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Or play wildly different equipment but all pretty much sound the same.

I just got a BigSky, having owned some of the smaller Strymon pedals before, and was similarly surprised at how compact it is. It does look bigger in images. As I use it for synths and am a desktop sort of music maker, I going to make a nice wooden stand for it, along with my Shruthi and Streichfett, and possibly my Waldorf, if I don't sell that.

Expensive things like Strymons can be bought on 0% credit over 9 months or longer at some online places, which makes them temptingly affordable, sort of. Mine was from GuitarGuitar.

I really enjoyed that. It fits perfectly. It sets a mood, and is very much 'there', without distracting from the voice, and allowing us (rather than you, if you see what I mean) to interpret what is meant by the words, and the images, and the point of the piece. Nicely done.

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I guess it all depends on your definition of a concept album.
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Gatefold sleeve or Roger Dean artwork. Combining the two gets you disqualified, however, for trying too hard.

The Heart of Saturday Night by Tom Waits has a concepty feel to it, in terms of thematic unity. And the cover is a riff on In the Wee Small Hours.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ny3K8Dqth1M

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It'd be nice to hear it in the context that it was written, if that's possible.
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Well, come to Bromley and see the show!

But if you can't: just as the music comes to an end, a man from 2039 surrounded by umbrellas screams out in anguish, and a fish falls from the sky at his feet.

I act in amateur theatre, and offered to compose a piece of music for the intro of the next play that I'm in. I had a very very simple, quite pleasant but uneventful piano piece that I recorded, and spent the next three weeks or so knowing that it was no good on its own, no variation, nothing to latch on to, but could never seem to work out what to do with it. The other thing was that it needed to have an edge, as what comes immediately after the music, as the play starts, is not, shall we say, major key kind of stuff.

Saturday, I said, would be the day; I had nothing else to do. But I drank far too much on the Friday, and was rendered helpless the day after. I was so tired I managed nothing at all and went to bed early, but couldn't get any sleep, so, knowing I had to deliver on Sunday morning for the tech run, I got up stupidly early and started hitting piano notes in my fractured, sleepless state of mind, including a few jarring C notes which in my absurdly simplified understanding of music theory 'goes against' the D major key, to create a bit of edge. All in one take as well.

It got cut down to the length it is now, and the overly loud and somewhat pointless cymbal crescendo is a cue for an actor to get on stage, but... I'm rather pleased with it, and thought I'd share the story.

Sometimes you need to get out of your comfort zone (no sleep), or not do what's right, or take lots of drugs, or something. Or maybe it's just about the looming deadline.

No bass at all, but, er, that's probably a good thing. What is great, for me with no musical learning or ability at all, is hearing your own composition played to an audience.

[url="https://soundcloud.com/gingerosity/intro"]https://soundcloud.c...ngerosity/intro[/url]

I ordered something from them online yesterday that's so much cheaper than anywhere else, I fully expect the order to be cancelled.

ITV first, then Channel 4.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VOaZbaPzdsk

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I daresay if you were the unfortunate and unknowing victim of such a deal you would be the first to be on here making a noise about it.
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Quite possibly, yes. But: caveat emptor. I find the 'ethics' of eBay selling interesting, that's all; that's why I asked the question (I'm not sure of the answer myself, and I was playing devil's advocate, a bit, with my other comments).

Here's a question:

If the ad had been posted in exactly the same way as it was, with the same wording, the same photos, but a starting bid price of, say, £200, would you still feel the same way? Would it still be a con? Would you report the ad?

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$4.05 is a steal for an MIM Jazz. £2200 is not
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But, and this was my point, they have every right to offer it for sale at whatever price they like. There's nothing fraudulent about the listing, so good luck to them.

They might know very well what it is, and they're just chancing their arm. Put a high price, hope someone fancies it. It doesn't actually state it's a bass from 1960; it just describes the instrument, and puts a year at the end (they could easily argue that was a description of its appearance -- "it looks a bit like old 1960s basses, that's all I meant"). And it actually says they paid just over four dollars for it.

Quite a clever ad, if that's the case -- it doesn't actually tell any lies. Caveat emptor and all that.

Beatbox the kick through a mic.

You'd have to find a way of recording your loops onto an SD card, but yes, that's how things like the Akai Sample Pad work. They play back samples, but they don't record them.

Edit, sorry, if the Digitech can record onto an SD card, then yes, you're all set.

As far as I can see, anyway. I don't own any of the gear involved, so I might be, and often am, completely wrong.

I'll take 'em! I'm in SE20 so right next door.

I'd love to try a 4 set. Am trying to write and record a bass line as part of a piece of music for a play I'm in at a local theatre.

If that's a good reason, then, er, yes please.

The lens that took that photograph cost £750. Fact!

I'm rather disappointed with the blown-out reflection on the screw thread, but them's the breaks when it comes to sexy, high-end glamour photography of this kind.

Thank you everyone for your help, and for such a glowing review of the picture itself.

By way of an update, I can tell you this:

1.- Headphone wires are really, really small! Wow.
2.- My eyesight isn't as good as it used to be. In fact, a visit to the optician yesterday confirmed I need reading glasses.
3.- My soldering iron is probably a bit too fat or thick, and my soldering skills far too crap, to do a precision job on this.

Soooooo.... would anyone be willing to do this job for me? I would send you the headphones, and the jack, and would be willing to pay a modest amount for the job, and postage etc. They're expensive Bose headphones (they're my girlfriend's; she's currently borrowing my fabulous Shure SE215s as a result), so I would like it to be done by someone who knows what they're doing.

Can anyone help?

Many thanks!

The singer, keyboard player and drummer are three of the original four members, and are all "old". The bassist and guitarist are youngsters who aren't really part of the "real" New Order, but the five-piece combo they form is now the band, I think.

Barney never could sing, in a very different way to how Ian Curtis couldn't sing. It was part of his charm. Staring dead-eyed (or shut-eyed) with one hand fixed on the mic on the stand, too scared to move (or too off his head), a little boy lost, singing lyrics of apparent nonsense that belied a quiet desperation and ultimate sadness. He also found it hard to play guitar and sing at the same time, which shaped a lot of how their songs were written and arranged.

How Barney acts on stage these days is very embarrassing, but he seems to be enjoying himself. Which is perhaps the problem.

It all went downhill after Brotherhood, really.

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Hello funsters. Can you help me identify the tip and ring bits of this headphone jack? My guess is that the thin central gold bit that juts out is the tip (left) and the thicker bit behind it, half surrounded by black plastic, is the ring (right). The earth is the long metal bit with two prongs at the end closest to the camera.

Am I right?

Thanks.

Don't get it printed on flesh.

If you do end up doing it in Photoshop (or Gimp), layers are the key. Do every element on a new layer, save as you go and it all becomes much easier.

Layers and masks are the things to get the hang of, I'd say.

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