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Google "UK music licence law" and you get https://www.gov.uk/entertainment-licensing-changes-under-the-live-music-act

Google "UK music licence law" and you get https://www.gov.uk/entertainment-licensing-changes-under-the-live-music-act

[quote name='Nick Riffed' timestamp='1382188318' post='2249062'] This all sounds very complicated. I have a little blue tooth transmitter and a little blue tooth receiver that cost about £6 each on Amazon. I plug the receiver into my home hifi amp ' Aux in' via a mini jack to red and white phono jack splitter then plug the transmitter into any thing with a mini jack out socket and that's it. Having a 'mike in' and a separate volume control on the amp helps coz I just bung the bass straight in too. If I use my phone I can link to the receiver directly. Works for me. [/quote] Which brings us back full circle, plugging bass and computer into an external amp. That's what I do, only using a wire, rather than Bluetooth. The OP didn't want to do that, because he couldn't leave it set up, and the assembly time, however small, gave him an excuse not to practice.

The Interparcel Economy service is UPS. At one time I used them so often the driver noticed we'd changed the hall flooring. Never had a problem with them.

[quote name='PaulWarning' timestamp='1381753941' post='2243129'] I have windows 7 and I just plug my bass into the mic socket on my laptop, I think I remember having to play around with the PC's mixer at the time to get it to work but it's fine for playing along to anything that's playing on my computer, 1 channel only though. [/quote] Well, perhaps it's my laptop or the soundcard then. On mine, the latency makes it unusable [quote name='Rubbersoul' timestamp='1381858830' post='2244661'] The UX1 can also use POD farm or other sims like Amplitube. Nice looking deal on the bundle btw. [/quote] I had no end of problems with Amplitube. The most annoying was that, on a 15" wide screen laptop, the bottom half of the Amplitube window is off the screen, and you can't resize it. The only way I could use it was with a 19" TV as a monitor. I never found a way to make it see the UX1.

I saw them on Saturday at The Mill in Banbury. I'm always impressed by bands that play for 50 people the same as they would for 50,000, and they did. Pat O'May looked like he'd taken a wrong turn backstage at a Spinal Tap gig, but he was definitely enjoying himself and fitted in musically, if not visually. It's good there's still a few blues-based guitarists around who don't sound like SRV and don't do that silly trick with the volume knob to make it sound like a violin. I'd never come across Greg Harewood before,but he has great tone. He appeared to be reading on some songs, but it didn't matter. I was struggling to see what was on the headstock of his 5string Jazz, I thought it said Sandberg, but it could easily have been Sadowsky. I'm not good on high end bass recognition. I think he was playing through a Markbass TSA 500 head. The set was a mixture of blues standards, including an interesting version of Crossroads, one or two of Barre's own and some Tull. I remember Song for Jeffrey, Fat Man, I'll Be Loving You Tonight, New Day Yesterday, Locomotive Breath. Singer was enough like Anderson to be sympathetic, without it becoming a tribute. He also played some good acoustic guitar. Good night, I'd recommend catching them if you can, and I'd go again.

EKO Manta. Balsa wood body and dead plank for a neck.

Harvey Brooks http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tq3NwCHm-4U

Prophets without honour in their own country http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2nwOBaH--kA

[quote name='Dingus' timestamp='1381154760' post='2235035'] I've spent the last thirty-odd years trying to emulate Neil Murray ( among others) . What a fantastic and underrated bass player he is . Both Neil Murray and Andy Frazer ( who doubtless influenced Neil) are players whohave a very distinct , rubberry sound that cuts through the mix, regardless of what bass they play . Both use a very pronounced and agressive right hand plucking technique that goes a long way to creating that sound . Especially back before bass amps and cabs were as hi-fi as they are nowadays , but still to a great extent , if you play rock music on the bass without a pick then you need to create your own attack on the strings to get some cut . [/quote] I had to look up Neil Murray on Wikipedia and he seems to have made a career of being in bands I really don't like. Anyway, I thought this was a thread about Epiphone.

I'm not getting anything apart from the index page. The WayBackMachine preserved bits of the site I put up for a drama group in 1996, which I was rather proud of, as most of the members weren't on the internet then.

[quote name='rogerstodge' timestamp='1380454243' post='2225396'] When i had win xp i simply plugged straight into the pink input and my bass sounded great, no lag and i could play along to youtube, win media player, record stuff on audacity. Now i have win7 i have bad latency and need to use an interface. [/quote] That was my experience too. Win7 seems to have screwed up that element of audio, and I can't see what else it's made better. When people say what works for them, please say what the OS is, it makes a difference. My recollection of the Line6 UX1 was I couldn't get anything out of the bass without loading the Gearbox software, and I didn't like it at all. On Win7. @Maude: The Guitar Link gadget might work, but it says there's an mp3 player function, which makes me suspect it will rely on ASIO and have the same limitations, ie no Youtube.

[quote name='razze06' timestamp='1380810568' post='2230920'] Thanks for all the advice. I have tried using my Westone with heavy gauge flats, and it could do the trick. Unfortunately, it looks like we may actually not go ahead with the idea at all, as we seem to sound just like a rock band whose drummer couldn't make the gig [/quote] What are the guitars doing? Electro-acoustic into the PA, which normally just handles vocals, works for us, with DI box and few as possible effects. Cut down on the solos. Our drummer has a Djembe, which works well. The U-bass also helps mark it out as something different. We added some songs that we don't do in the rock gigs, but kept a few big rockers because they do work. e.g Wishing Well, Teen Spirit.

I had a ABG, but didn't get on with it. Too big for a start. Now I play a Kala U-Bass for the first set and Precision for the second. Just use the MarkBass combo, the same as an electric gig. The MarkBass sounds as good at lower volumes as it does full pelt.

I got rid of my DeArmond Starfire. Now we're doing more acoustic gigs in small venues and I'd really like to get it back.

Mine's black. I took the pickguard off because I think it looks cheap, and anyway it's not needed. Only thing on a long gig I do find the edge of the body digs into my arm.

I've got my two Gibson Rippers on the wall on Hercules hangers. I did that because there's no more room under the bed. I play one of the Rippers for practice because it's Alder and light. The other one is maple and 2lb heavier, so gets little or no playing time, but nothing else looks right in that space, so I can't get rid of it.

I think it depends on the PC, soundcard and operating system. I had a series of old Thinkpads (T20 to T60) running XP, and with those I'd plug straight into the line-in socket, just using a homemade 1/4" mono jack to stereo mini-jack lead. It wasn't recording quality, but good enough for practice and I could play along with any source, mp3, youtube etc. Didn't notice latency and didn't need an ASIO driver. Now I have an HP Pavilion g6 with Windows 7 and that method doesn't work. I installed ASIO4ALL. The problem with that is ASIO will only handle one sound source at a time, so you can't hear bass and an mp3 at the same time. I also installed Amplitube, which has a built-in mp3 player, but you still can't play along to Youtube or Songster. I didn't like Amplitube anyway, the only good thing I can say about it is it's free. I tried several other things, including hooking VST plugins together through VSTHost, and the Lindy USB guitar cable (which has dreadful latency), but could never get round the ASIO limitation. So I now plug the bass into an Ampeg Portflex PF350 with the laptop going to Audio In and that works very well through headphones. I can leave it all connected though.

Another good thing about Thomann is the 3yr warranty on everything they sell, regardless of the manufacturer's guarantee. Had a Mackie speaker that packed up repaired under that, collected, repaired and shipped back with no charge.

I put some of my vinyl on eBay as auctions, but the results were very mixed. One of best prices was an album by Graham Collier that I didn't think anyone would be interested in. Other things I thought would do well didn't. Eventually I gave up and took the rest, mostly old rock, up to The Diskery in Birmingham and got next to nothing for it. But I figured even if they were ripping me off, it would at least help keep a worthwhile shop open. I've still got two cases of classical LPs, including boxed sets of Stravinsky and Mahler, which I have no idea what to do with.

I wish there was a setting on eBay where you could exclude sellers in the US from searches, but allow the rest of the world. Judging by some of the charges they must be paying protection money not to get eaten by the foreign shipping goblins. I saw the GPP and assumed it was typical American capitalism; invent a service that isn't needed and over charge for it.

This just reminded me about feedback I should have left nearly a month ago. Actually I never think to look at feedback before I buy or sell things. I take more notice of post count and length of membership, on the assumption anyone who's been active here for a while is probably ok. And haven't been proved wrong yet.

Sold a lead to Mike, easy and pleasant transaction.

Sold a collection of parts to Will and now leaving belated feedback (sorry!) for an easy and pleasant transaction.

I'm saving up basses. One day I'll trade them in for money.