Richard R

We intend to, but I wanted a POC first.

Amen to that! We have so far purchased nothing of significance. The laptop running OBS belonged to the youth worker who left in May, the software is free, the phones for cameras are my kids' old ones. I bought a used USB audio interface from here to go between the desk and the PC, and just got another MIDI controller for £30 so I can have mine back. Plus some cables and stuff the total outlay is probably £130 to date. The Mifi box was unused from someone else too. So cheap and effective. But we do have key-person dependencies on me to operate the OBS and another person who controls the YT stream.

It can be good enough. A single ½s glitch on a feed over an hour is acceptable for a church YT feed, if not the BBC. We had terrible WiFi in the sanctuary using the guest network and also awful network speed even wired. The solution was a dedicated 4G MiFi hub placed close to the window with a wired connection to a set of Mesh cubes all round the church. Rock solid 60Mbps down and 11 Mbps up. We have persuaded Virgin that they can connect us to the new cabinet 20 yards along the road, rather than 100 yards across a main road, so have full fibre due in the new year to remove the 4G dependency.

Do let us know how you get on with the Osmo gimbals. At the moment we have a one-eyed camera operator called Paul. We will probably not replace him, but swap Dave's old phones for proper cameras 😉 On another thread you asked about MIDI drum pads. I was going to report on the Akai Lpd8 I bought, but it's never been used as drum pads. I used it as a DAW control and it's now at church in service as a controller for OBS.

It has four strings, other than that I have no idea! Do tell 🙂

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Can't we claim to be key workers? Not always the right key in all cases mind you.. Seconded!

Alas not about the gentleman from Yes, I was mislead!!

Advice on cameras would be welcome here too. We are doing our first livestream on Sunday, but are running with phones as IP cameras for the first two services before we purchase anything.

Poles Apart, and Lost for Words. Both about Roger Waters, on The Division Bell.

Like the Orchard logo a lot, and the tweaks suggested by @Fishman would give it a bit more polish. I looked up Aukrug, so I guessed Orchard would be the brand name. Very cool and definitely different to the curly scripts we are used to.

Just bought a USB audio interface from @thebrig. Despatched really quickly, arrived exactly as described and very well wrapped. A pleasure to buy from.

Very nice indeed! 👍

Great resource, thank you. More hours of my life I'm not going to spend actually practicing!

Absolutely! Not so much with music but 100% with lyrics: "A predictable rhyme is a waste of my time Can't you write any better, you peasant? You treat us like sheep with your lyrics so cheap. Obnoxious, naff, and repellant" 4/10, Must try harder

Lovely bass. 👍 Now the one thing that nobody else of the forum will tell you is this: before you buy another one, learn to play the one you've got!

Correct! I presume you recognised those terrible knees 🤣

The new v3 Google reCaptcha doesn't actually provide a test for the human to solve. It looks at what you are logging in from, and makes an assessment of whether or not you might be a bot. There is no fallback test it seems. Good article here: https://medium.com/@jsoverson/thoughts-on-recaptcha-v3-e837d4a0a63

I prefer to buy my candles ready made for precisely this reason.

Welcome aboard! If you can, I would play a few in shops and see what you think. There's a lot of variation in basses: neck thickness, width, length, shape, and they all affect how one person feels about the instrument. I play a 35" four string, so in theory a 35" five string should feel comfortable, but I have yet to find one I want to spend money on. A 34" I tried in PMT was OK, but sounded mediocre. A friend's 37" Dingwall multiscale was surprisingly easy play, but waaaaaaay too expensive. Sire and Ibanez are definitely good starting points though 👍. And if you can't make up your mind or don't get on with them, either are easy to sell on. A couple on the for sale forum here I think. And despite what @Teebs says, you find a lot of 5 string players in church worship bands 😉

Agree wholeheartedly. But my approach is buy the best I can at the time and sweat the asset. The warranty on the last PC ran out in 2009*, and the car was bought in 2010 and I intend to take it round the clock sometime in 2021/22. *I did put a couple of second hand SSDs in it in about 2017 though.