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I'm always surprised when musicians are reluctant to pay for music.

[quote name='BigBeatNut' timestamp='1404085569' post='2489219'] How did they enforce that ? Is every track public or something ? [/quote] Something like that, yeah. I can't remember the exact details now but you can't just share a track with a selection of users any more. At the time I was sharing tracks with two guys who'd just left a band and didn't want their former bandmates to know they'd gone straight into working on tunes with me, so it was a pain in the arse when they stopped us sharing tracks internally.

[quote name='spongebob' timestamp='1404071584' post='2489047']Certainly looked it today, I think they sound pretty cool. Loved the Beasties cover.[/quote] It sounded terrible but I imagine it was well received, punk-to-punk. Beasties won't be doing any more records or any more tours, it's a pretty sad scene all round.

Previous posters identified your strings for you, but they will of course feel different depending on the bass, especially by scale length. Don't adjust the nut or bridge. I have a bass from Gedo and they have luthiers who make sure their basses are well set up when they ship. That's why people recommend Gedo. For the record Gear4Music are about a mile from my house, and I bought my bass from Gedo.

I use Google Drive to share audio at the moment. I was using SoundCloud until a couple of months ago when they stopped it from being used as a tool for internal use by bands. Thanks, SoundCloud. Edit: I'm talking about sharing demos and rehearsal recordings of original music rather than anything that may have already been recorded, made successful, and found its way to Spotify, clearly.

Yeah I keep forgetting to order some, and then when I do I think, hey, I could just order some new pots. Whatever they used it was a really bad idea. Great amp, awful pots.

Sounds like the line is doubled on a synth an octave down. An analogue octaver would get you a similar sound (something a bit bland-sounding like the EBS maybe) but might warble a bit on the lowest notes.

[quote name='JTUK' timestamp='1404037187' post='2488631']When I got my enthusiasm back, ( which I didn't know if I would ) I worked out that I was burnt out taking all sorts of crap gigs so I decided I wouldn't do that again..[/quote] Yeah when I quit I'd got back from living in the USA and was really bummed out about the live music scene over here. It's still hard to gig original music in the UK, probably harder than it was then, but gigging is less important to me now anyway.

[quote name='Dingus' timestamp='1403804138' post='2486679'] ... I would have been better off spending my money on porno in that case. ( Not that I would ever do that. I was only in the vicinity because I was looking for a feminist bookshop. ) [/quote] :-D

I didn't play at all from 1999 to 2002, didn't even have a bass,didn't miss it either. Currently I'm playing in three bands and I've taken up double bass too. It's like buses, probably. If you want a break then take a break, there's no point forcing yourself to do something you don't want to do. You won't forget how to play.

Like paul_5 I only use them on my pedal boards, I don't think I'd trust one as an instrument cable, but for me none of the benefits of a solderless cable really apply to an instrument cable anyway.

A band I quit a couple of years ago because of one intolerable bandmate has recently folded and the other members called me up to do something new, and it's such a fun thing to do now that one sour arse is gone. Everything we do is fun. :-)

I got my Frantabit in the post on Tuesday so unless he releases something else I 'must have' then it's fairly irrelevant for me. [quote name='Sibob' timestamp='1403697350' post='2485378'] This is the exact model I'll take on when I'm ready to get Poultone off the ground properly. As a one person operation, why stress yourself out and potentially disappoint customers when you can just build a batch and sell them when ready.[/quote] Works for Bugbrand. Inflates the prices quite nicely as well. A good way to go unless/until you have massive demand you need/want to keep up with.

[quote name='HowieBass' timestamp='1403649058' post='2485027']Patch cables using solderless plugs will sound no better than properly soldered conventional plugs assuming the cable is the same quality.[/quote] I agree. But with solderless kits it's much easier to put together a cable of the right length with compact jack plugs and save some space and have less spaghetti effect on your pedal board. If you change your board layout much, or buy/sell pedals fairly regularly, or want to pack as much functionality as possible into as small a board as possible, then solderless kits are the way to go. It's not really an audio fidelity issue, just a practicality issue. [quote name='6v6' timestamp='1403688363' post='2485218'] Unless you're really not willing to spend some time learning to solder, I don't see the point of solderless systems, the plugs are *way* more expensive, and they're bound to be less reliable than properly assembled soldered cables.[/quote] If you're going to buy plugs and cable and make up your own quality cables, you won't save much (or any) money over solderless kits like Lava or George L. And you will spend a lot more time cutting and stripping and soldering and pissing about than you would with solderless cables - where you just need to trim the ends of the cable with a knife and then screw them into the jack plugs. [b]As for reliability: [/b]I've been using George L cables on my board for over 5 years now and I have had [b]one[/b] failure, in a rehearsal a few months ago. It was because a plug from one of my OC-2s was rubbing against a plug from my VP-Jr expression pedal (they were at right-angles to eachother) and somehow after a lot of modulation the OC-2 plug got unscrewed and the cap fell off it. Thankfully it happened in rehearsal, but here's the nice thing: I lifted up my board, picked up the screw cap that had come loose, re-inserted the cable and tightened the screw cap with my fingers, and I was ready to go again. With soldered cables, well, obviously you would be either fishing around in your gig kit for a replacement cable or getting your soldering iron out. When they do fail, which is rare, I would much rather have a solderless cable fail than a soldered one. I've had many years of soldered cables that become unreliable and when it happens they are a massive pain.

I agree, I never had a lesson on bass guitar and got away with it but on DB a good teacher can give you so much useful information, some of which you might never pick up on your own. For anyone within reach of Leeds I can recommend Geoff Chalmers (geoffbassist on BC and Twitter), great player, nice guy, and a methodical teacher.

Hi man, Sorry but you can't offer things for sale in this forum. Go back to the forum index page and scroll down to the marketplace, there's a double bass section in there where you can post a for sale ad but you must state a price, you can't ask for offers. The forum will also charge a small fee for listing your item there.

I've got a Shuttle 6.0 and it's got the usual noisy volume pot, which I'd like to replace, but given that it's got that weird clicky encoder-style feel to it, I'm not sure what would be a suitable replacement. Has anyone does this before and can tell me what part will do it? Or could I use a suitably-rated normal log pot given that the clicky nature of the stock pots is clearly a massive weakness?

[quote name='bassman344' timestamp='1403129630' post='2480170']Pardon my ignorance but could you explain the bit about WebKit based browsers and java in laypersons terms so that the uneducated IT morons like me can understand. [/quote] OK well for starters Java is not Javascript. Java runs as compiled code and can be used to develop semi-standalone applications (you still need a Java Virtual Machine [JVM] to run it, although JVMs are now commonplace), whereas Javascript is a scripting language which requires an interpreter (an interpreter is a much simpler bit of kit). Traditionally only web browsers have contained Javascript interpreters although it's now being used server-side using technologies such as Node.js That probably made no sense. In short: For example Minecraft is a Java application and can run on any platform that has a Java Virtual Machine (Linux, Windows, Mac OS, even Lego potentially), Java is touted as a 'write once, run anywhere' programming language, although it's known in the trade as 'write once, crash everywhere'. Javascript is, traditionally, what makes magic happen in your web browser, although these days it's so common it's not thought of as magic any more. When you submit a form and it highlights a field you haven't filled in correctly, that's Javascript. When you do anything at all in GMail in your browser, when you click 'Like' on a Facebook post, when you upload something to Soundcloud, when you ask for 'More stories' on Google News, when you click any of the text formatting buttons when writing a forum post on Basschat, and indeed when you click the 'Post' button, Javascript does that for you. Basically if you click something on a web page and something happens without the entire page reloading, that's thanks to Javascript. HTTP is a stateless protocol, and web pages cannot do anything once they have rendered. They rely on Javascript to do anything that needs to happen in between page requests. You'll have noticed that lots of stuff tends to happen these days that doesn't involve loading a whole new web page. Chrome is much faster at doing that than Firefox is. And while I recognise that, I won't hear a bad word said about Firefox, because it led the charge in taking the web back from Microsoft. Internet Explorer was always every developer's worst nightmare, and every time a user switched from IE to Firefox was a huge victory for the future of the web. They might be lagging behind now, but Chrome and Safari owe a lot to Firefox.

Looks like I'm still here, and I haven't even had a message from the mods. *mops brow* So... Browsers: I'm a software developer currently working on a web-based client for a catalogue management system, and I can say with some authority that Chrome is now a much better browser than Firefox. Firefox is still a very good browser, but Webkit-based browsers are faster and have better Javascript engines (much more important now than it used to be). Firefox still has great levels of standards-compliance so it's thankfully easy to develop for, but it's being left behind in performance to Chrome and Safari. As for Internet Exploder, it's a lot quicker than it used to be but even supporting IE8 (the last version available in XP) is painful, it's such a bad browser. The sooner every rational person stops using IE, the better, for everybody. (c) 1982 Sinclair Research Ltd.

A few days in I'm really pleased with this thing. I bought it to demo tunes for a couple of bands - one doing a sort of dub/dancehall/electro/punk thing, the other a sort-of hip-hop outfit. It's great for putting ideas together quickly and the interface is well designed enough that you only really need to go to the computer for quite specific (note-level) editing. I imagine with the more expensive 'studio' model you would never look at your laptop at all. I honestly think it would be worth the £400 if all you wanted was a good drum machine, but they throw in a great sampler and sample editor, and many of the other instruments are really quite special, the effects are genuinely great, it'll also load VSTs, and you can also program it to work as a controller for your DAW of choice and it ships with many defaults for common applications. Great bit of kit. It's also USB powered so setup is very simple.

[quote name='TheRev' timestamp='1403102905' post='2479801'] There's an East German Musima bass in the for sale forum at the moment - these are very solid, well made ply basses that work very well for jazz/blues/folk etc. a few quid on a setup to set the soundpost/bridge or whatever and you will have a very playable and decent sounding bass for less than 1K. i have a late 60's Musima and I feckin' love it. I'd buy another if I didn't already have 3 double basses. IMHO of course.... [/quote] My first bass was a Musima factory 3/4, those things are proper! Actually when I later bought a carved bass I kept the Musima bass for a couple of years and used it for busking and other more roughhouse gigs. Played great, didn't have much character to the sound but it was LOUD acoustically, and I mean LOUD! It depends what sort of stuff you want to play. I've ended up using DB for duos with singer/songwriter guitarists which requires a bit more of a sophisticated sound than a laminate can give me, and in my live hip-hop band where I need quite a rich jazzy sound. But if you're interested in folk/blues/rockabilly stuff then I agree a Musima bass will do you proud. Edit: You will be lucky to find one that hasn't had the neck broken off it at some point. Don't worry about it. They've all been broken, they still work.