ped

Just use the code BASSCHAT20 at checkout!

Hi folks Long time BC friend Jason at Rotosound wants to offer you the chance to win big in a new BC exclusive competition. The prizes: 6 people will win a year's worth of Rotosound strings (8 sets) and a factory tour. 20 runners up will win a Rotosound T shirt! All you have to do is tell us who your favourite Rotosund endorsee is, and why. We'll pick the winners from the thread in one month's time and arrange the prizes. So please comment below for your chance to win! Cheers ped If you're interested, BC visited the factory a few years ago - you can read about that here!

Glad you went for it!! I've cost you a fair bit of money this month haven't I!!

I only ever use 40-100 or 40-095. Or as near to that as possible. For the same reason @Davo-London says and also becuase I like to play very lightly and occasionally dig in for some clank. my slap tecnique also uses very little physical effort when using light strings. I usually have my 4 string basses in drop D and have no problems tuning down even a 0.095 string with a super low action, too.

Could have been @Sibob ?

My setup is American, French, Japanese, Swiss, Danish and German. And probably largely Chinese!

If you like the way they play and sound, Elixirs do! I honestly felt like they were a miracle when I first discovered them. I've got one set here that are over two years old!!

They must have set aside a special 'ped batch' - maybe I've been rude to them at some point 😂

They’re in a sealed bag yeah. So should be fresh!

My black 1991 SB-1

It wasn’t, it was excellent! Actually we do have the ability to have blogs as a section on the site, how about we use your blog as a test to see how (and if) it all works? Do you have it all? If not I may be able to locate some episodes.

OK so they say I'm just unlucky because they haven't had any reports of this before. They're sending me another set but they're going to open them up and check them over first before sending. Please cross your fingers.

Meanwhile I’d better book a tetanus shot

Sterling’s dropped the ball big time here. Interested to hear what they have to say..

New strings arrived.... rusty!!!!

Very cool indeed. Looks great. Really nice balance between ‘special’ and ‘standard’ if you get what I mean.

Generally I try and support shops but some make that quite difficult. What I worry about is the likes of Amazon, Facebook, eBay etc becoming so ubiquitous that even the good guys, smaller more specialist firms (like BC!), get passed over because default behaviour becomes to use one of the giants.

It depends on your devices really; for example if you use an iPhone and a Mac then the built in 'Keychain' is pretty seamless. Another good one is LastPass, which my dad uses - I think that works across different operating systems. Some of them seem quite expensive though, so you can also set things like two factor authentication on sites you use which contain sensitive data like anything that stores your card details or where payments are processed. I think some browsers like Chrome have the ability to set a two factor process using a google phone app in tandem. It's a bit of a faff at first but I decided to make the jump about five years ago and get my online activity game tight, part of that was to move to a completely cloud based system.

Yes I found a couple of people who had mentioned it online (and some typically terse replies from Sterling Ball). Shame because I liked them. It can’t be sweat related because they have only need used for grooving at home. Still, I’m pretty convinced that the labellas sound really nice in their own way so I’ll stick with them for now.

Don’t act like you weren’t impressed

I thought I’d give these a try since I haven’t used them before. My EB Cobalt flats went rusty (weird... but they’re sending me a new set) so put these on in the meantime. I like light strings and didn’t know that LaBella did them so previously I mainly used TI flats which I liked, which before the EBs came out I thought were the lightest flats you can get. The labellas sound great - they’re smoother and more grippy than the Cobalts right now and they have a real chunky sound with a strong lower mid bias I’d say - the top end is very ‘barky’ and right, less sustain than the EBs but they really cut through. Otherwise not that different in all honesty. The G string is slightly lighter than the EB and tension feels low giving me some bite when I dig in. Nit bad value either, ordered from Bass Direct on Monday.

Possible in some cases, but in this day and age it is basically not an issue unless you happen to be a particular target by a supergroup https://www.howtogeek.com/135546/htg-explains-why-you-cant-get-infected-just-by-opening-an-email-and-when-you-can/ In fact with most modern email apps it's sometimes impossible not to 'view' an email.