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[quote name='mikel' timestamp='1484250943' post='3214085'] Yes....Close to the Edge. I played my original copy, when it first came out, so much I literally wore it out and had to buy another. I know every beat,every note and every lyric by heart. [...] If I could only own one album for the rest of my life it would be Close to the Edge, without a doubt. [/quote] This, but remove the lyrics part and add a few vinyl copies because they got worn out. And yes, without any doubt. Album of my life (not necessarily the one I feel is best).

Full Size: - available from February - all three colour schemes - each of them having all three filter alternatives - to be sent worldwide - US$ 1,599 For that price, I personally expect it to be the KARP PCBs put into a bigger box, with rerouting for the user interface hardware.

[quote name='stingrayPete1977' timestamp='1484067651' post='3212401'] Why would it be a scam?, even Nigerian princes living in the States have birthday partys requiring a band! [/quote] I wouldn't play for one. Your (I mean skidder's) choice of course, but make very sure he produces a valid birth certificate. You know, he might not even be a real Nigerian! You can also check the exact colour of his hair. A real Nigerian's hair will be all-black and will not have "rays of gold" in it.

John McLaughlin plays so fast my speaker cables are T5 spec. Love Mahavishnu Orch.

[quote name='Max Normal' timestamp='1483458287' post='3207280'] Yes I am stupid! [/quote] In my humble opinion, it's not you who's stupid but Ernie Ball who are stupid with the graphical interface of their custom options box. Then again, who am I to claim you're not stupid! You surely know best yourself. Glad you found it. I hear good things about these necks, but never tried one that I know of (though I now suddenly realise I never asked my basses what necks they had).

In the Custom Options box, click on Configuration, and a new form appears where the necks are listed in a pull down menu.

Be aware that these necks are FAS, and not for everyone.

Full Size lim. ed. officially announced now in the Electronic Musician mag, with fittingly a full size ad. So I'm counting on an introduction at NAMM, which I assume is in January. [URL=http://s1170.photobucket.com/user/basstractor1/media/Korg%20ARP%20Odyssey%20Full%20Size%20ad%201%20Electronic%20Musician%202016.12_zps5p4ntvmv.jpg.html][IMG]http://i1170.photobucket.com/albums/r525/basstractor1/Korg%20ARP%20Odyssey%20Full%20Size%20ad%201%20Electronic%20Musician%202016.12_zps5p4ntvmv.jpg[/IMG][/URL] [URL=http://s1170.photobucket.com/user/basstractor1/media/Korg%20ARP%20Odyssey%20Full%20Size%20ad%202016.12_zpsb5aack1b.png.html][IMG]http://i1170.photobucket.com/albums/r525/basstractor1/Korg%20ARP%20Odyssey%20Full%20Size%20ad%202016.12_zpsb5aack1b.png[/IMG][/URL]

Korg have semi-announced a [b]full size[/b] version, to be built in the USA. No further details yet.

After having done a great job at staying away from the Gear section for a longer period, I feel strangely GAS free too.

[quote name='BigRedX' timestamp='1482447534' post='3200762'] and vow to use it from now on whenever I can! [/quote] That's the spirit. I think common use of it is afoot!

Thanks! Hadn't heard about her.

[quote name='niagra' timestamp='1482437627' post='3200643'] I look forward to finding out what toetroddenly means . [/quote] Maybe I've overstepped here, but I footloosely meant that people reacted as if their toes had been trodden by someone.

[quote name='Geek99' timestamp='1482359025' post='3199946'] I worked in Austria and Germany a lot and my colleagues rather oblique literary references left me baffled as I didn't have the background to know them, and it's not something you pick up in school [/quote] Worked? School? I'm not sure I have the energy to look those words up. I recognise this the other way round: coming from circles in Holland where oblique literary references are the order of the day, I suddenly lost an audience when moving to Norway. Initially I thought this was a cultural thing, but happily I found out later it was more innocent and just that Norwegians are stupid... (Seriously though: it IS a cultural thing. People with more education than I have could react strongly toetroddenly. )

[quote name='Cato' timestamp='1482270246' post='3199175'] I wouldn't know that it isn't your first language. [/quote] Thanks, man. You know, when writing, foreigners like me can use the sub-set of English that we feel just about comfortable enough with. When reading however, we're on our own. I personally look up some stuff, but sometimes just assume. Some BC members' posts are hard to understand most of the time, whilst other members' posts are normally well-understood. That's not to say I look down on those whose posts go over my head! [quote name='Cato' timestamp='1482270246' post='3199175'] In this context 'miserable' means 'depressing' or 'melancholy'. [/quote] Thanks. Aye, I got that it could mean that, but then was tricked by "humbug", which I thought just meant nonsense or garbage or similar. The song I posted is worse than garbage. It's the stuff you get when people who're already stupid idiots in addition try to act cynically - a truly venomous combination.

[quote name='KevB' timestamp='1482268982' post='3199163'] Think you've missed the remit BT. OP looking for miserable, that was just sh*t. [/quote] Yeah, I was wondering about the meaning of the term "miserable", but was comforted by the OP's word "humbug", which BTW I may have misinterpreted as well. Bah, if only I had Wiktionary on the shelf!

Here's one, but: Brace yourselves! Calling this garbage is being mean against garbage. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D0G0NidIbIA

Yup! A Schmidt 8-voice synth last year and a Buchla 200E modular the year before that, so this year I gather I'll get the Moog Sytem 55. Truthfully though: yes. Each year I buy one of the Global knives I fancy - those with the black dimples in the handle.

[quote name='spectoremg' timestamp='1482100047' post='3197691'] Bollox, I missed the irony [/quote] So one thing is clear: when I'm being very clear I'm being very unclear. At least I'm glad we got that one uncleared up!

[quote name='spectoremg' timestamp='1482091534' post='3197593'] So if I picked up Chris Squire's Rick, plugged into his effects and amps, I wouldn't sound at all like him? [/quote] I have no firm grasp on what you mean with that question, but do see several possibilities as to how to understand it. What I can tell you though is that I reacted ironically/sarcastically to Blue's claim, as that claim is utter nonsense. Sometimes I'm kinder than this, but sometimes one needs to be very clear (though, unwillingly, I may actually have been unclear, Idunno).

[quote name='blue' timestamp='1482089172' post='3197563'] A bass will never give you tone. You can EQ sound or use an effect ( gain, compression,boost). Tone comes from your fingers, that's where you develop your tone. Blue [/quote] This +1000, and that is why every time you recognise a Precision, a Wal, a StingRay or a Rick on a recording, this only means that the bass player has looked up the sound on Wikipedia, and has spent years trying to develop his fingers so the sound can be achieved at one point in time. Hard work, I tell ya!

The new IOS app called ODYSSEi (sic!) IMHO sounds stellar and has much going on. The app supports [i][b]polyphony[/b][/i]: up to 8 voices. I couldn't believe my eyes. Standard it comes with 100 presets and the Rev.3 skin but as expected with all three filter versions. Also has an unknown amount of user preset space. As in-app-purchase you can get Rev.1 and Rev.2 skins - each with 50 presets. Movement in sliders can be a part of a preset. One of the first presets I tried had three sliders dancing at the same time. It reminded me about how I got friends to do similar stuff decades ago - but for one gig only 'coz their being annoyed beamed from their faces. Apart from two keyboards, the largest one of them almost playable, it comes with two Kaos pads. When you move your finger over one of the pads, you can see the connected sliders move - which might be good as a learning tool. Dunno how this will work on an iPhone, and I'm sceptical, but on the iPad with 12.9" screen I think it's bloody fantastic. BTW, these are on offer until January the 5th, as a lot of Korg stuff is right now. IMS 30 to 50 percent off, depending on market.

[quote name='Cosmo Valdemar' timestamp='1481898095' post='3196109'] Focus have several songs titled Focus I, Focus II etc. Currently up to 9 I think. [/quote] Not only that, but on the original release of their first album, "Focus plays Focus" (the one currently known as "In and out of Focus" in normal countries, and "In And Out Of Focus" in other places), they had a whopping [b]two[/b] versions of a song called just "Focus" without any numbering attached. Later versions of the album would call them "Focus (vocal)" and "Focus (instrumental)", but IIRC the very first release dropped the additions altogether or had no more than one such addition. How cool is that. Incidentally, one of my own bands was partially re-named after a song of ours, so this does honor the thread title. ("Quaars-Liebrechts" was changed to "Quasar Librax".)

[quote name='EBS_freak' timestamp='1481849012' post='3195767'] *...%/$...@..|||'.\}!!^{~ [/quote] We had a good laugh at that one here at Bletchley Park! That is: after we'd used the whole night to find out what you'd done. You can't just set the rotors so you can avoid certain four-lettered words, you know! If the instructions say Rotor No. 2 is a "[b]U[/b]", then it IS a "[b]U[/b]" no matter what. Anyway, thanks for the laugh and don't do it again, please. No need to resend. Kind regards, Alan

[quote name='Ashweb' timestamp='1481671992' post='3194279'] So, is it a requirement to modify your avatar every year? [/quote] Just in case it's a serious question: Nope. It's just that some people on BC participate in Secret Santa - http://basschat.co.uk/topic/296150-well-jingle-my-bellsits-time-for-basschat-secret-santa-already/ - and that some of those again follow the idea of having a pic of the secret santa gift as their avatar - traditionally until the end of January, but I've seen many examples of people keeping the avatar for a whole year. My own gloriously beautiful, intriguingly intriguing and weirdly tantalising avatar is an example of the latter.