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[quote name='blackmn90' post='927444' date='Aug 17 2010, 12:16 PM']On the sei website a basic new flamboyant 5 is £2100, compared to £6000 thats a huge saving[/quote] Sorry, I think I misunderstood- your post reads as if you're saying the Alembic is half the price of the Sei, rather than the other way round.

[quote name='blackmn90' post='927082' date='Aug 16 2010, 11:55 PM']isnt that the same shape as a sei flamboyant? probably half the price too[/quote] You're joking right? Sei's aren't exactly cheap but the base price for an Alembic Rogue is [url="http://www.alembic.com/cgi-bin/quote/quote?model=Rogue"]$7500[/url].

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Broadly speaking, the higher your strings are the more acoustic sound you get out of the bass, so orchestral players will generally have higher actions than those who are solely jazz players, as jazzers tend to play amplified more. If you're happy with the sound you get (and don't have too much grief playing other basses) I wouldn't worry about it.

If you had long sleeves on the black top you're wearing you and your bass would look like a single organism- a big funky bass amoeba.

There is the [url="http://www.asodb.com/index.php/simandl-plusr"]Simandl Plus[/url] method which essentially suggests you can switch between 'open' and 'closed' hand positions (i.e. 1234 and 124 fingerings) depending on the line to be played and where you can play it on the instrument.

Or go fretless.

No, the frets wouldn't line up with notes properly if you did that. You would need a new neck to match the correct scale length. [url="http://www.warmoth.com/Guitar/Necks/Tele_BaritoneNeck.aspx"]Warmoth[/url] make a direct replacement 28.625" scale Tele neck.

Unfortunately I don't drive so getting to Edinburgh would probably make it far less economical!

Well, the bullet has been bitten (and my credit card is sweating already ) and my bass went in to the Violin Shop today to get a new bridge with adjusters fitted. Will let you know how it is in a week or so when I get it back!

Your English is pretty much perfect Nice bass too!

I love my Elixirs, and haven't noticed any board wear from them on my fretless. Not tried Optimas though.

You can do this with piezo bridges, and something like the [url="http://www.rmcpickup.com/fanoutbox.html"]RMC fanout box[/url].

In this case I would probably go with 12/8, but the main issue for me is that neither is particularly clear- the triplets in the 4/4 version are hard to see and the dotted crotchets in the 12/8 version are hard to make out- I assume this is just a quirk of TuxGuitar's notation?

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Yep, that's pretty much it. The playback in is meant to be for listening back to what you've recorded (as opposed to monitoring what's coming through the preamps directly), although I plug a CD player into one of the channels on the mixer which works too. The only way I know of to check the quality of the output would be to A/B it against another source- do you have a hi-fi you could connect it to along with a CD player, to compare? Glad to be of service!

It is possible that the headphone out on your laptop isn't up to scratch, so YMMV. What I use is a Soundcraft compact 4 mixer, with all analogue connections- the record and playback ins/outs go to my laptop, the monitor output goes to my hi-fi/speakers. I can plug instruments into the mixer and monitor them from its headphone outputs or through the main speakers, regardless of whether the computer is on or off. I can also record or monitor through software while the computer is on (running through the separate 'playback in' section of the mixer). It seems to me that if you went for something more like what I'm describing, as opposed to the 8 in/1 out approach of the Phonic, you could use the TonePort as your I/O from the computer (bypassing the headphone output issue) and any routing to speakers/headphones/recording could be done at the mixer. Or, if you got a USB/FireWire mixer you could do away with the TonePort. Does that make sense? All this routing makes my head hurt! Hope that helps.

FWIW I run the headphone out from my laptop into a mixer and out to speakers without any problems. In my audio driver panel it allows you to set up the sockets for different speaker configurations (for 5.1 etc.) if you want to- I don't bother and it sounds as good as the crappy a/d converters allow it to.

Just to expand on my somewhat terse reply, syncopation is to my mind a pretty empirical thing- you're either on the beat or off it. It's not something mystical and hard to define (and therefore teach) like 'groove' or 'funk' or 'locking in'. Obviously using it well and tastefully may be more difficult to master but the basics are relatively straight forward.

Yes. It's not magic.

On DB, I think it would have been a piece for kids orchestra. Can't remember exactly what. Aged 12 or 13. On BG, it was an original from my first band- aged 18. Possibly 'Crown Of War'.

Which hand? Regardless, I wouldn't try and play through it- take a break and stretch it out.