uncle psychosis

For me things like this are filed under "lots of fun, but I can never find an actual use for them"

Kind Of Blue is one of the essential records in any genre. Jazz is such a huge genre that it's difficult to know where to begin. You could do a lot worse than getting a few compilations, working out what styles you like and then going from there.

You know how statisticians say that if you gave an infinite number of monkeys typewriters you'd eventually end up with the complete works of Shakespeare? YouTube comments are definitive proof that it's not true. Never read below the line. Never!

[quote name='blue' timestamp='1449977774' post='2928538'] You might want to consider selling your gear. Blue [/quote] I'm not entirely sure why the mods continue to tolerate Blue's continual trolling. This example is even more obvious than most.

Hard to go wrong with a Yamaha BB series / Squier / Ibanez these days.

There's a really interesting article here about the many reasons why bands and promoters don't get on. Its written by a guy who runs a fairly successful indie label here in Edinburgh: [url="http://songbytoad.com/2011/07/a-few-reasons-promoters-and-bands-dont-get-along/"]http://songbytoad.com/2011/07/a-few-reasons-promoters-and-bands-dont-get-along/[/url] Interesting (if terrifying) reading.

On paper, I hate everything about that bass. Too many strings, coffee table top, single cut, weird ramp thing between the pickups... In reality, that's absolutely fantastic. Wow. Great work.

I really want one of these. That three pickup one is a thing of glory.

She's clearly very talented and I really like her apparent stance on celebrity but her music does nothing for me at all. Life would be boring if we all liked the same things.

I just spent twenty minutes searching twitter to find that tweet because I remember seeing it. That'll teach me to read the whole thread before replying!

[quote name='Skybone' timestamp='1447329626' post='2906711'] Insurance is included up to about £300, more than that costs extra. Sent quite a few guitars south using ParcelForce, and have always been able to insure them without any problems. [/quote] Instruments are [b]specifically excluded [/b]from enhanced insurance (i.e. over £100) with parcelforce. They will still sell you the insurance anyway. This seems like fraud to me, but they seem to get away with it. [url="http://www.parcelforce.com/help-and-advice/sending/items-we-exclude-compensation"]http://www.parcelforce.com/help-and-advice/sending/items-we-exclude-compensation[/url]

Demand is low and supply is high. I don't think enough sellers have worked that out yet and are still pricing based on what it was like a few years ago when the economy was booming. I'm not convinced that those glory days are ever coming back, especially with the ever-increasing quality of budget gear. Suspect that the guys who justified owning a million instruments by saying "I can always get back what I paid for them if it comes down to it" may well be in for a nasty shock at some point.

In my experience its usually because the drummer is too loud and so the guitarist turns up so he can hear the guitar and then the bass turns up so he can hear the bass and then the drummer plays louder because everyone else has turned up and the cycle repeats. So the drummer normally initiates it, but the whole band is to blame because rather than deal with the actual problem (get the drummer to play quieter, and set your amps up to maximise the sound heard without increasing the volume) they all make it worse.

This happened to me once before. No parcel, no note to say I had customs charges to pay, Royal Mail and Parcelforce unable to tell me location of item or indeed whether or not it even existed. 6 weeks later it was delivered back to the sender (in the US) covered in Parcelforce stickers saying "recipient refused to pay customs charges". I hope you have more luck than I did.

[quote name='uk_lefty' timestamp='1445191904' post='2889502'] I use a 9v 100ma multi-power supply which works fine with my Behringer tuner, Boss Limiter/ Enhancer and two EHX pedals.... Something's telling me trying to solve this will be more faff than its worth. [/quote] Is that a typo or is that really a 100mA power supply? Because you'll possibly struggle to power four or five pedals (depending on what they are) with 100mA. Have you tried the Behringer Chorus with the power supply on its own and nothing else plugged in?

[quote name='PaulWarning' timestamp='1444035896' post='2879546'] don't forget about VAT and import duty if you buy from Japan, I looked at it once, I found that the savings weren't that great when everything was totted up, you need to do the maths first, plus if anything goes wrong you're more or less on your own [/quote] For me the attraction of importing is to get something that isn't otherwise available. Cost wise, you're right that often you don't save much at all but the Japanese market tends to have a lot of things that are like hens teeth in Europe.

[quote name='Naetharu' timestamp='1444778869' post='2886038'] Mainly because quite often the bass tracks (at least on noisy rock-style songs) are buried deep in the mix. [/quote] The best thing I've ever been shown was to use an editor (I use Audacity) to shift the whole track up an octave. It makes the vocals and other instruments sound ridiculous but it normally makes the bass part jump out of the mix. Combined with slowing the track down (which you can also do in Audacity) this makes learning lines much, much easier.

[quote name='neepheid' timestamp='1444469995' post='2883455'] FFS Blue, that's an opinion, not a fact. [/quote] Blue, rather demonstrably, doesn't seem to know the difference.

[quote name='Twigman' timestamp='1444385238' post='2882724'] take it the step further.....sit at home in front of your DAW writing stuff.....take the recordings to band practice....get the rest of the band to play them....then gig them.... anything less is only doing half the job [/quote] I completely disagree. Look, I love gigging. Its great fun. But this "you have to gig or else you're not doing it properly" is nonsense. Most of us knows someone who loves cooking, but we'd never dream of telling them that cooking for their own enjoyment isn't a valid way to spend their time. When I go home and make a delicious pizza for my dinner tonight I won't need someone else to taste it to get enjoyment from it. "Unless you're cooking in a restaurant then it doesn't count" is basically what some of you are saying and its bollocks.

[quote name='blue' timestamp='1444351006' post='2882558'] You have touched on multiple issues here. OK, [i]"taking the easy way out"[/i] may have been a little harsh. But isn't sitting in your bedroom playing easier than dealing with all the issues the gigging bass guitarist has to deal with? [/quote] Gigging bass guitarists who only play other people's songs have taken the easy way out compared to the home musician who is trying to compose his own music and master recording, IMO. Churning through a 12 bar blues or an AC/DC number is a piece of piss compared to the inner workings of a DAW. I think you really need to change your name from Blue to Black or White,because that's how you seem to see every single topic ;-)

[quote name='Che' timestamp='1444307106' post='2882075'] Thanks Andy and Uncle for your replies! I will try and get some copper tape and do the job [/quote] Be warned that shielding it still might not fix it completely. Single coil pickups like you get on Jazz basses will always be susceptible to hum and in many ways its part of the "charm" . You may also be able to reduce the interference by removing the source---other electronic equipment (especially TVs or monitors) can cause interference and dimmer switches on lights are notorious for it. Good luck!

[quote name='Che' timestamp='1444303413' post='2882020'] Might be. I did try to find info on the net and most say that if there is hissing when you touch the metal parts its grounding issue and if there is hissing when you have no contact with the metal parts is a shielding issue. But I have no idea about this so all input is welcome! [/quote] If its buzzing when you *aren't* touching anything then you are correct that it is almost certainly a shielding issue. You'll probably also be able to hear that the buzzing sound changes or goes away if you move around the room or rotate on the spot.

That is seriously awesome.

Thomann sell a few different branded ones that are just rip-offs of the pedaltrain design from what I can see. Digging around in their pedal board section should bring them up.

[quote name='operative451' timestamp='1444125816' post='2880435'] ...And additionally, apparently bass amp speakers have a frequency response of between 2.5khz and 7khz so actually there's little point in a high sample rate anyway! Argh! [/quote] The sampling rate frequency (44kHz / 96kHz) and the frequency response of the speakers are not to be confused. They have the same units but mean completely different things. You need a high sampling rate to make sure your analogue to digital conversion doesn't lose any audible information (google the Nyquist sampling theorem to find out why). The frequency response of your speakers just tells you the range of frequencies your bass amp operates over.