Woodinblack

Odd - I associate them with punks, back in the early 80s and now. The last few punk groups I have seen had them. But I don't see too many punk groups, normally at something like tattoo conventions.

If I had a Ric, it would have to stay upstairs. i had a copy, that had to. She hates them. And anything that is mostly brown (unless it is just wood). The one she hated most was a butterscotch telecaster, that wasn't allowed there and an ibanez ATK. The Wenge and spalted poplar ibanezes are allowed. She doesn't like my new Gibson 'the Paul' which has been refinished in brown. Anything traditionally* sunburst or orange also wouldn't stand a chance. * I say traditional - My Maruschyk which is a red to black burst she finds the nicest looking of all my basses and is most welcome there.

Yep, that is why you never see rickenbackers in a punk band. Oh.. hang on

I would agree with that, if you give someone a spec, it matches the spec or it doesn't. If it doesn't match the spec it needs to be fixed to match the spec. Wherever it came from.

I wouldn't even be worrying about the active preamp. A 'good' preamp won't fix a bad sounding bass (and I am not a believer in that much of a difference in preamps, but that is because I play flat) and it sounds more like the pickups are uninspiring.

Odd that it is mono in, but I guess that is a budget choice

Yep, the reason I can get it. Because Maybe you want to record or want the facilities of a full helix? You have said that before, it still isn't correct. The helix native gives you a full helix. The stomp is one channel of a helix, or half a helix if you will. So actually it is a pretty good deal. You can have the stomp as a gigging stomp box and the full helix for recording

Ok to have lot of grind, but make sure you don't increase the heft too much

This is true, I have an effects pedal (a vox) that has a valve hole at the top with a little glowing valve. The irony being it is a cold cathode valve, so the only reason it glows is that it has an orange LED behind it It is good that it is there for the sound, rather than for the marketing, but that is pretty much like ashdown. Although it has to be said, they make the valves pretty prominant and showy in mine. A CTM100.

You mean the knob that determines how much of the signal goes through the ECC83 valve? Yes, it does give a good tube like facsimile for some reason!

Half of my basses are hanging in the living room. My wife doesn't object to them as long as 'I don't put the ugly ones there'.

Yep - I bought my wrongo from aliexpress

If its big enough you could fill it up with those squashy balls, and have a sort of play ball pit, as well as a speaker!

Its not a code, its just that price if you have a helix device registered to your account. I am going to pick that up when I remember. In which case I won't need to bring my helix HX effects in, as I will have the full helix here!

Agree with this - rechargables have lower voltages to start with and most active basses take no power. Generally speaking replacing a battery is more likely just because it is old than it has run out. In fact, on my old SR1000 prestige, the batteries seem to last longer than the pots.

I can understand with Helix and Lt, in that they both have large screens and a lot of buttons - frankly they are easy enough to edit (probably less so on rack), but the stomp doesn't have much real estate. However, I wouldn't say that is the reason for selling them - people change things, sometimes you buy something and it doesn't work out, sometimes it makes you realise you want something different. Well, sometimes there are no more posts to read on a forum so you got to look at some other software!

Your understanding is very wrong then unless you mean just in a a way to access the presets. HX Native = Full helix on a computer. HX Edit = patch editor for HX style effects pedals Are you saying you didn't use HX edit when you had your stomp? I assumed it was the first thing you would do, I can't imagine editing on the stomp itself with its little screen

Virtually all SRs / ATKs and BTBs are - there are some other series that aren't such as the artcores and the new smaller ones. I had a iceman bass that wasn't (until I fixed that), and there are some older ones too.

I heard it from my garden, sounded ok!

An excelent song, we introduced it and now its normally in our last or near last closing songs, never fails to go down a storm. And I don't see anything wrong with the lyrics either, it is an underage girl coming on to an adult man, and him rebuffing her, which is lets face it, what is supposed to happen. Clair by Gilbert O'Sullivan is an interesting one, which I happened to be reading about recently as I was listening to it* and thought these lyrics sound a bit dodgy, but there is a lot about it on the net, there was a real Clair, and it was a story about him and her and there was nothing dodgy about it. Both of these songs are at the risk of an understandable but very unfortunate backlash against relationships between adult men and young girls that are very important for healthy development for girls. Unfortunately because the risk of abuse (and alarming incidence of it), the pendulum can sometimes swing too far and make innocent relationships seem dodgy. I mean I wouldn't do Clair as a song because it is a god awful song, but the lyrics would seem dodgy now. * because 'alone again, naturally' came on and I realised how dark the lyrics were. Sing something in a gentle way and noone notices.

Did a gig on friday at a local nightclub that is not that busy in the evening but they have bands on. It was pretty quiet when we got there, but there is also a local music festival on so we weren't expecting much. And the pay is ok and they are short (for us) sets of an hour each. However, a few friends dropped by at the start and after about half an hour some people started turning up and the small audience were at least pretty responsive. And as it turned out, that dispite any practice for ages, the first set went really well. Second half there were a few mistakes, and then we played 'impression I get' and turned out, I completely forgot how it went, or how to play it. I floundered around with root notes while I searched my brain, then my ipad, for a clue, both were unhelpful. Root notes don't really work for ska! Then for the last verse my brain finally caught up and said 'oh that song' and it all came flooding back. But that put me on edge for the rest of the second half. Then for the end, I was still playing the guild that I had switched to, as there weren't any songs that needed a 5 string, we were going to play a song at the end and the guitarist decided to play a different song, but somehow didn't feel the need to tell me, which is a shame as it needs a bass, and also I need a 5 string bass to play it. Luckily I can swap quickly but had to start again and that looks awful. So yeh, mostly ok, but those two threw it a bit for me. On the plus side, new management there who pay right away, the last management paid later by bank account (being the only people we have had that with), and took 2 months to pay! Today we are supposed to have a gig in a local pub, but turns out that local pub is closed, their phones are disconnected, and rumours are that the landlord/landlady have had a bit of a falling out. I guess I will go off shopping instead!

Not usually, always, its a legal requirement! My macbooks have always been refurbs. My current one I had to get after getting a work retina macbook and it being hard going back to the old one. I would also say contrary to some of this advice, processor really isn't that important. They are all pretty fast and the only time you can see the speed difference is if you have them next to each other.

12:22:54 Did he get the job?

So just apply anyway - if they are not interested you haven't lost anything. But you never know.