Woodinblack

No, that is just a link to my default facebook feed - there is no other info on it - if you look at the link there is no information on it other than turning off a filter

4 hours ago, BigRedX said:

Wonderful Christmas time by Macca is a very slightly modified version of one of the CS80 presets to name just two.

Worse than 2, when I went through the cherry audio GX80, which is a faithful recreation of the CS80 with some GX1 presets too, playing a chord with every single of of the original presets was a song I knew (and in the presets is the whole of blade runner too).

Presets are handy to give you an insight into what you can do with a thing, but shouldn't really be relied on as the only thing, unless thats what you want, in which case you would probably be better with a rom based thing - I have a DS61 and its beauty is that if you want a sound, you select a type (piano / organ / strings / wind / voice etc) and then select one of the presets - its not a synth and doesn't try to be, its for making known sounds. The argon isn't that, although when I want to synth anything, I always end up with the Waldorf Blofeld for hardware (or equator 2 on the mac).

Like anything, when you are used to it is easy enough. Any synth can dissapear into the mix, I mean it is easier than the DX yamaha range, and that managed to get itself on a lot of records

Funny but also deeply disturbing, its the phone jingle and advert industry today, the charts next year then thats it!

6 minutes ago, Lfalex v1.1 said:

Early this morning I set about creating a patch, but have no idea at all where to begin in terms of which waveform to start with. The Argon offers 2 mixable  waveforms with (I think) 16,129 x 16,129 variatons...

There are 160 wavetables, so not quite that many, although you can morph between pairs of wavetables

6 minutes ago, Lfalex v1.1 said:

None of the stock patches seem to offer a valid starting point, so I figured I'd look elsewhere for something to give me some pointers.

Press init patch and go from there.

This might help though:

USB A to USA C, USB A to Lightning are standard adaptors I have

4 hours ago, kjfitzy said:

Thanks thebrig, all the vids I’ve watched are saying it’s surprisingly light aswell, these are ones that have been bought in the last year. The G&l Fullerton deluxe lb 2500 is also appealing to me and it’s the same money, to be honest I play P and loads of tone variations is something I don’t need, so I’m edging towards G&l 

It is a very different bass (I used to have an l2500 too), much bigger neck, much bigger feeling bass in general, but still quite a variation of tones on it, its not like a P although it can make that kind of sound

9 minutes ago, Chienmortbb said:

Its one of those songs that I hate, seems to go down well but hey. Maybe its just me.

No, it isn't just you.

3 hours ago, thebrig said:

I owned the SR5000 for a while and it was as light as a feather, I accept that the five string version is going to be a bit heavier, but I'm surprised that yours was so heavy.

Maybe the second gen version that is out now is lighter, mine is like a small sun!

3 hours ago, BigRedX said:

 

That's what I'd heard from another source, although that was last year and since then it's gone very quiet with regards to further information.

Not that quiet

4 hours ago, Simon C said:

The video is less than 40s.  It’s the only footage my mate took, but he managed to catch the bass solo in “You can call me Al” (not the original recording version, but something I could fit into 2 bars

We were going to do that, I learned the bass solo (hideous thing) but the song sounded really flat when we did it, so we dropped it. Now the guitarist who hated that we dropped it is trying to bring it back, but I have completely forgotten it and am sure as hell not learning it again!

16 hours ago, Lfalex v1.1 said:

An alternative replacement has been ordered courtesy of Andertons, in the form of a Modal Argon8x.

 

It was very reasonably priced, and given that they're not likely to be around much longer due to Modal being in administration since last year... Why not?

Good choice - I ahve an argon (the key one). Great synth.

Modal are still a going concern though, they released new synths this year at namm,  and their reps are saying it is just restructuring, so who knows. It would be a shame if they went as they have done some great stuff. They also release a carbon synth too.

I am still tempted by a cobalt to go with the argon.

If the reason they quit is still present, you can't rule out them quitting again.

The ibanez 5005 is a lovely bass, if you have the strength for it. It looks nice, it feels nice, the pickups are very versatile and sound great. All in all there is very little bad to say about it, except, it weighs a lot, because it is dripping in Wenge, which is heavy. I have one, and I rarely gig it because of the weight, it is so much heavier than my 1605, whcih is very similar, except poplar where the 5005 is wenge.

Try one and see if you get on with the weight ok

I wrote about mine here:

9 minutes ago, Bill Fitzmaurice said:

The sound of the accordion, which is only surpassed by the bagpipes as hand held cacophony devices.

So whats the best combo for accordian? I know, anything as long as its off! Didn't stop roland making a £4k V-Accordian though.

26 minutes ago, Greg Edwards69 said:

There's also the new Mvave Tank B, mentioned in this thread, which looks quite useful. It even has an XLR so you can use it live, straight to FOH. I'm tempted to pick one up for that price (about £70 via Temu) to use as a backup.

Let me know what you think - I have a copy of the previous one (the cube baby type) and it isn't a patch on the quality of the mooer p1, which I know you weren't keen on. Maybe they got better.

2 minutes ago, Bill Fitzmaurice said:

I've played every genre except polka, it's never influenced my gear choices.

So what have you got against Polka huh?

2 hours ago, Franticsmurf said:

 one of the pieces they asked me to learn was 'Fool For Your Lovin'. I'd played that many times so no problem, but the band asked me to learn it note for note as this was the way they did all their covers. 

Had a same thing with that track, as a one of someone asked me to play it and I thought, well, its whitesnake its not going to be hard is it. And I was wrong.

So I learned it anyway and we ended up not doing it.

But it to this day irritates me hearing people doing a stripped down version of it!

1 hour ago, Dad3353 said:

 

That wouldn't work; IP addresses are between 0 and 255. 

Whoosh!

ok, so I managed to solve the problem. If you spend every day looking for a few weeks, in the end you can buy a new B stock RCF Evox J8 for £520, white, non original pole, no speakon or mains plug, a couple of minor scuffs, non original packaging, but no breaks or damage. I can live with the white for that!

The form is probably doable, but it still relies on people filling it in properly

5 hours ago, asingardenof said:

I know that works with eBay purchases because I've done it, but does it work with Reverb as well?

Its not a reverb / ebay thing, its a paypal thing so it works on any transfer

Doubt it is possible to auto generate those tags (well, practical, of course it is possible) for the same reason that they are hard to search for, there is no consistent naming of things.

1 hour ago, SumOne said:

Cheers, I didn't know about the QR thing. 

https://www.paypal.com/uk/digital-wallet/ways-to-pay/pay-with-qr-code

1 hour ago, MiltyG565 said:

They could claim it was fraud to their bank, who sends a report to the receiving bank. Given the number of genuine cases of fraud that do not result in money being successfully recovered though, I doubt that a false report would fare better. Having said that, your bank will need to discuss it with you before debiting your account in any case. In most cases, by the time the bank looks, the money is already gone, though.

You would have difficulty doing that as by using paypals systems you have said that they are the ones to deal with disputes, so if you did try you certainly wouldn't be using paypal again. 

1 minute ago, SumOne said:

 

What's to stop someone meeting you in person, paying via PayPal (or Bank transfer) then still doing steps 3-5?

Paypal has a qr code that you scan if you pick up in person, proving your received it. And for a bank transfer, then it doesn't matter what they say, you have the money and they can't do anything about it (or paypal friends and family - same thing)