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Remember seeing Black Uhuru in the early '80's IIRC at Notting Hill, I could feel my viscera resonating with the bass. Glorious sound and feeling, absolutely glorious

As the title suggests, this should probably be in feedback, but it's too nice and life affirming a story so here goes..... I sold a couple of items to one of our long-standing elder statesmen @Oldman a while back. We haggled over prices a little and money went back and forth. Eventually we agreed things and I mentioned to him that I was taking my young 'uns Ella and Katie into town to spend the cash he'd sent. All done Today a card arrived addressed to me. The girls had their birthdays recently and I assumed that it was a late card and that I knew who it was from, so I passed it to them and said "This is for you girls". They both ripped apart the envelop and showed me two gift vouchers with their names on and I said "Is it from .....?" to which they replied "It's got something to do with an old man Daddy". We read the card together and given we were having a bit of a crap morning (it's a very first world problem we're currently dealing with BTW but nonetheless a crap morning), as a family we all sat down and said 'Wow, that has made our month" The internet's a funny place, we build sometimes good and sometimes problematic relationships with people we've never met (I've done both), but all too often it's at arm's length and lacks real emotional clout. Brian @Oldman, thank you so much for this, it made us smile and reaffirmed our faith that the world is a great place, and reminded my daughters that kindness is a really important thing 👍 Chris

Big part of playing reggae bass for me has been the other musicians, the way the bass sits in time is as much about them, especially the drummist but also the guitars, keys etc. I doubt my ability to play reggae has changed much band to band over the years, but the degree to which is feels like an authentic reggae bass vibe certainly has 👍

interesting.......... 🤔 Who's on bass?

For no particular reason - although possibly that I loved Gabriel's first solo album - I felt the same. What surprised me yesterday was that the tracks I heard felt like they were recorded a lot earlier than was the case. It actually took me a while for the 'It's Collins' voice' moment to happen. Having said the above, I still count Follow You Follow Me as one of my favourite all time songs, a bit out of character for me!

Stick a P-PUP between those Js?

Sounds pretty crap for sure and thanks for sharing, but doesn’t change my sentiments towards him much 🤔

No one who has $2,500,000 to lose will ever get much sympathy from me mate, and I doubt anyone forced the tour on him. Hissy fits? Mate of mine had a meltdown on stage following a long-running issue with the singer. He put his guitar down, told the singer and audience he was leaving the band, apologised, walked off stage to the bar, bought a pint and watched the rest of the gig. Much classier. He also saud afterwards that if he was being honest the band sounded better without him anyway 👍

Thanks @lowdown and agreed, I do subscribe to Zencastr and have done since April 2020. I can't see anything on their platform indicating the change, I'm guessing for most users who simply download an mp3 of the session it's not relevant, but I download the wav files into Pro Tools and often use audio tracks from more than one Zencastr recording session in a final Pro Tools mix so it's annoying if get-aroundable with some tweaks. Re Pro Tools, the information re different sample rates was/is there but I simply didn't check as I've never needed to. We live and learn 👍

Wow, just wow, I never liked him much from an interview I saw way back when, but I like him even less now!

This is a sad reflection to a degree on Jaco's extraordinary talent and the limited understanding of the effects talent/success/fame/illness/addiction at the time. There's the horrible moment in his own instructional DVD where he says to his co-presenter following a compliment on his playing "Well give me a gig man" that say it all

I'd have assumed you'd have gone for better Nik?

Thanks mate, had a Genesis moment today also, so perhaps my brain is slowly coming around to this stuff

And was really surprised just how much I liked it 👍 A while back my daughters insisted on a bloody Alexa, and while it took me a while, I've learned to shout "Alexa, play...." and then say the first band name that comes into my head. And today it was Genesis, and amazingly the first track was from Duke, an album I had heard and dismissed a long time ago but which just worked today. Wasn't so good when the first band that came into my head was Steps however. And not so good when Alexa's hearing aid failed and UFO become JLS. But otherwise, the Alexa game can be quite good fun 🤔

Crikey, this thread feels like a million years ago now, I should try listening again sometime 👍

Well you decide folks...... I recorded a really nice interview with a scientist a few months back using their original 'Classic' platform - which I'd been using pretty much without problem for two years - but to my serious annoyance the guest's audio track wouldn't download. I got in touch with Zencastr support and after a few attempts to retrieve the track (apparently) their ultimate response was "Hey, why were you using our legacy product in the first place when you should have been using our really cool new version". My response was pretty much "I'm ********* ****** ***** paying you for this ****** platform and you still have it ******* live so it should ******* **** ***** work whether you consider it 'legacy' or not". A not unreasonable response given I could not really ask the guest to re-record the session so had lost a morning's work plus some PR? So, given the fact that Zencastr has been clear that the 'legacy' version might be a problem, for the next session I though I'd use the new version. Now, there was nothing when I logged in or on screen to suggest that the sample rate was higher in this version, and now way to select it, so I was bloody miffed to find the above source/destination problem. OK, when I replicated the error it was clear from two of the dialogue boxes in Pro Tools that there was a mismatch between source and destination rates, but I could be forgiven for not noticing given I've imported Zencastr tracks into Pro Tools about 200 times without that problem. Again, I went back to them and in classic US style their response was 'Yeh, hey it's great isn't it, we're working at 48k now" to which mine was "well, none of my audience will notice the slightest ******* difference in sound quality but you just gave me another extra afternoon's work through simply not making this clear". So yes Paul, spot on - and with due respect to skidder who's Pro Tools MMV - Zencastr was and is very much the problem here, and having had two bad experiences in four podcasts - one of which meant the irretrievable loss of the important audio track - I am looking at other options now, which is a shame as for two years I used Zencastr very happily without a problem.

I'm with you dude, it was never acoustic guitars per se, it was always strummed acoustic guitars. As any reasonable person will no doubt agree, strumming is about the laziest form of musicianship possible, the word itself even sounds lazy "Hey you gonna pick?" "No man, I'm gonna struuuum...". But there is something worse than a strummed 6-string acoustic.......... a strummed 12-string acoustic, the work of the devil and something that ultimately made me hate much of Tom Petty's recorded music despite loving his songs

You juts won't let that one go will you Nik, although I suspect Jamiroquoi might be a French Jamiroquai tribute act.... 🤔

Think I've sorted it, easier than I thought, clues were here

I use Zencastr to record podcasts with experts in a range of fields. I recorded one last week which was really quite good but in which there was a repeated noise in the background at the guest's end that we could do little about. I told the guest I'd edit it out of the final mix, which I spent about 90 minutes doing (in some places I could remove it, in others I had to reduce its impact). Anyway, in removing the noise - which was easy to see on the waveform - I wasn't really listening to the conversation which I then edited at the end of a very long day. A colleague listened to it and said 'It sounds a bit odd', and when I listened back it did seem a little slow. Turns out that Zencastr changed their default sample rate from 44 to 48 and I'd downloaded and edited vocal tracks sampled at 48 with my usual Pro Tools setting of 44, hence playback of the edited track is noticeably slower. Normally if I made a schoolboy error like this I'd reload the tracks and re-edit, but I'm not sure I can face the hell of the noise removal again. I've tried making a copy of the Pro Tools tracks at the correct sample rate but that didn't work, tried bouncing to mp3 at the correct sample rate and that didn't work. Suggestions welcome!