p4ul

sold a thing payed the postage from the total amount from the buyer payed the protection racket fee from the total amount from the buyer which ebay add to your carefully thought out and reasonable pitch, elevating the cost of the item. You can revalue your item to absorb the ebay fee i guess, but "taking a hit" and "paying a fee" are pretty close imho. I re-started with the bay after a long stoppage, its reach is great, but its not the same place, FN Market Place is ok apart from no shows, but at least the scammers are direct and in your face. Gumtree, Friday Ad, post card in the shop window... everyone wants a slice of your sale. I think a general lack of trust in ebay is the issue here. Like the insurance companies hiking the cost of fraud and shit drivers onto every one else, I am sure FleaBay are taking a fiscal hit with all the shenanigans on their platform and so, "Buyer Protection" is born. charge upfront on all transactions for any that go south.. its a spread bet, and remember the house ALWAYS wins. Free to list. Not truly free to sell, some one has to pay.

Just got a Korg Pitchblack from Steve. Great, exactly what I needed at a price I could actually afford. Steve is gentleman and a most likely a scholar as well. Thanks to Steve I can get back to playing the bass badly, but this time it will at least be in tune! 😂 Thanks 🤘

"Who writes this stuff?" Guitarists 🫠

https://www.guitarworld.com/gear/effects-pedals/musitronics-on-behringers-b-tron-iii-pedal It seems that this is the camel that broke the Musitronics back.. they have lost their 💩 [apologies for posting a 6 string link]

Weeel I put her back together again as per the very helpful Home of Tone diag with some nifty braided cable, and a new earth line to the bridge [old one was MIA] was a bit of a faff, but some thickish [3mm] strimmer line helped me guide the pots etc in to the apertures. I did say a rude word or two. I re-used the OG caps, and the tone is still all or nothing, so I am planning on these 100n caps to replace the very old and maybe dead 01.uf [100n] caps. I cannot for the life of me find 0.1uf / 12v "dime" caps, but pretty sure the voltage has little to no effect. Bass still sounds good, very "thomp thomp" as one would expect, just the tone needs sorting, unless this is how it should be? pitch dark or brighter than the sun, who knows.

B tron is a one way ticket to funky town (allegedly) OG Mutron is billionaire territory 😀 will try to do a demo today and post

Like the OP I’ve never had a formal one-to-one lesson with another bass player. Imho everything is a lesson from every musician that you bump into, watch or play with. I find I’ve been playing pretty much constantly and relatively well now for nearly 50 years, but I’m always learning new things, watching other people with super superior technique to me and nodding sagely 👴 part of the reason I’ve responded to this thread is that I’ve just been asked to teach somebody’s teenage son the bass and I don’t really see myself as a teacher, having never been taught and so my thinking is that I could be a guide/mentor because I won’t be teaching anybody any dots. He is 3 years in and not too shabby. I can probably help with unlearning some of what he has already been taught, then get to accuracy, dexterity, fingering, some psychological stuff and some extended technique and assist this young fledging find their own path to bass righteousness 🤘🏽 trouble is, I’ve got no idea how much I should charge 😀

Is this what you need?

Well, 1st hour = it's a bloody brilliant little box! weird, mad and as fonky as fok Gonna play with it some more, but very well worth it IMHO, very nimble indeed, and to paraphrase captain stewblack "Considering how many envelope filters I own and have owned its nice to find something different" One thing to note maybe, there is quite a lot of difference in its behaviour between active and passive circuitry, it gets quite unruly, rude even with an active bass up its fundament..no bad thing, just be aware that your passive funk settings with go "Full Flight Bootsy" with an active bass 🤘 peace

Snagged one on the new redrocket website @ 75 earth sponds, which is cheaper than the bay at 90 bay sponds. [if you were hesitating] https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/375881207306 new slagbay listing. Going to ruin destroy funk it up it next sunday at the Actors open mic! will leave maybe a review if I can be arsed as stew has already done one.

Great, just what the DR ordered. Top chap, 10/10 cats would prefer Hugsonic to other brands Thanks 🙌

Epic feedback fail... should have gone into Steves FB thread but I phat fingered the buttons... I blame monday. Mods please delete me or move this ❤️ thanks

hmm, am I in your band? it's hard to tell these days

"The seller is a liar and a crackhead" possibly the finest neg ebay feedback I have read, I salute you user o***o, strong work

What have i done! My EQ pedantry has backfired. I will get my coat

I live next door to 3 good drummers, all in bands, father and two sons. When they rehearse in the shed, I have a secret little jam along 🙂 [could be deemed as bass dogging, but i am not proud] That said, bands aint dead, the music industry is.

True enough, everyone has the right to do whatever they please sonically speaking 🙂 personally I just prefer a slightly smiley shaped EQ.. perhaps my bases have overley honked throughout the years 🫠

https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/405517381656 That tone shape... look at it.. LOOK AT IT.... 😳 🤯 🥴

James home of tone is amazeballs, thanks again for the info

The fact that 500k pots were used instead of 250k prolly fubard the capacitance in any case.. gonna rebuild from sctratch.

Thats great, looks much more logical than the present lash up! Better dust off the iron the caps i suspect are OG and are super hard to read