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This place has gone quiet
« on: August 11, 2015, 12:16:43 AM »
I haven't visited in a while. I seem to remember it being pretty busy all day long on here with lots of regular posters. Everybody moved on?
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Re: This place has gone quiet
« Reply #1 on: August 11, 2015, 02:21:02 PM »
It has gotten very quiet.  When anything does get posted, the old names seem to answer, so we're all keeping an eye on the forum, but no one seems to have much to say at the minute. 
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Re: This place has gone quiet
« Reply #2 on: August 11, 2015, 06:39:53 PM »
Yeah, been like this quite a while.. No longer the hip bar in town I guess!
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Re: This place has gone quiet
« Reply #3 on: August 11, 2015, 07:19:16 PM »
Lotta questions about modern sounds these days, which I know little about. I should due to my age, but I donīt. I feel old...sides that single coils, which I only can talk about once I get some. Need more guitars.

Beyond that I am just kinda saturated with stuff. Donīt have the space for more. And my money and space flows into homebrewing.

 Craziest thing going on is that I might try to pull the RY set + IT out of my Ibby S, put the set in a LP, taking out the SH SM combo, and putting Crawler bridge, SH middle, and MQ neck in the Ibby. Dunno what happens to the current crawler axe though (IT middle, crawler neck in bridge, Mule neck? Dunno). So a lot of throwing things around really, seeing if I canīt optimise for a more layed back playing style.


Sides that I am checking things. Sometimes outbursts of action, but generally I just donīt feel like I have much to say. Anytime a proper review is posted I add it to the sticky though, that thing ainīt dying on my watch.


Could this be a "people donīt post cause people donīt post" kinda deal?
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Re: This place has gone quiet
« Reply #4 on: August 12, 2015, 12:05:04 AM »
There just aren't as many n00bs posting here asking for opinions.

They seem to use the FB (or perhaps even the new messaging system on the BK online shop) for that more these days
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Re: This place has gone quiet
« Reply #5 on: August 12, 2015, 09:15:40 AM »
I barely even play guitar anymore! I think I come here out of habit more than anything these days :(
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Re: This place has gone quiet
« Reply #6 on: August 13, 2015, 09:26:28 PM »
Yeah it is quieter but I do try to check in every few days. As has been said, I think people use other routes to raise questions but such is the way of the world. I am still playing a lot and digging my BKPs!
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Re: This place has gone quiet
« Reply #7 on: September 29, 2015, 01:58:31 PM »
Blimey, it is quiet around here - not helped by this being my first post for 18 months  :embarrassed:

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Re: This place has gone quiet
« Reply #8 on: October 03, 2015, 03:20:02 PM »
I don't play nearly as much as I used to but still have time for a couple hours a week if I'm not working. I always check on here but I'm not really as interested in new gear any more now so don't have much to talk about! Pretty much got my guitar setup how I like it, occasionally get the odd bit of GAS but that's about it haha.

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Re: This place has gone quiet
« Reply #9 on: October 03, 2015, 03:49:54 PM »
I'm still with my 2 bands gigging and practicing a few times a week, but whenever I check in on here it mainly seems to be questions about pickups for genres of music I have no experience with, or gear I have no info on, so I tend to keep quiet.
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Re: This place has gone quiet
« Reply #10 on: October 03, 2015, 04:48:41 PM »
Still picking up BK's and guitars!  Play once a week for a jam with a drummer and bass player, doing classic covers really.  At least I get to cycle through the guitars!  Still trying to fix the house after Hurricane Sandy.  Once it's done I'll have somewhere to get to the guitars easily again.
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Re: This place has gone quiet
« Reply #11 on: October 08, 2015, 03:05:23 PM »
+1 on quiet.  I'm not really spending time on forums these days.  I've had a brief flirtation with thefretboard, but it's not as nice as here.

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Re: This place has gone quiet
« Reply #12 on: October 09, 2015, 09:24:18 AM »
I'm still with my 2 bands gigging and practicing a few times a week, but whenever I check in on here it mainly seems to be questions about pickups for genres of music I have no experience with, or gear I have no info on, so I tend to keep quiet.

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Re: This place has gone quiet
« Reply #13 on: October 11, 2015, 02:01:02 AM »
agree, this forum has almost died, people are facebook slaves thesedays, but I'm not even on there.

I like others am a lot busier thesedays, with my own mixing and mastering business and various other guitar related activities.
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Re: This place has gone quiet
« Reply #14 on: October 25, 2015, 12:06:05 PM »
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