Woodinblack

By 'a few years' I assume you mean June? How to ruin a good song, take the soul out of it and add fake emotion. Spawned a lifetime of bank adverts

Been a funny old year, I have bought quite a few things, but it is hard to remember what was this year and what was last. Best: ibanez EHB1505ms - was a complete faff having to deal with bax and return it because the headstock was cracked, but on the upside there was a bit of an advantage to that. But ignoring that, it is a fantastic bass, light vibrant, lovely to play. In fact, now when I pick up a bass it is either this or: Shuker Uberhorn - just a thing of beauty. Lusted after it at the bass guitar show in 2017 and now it is sitting on my wall. and a small usb page Turner, cost very little, works perfectly. Was going to make one but this was cheaper than the box and switches honourable mention to my BAM200 amp. worst: TC electronic spectradrive. Don't get me wrong, there is nothing wrong with it, works well, but when it comes down to it, it doesn't do anything I couldn't already do. I mean it is no good gigging, as I have a TC450 which had the compressor and drive in it, I don't need a di, I don't need a headphone amp. so I will probably put that up for sale. also Shuker 6 string artist. Great bass but not for me. Why did I decide that maybe 18mm spacing would be ok. But I sold it for what I got it for and got to find out what a nice chap mr Shuker is, when I got a replacement preamp for the one broken in it so not feeling bad about it and probably would have never got the uberhorn without having it first

The string anchors, next to the bridge, not sure if they are hole throughs or just things to hold the strings, but they aren't quite in a line, and they don't seem to have a pattern to them. OK, now I have gone to their page and seen that they are string anchors and yes they are like that, so they get closer to the bridge B-E-A, then the D is at the same level as the A, then the G goes further away again. Seems an odd choice, but I guess as we know with the 'what bugs you' thread, we are all a bit different on what we like (and I think the basses look rather lovely).

Looks beautiful, apart from, I hope the actual string holders aren't quite like that

There is already a Class F, you don't want to use one of them

Well, not the same neck as mine was the 1505, but the problem looks almost exactly the same as mine did They need to get that problem fixed, because my replacement, it is one of my absolute favourites and it looks like yours is way newer than mine (my replacement was older), so it is still causing issues. Also, write to Ibanez UK ( [email protected]) - I did, they were actually surprisingly responsive

Do you have pictures of the headstock? Mine was broken and fixed / refunded. Just want to check it wasn't the same one

Later destroyers looked wrong with the wrong headstock

Wow, you must have really short arms, I can tune a thunderbird and I am only 5'8"! I just don't like 3/1 because it looks terrible.

I have too much tap dancing with the keyboard pedals without using a pedal!

Love that destroyer.

Same here on both the iPad and the Mac.

I don't think 5 in a row looks that good on some (not on like a jazz headstock, fine on something more rock), but anything is better than 4/1, which looks like a homebrew where someone has just added one themselves.

The original spec was 1981, I had it in print (you had to send of for it), the address was in ETI magazine at the time. The very original specification only allows (or recommends I guess) 5 pin din plugs, but obviously people can use whatever 3 pin plugs they wanted, the 5 pin was just for operability. Not arguing that they aren't a great socket as they deform when you tread on them, but they are cheap and commonly available anywhere. Certainly not a good choice if you have something that is mobile

How very dare you bring up standards! But not in any way comparable. And even as someone as negative as I am on the B word, even I hope we haven't inflicted the same damage on ourselves as we did then, because back then we had people to help us.

Now I checked the Midi 1.0 specification actually specifies Din 5 pin 180 degree connectors as the only acceptable connector. Later additions of the spec tried to introduce better connectors, but once everything has the sockets and leads you are on to a non starter trying to change it. Connectors: DIN 5 pin (180 degree) female panel mount receptacle. An example is the SWITCHCRAFT 57 GB5F. The connectors shall be labeled "MIDI IN" and "MIDI OUT". Note that pins 1 and 3 are not used, and should be left unconnected in the receiver and transmitter. Pin 2 of the MIDI In connector should also be left unconnected. The grounding shield connector on the MIDI jacks should not be connected to any circuit or chassis ground

Although I agree that it was a bad choice of socket, if it had been an XLR, you would have had a life time of accidently plugging microphones in the wrong place! And now a lot of smaller devices use 3 pin stereo mini jacks for midi to save space, or other connectors and quite a few 90s and early 000s devices (most korgs) use a mac serial port!

Althought midi is the old skool thing now, it still has some big advantages over USB. USB is a directional protocol, you need an smart host and a largely dumb controller. So you have a keyboard, the dumb bit, and you have a computer, the smart bit. The keyboard sends data to the computer and the computer sends it back. However, if you have two keyboards, you have two dumb sides, two keyboards can't talk to each other over USB, you have to get something smart in the middle to pick up the keys from one and send it to the sounds of the other. With midi, you have a send and recieve as separate sockets. So with two keyboards, you can send data from one to the other without having to have a computer involved anywhere. This is why in this day and age, most musical devices still have an interface designed back before charles and diana got hitched. In your pictures, one of those is a Mic XLR socket, not a midi.

Well the new president of the US of A has promised everyone will get the vaccine regardless of medical insurance issues. But yes, didn't Edward Jenner, inventor of the smallpox vaccine refuse to allow it to be owned, as it belonged to the world. Unfortunately the scientists are the one coming up with the RNA vaccines. The politicians are the ones distributing it, and have shown a particular skill in a lack of organisation. Although I am sure one of their friends can turn his christmas card company into a succesful logistics company for a few million. No, I don't think we remember. We romantisise, we glorify but we don't remember. We were good at fighting the wars, but following generations haven't got the enthusiasm to fight for the peace. Very symbolic. Even amoungst those to whom it means more than sticking a poppy on and being quiet for a couple of minutes once a year so people don't judge them, it doesn't really translate into action to keep the peace does it.

Sorry, I didn't see the original post, I was just diving in at that post. While still not having read it thoroughly, I seriously doubt it is possible to any commercial audio device by accidently having phantom power on. Especially not a device where that is a reasonable possibility. Not only is phantom power generally fairly low current, it goes straight into a set of capacitors before it does anything which takes the DC out (which is in fact the whole way phantom power can work). Its not something I would ever worry about and I know I have fed phantom power accidently to all sorts of inputs (I need phantom for the sax players mic, and I have had that switched on when many other things were plugged in).