Jakester

Why've I been filtered and you haven't? Is it a mod thing? (Unlike IB, who was a baggy thing..)

I'd be whizzed off if I'd paid a tenner!

Jeebus. How the mighty, eh? I love the Stone Roses, and I've got a couple of his solo albums too, but god knows how they got him to sing in tune before Antares came along! I remember taping one of the last SR performances at the Reading Festival off the radio, and it was basically unlistenable - he was so out of tune that it was painful. By all means have the swagger and bravado if you have the ability to back it up, but this is just embarrassing. Plus he's an ardent anti-vaxxer too...🙄

Could be timbale sticks - I have some Alex Acuna ones and they're quite thin - thinner than a 7A I think. Some brands do do 'butt only' sticks (ahem), but they're usually the heavier ones. Could also be marimba mallets with the heads fallen off?

Why is it frustrating? Surely irksome, perhaps irritating, occasionally annoying - but frustrating? I think you need to take a chill pill..

I don't really 'get' compression. TBH, I don't think I can ever hear it on a bass when I'm playing. I've had a few compressors over the years and none of them really made a wild difference to my sound. I'm sure some of that is entirely down to my inability to use them properly. I suppose I use it more as a limiter to stop wide volume disparity between patches. I find compressors much more effective when applied to a whole mix, or parts of it - I was recently messing around with some 70's esque drum parts for a recording, and if you took the toms out and added tons of compression, it really gave the sound we were looking for. But as a subtlety added to my own tone - nope, can't really hear it.

They do as they are the only company authorised by MB to carry out repairs. Since MB won’t release circuit diagrams or component spec details they are the only people in the UK with the ‘official’ information. That is literally the definition of a monopoly. Of course, there’s no doubt other people that might have a bash but they are by no means approved repairers.

That colour reminds me a little of Action Man skin tone. Could you put a pair of the moveable eyes into the body?

I bet you’ll be steering clear of Pawlonia in the future though!

Presumably you've seen the Dug Pinnick? https://www.peachguitars.com/schecter-doug-pinnick-dp-12-black.htm?opt=34390&gclid=CjwKCAjwsfuYBhAZEiwA5a6CDFnAV8h5uGJqnYn-Jw4Lg-o9m9ecfdzbMcA-X-GavOwClBNHzkDZ_xoCyWoQAvD_BwE Could that not just be refinished/headstock reshaped?

Glad you had a better experience than me then! As I say, it's only been my experience but I have used a lot of desks in lots of different situations, and those are the two brands I've always noticed issues with.

I started out with a Xenyx 1024FX but it had to go back as the preamps and the effects were so noisy it was pretty much unusable. Unfortunately that’s been my experience on a number of occasions of using Behringer analog mixers live (and also Mackie ones - Behringer aren’t the only culprits) but thankfully whatever the issue is wasn’t carried over into their digital mixers. In my experience Yamaha and Soundcraft analog mixers do the job well, and as I posted above the Behringer XR18 was/is a game changer for me.

Wow. I just found out you can apparently run the XAir App on a Raspberry Pi! I'm going to put together a Pi multitrack recorder to use with my XR18, but I also found out there's a Pi native version of XAir too. I was intending to use a 3.5" touchscreen for the recorder as suggested here: https://www.z-liverec.com/ I daresay that's probably WAY too small for Xair, but it might be useful to have as a backup to an iPad in a worst-case scenario.

If sellotape fouls the scanning, how do couriers scan the shipping docs put in little plastic envelopes then?

Well, my one was lost entirely. Thankfully ended up with a refund but had to fight and refer to eBay for it. What a joke! Some Evri driver has some very nice studio equipment now.

I have both a Soundcraft Signature 10 and an XR18. The Soundcraft was purchased for really small pub gigs where there was no real need for more than a couple separate monitor feeds. It’s great, quiet, great sounding preamps, good (quiet) effects and useful touches like limiters on some channels, USB stereo out, interval mute (mutes all channels but the phono in (but annoyingly not the monitors) etc. I’d get another if I needed to replace it, though possibly the 12MTK. I was considering the 22MTK for live and home studio work too. The XR18 however is another league - once you get over the tricky learning curve it’s so much more useful and has so many better options. I have to say after a range of gigs using the XR18, when I went back to the Soundcraft I felt a little bereft! Band members were moaning about not being able to control their monitor mixes (makes a change from them complaining about being able to…) and I missed the easy setup with scenes etc. My only issue with the XR18 is the lack of a physical vol knob for when some jackass unplugs/plugs in the wrong thing and causes howling feedback. I do have the XTouch controller but don’t really use it as a physical surface any more.

Hmm, I see what you mean - just had a quick go at a very rough attempt and when you lift off to allow the E to ring, it's hard to cover the B. I did try wanging the fretwrap higher up the neck - around 3rd or 4th fret and it cut the B out completely but left the E, A and D ringing when you want them to. It also muted the G, but if you're fretting the octaves higher up the neck than that won't be an issue. Other option I tried was playing the E on the 5th fret of the B string. Bit of a stretch to the octaves on the G-string etc but worth a try?

I think I use the ball of my right thumb to mute the B when it's not being played if I can't mute with the LH. I do also have a fretwrap jobbie at the headstock though. That said I don't really slap that often and certainly not any Wooten-esque pyrotechnics!

Yep, he has, but it's also shown as 'we have the item' on the Evri website since last Thursday (i.e. over a week now!) I'm not holding out too much hope TBH. We'll see if it turns up tomorrow and if not, I'm requesting a refund.

You’d think. I’m still waiting for a fairly expensive piece of kit from eBay, and on chasing the seller, he pointed out there had been Royal Mail strikes -yes but, er, you sent it via Herpes/Evil, not Royal Mail!

Ah, sorry, can't help, though BC's own @Bilbo has a pretty huge archive of transcriptions here which might be worth a look:

I've boycotted Yodel ever since one of their HGV smashed into the back of my car on the motorway, mashing the back end up and the driver refused to give me his details. Cue police being called, who were far more interested in him than me. I gathered from the Highways Agency chaps there may have been a 'discrepancy' between who the licence said was driving, and who actually was driving. In fairness to Yodel I haven't had too many problems when receiving parcels, only in the course of them being delivered (right into the rear end of my car!)

Wow, if he's graduated from £00's to £000's it's really only a matter of time until someone actually takes proper legal action against him.

Are you after the actual transcriptions of the parts, or the chord charts/Real Books etc?

I play 5ers almost exclusively now, and I still struggle with anything less than 18mm. I've tried (and owned) a couple of 5ers with string spacing below that, but I've never really been able to get on with them so moved them on. I have a Lakland 55-02 which is 19mm and a Yamaha TRB1005j which is 18mm. I've had Warwick, G&L (USA and Tribute) and Spector 5ers, all 17.5 or less and could never really gel with them. I do have large hands though....😳 Edit: in fact, it's a shame, because like OP, there's loads of basses I won't even look at because of spacing. I love the aggro G&L sound of an L2500, but just can't get them to work for me. I'd love a Stingray but just don't think it's worth it as I'll have to move it on again.