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Are you a bass player, a bassist or a bass guitarist? Do you care which of these names people use to identify you? Personally I don't mind but I know some people get very exercised about it.

[quote name='blue' timestamp='1456100754' post='2985470'] Wow, did I ever bring up a touchy subject. I had no idea. From now on I'm just going to refer to you guys as bass players. That's a cracking idea, Blue. And every bit as touchy. New thread coming up. Ha ha ha. Blue [/quote]

A small point of order. Let us not conflate 'nationalist' and 'separatist'. A nationalist is one who wishes to assert his/her national identity. A separatist is one who wishes to secede from the country as a whole. The two can overlap, but often don't. Many members of the SNP and Plaid Cmryu are nationalists but not separatists.

Interesting article here: http://www.macworld.co.uk/feature/mac-software/best-mac-making-music-apple-computer-for-editing-music-3446650/ From December 2015, Macworld.com says that there the choice of PC or Mac for music recording is entirely personal preference and there is no inherent advantage offered by either operating system. The article also had lots of useful info on hardware specs

I had Sennheisers for 20 years before replacing them with the above mentioned Monster. They lasted brilliantly.

[quote name='AlpherMako5' timestamp='1456084889' post='2985280'] This is all a very interesting read, because I want a new computer but don't know whether to go Mac or pc. I have cubase 8. You can get a lot of pc laptop for half the apple money. [/quote] It really comes down to personal preference and available funds. I've always been a PC user and so prefer them. I'm also quite poor, so Apple products don't appeal to me. You can get much, much higher specs for your money in the PC market. The products aren't as shiny on the outside, though. Re laptops, touchscreen apps for Windows machines are improving all the time, but still lag behind the iTunes store. My laptop has iTunes for my iPod and Chordle for my sheet music. I also use Audacity for music editing and Paint.net for logo design and poster making. These all run perfectly well on my £200 hybrid tablet/laptop under Windows 10.

I recently bought some Monster DNA headphones. They cover a range of prices and all the ones I tried on felt and sounded really good. I've used mine for a couple of weeks now and love them.

At 16 I was failing to play Another One Bites the Dust and worrying about acne. That's a minimum of two counts that she has me beat on.

[quote name='Dazed' timestamp='1456079617' post='2985199'] There was a reply to wanted the other day. Don't know how ?? [/quote] Ghosts......

I did about 10 years on four strings before moving to 5s. Does that make me 50% of a Billy Sheehan? That notwithstanding, his comment seems to imply that >4 string players are somehow defective / lesser players because they haven't bothered to learn how to use a four string properly. In my case this is undoubtedly true - I use a five string so I don't have to work too hard when a song is suddenly played in a different key. Why bother to learn how to change key on a four string to accommodate a singer's preference when I can just go down a string?

[quote name='rushbo' timestamp='1456073416' post='2985117'] Come to Halesowen. [/quote] I'd really rather not.

Re LED heat. I love that LEDs give off virtually no heat. As I get older, I appreciate cooler stages. Having said that, it took me a little time to remember not to look directly at an LED light. Going temporarily blind adds an entertainingly random element to my playing.

I can't remember where I bought my lights from, even though it was only a few weeks ago, but I got 2x64 LED PARs and 2x48 LED PARs, four stands and a gobo for £100. I hadn't bought any lights for about 15 years and am amazed at how cheap they have become.

Does that mean this thread is finally finished? Please?

[quote name='xgsjx' timestamp='1456060960' post='2984955'] That sounds like a similar spec to my MBP, except for I have a 500gb SS drive. What I do get as well for that extra £1k is a solid built aluminium shell, software that works without me having to read the requirements & no viruses. Some folk prefer to spend that £1k elsewhere (like a new bass or expensive anti virus software), I'd rather have something that I know is unlikely to let me down & in 5 years time still be worth a bit of money if I did decide to sell it. I sold my 2007 iMac to a fellow BCer just last July. Still running fine & a good spec even by today's standard. How many 8 year old PCs could fetch a decent price? [/quote] Bugger. An evangelist found me. Not answering the metaphorical doorbell, though.

Difficult to say if it is overpriced. Personally I don't know how Harley Benson produce the basses they do at the prices they do. A few nights ago I heard an excellent player playing my £60 HB through my Vanderkley rig and I doubt if I could have distinguished it by ear from a top line bass.

I'm not a natural limelight hugger but like to be involved. Many years ago I drove a crappy looking old Volvo 440 which I'd bought from a mechanic. I loved being able to out accelerate boy racers in the Egos at the lights. Sort of the same thing

I buy my stuff from Novatech. Pretty cheap and extremely flexible. If you want a laptop, I have an Asus Transformer 200ti which I love. The Transformer 300 is now out and is pretty cheap. Touchscreen and laptop hybrid, lots of USB sockets, HDMI sockets, etc. with a large screen and . Proper keyboard. Novatech have a 15.6" laptop with i7 processor at 3.1GHz, 16Gb RAM, 1Tb Hard disk, etc. For £630 inch VAT which must be powerful enough, I'd think. [btw, MacBook Pro with slightly lower specs is £1,667] [i]runs away from Apple Evangelising horde.[/i]

We are definitely British. Ignore the people who claim to be English, Scots, Welsh, Manx, or anything else. They are still British whether they care to admit it or not.

I thought this was a follow-on to the little hands thread.

[quote name='UglyDog' timestamp='1412604694' post='2570275'] [media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dFdas-kMF74[/media] The classic Alan Perry/William Gardner Orchestra recording of "Sailing By", as used by BBC radio for their late night shipping forecast, contains a fairly formidable bassfail -- a very [i]very[/i] bum note at 1:54, followed by a bar of "oh god, where am I?" chart-searching silence, and then back on the money. Once you know it's there, you're listening for it every time. [/quote] I've never heard that before in all the hundreds of times I have listened to it!

I think that it is natural for people to focus on the negative as they are more likely to notice a place that they know close than a place they don't know open.

Well, its very stylish looking. I think. Looks unplayable otherwise.

[quote name='Musashimonkey' timestamp='1455978878' post='2984197'] If it's still here on payday I'll have it! [/quote] Is that 'payday' in the sense of Euromillions payday?

On those few occasions when I have owned a van, the best form of security was to park it with the rear door hard against the wall of my house. Granted, that isn't an option for everyone, though.