BigRedX

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.

The thing is... Photoshop isn't really intended for doing complete design in. It's primary function is for manipulating pixel-based images. Everything else is an after-thought for which there are other applications that do the job far, far better.

What about looking at it from the opposite angle. Nice people making dull or boring music. For me case in point: Pino Paladino. AFAICS throughly all-round nice chap. Phenomenal bass player. Every single piece of music I've heard him play on dull and boring. Even when he's the guest musician for one of my all-time favourite bands the track he plays on is least interesting on the album.

Thanks. There seem to be a lot of loading errors at the moment. It took me 4 goes to see your post at the end of this thread and I only persisted because I knew it was there. For other pages like the profile editor and notifications settings, we've no way of knowing if the page has loaded completely or not. One final request: Is it possible to go back to square avatars (or have the shape as a user option)? It's all a bit Facebook-alike (and personally I think they look crap on Facebook). If I wanted a round avatar I could fake it from a square one, but I can't make a square one from round without it being tiny.

A couple of new bugs/questions: 1. Have signatures been banished? I just went into my profile to restore the information lost during the migration, and I can't see an option for setting a signature. This also leads me on to my second question: 2. Are you making more features available as time goes on? Earlier I tried to turn off notifications for when someone quotes me (if I've posted in a thread I'm likely to come back to it so I don't need a notification for this), and couldn't find any way to do this. However when I looked again just now there was a whole extra set of options further down on the page that hadn't been there before. Have these just been enabled or was more likely that there was a problem loading the complete page earlier?

I think they did it manually by creating a new sticky thread at the top of each forum list. That would have been possible on the old site. It might have taken a while to do every forum, but you could have copied and pasted to speed things up. Anyway it's too late now, and the new version of the site appears to have better and easier ways of doing the same thing.

Another forum which I frequent had a similar update about a year ago and before they migrated over there was a sticky in red at the top of every single forum list which said something like IMPORTANT INFORMATION ABOUT OUR FORTHCOMING UPDATE PLEASE READ This was up for at least a month before the forum switched over and the only people who could possibly have missed it were those who didn't visit the forum for over a month before the switch and those who wilfully ignored it.

I think in retrospect the announcement should have been even more noticeable. I certainly never saw it, nor did I receive an email about it. I also suspect that very few Basschat users even looked at the forum migration threads. I know that I looked at most of them, but must have missed the bit about PMs. So if I missed it what hope is there for the average forum user... :-((

I can't recall anything being specifically said about the fact that all PMs from the old site would be lost. There were plenty of dire warnings about uploaded photos but nothing specific about PMs. I think your message really needed something along the lines of: WHEN WE UPGRADE TO THE NEW SITE ALL YOUR CURRENT PMs WILL BE LOST PLEASE SAVE ANYTHING IMPORTANT NOW!! Whatever you did say was far too subtle.

That might be because the site is rather slow at the moment. My current strategy for all posts is to copy everything I've typed before hitting the "Post" or "Reply" buttons and then waiting for a response from the site before doing anything else. IME if you wait long enough the post will eventually appear. If the site does throw a wobbly you will have everything you typed still on the clipboard so you can simply paste it into a new reply.

I can't see a thread for reporting general site bugs and other weirdness, so I thought it might be a good idea to list them all in one place. If one does already exist, please merge this thread with it. 1. New posts don't always bump a thread up to the top of the list in a forum. I've seen this happen twice this morning, where someone had replied to a thread, but it still is in the place in the thread list where it was before the new post was made. Is this just a side effect of Basschat currently being slow in general or something different? 2. Marking content as read. There is an inconsistency in how this works. If I click the "Mark forum as read" text at the top of a forum listing I get a warning dialog box pop up asking me if I am sure. However if I mark a forum as read by clicking the "Speech Bubble" icon next to it the the forums list then there is no warning. IMO either the warning should apply to both actions, or it should only apply to clicking the "Speech Bubble" icon as this is easier to do by mistake. 3. No full editor for those of us who like to be a bit more creative with our BB tags and layout. 4. PMs from the old site have not migrated over. I can't remember seeing anything specific in the site migration threads that said "all you old PMs will be lost when the new version of the site goes live" I'm sure there will be more to come...

I have to agree with Ki0gon, there was plenty of information about saving photos, but nothing specific about the fact that all our old PMs would be deleted. I'm lucky in the fact that my only on-going PM conversation was concluded just before the site was updated.

If that is the case, that's disappointing, especially since I raised the issue on the site migration thread (from the old forum) and was assured that the new editor would be even better than the old one. So if I type a post where my BB tags are technically correct but don't give the result I was hoping for how can I edit them so that they do? I know that now most software is so fully featured the only way the writers can justify upgrades is to make it easier to use for the technologically challenged, but it would be nice if the "power user" features could be retained. Besides IMO if someone really wants to be able to use a feature, they really ought to take the time to learn how to make it work for them.

I'd like to be able to see the raw code for my posts too. It makes doing some things much easier, and helps avoid copying over styling when you cut and paste text from another web site.

I've always browsed by forum. It's the way I like to work. I'll just have to put up with the extra scrolling for now. The sidebar disappears when you enter the actual sub-forums anyway.

Is there any way of removing the right-hand column on the main forum view? It's full of stuff I have absolutely no interest in and because it's making the main part of the forum narrower it is pushing it further down the page, so there's more scrolling especially on a smaller lap top screen. On the old version of the site theses sections could be removed by clicking the cross in the header. This isn't available currently. Thanks.

I think that the use of the compressor also depends on what you are playing. With the Terrortones where I was doing lots of interesting rhythms, having a touch of compression certainly helped. However, on the songs where I was just pumping out 8th notes turning the compressor off was (for me) much better.