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I'd love a jam through his pa. Did I read his marshall stacks for back line are 4x15" on the bottom and 4x12" on the top ? If that's the case that's unbelievable.

[quote name='skej21' timestamp='1404590029' post='2494043'] I'm pretty sure this forum makes GAS worse for most of us. I've been avoiding the sale section and spending less time on here and I've noticed a significant drop in GAS! [/quote] Yep, I've done that since ordering my ACG and I'd agree. Sometimes it's just too easy to flip through stellar quality stuff for bargain prices and GAS just explodes.

[quote name='Fionn' timestamp='1404295550' post='2491174'] GAS can be an ephemeral creature. Or rather, the subject of GAS can be an ephemeral creature. I've observed myself heavily intoxicated by the GAS, over things that I wouldn't sniff at just weeks later. Then there are things that build the GAS over a longer duration, and to a greater pressure. In my case it was Jazz basses, I had continuous Jazz GAS for years, but that seems to have evaporated into the ether too. I've been surprised by GAS, GASsing over things that I traditionally had a strong aversion to. Sometimes I'll just get a whiff of GAS. Sometimes there's no GAS whatsoever. Then there's recurring GAS. I'm currently suffering from recurring GAS. I'm GASsing for a bass that I've GASsed over and subsequently owned 4 times in the past ... and got rid of 4 times for good reason. Einstein said [i]"The definition of insanity is doing something over and over, and expecting a different result",[/i] yet I wont let go of the idea of this thing. Since I last owned the bass in question my playing circumstances are more conducive. My experience and knowledge are greater, so I know what to tweak. I'm more aware of the limitations of the instrument, so my expectations are more accurate, etc ... That's the kinda stuff I'm telling myself, at least. Maybe it's a case of the chase being better than the kill? Maybe the statistics prove something and the result will be disappointment? Maybe I'll have cracked the code with this bass. It's an expensive trip, but once again I'll gladly take a notional plunge into uncertainty and risk. Yeahhhh!!!!! GAS!!!! Droooooool!!! [/quote] I can relate to this so well. I've spent a clean fortune, like thousands on basses over last three yrs and I'm back to the start again and have nothing other than a basic fiver which is heavy, solid, passive and does extremely well what it says on the tin. I've also commissioned a build from ACG and it has all I like and nothing I don't like. My plan is that I will no longer lose money on basses until I can afford to indulge in GAS fuelled acquisition impulses. My ultimate is a dingwall Z3 but I'm not that well off with cash yet.

[quote name='jacko' timestamp='1403785401' post='2486309'] so not really a UK tour then? no Scotand, Wales or N.Ireland. [/quote] Mmm. Was it advertised as a UK tour or English tour ? Northern Ireland gets very little in terms of this sort of thing. What else is he doing ?

[quote name='spongebob' timestamp='1403601802' post='2484242'] The cycle of GAS - only to end up back where you started! [size=4] [/size] [/quote] This is so true. Pity it costs £1000's to learn this law. It's as sure as the law of the harvest.

Hold out for what you want. It's like an itch that needs scratched. I had a thumb BO four string and it was a bargain of a lifetime. Liquidation sale £800 brand new. Didn't like the playing position and felt I was always reaching awkwardly for the F on the e string too much and didn't get on with it. Lovely and sounds great just not for me. Play one before you shell out on one. I didn't make money on it, I just got rid of it real quick on the sticky tree to fund another opportunity on a stingray HSS fiver.

[quote name='thisnameistaken' timestamp='1403132533' post='2480199'] OK well for starters Java is not Javascript. Java runs as compiled code and can be used to develop semi-standalone applications (you still need a Java Virtual Machine [JVM] to run it, although JVMs are now commonplace), whereas Javascript is a scripting language which requires an interpreter (an interpreter is a much simpler bit of kit). Traditionally only web browsers have contained Javascript interpreters although it's now being used server-side using technologies such as Node.js That probably made no sense. In short: For example Minecraft is a Java application and can run on any platform that has a Java Virtual Machine (Linux, Windows, Mac OS, even Lego potentially), Java is touted as a 'write once, run anywhere' programming language, although it's known in the trade as 'write once, crash everywhere'. Javascript is, traditionally, what makes magic happen in your web browser, although these days it's so common it's not thought of as magic any more. When you submit a form and it highlights a field you haven't filled in correctly, that's Javascript. When you do anything at all in GMail in your browser, when you click 'Like' on a Facebook post, when you upload something to Soundcloud, when you ask for 'More stories' on Google News, when you click any of the text formatting buttons when writing a forum post on Basschat, and indeed when you click the 'Post' button, Javascript does that for you. Basically if you click something on a web page and something happens without the entire page reloading, that's thanks to Javascript. HTTP is a stateless protocol, and web pages cannot do anything once they have rendered. They rely on Javascript to do anything that needs to happen in between page requests. You'll have noticed that lots of stuff tends to happen these days that doesn't involve loading a whole new web page. Chrome is much faster at doing that than Firefox is. And while I recognise that, I won't hear a bad word said about Firefox, because it led the charge in taking the web back from Microsoft. Internet Explorer was always every developer's worst nightmare, and every time a user switched from IE to Firefox was a huge victory for the future of the web. They might be lagging behind now, but Chrome and Safari owe a lot to Firefox. [/quote] Thanks. Makes a bit more sense now. So Java is literally the enabler for faster web action.

[quote name='thisnameistaken' timestamp='1403129276' post='2480168'] Looks like I'm still here, and I haven't even had a message from the mods. *mops brow* So... Browsers: I'm a software developer currently working on a web-based client for a catalogue management system, and I can say with some authority that Chrome is now a much better browser than Firefox. Firefox is still a very good browser, but Webkit-based browsers are faster and have better Javascript engines (much more important now than it used to be). Firefox still has great levels of standards-compliance so it's thankfully easy to develop for, but it's being left behind in performance to Chrome and Safari. As for Internet Exploder, it's a lot quicker than it used to be but even supporting IE8 (the last version available in XP) is painful, it's such a bad browser. The sooner every rational person stops using IE, the better, for everybody. (c) 1982 Sinclair Research Ltd. [/quote] Pardon my ignorance but could you explain the bit about WebKit based browsers and java in laypersons terms so that the uneducated IT morons like me can understand. Pity me, I owned a ZX spectrum 1982 Sinclair research etc.... Cheers

Do the Mike Lull headstocks not all look too small for the basses they are attached to....?