All Activity

High demand causes an increase in the prices of the remaining tickets.

A step attenuator has fixed steps that can be decided in the soldering phase (log or lin, 3 or 6 dB steps, or whatever). I have built few to some of my basses. Metal film resistors, Elma rotary switches.

Another wee song from Edinburgh! Rehab Stramash.mp4

I think there was an Orange speaker and I am sure it was a Markbass Amp...Sounded good onstage!

What’s dynamic pricing ?

Nice one. Akai tend to use reasonably good keybeds too, and I found their Miniak synth and MPC Key 37 production workstation to be very playable.

IF you can stretch this to 49 keys, the simple Midiplus AK490 spawns enormous quality and playability for the money. Expect to have to search, though Bax seem able to deliver next week. 5-pin MIDI. IMS, it spawns a battery compartment, which in case I've used extensively. Maybe obsolete, the M-Audio Keystation 37 is a bit more spongy in its keys' response, but still quite alright. 5-pin MIDI. I've recently also bought an Icon iKeyboard 4S (three octaves, not four, so 37 keys), which surprised me positively to the degree I'll go for Icon from here on, despite its higher price point. 5-pin DIN. Icon has cheaper models too: the iKeyboard 4 and iKeyboard 4X, which I feel still are impressive for the money. 5-pin MIDI Icon make things a bit complicated with the enormous range they offer. They offer three different key sizes (regular, mini and nano), lengths from 25 to 88 keys, and also different levels of being advanced and knobby. If you can, visit a shop and compare them. Be aware that the more knobby models tend to have better keybeds, and sometimes the longer models spawn better keybeds than the shorter ones. I know zilch about USB and about the disabling you mentioned, so can't help there.

This is very effective. I listen to stuff I want to learn whilst I'm driving, doing the ironing, etc, etc. It seems to seep into the brain almost un-noticed if you're not making a conscious effort to listen/learn.

There's plenty to choose from, but it depends what you mean by reasonably priced. Maybe Akai mini plus? If you want to connect using USB then you'll need a MIDI host which is kinda like an adaptor.

I had one for a while, never used it with a band but did use it at home connected to a Barefaced Big Baby, imo that set up would have been ok-ish for stage use but nothing more.

I agree, dynamic pricing is ridiculous, and my thoughts are that I won’t purchase tickets for anything where this is applied.

Who was it who did a pedal a couple years ago with both top and side mounted jacks so you could choose which to use - I thought it was a brilliant idea but it never seemed to catch on?

Well it's a different audience, isn't it, and you'll often find folk either into classical or pop/rock with some in the overlap group. I really enjoyed going to the Proms! 1 orchestra can have more musos than 10 cover bands. And let's not try to compare musicianship 'cos it's not going to come out too well for the average pub rocker is it? Nope, what I'm saying is pretty much in line with what @Ben Jamin said - live performance is, for me, where it's going to be at. Btw Elvis sang some great songs, the point is no one remembers who wrote them, they remember him though. And it wasn't just about looks, the man could sing and he could also perform.

What can I say? We did an exchange. Rory's courier got to me in 3 days, from Argyll, but he had to wait a week for my one to get to him. Twice, this has happened. There is no-one more understanding, patient and honourable than this man. A real credit to Bass chat.