BigRedX

Confirmation dialogue box for making all threads in a forum as read by clicking on the forum icon was active briefly over the weekend but now appears to be off again. Also now that the mobile version of BassChat is essentially a resized version of the standard layout it is quite tricky to differentiate between the thread title and the bullet icon next to it that takes you directly to the first unread post, on smaller screens - phones and iPad Mini. Previously on the mobile version clicking either the thread title or the bullet icon would take you to the first unread post. Finally going to first unread post in a thread tends to overshoot, usually ending up a post or two further down. I think this may be a a browser issue caused by the page dynamically resizing as the content loads. Certainly affecting the Mac OS version of Safari.

But there is still over 24 hours to go. All the serious bidding will happen in the last 30 seconds.

From my own experience very much this. I've posted that link in another thread the OP started so he doesn't need to read it again, but for those who haven't seen it before it's little cautionary tale of home recording. That's not to say the OP can't do it all himself, but he really needs to stop asking questions here and just get on and start experimenting with recording. The great advantage with having your own space and recording equipment, is that you're not constantly watching the clock and worrying that your time/money is going to run out before you get the results you are after. But you really need to be in the "studio" every day working on refining your recording skills and techniques.

Once you've got them set up they are both excellent bridges. However IME the 2000 is a complete pain to adjust. I would seriously have to be in love with everything else about a bass to contemplate buying one fitted with the 2000 bridge again. If I was going to retro-fit one to a bass it would have to be the 3D.

IIRC the pre-amp for Super-8 pickups is specially designed by John East and also functions to balance the output between the 3 pickup modes. So not a Glockenklang.

Because in the past the accepted way was to make your solid electric instrument out of as few pieces as possible of the most stable wood available. Nowadays with modern construction techniques it is possible to make multi-layer bodies and use interesting looking wood which isn't strong or stable enough on its own as a facing (most fancy tops/backs are less than 5mm thick).

Entirely depends on what I am playing.

Scored 100% on both, although a couple were lucky guesses. What you could see of the musicians clothes and hands did help a lot to narrow down the choices in some cases. If it had just been the instruments on their own I'd have probably done better on the guitars.

You are so boring!

Unfortunately extremely overpriced. A few years ago you could pick up a brand new one for about half the current asking price.

That's what I've done. Also the switch on the reply box seems to be a global setting. Once it's turned off it appears to stay turned off until it's turned back on which is a relief!

Is there any proper scientific evidence that bolt-on necks make the bass sound different to neck through construction? IME the actual neck construction of a bolt-on neck is completely different to that of a neck through, so how do we know that is is the neck joint that gives a particular sonic characteristic and not the overall construction? Is there any luthier/manufacturer offering basses that are identical in every way (in so far as something made out of wood can be identical) except that one has a bolt-on neck and the other has a neck through. And do they offer sound clips that obviously demonstrate this sonic difference?

I've gone and turned it off for me. But it was rather disconcerting since there are some threads that I follow but I was getting notifications for absolutely everything. I've also noticed that at the bottom of this reply box there is a "Notify me of replies" switch that is ON by default. It's going to be a complete ball-ache if I have to specifically turn it off every time I post.

Weirdness with the "Following" preferences. Since the weekend I appear to be automatically following any thread that I have posted in. In certainly wasn't like that before and I haven't changed anything in my settings.

Bartolini's work well for fretless bass IME. My Sei has the same pickups as the Ibanez GW1 bass, but these are being fed into an ACG EQ1 filter pre-amp rather than the standard Ibanez pre-amp.

I think the Kubicki version is the best way of doing this on a bass guitar. The double bass method works because of the way the instrument is played and the relatively extreme angle of the headstock. BTW are the tuners for the E and A string reversed on the extended version?

Would have actually been a proper test if the photographs had just been of the instruments.

After a couple of weeks of mental amounts of work, I'm starting to get to grips with the Helix. I do have to say thought there seems to an inordinate amount of drive/distortion on nearly all the bass-specific patches (or at least for my tastes), but I'm starting to put together some suitable starting points that I can tweak at the next full band rehearsal. What I am considering is getting rid of all my other gear and simply getting one or two Barefaced FR800s and run the Helix direct into them. Has anyone else gone this route with a Barefaced or similar FRFF cab?

I need to admit that I have managed to damage one of my OBBM speaker cables. Some rather over-enthusiastic moving of my set up bass rig resulted in one of the heavy duty jack plugs being pushed against a wall and plug part is slightly bent with respect to the body. Of course it is still working fine, and as I'm about to sell the cab that it is needed for I don't think I'll bother to replace it.

If previous amps like this are anything to go by, it will hardly be a bargain by the time the auction ends.

Sometimes I wonder if the more we spend on playback equipment, the less we actually enjoy listening to the MUSIC? I certainly appreciated the music a lot more when all I had to play it on was a second-hand Dansette which cost me the grand sum of £8 back in 1974. I wasn't particularly brilliant (the right channel was considerably quieter than the left which turn some stereo mixes from the 60s in instrumentals and wouldn't even entertain the possibility of playing anything with serious bass), but it did allow me to play my records in my own room, and not have to seek my parents' permission to use the record player in the lounge.

I like the way you've posted this as a lyric. Sung as a blues I guess?

Clicking the "Bullet" icon next to the thread title no longer takes me directly to the first new unread post. Read and unread threads however are still being displayed correctly. Also I got another pop up asking me if I wanted notifications from Basschat, even though I'd already dismissed this once. I suspect some of these are related to the site moving from http to https but maybe not all of them. Edit: Just had immense difficulty dismissing the latest sticky note displayed on the site. Had to leave Basschat and come back, and even then it took two or three clicks to make it go away. Another Edit: I see we are back on plain http again... And yet another edit: the bullet icon links are now working properly again since Basschat is back on http....

Missing feature from the old site. If by mistake you clicked the title of a thread rather than the Bullet icon to the left of it, there was a handy link at the top of the thread to take you to the first un-read new post. Is there any way of having this handy link back?

Anyone who thinks that high-end HiFi interconnects make a serious difference to the signal quality of the music should pay a visit to the average recording studio and see how many hundreds of feet of very ordinary (but perfectly good) cable the signal has passed through first from the instrument/microphone to the multitrack recording medium.