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good call, thanks

My first ever bass was a Squier Musicmaster in white, like this I sold it when I was 16. I had no idea it was worth anything, I'd started playing 6 string basses, and I really wanted to buy a drum kit. I had one school friend who'd give me a kit for £50 and another who'd give me £50 for the bass - sorted. However, I've never been able to let it go, and as time goes by (I'm now 35) the regret gets more intense. About 5 years ago, the person I sold it to got in touch on Facebook. She's now living in the states. Of course I asked about the bass and she explained she'd given it to her sister, but she'd ask if I could buy it back. The sister said no, but if she ever came to sell it she'd let me know I'm struggling with a wrist injury at the moment. I can't play my 6 strings, even a standard P is difficult, so I was looking at some short scale basses and thought I'd contact her again just on the off chance. It turns out the sister sold it to a guy in Salford last year for £250. I'd have easily paid double that to get it back! I wonder if anyone on here bought it? Or knows anyone who did? I put a deep gouge in the top by the jack socket, I assume that's not been repaired.

I know it's not funny but that really made me laugh I was very lucky in that an addict walking past asked me what had happened to my door. I explained I'd had a few guitars nicked. He said he'd ask around, and then half an hour later lead me to a house with 8 of the 10 guitars in it in exchange for £50. I still miss my Aria Pro II hollow body 335 alike though

We had 10 guitars nicked from our house in Stoke about 15 years ago. The police were great, fingerprinted absolutely everything in the house, there must have been 5 officers there, god knows how much that cost. Never heard from them again. Weird!

If I'm working with someone in the studio, a bit of music theory knowledge comes in very useful. If I'm sat at home with my guitar I tend to try and avoid using those same "rules" that make working with others easy, in the hope that I come up with something a bit different. It seems to work OK to me

I think these are better examples of Rocco working with Yussef Dayes, who is one of the most exciting drummers out there

cool!

hah, yes, I hope you've insulated the bare wires somehow, be careful It would be tidier, and probably safer, to install a socket properly

A photo would really help. You removed two wires from the speaker that blew, right? These two wires could be soldered onto a jack socket. You might have to drill a new hole in the amp's case to fit the socket to, then you would use this socket as a speaker output. Use a jack-jack speaker cable to connect this socket to the input socket on the cab I guess you could just wire a jack plug onto the two wires but I doubt they'd be long enough to stretch to a cab underneath the amp, and it wouldn't be a very professional solution

Yeh you could just wire the two wires that were attached to the speaker, to the two points on a mono jack socket. Then you'd use a speaker cable to connect that socket to the input on the TE cab. The link socket is to connect a second cab. The 3 pin sockets are XLR. On the amp, this is a DI out and will not be able to drive a speaker. On the cab it's just another connection that you could use instead of jacks, but XLR speaker leads are less common.

The Balanced Line Out is DI output for connecting to a mixer or a slave amp. If it doesn't have a speaker output, you could wire the two points that were connected to the old speaker to a jack socket, and use this as a speaker output. You then use a jack-jack speaker cable to connect that socket to the cab.

I think the pro/amateur thing is like essential/non-essential. If you make your living (or a good chunk of it) from playing music, and you need to rehearse to do that, then rehearsal becomes essential. If rehearsal is purely a social activity for you, then you probably shouldn't be doing it We've opened as we were told specifically by trading standards that we're now allowed. Obviously we've put measures in place, but it's not up to us to judge who should and who shouldn't be allowed to rehearse or record.

I think it might work in one of the PCIe x16 slots ...but your opinion is to keep the MOTU 24IO rather than buy a modern interface?

Can't wait to watch this. Louis Cole was the last gig I went to before they were all cancelled. It was just him and his looper but it was brilliant. The following night was suppose to be the full band in London but it was cancelled

MOTU PCIX-424 https://motu.com/techsupport/technotes/pci-424-compatibility The MB I'm looking at has: 3 x PCIe 3.0 x1 1 x PCIe 4.0 x16 1 x PCIe 4.0 x16 (x4 Bandwidth)

I have a small studio, and I've had the same computer for about 7 years now. I built it myself and it's rock solid. I run Cubase 6 on Windows 7. My interface is a MOTU 24/IO with the relevant PCI card. The system doesn't struggle with anything I've ever done, so I don't need to upgrade, but I'd like to upgrade to Windows 10 and Cubase 10, and I might as well get a new system at the same time. I figure I could build one for around £900 or buy pre-made for about £1700 E.G https://www.scan.co.uk/products/3xs-fa9i-audio-workstation-intel-core-i9-10900k-32gb-ddr4-500gb-ssd-2tb-win-10 My concerns are regarding the interface. I'm not sure that the PCI card will be compatible with a modern motherboard. I'm also not sure if this interface is so out-dated I should abandon it. I don't see any other interfaces with 24 IO, they all require additional ADAT boxes or the like. I've read a few threads on Gear Slutz etc but they're all so specific to their individual needs If you were kitting out a studio for 24 channel in and out on Cubase 10, Windows 10, what would you do?

I've been seeing loads of these on Facebook. They call it a raffle, often say they donate some proceeds to charity, but it all seems entirely unregulated to me. A mate of mine kept bidding on stuff and was trying to persuade me to bid on a huge computer screen. Then his sister started holding these "raffles" for random electrical items. He kept inviting me to bid. I asked if he'd ever "won" anything from any of these raffles. He had, but only the one his sister ran.

we were pretty rusty after so much time off but it didn't take much to get back into the swing of it

I'm actually on drums. That's Nick Bayes on bass,. He plays an American P he bought new a couple of years back through a TC combo. I have a little EQ, compression and saturation going on in the mix

Is that certain?

It's easier if you just call it a whammy bar

yeh but we can wipe them down. It's the baskets/foam on the mic, I doubt there's a practical way to adequately sanitise them

I'm thinking we say "bring your own mic, if you don't have one you can buy one of ours"

We've not actually opened yet as we're not ready. We're meeting tonight to nail down the formal plan. It's not going to be simple!