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I play a lot of dual string drone/melody bass lines and so I am very sensitive to intonation issues. Also none of the high notes you played had a long enough duration for the micro-tuning problems to be really noticeable. It's a lot more obvious when you are playing sustained chords. Besides for me it's all academic as none of the basses I use would be able to utilise this bridge for either construction and/or string-spacing reasons.

The problem I have with allowing the thicker part of the string into the speaking length is it means the unit mass of the string is not constant for every length which will affect the intonation. I've experienced this effect (in the opposite direction) with taper wound strings where the full thickness winding does not start immediately after the saddle. I realise that we are talking tiny amounts here, but the difference in tone is also relatively small, so it's going to be a compromise between accurate tuning above the 12th fret and how important those tonal "improvements" really are. Personally I couldn't hear anything that a good parametric EQ couldn't have duplicated in the context of a full band mix with the bass guitar sitting in it's appropriate sonic and volume space.

You should be able to sign up for a free month's trial for the full version of Premier. However, looking at what is required from the OP the free version of DaVinci Resolve will almost certainly do everything you need.

Creative Cloud doesn't work like this at all. The applications and all my work reside on my computer. IIRC the main CC application "checks in" with the Adobe servers when it is on line to ensure that your subscription is paid up to date, but you can run for a month without an internet connection before it will stop working. Just for the applications that I use on a daily basis - InDesign, Illustrator, Photoshop and Acrobat Pro - the subscription is less than it used to cost for me to keep everything up to date under the old method, and therefore the applications that I use less regularly - Dreamweaver, Muse, Animate, Lightroom, Dimension, Premier, After Effects and Audition are essentially free. I can see that if you are just using a single application for a single vendor, then the old model might have been better value, but, for example the Presonus application, with all the extras you get with the subscription service, I worked out that it would take over 3 years of using it without any paid upgrades before it worked out cheaper to buy it outright. Nothing I use on a subscription service requires a constant internet connection nor for the applications or your documents to reside "in the cloud". TBH even with the fastest of internet connections for anything other than simple "Office" applications and files it would be unfeasible.

Have a look at Newtone. I discovered them because they were local(ish) and back in the 90s would custom wide you almost anything so long as you ordered 3 or more sets. I'm currently using their Axiom Bass VI sets on all my short scale Bass VIs. If I was looking for strings for a 4-string short scale I'd ask them which of the short scale sets they do, are the closest to the lowest four in the Axion Bass VI set.

String technology has made a massive difference. When I bought my first bass (a short-scale) in the early 80s, with Rotosound round wound strings it was impossible to get a decent note out of the E string. Consequently I avoided going below A as much as possible. Later in the 90s when I had discovered that the problem was that all the mainstream string makers were actually incapable of making consistently good strings unless they were standard gauge for 4-string 34" scale instruments, I swapped to Newtone and suddenly the E string on my short scale bass sounded just as good as the others.

Interesting video, although with the bass in its proper place in the mix I don't think the differences would be anything like as noticeable. Some things occur to me: 1. If the benefits are down to stopping vibrations outside of the speaking length of the string, then surely a more conventional bridge with a mechanism to clamp the strings at the saddle would be just as effective and would have the advantage of removing the non-uniform unit mass portions of the string from the speaking length (the bits where the windings go thicker to allow the attachment of the ball ends). 2. And as has already been said, also clamping the strings in place at the nut should make additional improvements. 3. @Steff did you go back to your original Smith bridge after trying this new one? For proper scientific methodology you need to check that simply the act of removing and re-attaching the original parts doesn't also make a difference.

For those of us who use software to make a living, subscription services tend to be better value for money. My Creative Cloud subscription means that I never have to worry about suddenly having to find several thousand pounds for updates to all the applications that I use on a daily basis, as I did on more than one occasion under the previous model. Also I am currently looking at changing my DAW to Prosonus Studio One, as it has several features that I may need which are missing from Logic which I currently use. The subscription version will allow me investigate all those features at my leisure and not have to worry about either paying upfront for something I end up abandoning, or having to cram all of all my investigation into the one month free trial period. Also I get treated as a proper customer while I'm paying the subscription and access to the full-level of support, which I may well need.

DaVinci Resolve. I know it says it costs £239, but if you scroll down to the bottom of the page there's a link to slightly less featured free version. IMO Premier isn't worth it unless you are already paying for the Adobe Creative Cloud in which case it is essentially free.

Really? What is an "average size woman"? I'm a well below average sized man and have managed perfectly well on all sorts of scale length basses from 36" to 28". Unless I am playing complex chords or leaping from one end of the fretboard to the other the scale length makes no difference to the ease of playability.

What's the difference between the blue and red portion of each line?

If the delay effect is in time with the music and your using a human drummer you will need something with tap tempo.

Looks like a Rick-O-Sound alternative.

If you are using it to do collaborative songwriting with the other band members then get whatever they are already using. While there are work arounds for exporting audio and MIDI from one DAW to another, none of them work brilliantly IME.

Have a look at Loopback by Rogue Amoeba. That should do what you need.

I had the Edifier version which after less than 3 months broke at one of the swivel joints (apparently a know weak spot), and were returned for a refund which I put towards a pair of Sennheiser HD599SE which I got at half price using the Amazon prime Day promotion.

Unfortunately this is to be used with the Eastwood copy of the Shergold Marathon 6 bass which has a string spacing in between typical guitar and bass dimensions, The ones I'm currently looking at are by Cycfi Research who appear to be able to produce pickups to any spacing required. TBH I'm very reluctant to do it myself, because I simply don't want to be wrecking £200+ worth of kit. I'd rather pay the money for someone else to do it properly.

Latency will be down to the physics of doing pitch to MIDI conversion and there is simply no way around that without using additional methods like fret sensing. At the very best you need one and half wave cycles for pitch detection (often at least 2 if not more for stability) that means for low E on a bass needs a minimum of 37ms which will only happen under ideal conditions and with a super-clean picking and fretting technique. Most of the time it will be worse. Add to that any additional delays due to MIDI processing by external devices and it's essentially unusable. Processing the audio provided by each string is much faster since all you are doing is a simple A/D D/A conversion the same as any good quality digital effect.

Steve Chick who designed the Peavey MIDI bass now runs Industrial Radio making updated versions of his MIDI system. I'd try contacting him.

Do FTAs include private purchases/imports then? I can't think of anything I have bought from outside Europe that hasn't attracted VAT and duty.

I've been recommended two solutions form US-based companies that properly address the string-spacing problem without having to DIY. However neither is really a simple retro-fit like the Roland pickups and therefore would require either routing the body for the pickup and associated electronics or having a new body (or whole bass) custom made.

Try the Keyboards and Synthesis section of the SOS forums.

For me it's the synthesis via signal processing. AFAIAC pitch to MIDI is dead (especially for the bass) unless you employ extra methods of pitch detection like Industrial Radio does.

What you have to decide is how/when in the recording process you want to use this hardware. The mic pre-amp is simple it's used with a mic when recording, so it goes between the mic and one of the inputs of your interface. The compressor if you decide to use it is also best used as a recording (because it is only one channel) rather than mix-down tool, so that would go between the mic pre-amp and the input of your interface. The 3rd Dimension is more tricky because it could be used while recording or while mixing. So you could put it last in the recording chain just before your interface. However, remember that this is very much a stereo effect (IMO there's not much point using it in mono) so you need to connect the output to 2 inputs on your interface. If I'm looking at the right interface, your's only has main stereo outputs, so you can't use this for mixing with external effects, as you need channel outputs for the routing. So will need to either add this via the ADAT sockets or with an external mixer. Unless you are going to use all this extra I/O connectivity for other things it seems like a lot of expense and hassle just to get one effect working while mixing. Have you tried the effect yet? Do you like what it does to the sounds?

Which Newtone set did you try - round or hex core? You should try the other version.