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[quote name='dannybuoy' timestamp='1395952546' post='2408393']They shouldn't even be storing the actual password, they should be storing a one way hash value so they can verify it when you log in, but they can't unscramble that value back to the original password. Noobs.[/quote] Agreed. But assuming they've done their PCI DSS accreditation (they may not have, but they're a big operation, maybe they have) they might think that storing passwords isn't any more of a risk given all the other sensitive data they're storing. Clearly they're wrong if they're randomly firing that data out in plain text from their mail server, but there you go. The last big contract I worked on before I went and got a 'proper job' last year was developing a billing and payment system for a large service management platform with an annual budget in the tens of millions. Long story short it all worked and was supported by tests when I was done with it, and then they got their in-house guys to refactor something because it looked complicated (it looked complicated because it [i]is[/i] complicated!). They didn't test beyond having the developers eyeball that it seemed to do what they expected, and went live with a horrifically broken payment system which left the billing system completely in the dark about whether something was paid or not. Six months in they realised nothing had been paid. Turned out they also had problems with organised crime using their platform for money laundering - I swear the bigger the budget the less diligent these operations become. IMO if your testing team isn't pretty much the same size as your development team you're going to either produce bad software or your development cycle is going to be ponderously slow and your devs miserable.

[quote name='maldy' timestamp='1395870364' post='2407543'] When I was playing I wasn't buying. Now I'm buying I'm hardly playing! I think the buying is a substitute for not being able to do the playing I would like. It must be done sort of comfort. [/quote] It's been the opposite for me. I recently went band-less for about two years, just doing sideman gigs with singer/songwriters on the upright, and I didn't buy anything. I'm now in two bands and looking at new effects and hexaphonic pickups and all sorts of nonsense!

People usually buy stuff irrationally because they think it will make them happier. It does, temporarily, which is why they keep doing it.

Just bought a Warmoth body from Stephen, very happy with him and it, thanks!

That's pretty cool, nice vocals.

He can clearly play and in the second video it's interesting that he's tried something completely different to the famous bass line on that song, he deserves some credit for doing that, but I thought his lines on both videos were a little too busy and I didn't like his bass sound in the second video. It's good that he's being creative though, and he's trying a really difficult trick replacing the bass parts on famous songs like that, so I approve. It's a nice change from the millions of Youtube videos of people playing exactly what's on the record along to the record. Can't think of anything more pointless.

I think an EUB would be better than nothing, sure. And I would agree with the Yamaha suggestion.

Also worth looking at the Mooer LoFi Machine, similarly compact but might be easier to find over here and looks to have some nice features. I've been meaning to pick one up to A/B with my Bugcrusher but never get around to it.

[quote name='happynoj' timestamp='1395273340' post='2400649'] Boss OC-2. Solo the -1ve and play everything up an octave on the bass and you've got instant G-Funk.[/quote] The G-Funk bass sound was more sawtooth than square wave, maybe an SH-101 or a MiniMoog. There just isn't any good way to get a sawtooth sound out of any guitar effect pedal (even the ones that claim to do it like the Korg G5 and Markbass Super Synth), so IMHO the G-Funk sound is really not worth pursuing. It's a shame.

[quote name='leroybasslines' timestamp='1395273516' post='2400652']I really don't like in ears when I've used them: I find they cut out so much of what's going on (in a bad way) and make me feel isolated from the rest of the band.[/quote] I know what you mean, but I also sing harmony so I need to be able to concentrate on the vocal sometimes and it's impossible if I'm struggling to pitch the bass. I'm much better at faking being right there in the zone than I am faking being able to play in tune.

I've played more DB gigs where I couldn't hear myself than gigs where I could. Seriously tempted to buy some sort of budget IEM product.

It's quite telling that slap is something bass players almost exclusively do alone. Whether those people are in a guitar shop or a trade show booth or on YouTube, they're always playing alone. I had another rehearsal tonight and I used slap in one tune we jammed. The guitarist looked at me like I'd just spat on him. I am feeling sort-of determined to take slap back as a way of playing music though. And I will do it without ever playing a solo, or playing in Em, and making sure I never play more than three sixteenth notes in a row, and leaving a good couple of beats of rests in each bar.

That looks sweet man congrats!

For me it's Bruce Thomas, Graham Maby and Bruce Foxton, not necessarily in that order. Oh and Andy Rourke of course. I built a bitsa P because I love the sound those guys got, even though I don't like P basses.

I like what I've got. I would also like an Industrial Radio MIDI bass though. And they're not cheap are they? Someone get me one, and I'll let you share my crisps.

[quote name='bubinga5' timestamp='1394749140' post='2394893']do you have a grasp of the technique yourself.?[/quote] Ooh. See this is another problem - the suggestion (belief?) that the only people who have anything bad to say about slap bass are people who "can't do it".

I just realised Beedster makes the 2024 sound like the ultimate 'Sneak this expensive guitar past your partner' bass. I wonder how many have been sold purely on that basis!

[quote name='icastle' timestamp='1394748525' post='2394881']That illustrates the point even better, but they're a tough audience here and I don't think I'd have got away with less than £700 in my example. [/quote] Oh right. I don't want to over-sell myself, it wasn't a gift from Fender it was stolen from a Fender dealer by someone who wanted me to sound good on his recordings! Edit: I should add that the Fender dealer in question is still in business nearly 20 years on and has gone from strength to strength, so hopefully it wasn't too hard a loss on them. I didn't know where the bass came from until I'd been playing it for a year or so, by which point I'd modified it beyond recognition and couldn't have returned it. It wasn't even the same colour.

[quote name='visog' timestamp='1394750463' post='2394927']You were at a Jam night and Dave La Rue turned up!? Where???? Who, How? Was Jaco there too?[/quote] It was this weird bar basically on a strip-mall in Tom's River, New Jersey. My guitarist-at-the-time organised the jam night, and that night I'd gone to say goodbye to some local musicians because I was heading back to the UK the following weekend after three years living over there. I remember I got talking to some people who I hadn't met before and about an hour in one of them asked where I was from. I hadn't realised what a local accent I'd ended up with until that point, and indeed I was totally ridiculed when I moved back to ****ing Wakefield! [quote name='bubinga5' timestamp='1394751464' post='2394947'] whenever i hear someone say, they do it for the sound, sorry (TMIT), or its a slap fest, apart from other amazing bassists, i think of Mr Kabas. imo some of the most musical slap playing. well that I've heard . it can be done so well, i actually forget he's slapping. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nOJzRxlBRhI [/quote] That's maybe a bad example, because it's not as good as the original bass part on the recording.

[quote name='icastle' timestamp='1394746527' post='2394837'] A full time musician with a mid range Fender that cost £700 is a professional musician - it's how they pay the bills. [/quote] Funnily enough for the three years that I spent as a full-time musician, the US standard Fender that was my main bass was given to me for free.

Tapping never sounds good though. Slapping… Mostly people don't like it because most people who do it don't do it for the sound, they do it because they want people to look at them. I remember once being at a jam night and Dave La Rue turned up and slapped all night, and behind the stage was a massive beer-advertising mirror and he spent the whole time looking at himself in the mirror slapping. A lot of slappers are like him. I've started doing more slap bass lately because I'm putting together a sort-of old-school hip-hop band, so I'm trying to slap like Doug Wimbish did on the Sugarhill Records releases, simple stuff and heavy-handed, or like some of the other late '70s guys early '80s guys, slapping like they used to do before Mark King turned it into a competition. I make it a point that you can hear every note I slap because I left space for it, unlike the trade show clowns with their ridiculous super-tempoed double-thumbing bull****. That's why everybody hates slap bass these days.

I'm a programmer, so I'm naturally afraid of sunlight. When I was a kid I used to practise a lot less in the winter because our council house didn't have central heating and we wouldn't have been able to put it on anyway. We spent winter sitting around in sleeping bags. These days in summer I get all excited about practising trombone, but only in summer, so I am still a rubbish trombone player but very enthusiastic, for about 4 months a year. So my bass playing gets neglected a bit when it's sunny.