Woodinblack

Does Phil have another divorce to support then?

Who is going to be in charge of blinding the people in the side room?

It has two mono signals, I use that with my chapman stick, as that has two mono outputs. It has two outputs but they aren't independant unless you run no effects on them that join them together, so any stereo effect is not a dual mono effect, but works on the stereo spacing. So effectively 'yes, but...'

Ahh - I guess if I was after them I might ask bassdirect if they could get them as they sell the others.

Bassdirect do them: https://www.bassdirect.co.uk/bass_guitar_specialists/Markbass_Strings.html as do thomman https://www.thomann.de/gb/markbass_strings_groove_ns_5_045_130.htm

My wife has done a lot of deliveries and has had problems with all couriers. UPS are in the better group, although not as good as DPD but unfortunately as she does most of the shipping it is hard to deal with UPS as our normal delivery driver is a massive raccist so my wife won't deal with him, so it is not often we use them (and tend to avoid people who do use them). I have never actually had problems sending / recieving a bass, but then the only one I did was hermes.

Another thread that was popular before lockdown but became redundant when the answer was 'noone'. Tickets booked to see Tool at the O2. More than I usually pay but I haven't been to a gig in that there London for 5 years, and haven't seen a gig at the O2 since 2012, so I thought it was time!

Oh yes you have to do that for next time!

I know, damn snowflakes, can't even abuse women these days and just shrug it off as banter

Love the behringer mixers, done so many gigs with them and never had trouble. with a £30 mixer its pretty well perfect for what I need. Might get a X-Control at some point, but probably not as I am getting fed up carrying everything!

At the wedding that we did recently some lady wanted us to play that one that goes 'la la la la la' by the red hot chilli peppers, oh come on everyone knows that one, its easy. Apparently.

We also tried the TC RH112 speaker, which performed ok, a fairly solid bass speaker that wasn't too coloured, probably due to the depth. But still, out of all of them the BC12" Mk III is the one I would have gone home with. Oh wait, I did!

There is something you don't expect in Hemel Hempstead!

It isn't, that is actually the reason. It uses the bump mechanism of the replies, which are blocked on that forum, so if you can actualy reply you see the bump (as it is enabled). There is a check to ensure you can reply before permitting it. Even taking the check out the button is not there, but I am assuming that is the cache, I just can't yet find it and in the words of the song, you could be right.

Sorry for the delay on this, the lack of bump on the Items Wanted forum is actually a feature of the plugin that makes bumping work, I am currently trying to work out if there is a way round it!

I would also say that where I didn't like anyone using my microphone before covid, absolutely noone goes near it since. I did have a woman who was trying to tell me (while I was singing and playing) something, then when I indicated I couldn't hear her as I had earphones in, actually pull my earphone out to yell that she didn't start whatever fight it was that was of no consequence on the other side of the pub. I was very unhappy about that. I do always wonder about people who try and tell you something while you are singing and how they think peoples heads work, read also people that try to hand you a drink while you are playing a two handed instrument.

Sometimes you just need a quick roadie when you have pyros..

That actually is pretty normal for one of our gigs, what is it with women and hats at gigs. In fact, what is it with our singer and hats...

Would have that any day rather than noone dancing in front of the band!

What can I say, I am more upbeat

Really don't think its semantics, I would probably recommend something second hand, but if they wanted something new for a young teenager, which people often do, I wouldn't hesitate to recommend one of the HBs, having had one. Its not like it will ever be sold anyway, it will be passed on to a mate or swapped for something else, or even just left. None of my instruments when I was young had a resale value!

Interesting replies, although ignoring the plainly obvious that BP who originally closed a few of their garages, even if only 10, where the ones who stated it was because of a shortage of tanker drivers, and who knows, but maybe they actually are more aware of how many tanker drivers they have than other people on the internet? No argument that further problems are caused by panic buying, but there was an issue to start with, however small. And I saw a tweet that covered that too earlier: There is no fuel crisis. We just suspended competition law, drafted in the army and are in emergency talks to prevent the imminent collapse of the Stanwell Oil Refinery for a laugh.

If I only lose £120 selling a bass on I consider it a pretty good day!

I would put my own money on the fact that the HB stingray is far higher quality from the box than anything I had when I was a beginner. I would also say that for most parents, buying a bass at £120 and losing the entire lot when jimmy decides he would rather play paino is nothing compared to what traditionally they had to pay. Also those same most parents don't have the time or expertise to spent a few weeks trawling around ebay trying to get a deal on an MM Ray 5 for less than 3 times the cost of the HB. This is perfect - £120 from the manufacturer, bass done, kid happy for a few years until they decide the like it and learn to hack it around, this would have been perfect for me.

It is a valid point but the idea that it is bad to buy this bass as when you sell it it will depreciate is a bit moot when it is so cheap. You go out and buy a brand new fender or a MM Sub 5 for instance and sell it, it will have depreciated more than this entire basses cost. OK, a MM Sub 5 used won't depreciate much but it is way more than £100 more than this, so it is not really a fair comparison. I some cases I have, but i have also taken a chinese bass straight from the packet, tested it and gone out and gigged it that same night and got comments on it being good. The fact i might change stuff is just for me, but I have done that with all makes.