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[quote name='MikanHannille' timestamp='1422479735' post='2673319']Have the recent MB500. So far so good.[/quote] I bought an MB 500 about 18 months ago and it's doing sterling work. The only problem I've had was they changed the specs in manufacturing since the tech data was published and it no longer had a 1/4 inch socket nestled inside the centre of the Speakon connectors on the rear. Solved by GAK sending me a Speakon to 1/4 inch cable FoC.

[quote name='TimR' timestamp='1422542221' post='2673895'] Our singer made a great comment on Monday night. "That's a hard song, there's no breaks in it. I have to sing all the time." I just smiled. I guess each person in a band has their own difficulties that the others aren't aware of. [/quote] Quite so - a thread a couple of lines below this one: [url="http://basschat.co.uk/topic/254531-alright-now-what-do-you-do-in-the-verses/"]Alright Now - What do you do in the verses?[/url]

[quote name='ubit' timestamp='1422431524' post='2672449']But that's what I'm saying, bass was starting and stopping. Some songs had none and NO ONE. Noticed. They were all up dancing and having a ball.[/quote] TBF, given the time signature, dancing to Floyd's [i]Money[/i] could be an interesting exercise.

[quote name='chris_b' timestamp='1422347593' post='2671330'] I've never understood this "sympathetic resonance" thing as a need for separate bridge pieces. [/quote] Makes you wonder why G&L have locking saddles (which ties them all together) as a feature of their bridges if there were anything to it.

[i]Fingernails are pretty[/i] [i]Fingernails are good[/i] [i]Seems that all they ever wanted was a marking[/i] I have nails kept short + use a plectrum when necessary (which is rarely these days)

[quote name='Truckstop' timestamp='1422362821' post='2671577']That's an interesting point. Sometimes bands play songs that wouldn't necessarily work with their line up originally. Changing the bassline to allow extra instruments (extra guitar, keys etc) makes perfect sense.[/quote] Or the other way round. When I'm playing with my rhythm guitar-bass-drums trio, I'll sometimes use the bass to fill in parts originally played by other instruments. Otherwise, playing the original bass line can often provide a 'lift'. [i]Penny Lane[/i] or [i]With a Little Help From My Friends[/i] by the Beatles work a lot better with Macca's bass lines. I've been told it gives everyone else in the band more confidence about the number while they're playing. Then again, it's not entirely unknown for the singer to send me a set of chords by email a couple of hours before a gig and I have to busk my way through it on stage playing roots and whatever else comes into my head in the moment

[quote name='spectoremg' timestamp='1421453835' post='2661637'] This guy did a great series about movie soundtracks a while back too. [/quote] Yes, that was excellent too. It's great to have documentary programmes about music written and presented by someone who knows his stuff. Not just parroting what some junior researchers have found on Wikipedia.

[quote name='sblueplanet' timestamp='1422311739' post='2671160'] Could watch hours of this kind of thing on the workings of early multi-track and microphone technology. Fascinating. [/quote] I loved the bit about Bing Crosby investing $50K in Ampex so he could spend more time on the golf course

Awopbopaloobop Alopbamboom! Tooty flutey in the booty Edit: though that's not a million miles from Little Richard's original lyrics before they were cleaned up for a record release. Tutti Frutti, good booty If it don't fit, don't force it You can grease it, make it easy

Rickenbacker have a vintage web site design too. They're still using tables for layout. http://www.rickenbacker.com/factory_woodshop.asp

Lots of bottom end. etc.

Not so many harmonics in the notes it produces, but the fundamental is strong.

[quote name='paul_5' timestamp='1422009674' post='2667648'] Teasmaid. On its side, obviously. [/quote] Perfect if you're thinking of playing bass with The Rutles https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ijFDkpNma-k

[quote name='BigRedX' timestamp='1422028079' post='2667963'] My brother-in-law who used to be a fairly prolific consumer of CDs hasn't bought a single one since joining Spotify and couple of yours ago. [/quote] Q. E. D.

[quote name='Horizontalste' timestamp='1422019681' post='2667811']Do you know how this compares to a play on mainstream radio?[/quote] [quote name='BigRedX' timestamp='1422021769' post='2667855']I don't know about national radio, but looking at my most recent PRS statement, last year a single play of a two minute long track on BBC local radio brought in a total performance royalty of about £3.00 to be shared between the songwriters. However on the back of that we were eligible for a proportion of the the "unlogged performance royalties" which added another £12 for that one song.[/quote] It does depend on the profile of each station, but I think a single play on Radio 1 will earn the artist about £50-60. Arguably it's a different class of service to radio though, as you get to choose where and when you listen to any particular track, albeit down to shuffle within an album if you're using Spotify free. If you're on a paid subscription you can take it away and listen offline. With radio, you have no control over what specific songs you're going to hear (outside of your choice of radio station and making requests to DJs). Within that context, it's use is much closer to purchasing a record or downloaded file than listening to the radio and a Spotify user is likely to use the service to displace purchases they would have made otherwise. [quote name='Horizontalste' timestamp='1422019681' post='2667811']It really isn't a lot for sure but times are definitely changing and I think platforms like spotify could help to decrease illegal downloads in witch the artists get absolutely foxtrot alpha.[/quote] There is some merit in this argument, though it is close to blackmail for artists: use Spotify and get paid a pittance or don't and get nothing because people will go to illegal downloads. Even if you take that into account, if it's highly probable that Spotify is also displacing actual sales, an artist has to get an unrealistically huge number of Spotify listens to make up for even a quite modest level of sales on iTunes or CD. The main lesson here is how small the value of music is to modern society and commerce when the baseline is 'free' - I could draw a parallel with the rates being paid for stock photography in a different creative sphere I am fairly familiar with.

Putting artists' Spotify earnings (US $0.000521 per play for songwriters, $0.00521 for performers, gross payable) into context of other music download services. http://thetrichordist.com/2014/11/12/the-streaming-price-bible-spotify-youtube-and-what-1-million-plays-means-to-you/ [quote]An artist needs to generate THREE MILLION PLAYS on the two largest and most popular streaming platforms* to equal just 1,125 album downloads from iTunes.[/quote] * Spotify and YouTube

[quote name='Horizontalste' timestamp='1422011177' post='2667677'] I've used it for years as premium & I've discovered so much music that I wouldn't have without it. I know nothing of royalties but surely there's an agreement somewhere between artists, labels & spotify. [/quote] There's an agreement between the major labels and Spotify - they got roughly [url=http://www.theguardian.com/music/musicblog/2009/aug/17/major-labels-spotify]20% of the company's shares in a 2009 deal[/url] as well as their ongoing revenue from royalties. That could be 20% of [url=http://www.digitalmusicnews.com/permalink/2014/06/11/major-labels-trying-sell-spotify-10-billion-sources-say]$10 billion[/url] if and when Spotify goes public. Needless to say, the smaller labels and artists aren't seeing any of that.

Bees http://xkcd.com/1439/

[quote name='cybertect' timestamp='1421787321' post='2665094']I'm hearing different notes on the tail of 'With a Litte Help from my Friends', for example.[/quote] Scratch that. I've realised what I thought was a difference there is entirely down to my poor tab-reading skills

[quote name='ead' timestamp='1421846073' post='2665647'] I'm not sure that's the case as it would mean that you only ever heard the fundamental when you pluck a string. Just stick a spectrum analyser on the pickup output and you'll see all sorts going on. [/quote] There will be harmonics, but you're certainly not going to get those sharp, triangular peaks illustrated in the video posted by DaveFry, for example. The effect we're seeing is entirely down to the interaction of the string movement and the (relatively slow) rolling shutter of the camera. If you use a high speed camera to capture string movement in slow motion, at 600 and 1200 frames per second (20 and 40 times slower than real time) it looks like this [media]http://youtu.be/6sgI7S_G-XI[/media]

I don't believe that represents what they're actually doing. There are far too many nodes (waves). A string vibrates across its entire length from nodes both ends (bridge and nut) unless you're playing a harmonic, when there are more nodes, but only 2 3, or 4 in most cases. I think the smaller waves are an artefact created by the shutter and/or scanning of the CCD sensor on the camera, similar to the Lartigue Effect [url="http://maisonbisson.com/post/10531/focal-plane-shutter-distortion/"]http://maisonbisson....ter-distortion/[/url] Edit and what's happening to the propeller of a plane in this video [url="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ecV7oo68vAc"]https://www.youtube....h?v=ecV7oo68vAc[/url]

[quote name='Dad3353' timestamp='1421787984' post='2665101'] Surely if the detail of some parts is so ambiguous as to need specialised listening, any of the versions available would fit the bill, no..? Obviously a good transcription is a Good Thing in itself, but an inaccuracy that no-one can hear or spot is no big deal, I'd have thought. Certainly not the same as a blatant 'bum note', no..? [size=4] [/size] [size=4]Just sayin', as I downloaded the files and find them to be very good; thanks for sharing.[/size] [/quote] Depends why you're doing it. I find Macca's lines are very rewarding to study and he's certainly influenced the way i play. I do keep finding little things I've not noticed before that are well hidden.

[quote name='pajc72' timestamp='1421763865' post='2664663']The reason I tabbed the Beatles songs was because of the abundant inaccuracies of the bass tabs in books like The Beatles Complete. Though this is an excellent reference book the bass tabs fall way short of '100% spot on' as you describe.[/quote] Totally true. I've never found the official Beatles music books to be any more reliable for chords, etc. than any pulled randomly from the Internet. [quote]Transcription of a song is very subjective, especially when it concerns the bass lines. Two very excellent transcribers can hear things very differently. I have seen a bass transcription of in My Life where the transcriber has heard an 'F natural' in the first couple of bars'.[/quote] I agree on that, too. I've certainly got some differences to your transcriptions for some of the songs I've worked out for myself - I'm hearing different notes on the tail of 'With a Litte Help from my Friends', for example.

[quote name='MoJo' timestamp='1416660302' post='2612386'] I was born in 62 and have already written to the National Lottery asking them to fund a YOB bass [/quote] A 1967 Hofner Verithin that I've owned since I was about 22. You might guess which year I was born [attachment=181059:hofner_sml.jpg]

[quote name='Marc S' timestamp='1418912113' post='2634753']If you restore an old MG sports car, with 3rd party body parts (to replace the rusty MG ones) .... does this mean your car shouldn't be wearing an MG badge anymore???[/quote] [quote name='tauzero' timestamp='1418947523' post='2635222']Very poor analogy. That's the equivalent of starting with a Fender and then replacing (say) the BBOT and pickguard, in which case no-pne would argue it shouldn't still have a Fender badge. A better analogy would be building a Caterham or Westfield kit car and sticking a Lotus badge on it.[/quote] Quite. For MG owners' reactions to such things, see here... http://www.mg-cars.net/mgtd-mgtf1500-bbs/another-fake-201305142258108864.htm