Beedster

It was a different form of heft

Agreed, as far as I'm concerned the only thing that a bassist should ever worry about is underkill, nothing worse than seeing some poor sod clipping the hell out of a 100w Carlsbro combo provided by the venue

Learning to read notation is a joy, and a profoundly liberating experience especially if up to this point you have been dependent on tabs. As mentioned earlier, tab tells you nothing other than where you put your finger, so is utterly useless unless you already know the piece well, in fact I often find it quicker to work out a bass part by ear than I do by tab. I'd say that some of the estimates re learning times above seem a little extended to me, with days of working from a score that has both tab and notation you'll start to recognise finger placement from notation (so you're already able to do everything that tab can do for you), and while the learning curve around timing of notes is more complex, it's an entirely logical system so you will no doubt catch on quickly, especially if you start with relatively simple pieces. Have fun 👍

In what way is the cab overkill? Weight, dimensions, volume?

That makes sense, also means he’d be playing the right positions for live (assume Bb) while rehearsing as recorded (assume A). But yes, a headf*** for a new player using the same sheets. A lesson to be learned

I get the impression that the tab you posted above is correct for Eflat tuning on bass but that the notation doesn’t agree with it

Bloody hard work and makes a DB bow feel so much easier, someone somewhere told me about it, I believe some players perform with them

Have you tried it on upright, quite a useful training tool

Is it not suggesting that Bb is the first fret on the A string or am I missing something?

Yep, you can transpose tabs, for example when playing a bass down-tuned by a tone 1 becomes 3 etc 👍

The problem of course then becomes that we can't get the gear we want, or we can't get it at the price we want to pay, r we can't get it as quickly as we'd like to get it! Music retail is an increasingly unforgiving space, I'd not want the pressure that must be present every day for owners and employees. I think that we on this forum should be slightly more forgiving of the likes of Anderton's, Bass Direct etc, they do a great job in supporting our collective and dopaminergic instrument and audio fetish 👍

Yep, I'm still running, IIRC, Mountain Lion on a 2010 iMac for that very reason. Still going strong largely because I rarely connect it to the internet I suspect.

Ah, the days when domestic/consumer audio equipment was decent quality, despite requiring only marginally less space than the family car 🤔

My Dad was horrified when he bought my first electric guitar that despite spending the lofty sum of £25 he had to fork out on an amp. So horrified in fact that he didn't fork out on an amp. So I set about modding my grandparents old tube radiogram. On reflection the tone was surprisingly good

I had a nightmare with hardware/software incompatibility with expensive gear a few years ago so feel your pain. I just tried to find any info I could but there's certainly not a lot. However, I suspect the fact that Thoman list your model as the highest selling of 62 digital modelling guitars it sells suggests that you're not alone and I've no doubt there will be a fix soon 👍

Yep, I bought a UAD x4 from Anderton's and it had a design fault that emerged after a few months use (the power cable could not be removed from the device itself once plugged in which meant a supposedly portable device suddenly became non-portable, I had only plugged it in once and this was the first time I'd tried to unplug it). Anderton's simply sent me to UAD on this basis. The were very polite and professional but firm about doing so.

Fair point 👍 Interesting to see how this works out

So, the shop accept the guitar as a return, plugs it into one or more phones and it works each time, where's the fault? As I think has been agreed, it's all a bit of a grey area 👍

But... If I buy a bass, it doesn't work so I take it back, the shop plugs it in and it does work, what's the score do you think? They'd say 'The problem is with your tech (in that case amp) not the bass. You need an amp for the bass to 'work', but it's not part of the deal. I'm not saying you're wrong in principle, but Anderton's could equally say in this case the problem is with the buyer's tech and not the instrument they sold?

Another sign of the times

I agree @BigRedX, but a big part of this is whether the problem is permanent, which I doubt, or something that's being fixed and could be resolved imminently? You sound like you might be a bit better informed re this 👍

I agree but sometimes it's simply resources, many businesses are up against it at present, there's no slack and it only takes one person to be on leave or ill and emails don't get responded to and things get behind. Anyway, if Mooer are anything like a lot of tech providers, I imagine 95% of emails/calls they receive are likely requesting information that's already available on their website etc, that's been my main lesson with digital audio, specifically that it's nearly always quicker to sort the problem via the various manufacturer/audio/musician forums than via emails/helplines. In fact, if the @edstraker123 asked the question in one of the technical forums here it might be that someone has come across it or similar and can provide a solution, there's a lot of geeks here after all

This is a great thread 👍