I just came to the phase that I can not more stand phrase like ''Cut through the mix'' etc.
So what's Your most annoying phrase?
Feel free to add Your own nightmares.
I’m more annoyed by niche genres that only exist on TB.
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I’m more annoyed by niche genres that only exist on TB.
At least they weren't calling records "vinyls".
"Road worn", "relic" and "relic-ing", and so forth.
I treat my instruments like family treasures. I keep them clean and polished. At most, they might get a few scratches in their time with me; when I sell a bass, I can honestly say it's in great shape. How the hell some people can beat their basses into a dirty, dented, missing paint condition that looks like they were used as a shovel in an archaeological dig, much less why anybody would want to do so deliberately and prematurely, is completely beyond me.
I treat my instruments like family treasures. I keep them clean and polished. At most, they might get a few scratches in their time with me; when I sell a bass, I can honestly say it's in great shape. How the hell some people can beat their basses into a dirty, dented, missing paint condition that looks like they were used as a shovel in an archaeological dig, much less why anybody would want to do so deliberately and prematurely, is completely beyond me.
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OMG! I'm SO totally going to start calling pickups trampets! Thanks for that!Oh, that's easy. Those would be TRAMPETS.
My pups though will remain canine.
Oh wait. I GET IT NOW. You meant that it's redundant to call something ruler flat, as opposed to just flat. Duh - See, I shouldn't post without coffee.
You shut your mouth.
(I would never actually say this to you in seriousness, but I’m sure you weren’t serious about your disdain for the greatest phrase either)
My response is always, “No, it’s a bass. It’s larger, louder, and can hit lower notes, so it’s unquestionably better than a cello.”
One of these days, I’ll make a cellist angry.
Actually, none of these phrases annoy me half as much as Gwyneth Paltrow referring to her divorce from the Coldplay guy as “Conscious Uncoupling”, which make me want to gnaw my own ear off every time I hear it.
Cutting through the mix is a good phrase because so many basses and their rigs do not.
For decades I and others have watched bass players and it is infuriating when you watch the hands move but cannot hear the notes because they do NOT cut through the mix and are lost in the noise.
This is the reason I hated Fender basses for decades until I came to the US and learned that it was actually the amps that were overrated and inadequate. Fenders can produce their recorded sounds quite nicely in modern amps especially with sealed speaker cabinets and 12" speakers.
Another one that is bitched about unjustly is the tone is in the fingers. That too is true and provable any time you get a few, (more than 1) bass players together to play the same instrument and amp. They will not sound the same because of finger technique, experience level and the specific place the finders pluck the string.
Jack Bruce and Andy Frazer used Marshall amps and Cabs and Gibson EB3's of early vintage. Not the same instrument or amp but the same type and their sounds are not even close and are as far away as their playing style and technique. If they played the same rig, I bet they still sound like themselves.
For decades I and others have watched bass players and it is infuriating when you watch the hands move but cannot hear the notes because they do NOT cut through the mix and are lost in the noise.
This is the reason I hated Fender basses for decades until I came to the US and learned that it was actually the amps that were overrated and inadequate. Fenders can produce their recorded sounds quite nicely in modern amps especially with sealed speaker cabinets and 12" speakers.
Another one that is bitched about unjustly is the tone is in the fingers. That too is true and provable any time you get a few, (more than 1) bass players together to play the same instrument and amp. They will not sound the same because of finger technique, experience level and the specific place the finders pluck the string.
Jack Bruce and Andy Frazer used Marshall amps and Cabs and Gibson EB3's of early vintage. Not the same instrument or amp but the same type and their sounds are not even close and are as far away as their playing style and technique. If they played the same rig, I bet they still sound like themselves.
I say this all the time and it only just now occurred to me that I have never actually been to a rodeo.
...This realization has set me upon the precipice of a full of on existential crisis.
Assigning gender to your inanimate objects.
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Agree, and for this reason I have been lobbying my senator to make Kurdish the official language of the United States. Zero gender pronouns in Kurdish.
It bothers me slightly to read that each and every bass in stock at some stores is “super resonate.” Resonant is the adjective form, and how do you not have any basses that are not extraordinarily resonant? Not even one? Some players want thud!
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Run-on sentences on social media platforms with no hint of correct sentence structure or punctuations!!!!
Should read "punctuation," singular. And the string of exclamation points you end with are redundant and ungrammatical.
