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

[Boodang]

3 hours ago, Terry M. said:

That's hilarious 😂  It's not my area to convince you otherwise so of course just play what makes you happy 👍

Actually, that's just given me an idea, next time I'm asked to play in the low B territory I'll just plug in to a fart pedal... nobody would notice the difference, might even be an improvement on my usual playing!

[ProjeKtWEREWOLF]

1 hour ago, Leonard Smalls said:

Of course! Never liked crowds...

Always waiting....the interminable waiting. 

[Stub Mandrel]

4 hours ago, Woodinblack said:

 

Not in an irrational predjudices thread it isn't!

 

I don't think he's read the thread title 😁

[Terry M.]

7 minutes ago, Stub Mandrel said:

 

I don't think he's read the thread title 😁

This thread has a title? Stupid me eh?

[tauzero]

19 hours ago, razor5cl said:

I'd consider it for practice or in the studio but on stage I have an irrational (heh see!) fear of using pedals during a performance. I'm just paranoid that cables will get tangled or me or someone else will step on it by accident or unplug it. My tuner and distortion pedals live in front of the amp at the back of the stage and I strictly forbid any of my band mates from going anywhere near them lol

 

If you have an irrational fear of cables, go wireless.

[tauzero]

19 hours ago, razor5cl said:

Someone here mentioned separate volume knobs and it's currently driving me mildly loopy. Just had the electronics swapped on my Jackson Kelly and I have two active EMGs with no preamp so separate pots it is.

 

How does one deal with this? Having played for almost 9 years now and gotten used to having a master volume to quickly mute/unmute my bass with. I can quickly turn both down easily enough but turning them both back up is a faff.

 

It's especially annoying since one of my band's tunes has a part where I do a volume swell up on a big power chord. So far I've been doing it with just one knob and then turning the other one up once it's already ringing out at full volume but sometimes I forget to turn up the other knob (like on stage this weekend oops!)

 

You should consider yourself lucky. My Ibanez SRF705 has three volume controls, one for neck, one for bridge, and one for piezo bridge. They put a blend on the Ashula 2, would it really have hurt them to put one on the Portamento too? One day I will get round to wiring in the blend pot I have sitting on my desk, if I don't lose it first...

[bnt]

I do not like to see f-holes. They just bug me. They are just about acceptable in their original context: violin, viola, cello and double bass - though I don’t think they look right on the double bass. Put them on any other instrument and I am out. Yes, I’m looking at you, Ampeg and Paul Gilbert. 

Edited yesterday at 16:39 by bnt

[Dad3353]

[Stub Mandrel]

7 minutes ago, bnt said:

I do not like to see f-holes. They just bug me. They are just about acceptable in their original context: violin, viola, cello and double bass - though I don’t think they look right on the double bass. Put them on any other instrument and I am out. Yes, I’m looking at you, Ampeg and Paul Gilbert. 

 

Having done dome rapid research, f-holes work better than round holes az the airflow is (non-intuitively) proportional to the perimeter, not the area (because air velocity is higher the narrower the hole).

[Jack]

6 hours ago, Leonard Smalls said:

Of course! Never liked crowds...

We're playing on Saturday, you'll love it. 

[bnt]

2 hours ago, Stub Mandrel said:

 

Having done dome rapid research, f-holes work better than round holes az the airflow is (non-intuitively) proportional to the perimeter, not the area (because air velocity is higher the narrower the hole).

I meant the f-hole shape specifically, not the general idea of a long & thin soundhole. I have one of these guitars and it’s no problem.

 

but this gives me the willies:

 

 

 

Edited 23 hours ago by bnt

[Shaggy]

Don't mind an f-hole personally, but I'd have to agree that there are more stylish variants  

 

 

[Stub Mandrel]

2 hours ago, bnt said:

 

Well that's almost as silly as this:

 

 

[AndyTravis]

See - I adore the Ampeg Scrolls.

 

never been in the same room as one though 

[kiat]

Irrational dislikes?

• visually messy pedalboards
• too many wires
• basses that don't look normal (not in the popular styles of Fender, Musicman,etc)
• Fender Mustangs
• headless basses
• bandmates who repeat the same old corny jokes (and chuckle away before they can get it out of their mouths) on stage to an unimpressed audience - maybe that's rational
• Flea's playing (sorry fans), but not his basslines
• grating colours!

[razor5cl]

7 hours ago, tauzero said:

 

If you have an irrational fear of cables, go wireless.

 

I also have an irrational fear of batteries dying! I'm just a miserable young scallywag.

 

Thankful my bass only has two pickups though and no piezo volume knob! That sounds awful

[snorkie635]

9 hours ago, AndyTravis said:

See - I adore the Ampeg Scrolls.

 

never been in the same room as one though 

 

Always book two singles Andy, eh, eh?

 

[Chezz55]

Painted/coloured headstocks - yuk.

[Ed_S]

Referring to 'top' and 'bottom' strings in terms of relative elevation in conventional playing position, instead of musical pitch.

[Leonard Smalls]

And can't be doing with Fender basses either...

Only ever played one I liked, which was a very expensive masterbuilt custom shop Jazz. And I didn't like that anywhere near as much as my ACG at 1/4 of the price!

[tauzero]

5 hours ago, Ed_S said:

Referring to 'top' and 'bottom' strings in terms of relative elevation in conventional playing position, instead of musical pitch.

 

I've only known one person, a guitarist, who did that. He also didn't know the difference between B minor and B flat.

[TimR]

18 hours ago, Shaggy said:

Don't mind an f-hole personally, but I'd have to agree that there are more stylish variants  

 

 

 

Shouldn't this be on the "Guitars with faces" thread?

[jonno1981]

Those little sliders on graphic eqs for acoustic instruments.

 

Why do they always feel like they cost 5p and a fart from a mouse will knock them out of position? Arrrrrrgh. 

[bass_dinger]

Guitars and basses with mother of pearl fret markers that fill the whole space between two frets.

 

That's because the mother of pearl sections will sound and feel very different to wooden fretboard sections, and ensure that the tone between the positions is unbalanced. 

[petecarlton]

34 minutes ago, bass_dinger said:

That's because the mother of pearl sections will sound and feel very different to wooden fretboard sections, and ensure that the tone between the positions is unbalanced

So not irrational, then? 🤣