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

[RhythmJunky]

11 hours ago, SteveXFR said:

Classic rock radio stations who play "all the classic hits from the 60's, 70's and 80's"

All of those stations have around a dozen songs they play on repeat and all of them have the same dozen songs. There are hundreds of songs they could play that fit their description but nope, they're all playing that same dozen songs over and over again only broken up by adverts for funeral plans, over 60's cruises and incontinence pants because they know their listeners aren't young.

 

They know that all their listeners have reached the age that by the time they've played a dozen songs, we've forgotten what the first one was anyway. Buying any more than a dozen would just be a waste of money.

 

Now what were we talking about again ? 

[SteveXFR]

3 hours ago, snorkie635 said:

But would people shell out money to buy that music?

 

Every year I go to a progressive metal festival along with 9,999 other weirdos who can headbang perfectly in time to constantly changing time signatures. Im positive 95% play at least one instrument. 

There's definitely a market for prog music made for musicians. 

[KingBollock]

14 hours ago, lozkerr said:

White Egg Terror might have some mileage as a band name...

Made me think of a couple of songs by the utterly bonkers and amazing Oaf: The Terrors, and Eggbound.

 

https://oafmusic.bandcamp.com/album/birth-school-oaf-death

[KingBollock]

Sorry, double post.

Edited 16 hours ago by KingBollock

[musicbassman]

Celebrities who applaud themselves on quiz shows, or on chat shows when they are introduced.

 

Seems to be more and more common.

 

I mean, where the hell did this ultimate expression of vanity first become acceptable ???

 

Rant over. Happy New Year everyone.

[petecarlton]

New Year.

[ASW]

I've not read all of the posts, but the vast majority of them seem to be about things people do not like rather than prejudices. The definition of a prejudice is "opinion that is not based on reason or actual experience." 

 

Here's mine. Bass players have poor reading comprehension ...🫣

 

 

Edited 7 hours ago by ASW

[bass_dinger]

Sliced Ham tastes better in a sandwich when it is all crumpled and rumpled up, rather than laid flat.

 

   

[bass_dinger]

19 hours ago, RhythmJunky said:

Classic rock radio stations who play "all the classic hits from the 60's, 70's and 80's"

 

"Classic rock radio stations play all 60 classic hits for people in their 70's and 80's"

 

Fixed it for you . . . .  

 

[Leonard Smalls]

Talking of irrational prejudices, I remember talking to my Mrs about someone or other on't telly (can't remember who).

We both said we didn't like her for some unfathomable reason - we couldn't work out what it was until my Mrs said "she's got an annoying chin!". 

And that's what it was!

[tauzero]

Thinking of telly, I have an irrational prejudice against people who comment on TV adverts when I am the only other person in the room. When watching live TV on a channel with adverts (it does happen), I completely ignore the TV during advert breaks, but frequently Mrs Zero (with whom I have been living since Christmas Day 2005[1], so you'd think she knows that I ignore adverts by now) will start going on about the content of an advert that is either showing or has just ended.

 

[1] That's another story

[RhythmJunky]

1 hour ago, tauzero said:

...... Mrs Zero (with whom I have been living since Christmas Day 2005[1] .....

 

[1] That's another story

 

That was an interesting Christmas present. Was she under the tree or wrapped separately ?  

[Chienmortbb]

On 07/08/2025 at 15:34, itu said:

terms "passive" and "active, when they most likely describe only the output of a bass: hi-Z, or lo-

This one I don’t get.

 

[ghostwheel]

10 minutes ago, Chienmortbb said:

This one I don’t get.

 

@itu might have meant basses without active tone control (that being part of the preamp instead of "cut only" tone control of a P-bass), but merely with a sort of buffer (call it transparent preamp if you will) being described as active (like L-2000 apart from treble boost).

[itu]

Usually only some part of the electronics is battery powered, like the tone stack. Therefore the only "active" part of the system is the tone, while everything else, pickups, vol, and blend is hi-Z. 

 

There are very few systems that are active from pickups to the output. 

 

As an example, systems that have an active mixing instead of plain blend pot are very few: John East, some EMG sets, Noll... 

[Stub Mandrel]

24 minutes ago, itu said:

Usually only some part of the electronics is battery powered, like the tone stack. Therefore the only "active" part of the system is the tone, while everything else, pickups, vol, and blend is hi-Z. 

 

There are very few systems that are active from pickups to the output. 

 

As an example, systems that have an active mixing instead of plain blend pot are very few: John East, some EMG sets, Noll... 

 

From an electronic perspective having preamps in low-z pickups or having low-z passive pickups with an on-board preamp makes no significant difference. 

[ghostwheel]

2 minutes ago, Stub Mandrel said:

 

From an electronic perspective having preamps in low-z pickups or having low-z passive pickups with an on-board preamp makes no significant difference. 

Depending on circuitry mixing the signals it could. 

On the other hand, even L-2000 should be allowed to be called active because of its preamp's ability to shape the tone when the treble booster is switched on.

[Stub Mandrel]

Agreed but there's nothing magical about active pickups that you can't do with 6" of shielded cable and the right preamp.

 

But any instrument with an onboard buffer, even without tone boost is active. FWIW I have three actve basses but I don't consider it to offer any huge advantages as much of the tone shaping offered  is too extreme to be useful.

[Woodinblack]

3 minutes ago, Stub Mandrel said:

Agreed but there's nothing magical about active pickups that you can't do with 6" of shielded cable and the right preamp.

 

Agreed there is nothing, but what it does mean is that you can make very low impedance pickups (with a very low output), which means that you aren't choking your own frequencies with the pickup, which is what EMGs do.  They are active because not only would the noise be an issue, even with 6" of shielded cable, but there would be no point using them without a preamp as the signal would be too small, so might as well put one there. 

 

3 minutes ago, Stub Mandrel said:

But any instrument with an onboard buffer, even without tone boost is active.

 

Agreed - active has nothing to do with tone circuits, its just that if you have gone to the trouble of making it active, might as well make a tone circuit. Most of my basses are active, I rarely touch the EQ on the bass. In fact, nowadays that I play on a wireless all the time, there is little point me using an active, as I am already buffered by the wireless, hence most of the time I am using my Ric.

 

[Richard R]

On 31/12/2025 at 17:34, SteveXFR said:

Either prog or jazz fusion. Either way, music for musicians. 

 

On 31/12/2025 at 18:55, snorkie635 said:

But would people shell out money to buy that music?

I might. Though I'm hardly a musician I do like both those genres.

 

 

[itu]

As long as the blend and vol are hi-Z, they act as tones, because of their nature. That's why I love Noll Mixpot which has buffers and level adjustments for both channels. Pickup sound doesn't change. 

[ghostwheel]

2 minutes ago, itu said:

As long as the blend and vol are hi-Z, they act as tones, because of their nature. That's why I love Noll Mixpot which has buffers and level adjustments for both channels. Pickup sound doesn't change. 

It may or may not be a better way. I mean, it doesn't necessarily sound better if there is no interaction. It's perfect, but is that what makes one like the sound? Usually, it's one or the other sort of distortion that makes things sound nice. Like valves, tolerances of parts, etc.

[kodiakblair]

5 hours ago, bass_dinger said:

"Classic rock radio stations play all 60 classic hits for people in their 70's and 80's"

Also

 

Pub bands in their 60's playing 50 year old songs to punters pushing 70 🤣

[bnt]

One thing to note about EMG active pickups, the ones with the buffer in the pickup housing, is that the pickup itself can use lower strength rail magnets which means less “pull” on the strings and better sustain. The buffer preamp compensates for the lower signals from the coils. I don’t think they all do that, but I have an active P model in one bass and it’s really good. The system as a whole is not equivalent to the standard passive pickup(s) volume & balance followed by an active EQ - you don’t have the pots affecting the tone. 

[itu]

19 minutes ago, ghostwheel said:

It may or may not be a better way. 

The point is that with the buffered mixing you get the sound of individual pickups, not their electrical interaction. No matter in which position the pots are. I see too many variables in hi-Z blend+vol, and the tone on top of that. 

 

5 minutes ago, bnt said:

The system as a whole is not equivalent to the standard passive pickup(s) volume & balance followed by an active EQ - you don’t have the pots affecting the tone. 

EMG has a few circuits of which the cheapest are just pots. But their systems include active mixing, too.