Woodinblack

23 minutes ago, Al Krow said:

 

First dibs on yours please when you sell it on then! 😅

Good plan, then I can buy it off you a few months later!

Our singer is a great frontman. He is a much better frontman than he is a singer, I have been in groups with better singers, but never been in a group with a better frontman, so I prefer this!

I am sure I saw this before but I can't find it anyway, but if you have just over a grand to spare, you couldn't do much worse than throw it on this:

https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/177235717435

2 hours ago, Stub Mandrel said:

Cutting it short, it's probably severe positional vertigo. I puked so much I had to go on a drip but thanks to the wonderful NHS and lots of pills/IV, I am recovering and hoping to go home soon. Waiting on a cat scan to be sure it's not a brain injury.

Well, that beats most of my bad gigs!

You can, just report the post and ask for it to be reopened.

1 hour ago, Leonard Smalls said:

Just hoping drum-man doesn't start every song far too slow!

Too slow? Luxury, I dream of too slow!

Busy weekend, after a while of not doing anything. Had an hour slot at a local festival, Party by the Parrett, and got the 6pm slot which was nice. We had played a wedding and a party at the venue, and the guy that run the club liked us. Very well organised (stocked fridge back stage and everything) and handily the two main sound guys were the guitarists friend and one of the guitarists in my other band. We had argued a bit trying to get the set list down, we had been asked to do mainly rock (there was a more poppy band and a ska band on after us, so we stuck to the rock mostly) seemed to go down well and we managed to get it down to 1hr and 3 minutes, so went over a bit, which messed stuff up a bit but not too bad. We had quite a few dancers .

My guitarist / sound guy did a video from the side  

Today we played a pub, outside, on shingle which is a bit of a pain for getting dust everywhere and trying to stand your drink up. Also not good for wasps (or well, good depending on if you are a wasp or not!), back to the normal 2.5 hour set. To be honest I wasn't really feeling it as my hand hurt for some reason but it went well with only a few notable mistakes, like going to do the organ backing section of Brick in the wall, and not realising I didn't change my patch from the backing track of Baker street (which is like a bell), which was quite amusing. 

We had a request for timber which we hadn't done for a year or so but the singer couldn't remember how to play it!

Glad to get back to work tomorrow for a rest!

1 hour ago, Al Nico said:

@Woodinblack Hi. I asked Chat GPT about setting up a blend from series to parallel and It's technically possible, however:

Chat GPT: It’s Not Perfect

The transition isn't linear (you don't get a smooth tonal gradient — it’s more like a shape-shifting zone between the two extremes).

You’ll likely lose output level, clarity, or introduce tone weirdness in the mid-position.

Requires careful impedance matching to avoid phase cancellation or signal loss.

Indeed - that sounds like the sort of bollocks that Chat GPT regularly comes out with, just enough to seem reasonable but not enough to actually make sense.

1 hour ago, Wolverinebass said:

Due to the lack of a SE Bash for the last few years I wondered, would it be okay to attend this out of region? 

Its ok, the security checks are very lax!

4 hours ago, Stub Mandrel said:

 

You could have learnt it in the time it took to write that message.

No you would still mess up the change as you had got into a sort of daze of playing the same thing over and over.

4 hours ago, Ramirez said:

 It’s like we can’t accept that something we don’t like might hold emotional value to someone else.

Is that true, I can accept that something might hold emotional value for someone but that doesn't stop it being bad? I mean I understand that people like oasis, I don't know why, but they clearly do, and that is ok. I am a lot more tolerant of other peoples music over 35 than I was before 35.

I think it is a waste, and would encourage people to leave them as a locked thing, but there is nothing to stop someone editing their posts, and if someone doesn't want their images there they can just remove them and there isn't anything that can be done about it. Luckily it is only a small minority of posts that go like that

52 minutes ago, Obrienp said:

@RichT I’m surprised you are getting hum from an active bass but perhaps you use it in passive mode? I’ve always found the active circuit does away with the hum but perhaps I have been lucky with my active basses. 

An active circuit would get rid of a hum induced in the cable, but if the hum is induced in the pickups there is nothing an active circuit can do about it. If I sit by my computers with one of my basses with the nordy singles, I get a hum, but can get rid of it by just tilting the bass at another angle.

4 hours ago, wintoid said:

Are people plugging straight into it, or are you using compressors and so on first?  I've just plugged my P bass straight into it.

If you used a compressor before it you would remove the transients you need for the envelope of some of the patches I would assume.

Bought a polytune mini from Ian and it was all done and posted in minutes, all good, thanks!

2 hours ago, Al Nico said:

I'd like, if practical with passive pickups, to wire them to run together in parallel or series. I could perhaps use a tone pot for summed output, freeing up the other to have maybe a variable series/parallel adjustment, or switch if I'm dreaming.

Series parallel switching is pretty much the same whether active or passive, so any circuit will do it. Its easy to do with a dpdt switch. Variable series / parallel doesn't really make sense

1 hour ago, Stub Mandrel said:

Just wish I could remember what happened...

 

Well, if it was 81, 82 or 83 I could tell you. Maybe not 83

1 hour ago, BigRedX said:

If you've got 91 slices either your pattern is too long or you haven't correctly identified all the relevant slice points and removed the "ghost" ones.

Yeh, it was 16 bars so I could get all the variations

1 hour ago, BigRedX said:

The ascending pattern is created with the intention that you also save each slice as an audio file.

Yes, that is the bit I couldn't find, the export audio part!

TBH - I should be doing this in the MPC-10 which is obviously designed for it, but I am not used to 'its' way of doing things, seems recycle copies heavily from the MPC workflow, which is the bit I haven't got used to yet.

1 hour ago, BigRedX said:

If you want to use your own drum samples you'll need to identify what each slice does (which is why it's important to remove the ones you don't want) and the edit the MIDI file in your DAW moving each note to the correct pitch for the relevant drum sound and duplicating those that correspond to multiple drums that occur on the same beat. Alternatively you can save the MIDI pattern as a quantise template and then program your own drums and use this template to replicate the feel of the original rhythm.

Thanks.

2 hours ago, Stub Mandrel said:

It's hell for me as I've bought that single when it came out, and it's ingrained in my soul...

I had that problem with one group (different song). Ultimately I just couldn't play it wrong!

New side project does Dani California with different vocal timing in the chorus and it throws me right out - I have done it in the last 3 groups, probably played it north of 300 times in that time. Luckily I have a P16, so I just turn the vocals off for that track!

3 hours ago, BigRedX said:

more effective to use a beat/groove detector (Recycle! is what I am most familiar with) on sampled drum parts that are close to the style/pattern you want and edit the results.

Just got Recycle (its free), and tried it with a drum pattern. When you select export to midi, it complains there are too many slices and exports 91, but the midi is an odd ascending scale!

Excelent, that is on my 'buy second hand when someone gets bored of it' list!

For me, I get any tone control how it would sound without any preamp into a perfect amp with a short cable. I just want the buffer of the preamp

19 minutes ago, SteveXFR said:

What was this bass Georgia South is playing here? 

 

 

A custom Prohaszka Guitars build

if you have facebook it is here (actually, it is here whether you have facebook or not).

https://www.facebook.com/reel/1774320443359970

No, the worst I get will be an eye roll or 'another one?' a 'thats ugly' - the basses are mostly paid for by my gigging money, so it is largely self supported, and most of the basses hang on various walls.

11 minutes ago, Rich said:

God, the lineup is crap. Why haven't they got all the bands that *I* like?

But at least it was a good idea to have Olivia rodrego on the Legends slot

And wasn't Velvet Sundown set good?