TimR

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. 😆

@lonestar @MrDaveTheBass Always stack 2x10"s vertically. Makes a hell of a difference to your sound. Regardless of make. I've been doing this for at least 10 years now. Stops combing effects and dead spots as you walk from side to side, and because the top 10" is next to your ears you can hear it properly. Plus the addition of the cab and coupling effects means the volume increases out of proportion to what the calculated power drop of the amp, due to increased impedance, implies. I bought some rubber feet from B&Q and put them on the side of my cabs.

Depends greatly on what I'm playing and how hard I'm having to concentrate. Most of what we play I have solidly learned which means I can relax a bit and have some fun, but there are a few tunes with odd changes and tunes where I don't trust the band to play what they're supposed to. It also depends on what the audience are doing. If they're enjoying themselves that makes me smile and relax, we are doing our job well. If they're just staring at us, I find it unnerving and start wondering what we are doing wrong.

Actually there's a guy down the pub who could do a whole 3 hours of conspiracy theories without stopping for breath...

I have my own 2k PA. And a selection of sounds including White Noise, Babies Crying and Car Alarms.

You are quite right. I should cut the guy some slack. I have no idea of whatever horrific tragedy has led him to his little one bed flat with idyllic views over the countryside in a quiet village. However, Oasis? It must have been horrific. And just shut the window!

Sounds very complicated. Does each pickup need a separate tone control and then a 3 band EQ on the lot? Presumably you also need an overall volume as well. That's 10 knobs in total!

I guess the point is; would you have suggested someone completely new to mountain biking spent £2k on a new bike? With a Fender, there's a liklihood that if you kept it long enough it might appreciate. But new basses and Amps generally lose money as soon as they leave the shop. There's plenty of intermediate level gear that would keep most beginners going for a while. And certainly with basses you'd be better off with a beginner model until you work out the nuances and learn what you like. But I guess there's enough people here who seem to change basses every few weeks. 😆

Would you swap for a heavier model?

https://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/m001m118/bbc-london-late-news-16052023 She was on local BBC news last night. Item starts at 3:15.