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Just a heads up - Ultimate Ears Black Friday sale is currently on until 2nd December. As an example - UE18s have been reduced from approx £1500 to approx £1200.

Is hotel room burglary really much of a problem nowadays? I don't see the issue really. Things would be much safer in a hotel room which requires keycard access (and also possibly lift access) than in a car on display for all to see.

Just a heads up - Ultimate Ears are having a Black Friday sale commencing the end of this week with some significant discounts on moulded and non-moulded IEMs. Hope this helps someone

I love the Aguilar vibe but the Bass control centred at 40hz is just too low to be usable in a live context IMO. A boost at that frequency is a real speaker cone killer. I would prefer something around 80hz.

I tried most and my flat of choice is La Bella Deep Talkin. I found Thomastiks to be too loose, tension-wise. 760FL or the slightly heavier 760FS La Bellas are just perfect for me.

Marc Rebillet at the Commodore Theatre, Vancouver. Entirely improvised looped electronic funk for 2 hours - absolute bliss!

Cool vid but that bass sounds just like any Jazz bass I have ever heard? What am I missing?

He's good but his videos belie his abilities a bit - he prerecords everything in a studio then essentially mimes the parts in his videos. I would doubt his fluidity if he had to perform one of his basslines from start to finish, given the multitude of techniques he employs. Still a much better bassist than I will ever be!

Smashing, Gareth. Action needed raised a touch and pickup lowered on bass side for more consistency of output. The tone is great, I like the bridge and middle pickup combo which they say is like a Stingray but it very much has its own character. A touch of bass added on the pre and she's sounding sweet! I'm bringing her and the Cortex to Canada now for a tour so that'll be the first real road test of the new rig. Are you in the market for a Dingwall?

I had a particularly bad experience with JH Audio recently that I'd like to share. I dropped one of my Roxannes onto a table and the shell cracked, the faceplate (logo) section detaching from the main earphone. The drivers remained in place and unaffected, in fact it still sounds great even with half an earphone in your ear! I contacted JH to get a repair (reshell) and was told by their Service department that this is not something they offer at all. Apparently, the drivers are not serviceable and so cannot be removed from one shell and put into another. Long story short - the only option is to buy a complete new Roxanne earphone at half the RRP of a complete new set (over 1100 dollars). When I queried how this could be, given that the included 7 pin cable itself costs 250 dollars and the carbon fibre case another 200 dollars - therefore really reducing the total RRP for a complete set by 450 dollars in my eyes - my query was met with a cold 'take it or leave it' response. Sadly the earphones were 1 month outside the 2 year warranty. JH hold my digital ear impressions on file and I am now stuck with having to buy a complete new earphone if I want to continue using my Roxannes. I should also add that this is my third negative experience of JH in the slightly-over 2 years I have been their customer. The first one was that the carbon fibre case (200 dollars!) fell apart after only weeks of use. When I contacted them, they advised I glue it back together. Entirely unsatisfactory. The second negative experience is that the 7 pin cable (250 dollars!) failed around 1 year into use. I asked for a replacement as this was quite simply not good enough for a premium product and again wasn't assisted at all by their warranty or service department, and had to purchase a new one at full cost. Needless to say, my whole opinion of JH as a company has changed and I am currently pricing UE18s to use going forward. I should add that in every one of my three problems with JH, I gave them ample opportunity to correct the issue, which they had no interest in doing. Hugely disappointing but certainly not a novel tale, going by numerous other online forums. Sort of makes sense that they filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy last year when you realise just how poor their after-sales service is.

Seriously spicy meatball this one Supplied by Andertons at a great price Lovely low B Need to change the strings and raise the action slightly but she's almost perfect out of the box, even in tune! Gonna give her a blast in anger this coming weekend for 2 gigs Delighted so far!

IMO the ZAR is a much better earphone than the ZS10. To my ears - they have a nice rounded sound and really suit my needs as bassist and vocalist.

There might be studies that say it doesn't matter, but to my ears, front porting sounds much better and I have tested this extensively in real world environments.

Did you get it installed @lidl e?

I left this comment on the video - hopefully it will encourage an alternative viewpoint: "You could have made all your points in 1968 when the Beatles were replacing string sections with Mellotron samples. Exactly the same as your example of drummers being replaced with drum machines - nearly 60 years later. The 1940s Big Band swing musicians HATED the Beatles for this very reason. Music moves on man, and if you aren't supportive of change then you are against it. If you work hard enough you will be a success. To criticise the current musical climate or social media just makes you sound like a dinosaur and automatically consigns you to the scrapheap. Also, if you are relying on God to give you gigs - good luck."

Usually 2 hours straight through. Depending on the venue we either hammer straight through with minimal gaps between songs (7 second rule) or take a more relaxed approach. The difference in numbers of songs between these two approaches is staggering! Ranges from 35-ish for the former to around 22 for the latter.

Slightly off topic maybe but has anyone experienced MFD pickups rusting quite badly? Unsure how to sort!

It sounds like it could be a reasonable request from someone who maybe doesn't like confrontation. Without knowing the dynamics of the band, it's impossible to say more. Is he the band leader/musical director?

Gibson SG. Solid, dependable, understated.

Give Rod at The Bass Academy in Belfast a shout!

Yes

Joni - Both Sides Now Recorded twice for two different albums around 30 years apart. Both versions taking on very different meanings. Just beautiful.

Sting this Wednesday. Not quite a bass player's bass player but the breadth of his work, songwriting and lyrics put him firmly in my top 5 favourite artists of all time. Can't wait!