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When I were a lad there were only two cores (apart from apple) - soft and hard. Soft was found under the Magic Porn Bush, with its pages stuck together by rain and who knows what, and hard was near-mythical - most certainly not what was shown in cinemas with titles like "Confessions of a Window Cleaner" or "Rosie Dixon - Night Nurse".

I just sorted through the tickets for upcoming shows and it's quite a lot. New Model Army Skindred Discharge / Conflict Airborne Svalbard Blood Incantation Arctangent Festival (Karnivool, Godspeed You Black Emperors, Melvins, Kylesa Tesseract, etc)

Nowadays that's not necessarily the case, as most will be freelancers specialising in whatever aspect of sound recording/mixing they're hired for... However, you definitely have a point about the past! I worked with studio sound people a lot in the days of live Top Of The Pops; their thinking was the sound must be "as is", no FX, no making it sound any better as that was cheating and not putting out exactly what was put in. This, I might add was also when these folks were exclusively recruited as engineers - there was no time for fancy frills and expression, twas purely a matter of keeping it within spec and watching the meters. Their thinking was "if the band don't sound good enough on their own it's not our job to help 'em!". As a result, most bands sounded terrible! I also had them working for me on a well known drama, and the amount of grief we had just convincing them to actually add to the plot with a spot of intelligent sound design was amazing. Not all of 'em, I might add! So I kept the best 2 or 3 and brought in sound dubbing mixers from Post Production (the others were studios) - their job was to make it sound good so that's what they attempted to do but because of studios demarcation, those mixers never got a look-in at music mixing.

I think we all end up there eventually. 😂

Cool, that makes it slightly more useable, but 8 is still not really enough, and presumably you have to write over the IMA presets? Yep, absolutely, I ended up selling my Sub 25 to get a 37 purely because there wasn’t enough patch spaces, nor could I keep track without some kind of display. If you need synth for just 1 or 2 songs this looks like it could be a great pedal, but for anything more I think I’m still in the (annoying to some) “if you want synth just get a synth” camp.

Sounds like old dead flat wound strings, fits this genre. But could be upright bass?

I have been using Ez Drummer 2 for many years. It has various styles of drumming, grooves. It has patterns you can mix and match, intro , chorus, verse etc. Just check you tube for tutorials. You can manually play drums with keyboard or pc keyboard and it will find the best match. There's an update available to choose from different music genre. But it looks like you're looking for a more AI based drum stuff (no fun in it in IMHO). I believe Ez Drummer has been now upgraded to 3 and even maybe 4 version. There is also one called Steven Slatter vat and many more.

Seen it too... AI is still not that good.

There’s a mode which allows the footswitch to be used to scroll presets; mentioned in one of the videos. Even some actual keyboard synths don’t fare loads better in terms of number of presets: Moog Sub Phatty and Subsequent 25 only have 16.

Sounds great @rwillett! I'm always keen to see how people have designed solutions using 3D printing. Your reverse angle stand sounds just like what I had in my head, a bit like an angled bench hook. Wish I still had access to a 3D printer for this sort of stuff.

Sounds great and the tracking seems excellent, but if I read it right there are only 8 presets, and they’re changed by pressing those little buttons? That alone would make it not really a viable gigging alternative to an actual bass synth for anyone but the lightest user.

Comfortably Numb - Pink Floyd

I arrived home to a package 😁 Beautifully presented and arrived lightning fast once shipped from Greece, though lead tine was a month. The steel pick made from an offcut used to make it is a very cool touch Very happy with how it looks and feels, just need to strip the bass down and get her started...

Everybody Hurts - R.E.M

Just releived Peter of a lovely overwater progress bass, top bloke, lovely to meet you dude 👍 and he waited for me cos I was late, loving the bass, and thanks for the extra strings Peter.