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To get a passable piece of AI generated music you still have to be able to write a decent prompt (or more likely a decent set of prompts) in the first place.

Then they shouldn't be "making" music in the first place. Sorry to get all "gatekeeper-y" on you but do you not see how utterly insulting this is? What an idiot I must be to have put the hours upon hours of effort into learning an instrument, to spend hours upon hours collaborating with my pals, trying stuff to see what works and what doesn't when creating/refining a song! It was all for nothing - you can just rock up to this bit of software, tap a few words in and hey presto! I know you're going to consider this pure histrionic theatre, but it is genuinely how I feel about it.

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Fixed. There's a world of difference between what @edstraker123 has explained he's doing and what my brother-in-law, who's not a musician, got Suno to produce the other day (yep his was defo slop - but didn't stop it bringing a smile to family members!) And the stuff that's been crafted with care and attention with ai input is likely to be a hundred times better than quite a lot of the "original slop" that's too often foisted on audiences, which should leave no one wondering why no one's turning up to their gigs.

I'm an unreformed fiddler, nothing I ever do get's finished. I always have mods I want to try. In this case I thnk you could set a limit/tolerace of 2% of cab volume and be perfectly safe and maybe 10% would be liveable with. There's always more mods I want to add so I'm finding publishing designs and seeing them live on as a stable design a new experience. I decided early on that designs had to be built and tested before publishing and nowadays I have to refer back to my own designs on BassChat to answer questions

Bass arrived yesterday. I didn't have much time to play with it last night (early night in preperation of today's early radiotherapy appointment), but first impressions are good. Straight out of the box it seemed to be set up well, perhaps too well, very little relief in the neck - almost dead flat, and pretty low action, and almost in tune! I immediately noticed the tightness and tone of the B string, even before plugging it in - this boded well. Plugged it into my little Blackstar practice amp, switched the bass to passive mode and heard a nice full range tone without any of the mud of my EHB's Bartolini's, and more top end. Switching to active mode sounded pretty much the same, with everything set flat. The EQ centres seem well chosen - the bass knob in particular adds girth without adding subby boom. I noticed a little buzz at the third fret and grabbed a fret rocker. There are indeed a couple of high frets low down, but I'm not totally surprised at this price point - my more expensive EHB has high frets too. But I'm hoping I can mitigate this by introducing a little more relief and setting the action to my preferences before I think about a fret level. The neck pickup looks a little low too and needs balancing, but I also need to match the volume to my G&L JB2, my main gigging bass). I haven't tried it on a strap yet, but it appears to balance well when I held it by the top strap button. I'm not sure about the fret markers. Whilst they aren't as bad as the EHB markers, they are a little difficult to see, but that could just be my preferences. Oh, one last thing. The tuners are a bit stiff and sticky, but see there's a solution available, by adding some small bearings But I have to say, so far, so good. The small issues I have found so far are not surprising at this price point and straightforward enough to remedy.

So. After three-odd years containing knee surgery, a pulmonary embolism, torn rotator cuff, additional knee work and hand surgery, Sunday sees me back in the studio. I'm genuinely feeling energised to dip my toe into things. It's a blank canvas, we just go in, write in the fly and hit record. Old school.

"And this next one is one that my computer wrote earlier"...

Hologram performances of ABBA and former stars feels like a very specific type of (phenomenally expensive) tribute act? And if you've ever been to ABBA Voyage you will appreciate how just how fantastic the session musicians are who are playing the music live at every performance. My brother in law asked me if I'd like to play bass on that set? Hell yeah! Except I couldn't tie my counterpart's shoelaces... 😅 @edstraker123 - love what you're saying in your two posts above! Using AI creatively in the way you're suggesting seems to me like it's democratising and making accessible the songwriting process to music creators who are using AI as a tool. Getting what's produced to an audience to listen to is going to be another matter though and no doubt the music industry will fight tooth and nail to retain the ability to "make" and promote their own artists to keep some control and earnings. For me the prospect of covers bands like my own coming up with ai assisted original material that they end up performing alongside all the covers we do is an interesting one and feels like a hybrid approach; one that is a way different skill-set and quality-control threshold to hitting "Suno write me the words and lyrics for a song" to add to the tsunami of "ai slop" being produced. Will be more of a challenge to both us and our audiences in terms of introducing new music than playing Mr Brightside for the 1000th time? https://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episodes/m002f1d0/radical-with-amol-rajan Interestingly the discussion of ai in music was a topic of discussion on Radio 4's Radical last night, between Amol Rajan and Panos A. Panay president of The Recording Academy, which organises the Grammy Awards. There's about 13 mins focussed on the role and impact of ai between 27 to 40 mins in.

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291g pull force per magnet. That seems like quite a lot to lever open with a pl3ctrum as you would presumably need to lift two completely off the back and then use your finger?

I think the Acorn Amps “Epstein didn’t kill himself fuzz” trumps them all. See what i did there? 😁 🤦

I had a similar experience letting that maple board rocking horse poo BB2024MX get away. I'd still buy that.

As an artist myself in both music and graphics I would completely disagree with rejection of digital forms for creation and distribution. The internet and digital media both audio and visual have allowed me to reach a far wider audience than I ever could before those things existed. Before the internet became mainstream the best I could hope for with any of my musical projects is that we would reach a couple of hundred people mostly here in the UK, and it was hard work doing just that. The first band I was in produced a handful of albums on cassette and two tracks on a vinyl compilation before disbanding in 1983. In the early 2000s we were contacted by an indie label in the US offering us a deal to put out a retrospective compilation on CD which meant we could now reach listeners all over the world and more importantly our music could be heard without it being buried under 3 generations of tape hiss. Without the internet or the digital domain that could never have happened. Without the internet and digital media the bands I have been in during the last 20 years would have probably done a couple of years worth of local gigs before folding. Instead we've played to knowing and appreciative audiences all over the UK. My current band derives a useful portion of our income from people all over the world streaming our music Similarly with my graphic art. I'm old enough to have worked with paint, ink and Letraset when there was no alternative, and while I produced some cool stuff that way (one example of which has been deemed interesting enough to be in the V&A Permanent Collection) I have absolutely no desire to return to those days. With the computer I can produce something far more interesting and innovative far more quickly and that won't include mistakes that I didn't have the time or money to correct. Again I can produce work for clients all over the world and not be limited to those on my doorstep. Innovators come whatever the medium and they will find new ways to use it that the majority of us had never even considered. IMO those worrying that "The Sky Is Falling" are those without sufficient talent or artistic vision.

Thank you!

Hi Dave, The reality is that lots of people still value a printed mag (including me) I've spent a lifetime making magazines and they are still so important for so many people - print will never die! Unlike the last owner of Bass Guitar Magazine we can operate on much smaller margins and hopefully we can make this work.