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Made of Norwegian ice. I wouldn't like to be lugging this to and from a gig...

Now gone

"I'm sorry - Is this the five minute argument, or the full half hour..?"

Some people are easily pleased, I guess.

IMO at least half of all YouTube content creators could do with a script, a producer, an editor, and possibly someone less irritating to actually appear in front of the camera.

An update for those interested in these basses. I've just spoken to my contact at Korg and he's asked me to let you all know that there is limited stock from the first production run of the Icon series basses coming in to Andertons, GuitarGuitar, @Bass Direct and one or two other UK/Eire stockists (inc X music in Dublin) in the next couple of weeks. If you definitely want one - you should make contact asap with one of these shops and get yours reserved! The main bulk of deliveries of the new Icon range will arrive early in the New Year and you will see many more of them available then, along with a proper promotional push. Regarding some other questions that were asked here and on Facebook groups: Apparently there are still more Pulse II basses on order and should be arriving soon. To the best of my contact's knowledge they have not ceased production of this model or the Ethos at this stage. There are no confirmed plans for a through neck version of the Icon yet. All production is concentrating on this new bolt on range for now. For those asking about left handed Icons.... there may well be some in the next production run but nothing confirmed yet.

My teacher had a greenish Tobias 5 at the time they were built by the master himself. Cost an arm and a leg, but sound was nice. String spacing wasn't for me, 17 mm. Neck profile was special, asymmetric. Pretty nice, to be honest.

The Toxhards, Die! Die! Die!

@Rob MacKillop check also Tom Kennedy - Just Play! His recordings include standards. This particular record is played with a double bass. In others (Basses Loaded, points of view...) there's electric, too. I think Brian Bromberg has some standards played with a double bass, although he is more known because of his electric (and piccolo) work.

Beato is engaging. Not many people can do that naturally. The 3 presenters on SBL are engaging. Also Mark Lewis is very good. All of them have 3rd party producers. It wouldn't surprise me if Danny has a producer too. Certainly a lot of the clips use a cameraman. These are people who make sure every word they say is important to the subject and relevant. That's very hard to do. I've tried it and from maybe an hour of content you can eaily lose a ton a useless material and trim it down to 5 minutes. And mostly need to then go out again and re-record a shorter better scripted version. I don't think a lot of YouTube creators have a producer who can criticality assess and cut out the waffle.

This is why I never switch on any of my musical technology until I have a really good idea of what I want to do with it.

Does anyone else find themselves crippled with option paralysis when faced with these newer MPC's? I just find them so incredibly (over) complicated and distracting to the point of being un-musical.. I just seemed never to get anything done with them. I used to have the MPC Live and latterly the MPC One (both sold) and found the same issue with both of them I find I get a lot more done with my MPC 2000xl's and Isla S2400 which i use just as drum/percussion sampling drum machines/midi sequencers, recording all my instruments straight into Logic

The neck pocket on my Squier VM Bass VI was plenty snug enough. In fact so much that I chipped the finish trying the get the neck off to fit a shim. The biggest problem for me with all the Fender/Squier designs is that the neck is way too narrow. Mine is narrow compared with my guitars never mind something designed to use with bass strings which are twice as thick. OoI what is the string spacing at the nut (E to E centres) on the Vinterra version?

Usually by dancing around the actual content offered by the clickbait title for the first x-1 minutes of the video.

I'm not sure, but I think I read somewhere that advertising revenue only kicks in once a video has been viewed for 'x' minutes, so folk clicking, then closing, would earn nothing. I may be wrong, but that would explain why the videos have to keep viewers interested, at least for 'x' minutes.

Silly would be committing to a long tour without being sure of the demand.

AI yes. Slop? You'd have to listen to it and decide rather than make assumptions. I found it quite good. OK, there is a big debate about AI in music, but at least the people behind this are upfront about it. It's a cover, not someone hoodwinking us with a made up band with AI music. Any song can be re-imagined in a different genre, and this is a good way to do it and possibly bring new people to the music of the original artist.

Creators are pushed towards long form content. I want concise information most of the time, I bale if a longer video can't get to the point. I find Rick Beato good at keeping me engaged because he fits in content not filler.

You've done the right thing - tried both and gone with the one that felt better. Congratulations, it's a beauty!

I find it much easier on guitar than on bass. Probably because the guitar parts tend to follow the rhythmic structure of the vocal more closely than the bass does. And for many things, being a bit more avant-garde on guitar is fine and doesn't ruin the pulse of the tune. I started singing and playing at pretty much the same time - when I was introduced to James Hetfield in 1986/7 when a mate shared some TDK cassettes! I wanted to do that. So very frustratingly I can play fast metal on guitar and sing at the same time and have great trouble playing simple bass and singing at the same time! But generally, it's all about spotting things that line up with strums and vocal beats and using them as anchor points with flexibility in between.