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Let's not dirty up January any further, I'll have to check back previous years but I think it might be a record breaking one. Plus international bass purchasing can be stressful so let's not jinx it with a declaration just yet, eh? We eagerly await your imminent arrival and I'm taking an executive decision to mark your failure down as date of safe arrival. Not the same thing as getting a next day delivery from Andertons etc. is it?

Well, your post seemed coy, I was unsure how final it was. Plus we don't know what it is yet, so I can't accurately record what caused your exit. That's my excuse and I'm sticking to it!

Thanks for pointing that out. First page edited, Jan summary will be amended shortly.

Well, if no amount of settings tweaking can make them work satisfactorily then I guess they are "defective" and it's not your fault they've been insufficiently spec'ed... As for the iPad, I wouldn't even bother reporting it, IMO it's consumer electronics and out of the scope of any tier of this challenge, regardless of what you use it for.

Boss Poly Shifter to the rescue. -4 semitones will be pushing it though. Be good enough for live.

Oh god, that reminds me, that song's on my to-do list as well. Fscking bricking it, mate. Apart from some of the intricacies, it's as much a memory test as anything else!

A fiendish and convoluted plan I wish I had thought of now!

Back at one of our favourite venues, Wilsons on Market Street in Aberdeen on Saturday 7th Feb. Free entry. Please drop by if you're in the vicinity!

Well well well, that's the first month done and dusted, and haven't you all been a good bunch of abstainers? Mostly. But what an odd January - no-one fell in the first week, so there wasn't a lot to laugh at. Some interesting twists and turns in the whole justification racket (with some enjoyably robust debate - love it), and a few speculative "what if?" type queries which will be monitored closely. January summary - 1 T1 fail and 2 T2 fails. 37 out of 38 still in (T1), 35 out of 38 still in (T2). Well done all, I'm genuinely impressed, or sorry if you've been eating beans on toast this entire month. February warnings - I don't know if it's the same in all local authorities, but up here we've got two months off the council tax Feb and Mar. Don't let that extra scratch in your pocket lead you down the path of temptation!

Some video emerged from last weekend's gig. Just in case you thought I just set up my rig in random places and photograph it every other weekend 20260124 Harbour Lights - Zombie.mp4

Looks like a neat and tidy job to me, well done.

I would never use any wireless system for recording, no matter how fancy/expensive it is. It's not as if you need to be mobile when recording, is it? So why introduce the potential for noise/latency/dropouts? I use several pairs of Lekato WS-70 wireless bugs. They're UHF, so probably running on an illegal frequency band, but I honestly don't care - they're so short range in the grand scheme of things that they're never going to annoy emergency services or ham radio enthusiasts. They've been so handy - obviously being mobile during gigs is a lot of fun - audiences love it when I do a walkabout into the crowd/round the pub. Also have used them to link the desk to the PA speakers or wedges in venues where cable runs require shares in a gaffer tape factory to make safe. I have three sets, so I'm covered in case I forget to charge a pair, or to be able to do handy stuff like the PA shenanigans above. Had all three running simultaneously on the same stage with no issues.

Imagine how I felt when the bass I ordered on 18/09/2024 finally arrived on 13/08/2025... frankly I'm amazed I got it, considering this was an oldco Bax order being fulfilled by newco Bax post bankruptcy.

He has a whole 1 subscribers? Wow, such authority!

Thank you for highlighting the personal angle which informed your argument, I appreciate that and understand a bit better why you took it down that road now. But this whole "everyone can be a musician" thing by typing a few words into an "AI magic music generator" can still get in the effing bin, and no amount of arguments, however framed, are going to dissuade me of that. It's delusional!

I know, but I think it was a low blow to take my specific objection to Generative AI in the music context then frame it as some sort of argument about being against doctors getting help to identify cancer. Frankly, I was a little disappointed by that and it made me sad - I think you took that too far.

It's the concept which I find insulting, I didn't mean you were personally being insulting to me directly. Sorry for the ambiguity.

Don't do that. The title of this thread is "AI in music", so let's keep it relevant? And no, I have never used ChatGPT. I have no desire to either. I've got a brain, and despite what my frequent word salad spewed around here might suggest, it's reasonably competent at times

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.

It says quarterly in the OP's post.

Right folks, help me decide what to take. Don't clutter up the thread, DM me and tell me if there's anything you'd specifically like to see/play from the following: Epiphone Les Paul Standard bass - modded - DiMarzio X2N-B pickups, series/parallel, Babicz bridge etc. Epiphone Jack Casady (20th Anniversary) - unmodded G&L CLF L-1000 - unmodded Reverend Triad - modded - Freeway 10 way switch Yamaha BB1200 - unmodded Sire Z7 - unmodded Epiphone Thunderbird '64 - unmodded Greco LPB-700 - modded - Freeway 6 way switch Burny (Fernandes) LSB-80 - modded - Kent Armstrong lipstick pickups, Artec EXP active mid range control DeArmond Jet Star Spel - modded - Peavey T-40 pickup added, series/single switch for T-40 Neep One - custom bitsa - Warman MM4/Roswell large pole piece J pickups, Artec SE-2 preamp, Hipshot hardware Fazely Hot Rod (the Ratlet) - modded - Tonerider Duke P pickup Yamaha SB500S - temporarily repaired, therefore modded with a Tonerider Duke J pickup in the bridge position Cort Curbow - modded - Bartolini USA MK4CBC pickup, series/single/parallel switch, Glockenklang 3 band EQ Epiphone Mike Dirnt G-3 - unmodded Ibanez ATK200 - modded - Warman MM4 pickup Don't be shy, noise me up. Otherwise I'll just take whatever I fancy out of this lot, and I will likely favour things which weren't there last year. Probably shouldn't take 16 basses with me lest it become a case of "I'll have this hall, where are all the rest of you going?" Cheers!

Friends/colleagues in my experience are a waste of time, mostly broken promises and shaky maybes. I've pretty much stopped bothering, because I take the let down to heart probably more than I should.

Taking a fully mixed single track and magically recreating the multitracks from that single source alone? Since when?

You need to be careful not to turn this conversation into a binary choice and an "us vs. them" type situation. I was careful to use the term "Generative AI". I'm all for AI automating humdrum tasks, or doing things which are impossible for humans (like the software which turns a full recording back into multitracks to allow remixing which I believe you are alluding to). But using it to create "art" that the user could never hope to do under their own steam, that can fork right off.

Generative AI can get in the bin as far as I'm concerned. It makes an absolute mockery of the years I've spent learning an instrument. It's a disgustingly insulting short cut. Get gud or eff off. *mic drop*