Woodinblack

No, obviously they are into the music as well, but they also want the whole package, sleves, lyric sheets, and the general tactile feeling of a record.

I don't think it has anything to do with that. People who buy records (AKA vinyl) are enthusiasts in having a thing. People who buy CDs just want the music, and now streaming is the way of doing it, so there is less of a need for a CD, plus you can often download it from the website when buying now, if you want losless. The CD doesn't have any advantage over the lossless download (I buy CDs, rip them and then listen to that).

Where on earth do you do that? The only places I know of are online, and they certainly don't do that. I don't believe there are any shops within quite a way of here that will do it.

Yes, so it is sort of like you have had to have somethinng to know what it is you don't like!

Love Cats. OK, not a tricky song, but its my first on the big standy up bass!

And if you get your tone with that, fine, as I said it is not an issue if you don't have an issue with it, but regardless it happens. Obviously you can boost the treble up again if you want, I just find it easier to not lose it in the first place for the sake of a 9v battery.

using a cable that is 10 metres long has a big effect on a passive bass, so much so that wireless sender manufacturers include a 'cable tone' switch or option, and people say 'oh I don't like the sound of an active bass, I just like passive' - the 'sound of a passive' bass is the same as the sound of an active bass with a notable resistor and capacitor network introduced before the first gain stage, as at the end of the pickups, unless you have EMGs or something, you are listening to the sound of a passive bass. I prefer to have control over that. I am aware other people dont care, or prefer the highs to be removed. That isn't even vauguely relevant, that is a voltage drop on a cable on a 50Hz, which isn't important, you can just boost that signal back up again. Now do the same calculation with the resistance and capacitance on a 1khz signal - sure, your low bass frequencies are fine as above, 50Hz, but your 1k signals are way down. Boosting that up just gives you a louder signal with the highs reduced. Now maybe that doesn't matter to you, thats fine. If you like the james jamerson thing with 10 year old strings, or someone that wants to wind the tone down, thats fine and you aren't going to notice anyway. And thats before we get into injected noise.

For me, I don't care about the tone, I just want the signal that my bass produces to be the same everywhere, and not be dependant on the cable or the input of the amplifier, so the original purpose of a preamp - a buffer to get rid of tone loss in the cable.

Sorry hadn't seen this, looks like some kind of corrupt image, or something that android doesn't like. I haven't seen this and don't appear to be able to recreate it (but also don't have any android devices). What are the steps to reproduce it please? Can anyone get it to happen on a desktop at all?

The main thing seemed that your videos were very big for what they showed, some software is better than others, not sure what your platform was again to suggest anything. The other option for videos is youtube with a link here

Because you have almost half a gig of uploads so over the limit, so I am surprised it lets you upload anything! Ultimate you need to trim a bit before you can upload more

I loved playing pump it up in my last group, its such a fun song to play, I had never actually heard it before it appeared in a setlist of a group I had joined, I was glad it did, spent ages getting it right!.

Same here, but a while back, I was at a festival in dorset and the owner of said shop recognised me and said hello, which was a bit of a surprise. Mind you I did practically live there!

I never called them, I don't call. I emailed and had great service from emmet. Obviously I haven't contacted for a while and when it comes to strings, I have never ordered any from there, it would work out too expensive..

You can assign the expression pedal to something in a block, and that includes volume, so yes, you can use it as volume, but note that is on a per patch basis, so if you want to make it volume in all your patches, you need to assign it in all those patches (and obviously then stops if you bypass).

Probably all true. On the other hand, bristol has a new scheme where they charge double for on street parking now to encourage you to use the bus. And with that also, it has scaled back bus services as noone is using them, and they have a bus strike. Its the carrot and the stick approach, except they are all out of carrots

Oh yes, Shaller - one of my tuners broke its head, they sent me 5 replacements.

Both Bristol and Bath fund all council services by motoring charges I got a £35 fine in bath for passing through a 'busses only until 18:00' lane at 17:58, following 3 other cars.

As a kid I used to walk there at least once a week, and when I started working I used to go there regularly to buy a new boss pedal - wish I had them all now, would be worth a fortune! Bought many things there, including my westone, my first 'proper' guitar. and a roland electric piano, and almost a gibson the paul, which I always regretted not being able to get, and have recently corrected the lack of! My amps were all second hand from either Courtney and walkers or the little shop in New Road.

Loved it on my darkfire, worked really well, miss the darkfire, so at least one more person. It obviously shouldn't have been put on all the models as obviously guitarists are even worse than bassists for not trusting anything made within a decade of wwii, but it was good where it was. As to companies, Ashdown, Wunjo, Stick Enterprises, Smooth hound, Shuker have all given me great service.

Before the were renamed Nevada, Telecoms were good too!

Sounds sort of ok to me, and close enough. However, I don't have the option, I physically do not have the space for a double bass, so even if I wanted one I couldn't have one, so this will be as close as it gets!

Ok, so I look, I get the 'choice' of french or german and the sizes are listed as 1/4 1/2 3/4 etc - is that really a size? I am guessing not 1/4 of the length! And I guess you have no way of working out what you need until you have spent money on something you dont

Oh I don't know, send them a rant with an angry 'why did this only last 36 years??' message and maybe they will send you a new one

So I have joined the group with my new NS Wav5. Been playing it tonight, and enjoying it (apart from I can't do too much as I sliced my finger open yesterday). So what are good starting learning resources? Videos etc? Great things to learn etc? Mostly playing with the fingers but I willl try the bow stuff. i have a bow, it came with a chinese violin that cost about £20 10 years ago, so not great, but until I know what i need, it will do!