Happy Jack

Hmmmmmm ... it's PC-based rather than Android or stand-alone, and it also appears to be embedded with YouTube who are currently making all sorts of threats in my general direction for my failure to start paying for something that has been free for as long as I've been using it.

Thanks Sam. Reviews are ... erm ... mixed (to put it politely) but it's a freebie so what have I got to lose? Installed on my phone and I'll give it a whirl.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/ckrrr8yelzvo

Surely you mean mur de merveilles?

I already have Reaper, which will run (for a given value of "run") on Android but it ain't fun.

Incidentally, the latest firmware update for the GB-10 is dated 1st Dec 2010 so that won't help. 🙄

Hardly a Lazarus thread but worth reviving. My GB-10 still works just fine but it's a technology hangover from 15 years ago which brings all sorts of compatability issues. Half the tracks I want to play on it come up with Non-Supported and even after processing through both Reaper and Lame XP all too often I still can't get the MP3 to play. Getting bored now. I'll ask @Geek99's question again, but I have NO INTEREST in headphone amps. What I want is a modern product that will allow me to: change the key of the track I'm playing, adjust the tuning for when autotune has left the published MP3 30 cents away from concert pitch, loop a track or a section of a track, slow down a track without changing pitch. If it also has a tuner and a metronome then that's nice but I don't actually need those functions. If it's an app for my android phone then I can live with it but quite frankly I'd prefer a separate piece of kit. What I really want is a Tascam GB-10 designed in 2024 but that doesn't seem to exist. Any suggestions?

@Osiris - can you pick up these images in Photoshop? I'm thinking of an AI-generated image into which I (who am I kidding? I mean @Silvia Bluejay) can insert actual photos of band members.

Thinking about using AI to generate photos that can be used in band posters. Does anyone have any experience, advice, warnings, threats?

What is this EQ of which you speak? They're flats ... go with the way they sound. 🙂 You'll be hooked for life by the end of the first set

But inconsistent. I've had three amps over the years from W-Audio. None deliver anything like the power they claim (which is fine - I don't need that much), one blew up at a gig, one worked fine but only for a few years before it died, and my current one is excellent. Go figure. In truth, I would never use a cheap power amp as my main amp for anything. The cost saving isn't worth that constant nagging doubt. My recommendation is to keep a constant eye out for a cheap-ish pre-owned Powersoft Digam amp. They do come up from time to time.

I'm slightly dismayed by the £399 charge for postage.

Paging @Andyjr1515 Andy built me an uber-lightweight 5-string active bass using Paulownia wood - essentially it's fancy balsa wood. 🤣 His craftsmanship is very well-established here on Basschat.

https://www.amazon.co.uk/JOYO-Wireless-Rechargeable-Transmitter-Instruments/dp/B08R8FSFRB/ref=asc_df_B08R8FSFRB/?tag=googshopuk-21&linkCode=df0&hvadid=658902607403&hvpos=&hvnetw=g&hvrand=5495087217330947671&hvpone=&hvptwo=&hvqmt=&hvdev=c&hvdvcmdl=&hvlocint=&hvlocphy=9045969&hvtargid=pla-1471871753430&psc=1&mcid=56b5aaec1df93bed828258193a5d7380 Hard to go wrong at £31 new (with free P&P). I use mine routinely at jam sessions (active 4-string bass) and I used this also at a small-pub gig on Saturday (active 5-string bass). No problems at all.

Midi is the spawn of the Devil and its practitioners should be burned at the stake for witchcraft.

Surprisingly few band break-ups on my CV. Almost invariably it's me deciding that I can't be arsed to put up with any more of this nonsense, and walking. Sometimes the band I've left then falls apart, sometimes they replace me, sometimes they don't notice I've gone. C'est la vie ...

Sounds a lot like my Kolstein Busetto (Schaller 411 mag pickup, steel strings) but it doesn't really matter what you send to FOH ... what comes out the other side is in the lap of the Gods. 🙄

Gosh - don't I look young! And gosh - hasn't video quality come a long way in a short time!

Not sure it's entirely relevant to arthritis in a finger, but here it is anyway.

https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/264715355204?itmmeta=01HYV87MVDCYWRQKTVFKF04Y83&hash=item3da243c444:g:N7cAAOSwpPleqade&itmprp=enc%3AAQAJAAAA0KLQOVGnJcP58Bk4HTsX7xSTD1gKN%2BaI%2F%2B3zpzVUZlFy6gpcStPA44C1TYa1UpmPm6IEFzjiOUGixX10IhVZVXy1Cmi6v3jjJ1UklTRZxXppYWa%2BbXydJMD6X6j9bSFJuBxex5AVnGTkcbGqboinWES5RCLOLKghIlSKn9S4T5K2w8dQuj5TuklFOONY7iGrE%2BQXxgDv3crm1%2B8COznS8nts2Z0ZXMmOY5UySXg2fxVSxBG4EvIfBMYv5vY5yqysBZMoIPcsJqrmfRMIWO7vbnM%3D|tkp%3ABk9SR-LNnuj2Yw

Actually, I have a stool just like that ...

Don't forget that you'll also need these:

Outstanding work, Pete. Not only had i not seen it, but it didn't even bloody come up in my saved eBay Search which was supposed to alert me the second something like this was posted! I owe you lunch. 😎