Clarky

[quote name='Rayman' post='892512' date='Jul 12 2010, 08:49 AM']Where are the ruddy pics !![/quote] Mrs C has gone off with sprogs for the week and taken the camera. Sorry!

Great job there Tim. Looks fabulous. At the risk of bringing back Sid James, but are those my old knobs?

[quote name='dave_bass5' post='891870' date='Jul 11 2010, 11:52 AM']I played my first gig with chromes on my jazz last night and noticed the D string was lower than the others. I figured this might be a duff string but after putting my old strings back on the problem is still there, although not so noticeable. I've always felt somethings was not right with the D but I think the chromes have highlighted it. I've yet to test the pups out properly. I'm going to turn the neck pup round and see if it makes difference but thought I would ask for any thoughts in the meantime. I'll update once I've checked the pup.[/quote] Hi Dave, I put up a post this morning about strings and volume variability. Basically I swapped what should have been an identical E string and the volume jumped probably 25%! Maybe try one more set of strings before fiddling with pickup?

I don't think it's very good value - throw in shipping and import duty and you wouldn't get much change from £1600-1700. There's a much nicer Essence for sale on the forum through retroglide ( I think) for several hundred quid less Edit: this one [url="http://basschat.co.uk/index.php?showtopic=86824&hl=Alembic"]http://basschat.co.uk/index.php?showtopic=...&hl=Alembic[/url]

Happy Jack, Low End Bee and I had a mini BassBash last night (before heading off to the pub obviously). I brought my newly acquired Alleva-Coppolo bass along, wearing some Pyramid Gold Flats. Jack noticed immediately that the E string was tons louder than the other three to the extent that, on active settings, it was quite painfully loud. Now I had swapped the E string yesterday (as the one from the same packet was a little dead sounding) for a used one that someone sold me on BC and had been sitting around for a few years. Could it be the string? Jack thought not as the volume difference was so large and that it must be the pickups or electronics. Well when I got home I put back on the original string from the same pack as the other string and the volume issue is completely cured. As in not just a bit quieter but actually it now has the identical volume as the A/D/G. I am happy as it has saved me from what threatened to be an expensive trip to the Gallery. It does give you something to think about though with strings - maybe Pyramid changed the metal content in recent years or maybe they are just very variable. Either way I don't think I will be mixing up sets of strings in future.

Check out this link from alembic site [url="http://www.alembic.com/prod/basses.html"]http://www.alembic.com/prod/basses.html[/url]

Definitely not an Epic. I think that's an Orion.

[quote name='Pete Academy' post='890390' date='Jul 9 2010, 01:43 PM']I clicked on the link but can't see the bass. Am I missing something?[/quote] Its been removed - it was there yesterday evening.

Just wait til Alex launches the BareFaced Dwarf

[quote name='wateroftyne' post='889725' date='Jul 8 2010, 05:58 PM']Don't worry about what it is! It's just the video file... You drag it off the camera like you would an mp3 from a folder. Open up Youtube, select 'upload video', browse to the file, and BINGO! You're an instant INTERNET SENSATION! [/quote] Cool I could be the next Pixie Lott, only fatter, uglier and with male bits (allegedly, I am married so who would know?)

[quote name='Clarky' post='889719' date='Jul 8 2010, 05:49 PM']Thanks WoT! Scurries off to google 'AVI' (yes I have no idea what that means - I really am the village idiot when it comes to tech-y things )[/quote] Oh sh*t, shouldn't have bothered. Wikipedia on AVI (may as well be in Cantonese): Audio Video Interleave, known by its acronym AVI, is a multimedia container format introduced by Microsoft in November 1992 as part of its Video for Windows technology. AVI files can contain both audio and video data in a file container that allows synchronous audio-with-video playback. Like the DVD video format, AVI files support multiple streaming audio and video, although these features are seldom used. Most AVI files also use the file format extensions developed by the Matrox OpenDML group in February 1996. These files are supported by Microsoft, and are unofficially called "AVI 2.0". Format AVI is a derivative of the Resource Interchange File Format (RIFF), which divides a file's data into blocks, or "chunks." Each "chunk" is identified by a FourCC tag. An AVI file takes the form of a single chunk in a RIFF formatted file, which is then subdivided into two mandatory "chunks" and one optional "chunk". The first sub-chunk is identified by the "hdrl" tag. This sub-chunk is the file header and contains metadata about the video, such as its width, height and frame rate. The second sub-chunk is identified by the "movi" tag. This chunk contains the actual audio/visual data that make up the AVI movie. The third optional sub-chunk is identified by the "idx1" tag which indexes the offsets of the data chunks within the file. By way of the RIFF format, the audio/visual data contained in the "movi" chunk can be encoded or decoded by software called a codec, which is an abbreviation for (en)coder/decoder. Upon creation of the file, the codec translates between raw data and the (compressed) data format used inside the chunk. An AVI file may carry audio/visual data inside the chunks in virtually any compression scheme, including Full Frame (Uncompressed), Intel Real Time (Indeo), Cinepak, Motion JPEG, Editable MPEG, VDOWave, ClearVideo / RealVideo, QPEG, and MPEG-4 Video. Metadata As a derivative of the Resource Interchange File Format (RIFF), AVI files can be tagged with metadata in the INFO chunk. In addtion, AVI files can embed Extensible Metadata Platform (XMP). Continued use Since its introduction in the early 90s, new computer video techniques have been introduced which the original AVI specification did not anticipate. AVI does not provide a standardised way to encode aspect ratio information, with the result that players cannot select the right one automatically (though it may be possible to do so manually).[2] There are several competing approaches to including timecode in AVI files, which affects usability of the format in film and television postproduction (although it is widely used). An equivalent of the Broadcast Wave extensions, designed to standardise postproduction metadata for wave audio files, has not emerged. AVI is not intended to contain variable frame rate material. Workarounds for this limitation increase overhead dramatically. AVI was not intended to contain video using any compression technique which requires access to future video frame data beyond the current frame. Approaches exist to support modern video compression techniques (e.g. MPEG-4) which rely on this functionality, although this is beyond the intent of the original specification and may cause problems with playback software which does not anticipate this use. AVI cannot contain some specific types of VBR data (such as MP3 audio at sample rates below 32KHz) reliably. Overhead for AVI files at the resolutions and frame rates normally used to encode feature films is about 5 MB per hour of video, the significance of which varies with the application. More recent container formats (such as Matroska, Ogg and MP4) solve all these problems, although software is freely available to both create and correctly replay AVI files which use these more recent techniques. DV AVI DV AVI (aka DV-AVI) is a type of AVI file where the video has been compressed to conform with DV standards. There are two types of DV-AVI files: Type 1: The multiplexed Audio-Video is kept in its original multiplexing and saved together into the Video section of the AVI file Does not waste much space (audio is saved uncompressed, but even uncompressed audio is tiny compared to the video part of DV), but Windows applications based on the VfW API do not support it. Type 2: Like type 1, but audio is also saved as an additional audio stream into the file. Supported by VfW applications, at the price of little increased file size. Type 1 is actually the newer of the two types. Microsoft made the "type" designations, and decided to name their older VfW-compatible version "Type 2", which only furthered confusion about the two types. In the late 1990s through early 2000s, most professional-level DV software, including non-linear editing programs, only supported Type 1. One notable exception was Adobe Premiere, which only supported Type 2. High-end FireWire controllers usually captured to Type 1 only, while "consumer" level controllers usually captured to Type 2 only. Software is and was available for converting Type 1 AVIs to Type 2, and vice-versa, but this is a time-consuming process. Many current FireWire controllers still only capture to one or the other type. However, almost all current DV software supports both Type 1 and Type 2 editing and rendering, including Adobe Premiere. Thus, many of today's users are unaware of the fact that there are two types of DV AVI files. In any event, the debate continues as to which – Type 1 or Type 2 – if either, is better.

[quote name='wateroftyne' post='889715' date='Jul 8 2010, 05:45 PM']I use a little Canon point-and-shoot camera that has a video function. Sometimes I edit the clip beforehand, but for something like this I just play it back to check it's OK, and upload it straight to YouTube as an AVI.[/quote] Thanks WoT! Scurries off to google 'AVI' (yes I have no idea what that means - I really am the village idiot when it comes to tech-y things )

Sorry to be the village idiot but how do you record a clip for YouTube? I presume you need some form of PC-top camera, recording software and a YouTube account? I have none of these but think it may help me sell my fretless '76 Precision on eBay (sadly no takers on BC). So are the camera and software expensive (maybe there's a free download for the software)????

Erm, I haven't a clue how to even go about recording a sound clip! Hasn't stopped me buying and selling an embarrassing number of basses on BC (on third page of feedback )