Happy Jack

Yeh, but they have to add a 30-second slap solo and then tap the last eight bars.

I remember the days of the 80/20 product, where 80% of what you needed was satisfied by 20% of the features. That was 40/50 years ago. By 20 years ago we had (IMHO) the 90/10 product moving rapidly towards 95/5, i.e. software. I used spreadsheets and word processors for a living for many years, and there were always great swathes of Excel that I never needed to go anywhere near. Now? Well now we have the 99/1 product, which is the average DAW. The secret to being satisfied with your DAW, whichever one it is and however much it cost you, is to just use the bits you need and assume that the bits you don't use are not worthy of you. Nirvana achieved.

There's no option for 'rust'?

Wide open on the bass, always wide open. If my sound needs tweaking, then my amp will do a far better job of it than a volume knob or tone control will ever manage.

Bwahahahahahaaaaaaa!!! I picked up a bass guitar for the first time in my life on my 49th birthday. I started gigging at 51 and that was 13 years ago. I have no plans to stop any time soon. I play any style of music that will have me (always excluding any form of metal, and anything that ain't really music, like rap and sampled R&B). I've played country to people suffering from cerebral palsy and Dad-rock to teenagers, singer/songwriter stuff to hipsters and rockabilly to afficianadoes. Any way the wind blows, doesn't really matter to me. To me.

https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Military-Shelter-26-x-20-x-10ft-Workshop-Bastion-Ex-MOD-Surplus-NATO-Army-Tent/114000681476?_trkparms=ispr%3D1&hash=item1a8af85a04:g:16MAAOSw9-Zd09u3&amdata=enc%3AAQAFAAACcBaobrjLl8XobRIiIML1V4Imu%2Fn%2BzU5L90Z278x5ickkAgU0umhwUTmgTFbE5cu7zc9iX9yoQzxXMO6gQ7HQ3VMRQMAD28gN9a8ez8y0kJe5lWnKXB6Ec9iiOKN%2BVEJiBl5%2BPTbZp9oNd7II9ibhRG1gPc2xNp%2B%2F9Z%2BX0IPtZRTrGYt3cT%2BcB4EQ6uMMJm%2BX3DKXNlqhUGLfKYjiweP433OvEGD%2B%2BJxMdjs9OW6f%2FuRCcIknOeO1j5nHtmgIPR%2FsOsFP4fXheBgY%2FFzc5CvgKb1jvEVnzdvgY7r0TBrF7X%2Fhrxta8qvSq9F7D6Ybb6U3VGBSh0kkscEZyfm4FctZYA0drBdzDn0npjql9UXcQj28Q3zn2D5C%2BJp8AsgIE3WBekpVcC7c7YFLwqzypkwRsuT5NIaNBR0sik1eTIZi5BeTpGLVrADnkfy05o9gXUAYJm9qqDyz%2FhAfHplq5Tr84oZbMEeCRzA%2F%2B02gEe4UmDDRxnIHlXdmZ2neBwdLiBeU9yImZOhREwKdIiD7Fn01KACSO47GG8265A3xOnT33DVQOwRe3gePO9iHbQiiBW30ZFOxLETmH9nn3NDLnMnXs2e0WwNwIMDzBsEKD7Gtpb1glMrGoQgcROm37rL%2F2jh36ZyCoEb%2BZ%2BVkcSH6d4pdl86Gx6R%2F9GmebGTt6kLkfoVvld2NoM%2F4WjANnpa8Im0bYmfL308uJDhifMhiZgOLMc1YLsJTBc3g3YqOGc7rxAwkNfCRTSvt6oSR%2FanuF%2BMQHz8%2FxxbJWIGA%2FXmShQAdQz%2BHYTr8Bnqygrtj5A8HQaRYFWTM1XvcMtZtPjGiaa4iyQ%3D%3D|cksum%3A11400068147600613cee3c73418a8b2bd36a7581acb6|ampid%3APL_CLK|clp%3A2334524 I remain unconvinced about the sound proofing, mind ...

Far Canal ... that's £75!

[ELO] There's gonna be a Lowdown [/ELO]

It's important to know whether the disc produced by this process is intended to be played at double speed.

This track was recorded in my garage/studio using Reaper, and the video created using Reaper, all by a complete newbie. https://fb.watch/4yKK8Ooz72/ Obviously not helped by the fact that we weren't allowed to be in the same place at the same time, hence all the green-screening!

In the Summer of 2018 @Silvia Bluejay and I were lucky enough to interview Marcus Miller for BGM, and we asked him about this. https://www.musicradar.com/news/marcus-miller-ive-always-hated-bass-solos-thats-the-one-point-when-the-music-isnt-grooving-any-more

First change I made to my (matt black) 4003s5 was to ditch the horrid white scratchplate and replace it with black. Good move.

This looks like a very serious build ... great work.

It's that jab he had a couple of months ago ... suddenly he can read people's minds. 😨

You will shortly be joined by 17 people advising you to buy Shure SM58s. I would go a different route. If you are just "giving it a shot" and you haven't done this before, then spending £82 on a microphone is WAY over the top. For less than half that price, I have found this to be very acceptable: https://www.red5audio.com/product/rvd30-dynamic-microphone/ Full Disclosure: I actually use a very expensive Shure SM57 Beta on stage, but that's because I do a fair bit of singing, have done for years, and that particular mic happens to suit my voice. Doesn't stop me from taking a pair of RVD30s to each gig to act as spares and - if necessary - instrument mics.

Are we really going to do this? Oh very well. Artist Country / Market Claimed sales The Beatles United Kingdom 600 million 500 million Elvis Presley United States 600 million 500 million Michael Jackson United States 350 million 300 million Elton John United Kingdom 300 million 250 million 300 million records Guinness World Records listed Madonna as the best-selling female recording artist of all time, with more than 300 million records sold during her career. Previously, the 1998 edition of Guinness Book of World Records stated: "No female artist has sold more records than Madonna around the world... We all know that these numbers are notoriously flakey and depend on one's choice of definition, and of course that everything on the Internet is guaranteed true and accurate. Whatever. It is widely accepted that each of The Beatles and Elvis Presley really outsold 3rd place and lower by at least a factor of 2:1. And then there's the distinction between singles and albums. Not too relevant in an age of downloads, perhaps, but it's worth remembering that each album purchased equates to at least half a dozen downloads and, for earlier 60s albums, more like a dozen. Madonna was Queen of the singles chart, just as The Beatles were Kings of the singles chart. The big difference is that The Beatles were also Kings of the album chart. At the same time. Check out the 50 best-selling music artists of all time by album sales: The Beatles — 183 million units. Garth Brooks — 156 million units. ... Elvis Presley — 146.5 million units. ... Eagles — 120 million units. ... Led Zeppelin — 111.5 million units. ... Billy Joel — 84.5 million units. ... Michael Jackson — 84 million units. ... https://www.businessinsider.com/best-selling-music-artists-of-all-time-2016-9?r=US&IR=T#17-madonna-645-million-units-34 Madonna comes in at #17. Bored with this now.

Next up ... Android. 🤨

You're quite right ... having charts made up of downloads rather than actual copies purchased has flattered some artistes to the nth degree. 🙂

SGC Nanyo Bass Collection SB315 The SB325 would be even better.

The Internet has never been short of sad people desperate to make an impression by striking ludicrous, provocative poses. Most of them fall into the camp of "I don't get it, so therefore they're all complete cr*p and so is anyone who disagrees with me".

Oh yes, great sounding bass, looks iconic, cool as f***, bit on the heavy side so I use a twin-shoulder strap with mine. Responds VERY well to pairing with a Sansamp.

Don't feed the troll.

Pretty much anything sung by

Both. He routinely played Stu's right-handed 500/5 upside down in the very early days in Hamburg, though I can't supply you with any photos of him doing that, but it was awkward and 'looked funny'. The 500/1 Violin was not only symmetrical in either orientation and (as you say) readily available in left-handed form if you were in Germany, which he was at the time, but it was also relatively cheap when compared to heavily-taxed US imports. John and George were both prepared to take on HP (hire purchase) debt to buy Rickenbackers even then, Paul preferred to stay out of debt. He was always the smartest Beatle. The other factor that Paul has mentioned in plenty of interviews is that, at that time, he was a guitarist. He also played piano, drums, bass, even a bit of trumpet, yes, but he thought of himself as a guitarist. The Hofner 500/1 is one of the lightest serious basses ever made and it was an easy thing to swing around on stage and treat like many of the lightweight electric guitars that were around in the early 60s.