Silvia Bluejay

Probably an estimate of the number of people affected, and an idea of how badly, and perhaps what could be done if it's not too late. I used the Consumer tab to give my replies, since strictly speaking I'm not in a band or depending on gigging to make a living. It asked what kind of places I used to frequent pre-Covid, how many times I used to go out in a week, how much money, on average, I used to spend in those places, and similar questions. I imagine the Freelance, Employee and Employer tabs ask different questions.

Topics merged, with @peteb and I posting at the same time.

I've just done the survey, and was a bit taken aback by the request for a name, an email address and a postcode. However, I entered my info, and clicked yes at the very end to being contacted for further discussion. If they get back to me, I'll post their questions here and send them a humongous collated reply with a lot of comments!

I've just spotted this article on the online version of the Evening Standard. And this is the survey they talk about. Anyone heard of/tried it?

I've tweeted this thread as Basschat. Good luck, hope it turns up.

All true, but before you even get to 30 mins of recording on a DSLR, you hit the 4GB file size limit - around 20 minutes of video, depending on your chosen resolution. So you never do manage to record uninterruptedly for 30 minutes anyway. We use two Zoom Q2n devices for unmanned recording (each with its own external battery pack). We have just added a Canon Legria to that team. On the DSLR (whichever I'm using for filming at any given moment) I make sure to only record for a max of 10-15 minutes, then start a new file. The Zoom Q2n non-4k and the Legria also have the 4GB limit, but unlike a DSLR, they continue recording in a new file automatically. The Zoom Q2n 4k creates one single, large file from the beginning to the end of the recording.

I have a Canon EOS 600D, my first DSLR which I have long superseded, and I must say, the video is fine, *when it does get recorded*. My camera seems to have problems staying on REC ON for more than a few minutes at a time. It always throws up some 'overheating, stopping recording' message at what are usually normal temperatures, both ambient and camera. First I thought it was the sub-par SD card (needs to be as fast and reliable as possible), but there wasn't much improvement with a new, faster one. It's not that it doesn't work, but it's very unreliable in my experience.

That makes more sense. But I do hope the powers that be do something to fix this situation.

Anyone see this? https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-55530721

I'm always astonished at how Google translates some sentences perfectly, even those which are long and/or complex, but is equally capable of spectacularly screwing up simple, non-idiomatic sentences. Usually within a line or two of each other! During my working life as a technical translator, being asked to edit and correct machine-translated text became progressively more common, while real, human translation became less and less sought after. (But I don't think anyone was particularly interested in my knowledge of classical languages, which is still hiding somewhere at the back of my mind, I'm sure...) Good luck with the purchase, @thebrig, keep us posted and show off the new toy if you get it!

The E string on that bass fits fine through the bridge and in the tuner. However, if you click to enlarge the photo, you may notice that the strings are a bit too long for this bass. (Not much is left of the silks on the E and G.) I think that's because the set is also suitable for 32 inch scale basses.

I recommend using TIs short scale strings - they sound very authentic, and are nice and compliant to play.

Many of the pubs we play regularly at don't curretly even know whether they'll still exist in 2021! Especially those in expensive areas, where developers' millions are always on offer and rarely rejected unless the pub is listed or somehow protected. We fear we may see new blocks of flats in some places where once we used to gig...

The problem with applying that design to a bass guitar is that the headstock has to be larger in proportion to the whole guitar than it is in proportion to the upright, so it loses some of its elegance (and possibly balance, if the body is small). Steinberger bass guitars do without a headstock altogether...

It's an NS NXT5 upright, and it looks like this. (The look is a bit compromised by the not too elegant tripod. They also sell a normal endpin as a separate accessory.)

I notice the complete absence of Warwick headstocks. While beautiful they definitely ain't, some of the headstocks shown in this thread are far more hideous. (Yuk!) My favourite is this one - still a headstock, strictly speaking, rather than a scroll. Elegant and ergonomic.

We had three video cameras in the kitchen...

Erm, hopefully not both yours? 😱😂

Birthday boy with pressie (under his feet).

You don't need to be VAT registered to buy goods (and pay their VAT) as a private individual. In fact, I'll go as far as saying, from the point of view of us as buyers from, say, Thomann and similar, nothing should change, as those companies have always had a base price on which they calculated 20% VAT when shipping to the UK. Private sales of second hand goods will follow different rules, I think.

Hang on, if we have to slap 20% VAT on things we buy from the EU, presumably that's after the seller discounted their own 21 or 22% tax from the price, because they're shipping something abroad. I don't think we have to pay VAT twice?

I'd get in touch with the vendor and Labella. Whenever something similar happened to me, the defective string has always been replaced for free.

Inevitably...

He seems to have deleted his BC membership. He now appears as 'guest' in his old posts, see this thread.

And despite having a rehearsal studio in the garden, we opted for recording in the house.