Stub Mandrel

I got a refurbished Keystation Mini. To be honest it's too small for my big hands, but would be great fun for a child. It came with Ignite software, loads of editable sounds and a basic sequencer.

I find it (almost) impossible to play whilst singing backing vocals for anything!

For those who like neat and understated without being overly crowded.

It was a retrograde step when they stopped numbering double album sides 1,4,2,3 for autochangers.

Sorry, haven't read the whole thread yet, but may I ask: As like "Der Ring des Nibelungen"? As in: you're referring to the amount of sides to play? In case: that was one of my main reasons, if not the main one, to adopt formats that were not LPs. One day, I played Wagner a whole day without ever having to change a thing. My iPod did that for me. I hate it when somebody is dying on stage and has to suffer whilst I drag my behind out of the sofa to turn a record and let the poor bar steward die with some dignity. No, I'm suggesting my copy of Yessongs gives great joy of ownership for reasons, indeed reasons without a single kilohertz in sight.

I have big hands and am generally comfy with IFPF everywhere - but presently trying to figure out how to hold down second fret while using pinky to get a harmonic at 6... OW!

Whoops totally wrong... Whoops actually I was right... Troy does have one... And yes if I had £1000 to spare...

You really do have a thing about knobs, don't you Ped. How do you cope with the P-bass? 🙂

Having done this live it's really tricky to keep the line solid and in the pocket while also getting the fills in the right places. But a fun one to play.

https://tarantism1.bandcamp.com/album/tarantism-live-at-the-horsedrawn-camp

Yikes! A mixture of the revolting and the refined posted above. I can't abide anything with wonky tuners, I can't believe a quality luthier thinks droopy or randomly aligned tuners look 'good'. I know this is supposedly a Fender-free zone but I vote for this:

Huw Lloyd Langton cooking on guitar:

Yessongs. 😎

That combined with a fair price makes me more likely to buy it. I use such things rarely until I know how to 'fly them' which makes me unwillingt o buy expensive software after only a short trial.

Thanks folks! My Scarlett is in storage so using the soundcard which probably makes things worse. I will experiment, but I have to do some work first.

After watching a tutorial I managed to record a simple midi drum loop, but had to do a lot of quantisation that made me feel like I had no sense of rhythm at all. I then recorded some bass that sounded terrible. Looking at the 'waveform' I realised that it was out of synch, and by 'nudging' it by about 30-40 milliseconds I got it to line up. For practical reasons I'm using my desktop which is quite slow so these are much worse than the tiny tweaks I had to make on my laptop (in fact I put those down to my playing, I realise now they were just small latency errors). I assume the latency delay is consistent and can be calculated and allowed for so I can just play soemthinga nd it lines up? Can someone explain how in simple language? (P.S. my expired trial licence for Reaper but now free until February - I will probably buy it when this ends)

An advert that used 'Enola Gay' to promote lively food boxes?

LOL I assumed it was a pickup!

One of the distinguishing features of the Squier Jaguar SS. I see it has now been discontinued (too successful for its own good, undermining sales of 'higher' spec models?) I see a used one (in the USA) on Reverb for £310! Crazy? Perhaps in 20 years these Indonesian basses will have a similar reputation to early Squier P basses?

The physicality of vinyl is the big thing for me. A record in its sleeve is a work of art. I buy CDs today for cost and ease of ripping (and because my hifi hasn't been set up for about ten years), and I note that these days nice card sleeves are the thing not nasty jewel cases. Even a simple card slip is better than a crap case. I can't wait to get my hifi set up again, maybe with new speakers, once the divorce stinky poo is over.

Stick a preamp in it.

It really winds me up when people use a time machine to copy my posts 🙂

You could say they are 'going through the motions...'

If you can live with a reliced bass, then the Flea bass is a great way to get one with that spec.