecarlton]

Wood-effect control knobs. 

[Beer of the Bass]

Oh, the effects forum has reminded me of another - envelope filters with no reverse/downward sweep setting. Why would you want that? I get tired of the upwards quacky sound pretty fast, but the downwards "bowwwp!" like Bootsy on Chocolate City (or indeed, like the Grange Hill theme) is great fun and my sole reason for having one. 

[tauzero]

3 hours ago, Boodang said:

In my last blues band the guitarist starting wearing a hat that gave him that SRV look, so I can forgive him that as he did look cool (and had the 'LICKS' to back it up). 

Baseball caps I can't abide! Worked with a guy once who I never saw take off his baseball cap, day, night, restaurant, on a plane. On one occasion we were waiting for transport in an army canteen, he still wearing said cap as we eat, an army guy walks in, I can see the immediate rage in eyes, walks over, takes the cap and puts it straight in a bin. Brilliant. Should be made a standard policy. 

 

Baseball caps generally aren't great, but the way they are worn is also a factor in how repellent they are.

 

 

[asingardenof]

On 13/08/2025 at 08:15, prowla said:

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.

My personal unit-related bete noir is newspaper style guides that don't allow for the degree symbol when they write about temperatures, so they have them in Farads or coulombs.

[asingardenof]

On 13/08/2025 at 10:28, tauzero said:

 

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

You've got to be careful with that sort of thing though, because the man who invented the Graphics Interchange Format thinks his invention should be pronounced "jiff", proving that inventors aren't always correct.

[asingardenof]

On 13/08/2025 at 12:12, walshy said:

Amps that overhang the cab 

 

If Ashdown will ever make a standard ABM with a smaller form factor then I'll stop doing this.

[asingardenof]

13 hours ago, Geek99 said:

You forgot “wicked….”

Are we back to ranting about Scott Devine again? If you so forgot "super awesome"

[Dad3353]

44 minutes ago, asingardenof said:

You've got to be careful with that sort of thing though, because the man who invented the Graphics Interchange Format thinks his invention should be pronounced "jiff", proving that inventors aren't always correct.

 

But that is how 'gif' is pronounced, isn't it..? How else would one say (or think...) it..? 'Giraffe', anyone..? 

[Steve Browning]

Ask any Geoff, I guess.

[tauzero]

1 hour ago, asingardenof said:

You've got to be careful with that sort of thing though, because the man who invented the Graphics Interchange Format thinks his invention should be pronounced "jiff", proving that inventors aren't always correct.

 

If he'd called it the Graphics Exchangeable Format, I'm sure everyone would have been happy to call it Jeff.

[tauzero]

36 minutes ago, Steve Browning said:

Ask any Geoff, I guess.

 

I met someone called Ged for the first time after a couple of years on a bikers' email list. "Hi Ged" I said. "It's bloody Jed!" he replied. As there were several of us meeting up, "it's bloody Jed" got deployed a few times.

 

I wonder if Geddy Lee has the reverse problem.

[Dad3353]

Or Gideon..? 

[Frank Blank]

1 minute ago, Dad3353 said:

Or Gideon..? 

 

Didn't he write the Bibble?

[Dad3353]

2 minutes ago, Frank Blank said:

Didn't he write the Bibble?

 

No, that was King Jamas.