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Sounds like old dead flat wound strings, fits this genre. But could be upright bass?

I have been using Ez Drummer 2 for many years. It has various styles of drumming, grooves. It has patterns you can mix and match, intro , chorus, verse etc. Just check you tube for tutorials. You can manually play drums with keyboard or pc keyboard and it will find the best match. There's an update available to choose from different music genre. But it looks like you're looking for a more AI based drum stuff (no fun in it in IMHO). I believe Ez Drummer has been now upgraded to 3 and even maybe 4 version. There is also one called Steven Slatter vat and many more.

On 27/06/2025 at 12:15, christhammer666 said:

am seeing the mighty iron maiden tomorrow. hope the heat holds of a bit otherwise my bald patch wont be happy

9 hours ago, EssexBuccaneer said:

Same 😀

9 hours ago, Merton said:

 

 

Me too, along with MiniMert and my best mate! Gonna be a warm one 😎

Felt sorry for Steve when his bass had no sound in The Number of the Beast intro for a few sec. Otherwise one of the best Maiden gig I've been to. Ordered this one to the Future Past tour in 2023 at at O2. I also found Steve's bass sounded better, more bass rather than highs. At least how it sounded to me.

22 hours ago, christhammer666 said:

am seeing the mighty iron maiden tomorrow. hope the heat holds of a bit otherwise my bald patch wont be happy

Wear a cap, that's what I'm doing. Are you in standing or seated?

Maiden in a few hours , cannot wait. 

The Maiden Years on Planet Rock from 9 til 10 am, can't wait til Saturday 

10 hours ago, Homatron said:

These all look like great solutions for combos, but when it comes to angling a cab + head would the head need to sit on a wedge or something like a bench hook to stop it sliding off the back of the cab?

 

I suppose the head could be put elsewhere, but where's the fun in that?

Depends on the angle

I miss GAK never disappointed in customer care

On 24/03/2025 at 14:21, kwmlondon said:

Ooh, got a pic?

Sorry for late reply , been busy. I recently took the amp off and serviced it. I took an old Halfords bike carrier apart. Cut it to the desired length, swapped the locking mechanism around so it works as a stand. I put some prosecco cork stops in the tubes to protect the carpet. It hold the old school Peavey bass combo, about 31 kg. It's not a pretty stand but the combo conceals it.

Ordered a few things from them in last few years, they even ordered a Fender bass for me from Europe. Always great customer service. I remember going to the shop off chance, nice store. Shame, real shame.

19 hours ago, kwmlondon said:

Ooh, got a pic?

Amp is on top of it, so won't see much, but will remove it for servisig then take a pic

I converted an old Halfords bicycle carrier into an angled stand. The amp weighs a out 32 kg, no issues.

I'd love to, we recorded some demos in a garage where we used to rehearse on a mono Aiwa tape player/recorded where you had to push the play and record button simultaneously. Good old garage practice sessions, we'd push the car out the garage to make room, every time you made contact with a  vice on top of the worktop whilst playing guitar, you would get electrocuted. Drummer was safe. Unfortunately, someone nicked the cassette tape during a house party. But have some early VHS from late 80's , rather embarrassing!

11 hours ago, Geek99 said:

I’m sorry about that. I was asking for a jazz bass, not the moon on a stick with sprinkles 

Even that may come up once in a blue moon

I've tried the lyrics generator, is better what was available before on the net. Not bad at all, the rhythm and the tune comes with it naturally with a bit of inspiration.

51 minutes ago, SimonK said:

 

I honestly just googled "AI song lyrics" and I think it was https://boredhumans.com/lyrics_generator.php that popped up first, and then once I had the lyrics I googled "Free ai song generator" and https://aisonggenerator.io/  seemed to work best. It wouldn't let me download a higher quality version of the song so I then paid a one month subscription just to keep fiddling round with it a bit more.

 

I can't vouch for these being the best/worst or anything in between. They just seemed to work!

Cheers, I have tried one but had to register to generate it.

23 hours ago, SimonK said:

 

I went to one free online programme and asked it to write some lyrics on the subject of death in the style of Def Leppard (I thought this was appropriately rock & roll!), and then fed the lyrics into another free programme to write the music, specifying the instruments and a male vocal.

 

I have to admit I am quite impressed, although my immediate thought would be to re-record this playing all the instrument live (or at least for real!), and possibly tweak the lyrics a bit. The upshot is that it has potentially produced a very playable song, and I could see myself generating tens of songs using this method, then cherry picking the best to re-record and even play live.

Mind sharing the programme name? Link? 

15 hours ago, SimonK said:

Let me try posting my AI song here - no one else seems to be appreciating how brilliant it is - mostly because it took only two programmes and about twenty minutes to produce!!

 

 

 

Is the 20 minutes including mixing/mastering? It takes me minimum an hour but up to a few hours over days  to lay a guitar track and still not happy. But it's satisfying.

I have been playing along bass backing tracks on You Tube for many years. There are several softwares to remove or isolate tracks. Which software or Daw you use?

I bought a bass on BC, the pickup was upgraded from SPB 1 to SPB 4, I didn't turn my nose up, the seller provided the original SPB 1, it was the bass paint job I was after not pick ups.

I changed pick ups on  a Squier jazz vintage C neck bass to SPB jazz pickups and don't regret it, I changed pickups on another precision bass and after a month I put the stock pups back.

I don't see any issue as long as seller points it out , and or supplies original parts.

Watching and listening Fleetwood Mac on BBC, unbelievable quality production.

Never had issues ,buying or selling. Used bank transfer, cash on collection and PayPal. If I didn't recognise the members name ( Avatar name) I checked the feedback page. I've always sealed smooth and  worry free deals.

Iron Maiden one from 60's then Iron Maiden established in 1975

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My parcel delivery by Evri has been shocking in past few years. I had a rack mounted equipment lobbed over my gate landing on concrete , it works but caused it visual damage.

I had a notification where my parcel was not delivered stating " customer refused delivery", I have two doorbells , door knock and was in all day waiting for the parcel.

Another occasion, my parcel was delivered at 11:30 pm, it sat on doorstep all night, no notification until next morning We were up, no door knock nothing. The front room lights were on.

I had a late notification as well that parcel was deliver half an hour ago, sat in the rain on doorstep.

The list goes in and on. You can't even complain, because the calls seems to be automated and no one cares!