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I felt this just warranted its own thread.

So, you want to learn to play 'Rocket Man' on this ?.......... By Thursday?

It's in a queue Fixed it for you Al Have you been banned form comp chat? You should start a new compressor related forum with a .comp web address

Perfectly understandable. We're all different. I understand how gigging a lot can work for some and not others. I answer to no one and can sleep as late as I want. I'm single by design, as a matter of fact, I broke up with the last woman I dated because I knew she didn't get rock & roll or gigging. Our guitarists wife comes to every single gig with him, she's never missed a show in the 7 years I've been with the band. I asked her why; "Because I love watching my husband do something he loves" That's the kind of lady I need to meet. No woman is ever going to give me any type of grief about gigging. The money I earn from gigging means so much more to me than the salary I drew when I was a part of the traditional workforce. And I had a great paying career. I still feel that getting paid to have fun and do something you love is, well you can't beat it. Sure there's little inconveniences and every gig won't be great, but I still wouldn't trade away gigging for anything. I'm not important enough to hate any genre of music as long as it's professional and played well and I get paid to do it. I truly love this business and I love playing. BTW, sorry about the rant. Blue

In October of 1978 I saw Slade play the first night of six in a nightclub chain. Very little advertising and the bouncers were turning away fans who weren't dressed "smart but casual". Slade played to 19 punters in a 1000 capacity venue; the smallest crowd in their professional career. they still talk about it yet. When they came on Noddy Holder said "Jeeesus, did you all come on the same bus?"

... and done (all except the 'Smilies'; I'll do them later, one by one...). Enjoy.

Sounds like a good reason to take up double thumbing.

Ableton is fine for programming drums, however it's arguably not the best DAW for 'band/instrument' recording, it's way more geared towards electronic music (which it's amazing at). As such you may want to look at Garageband, or Logic (running in it's simplified mode......allows you to get more advanced when you're ready), as mentioned above, they both have very useable drum sequencers. Fun fact, although Logic's drum tracks appear as an audio wave at first, you can simply drag the part onto a spare soft-instrument track and it will show you the midi score......you could then apply any drum sounds soft-instrument (DFH, Tooktrak etc) on that track. Allows you to pull together drum grooves very easily, then apply your own preferred sounds to that groove. Si

I don't hate anyone I've never met nor got to know personally.

I dunno, you buy one little Ferrari and EVERYONE hates you. That's England for you.

I find them an exceptional band. I know a lot of folk don't like JK, but he's a great front man & a great vocalist too. The bassline in this is fantabulous...

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It might be better to accept that than spend hours digging through the box mountain in the loft to find the certificate, and then when I've found it, some clever so-and-so will say I photoshopped it!

You get my not whining about a challenge and doing something about it award. Well done!

Generally if you have to ask...

If you're going to patronise people (that means "talk down to" for all you thickies out there ) then at least learn to spell pigeon.

I would look at the Pedaltrain Nano/Metro series. They have a planner app on their site to help your work out which model will be the right fit. Then if you want a flexible power supply that will fit underneath then you'll be after a Cioks DC5 (sold by HotRox) or a Onespot CS6 (Andertons currently cheapest). For cables I would recommend a solderless kit like Evidence Audio SIS or Tightrope for their ultra low profile plugs and the ability to change lengths as your board evolves.

The spark between musicians is where the magic lives. Playing without it is like being in a loveless marriage.

Ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha still laughing. Perfect answer and applies here, too

It needs damping because if it's not damped waves from the back of the cone reflect off the panels back to the cone, meeting it at various angles of phase, causing peaks and valleys in the speaker response. That's the case with all speakers. This isn't a debatable topic, it's Acoustical Engineering 101, first semester. Un-braced 15mm plywood is insufficient to make the cabinet panels inert. The only difference between Marine plywood and standard grade is the use of waterproof glue. What does matter is the number of plies, which is responsible for stiffness. A single brace connecting the middle of two opposing panels gives the same result as doubling the panel thickness. That's Civil Engineering 101, first semester. Giving the cab designer the benefit of the doubt I'll venture he may have studied acoustical and civil engineering and specified how to correctly build the cab, but the bean counter who over-ruled him in favor of saving a few quid certainly did not.

I love the first three Jamiroquai albums and find it bizarre when fellow musicians don’t share my enthusiasm. I find Zenders playing inspirational, groovy as hell and effortlessly cool. By Zender’s own admission however it was often the case that JK would sing the bass melody to him, and he would then build upon it with his own ideas. The more recent albums sound rather generic in my opinion and aren’t what Jamiroquai were originally about. Here’s Zender on a P, Derrick McKenzie laying it down, and JK hitting the high notes after (I suspect) one or two fragrant roll-ups.

Aha.....Thanks..... I have just adjusted the price, but was unaware that the original price was 'edit proof' Thanks again for your very speedy response....

lets revive this dying thread!!! i purchased a bananana matryoshka 2nd hand here a month or so ago. First time i tried it it sounded good, but not great.... my impressions were it was noisy, glitchy and temperamental..... so i put it on the shelf and haven't touched it since.... until yesterday when i decided to make a list of the pedals i should sell to make room/cash for other unnecessary equipment. i actually put the bananana in the pile to be sold. After work i decided to plug it in to give it one last go before i put it up for sale (i diddnt expect it to hang around)..... ....... ohhhh myyyy goooooood god, this thing sounds amazing!!!! it turns out the first time i tried it i must have been driving the input too hot as it was pinning the filter against the roof every time i touched the strings. but with the volume rolled back on my sandberg it really opened the pedal up.The filter became responsive, the noise and glitches dissapeared and i was in synth nirvana. Some of the subs that this tiny pedal can put out are simply astonishing. its reactive to the strength of the string attack like no filter ive ever used. (and ive tried a fair few!!!) my favorite setting is the gated fuzz (orange) setting with the ctrl wide open. no dry and out 1+2 fully open. oct fully up and resonance at 2 ish. this pedal is a seriously powerful piece of gear and i encourage anybody into synth pedals to try one. needless to say... now mine isn't going anywhere! edit. added a quick sample of the pedal 1st part - dubstep style riff 2nd part - demo of how controllable the filter sweep... into more riffing bananana sample.mp3

Ben Thanks for the tip: the PowerAdd was removed from Amazon when I was first looking around, but seems to have reappeared at a reasonable price, so I bought it, as it was a sure thing to fit snugly in the carry handle slot (as demonstrated. i made some mock-ups of other power banks, but none of them would be so integrated. I’ve found that the knobbly finish on the amp makes mincemeat of the (rather pretty) battery case. Ho-hum!

Understandable. It's still annoying if you do both anyway. I never understood those who have an us and them mentality.

This will give you some righteously clean and deep dub bass sounds. They are not cheap new but occasionally they come around used on ebay. http://www.alembic.com/prod/sf2.html I use mine only if I'm using decent cabs that can deal with heavy bottom end.

yes, whether its to do with design trademarks or what i dont know, but every precision type scratchplate will not fit every precision type bass. some wont fit over the control recess, some wont fit over the pick up spaces etc - and some will, but may need completely re screwing down as the screw holes are in the wrong place. i couldnt find a replacement for the v4 anywhere. i contacted the manufacturer in the end (jhs) but the one they suggested definitely looked like it wouldnt fit. it had screw holes in different places and the pick up space looked much closer to the edge of the scratchplate than the existing one i had. its definitely worth asking round round first if a replacement will fit your bass.

Cancelled my order for a Pork and Pickle and got a Deluxe Bass Big Muff Pi instead. Initial impressions through my 2watt all valve guitar amp with my bass in the living room are great. Can’t wait to plug it into my bass amp!!

Yes, of course they are. You have a nice sit down... I just have to make a quick phone call...

The ... is called an ellipsis and is very often misused, much like the word 'literally'. Here is the definition from the OED. Grammar. The omission of one or more words in a sentence, which would be needed to complete the grammatical construction or fully to express the sense; an instance of such omission. Formerly used as the name of the dash (—) employed in writing or printing to indicate the omission of letters in a word. It should only ever be three full stops long and always has a space after it.

When I was in a local pub (Forest of Dean) someone made a crack about shagging sheep, to which an old soak at the bar shouted: "We don't shag sheep, we rape outsiders." It was crude, but got the point across adequately.

When I grow up I'm going to be a bass player.

Ultimately everything we experience is learning. Good and bad, painful and joyful all we can do is take the knowledge we gain forward into new adventures and use that which we learn to benefit others. Edit: try to benefit others.

But you don't own any of it, you just rent it.

Whatever happened to using a capital letter for the first word of a sentence?

Hello, this is my first bass 6 and my second bass 5 built, is not perfect, but I play my bass 5 in répetition, she as a good sound with bartolini pickups neck and delano pickup bridge.

Because it's easier than sitting practising for hours on end.

Because I'm stupid

My Fenix by Young Chang Jazz ..now with a lovely French couple

Just got the bass Jamie shipped to me in Sweden. Very helpful and pleasant gent to business with. Good packaging and bass in superb condition and good setup. 5 stars!

I'm currently a newbie and wanted to buy Jamie's Alpher Mako (my first possible transaction on BC). Jamie put my concerns at ease, a very nice chap to speak with, the transaction went smoothly and the Bass arrived the day after collection very well packaged. A really lovely bit of kit to sate my GAS a little... & Jamie's a gent to deal with 5*'s. Cheers, jamie

[quote name='blue' timestamp='1473601536' post='3131515'] I'd hire a student or pro, most folks have no clue on how to take even marginal footage of a band in a live setting. Blue [/quote] Nonsense. All you need is a mic / recorder that can handle the SPL and a tripod. It doesn't take a student or a pro to get something useful - just common sense.

Completed a fantastic deal with Jamie - he was incredibly helpful throughout and communications were excellent. Payment was instantaneous. Most highly recommended as an upstanding pillar of the BC community

Sold my BareFaced BB2 to Jay. A guy to recommend! Thanks

Harley Benton RiB-shorty project is done. Detail pictures: This was a smooth and simple conversion, only minor setback was the breaking out if the chunk of wood while drilling the hole for the sidejack. Verdict: This one was the best made HB instrument I've had in my hands until now. Nice tight(ish) fitting neck/neck-pocket, frets are level and there are no sharp fret ends, only two tuners were a little bit misaligned that were fixable without any 'filling and drilling'. I replaced one bridge saddle due to the fact that the height adjustment screws were not at an straight angle to the intonation screw (the original one worked okay but I don't like these small disturbing details). I also placed a neck shim, this was not necessary but I prefer to have the strings a little bit higher in the bridge position. These Chinese toasters sound amazingly Rick-ish, even though they are dual coils (in series), the round rolling sound with a bite, the only minus is that they are slightly microphonic.

And finished the (hopefully) final 'nit pick' session yesterday evening. Straightened the alignment of the bridge. At first I didn't really notice it was mounted crooked but with the placement of the bridge pickup I immediately saw something was out of line, either the pickup or the bridge (of course it was the bridge , not my pickup placement), The more I looked at it the more crooked it seemed! Decided to fill the existing screw holes and after that mounted the bridge on straight.

Applied conducting paint again. I am roughly at the point where I was before I discovered the pickup didn't fit.