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[quote name='Lozz196' timestamp='1462864432' post='3046276'] I got fired from a band because I wouldn`t cough up £6000 to buy a rehearsal room. Apparently I wasn`t showing enough commitment. [/quote] Wow. I wonder what happened to that band? Do you know if their commitment got them anywhere?

I've used CDex for years, but I'm not sure if it integrates into other music software as I've only ever used it as a standalone MP3 encoder to encode previously saved WAV files. Some email systems don't seem to like very large attachments and I've hit a 10MB limit a few times. Compression is one answer but an alternative is to use dropbox. I've used it to successfully send large music and very large video files.

I'll raise your Mavis Staples and add Aretha into the mix with this little gospel gem . . . https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wb7D-W-QW-8

OK, fair cop, although in my defence, I was thinking more about JTUK's previous point "[i]Volume is the key outdoors as the sound just goes... and you'll need more in hand.[/i]". 'Tis so easy to be led astray . . .

A lot depends on what is meant by 'outdoors'. Are we talking about a pub garden, a village green, a football stadium, Hyde Park . . . .? I've played a pub gardens with a TC BH250 into a 212 and didn't have to wind it up much more than when playing inside a pub. Also, outside gigs generally suffer less from feedback, reflection and resonance issues, which generally makes it easier to get a good mix in my limited experience ( which doesn't include the likes of Hyde Park ).

[quote name='SH73' timestamp='1462201607' post='3041039'] £10 delivery [/quote] Hardly extortionate in the grand scheme of things if you really need one. Buy a dozen for the same delivery cost Or try to find a decent high street ironmongery.

Hard work, yes, but even then you're not guaranteed what you want if you can't find an audience willing to pay to hear you play. Think of the countless number of unsuccessful - in a financial sense - 'solo projects' that have been financed by a musician's day job - whatever that job may be. I've read that Charlie Watts’ first musical love is big band jazz and that he only drums for the Stones to pay his bills

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I guess it's the difference between wanting to be a jobbing bassist or an independent artist. If it's a money-earning job you want then you pretty much have to play what people want to hear. If you want to be a free spirit artistic type then you may have to find a kindly benefactor to support you or live life on the breadline - the lot of artists throughout the ages.

Yes, as per the above diagram. Think of it this way, for speakers wired in series add the ohms together and for speakers (of the same impedance) wired in parallel the impedance is halved. Thus, with four 8ohm speakers, wire two speakers in series to give 16 ohms and then wire two 16ohms in parallel to give 8 ohms (as per the above example). Alternatively, wire two speakers in parallel to give 4ohms and then wire two 4 ohms in series to give 8 ohms. Because all the speakers are the same impedance the power input will be evenly divided between them. So if all the speakers are rated at, say, 150W the overall 8 ohm cab will be rated at 600W.

[quote name='blue' timestamp='1462138336' post='3040612'] Why I Play With A Pick [/quote] I don't

[quote name='ivansc' timestamp='1462096321' post='3040167'] Depressing. Feel is what its about. NOT "note perfect". Personally, I hate how many people seem to think "the thing" to do is slavishly copy every single nuance of a performance & wind up with this sterile wooden "exact copy" instead of trying to get the same feel. [/quote] Absolutely. The (Small)Faces were a fantastic 'feel' band, often so apparently loose that it seemed like a car crash was about to happen, but it never did. Give me this sort of joyous playing instead of note-perfect sterility any day!

I also use a Focusrite Scarlett interface on a Dell i5/3.1GHz/16GB RAM PC with Win8.1 and using Reaper DAW. As mentioned above USB3 is backward compatible and works fine with USB2 devices. Latency is not a problem when recording as the Scarlett has a 'direct monitor' switch so you always hear exactly what you're playing, but when replaying the result there can be a slight latency issue between the track you played along to and the piece you just recorded. However, this is so easy to fix in Reaper that I've not bothered to change the audio drivers as yet. In my previous DAW PC (winXP) I installed ASIO drivers (checkout [url="http://www.asio4all.com/"]http://www.asio4all.com/[/url] and [url="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Audio_Stream_Input/Output"]https://en.wikipedia...am_Input/Output[/url]) and never had any latency issues, but I was also using a Firewire audio interface so it's maybe not a fully relevant comparison.

These tribute things make me smile. Why not make them while they are still alive to show real appreciation to the person concerned? Waiting until they're dead makes it more of a statement about themselves rather than the object of their supposed tribute. A bit like people making the effort to go to funerals to say how much they loved the deceased and what a great person they were - well you know what, the deceased might have preferred to hear that while they were actually alive. When they're dead is doesn't matter to them what you say or do. Bah!

My understanding is that it's important to match impedances with valve amps, which is why they often have some form of impedance selector switch/jumper to enable them to be used with different impedance cabs. Too high or too low can be bad news with a valve amp. With solid state amps, matching is less important as long as you observe the minimum specified cab impedance. You'll lose power output with higher impedance cabs but it won't do any actual harm.

[quote name='beerdragon' timestamp='1461668633' post='3036545'] Hi, Excuse my ignorance on this subject, I have a Trace 300watt 1715 Combo which i think is 8 ohms, i would like to pair a cabinet which sold then bought back off a friend, it's one i made up of Two 10inch Celestion 300 watt BN10X 4 ohms. is this possible without doing any damage, am i right in thinking this will just cut down the amp 150 watts? Thanks. [/quote] I can't find a manual for a 1715 combo. Closest are 1215 or 715 combos. Are you certain of the model number? Does the combo have a socket for an extension cab? In general, amps work down to 4 ohms and cabs (or combos with external cab sockets) are 8 ohms. Amp ratings are specified into their minimum ohm loads. Thus, a 300W amp will drive 300W into 4 ohms and somewhat less into 8ohms (typically about 2/3rds, so 200W in this case). So, a 300W combo with an extension cab socket will likely be an 8ohm speaker and will develop about 200W when used alone. Adding an 8 ohm extension cab will create an overall load of 4ohms and the amp will then deliver its full 300W. BUT, all that is general and there will be exceptions. We can only be sure by knowing the full details of your combo, which should be stated in the operating manual.

[quote name='Happy Jack' timestamp='1461651139' post='3036375'] Those examples are all very expensive because they all cost lots of money. An old mass-produced bass didn't cost lots of money, it cost a relatively trivial amount which most of us here could have afforded when new. It's now worth a lot more for reasons of rarity and - dare I say it - Mojo. [/quote] Sort of, though as we all know cost often bears little relation to price. You're right the value has increased because of rarity - exactly the same for a Carribean island, after all they didn't 'cost' anything did they, they were just 'lying around' Anyway, it's not really worth more because of rarity, it's because of desirability. I could make a bass and it would be far rarer that the one in question because it would be the only one of it's kind in the entire universe, but that alone wouldn't make it desirable. But my basic point was that some people have so much money that they could buy something like this on a whim, whereas we're all agonising over whether it's worth this or that and trying to come up with a well-reasoned justification. A £16k price tag is not aimed at people like us.

I can't understand all the fuss. The sort of people this pricing is aimed at won't be agonising over the details like us poor impoverished bassists or trying to justify anything. It probably costs less than their weekly restaurant bill - not that they actually know because one of their 'people' would deal with such trivia. What shall we moan about next . . . the cost of private jet leasing, mega yacht berthing fees, maintenance costs of private Carribean Islands?

I've never sold one. I only have two basses (a Fender P and a Fender J) but I happily play them both and don't feel the urge to buy any more. This approach must have saved me loads of money over the past 30 years or so

[quote name='Jabba_the_gut' timestamp='1461260920' post='3033090'] Crikey. What is going on this year? [/quote] Nothing really, well nothing that can't be explained by the massive increase in the number of celebrities these days, dating back to the 1950s when popular music became a phenomenon, then the rise of television celebrities, then the internet making more people more aware of more celebrities, etc etc. Not my ideas though: http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b076prgl

[quote name='BigRedX' timestamp='1461151950' post='3031876'] That's a luxury that only someone living in a country with plenty of space can indulge in. Here in the UK only if you are very lucky will one of the band members lives in a detached house with understanding neighbours. For everyone else the rented rehearsal room is a necessary evil. [/quote] True, but it's not necessarily an expensive luxury if you live in the countryside where detached houses away from neighbours often cost less than most places in towns and cities.

[quote name='blue' timestamp='1461030251' post='3030813'] Agreed, I started gigging in 1966 and a lot of the magic and enthusiasm for gigging is now gone. Most are content in their bedrooms noodling away. To each his own. [/quote] 1966, coincidentally about the same time that your musical heroes lost their enthusiasm for gigging. IMO, The Beatles best work came about during their years of 'bedroom noodling' (Ok, their 'bedroom' was in Abbey Road, but even so . . . At least the Stones have stayed on the road).

It's a good job there are some good originals bands out there otherwise cover bands would have nothing to play

Press release here: http://www.thundervalleyrocks.com (Mind you, who issues a serious press release on 1st April )

[quote name='OutSpoon' timestamp='1461083032' post='3031309'] It's not the artist's duty to make you understand. [/quote] Quite so. It's also not the listener's duty to enjoy or excuse something out of deference.