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Welcome, Chris! Don't love you yet, but am sure I will soon. best, bert

[quote name='ahpook' timestamp='1403604414' post='2484289'] My realistic outlook means I'll call it 'fixed', as all the evidence points to this being the problem. [/quote] Fixed! Congrats, and well done! (except maybe the Virgil Ovid Hawkins part)

[quote name='hiram.k.hackenbacker' timestamp='1403596909' post='2484164'] Really? I've clearly been doing it wrong all these years then! Either that, or I've just been lucky and have played at all the right kinds of weddings! I think we would have lost a fair few gigs over the years by demanding prepayment. [/quote] OK, I guess that you've rather been doing everything right. Still, I stick with the notion I may have worded slightly exagerated. BTW it's a notion I don't have as a wedding band player but as a paid church organ player and photographer. As an organ player, I'd too often hear the "we're soooo sorry, but everything got sooo much more expensive..."', and as a photographer I was taught to only deliver test prints before payment, as happy couples too often suddenly become poor after delivery of the official prints.

Man, you sooo won the G.O.T.Y.A. for 2014 as well as 2015! I'm sure you have all our sympathy. At the sime time, you do know how to turn deep sympathy into a shedload of tears rolling off faces. . On the serious side though, this is yet another lesson in the classic notion that [b]any activity around weddings always is to be prepaid[/b]. This is essential, for obvious reasons: it always cost more than they'd hoped for, they always have less money than they anticipated, they always want also this and also that as it's a once-in-a-lifetime thing, the "it's MY day!!!!!!!!!!!!" bridezilla reasoning.... the works. But yes, in all of this, you do have my sympathy. Chin up, eh?

Not important, I know, but to me it actually looked expensive from left to right. I knew of the Ray of course, but still. FIrst glimpse of the drum set and your Genz (long before I saw what it was), and I was like "That looks expensive", and this was long before you wrote about how it looked cheap. So: no! ...except for the furnace that is. A tiny furnace with a short, thin chimney like that will never generate enough convection or draught. Should be illegal. Hope you kept warm enough though.

Whatever you do, remove anything from your selling strategy that might make people wonder whether there's a scam happening. If you do go ahead and wish to sell right now, I'd say: give a physical object to a physical, reputable shop and ask them to sell for you and wire the money when it's sold. However, several aspects are not working in your favour right now, and it might even be better to keep the bass until calmer times - when Warwick basses possibly also are valued higher.

Welcome, Diogo! Nice gear. I got a few CVs too, and feel they're awesome (but as a noob, can't judge them like others could). Anyway, I hope you'll enjoy BC. Just remember I'm not friendly, and you should be OK. best, bert (=Alberto translated to Dutch)

[quote name='BottomE' timestamp='1403465134' post='2482975'] I think i will take it out to the next gig and see if it was something to do with the room. [/quote] You can't change the room that much, but as you say you can change settings. What you maybe also can change is the distance of the speakers to the closest significant objects and walls. It's not hard to calculate a probably good distance or compromise if the worst phasing is around the low E. BTW, IMS it's always a good idea to create a minimum lag for reflected sound of 50 ms, as a longer lag seems discernable by the human ear and thus not as ruining to the perception of the sound itself. If this is wrong, somebody should be able to rectify me.

[quote name='Bolo' timestamp='1403501935' post='2483191'] Sounds like my experience with sexual intercourse. [/quote] Bollocks! In case, he'd have written "early to mid 80s"! . (IME of course)

[quote name='chriswareham' timestamp='1403472928' post='2483088'] It's particularly popular in the "power electronics" sub-genre of industrial music, [...] Novation's rack mounted recreation of Roland's TB-303 even came with an overdrive and distortion effect built in. [/quote] Thanks, mate. I had no idea. It wasn't curiosity so much, as I've used my Big Muff on synths for like 40 years and liking totally out there sounds, but more about being careful with writing "just do it!!!!!!!!" on a forum where people are not to be expected to have the same mindset or reference frame - especially a bass forum where thousands of people prefer an SVT over an EBS. But yeah. Novation, eh? I feel the NAS...

[quote name='skankdelvar' timestamp='1403455924' post='2482845'] Yes we is, though that's not the reason. [...] embracing by contrast a spirit of '[i]Vive L'Indifference[/i]'. [color=#ffffff].[/color][/quote] Class! [Poirot] ...et, évidemment, I say these in a way... most sycophantique. [/Poirot]

Maybe I misunderstand the issue here, but my knee jerk reaction was that this sounds like a phasing issue that is worst on the low E, and is reduced for each step you move away from that frequency. I would expect such a phasing issue to come back one octave higher up though, but with less of a nullifying effect and more of a modulating effect on the sound.

[quote name='cytania' timestamp='1403381086' post='2482303'] maybe it's my eyes [/quote] If indeed something's wrong with your eyes, then there's no single reason anymore to be picky about the position of the pups, now is there?

[quote name='BILL POSTERS' timestamp='1403352088' post='2482027'] OK but not as good as I had hoped it would be. [/quote] Cousin Bill!!!!!!

[quote name='bluesparky' timestamp='1403304012' post='2481802'] Hmm. Tried it, didn't work. [/quote] Did you use the MEDIA and /MEDIA tags between square brackets before and after the link? That might help. Or do as Dad says. Better always do as Dad says.

Probably the "s" in "https". Remove it, and see if it works. If not, we'll take the next step.

Ah! I was gonna ask about the Amstrad and Oric 1, but here they are. They were popular in the UK, weren't they? I seem to remember they were in all the computer mags of the days. But how about the Z80 Second Processor for the Beeb model B? Would many people use that? I loved it: use the Beeb proper for the geeky stuff, and use the Z80 (with Beeb as input/output unit) with CP/M to run database and spreadsheet software as well as a lot of other stuff that came with it. The database software could do free string searches easily - something that was not a given in those days. [URL=http://s1170.photobucket.com/user/basstractor1/media/AcornZ80box_zps37653a80.jpg.html][IMG]http://i1170.photobucket.com/albums/r525/basstractor1/AcornZ80box_zps37653a80.jpg[/IMG][/URL]

Mark, I'm truly upset on your behalf that you think exactly like me (although happily, you word it a lot better). But there was no hijacking going on!?!? We're only upset about the demise of those lovely old computers - even in these Internet days. Just look at it: [URL=http://s1170.photobucket.com/user/basstractor1/media/SinclairZX80-right_zpscc33dc45.jpg.html][IMG]http://i1170.photobucket.com/albums/r525/basstractor1/SinclairZX80-right_zpscc33dc45.jpg[/IMG][/URL]

My 35-string Ray by Sub by Sterling by Music Man by Ernie Ball is good though.

[quote name='leftybassman392' timestamp='1403203450' post='2480819'] If you go to youTube there's an absolute shedload of in-game video footage. Just type 'Elite' into the search engine and away you go! [/quote] Thanks, mate! I had no idea these things were happening. Had a quick look just now, and, as expected, it not only looks great, but also seems to incorporate a lot of game play. I sooo need to stay away from it, but I do feel the Game Acquisition Syndrome.

[quote name='leftybassman392' timestamp='1403186689' post='2480620'] did you pledge in the Kickstarter campaign for the new version of Elite [/quote] Nope. But it sounds like a potentially great thing. In its time, Elite was overwhelming if you'd only played Snapper prior to that. :-)

[quote name='bassman344' timestamp='1403192507' post='2480683'] a stingray HSS fiver. [/quote] Oh! My! God! You're gonna outrun Slayer with that one!

After the Atom I bought the Beeb, and was given a game for free by the shop-owner, [b]but[/b] I had to swear I would only ever play that [b]one[/b] game, and apart from that use the computer exclusively for geeky stuff. So I don't understand why people get so upset...

[quote name='KingBollock' timestamp='1403128820' post='2480163'] a Commodore PET [/quote] Ah! The museum piece par excellence. I still have the leaflets for those somewhere. They were so cool. I'd like one on my desk right now - or rather two: both that terribly, funkily square one with the cassette deck (no space for the keyboard but who cares) that is in all the movies, and that beeeooootifully rounded off thing that I think came later (though that one may have been a different, more expensive series - don't really remembah). [quote name='Big_Stu' timestamp='1403129096' post='2480167'] The BBC was an afterthought - weren't they simlee-er? Oh the joys of playing the cassette to play a kind of Star-Trek game with my lad. Turning the volume up as the cassette loaded was all part of the ................ immense build up. [/quote] As far as I can tell they were very similar, but I do remember having trouble finding my way on my sister's Electron because of the differences. I'd suppose the most important difference is in the lack of all the inputs and outputs. The Beeb had two rows of them, the one [b]under[/b] the machine providing most of the power. In Holland, the Beeb would cost twice what the Electron cost, so the Electron seemed like a good deal for those who didn't need to connect to other equipment. However, I seem to remember the Electron couldn't run the original "Elite" (probably had a reduced version developed for it), and if that is true you can keep yer demn Electron fer all I care. That said, with 64K, the Commodore 64 could show pictures in the "The Hobbit" game, whereas the Beeb version was text-only. Remember? "Attack the troll" Game over "Attack the troll with the axe" Game over "Attack the hideous troll" Game over "Attack the hideous troll with the axe." Game over "Carefully attack the hideous troll with the axe." Success! Those were the days! I don't want them back.

[quote name='Big_Stu' timestamp='1403127722' post='2480148'] [font=courier new,courier,monospace]A c o r n [/font][font=courier new,courier,monospace]E l e c t r o n f o r t h e w i n ![/font] [/quote] Fixed. Don't remember exactly, but it did have a few features even the Beeb lacked. Really nice little kompjootah. But has anyone had an Atom? I get the feeling not many of those were sold.