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[quote name='ahpook' timestamp='1362173980' post='1996904'] it's a bit pricey, but the EBS microbass II is the best for this imho. it's very neutral-sounding - i never really liked the old "pre-VT" sansmaps as they had to much of a sound of their own (the new ones may be better of course) but the EBS's eq is good, it has speaker emulation and lots of other useful stuff too - i've been using it as my recording preamp for years as well as a live DI. i'm quite a fan, can you tell ? [/quote] I've played through one and it does sound good, however I would never buy one. It's £250 and made in China - talk about artificial markup! It ought to be closer to £25. A lot of guys use the Tech21 Sansamps.

[quote name='flyfisher' timestamp='1361543279' post='1987266'] No more morally wrong than doing 80mph on an empty motorway, I'd say. No one is deprived of anything. No one is harmed. Heck, no one would even [u]know[/u]. [/quote] Government would know. All car travel is under surveillance in this country. They call them "speed" cameras.

[quote name='icastle' timestamp='1361413088' post='1985710'] If an artist decides that they don't want their material shared then they have a perfect right to express that opinion. In fact, the artist has more right than anyone else to express an opinion on sharing their work than anyone else has, regardless of whether they can stop their work being shared or not. [/quote] This is true. However, if they don't want it shared [i]at all[/i] then by following the logic of that opinion, they'd never release it into an environment where the sharing of culture is what is expected to happen. Here's one of many examples of a thriving industry where sharing is rampant and beneficial: [media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zL2FOrx41N0[/media]

[quote name='ThomBassmonkey' timestamp='1361411937' post='1985703'] I state my opinions and I'll stand by them. I haven't posted anything personal about anyone on this thread. [/quote] Neither have I. If you're against filesharing then you don't deserve to have your files shared. That was my point.

[quote name='ThomBassmonkey' timestamp='1361411420' post='1985697'] That is way out of line. Disagree with my opinions all you want but don't question my integrity as a musician because of that. You have no right to say what I do and don't deserve professionally based on a single opinion I have. [/quote] Well you yourself are of the opinion that you don't deserve file-sharing.

[quote name='ThomBassmonkey' timestamp='1361407146' post='1985672'] I said funding [u]for[/u] the record industry (and I don't just mean labels etc, I mean anything that involves recordings). Recordings are funded by comsumers paying for them, for the majority of people, if that funding stopped then it wouldn't be practical for them to keep producing CDs. My band often makes petrol money from CDs as well as being able to produce more recordings, realistically we'd be crippled if we didn't have an income from recordings.[/quote] A recording is essentially an artist's portfolio. Artists don't have others pay for them to build their portfolios, they have to build it themselves. The same is true for visual artists: they don't have people pay them to build their portfolio of drawings so they can find work, and then get royalties every time someone glances at their work. They all get paid on commission per drawing. If you can sell some pieces at your gigs then great, more power to you. But if you think that others shouldn't have the right to make copies and share them [i]non-commercially[/i] with their friends, then that's simply absurd - and to be frank you don't deserve to have your material shared and propagated.

[quote name='ThomBassmonkey' timestamp='1361404156' post='1985634'] Nowhere did I say that we wouldn't listen to recorded music any more. I said it'd be rare to find any and without any funding for the recording industry, it would. If people didn't buy recordings and provide income, people (especially small bands) couldn't justify the expenses of going into a studio. Studios would shut down through lack of work etc and the whole industry would shrink until there were very little recordings left.[/quote] Well, of all the new music I listen to nowadays [i]none[/i] of it is funded/backed by the recording industry and labels so I don't know why you think bands need funding from them to make a record. Studios shutting down due to lack of work simply means that everyone is doing their work themselves and no longer need them. A laptop and an interface is all that's needed to produce music now, and more elaborate set-ups have become common with hobby recording enthusiasts whose sound quality can even rival that of big expensive studios.

[quote name='ThomBassmonkey' timestamp='1361401614' post='1985587'] You think everyone should be get all their music for free and no one should get any money from recorded music (thus basically shutting down the entire recording industry, making it so that you and everyone else will very rarely get any music, free or otherwise). [/quote] It is a good thing when an industry dies from obsolescence - it's a signal that it is no longer needed and society can move on without it. Have a read of this article: [url="https://torrentfreak.com/nobody-asked-for-a-refrigerator-fee-110821/"]https://torrentfreak...tor-fee-110821/[/url] it talks about exactly this. The statement that we will no longer listen to recorded music is utterly false. I'm listening to [i]more[/i] recorded music now (which [b]isn't[/b] produced by the old "industry" and big labels) than I was during the era of cassettes/CDs.

[quote name='flyfisher' timestamp='1361396215' post='1985449'] The method of transmission may be the same but the application most certainly is not and it is the application that matters, not how a bunch of bits happen to be moved about. Only geeks care about that stuff. [/quote] Yes, geeks care about it because like I said technophobes and conservatives try to think of things with ancient mindsets and thus break and restrict technology with their regressive laws - it's been going on ever since the printing press was invented and probably even before that.

[quote name='flyfisher' timestamp='1361389151' post='1985264'] Not if it's a live event that's being streamed. Again, 'streaming' and 'downloading' are words deliberately chosen to emphasise the differences between these two methods of transmitting data. [/quote] Yes the terms are used to [i]emphasise[/i] differences, but again: only technophobes and conservatives see the two as fundamentally different. The method of transmitting data in both is exactly the same.

Streams are self-contained files, they are just played as they are received. The definition of "stream" is to specify to the protocol in which order the bits of the file must be downloaded in order to allow playback as the download occurs. When you download streamed media a self-contained file is being downloaded and stored on your machine as you watch it. Unless the download is locked in a DRM mechanism you can rename the file and copy it to your portable player or phone if you so wished to do so. Only technophobes and conservatives see digital streaming as fundamentally different from downloading. Television and radio are highly centralised and authoritarian forms of broadcasting information, so they obviously have a power over us to charge for a "TV License". My discussion isn't about latency in transmissions.

[quote name='flyfisher' timestamp='1361349483' post='1984782'] Technically, yes, but there's a big difference with what is done with the received data. Streamed data is converted to audio and then discarded whereas 'downloaded' data is generally saved and can be locally replayed many times without further downloading. [/quote] It's not up to a radio station to decide on their whim what you can or cannot do with a broadcast that you receive. They cannot stop you from recording it on a cassette (although they certainly did try). As I pointed out in my previous post, digital streams must be stored before they can be decoded and played (whether in your chosen location or not) - it's the nature of the technology.

[quote name='Mr. Foxen' timestamp='1361319591' post='1984675'] So your suggestion is that is a copy, or a copy is comparable to listening to radio. Legally, that is basically it, if you receive a file, you aren't copying it. [/quote] Yes, precisely. With analogue radio a copy of the music is broadcast by a station and transmitted to your radio receiver. Your radio in most cases won't have any medium to save the stream (unless it has a cassette deck built in). With digital medium streams [i]must[/i] be saved in memory in order to be decoded and played, and the architecture of the internet makes everyone a "broadcaster" as well as a "receiver" (as well as a "buffer amplifier" in cases where packets are forwarded). From a technical standpoint a digital stream and a download are the same. The lawmakers are behind the times in many aspects.

Yes, even analogue radio.

[quote name='Mr. Foxen' timestamp='1361295444' post='1984116'] A copy lasts for more than a single listen, unlike a streamed listen. [/quote] A stream is the same as a copy. When you stream a file, a copy is downloaded and played as the bits are received (with or without DRM).

[quote name='MiltyG565' timestamp='1361207351' post='1982790'] Why would you draw a parallel with such horrible things? [/quote] You're completely missing the point here.

[quote name='BigRedX' timestamp='1361130022' post='1981576'] It's all very well going on about giving people the freedom to invent and create, but if he can't also provide a way that allows these inventors and creators a way to earn money from their work, how can they create and invent effectively when they have to spend the majority of their time doing something else in order to be able to afford to live? [/quote] Who said we can't earn money from our work? It's not up to him to dictate to me or to you how we earn our living. We're not in a dictatorship here. His point was that implementing these jurassic laws that are proposed by RIAA and co breaks the very fabric of information society and is in direct conflict with civil liberties. [quote name='BigRedX' timestamp='1361130022' post='1981576']This doesn't enable people at all. It more than ever keeps the resources to dictate who creates and invents in the hands of those who already have money. Meet the new boss - same as the old boss. [/quote] Are you kidding me? It is the current system of record labels that is keeping resources closed off and dictating who will be the next star. Open culture is more inventive, creative, and efficient than restrictive culture. Every scientist, engineer, fashion designer, automotive designer, chef, programmer, etc knows this.

I don't buy music from big labels any more, and certainly not from major labels. Nor do I pirate it. These organisations are the people that push ancient, archaic, and draconian laws in parliaments. I do not want to have any association to them or the bands that have signed themselves under them. Handing these people money is immensely regressive to all of society (and yes, I mean ALL of society). There is more to this than simply gratis music and movies. [media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OPEO-u_c0t0[/media]

I posted this a while back, seemed to have been brushed aside... http://basschat.co.uk/topic/182872-kid-funk

I always mod my headphones with a female jack. That way when the cord goes, I just replace that.

ESP LTD. They sometimes get pigeon-holed as metal basses, but they're very capable and built well.

"End of Music" is such a misleading headline. The music industry is ending, and good riddance. Music will live on as it always has done, even before the 'industry' was invented.

Have you tried emailing them? They're Indian, so they'll likely work out some way to get it to you if you buy from them.

[quote name='wateroftyne' timestamp='1360520267' post='1971672'] Crap mastering as well. New stuff just doesn't hit me (sic) like it did before the loudness war. It just makes everything... blander. [/quote] This is true. Dynamics don't exist in today's recordings, everything's compressed to hell and back.

All cultural works are derivative.