Woodinblack

True, people used to die in large numbers due to the pollution, pretty well like it is in china now. I don't remember london, we didn't go there, but I remember the brick in Bath was black when I was young, it is now light yellow. No, maybe not, but they would change a bit, and they would change locally for us quite a bit. And if you said yourself, if we refuse to buy anything that was made under those conditions, maybe it would have an effect. no, they shouldn't be throwing stinky poo in the air and we should be doing whatever we can to stop them. China / India, hardly that underdeveloped, they both have a space program and nuclear weapons. They know how not to pollute. Unfortunately with brexit and all, our chance of influencing anyone is reducing, but we can certainly choose what and who we deal with. Ultimately, I don't think we are disagreeing on anything really. I hate that - Volkswagen didn't 'cheat' the standard. The test was there they made something that passed it, ie, they didn't falsify and documents or anything, they really did pass that test that they had to comply with. That the test was stupidly flawed and easy to pass without sticking to the 'spirit' or idea of what the test was about is another matter, but that is human nature, amplified 100 times for a commercial business. You can go out tomorrow with a volkswagon bought at any normal dealer from that era and pass that test. The people who should have been dragged over coals (or maybe, warmed electric bricks these days), were the people that set up such an easily cheatable test that was not related to real world use. Its not hard to do a non cheatable test, the people who found out that they were not doing what they should set one up.

Breaking my golden rule of *if someone uses the word 'snowflake' in any conversation they are probably talking out of their behind*, surely these 'snowflakes' you a referring to are more likely to be boycotting Chinese and Indian steel (and the US, also one of the big polluters, but probably too expensive to matter) as ethics would matter. It would be the opposites of snowflakes, which I don't know what that is, I guess gammons if we are reducing everything down to childlike terms that will be buying the stuff that is the cheapest and less ethical? And I would say that the reason for getting rid of pollution in a city is not just to make the world a better place (and personally I am not sure that the 40th biggest city removing pollution is actually a bad thing) but to make that city a better place?

Oh yes, one thing you notice going to london. Public transport is a dream there, as it should be as it gets many times more investment per capita then anywhere else. Nowhere else in the UK has public transport is as good as London.

It doesn't really work that way round. The pedals are the same as if you have effects pedals, so you have an effect per pedal. So if you have effect A and effect B on, you can't switch effect C on to cancel the other two, you would need to switch A and B off. So make the clean sound you want, and then turn the other effects on when you don't want them

Probably not. The guitarist in my band has an orange. Its sounds awful which it doesn't when he is using other things, but maybe there is something about the way he is using it or something. If I was going for a guitar amp today, I wouldn't really be considering anything other than a katana.

Certainly don't think there is anything you can do to a truss rod under normal circumstances that would make it do that! So I looked it up, because it is interesting, both types of truss rod have a flat bit and a rotating round bit. The single action truss rod when compressed bends the flat bit out and when relaxed the flat bit straightens. On the dual action, one way the flat bit bends out, and the other way the flat bit straightens and the round bit bends out. Will be interested to hear what did go wrong.

Yeh, so if the weld fails, or one of those rods fails, the only thing it can do is return to straight from bent. The dual action just means push and pull doesn't it (ie, bend up or bend down). Ultimately it works by one of the rods being shorter than the other, so if they separate, all the tension is moved, unless somehow the block at the end can pivot out.

Our roads are stinky poo and freeze / flood etc, but for the amount of times in a year that the roads are actually that bad, I will just work from home. Doesn't work out too many! But yes, I am not sure how people put up with the atmosphere in London - I am happy to do an occasional visit, but god is it nice showering london off when you get back, so anything like this is a good thing

Honestly, a bass amp is fine with guitars, the fender bassman is one of the iconic guitar amps. And in my book, anything sounds nicer than an Orange guitar amp!

Before stating that obviously Mr Shuker knows what he is talking about, both on instruments in general and this specifically but I don't understand it from those pictures. From my very limited knowledge of these things I don't understand how it is a truss rod failure - maybe it is just the pictures (and they are not that clear) but it looks like the truss rod has just come out of the back of the neck. If I am correct in my ideas of how these things work, when you tighten the truss rod to pull the headstock back, the truss rod bends in its little channel, its ends push down at the back on both ends of the neck, and its middle pushes up in the middle of the neck on the fretboard, bending the neck backwards. If you reduce the tension, the truss rod goes straight and the weight of the strings pulls the headstock up. If the truss rod completely failed, it would just lose all tension and go straight, so it is no longer pushing on the top or bottom of the neck, or the middle on the front, so the strings would pull the neck, giving you a massive relief (like the other one in this thread). But those photos look like the truss rod has punched through the back of the neck because the wood in the neck couldn't take the pressure, which would surely be a catastrophic failure of the truss rod channel, ie the neck, because the wood underneath the truss rod wasn't strong enough to take the pressure. I am guessing this must be wrong, but can someone explain how a truss rod can gain more tension by failing? Or am I seeing the photos wrong? I suppose if the other arm of the truss rod failed, it would get a bit shorter and pull the two ends of the neck together, but I don't understand how that would do this. Not trying to be argumentative or anything, just really puzzled at what happened (and a little concerned as I intend to make the neck for my next bass so want to make sure I understood it right!)

Certainly looked nice. Certainly one of those 'if it had 5 strings and frets' sort of thing. Never seen a catastrophic failure of a truss rod. Seen one jam once, but that was a pretty cheap thing.

Not a great thing to happen. Would love an uberhorn, but maybe not so much now!

Stares at the guitar in the corner of the bedroom...

my car is ok. Not that I have any intention of it ever going into London!

Of course he does. He doesn't have the will to use his time to do it, thats different. I know people who get up earlier than they have to go to work to practice before they go. Sadly I am not in a band with any of those people!

Usual pub gig: TC250 1x12 - fine TC-RH450 - 2x 1x12 - fine Ashdown - CTM 100 - 2x 1x12 - fine (although getting high on the volume). Ashdown -MiBass 220 - 1x12 - not fine

In which case, why does it have a Jack socket labeled 'Bass In'?

I had a 2013 EB5, loved the weight, sound. Not keen on the looks but unfortunately the string spacing was too much for me. But at least one of the few basses that I didn't lose money on!

The microtuners were quite a thing for a while, the fenders had them too (not steinberg ones though).

Well, yeh, it may work out bad, but at least now it actually has some hope which it didn't have before

Well, at least they aren't actually mad, so maybe it will be a good thing.

Depends on how much I really hate playing it that night

Wasn't he the guy from status quo? I mean, what would he know

Wow, look at you. so important that even your chair has a stage!

Not if that is what you want to do. There were a few periods of life where I didn't touch an instrument - its not compulsory and sometimes the desire just isn't there.