TimR

"Play something we know" 😆

In this era where everyone appears to be suffering with undiagnosed neurodivergence of some nature; I liken these people who appear to be on another planet as the trainspotters version of music spotters. I have a friend who goes to gigs, knows a lot of the artists and musicians names, knows what bands and other artists they've played. Knows what instruments they play and on what tracks on what albums they've played them. Is front row at gigs, often getting priority tickets. He doesn't dance, and doesn't appreciate even people talking around him. I quite like the wedding gigs comment above, a few of them and you soon realise playing for 3 hours to a crowd who have no interest in dancing and are only there to catch up on family gossip reminds you that quite often, you're just providing background music. If one gig in 5 is a massive dance fest, then I'm happy, the problem is if you're only doing one gig a month you'll only get 2 gigs a year like that. 😆 Try playing in a jazz trio in a beer tent at a fete. No one is there because they enjoy jazz, not even the bass player... but at least you get polite clapping between piano solos.

Don't banks offer fraud protection? Mine has signed up to voluntary protection so paying via transfer should be fine. All you do is get their AC details or send them yours. There's not a lot they can do with an AC number and Sort code but if its protected against fraud again you should be fine. If you do a lot of trading it's wise to have a separate bank account to your working bank account to protect your payments for mortgage etc. I thought I also saw a way to pay via credit card that attracts a cash payment charge, not sure if that's protected. Check your CC provider. Ultimately if the banks want you to be using transfer, they need to make it much less risky.

PasswordPassword1! Would take 26tn years to crack according to the list posted previously...

Password1! if you want to make it really strong.

The hacking isn't done by some character in his bedroom. It's done by organisations with server farms, and whole call centres full of staff dedicated to making scam calls and setting up fake Facebook profiles and pages. It's not one man with one computer trying one password after the other to see which one it is.

My friend's daughter can unlock her mum's phone via facial recognition.

Least embarrassing option. Silent tuner pedal. It'll be bad enough with guitars widling endlessly.

Makes sense. Would be good if the account automatically locks you out after 5 wrong attempts either permanently or temporarily. Stops the brute force attempts. Maybe it does...

He'd need an email to log on to basschat as the compromised user?

But how does anyone who knows my email know I use basschat. And vice versa, how does someone using basschat know my email?

How do the hackers obtain your email address. Is it on display somewhere that I'm unaware of?

No standard gauge strings and same make as I always use. I don't think the intonation has been right for a while.

I'm fairly sure Bass guitar frets are equal temperament. I'd expect the note fretted at the 5th fret to be exactly the same as the next string open note. Harmonics are a different matter. I wouldn't tune using harmonics. I know people do, but I don't understand why.

No. I did think so initailly, but just resting my finger and pulling it to the fret was doing it. There was visible relief on the neck when I put a straight edge on it which has eased right off. I had an old 80s Japanese bass that was like a boomerang and I had to straighten that every time I got it out of the case. I shimmed that but it was never right.

Yes. They're ok where they are. Guess I can shim it in the future if I feel I ever need to.

Yes. It threw me for a bit. But if you think about it, I put a rule on the frets and there was a slight bow, so was bending the string slightly more. It was only a couple of cents but noticeable.

Put new strings on my bass and noticed that around the 5th-8th fret the intonation was sharp. The action at the 12th fret and intonation were spot on and the saddles as low as they'll go. So I've given the truss rod a quarter turn and that's bought everything back into tune. Great. I'm wondering though if having the saddles as low as they'll go indicates the neck could do with some shims. Ibanez SR400.

Or play a load of covers of the following act in your own style? Which reminds me of a gig where I naively gave the supporting DJ our setlist so that he knew when we were coming to our break. He then played most of our second set while we were on our break. The drummer was going to go and beat him up. We just went back on and played the set as planned. No one even noticed and more danced while we were playing than when the DJ was on. 🤷‍♂️

Bruce Dickinsen did a similar thing at Hammersmith on the Seventh Son tour. The audience was full of teenage kids and their dads waiting to hear "Can I Play with Madness". The atmosphere wasn't great all night. At the end of one song Bruce stopped and said something like, "What are you all doing here, no one knows any of our songs apart from those two guys up on the balcony who've been headbanging and singing along all night." Pointing to my friend an me. Then he launched into some more chat about mainstream pop. Was a great night and no social media back then. To be honest I don't blame Royal Blood, they're in front of the wrong audience at a massive gig. What do you do when the audience are visibly disinterested and you're never going to win them over?

It took me a few reads before I worked out what you were saying. You meant the volume wouldn't need to be turned up so much. I would have the same setup just put the cabs on end. So the control panel would be raised slightly further off the ground. The back of the combo (hanging off the back edge of the lower square extension cab)) won't have any weight. The MarkBass combo has that shape so it can be tilted back as a floor monitor.

I use an old soft toothbrush with String Glide which is supposed to treat fretboards as well as strings.

At rehearsals I only need one 2x10" on end. Two 2x10" is far too loud. Even at gigs I don't often need to be louder than 4 on my 500w amp to keep up with a very loud drummer. So it reduces the amount of gear taken to rehearsals.

Up to 1885 the age of consent in England was 12 and 14 for girls and boys. My grandad was working down the mines aged 14. You don't need to look too far back in English history. That would certainly still have been in living memory for some peole when many of us were born.

I don't see that would be an issue for any reason other than trying to read knobs sideways. 😆