Zenitram

This is great stuff.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qsrU71O2FyA&feature=related

Great egg shaking.

Out of curiosity, what else would a luthier do for intonation other than what you have described above? Or do you mean they'd do it in a more expert way, taking saddle height and the truss rod and all the rest into account at the same time?

Could you not just buy any old cheap crappy amp and leave it at your friend's house?

I would suggest the Vox Pathfinder, an Ashdown Tourbus, or one of the smaller Laney RB series.

I have actually just gone fully old-school and bought a Roland MC-500 hardware sequencer.

I find Reaper hard to get my head round, it seems rather counter-intuitive to me. With a poor help section (that others say is great, so it must just be me).

I'm used to Logic Audio (a very old PC version), so that might be it. Or not. I had trouble with Cubase back in the day as well.

However, Reaper is free, and for free it is absolutely amazing.

Bob Holness?

That's what I was thinking. A neck, tuners, pickup and bridge to use for a project.

If you live close by, I suppose.

Talent borrows; genius steals.

I'm going to be struggling for 1.30. Will try to get a groove on with my work and see if I can make it, but, er, it's not looking likely I'm afraid. Sorry.

I was about to say, and this is coming from someone with no knowledge of anything at all and very much a beginner on bass, wouldn't it be easier to learn what notes are in the chords you want to play (or what chords are formed by the notes you want to play), and then just putting your fingers on those notes? Is that not how one usually learns with bass?

My cat runs away if I so much as look at my normal bass, but tolerates me playing my fretted electric upright. He also enjoys walking up and down my synth keyboard, and particularly likes sitting and falling asleep on a fairly large mixer with loads of really uncomfortable knobs.

Your organisational baton is mighty fine.

OK yes agreed (about moving around).

Unless I'm getting me sides mixed up, it's only half a mile from Hyde Park Corner to Shepherd Market. They're in the same bit of town; that's why I suggested it.

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if you want to look on a map

Anyway I have no strong feelings about it or anywhere else. Good good.

If it started raining or turned cold we could decamp from Hyde Park to Shepherd Market, which is very pleasant -- Ye Grapes, King's Arms, etc. And it has its own colourful, if somewhat terminal, place in rock'n'roll history.

It's all in the wrist, you know...

Spanking, tension, rods, thickness ... only you can decide whether to seek specialist help or take care of it yourself...

Actually, are you interested in selling the S612?

Krayzee!

What have you got, Spike?

And even which Fender Rhodes model you want to sound like. Or is it actually a Wurli sound. Etc.

Have you thought about using a laptop and a good midi keyboard?

I wouldn't want a curry; a convivial drink is much more sociable. If the weather's nice, outside the Royal Festival Hall can be a nice place to sit and sip and chat. I can think of central pubs with outsidey bits, but they tend to be standy uppy outsidey bits.

Edit: a picnic is actually a really good idea -- it would certainly be a lot cheaper if we're doing some solid drinking. It would make the sex a lot easier as well.