Richard R

@funkgod lots of good, and terrible, suggestions above. Have you picked a winner yet?

Off to buy a 2022 diary so I can put this date in it.

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Hey! I didn't realise @Stub Mandrel played with The Tourists!

BBC sounds has a new series of Soul Music, this cropped up on the episode about Country Roads. Rather excellent.

Alloy Wheels - Maximum '80s pop

Seconded, we don't need the "Dark Theme Testing " banner now. We likes it we does 😎

Welcome back my friend to the chat that never ends, Ladies and Gentlemen: Delvar, Dadd and Seashell! I think creating a second account then tapping a mod to reinstate the first one is just a way to double your TLRTs. Most cunning.

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I distinctly remember borrowing a mono LP of that from the drummer at church years ago. I put it on, knowing it was a record that changed the industry, but still expecting to hear the usual early 60's slightly thin guitar sound but with some better technique. Oh my word! It sounds like it was recorded years later. No wonder it blew people's minds.

Bluetooth was not originally designed or specced to be low latency. Bluetooth 5, under ideal conditions, can noow manage 20ms, 40 is more likely. The aptX codec aims to keep under 40ms. If you're just listening to music then 100ms might be OK, as there is no reference visual clue to give you problems. For direct speech then 40ms is regarded as the max most people find acceptable. If this is OK for you and your playing, and your hearing aids support this, then inbtheory you're good to go. But bear in mind there will be another 20-40-80ms delay from whatever is encoding the signal from the sound desk, and that will cause the problem.

I've just spent some time trying to find reasonably accurate figures, but from memory the ratio of sales to bass sales is something under 1 in 10. Other reviews of pre-pandemic guitar shows seem to match yours, not many basses.

When she was just "Slightly myopic J Bass"?

T-shirt arrived yesterday - thanks @scrumpymike!

Welcome aboard, from what you lot probably regard as the far North,but is actually the Midlands! "6 String Funk" would actually be a pretty good name for a party band.

Welcome aboard! Fives are fun!

Jaw dropping, as always!

Welcome aboard! That's a hard font to read on a phone, especially for us older guys 😉. Lots of love for short scale basses here, both bought and built. Check out any of @Jabba_the_gut's builds in Build Diaries. But he almost never sells them, so no point in gassing 😥

Welcome aboard! Sounds like you have your perfect instrument, very cool 👍

Welcome to a friendly forum, and a great hobby! RAM is a superb album, one of my all time favorites on so many levels but especially the production - just staggering. It cost over $1m to produce, and you can hear it across everything. https://www.soundonsound.com/people/recording-random-access-memories-daft-punk As for new bass recommendations: pick a budget and play a few to find what feels right in your hands. Anything by Yamaha or Ibanez will be good, but others will have played more basses than I and can make suggestions. When you have one, just play it - and stay away from the marketplace for a couple of years... 😁

Looking good. And the workshop is pretty cool too 😀

"What do you throw a drowning bass player?" "His Amp." "That seems cruel" "Would you rather he DI?"

That only seems to link to the top of this thread. Is that a technical error, or a very subtle way if saying I should have got my life organised and turned up?

Welcome aboard! Once a sound engineer, always a sound engineer! However when you're up front you can't hear the FOH mix so you just have to trust the bod behind the desk. We have great sound engineers, very musical too, but when I play there always seems to be a little red light on my channel... 🤔

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