tauzero

I use Alto TS408s for vocals (and, in one emergency, bass), and they're fine.

Why not just leave the (unwired) J pickup and two unused pots in place?

Yes, I think that's where I got the name from too, but he doesn't list it among his (considerable) credentials. Edit: Just to clarify, I think it's the answer but was just looking for confirmation.

Even stranger, I just tried using PuTTY (v0.81) from my laptop (I'd been using it on my Windows 10 machine which is the one in the office with a spare accessible HDMI screen that I'd used to set up the Pi in the first place) and it worked fine. I need a drink.

Further update - I burnt the image again, put the right password in, and got the same result from PuTTY over wifi. Casting around, I found KiTTY, a fork of PuTTY, and tried that, and it worked. https://www.fosshub.com/KiTTY.html and https://www.9bis.net/kitty/#!index.md

I've been watching all the episodes of Taggart since the start as part of my "things to do now you're retired" list. In the first 15 series, the incidental music features a masterfully played fretless bass which is the primary mood setter (much as the sax does in A Touch of Frost). Subsequent series have done away with that and the incidental music isn't focussed on any one instrument. I did try to find out who had played bass for those earlier series - it seems it may have been Trevor Barry but I'm not sure. Does anyone happen to know?

Put the pots on upside down?

I've not encountered this in 20 years or so of using PuTTY. I've also got a KVM with a couple of spare ports, which is what the Pi is currently living on. Next stage is going to be to re-burn the OS to the SD card and go round again - at least it's just plug and play (the audio card is automatically detected in a script), I hate it when you go through an hour or two of rigmarole and then have to start all over again. OTOH, I imagine that I'd get exactly the same thing going via wifi. The Hifiberry card is https://www.hifiberry.com/shop/boards/hifiberry-dac-adc/ - this project is taken from https://towardsdatascience.com/neural-networks-for-real-time-audio-raspberry-pi-guitar-pedal-bded4b6b7f31.

I thought I'd try putting ElkOS onto a Pi4/Hifiberry that I have lying around. What an absolute f*cking nightmare. Mistyped the wifi password and can't find a way to get connmanctl to let me change it, connected with ethernet but PuTTY (latest version) won't play with it as ssh and PuTTY aren't agreeing about key algorithms. I'm not having a good day anyway and this is just making things ten times worse. I shall see if anyone in the Elk forum has any suggestions.

We weren't too bothered about whether the original had a male or a female vocalist. Mrs Zero was our vocalist. https://lightning.tauzero.org.uk/songs.html

If only it was a bolt-on neck...

At the moment, a text file on my phone, but I think I should do it properly.

When I was the house band bassist a few years ago for a popular OM, I got quite adept at reading guitarist's fingers, although when they use a capo it inflicts a whole new level of pain (the same applies when you're reading the chords over someone's shoulder and they're using a capo).

I had a look at the Pi Stomp quite recently but it seemed to have come to a grinding halt. Looks like it's moving again now. I may have a shot at knocking something together as I've got a Pi and a Hifiberry DAC+ not doing anything.

"Estimated to ship 5 months after placing order". Ouch.

The pole pieces issue has me puzzled. That's why I suggested swapping the pickup wires round. Try checking resistance between the pole pieces and each of the pickup wires, and if one is no resistance and the other is a few k, the one with no resistance should be the ground.

Beer festival held at the Shirley British Legion, which is where the open mic I attend is held. Every year the organisers get the open miccers to provide the entertainment. This year I was providing bass accompaniment for three others (one of them is a blind 13 year old guitarist, very good, who plays plenty of assorted blues), as well as playing guitar for Mrs Zero to sing to. We like to stretch ourselves a bit, so we did Two Out Of Three Ain't Bad as one of our numbers. The final act of the night, though, was Space Monkey. We haven't played together for three years and didn't have any rehearsal, our glorious leader just sent out a song list which was vaguely adhered to. I'd got my notes, then right at the end for the last encore he called for Gold. Slight moment of panic then I remembered I'd got my full cribsheet in Dropbox, quickly pulled it up and got in just in time. There was a really enthusiastic reception - we built up quite a fanbase in the year or two we were together, and quite a few people said they were looking forwards to us. We had almost everyone up and dancing, which was pretty good.

Folsom Prison Blues - it's country, root-5, following a typical 12-bar chord progression, I IV I V IV I. Not like the guitarist-with-a-bass at my regular OM plays it, a walking bass line (probably because it's got "blues" in the name). Sanctuary - straightforward D-C-G. For the vocal bits, other than "and the world...", there's a passing B at the end of the C. The middle bit is just a D, preferably a low D. Still haven't found is again a typical 12-bar chord progression. I IV I V IV I again. Just root notes, constant eighths. Dakota - there's just three chord sequences, E C# A (in and verse), A E ('makes me feel like the one'), E B A ('I don't know where we are going now'). Root notes, constant eighths.

However, if you remove something early in the signal chain, you can't get it back later on. The order matters, the location doesn't. I find that I do the tone shaping with an effects pedal, with the only use of amp controls being to reduce bass if necessary, and the controls on the bass left flat.

What's wrong with acrylic?

I've never owned a Klos, and the only time I've played one was a 4-string at @dub_junkie's house when I went to try a Bogart. It impressed me so much that I put myself on the list to be notified when they brought out a 5-string, and now they have. https://klosguitars.com/products/carbon-fiber-5-string-bass Shame they didn't go with my suggestion of a headless...

Don't forget to include confusing convincing diagrams on your BassGenius website.

The ultimate that I've encountered is Machina Dynamica - gradually degrading though, the broken links to images used to show covers of sci-fi novels from the 50s and 60s. I commend the Brilliant Pebbles to the house. I am genuinely unsure if it's satire or genuine (partly because I've seen reviews of digital interconnects on the What Hifi website which go on about better stereo imaging and openness, when a digital interconnect either transmits the data or it doesn't and certainly wouldn't know how to affect the contents).

I suppose it depends on your definition of "big name". MTD, Steinberger, Hohner, the aforementioned Cort and Eko.

Bidirectional audio cable is a load of old bollocks. Consider - an audio signal is AC, centred around 0V, so electrons travel in both directions. A pretty fundamental demolition of the whole idea. However, zero nuts aren't a load of old bollocks. It means that the strings will be raised to a consistent height at the nut end rather than relying on the nut being accurately cut. My Eko 6 acoustic that I've had for at least 40 years has a zero fret and no issues (despite being in regular use). Of the 15 basses and five guitars in my sight, the Sei Flamboyant headless has one, the Cort Space has one, and the aforementioned Eko has one. There's no need on the Warwicks or the two Antoniotsais that I've retrofitted with Just-A-Nuts as they have adjustable nuts. If I remember, in the next couple of days I'll sort out pictures of me and various basses to show neck divingness and hanging position. The comparison of a headed and headless Sei Flamboyant may be useful (might be worth appealing to anyone who owns both headed and headless Statii to do similar).