Woodinblack

Oh I certainly would, but that isn't hypocrisy in any way, I also wouldn't want to go and see me play live!

Yes, I would try to sort it out myself if it was out of warranty, but it doesn't make any sense to do it while it is. Turns out we don't have too many gigs at the start of the year anyway, so hopefully will survive without it. And I do have some Zoom pedals I can dig out, just the key effects that are the tricky bit.

Yes, today, I will just send it to them and they will send it to Mod in germany, so I guess I won't see it for a while

Does look interesting. Will keep an eye on that, will see how the repair of my dwarf goes, although at the moment I don't feel positive, and maybe I will have a look myself.

Not sure but you can get nordstrand pickups for it I believe.

I would have avoided that anyway - I saw Rod Stewart on Graham Norton a few months back and it was embarassingly bad, I mean, i was never a fan of Rod - I never thought he was a good singer, but that was something very bad by his standards.

This is true - but there were a few metal bands around here for a bit before lockdown.

Ah ok, I don't watch X Factor, or any of those talent sort of shows so I didn't know

Was very surprised at that - I wondered why he was coming on, I don't remember him ever singing before

Agreed that considering the amount of tv dedicated to music, this seems over indulgent, its a show that was past its prime a few decades ago. Obviously you are not going to like everything that is on a show, but the forumula seems just very tired, mainstream act, fringe act, new music act, old 'legend' that jools is going to play piano with. There have been some amazing performances, but they seem few and far between, and it is much more a recording and watching later so you can skip through 80% of the music. As my wife says to me when he is on 'oh is that joolz holland, ok, I am off to bed'. Thing is - I think Jools hollands band is great, and he does some good stuff himself, just think the TV show is past its prime. As the meme says..

I had 2 alto 212s for a while, but lacked a bit in a few places. Got a cheap 12" sub which worked well outside, didn't bother inside. Eventually got fed up with a bit of a lack of clarity on the vocals, picked up a single RCF Evox 8 which made the vocals really clear, so now gig with that and one of the 212s. A bit random but mostly works

In an ideal world, for a digital pedal, i would want it to turn on in the same state it turned off. For other pedals, I would expect it to depend on how likely it was to be an always on effect - graphic EQ, yes, Filter pedal, no.

Me and my wife were in a band, I was actually the longest serving member in a fast turnover band that wasn't going anywhere. My wife came in as the singer, she is pretty good, but her voice isn't the girly type, more rock and stuff. There was another guy singer, who thought he was very good, even though he had a range of about 1 octave and never bothered remembering anything. During lockdown we kept practicing. When we got back together it was clear he hadn't but also that something had changed with the singer and drummer as a team. After a few practices that weren't as good as they could have been and a 'recording' session where they somehow forgot to record my wifes vocals (but ok it was through my mixer and I did), I got a phone call saying the band had decided that she wasn't the right singer for the way they wanted to go but did I want to still play bass. Needless, the only reason I was with the band was because it gave us something to do together so I didn't and made it clear what I thought of them. That is the wrong way to do it - ie, she still looks them up to follow how little they are doing - my wife joined as the previous singer walked out, because of the other singer (found out later), and since watching them in their last 2 years, they are now on their 4th female singer, one of whom was absolutely fantastic for the direction they apparently wanted, and the guitarist (who was also excelent) and replacement bass player have gone.

"Sorry - I was just following your vocals"

I would be happy for it to just start off - it has a LCD display and lights to show it is actually on, so I know the device is functional, I don't want it to have the effect on at startup - A synth pedal is almost never going to be an always on effect. I think it being on at startup is a defect, made worse by the fact it has a settings menu where having a flag for 'start on' would be a simple preference

Were you in Bros?

Those words are far more effective if you aren't staring at their hand!

Why would you have needed lifeboats on a ship that wasn't going to sink? Makes perfect sense. Plus, when they made a law that all boats had to have enough lifeboats for everyone, at least 1 boat, the eastland, rolled over under the weight of the lifeboats and 800 people died. Either way, this is playing the bass, however bad you are its unlikely anyone is going to die

Not sure why there is an issue - just say 'sure' and leave it at that, IME these things never get round to happening. If anything it is just a problem for another day

There are a lot of prices on reverb that are just crazy, I guess they are there just in case someone is daft enough to pay it. You can still buy them new less than £400, so there is no point paying more than that for a second hand one

I did contact them to see how much a neck for a 5 string Ibanez Premium is, and it was about $1100 which seemed not such a bad deal as a way of getting into that.

My spare is acrylic and lights up green and blue. So its not really a spare, I swap to it at the half time mark, it is mostly not as good as the other bass I have, and it is way heavier, but it gets a good reaction and looks good. I couldn't wear it for a whole gig, but one 1.5 hour stint is ok.

I couldn't really go for that peach but would rather not have roadworn. The prices have gone up a lot, the flee was under £800 when it came out a few years ago, so it seems very overpriced now, but you can see it has things like the rosewood neck etc that are less budget. Also was not a fan of the controls on a passive bass, not enough separation between pickups (which is I assume why Leo stopped doing them quite quickly). Price hard to say, I couldn't pay that for either, but as it seems you have already made the decision, congrats on a new bass!

They also do them as an add on to an existing one of their boards. When I got mine the delay for getting the power supplies was big, so I got the board to set it up, then got the power supply on order. When it came you get new side bars, end bar and feet and just swap them over.

I use either the flat of my fingers or my finger nails to play, depending on the style of the song.