Beedster

I've been there, I came back. Getting out for a while was good for me, coming back was even better, enjoying it more than ever now 👍

Possibly why I love my Mesa 15 and why it seems to work well live?

‘Most’? So there are some we’re allowed to use then?

I think you're confusing technical and functional. The point in question was that if the cab works for the player - and for most players that includes the player's bands and audiences because, they'll soon find out when it doesn't - then it doesn't mater whether it's a 1x10, 1x12, 1x15 etc. I've had 15s that worked (in my case Mesa) and 15s that didn't (in my case Markbass), it's not the 15-ness that defined the functionality

Nicely put @tegs07

I think there's an element of personal responsibility missing here also, if you put content online and that content is either not protected or you choose not to enforce protection when it is, while you are not to blame per se, but you are leaving yourself open to plagiarism, because where there's content of any sort, there's plagiarism

Fame an status are addictions, usually less tangible than to a substance and usually less damaging than to gambling, but just as easy to get caught out by and for a small number of people catastrophic. You only have to look at the Love Island phenomenon to see the damage that can be done

I had a similar experience, in the early 80's I assumed I was simply a crap bass player because I sounded nothing like the players I was trying to emulate. Then as the gear got better, it became obvious that yes, I was just a crap bass player after all, albeit one with better gear

....many of whom, I suspect, we aware of what the guy was up to, and some of who are probably doing the same - fakery and theft - albeit at a less industrial scale

You looking for an argument @BabyBlueSound? OK for you this thread is about the theft, but for others it's as much about the fakery/pretending part, as are some of the videos posted. It's a discussion forum, people will take that discussion wherever they want to take it, and personally, like @Burns-bass I find the fakery of this whole space the disappointing not because stealing of IP has always been there in music (as it is everywhere, it doesn't make it right but neither does it surprise me), but because I think of a whole generation of aspiring kids who will never be able to achieve the techniques they aspire to from watching these videos because no one can actually play half the stuff in them What DOES surprise me is that the fakery had not been called out sooner because looking at some of the videos it's so obvious 🤔

Funny isn't it, shit tone isolated = great tone in the mix

Read 'all music gear' ^

Well they are precision polished, which perhaps suggests that the standard strings aren't precision polished, merely polished imprecisely

Whole set still cheaper than a single decent DB string But, yeh, they seem really expensive by the standards of electric bass strings, at least with DB strings there really - or usually is - is a noticeable difference in quality and tone as you go up through the price bands, I wonder if the same's true here?

Fair point although I was referring to the need to record detail not the specifics of the mic 👍

I've got a nice pair of ribbons......

Can't you do that with your rather lovely modelling mic......? Or is that the large diaphragm you're referring to mate?

‘Zarg’

That's the truth of it, and any percentage applied to the confiscation of proceeds versus number of prosecutions would be dependent on the rate of prosecution, the estimates of unlawful gains etc. In short, the overall percentage of money confiscated versus money stolen is far lower than would appear - the reality with most fraud is this it goes undetected or if detected unpunished and if punished often at nothing like equivalence That's true