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  1. BigRedX
    What is your amp? What are you using to switch channels? Can you provide a photograph of the sockets in your patchbay? Does the channel switching work if you bypass the patchbay?
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    Yes. It's a rather worn Rickenbacker 4005 body and neck. Very obviously a Ric from the shape.
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    Interesting list, although it's missing some important names such as U2 and Siouxsie and the Banshees from 1980 and the Orange Juice gig was 1981.
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    Not that I am aware of. This thread should probably have been removed.
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    It's called the "On-body print". Who are the CD manufacturers? They should have had all the templates you needed available for download from their site. Unfortunately although many of the templates for covers/labels/on-body are the same from one manufacturer to the next, some like to do things their own way, so they are not always interchangeable and you really need to use the templates provided by your chosen manufacturer. And good to hear that you finally got what you needed. I trust you converted your image to CMYK before sending it off?
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    Unfortunately, if you really want to promote your work, whether it's a single/album/video release or a podcast/blog/vlog, you are going to get far more views if you post it here rather than in one of the specialised forums that are only visited by a few people.
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    So why are you giving him publicity by publishing links to his sale items?
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    Do you mean the artwork for the sleeve or the on-body?
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    It's all down to personal experience, but I have been using Schaller Straplocks for 35 years now and never had one fail on me. The only set of Dunlops I've ever had broke after less than 6 months use.
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    And another disagreement here. I actually had to quit the covers band I was in because my originals band was picking up more and more gigs until it got to the point that we were out playing at least one night every weekend, plus after deducting expenses was coming away with more money per gig.
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    Our German "friend" at Music Outlet Shop. There ought to be a Basschat rule about not posting his stuff and giving him the publicity.
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    OK my comment was a bit harsh, but I one quarter of the way in to the video and you still haven't begun to touch on the subject matter in the title. This is why I don't like vlogs, it gives the creator too much opportunity to pad it out with content that is irrelevant to the subject it is supposed to be covering.
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    I think for a bass to be a "treasure of the future" it needs to meet certain criteria: 1. It needs to offer something obviously different to a Fender P or J. 2. There needs to be a significant amount of continuity between examples of the same model, so if you've tried one bass of a particular model from a particular luthier, the next one you try of the same model will be almost the same. 3. It need needs to have several high-profile users who have a unique style, and pretty much only play that particular bass. 4. There needs to be a finite or limited supply, because the luthier has retired or died, or because only a small number are produced each year, with a long waiting list.
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    Would the average person know that a "modern" instrument like an electric guitar might actually be quite valuable?
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    Are you sure this video is about playing covers? 4 minutes in and all I've seen is driving to the gig and some randoms backstage. I'm sorry but life is too short for me to waste my time on this. I could be writing another song.
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    On all the guitars and basses I've owned that didn't come with Schaller Straplocks already fitted, I've always used the screw that was holding the original stop button with the Straplock rather than the one supplied. Since the design of the button part of the Straplock means that the screw goes further into the wood the button ends up being better attached than before.
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    Maybe... Unfortunately Gus will need at least one high profile player who is going to live longer than a single performance with the instrument to get their name properly known.
  18. BigRedX
    What you need to do is to have one device as the master clock and the others sync'd off that. Is there one device that will do master clock functions best? Also you'll need to look at the MIDI implementation charts for each device to see what MIDI messages each will send and receive. To get around the lack of MIDI thrus and outs on your devices you will need a MIDI thru box, but make sure that it is one that supports MIDI clock data on all of its outputs as many will filter out clock messages so they don't overload the MIDI dat stream.
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    I would appear that these days he's using Thunderbird-shaped basses made by Mike Lull.
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    Each vote costs 15p to make. If the organisation hosting the final gets to keep all of that, it would require approximately 250 million people to vote in order for the voting to cover the costs, which is more than the total television audience. For last year's final the viewer vote was approximately 5% of the total watching audience. Viewer voting is a nice earner but it hardly covers the costs of hosting the competition.
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    Because it doesn't really matter.
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    I read that the cost of hosting this year's Eurovision Song Contest was around €45 million. For that kind of money you can make a 13 episode season of a typical high quality TV show with a reasonably well-known cast and believable special effects. I don't think it would look very good for the BBC if they had to spend that kind of money on Eurovision in the present political climate.
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    Why?
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    AFAIK, this is deliberate. As I said in my first post, the UK probably couldn't afford to host the show if they won, so acts and songs which have as little chance as possible of winning are picked.
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    That's not right. There are now so many countries competing that not all of them make it to the finals these days. Edit - 42 competing nations of which only 26 make it to the finals on Saturday night.
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