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Careful with that - at soundcheck one time I was absentmindedly noodling the intro to "I Wanna Be Adored" by the Stone Roses. P!shed guy recognised it and was all "YAAAAAAS, I LOVE STONE ROSES!". Sh!t, we don't do that one! Thankfully he was too steamin to remember he'd heard it by the time we started, phew!

Oh, don't get me started. "You do any Pink Floyd?" Oh sure, I'll just trot out this saxophonist and these backing singers along with some weird synths and frickin laser beams that we clearly didn't arrive with and we'll get right on that for you, you f'n moron.

No, it isn't normal behaviour. What a wazzock!

Comical.

Servisol Super 10

Occupational hazard, innit? Sometimes you get some bass nerd wanting to know about your rig/bass in excruciating detail (which is really cool, because I'm a bass nerd also), the next you've got some whizzed up idiot berating you because you didn't play their favourite song, and why don't you know it, and call yourself a band etc. All the while, trying to say "thanks for coming, I need to pack up now..."

Also, we saved £1.53 during our saving session.

Epiphone Jack Casady FTW - the lazy boy's bass. Makes more than enough sound acoustically for solo practice vs. laptop speakers.

To offer an alternative viewpoint, I found mine to be too light - to the point where it felt wrong, it was distracting and off-putting. I moved it on. I just didn't feel right while playing it. Shame, as they're great looking and sounding basses. The green one is awesome, but the gold (which I had) isn't far behind. Enjoy!

Whichever answer leads to buying a new bass, that's the correct BC answer

Yay, I'm a shortarse!

I don't tilt mine, and I've got no bother hearing myself.

I would advise an external USB sound interface of some kind - the built in stuff to most computers is fine for listening to tunes, but not very good for recording with. Plus an external sound interface will be able to accept full size jacks and probably XLR too so you don't need to faff around with converters

Agreed, there is no such thing as a "simple DAW" in my limited experience. Quite daunting on first open...

Before people jump simply to attributing this to malice, it could be a systemic failure - where IT change stuff on the website and neglect to inform the people who maintain that info on the shop floor. If they haven't realised that there's a problem, it'll keep on happening until they get a procedure in place that properly handles price changes. But they probably are at it, yeah

I get confused.

And it didn't even happen during your set. You guys are lovely, well done.

Why do people do this? "This is our last song" - "AWWW WHAT, WE'VE ONLY JUST GOT HERE" - err, it's 1 in the bleedin' morning, we've been playing since 10, feckin' get here sooner in future!

Ach, you're a bit too far away, otherwise would have offered to geek out all over this problem.

I play an Epiphone Explorer AND I wear a hat now. F everyone and their opinions about how I look.

Pfft, showoff.

Meanwhile, Canadians are out in their shorts and t-shirts thinking it's not too bad...

Solderless stuff? Sounds like a PITA to integrate it into old school stuff, but hopefully someone will be along soon to allay those fears. Don't listen to me - I'd probably be hacking the connector off the pot end of the EMG stuff and soldering direct to the existing pot/battery positive lead. Surely there's a non-destructive method that I'm unaware of.

Your arm is the length it is and will naturally fall where it's going to fall, depending on the geometry of the bass in question. I normally anchor on whatever pickup is in the P position, but when I'm playing my Explorer, my hand naturally ends up on the bridge pickup due to the relative position of the bass when worn on a strap. I'm lazy and ignorant so I don't fight it, but if you want to because you feel you must have your hand on the "P" pickup, then you've got some training/practice ahead of you. There's no easy way to lose what it sounds like you perceive as a bad habit. Presumably there is an actual, physical J pickup there, and not a phantom, imaginary one? If this is happening on a plain P bass, then the BC answer is obvious - get a PJ bass, problem solved