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  1. tauzero
    Time to clear out one or two items that never get used... Roland MV-30 MIDI sequencer, file player, and sound module. [attachment=42160:S6001889cropped.jpg] With this, you can record, edit, and play standard MIDI files. It can also be used as a sound module - it's a Roland D-70 without a keyboard. I haven't used it for recording or editing MIDI files (nowadays, with software MIDI editors all over the place, using a hardware sequencer for file editing takes a special kind of masochism). I have used it for playback though, which it did a pretty good job of. Everything on it works as far as I know. There's a page about it here: [url="http://homepage.mac.com/synth_seal/html/mv30.html"]http://homepage.mac.com/synth_seal/html/mv30.html[/url] and if you go to Yahoo! Groups ( [url="http://groups.yahoo.com"]http://groups.yahoo.com[/url] ), you will find a group called mv-30studiom which has some useful information. Reviews can be found at [url="http://reviews.harmony-central.com/reviews/Keyboard+And+MIDI/product/Roland/MV-30/10/1"]http://reviews.harmony-central.com/reviews...land/MV-30/10/1[/url] [url="http://www.sonicstate.com/synth_reviews/roland_mv30.cfm"]http://www.sonicstate.com/synth_reviews/roland_mv30.cfm[/url] Note: it uses DD floppies - these can still be obtained. You can format HD discs as DD, but I prefer to use DDs. I'll put half a dozen DD discs in with it, including several copies of the system disc (the MV-30 doesn't contain its operating system in ROM, it reads it off floppy, just like the early days of PCs...). I'll also include a CD with the user manual and other handy information on it. Looking for £90 plus postage.
  2. tauzero
    [quote name='joegarcia' post='734675' date='Feb 4 2010, 01:13 AM']How are they 16ohm if they only have three speakers?[/quote] Two 8 ohm speakers in series, one spare for when one of the others blows up.
  3. tauzero
    [quote name='tayste_2000' post='727322' date='Jan 28 2010, 10:03 AM']Very tempted I didn't get on with my Guild one, was a little to hard to keep in tune.[/quote] That one's now with me - it's a bit of a game tuning it in the first place but not too bad at staying in tune if you tighten the screws up well enough. I rather fancy one of the later ones... Incidentally, I've found I can play it fine without talc, possibly because I place rather than slide.
  4. tauzero
    [quote name='Bassassin' post='719956' date='Jan 21 2010, 11:37 AM']Made by Weifang Hongyun, in China. I think I feel an import business coming on... :brow:[/quote] They seem amenable to the idea of overseas partners: [quote]Hongyun Musical Instrument is in-phase with the world, let’s create together the refulgence of the career[/quote] So, if you're up for having your career refulged, they're the ones to do it.
  5. tauzero
    It's been [url="http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=330398935913"]relisted[/url] - another chance for any would-be Olympic weightlifters to get some practice in.
  6. tauzero
    Where can I get one of these novelty bass stands then?
  7. tauzero
    I bought a Mazeti fretless off Wooks - went to collect it, he was a pleasure to do business with him and to chat and drink tea with.
  8. tauzero
    Of course, if you were actually buying it to play it, the Schaller bridge would be a plus point, and then the only problem would be that it's overpriced because you can get much better basses than 70s Jazzes for less than 2k...
  9. tauzero
    [url="http://chicago.craigslist.org/chc/msg/1548687008.html"]Gold '65 Jazz on Chicago Craigslist[/url]. For that price, it ought to be solid gold...
  10. tauzero
    Wasn't that blue Jazz mentioned on here recently? ISTR all the photos were upside down and it had a brass nut (skankdelvar pointed that out). That pose against the stack looks familiar... Ah, not it wasn't. Close though: [url="http://www.gumtree.com/london/32/51032132.html"]Jazz on Gumtree[/url]
  11. tauzero
    It could be that Andre is not familiar with web fora and hasn't yet developed the thick skin necessary to cope with them. He might also be suffering a saccharine overdose from the majority of posts on that thread. While I do think it's a great story, there's a serious excess of schmaltz in the responses. And I can't work out what the accuser thinks that the scam actually is. Perhaps Butch had Andre hidden in a loft for forty years and pretended he was in a helium balloon, doing the voice for Mickey Mouse. Incidentally, frequenting, as I do, various newsgroups, email lists, and the odd forum (some very odd, in fact), it does warm my cynical old heart to see that random acts of kindness happen all over the place. The slightly depressing side to that is that everyone seems to think that said random act of kindness could only happen on the list/group/forum that they're on, they don't realise just how widespread they are.
  12. tauzero
    My local motorway services have obviously tired of the subliminal joke because now Viz has replaced BGM on the top shelf at the end of the row of tits, and consequently Mr Zender is under the row of tits instead of being at the end of them.
  13. tauzero
    Underrated - Hieronymus Squidge of Goof and the Bassett Fairy Cakes. His innovative use of hammer and electric drill is truly wonderful. Overrated - his successor in the band, Antsnam Pantsnam, who modelled all of his basslines on the first movement of John Cage's Four Thirty-three.
  14. tauzero
    [quote name='bilbo230763' post='701675' date='Jan 5 2010, 03:00 PM']The problem is that there is no one route through this, there is no one-way to go so you will never know it all in the right order. My advice is to start with the concept of intervals - the distance between any two notes, irrespective of which notes they are. Know a semi-tone/diminshed second (one fret), tone/second (two frets), minor third (three frets), major third (four frets), fourth (five frets), augmented fourth/flattended or diminished fifth (six frets), fifth (seven frets), augmented fifth/flattened or diminished sixth (eight frets), sixth (nine frets), dominant seventh (ten frets), major seventh (eleven frets), octave (tweleve frets). An awful lot comes out of this.[/quote] It's all annoyingly illogical. I mean augmented and diminished - easy enough, you sharpen or flatten the note. Major and minor third, fair enough, that's what distinguishes the major from the minor, although this is multiplying terminology, and if you know enough to know what augmented and diminished mean, you should know what flattening a major third does, so why can't it be a third and a diminished third? And as for the dominant 7th, that's really confusing. TBH, I really don't understand why it gets to be referred to as the 7th because to me that would imply it was the 7th in the major scale, but it isn't, that's the major 7th. And the dominant (when referring to notes in a scale) is the 5th, thus adding another nomenclative confusion.
  15. tauzero
    No-one's mentioned harmonics yet... I don't use a capo on the bass but if we had to shift the key of the songs I use harmonics in, it would be preferable (for me, anyway) to using forced harmonics.
  16. tauzero
    [quote name='endorka' post='702631' date='Jan 6 2010, 11:31 AM']Oh yeah. Drummers are good with words for these rhythms, one I work with uses "hippopotamus" (hip-o-pot-a-mus) for 5 in the space of four.[/quote] As in "I made a right hippopotamus of that fill"?
  17. tauzero
    [quote name='Marvin' post='702048' date='Jan 5 2010, 08:06 PM']You know theory Clarky, what's a fifth? [/quote] 20%. You play the fifth once per bar and the root four times per bar. It can be a bit tricky fitting that properly to 4/4 time.
  18. tauzero
    "Rocky Mountain Way" - always a big decision, do I bother fretting the A or just play it open so as to reduce my left-hand usage to about ten seconds... "Freebird". I make no excuses, I like it.
  19. tauzero
    [quote name='Marvin' post='701540' date='Jan 5 2010, 01:11 PM']A simple example. C major scale. I read somewhere that the chords in C major contain 4 major chords and 3 minor chords. And that was it. Nowhere did it explain why in a major scale did you have even 1 minor chord (it highlighted Dm). Call me thick but I don' understand it: minor chords in a major scale chord progression. And that's why us plebs get so fu*ked off with theory, there do not seem to be any rules. They change, mutate and no one explains what is happening.[/quote] I didn't understand Bilbo's post either. I can, however, give you a quick and dirty insight into the chords in C major. C major = all the white notes. Chords in that key are made up of the root note (C, D, E, etc) plus the 3rd and 5th notes above it in the scale. So we start with C as the root and get C, E, and G as the three notes. Move up to D, and you get F and A as the third and fifth notes, which makes a Dm. Similarly E, G and B gives Em, F, A, C = F major, G, B, D = G major, A, C, E = Am, and B, D, F = something odd that Bilbo can tell you about. My grasp of musical theory is pretty tenuous - it means I'm more likely to find a good note to play than a bad one, and it also means I've got a basic palette of chords to use when writing a song. Knowing the rules and deciding to obey them slavishly are two different things, though, and I almost invariably use a chord or two which shouldn't theoretically be there. Given that I also can't read music, what purpleblob said is almost exactly my position.
  20. tauzero
    Pee Emmed.
  21. tauzero
    What's the neck like in terms of width and thickness?
  22. tauzero
    [quote name='ped' post='692713' date='Dec 24 2009, 12:16 AM']I was just billed by the HMRC - £1,800 by jan 31st! Terrific![/quote] Blimey, you don't earn much.
  23. tauzero
    [quote name='uzzell' post='678034' date='Dec 8 2009, 03:21 PM']I played a gig the other night and the bass player from the other 'team' nudged me on the elbow and whispered 'wanna see me bass?' I replied with a reluctant yes at which point he did a drum roll with his mouth followed by the Carmina Burana vocal chant whipped it out out its case and said 'there [b]she[/b] is, isnt [b]she[/b] the most beautiful [b]girl[/b] you've ever seen?' The whole experience sent shivers down my spine and the funny thing was his bass was an Epi Thunderbird!!![/quote] I'd have thought "Quasimodo" would be an appropriate name for that. Or "Quasimodette" if he insists it's a girl.
  24. tauzero
    [quote name='Eight' post='678556' date='Dec 8 2009, 10:18 PM']On the other hand, I used to spend a lot of time setting up servers which need network names and always found it so boring to use a naming scheme like apps002... so coming up with cool names was always the highlight of my job.[/quote] Only as long as you don't think character names from LotR or, even worse, Harry Potter, are "cool".
  25. tauzero
    [quote name='EdwardHimself' post='677205' date='Dec 7 2009, 09:08 PM']I'm just wondering because the more i think about the guitar player in our band, the more i don't really like him. Obviously, we have to work with poeple you don't like, so do you think this applies to being in a band as well? The problem is that we live in the middle of nowhere and we're having enough trouble finding anyone as it is, so we can't really afford to ditch him so i dunno i just have to work with what the hell i got i suppose.[/quote] Don't like on a personal basis, don't like on a musical basis, or don't like on what I suppose you could call a professional basis? I've never been in a band with someone I disliked personally, though in a couple of bands I never really got to know much of the other members anyway. I haven't had much problem in the way of musical dislikes, though I admit to loathing the UB40 songs the old covers band did, while the guitarist loved them. The biggest problem I've had is the professional aspect - most recently the vocalist of the former covers band, who used to drink far too much. It looked bad and it made him sound bad. However, because we did all like each other personally and the drummer, the guitarist and I all lacked the killer instinct, we never managed to get round to sacking him. He finally left, which eased the situation.
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