Woodinblack

I do like reverbs chart of what things sold by, it is pretty handy. Which is great as you know what it is but it doesn't get in the way of the enjoyment of things. I have a whole load of what is basically electronic tat that I haven't got rid of. I know what it is and enjoy it for what it is. I loved my kay. Would I have another one, hell no!

Basically as a youngster in the UK if you wanted a guitar or bass, you bought a kay. It was all there was, it was all you could afford, back when there was a lot less disposable income around. Noone bought a kay because they wanted a kay, that was the choice. It was tat in every sense of the word, but many people learned to play on tat and it brings back great memories. I had a Kay strat, weighed as much as a small planet. I loved it, I modded it I learned everything on it. However, my love of it was a love of a guitar. Come the early 80s we started getting truly good instruments, such as the westones, and things got (and stayed different). There is a reason there aren't many kays around, they weren't worth keeping.

I would call that better. Easier to do a bit of padding than a bit of routing.

Really good price. Shipping seems a bit though, or is that because I am in the UK and seeing some Brexit tax on it?

I think 'middle of the road' is far left when your political parties are either right wing or far right!

Different length? On a Kay? Hardly, it wouldn't change the intonation that much, it would still be close enough

Couldn't find any and I looked. We don't have pawn shops with anything decent in them since eBay came out, and since leaving Europe our market has gone from 400million to 65million, and there are none around

I wouldn't be surprised - people (normally younger) pay a fortune for something they consider classic because they weren't born in an age where stuff that bad was normal, so it unusual, and also rare as most people used theirs to dig the garden or support a wobbly cupboard, or like me, just a nice fire.

Finally decided this week to get a tmb35. Now none available!

Yep, the US Barts are in epoxy.

I think I might use a different word than 'dissassembled'!

The only time that was a problem was playing in a small venue with my valve amplifier, I couldn't stand next to it without noise. Luckily I don't use that much any more.

People pay that sort of money for them? 😮 I guess its true that something that is old has value regardless of what it is. I understand people collecting old quirky things, for interest etc, like buying an old Lada or something. It is interesting because it is quirky and old, not because it is actually something worth having in its own right.

Sounds a plan, that is what I would do.

Almost all EMGs can be driven without a preamp, as they have a preamp built in anyway. They can't be driven without power but that is provided separately.

They can be run passively yes. There will always be a bit of treble attenuation running anything passive (and why often people prefer passive) but it isn't going to be that noticable. Note that all the premiums have a active / passive switch so can run big singles passively and there really isn't much difference (with good cables).

Genuinely I would never pay that sort of money for a genuine mid range ibanez preamp - they are not that good. If you have that sort of money to spend, get a Glok or a Darkglass or an Agular or one of the other named preamps. For that sort of money get a John East!

Put the big singles in, make it passive for now and leave it until you have a bit more money. I read somewhere you were a fan

Taylor swift did have her music on spotify and then removed it because she didn't want her music to appear on the free tier, as she didn't think music should be given away free, but an artist couldn't choose that as an option. Then spotify whizzed her off a bit. So she wasn't there for a few years, and windowed a few albums so they were available on album for 3 weeks before streaming (which seems sensible). Obviously a bit harder for her now as she seems to be producing a new album every month. Tool was a weird one - they weren't on any streaming service for a long time, then with the latest album, they released it as only a £45 luxury album or streaming only. So for someone like me who wants the £10 album version, there wasn't anything.

And.. so what? Your job isn't writing transcriptions so that other bass players can see what you were doing, you are doing it because people have asked (neh, nagged!) you too, as a favour. Before you did it, there wasn't a definitive version, now there is. The world has gained something. If the transcriptions aren't right, and it bothers someone, they can just take those transcriptions and redo them now they are on the internet, or they can just ignore them. But for those of us who wanted to see them, they are fantastic, and we can listen to the tracks and look at the transcriptions and know how to do it, and it keeps us going waiting for your video lessons

Will give it a try tonight. Obviously that one is easier as you only have to upload, but its also less free and flexable.

I use streaming and still by CDs if I like something. I don't use amazon.

Not necessarily wasp - Chris Holmes worked in the construction industry when they weren't touring as Blackie Lawless wouldn't pay him. He said it was a pain on tour as he had to get his hands in condition to play again. And he was also married to Lita Ford! I guess it only worked for a few people. The maximum you would get for 1,000,000 streams at spotifys maximum pay out is $4366, which is just over £3000. Before tax. Yes, that is more than £33 and more enough to finance a round of recordings, but not a living, which sounds a bit crazy for those sort of numbers. So yes, if you were getting half a million streams a month, you might be able to manage minimum wage.

Just wire it direct and change whatever you want to change on the amp, turn the tone down there..You cant get back what you have taken it out, but you can later take out what you don't want.

I only recently (which recent is yesterday) heard about spleeter, although it has been round for a couple of years. I would be very surprised if it hadn't taken off hugely if it wasn't a massive pain to install. Spleeter is an AI bit of software (literally a tensorflow model if that means anything to you) which you put audio through and it attempts to split the sound in the component instruments. The amazing thing is that it doesn't do that bad a job of it and is thus, pretty close to magic. Unfortunately it is one of those python 'right version of python, right version of every package manager, right version of everything else and a guess at what the errors mean' but after failing to get it to work on the PC, I got it to work on the mac tonight. I actually did it because I wanted to isolate the bass line from 'learning to fly' by pink floyd, as the bass is a chapman stick. It does a fairly good job except it does tend to remove the higher parts. I tried 'fool for your loving', on it as more posts have been done on this forum about it than anything else. Its a command line thing, so it works like this: % spleeter separate -o ~/Music/audio-out -p spleeter:4stems /Users/woody/Music/iTunes/iTunes\ Music/Whitesnake/Best\ Of\ Whitesnake/01\ Fool\ For\ Your\ Loving.m4a INFO:spleeter:File /Users/woody/Music/audio-out/01 Fool For Your Loving/bass.wav written succesfully INFO:spleeter:File /Users/woody/Music/audio-out/01 Fool For Your Loving/vocals.wav written succesfully INFO:spleeter:File /Users/woody/Music/audio-out/01 Fool For Your Loving/drums.wav written succesfully INFO:spleeter:File /Users/woody/Music/audio-out/01 Fool For Your Loving/other.wav written succesfully And the output, well, obviously I can't put it all up here, it is copyrighted stuff after all, but here are bits of the sections in one audio file as examples.. mix.mp3 Obviously it is not the sort of quality you want to listen to isolated, but it is convincingly pulled apart and lets you hear stuff that is hard to hear otherwise. - edit - Should have added the links. Heres it release page https://deezer.io/releasing-spleeter-deezer-r-d-source-separation-engine-2b88985e797e and here is the source page https://github.com/deezer/spleeter although if you are setting it up rather than editing it, python (max 3.7 as it uses tensorflow) will download the files