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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.

The next step is when AI learns to read the audience's reactions and understand their emotional state. At that point they will be better than a lot of the original acts that I see who obviously pour a lot of effort and emotion into their songs, but just don't build a following, understand stagecaraft or song composition. And many continue flogging a dead horse hoping one day for that big break. I saw 4 bands on Sunday night. The last two of them were musically and stagewise superb, but older probably all 50 and over. The first band on played songs that all sounded identical and had no life. The front man/guitarist was good with the patter. The second band were a bunch of school age teenagers who seemed to have bought a load of their classmates, who were only interested in leaping around. It was refreshing to see. The front man was funny but the musicianship was novice level. I can see having an AI critique would really help some of those bands.

I was in Edinburgh last year with my wife and we asked our hotel for a live music venue recommendation and ended up here - what an absolutely brilliant venue that is!! We got there as it was filling up quickly, went to the bar and the barman took one look at us and decided we were the oldest pair in the room - well yes we were 🤣 'Would you like two stools?' That'd be great thanks 👍🏼 'Just wait up against the back area there and I'll bring them for you' Best seats in the house with a bar in front of us! Bands were brilliant, and @theplumber that looks like a great night you had! The rig and the lights were great as I recall, fantastic place Stramash 👌🏼

65? you're practically a toddler around here, most basschat members here knew God when he was little. The majority saw the first dinosaurs 🤷

Check out “patina” guitars, from same company as Jet. No basses yet, but nitro finishes, beautiful colours, look fantastic. I’ve asked for some basses around the same money. Circa £599. No affiliation!

I should have said at the start, I’m 65. Don’t look/act/feel like it, but might be too late for world tours. I’ve jumped about different instruments, I could probably manage to play Drums or Rhythm G####r or Bass in a Country Band. Wouldn’t mind that TBH if it was Johnny Cash stuff, not Achie breaky heart bollox! My plan is to learn to play some stuff I like, then go to some jam nights. See where that leads. I’ll definitely be enquiring about lessons this week, I’ve just been tied up in some business.

Someone brought their posh camera to our jam night last night… Me playing my new Sandberg SL ^^^ and inadvisedly using one of those short necked things and singing Crazy Man Michael… ->

Excellent! I’d hazard most people who are starting only play one instrument and more than likely listen to one style of music. I’ve taught both young kids and retired gents that benefitted from learning more about music beyond what they knew, and it helps that I was once exactly the same. I think SBL can certainly help a beginner in this regard because the have such a vast array of content.

Rhinestone Cowboy - Glen Campbell

As a coop member I can get presale tickets for Manchester tomorrow morning. Will have a look. Not feeling hopeful about prices.

Yeah I've had a good look through that as well. For something that seems to be a really common occurrence you would have thought that they would've found a fix for it but I've yet to find anyone who managed to fix theirs, they've all been replaced under warranty. I've decided not to hang around - I've opened a return request to have it collected to give them the opportunity to repair it

That's a real shame, as the POD Go is a great pedal. You could always try the Line6 forum, but I suspect that you'll just get the same advice.

Those Overwater's are fine looking basses.

Ashdown having to have 359 VU's on any pedal they make.

Oh my, this is getting exciting 😍

Nice! I used to live next door in Mountsorrel!

On a whim, I've picked up the Behringer Solina recreation and I'd like to use it at gigs, using a cheap(ish) MIDI keyboard. I've currently got an old Novation Remote SL25, which is a bit too small (ideally want 3 octaves) and a Kawai electric piano (which isn't portable). I'm looking for a 37 key keyboard and I think it will need to have a traditional 5-pin MIDI output. The Solina has a 5-pin and a USB-B, the Kawai just has USB-B, the Novation has both but the 5-pin seems to be disabled when it's powered via the USB port... I'm also led to believe that connecting two USB-B ports together doesn't work. The module only arrived today so I've just been testing it out by plugging the keyboards and the Behringer itself into a laptop but this is causing terrible lag between hitting a note and the sound emerging (which doesn't happen when using the same keyboards via USB to trigger soft synths. So... am I looking for what appears to be a rare thing (a reasonably priced 37-key keyboard with 5-pin port) or is there some way of connecting two USB ports together without a laptop that will allow for latency-free live use? This is fairly new ground to me so please speak slowly and imagine you were speaking to someone far more at home twanging wires stretched over planks of wood.

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