PaulWarning

I replaced my ageing Sennheiser HD280pro's with audio-technica ATH-WS1100's, bit over budget but the difference in the bass response is breath taking. I use my headphones for practice a lot with the Sennheiser's I always struggled to get decent bass even with effects pedals, but the Audio Technica's sound great plugged straight in to my laptop via a Behringer UM2 interface

sure it's not cola from a dispenser? must be a close run thing

how much a landlord makes drinks is dependant on what deal they're on as regards leasing, those that actually own the building can probably get beer for not much over £1 a pint, that's how the much maligned Mr Wetherspoon does it, those who are tied to a pub company find it very difficult, of course most of them get a bit back with an entertainment allowance. We play regularly at a pub, or did before Covid, that didn't have nearly enough people in it to buy the extra drinks to pay our fee, kept getting asked back because the landlady liked us and she didn't foot the bill

I think he feeds into the narrative that the little bloke can improve a big manufacturers product, who've spent a lot of money on R and D btw. In most cases they can't

I would think so, the Chequers, opposite the Hop Pole

yes, to be fair the landlord was very apologetic

well that was a first, playing a local pub, the place rammed, the band were rocking, everybody singing along, just before the break a fight broke out, nothing really nasty, just half a dozen drunks, PC Plod were called, 4 cars turned up with 8 police, arrested 2 of them and said we couldn't carry n with the gig!

can't think of any that I'd want to do that haven't, there's a few I love playing but we don't anymore because, inexplicable, they didn't go down very well, the Lemonheads version of Mrs Robinson springs to mind, real fun bass line. Another Girl Another Planet, never went down that well, just because we enjoy playing them doesn't mean the crowd will enjoy them

I usually find stuff cheaper on ebay than Amazon, delivery not as good, but if you're not in a hurry it doesn't matter

it was a rhetorical question, according to @paul_5 who does work there, they're not as bad as rumour would have you believe, but that doesn't fit the narrative "large successful company, must be a right bunch of bastards who exploit the workforce"

we've got about 1 million vacancies in the job market, everywhere you look firms are advertising for staff, if Amazon treated their staff anywhere as badly as some would like to think, why would anyone work for them?

I'm with @paul_5 and @Maude I think there's a lot of Social Media and paper talk about about how bad working conditions are, a few disgruntled employees spreading malicious gossip maybe, I don't blame any company for paying as little tax as possible, who pays more tax than they need too? it's our inept politicians fault for not being able to stop it

he certainly is, the was why I posted the picture, apart from it's of Boris, I'm sort of guessing he's not really a guitar player 😂

well I reckon they've just sped it up by a factor of 10 😊

@mlauritsen ought to be thankful he's not in a band with this guy 😂

I think what he's saying is if the capo is on the 2nd fret a open string G becomes an A but barre chord G is still G on the 3rd fret regardless of a capo,

I thought it was only valve amps that needed to be connected to the speakers?

was that written about our singer?

I used to use them but could never find the bloody things at a dark pub gig on top of my dark amp, so I switched to .94mm luminous ones https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/271293877634?hash=item3f2a600d82:g:tsUAAOxy-sRSVCjC

won't the intonation be all wrong? Ah, I see he's moved the neck back, for people with short arms, makes a change from fat fingers I suppose

I would have thought a drummer with out a kick pedal could be a good thing, bit like a keyboard player with no left arm, more space for the bass

a lot depends on the venue, a while ago at a gig every time I played a B note it boomed, last Saturday we played outdoors on a concrete floor, perfect acoustics

I started off playing a right handed Hondo flipped (I got it for £40), it was symmetrical, so looked ok, I took off the volume and tone controls because I kept catching them with my arm (after the photo was taken), I used it for quite a while I've still got it, it still sounds good and has nice neck, heavy though,, bit more trebly, than a precision, sounds a bit more like J J Burnel, surprisingly. Would I do the same now? probably not.

my No 1 hate, overly loud kick drum, just invades my bass space, unfortunately it seems the modern way, on too many recordings as well

I bought a cheap acoustic guitar from there last year, returned once because of a fault, the replacement had the action as high a Mount Everest, at that point I gave up and asked for my money back, no problems at all