Kiwi

I have no problem with your opinion. My experience is different.

Just looked them up on the Ashton site, looks like they're not made any more...?

Thanks to everyone so far for helping to try and isolate WTF is going on.

Tru dat...meaning (once again for the sake of clear context) something obvious that should be clear to everyone...but if it isn't, I'm not losing sleep over it. EDIT: And, given the George Carlin quote in your signature, I'm not desperate for people to care about my not losing sleep over it either. Its just an opinion...that's all...

Well lets put the opinion in a clearly defined context for your benefit. If someone is curious about what the wood sounds like and wants to remove the influence of preamp and pickups...yes it is.

Interesting budget valve amp tip off!

welcome aboard

[quote name='thisnameistaken' timestamp='1318542670' post='1403675'] Or maybe [url="http://www.talkbass.com/forum/f8/scrap-lumber-bass-vs-alder-bass-can-you-tell-difference-743932/"]this is everything you need to know about wood[/url]. [/quote] All that test proves to me is that I would never buy a bass that sounded like any of those clips. As far as the debate goes, I own instruments that are made from different woods and they feel and sound consistently different from one another. Ironically my stingray and j-bass are supposed to sound identical to one another when played acoustically given they are made from a maple neck and ash body...and they don't. It's a no-brainer for me.

lol FWIW the mods are all having inconsistent results too...

Hi Chris probably little you can do about the work computer if it hasn't been updated. However if you have windows 7 installed at home you can download a driver update utility here: [url="http://driver-pro.com/related/english/windows-7-updates/?a=7"]http://driver-pro.com/related/english/windows-7-updates/?a=7[/url]

OK there appears to be a common theme to many of the issues being reported. Some people are ok, others aren't and yet some have noticed different results on different machines running different levels of updated software. Could I suggest that everyone who have experienced browsing issues checks that all their web browsing software and windows updates are current? At minimum that would include macromedia, flash, java, windows updates and the latest versions of their browsers (Internet Explorer, Firefox, Chrome, Opera etc.). Log here if you have do that [u]and[/u] notice an improvement after a particular update, it might help us identify which one is causing issues.

Basschat - one big happy self congratulatory family. We've never had it so good.

Some of us on facebook tried to persuade Mark to call it 'Fat Bastard'. lol

Thanks Beedster. I'm sorry about the inconvenience. A lot of this just flies above the heads of Ped and I and we have to trust that Ben knows what the solutions are and that he can sort them out when he returns from his holiday. Thing is that we're often sold on the benefits of these upgrades but the bugs are never known until the installation has happened. I might also add that I'm having very few issues accessing the site from my laptop. Could it be that you have low bandwidth on your connection? I know some connections get slow because the local telephone exchange is over subscribed.

[url="http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Ashdown-Mark-King-30th-Anniversary-Hand-Signed-Head-/170666837402?pt=UK_MusicalInstr_Amplifiers_RL&hash=item27bc89459a#ht_1768wt_952"]http://www.ebay.co.u...a#ht_1768wt_952[/url] [i]"This amp takes my sound to a whole new level" [/i]reports a delighted Mr King.[i] "It's so dynamic, so alive!"[/i]

[url="http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Yamaha-TRB6P-Mark-1-6-string-bass-MINT-/150671886477?pt=UK_Musical_Instruments_Guitars_CV&hash=item2314be888d#ht_739wt_1185"]http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Yamaha-TRB6P-Mark-1-6-string-bass-MINT-/150671886477?pt=UK_Musical_Instruments_Guitars_CV&hash=item2314be888d#ht_739wt_1185[/url] If I could get on with the string spacing, I'd have this. Stunning value for money, even though it's priced 300 quid more than they were 6 years ago.

Its a very interesting design. I'm taken with the whole flow thing going on. Wouldn't mind hearing what contribution the technical features make to the sound of the instrument.

The music industry has been more about industry than music since the early 80's. Mind you, everyone in a band did tend to end up with straighter teeth. Apart from Shane McGowan, that is.

We're currently dealing as best we can with a load of glitches that have appeared from the update. Some of them affect how the site functions, others are more of an inconvenience. There are so many of them that its unlikely we'll be able to deal with everything as quickly as we'd like. What we will do is create a list for Ben to look at and leave him to prioritise stuff. It might be that a number of issues end up being caused by the same bug. Whether there's a fix for the bug from Invision is another matter that needs bottoming out as well. So in the meantime, keep listing them here as it also makes us aware of which features get used more than others and thanks for your patience in the meantime.

http://basschat.co.uk/topic/69373-e-mail-notifications-not-working/page__st__20

Lets add it to the list though.

Ok I've checked the search engine settings. The search engine for Basschat is a 'daemon' called Sphinx which is a program which runs in the background. I'm guessing that this means the indexes are constantly updated because I can't find a manual rebuild setting in the Admin's control panel. I think this will have to be one for Ben to deal with. I can't see there's much I can do as an admin.

cheers Michael. OK I've had a look at the notification settings at last, it took a while to find them. The admin have choices to select each form of notification (and there must be about 20 or so) as email, log-in and/or mobile. I couldn't find a global setting for turning everything on or off. So what I've done is set all notifications to email as a short term measure. This is pretty much what we had on the previous version of the forum so I hope (but don't know for sure) that it means that both server and site are under less strain until Ben gets a chance to look into it.