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3 hours ago, GlamBass74 said:

Does Bassplayers With Excessive Kit Issues Anonymous exist? 

You're already a member, and have already posted there ...

...  but you knew that. 😉

2 hours ago, tauzero said:

While generally I go with the learning experience aspect, there was one piece of gear I regretted buying. It was a Trace Elliot 4x10 combo. As is the case with all TE gear, it was made of depleted uranium, and the first gig I played with it was at a social club up two flights of stairs with no lift.

I feel your pain. We rented a Hammond C3 and two Ampeg fridges, and met your flights of stairs. Never again.

I too generally agree with the learning aspect, and that was exactly why I bought all or most ofmy gear - - with a plan to become "learned and experienced" and then stand left with one bass (plus a spare cricket bat) and one amp (plus a tiny spare) and two cabs.
However, some gear doesn't give one the learning, or the learning comes too expensively.

Not much, but I do remember:

- Ashdown MAG C410 evo II 300W combo.
Large and heavy, but I know that before ordering. However, the blue speaker cones belied their being just so-so. I've been verrry verrry content with other Ashdown gear, like the 30W Little Båstard with two original LB 12" cabs.

- Rockinbetter bass.
Again, I already knew about the ergonomics, but it came so shoddily put together it might as well have been an original from R.I.C. Decent sound from one pup only.

Whilst I do own and play some hip hop including rap, most of it is for different generations and convocations.

I'm much more interested in KR telling me how things actually were before the Big Bang.
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Fantastic!
So with a thing like that, I can do in minutes what would previously take days of work?
Wow. I need to get me one of those mo du lar syn ... what was the word again? Hm. I'll just call it The Timesaver!
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I remember well the dozens upon dozens of footage bits like the above, explaining this new-fangled thing and telling us that you didn't need an orchestra anymore as this thing could make every sound conceivable by man. I also remember the fear in the orchestra.

Thanks for posting!

7 minutes ago, Mykesbass said:

Some very lovely, skillful arrangements going on there.

Aren't they just!
Of the songs I know, I tend to prefer this orchestra version above the album version.

Five people did these, and I notice that at least four of them compose, arrange and perform in several realms: classical, jazz and pop.
The last one, Thomas Kongshavn, is the guitar player and oft co-composer in Dagny's band. I don't know more of him.

In the unlikely case someone wants to know more about one or more of these composers/arrangers, here are their names:
1  Come over:   Petter Winroth

2  Backbeat:   Jan Martin Smørdal
3  Please look at me:   Aleksander Waaktaar (off.  Aleksander Sinding-Larsen Waaktaar)

4  Drink about:   Waaktaar

5  Bye Bye Baby:   Smørdal

6  Love you like that:   Winroth

7  Somebody:   Lars Andreas Aspesæter

8  Tension:   Winroth,   Thomas Kongshavn

9  Fool's gold:   Waaktaar
10  Coast to coast:   Aspesæter

For @Barking Spiders and possible others, Dagny is another young Norse artist, here with orchestra.
Some cracking pop songs amongst those, IMHO.

If I understand correctly, this footage should play wherever you are.

https://tv.nrk.no/serie/kork-hele-landets-orkester/2021/MKKA11003420/avspiller

I'm sorry to have to say this, @Leonard Smalls,
but you looked more adorable a few years earlier.

What @JoeEvans and @Reggaebass say.
The banks will never admit this. Imagine the paper article headings ...
They know full well how leaky their software is (which doesn't mean it goes wrong all the time, but means that it isn't entirely perfect the entire time, and therefore something goes wrong once in a while), but the banks are dependent on our trust, so choose to pay out claiming "APP" without, as @TimR rightfully says, any further explanation.

Not saying my take is the only scenario, but am indeed saying it's the likely one.

2 hours ago, Beedster said:

 

So how does that work then @TimR, is the scam on the bank side or on the seller side? I checked out APP yesterday - largely because I'm about to transfer a not insignificant amount of cash - and it didn't seem to align with the OP's account, but I may have missed something? 

You haven't missed a thing. What @theplumber described is either a very advanced form of APP (highly unlikely) or simply not APP (very likely).
I reckon @TimR either is wrong or didn't mean to claim it was APP, wording the situation slightly unprecisely (mishap -> bank says APP -> bank pays -> solved). 

As I said above, it has all the signs of a glitch in the banking software, and I reckon that that is the most likely explanation by far (saying this as someone who wrote bits of such software, and who studied IT a few years but sadly without finishing the studies).
 

38 minutes ago, rwillett said:

Errr, it’s not just a beginners mistake …. 😉

LOL.
Yeah, I deleted a sentence about who made the mistake (experienced folks).

On 18/09/2023 at 16:29, theplumber said:

Yes...as far as I understand the APP thing...it's not that! 

Indeed not APP.
I dare bet that it's the banks' softwares showing one of their glitches, like taking the recipient from the previous or next transaction in certain cases.

Out there, people are still repairing vintage software that was originally written leakily in COBOL and the like. One tiny "> 1000" instead of the needed ">= 1000" and the software works the whole time except when it's actually 1000.
(This example isn't even made up. We had a system halt coz it didn't know what to do when we rented out exactly 1,000 houses at the MoD. Beginners mistake.)

1 hour ago, Leonard Smalls said:

We once played a gig to a cardboard cutout of Marc Bolan... The sound man had gone into the bar next door, which is where the barpeeps were. To be fair, the other band came in about 1/2 way through which added 4. But that's what happens on a rainy winter night in Abertillary!

You won. One Marc Bolan trumps two caretakers every day including rainy winter nights. 😃

Don't know what I'm doing in this thread, coz I actually "made it".
To me, "making it" was:

- composing the music I liked,
- recording and playing, with good musicians who were also nice people,

- my own and others' music
- to tiny but receptive audiences.
I did that, and before anyone thinks I'm boasting about my audience numbers: those audiences twice were the building's caretaker, who had to be there. 😃

In practical terms this was left behind when we chose to live in rural Norway, where I needed to do "proper" work to survive.
So in '84 I realised I wasn't going to "make it" anymore.

What a huge let-down, or should I say abomination!
I mean look at those sealed round headlights! On an SL!
 

Kate Bush:  Hounds of Love
Steve Morse:  The Introduction
Prince:  Around the World in a Day
Propaganda:  A Secret Wish

Scritti Politti:  Cupid & Psyche 85

IMS all bought that year.

... plus a plethora of classical and jazz CDs  -  -  which I bought the car and portable players for as soon as I could, in '84 or '85.
 

The 3rd and the Mortal again, now from the more atmospheric album "In this room".
One can hear some experimentation going on, as well as a proggish influence.
BTW, I've seen them live twice, and not only were they a great band, they were also highly different from their albums - more death metal like.
Innersting.
 

A sort of experimental, doomish rock from Trondheim, Norway.
"Painting on glass" was The 3rd and the Mortal's second studio-album. Their style would chance for the next release, "In this room".
 

17 minutes ago, Doctor J said:

Sweden for sure: The Wannadies, Europe, The Cardigans, Esbjorn Svensson Trio, Entombed, At The Gates, TSOOL, Opeth, The Hives... Abba?

... and Laleh too.
Her "Some Die Young" nearly became Norway's national anthem, as it were, after the 2011 Norway attacks. 
Beatiful song, though I tend to prefer the live versions without the effects on the voice.
 

2 hours ago, Barking Spiders said:

I like this a lot, as I do her fellow countrywoman Sigrid,whose voice isn't dissimilar.  IMO pop's in quite a good place now, well female fronted pop anyway, what with these two, Dua Lipa and Olivia Rodrigo. 

Yesss! Have you heard her "Don't Kill my Vibe"? Really worth a close listen - maybe with headphones coz of the gazillions of tiny elements. Me lurves it.
Also her "Sucker Punch" and probably other songs, but I don't know any of these artists very well.

As you say: female fronted pop's in a good place, and many young Norse artists have found their way to my playlists.


Norseland also has guys, like this guy: Sondre Justad.
Here he's singing the day after an anti-gay terror attack that killed two people.
Also without the devastating setting I love this song.
 

3 hours ago, MacDaddy said:

How playable is the neck? Fretting over the channels seems awkward?

I'd guess that it's just noticeable, and easy to get used to. This with fretting close to the fret, applying regular pressure.
... but imagine the mwah when you put on more pressure.


I'm ordering! 😉

At least Neil Young isn't guilty of this uncoolness.
Here he's wearing his Young Neils t-shirt in '93:

Copyright: Aftenposten

On 24/08/2023 at 08:27, rwillett said:

I understand a bit more now. You want to keep the originals. That's OK.  Pictures would help to confirm though.
 

I can easily and quickly print two hemispheres to go inside your custom printed hollow balls. I am assuming that you don't have any flat sides on the balls which would complicate things but is doable. 

 

Filling with epoxy would work, but it will take weeks to cure and cost a lot. Epoxy resin isn't cheap and if you made enough to fill the spheres in one go, it might take a very long time to cure. You also can't make a single mistake. Epoxy is very unforgiving. 

 

Printing two hemispheres to fill your originals out is pretty simple. The design takes about 60 secs, printing is a function of volume but none of the printers are doing much this week so I'd just put them on and let them run. I have loads of filament anyway, so am more than happy to set them running and bang them.in the post. No charge. 

Yet another "Thank you!" from me, Rob.
I'm impressed.

I think it's probably best to get a misunderstanding out of the way. Mine is a "bond", not an "atom". The bond was Martine' solution to the guy's problem.
By way of explanation, these "Snatoms" allow you to build molecules out of brightly coloured atoms with or without the black bonds in the vid. Atoms have one, two or three flat planes; bonds have four.
BTW, behind those planes are freely turning magnets so any plane will stick to any other.


As long as the epoxy does stick and at the same time won't deform the shape or dissolve the filament material, which I think I can test in a corner, I probably won't have a problem.
BTW, I'd be using a quickly curing two-component epoxy with added black colour. This "ink" makes a possible gap less visible and also makes the epoxy thinner and easier to apply through a fat syringe. As you say: I may not make mistakes.

I think the slightly rough edges will show when joined, so I've thought of filling both halves and then shaving off maybe up to 0.5mm to get nicely flat planes to glue together. That way, I won't have to glue the thin edges of the halves, which gives me fear, but can apply glue to the filling only.
BTW, shaving won't damage the impression of the overall shape of the bond.


Right now I feel satisfied that epoxy answers my original question (which glue?), because as long as I can avoid superglue on the halves' edges (with which I will make mistakes), I'm fairly confident.


Thanks again!
bert

 

1 hour ago, rwillett said:

Send me the CAD file and I'll print them for you. 

 

Or I can design and print them again

Hey Rob,

Wow! That's very kind of you, and it might just prove to be a last resort solution in the end.
I won't take you up on this great offer right now, but please accept that I do appreciate it highly.

For the time being I'll do everything I can to keep the bond I have. It's the one Martine specially ordered only for me, and it's the one I wish to display - be it glued or only with a bit of tree inside. In this I'm lucky that the halves bend inwards and so will put pressure on a bit of wood.

Thanks big time!
bert