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

[Cliff Edge]

On 26/10/2025 at 08:40, AndyTravis said:

Cars with silly exhausts…

 

Sounds like they’re broken.

 

we have an industrial estate nearby and the local The Fast And The Furious tribute act met up last night…🙄

These are the same simians who always have the car windows open, even in the depths of winter, so they can hear the vroom vroom better. They also have insanely loud in car entertainment systems that consist largely of bass and someone shouting. I long for the old days and the occasional fizz fizz of a bolt on Peco tail pipe exhaust booster. Many of which just fell off after a couple months of doing absolutely nothing promised by the marketing. 

[TimR]

15 minutes ago, Cliff Edge said:

These are the same simians who always have the car windows open, even in the depths of winter, so they can hear the vroom vroom better. They also have insanely loud in car entertainment systems that consist largely of bass and someone shouting. I long for the old days and the occasional fizz fizz of a bolt on Peco tail pipe exhaust booster. Many of which just fell off after a couple months of doing absolutely nothing promised by the marketing. 

 

Sounds like they are play the car version of the loudness wars, but with themselves.

 

Need a louder stereo to hear it over the exhaust, need a louder exhaust to hear it over the stereo, need a louder stereo...

 

I did hear a story of one youngster who went to an audiologist because he had trouble hearing the bass, only to be told he'd destroyed all hearing in that frequency range. He asked what speaker he should buy now that would enable him to boost that frequency so that he could hear it properly again. 

[AndyTravis]

52 minutes ago, Dad3353 said:

 

But do they count as an 'organisation' at all..? 

They’ve had a strat body of mine for a week, it’s been up and down the country twice and is now going back to the seller - apparently 🙄

[Woodinblack]

26 minutes ago, AndyTravis said:

They’ve had a strat body of mine for a week, it’s been up and down the country twice and is now going back to the seller - apparently 🙄

 

On the plus side, at least they still know where it is, so you doing better than some

[basexperience]

1 hour ago, Woodinblack said:

 

On the plus side, at least they still know where it is, so you doing better than some

True that. My wife has had so much stuff go missing with Evri. Anything I ship now, I just use Royal Mail. 

[Stub Mandrel]

11 hours ago, Cliff Edge said:

These are the same simians who always have the car windows open, even in the depths of winter, so they can hear the vroom vroom better. They also have insanely loud in car entertainment systems that consist largely of bass and someone shouting. I long for the old days and the occasional fizz fizz of a bolt on Peco tail pipe exhaust booster. Many of which just fell off after a couple months of doing absolutely nothing promised by the marketing. 

 

Lol I had a Peco Big Bore back box on my Manta 😁

[Jackroadkill]

23 minutes ago, Stub Mandrel said:

Manta 😁

 

Coolest car ever.

[Stub Mandrel]

2 minutes ago, Jackroadkill said:

 

Coolest car ever.

 

That's what I said...

[Bagman]

must tune up to pitch

cannot tune down to pitch 

[Stub Mandrel]

3 hours ago, Bagman said:

must tune up to pitch

cannot tune down to pitch 

 

I am waiting for someone to tell me that when I'm tuning one of my basses with reverse machine heads.

[tauzero]

6 hours ago, Bagman said:

must tune up to pitch

cannot tune down to pitch 

 

Unless you've got a headless...

[prowla]

4 hours ago, Stub Mandrel said:

 

I am waiting for someone to tell me that when I'm tuning one of my basses with reverse machine heads.

I have some models of the same bass with opposite direction tuners.

[p4ul]

Those robotic autotuner things.. what the actual 🤯  guitarist leaves amp on and robot tunefail commences. kill them with fire.

[Ray]

Pickups without exposed pole pieces

Markbass

Black/gold hardware

 

[roger]

drilling holes in nice P & Jazz basses for bridge covers that never stay on! (unless custom shop relic)😡 it's personally put me off buying a few basses, double sided tape................🤷‍♂️.

 

'this won't hang around for long' (of course it always does)

 

the phrase: 'if you know you know'

 

Status Graphite: 'Rob's not making anymore' hysteria 

 

Edited 4 hours ago by roger
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[Stub Mandrel]

57 minutes ago, roger said:

drilling holes in nice P & Jazz basses for bridge covers that never stay on! (unless custom shop relic)😡 it's personally put me off buying a few basses, double sided tape................🤷‍♂️.

 

Thanks for reminding me... those holes add important mojo. Even better if the cover marks the body around the bridge.

[roger]

1 hour ago, Stub Mandrel said:

 

Thanks for reminding me... those holes add important mojo. Even better if the cover marks the body around the bridge.

Ooooo love that when it's screwed down that tight

[rushbo]

2 hours ago, roger said:

the phrase: 'if you know you know'

I'm not a man with violent tendencies, but there is something about that ghastly phrase that makes me grateful that my wife has hidden all the sharp objects in our house. 

[Jean-Luc Pickguard]

I switched from using a spectracomp to a Boss BC-1X. There were two irrational prejudices at work here - first I decided to go to an all-boss pedalboard in a attempt to put a constrain on the pedals I buy so I don't  purchase a lot of different pedals that do the same thing slightly differently, and the row of LEDs on the BC-1X show that the compressor is having an effect on the sound even though it may not be very obvious.

Edited 1 hour ago by Jean-Luc Pickguard