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Careless Whisper - George Michael
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Help needed - what material to pack out a case?
Twigman replied to shoulderpet's topic in General Discussion
I have a EBMM USA sterling which I transport in a SKB iSeries case when I fly. The case is designed for a larger body than my Sterling. I pack it out with pipe insulation foam. One piece around the body of the bass. It works a treat. -
Hoping someone can help, what can I use to pad this case out so my Mustang fits it snuggly (and if you can advise where I can purchase from that would really be appreciated), I appreciate any help with this, thank you
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It’s hinted at massively in my post with the picture above!
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Wait so 'the big thing' isn't any of those big things?! Intriguing...
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This is my Ampeg Heritage 410 cab (and 100w valve head). Cab has a bar and wheels, but if I had to move it weekly I would likely use one of my smaller cabs. Getting too old to move things like that all the time.
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I’ve got one of these and it’s a belter, glwts -
Right now for creative purposes. AI is at the same stage I was in my teens when my songwriting "influences" were very obvious, and the greatest current threat to it is that it will get sued for plagiarism. As others have said there are lots of uses of AI in music that take the donkey work out of some technical aspects such as noise removal. and frequency balancing. I use AI fairly frequently in my day job in graphic design. One use is when creatinge photo-realistic mock-ups of some of the food products and packaging that my clients are considering producing. I could spend time in Photoshop compositing inclusions onto a slab of chocolate to show through a window in the packaging, or I could ask an image generator to create one for me. One will take an hour or so the other with the right prompts less than 5 minutes. It has also been used to generate one of the "covers" for my band's releases. At the time I was completely snowed under with paying work, so we fed a series of prompts into an AI image generator and refined the output until we had something everyone was happy with. I could have done a better job manually, but it would have taken a lot longer and at the expense of paying work.
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I'm not an ex-BF user and still have and use my Two10. I'm a fretless bassist and every time I've used either a Fender Rumble 500 v2 combo or Ashdown combo, its always sounded great and I've always got compliments. I also recently used a GR Bass 208 cab with an Orange Little Bass Thing head and mid set, the singer turned to the audience and said, I loved how as soon as the bass player started playing, you all just watched him, doesn't he sound amazing. Likewise, when I've used my small rig which is a Warwick Gnome 300 and my TC Electronic 208 cab, I've always got compliments. I like my BF Two10 and LM IV but it just doesn't compliment me as much as other setups that I've used.
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Poisoning the well. IIRC someone has created a method of encoding music so that AI thinks it is a different genre to its actual one, or "hears" the music it is being trained on as just noise.
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Don’t think I’ve got the headspace to learn new media skills; too much crazy life stuff being flung at me at the moment. If I could partner up with a video/recording wizard, that would help.
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We were initially planning to release the update with new presets, portamento-on-audio-triggering, and onboard patch management features, but the big thing we’re working both progressed faster than expected but also had an impact on some of the things we’d added already. Also, as I’m having to rewrite the manual, I’d rather only have to do it once!
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That's Quatschmacher isn't it?
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How was your open mic or jam night last night?
chris_b replied to tauzero's topic in General Discussion
I've been house bass player for a jam that's been running on the first Monday of the month for 26 years. We've seen 4 or 5 managers come and go in that time and the new management has decided that they don't want us sending the bucket around! They don't like the look (ffs). They get about 4 people in on a Monday night and about 100 on our jam night. We're looking for a new venue. -
Excellent! I know it had been mentioned as coming, but at this end no idea about how they manage release schedules of various features.
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I was planning to take the Dingwall into The Bass Gallery for a check over and setup sometime so if they've got one there I'll ask if can have a fumble with it.
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For doing creative tasks - no thanks. But can be a great tool for things like separating music into stems or e.g cleaning snare rattle from an acoustic guitar passage or whatever.
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Be great if you get to try one sometime.Or not but at least you'll know either way ☺️ Flat feeling fretboards which may or not matter to you.
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Maybe thats the way to sabotage AI, expose it to the out of tune noodling of the average BC member. I could probably break it myself.
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How was your open mic or jam night last night?
tauzero replied to tauzero's topic in General Discussion
The open mics I go to have a couple of different systems. Two of them are pre-book, with sometimes a bit of space available for ad hoc arrivals and occasionally a bit of pre-planning on collaborations. The other is book in on arrival and opt for a time slot. Although the pre-book ones have a running order decided by the organisers and you find out about it when one of them says "you're on next", you can ask where you are in the order. The book in on arrival one has the booking sheet with time slots displayed on one of the speaker stands. When people want me to bass for them, they generally ask me beforehand and tell me which songs (and key/capo) so I can at least scribble notes, although it's not infrequent that I've never heard a song before playing it, which is always fun. Another alternative is looking over their shoulder if they've got charts (not ideal with capos) or (worst option) watching their fingers, which again is sub-optimal when they're using capos. -
That’s been in for quite a while already and was made public knowledge. (The only downside is that it’s not adjustable from the panel as the controls were fixed years ago. I did suggest a set of secondary parameters on the dial and I fleshed out a decent UI for it but they didn’t go for it unfortunately.)
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I'd like to see anyone use AI to copy how I play. Good luck to them.
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For sale, my Octave Mandola OR Octave Mandolin (they are the same thing). Shorter scale than an Irish Bouzouki, this one is tuned GDAE in unison pairs (or courses). Condition is excellent, not quite mint and includes a nice TGI gig bag that is a perfect fit. Mandola is in Hope Valley (S33 6SB) for local collection or I could deliver locally too. Could attempt uk posting but it isn't as solid as a bass so I'd be a bit wary of that. -
Yup, that's exactly why the MXR has been so successful. Would be REALLY interesting if Panda changed direction fully and brought out something like the original Deep Impact crossed with the MXR, all the new tech, quality processing and tracking etc but with only a set number of parameters to mess with and all adjustable from the pedal. Get a decent influencer type on board and it'd easily be as successful as the MXR, perhaps less so now the MXR exists but it'd still do very well.
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YouTube creators create A and B versions of titles and thumbnails to see which gets most attention. Maybe AI will do similar, or maybe it will the be humans' job to listen to tracks for quality control. Ultimately AI has no sensors or hormones to measure whether what they produce is working. Comedians and live musicians get instant feedback from audiences. Whether or not they listen to the feedback or not depends - there are plenty of artists who have spent years looking for audiences who 'get' them. 🤣
