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    'Building Walking Bassines' by Ed Friedland looks at filling the gaps between roots using several different melodic approaches. You don't have to go totally chromatic if you don't want to. The book has dots and tab, and the CD has keys and drums in one ear and bass in the other - fine on speakers but you need to mix it to mono for headphones. If you want to check out content before purchasing, he plays several of his exercises on youtube. David
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    I've heard that some members of Talkbass are happy to buy kit for you in the US and ship it here as a 'present'. The alternatives are the Vong kit, now out of production, or a home brew build of the FDeck - there is a stripboard layout for that on the web David
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    There are a number of integrated circuit chips that provide stereo, so having 2 x 4ohm speakers maximises the power output from the amp chip. That may be why the likes of Roland/Boss went that way with the cube range. David
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    Also safely home and loaded in. Many thanks to Peter and Richard for organising a great day. David
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    I thought I'd be otherwise engaged this weekend, but I find I can make it. I'm mainly a busker, so I'll be bringing: A modular 1x10 battery / mains combo + extension speaker. A couple of battery powered amps. An 'even-briefer-case' 2x5 battery powered combo. An Ibanez EWB205 - 5-string ABG. An Ibanez EHB1265 - 5-string, headless, fanned fret bass. David
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    For cricket-bat style basses, there are two grades of Warwick padded bag by Rockbass. The cheaper has thinner soft padding and failed to protect my bass when it slid out of the car boot. The replacement bag was a Ritter, better, stiffer padding but it has very small pockets - none big enough to hold A4 chord sheets. David
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    Agreed - that's the main reason I'm posting this David
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    Just a quick update on this - the seller is still sitting at home saying that the package has yet to arrive, and in response to my raising a dispute, AliExpress suggested I negotiate with the seller... I raised a dispute via PayPal and they said that there was no mechanism to claim postage costs from the seller or AliExpress because that transaction did not involve them. They then offered to reimburse me as a goodwill gesture to a frequent user. Kudos to PayPal. In summary, buying KZ ZS10 Pro earphones from their official store is a real pain if they go wrong. David
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    OK - I'll leave that to others David
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    Quick question - are you in to DIY, or just looking for a pay and go solution? David
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    Thanks for this - I'll check them out. David
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    Fair enough - I've never played through a digital system so I'm definitely outside looking in. Wish I had access to a 'scope from time to time. David
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    Not trying to start a war here, but I think there is a flaw in the experiment. Your backing track is routed by wire and your brain is telling your fingers when to pluck. The fact that the bass sound is delayed is something that you can cope with. I think that the on-stage scenario is likely to be that the band monitor signal will be delayed by the legato ms1, your bass signal by the legato bug and the ms1, and you will still be trying to keep up with the rest of the band who are playing without a delay. That would be a different experiment. Apologies in advance if I've misunderstood your setup. David
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    I need good isolation to block the boom of the congas preventing me hearing what I am playing, so losing the bottom octave, if it gave me a punchy low mid, would actually help. Is that what you are hearing from the IE 100 Pro or are they more tuned to the vocal range and generally lacking in bass? David
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    A question and a heads-uo of my experiences with KZ Global Store on AliExpress: First, the question I find the shape of Shure 215s, with triple flanges, is comfortable and gives me the isolation I need, but I gather there are better value options available. I've tried the KZ ZS10 Pro, and did not find them comfortable either in the ear canal, or in the pinna. Is there anything shaped like a 215, but cheaper, that I should be considering as an upgrade/back-up? KZ Global Store I ordered a pair of ZS10 Pro from the store nd they arrived via a Dutch depot after about 3 weeks. They worked straight out of the box, but after peeling off one set of buds and fitting alternatives, one channel was dead. The casing was translucent, and I could see what appeared to be the internal connecting wire no longer making contact with the input socket. I registered a dispute and made a video that showed an MP3 player connected to the earphones, and each earpiece in turn offered up to a microphone - one earpiece lit up the mixer meters, the other didn't. Based on the video, AliExpress authorised the return, and I though that would be the end of it... When I worked out that tracked postage back to China would be about 50% of the cost of the earphones, I contacted the seller and asked them if they would like to accept the video evidence of a fault, and save the cost of refunding my postage. I then got a series of emails saying that they needed more detail, and would not process a refund unless I produced another, more detailed video. At this point I discovered that I had no way of sending them another video since AliExperss had closed the case. When I passed this information on to the seller, their response was - 'send us another video'... Eventually I stopped trying to be helpful and posted the fauly earphones back. A few weeks later, the Royal Mail tracking system stated that they had tried and failed to deliver the package, and it was in the depot awaiting collection. The seller's response - 'I have not received it yet'. I asked if they had tried to collect it, - 'I haven't received it yet' I eventually got past the AliExpress chatbot and found a human to chat to, and received a refund for the earphones within a couple of days, but I've had to go back to the chat room to ask them to sort out the refund of my postage. Summary: KZ Global Store are happy to take your money, but apparently hope that if they stall for long enough, they will not have to return it. David
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    D'Addario Chromes on my 5-string ABG. Sounds good to me David
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    I have the same problem,but I noticed it only occurs when I wear teeshirts, not shirts with collars. There is a seam running across my shoulder with a teeshirt, but the yoke on a collared shirt moves the seam elsewhere, so I wear a pad under the teeshirt and the problem has disappeared. Hope this helps. David
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    Thanks for checking - having a think... David
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    Are any of the spaces wide enough to take an ABG? Possibly the end ones? David
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    Great bssses - I've kept mine for over 20 years, initially as my go-to and then as a back-up. So, if anyone wants to try one without travelling to Leicestershire, I'm just off J20 on the M6. GLWTS David
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    Off topic, but how you asked how much would it cost to have a luthier replace the fretboard with a rosewood one? David
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    Thanks for the info @Elfrasho. Just to be clear, the interface may only have eq on the incoming signal, sending that signal to USB and to monitor. I haven't seen one that has eq on the output side. In my case I'm using an audio interface as a stand-alone headphone amplifier with baked-in eq.
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    Thanks for this. Looks nice, but as you say, the eq in stand alone is a bit clunky - set it by connection to a computer and is is baked in - provided it stays powered up. David
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    I'm not a pedal expert, but from your description of the problem I would be looking for pedals with variable gain or compression, and turning that function off to see if it sorts the problem. Good luck David
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    Steinberg UR22C will give you Yamaha designed preamps, two channels with global phantom power, one switchable to Hi-z, plus built in low latency HPF, 3-band eq and compression on each channel. It is also a USB powered interface.
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