TimR

Define small to medium. Up to 150 people?

When you apply for a premises licence you state what type of entertainment you will be providing. The local authority then grants a licence on what you've told them you will be doing. Or the LA may have knocked them back and told them only duos and trios. AFAIA you don't apply for a specific entertainments licence for bands/orchestras/soloists, it's all one premises licence with permitted activities.

On the plus side you have a ready made band, just need a singer. Any complaints from the old singer and you say he resigned, unless he can show the evidence that you actually sacked him.

My 486DX had 8Mb. It was about £35 per Mb. 🤣

Our people do that anyway without any AI interference. 🤣

Imagine what it was like in the late 90s, early 2000s! I had a Soundblaster with Cubase on windows 98. You had to set the interupts using MSDOS Config.sys and the latency was awful. The Internet was on dial up and help files and forums practically non-exsitent. But the biggest problem was dealing with the band who all wanted to be louder than everyone else in the mix. Type Device Manager in your search box, open it, and make sure the PC can see the Scarlett under USB devices. That's the first place I would start. After that it's just a case of working out what sound is routed where. Right click on the speaker icon on the bottom right of your screen and poke around there.

I think tools like ProTools, Garageband, Photoshop, and video equivilents have allowed the man in the street to do things to a level that gets ideas across without having to pay for videographers, recording studios, graphic artists. So I'm nor sure it's the billionaires to blame. The billionaires are taking the money from the people buying the software and hardware. However, they're never going to be a substitute for someone who has been trained and uses those tools all day everyday.

As I wrote upthread, Spotify, YouTube and various opinion 'news' outlets are full of people being creative. Most of them would do better to go outside and dig the garden or do the dishes. Actually being creative, coming up with new material, that other people are interested in, is hard. If it was easy, we'd all be making fortunes writing books, music and directing films. Shouldn't have to point that out on a bass players forum.

But if I see a round thing, I can isolate it from it's surroundings very quickly, I can move around, touch it, pick it up if it's small enough, feel how heavy it is. See what happens if I drop or throw it, bounce it, taste it. I can then very quickly catagorise it. AI can look at it and compare it to images it has seen. The images are just 2D photos or videos.

Maybe our civilisation will collapse due to AI. Not because AI deliberately destroys us, more because people use it to build things that don't work anymore. 🤣

Yes. And I'm still working. Although to be fair my last 3 call outs have been to turn machines off and back on again.

Computers and robots were going to take everyone's jobs in the 80s. Unfortunately they didn't and we all still have to go to work.

I don't know. There's plenty of examples of human creativity on Spotify. I suspect Bjork is correct.

I defretted my Marlin Sidewinder. Filled the slots with polyfilla. It sounds OK, but the pickups are very noisy and you can't use it within a mile of a fridge or dimmer switch. Hence it's in the loft.

It can only work on what it has been told or what information is already available. It doesn't learn by exloring the enviroment, doing and failing which is 90% of how humans learn. It's very limited. Until humans understand how intelligence works, they can't program intelligence in. We have only just mapped the brain of a fruit fly, we know the connections, but we still dont understand how they work. https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c0lw0nxw71po

AI is not intelligent. It doesn't learn anything and has no real-world feedback to enable it to learn from its surroundings. People are still learning how it can and can't be used so like any new tool, the initial attempts at producing results are going to be clumsy and inaccurate. It's certainly not about to eliminate humans.

Bought a lightweight amp and a lightweight cab, a pedal board, a tuner and a drive pedal last year. Although the tuner was a replacement for my failed one (so obviously doesn't count). No need to buy anything this year, although I'm currently hankering after a waistcoat and fretless...

Check you don't have any Holes in Your Shoe before you start.

I 100% agree except over 8000 people have looked at their profile (me included just out of interest.) Seems they were quite active in a particular off-topic thread which has lead to the above query.

Glam Metal not Glam Rock.

You're still being evasive. Why were you stopped in a yellow box junction? Simple enough to answer. 🤣 I thought it was an offense to enter if your exit is not clear. I'm not aware that it has to be a stationary vehicle blocking the exit.

Mainly because I'm having to read between the lines because you haven't at any point given definitive reason why you've been fined other than you were stopped in a box junction. You have obviously not been successful in appealing either of the fines. You're being evasive which leads me to believe you've shown the same attitude to the fines/charges. If I've got that wrong, then maybe you'd like to enlighten us. 🤷‍♂️

You've been sent a fine for the non payment of a charge. The law you've broken is not what you've been charged for, it's for non payment of that charge. 🤦‍♂️ If it's a box junction fine, then it's pretty clear, you have to contest it within 14 days the same way as you contest a parking fine. If you just refuse to pay the fine, you just descend into a world of pain. DVLA conditions state that they are able to give your details to people. If you don't want your details shared, you can easily opt out by handing in your license and stopping driving.

Seems to be classic rock album material. All those great songs on classic albums that were never released as singles. Basically every song Rush has ever done. 😉

I think it would be the other way round. Higher impedance would require more power to drive for the same displacement. Maybe the amp is just undersized. Is the combo a sealed cab? Maybe it has a more sensitive speaker.