Machines

Played the 425 and 1025 at London Bass Show today. There was a difference between the 2 (the 1024 feeling a bit better, could have just been setup) but I didn't feel the price difference was sufficient for the disparity of the sounds. Then again, the show was far from the ideal place to compare subtleties of tones.

[quote name='WalMan' post='1159841' date='Mar 12 2011, 08:49 PM']Must remember to get the plugs out of my gig bag.[/quote] Don't forget ! It won't really take the volume down (it goes through you) but will take the top end out making it much more comfortable.

[quote name='Clarky' post='1159826' date='Mar 12 2011, 08:40 PM']The worst two offenders (IMHO) were the guy on the Rotosound stand with the Warwick Streamer, who was dong all this multiple finger tapping and slapping stuff.[/quote] Seen him a few times. Each occurrence has led to me wanting to see him savaged by a pack of rabid badgers.

[quote name='Conan' post='1159793' date='Mar 12 2011, 08:10 PM']I stopped going to music (and especially bass) shows many years ago for this very reason. The last one was back in 1987, and the Goodfellow stand sounded like a typing pool. I quote: "Yuckity-yuckity-twat-yuckity-yuckity-twat-yuckity-yuckity-juckity-juckity-yuckity-yuckity-twat-twat-twat".[/quote] Wow, exactly the same as today ! And also Bass Day 2008, 2009, 2010...

Just got home and cracked open some Kronenbourg ! Very tiring day but enjoyable. Had some very good chats with various people including Chris May (very impressed by new Tanglewaters), Orange Amps and Bass Gear. Have got loads of great pictures, will get them uploaded tomorrow. Shouts out to all BCers I saw today and thanks to niceguyhomer for providing transport and MythSte for wearing an easily recognisable blue shirt.

Right my lift will be here in 15 mins ! See you there.

Right thats 900MB cleared ! This equates to ~1000 attachments removed and a total clearance of 2.2%! It's all good work, a lot of people must have mucked in without posting .

We're not intending to remove any posts - even old ones can be searched from on google (e.g. someone searches for 'wal for sale') and ends up here. Might not get the bass they want that day but are more likely to get sorted eventually !

[quote name='Buzz' post='1158076' date='Mar 11 2011, 02:06 PM']40Gb and you're getting worried...I'd be asking your hosts why you've got such little HDD space considering it's cheap as chips these days.[/quote] We are looking at expanding it, in the short term this is the best solution. [quote name='Brave Sir Robin' post='1158117' date='Mar 11 2011, 02:42 PM']Also noticed Basschat is being pig-slow today. hmmm coincidence?[/quote] I have noticed a correlation between querying the attachment statistics and a slowdown, it seems to be quite CPU intensive. Just checked again and now about 400MB has been cleared. That's 1% of the total we have in attachments. Don't need them all clearing, just the old or excessively sized ones !

[quote name='Spoombung' post='1157948' date='Mar 11 2011, 12:28 PM']..but don't want to listen to the din of a million slappin' clankin' chumps.[/quote] That's reminded me, I suggest everyone brings earplugs .

About 100MB has been cleared in an hour, nice work ! Now for that other 39.9GB...

Trying out amps in a huge hall with loads of other bassists I think would be fruitless !

Hi people. It has come to our attention that we are close (no emergency yet though) to running out of disk space. The main reason for this is user attachments, we currently have 52500 attachments uploaded by members and using 40GB of disk space ! Whilst the quantity of attachments is not the issue, the size of them is. Quite often we see For Sale threads with several images attached that are over 2MB each and are just big blurry pics of something that level of detail is not required. 500Kb per image should more than sufficient for most images, however we are not imposing a limit at the moment. If you aren't sure how to make your image smaller, try resizing it in any imaging software you have or there are websites that can do this for you (e.g. [url="http://resizeimage.org/)"]http://resizeimage.org/)[/url]. We ask that [b]ALL[/b] users review the attachments they have, and see if they really need to be there. This can be done by going to the 'My Controls' section and 'Manage Your Attachments'. [b]If you have some from a For Sale thread for something you sold a year ago, does it need to be there now ?[/b] It would be preferable for the situation to be resolved this way rather than by forced deletion of the oldest/largest attachments as this could lead to missing images in live threads. Also, there are numerous sound files uploaded, one of them is 15MB alone ! It doesn't take many of those to start filling the server up, we ask that you transfer any large (<2MB) sound recordings to an externally hosted website (such as [url="http://www.soundcloud.com"]SoundCloud[/url]) as these are likely to be removed in the near future. If you have any questions then please ask here or send one of the mods a message ! Your co-operation is appreciated. Many thanks, Machines

[quote name='Machines' post='1153552' date='Mar 8 2011, 10:58 AM']. FThreads and posts take up miniscule amounts of disk space compared to one image attachment (we have plenty of disk space anyway).[/quote] Famous last words.. we're short on disk space ! Expect an (oversized) attachment cull within a day or 2. There will be an announcement prior to this.

Moved to correct section.

[quote name='WalMan' post='1155331' date='Mar 9 2011, 02:00 PM']Managed to find an old BC card, so I think the laminator may get used tonight to try to create something that'll hang reasonably securely on a lanyard for BC ID [/quote] I've got a box full ! Might bring them along and distribute...

Been playing 5 strings pretty much since I started bass (bar 6 months or so). So I feel at home on a 5 but definately find 4 strings less 'effort'. I had a 6 string for a while - that I could never nail, it was the high C that I couldn't deal with.

Yamaha RBX775. Bought by my parents in 2004 as a 21st birthday present, i've since butchered it a bit with a defret and refinish (the latter is getting done again this summer !). It's actually a damned good bass which took me a few years to realise ! Will get it refnished, rewired and back into a useable instrument this year. Vintage VP6. My first guitar from 2002, bought new for £110 (which would have been a decent 2nd hand price too). It's worth sod all now but me and the VP6 got history ! Very good neck on it and after changing the pickguard from 1 ply white to 3 ply black, it looks awesome. Also has a great sound i've not managed to replicate in other guitars i've tried.

[quote name='Chest Rockwell' post='1155035' date='Mar 9 2011, 10:38 AM']so delete your avatars if you want to save space.[/quote] Max avatar size is 200KB. We have apx 12000 members, even if they ALL used an avatar at the maximum size that'd only be 2.34GB. I have more space than that free on my phone...

Only a few years later... want my Spector Q6 (Holoflash Black, never seen another one) and Stingray back .

[quote name='EddyGlee' post='1153905' date='Mar 8 2011, 02:57 PM']you wouldn't put a list of your living room contents in your front window would you? whats the difference![/quote] I don't know where you live unless you tell me ?!

I've got an Epiphone model and when I got it the setup was awful. The 3 point bridge was high, neck too bowed and pickups too high as well. After a few weeks of tweaking - the bridge is now as low as possible (won't screw in anymore) and the truss rod has been adjusted. Action now is perfect and the sound out of it is totally different to when I got it. I definitely want to try out a Gibson version.

[quote name='lemmywinks' post='1153574' date='Mar 8 2011, 11:12 AM']I've always done that, i thought it was the rules.[/quote] I present to you, the rules (at top of all For Sale forums). [url="http://basschat.co.uk/index.php?act=SR&f=19"]http://basschat.co.uk/index.php?act=SR&f=19[/url]

[quote name='chris_b' post='1153533' date='Mar 8 2011, 10:46 AM']If space is an issue it's the Mods problem not ours![/quote] I think there is some confusion here. We do not delete posts upon request unless a thread has been majorly hijacked by people. One that is several weeks/months old wouldn't be touched. Also, there is no space issue to be worried about. Threads and posts take up miniscule amounts of disk space compared to one image attachment (we have plenty of disk space anyway).

[quote name='Beedster' post='1153499' date='Mar 8 2011, 10:26 AM']Increasingly sellers are deleting their posts or asking mods to do so at the completion of a deal.[/quote] I don't think i've had any of these requests. Even if we did, we would ignore them and simply edit the post to SOLD. I agree that leaving history is beneficial, however we cannot prevent users from editing their posts afterwards to remove 'useful' information.