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Great playing all round. Some Marcus and Jaco influences in there as well.

[quote name='ras52' timestamp='1420731808' post='2652750'] Are those "portable" or "desktop" drives, or internal drives housed in an external case? [/quote] You can have them anyway you want. My externals are portable. Might be worth checking out on their site all the variations. Then Google for various shop prices. http://www.wdc.com/en/products/products.aspx?id=870 USB3 is quicker than FireWire 800 (not sure about Thunderbolt).

[quote name='stingrayPete1977' timestamp='1420571761' post='2650814'] Very nice appreciative crowd rather than a pub full of 'experts' pulling your performance apart [/quote] Don't worry, that would have been later on various Musicians sites....lol...

On PC, I use two external USB 3 drives (spin speed 7200 RPM). One for my Kontakt Sample libraries and my VSTi libraries (3TB), and one for my Project files (2TB). Spin drive speed of 7200 RPM is your best bet. I use WD Caviar BLACK, (but a second choice would be the BLUE version). Don't buy ANY hard drive with the word "green" in the title, from what Audio folk say, you don't want power management features slowing or stopping your DAW hard drives (Green). I suppose if you turn off all power management (I do) it might not make any difference. But that may be rubbish, someone will be along who might know if that is bull feces or not.

[quote name='Bilbo' timestamp='1420469613' post='2649645'] Mine is orchestral. [/quote] That's the Spirit. The picture looks like some avant-garde conductor giving the down beat to the buffoon section.

Another RME Babyface (solid Midi as well) user here. The driver support is second to none, always on top of it with updates (if needed).

An interesting read about 'Tears of a Clown', and the playing of Tony Newton (Touring Motown Bassist at one point). http://www.gregwilson.co.uk/2013/08/the-tears-of-a-clown-a-classic-that-nearly-never-was/

i7 Processor with at least 8 Gig Ram, will do for most home recording (with ease). Ram won't make your PC faster, but will help with using a lot of Audio or the big Sample libraries, then you should be looking at 16-32 Gigs. The i7 CPU's (Quadcore) will handle an awful lot of VST's/VSTI's without the need for freezing or bouncing tracks. It will also help with running at very low latency, providing your ASIO drivers on your Audio interface are up to it.

Basschat on the same bill as a Puppet Show? Reminds me of a Spinal Tap scene.....lol.....

Thanks for the link. Ok, I've got it now!......lol....

Any deps I do, there is always a good chance that 'Dancing in the Streets' and 'I can't Help Myself (Sugar Pie Honey Bunch)' turn up.

Pre-Amps with direct injection I understand. Turbo charged Compressors as well (Native Instruments do one), but EQ's with overhead camshafts and Cylinder heads has lost me. I think I need to check out Ebay and see what this is all about....lol..

In: Guitarron (Lucida Mariachi six stg). NXT4 (NS) EUB Out: Nowt .

Audio & Midi in/out Steinberg UR22, really good value. Very solid drivers. Review. http://www.soundonsound.com/sos/jun13/articles/steinberg-ur22.htm Google search will give you £99.00. You also get a trimmed back version of Cubase with it (AI 6).

The World is now minus 76 Professional Trombone players.

Well done folks, good stuff all round. Bilbo got my vote. He got away from the obvious for me, and a different and original approach.

[quote name='Bilbo' timestamp='1419257798' post='2638064'] The best I think I ever heard from him, though, is a youtibe video of a young (27-28?) AJ with Sadao Watanabe Live at The Boudokan with a Dave Grusin led Jazz orchestra. The quality of the video is appalling but Jackson plays an absolute blinder. His solo starts at around 5.40 and you can see that AJ is really 'in the zone' and we are wondering what would have happened to the bass if he had been less reticent. [/quote] I think it might be this. During the solo Sadao Watanabe's face is pricelss. Top, top band as well. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qu7S8wRcRNU

Midnight Hour BPM various through the tune. Between 112/114 BPM. Free software here for detecting BPM on Wav/MP3 files. http://www.abyssmedia.com/bpmcounter/

[quote name='Drax' timestamp='1419232617' post='2637723'] Missed opportunity video. We want to see his left hand, not his jazz / (jizz) face! [/quote] Yer, but what a great opportunity to see his monster music stand!

Always a good time for this. http://youtu.be/tZOCdrwGch4

[quote name='funkle' timestamp='1419022927' post='2635877'] Nice one lowdown. I got an email about that and will be downloading. Can't wait. Also got a couple of NI vouchers worth £44 I need to spend...what to pick... Edit: Replika sounds great. I can see a use for this, and I think the download is open to all until end Dec. [/quote] A really good Guitar library has just landed - It's free (not pirate). Demos here. http://major7th.jp/kontakt/kmg7/demo.html Download here. It's a Japanese/Asian site, but it is clean. I know a few folks from another site who have downloaded and given the thumbs up. http://major7th.jp/kontakt/kmg7/downloads.html This might be of interest to you. The best site for all things Composing and Sample/DAW related. Full of absolute gents, with a ton of tips/videos/advice. You also get a lot of deals and heads up on new releases and free stuff. http://www.vi-control.net/forum/portal.php

The original (the busy Bass version). http://youtu.be/G9qA0MzbHXU And another Theme opening (or one of them....lol...). http://youtu.be/k8wz5ElZZj0 "The somewhat better-known first Kojak theme, in two distinct arrangements is the work of Billy Goldenberg, who scored the early episodes. John Cacavas composed the third main title theme used throughout the show's fifth and final season. In addition, Cacavas composed the music score for most of the series".

[quote name='funkle' timestamp='1419005952' post='2635670'] NI Komplete 10 (not Ultimate) is blowing my mind, especially in Reaper. It comes with many sample libraries, synths, and also some useful effects - Driver (distortion), Supercharger (nice compressor which is 'warm', works nicely for drums), Solid EQ/Solid Compressor/Solid Dynamics. The Solid compressor seems best to me on group submixes and master channel; the EQ is fine for single channel use and Dynamics I need to get more to grips with. The reverbs in Guitar Rig (Reflektor), which is also part of the package, are really nice. I love Massive and Rounds, and Polyplex is a really good sounding 8 pad drumkit synth. All part of the package also. I think Guitar Rig itself for bass is less exciting than Ampeg SVX, which sounds simply great to me. More tweaking needed. I paid £389 for Komplete because I didn't want to faff too much with loads of different sample libraries and Fx from different manufacturers. So far it seems good value. [/quote] NI are giving away a free (Replika) Delay FX VST for Kontakt users (or maybe even non registered customers). Just download and register through the service centre. Downloaded today, and it is very good. http://www.native-instruments.com/en/specials/happy-holidays-2014/

I thought it was Carol Kaye as well. Although I do seem to remember reading that the theme tune was re recorded two or three times over the seasons (not sure how many there were). So maybe the OP version is one of those. I am sure someone will be along who knows. I love all those American TV themes from the 70's, apart from great playing all round, the writing and arranging is terrific.

^^^^^^^ I suppose the upside of this was. there was no audience left to witness the Red face disaster. Upon seeing the 'Stand', they had all done a U turn during venue entry.