WinterMute

Tried all kinds of launcher apps over the years, the dock as it stands works as well as any of them, and having the ability to scroll and resize tracks in the arrangement window from a few buttons on the S3 just made the whole thing redundant, I used to have it auto-hide, but I got bored with that. The screen arrangement memories in Protools work just as well, but only if you're working on a fairly standard template, most of the productions I do are anything but standard.

Good job it's not your set up then, be a shame if you had something else to criticise, eh? Not short of screen real-estate, in any phase of the recording process, and most of the work is done dynamically through the S3 controller. You do you, I'm more than happy with my studio.

I have a single MM Bartolini in my Frankenstien SR5 fretless, which is an MM neck with a basswood OLP body. It's got the Bart pre as well, it's a very good sounding bass, aggressive and punchy.

Never occurred to me that it might be a problem, been playing and wearing wedding rings for nearly 30 years.

Not bad at all, installed a new mic last week and spent a couple of hours getting used to it, it's the UAD modelling mic and it brings quite a different range of tones to the party...

I was already playing bass, with a pretty generic tone, when I heard Geddy Lee on Permanent Waves and then Moving Pictures, that tone set the standard for me and I've played variations of that bright, distorted sound for 45 years. Lee's aggressive playing style also influenced my own very hard-hitting finger-style, which compliments the sound very well. I blame Geddy, however, I don't play Ricky's or Jazz basses, so it's not all a carbon copy.

Alan continues to make some of the best sounding and looking basses on the planet (I may be a touch biased). Don't 4 string necks look skinny next to 5 and 6 stringers? Lovely bases, congrats.

20th Anniversary SR5 and it's less auspicious cousin.

No point in naming an animal if it won't come when you call. Cats have their own names and they'll never tell. That said, Pixel is my favoured name for small felines, after The Cat Who Walks Through Walls.

Isn't this just the natural expansion and contraction of the copper as temperature changes?

Yes, the balance XLR outputs are line level.

I was so impressed with Alan's willingness to chat endlessly about ideas and alternatives, completely happy to alter his existing designs to accommodate whatever mad ideas I might have had. My Krell fretless has a mahogany central block and ash wings, an idea that came from my MM 20th Anniversary SR5, Alan just said "sure" and got on with it. The quality of his work is second to none.

You can dislike something and acknowledge that it's good work I think, but there is an inherent polarisation of any subjective call these days, everything has to be black or white, the "you're either with us or against us" crowd, Liverpool v Everton, City V United... That footballification of everything leaves no room for nuance. Can't stand Country and Western, but those boys can play and write a tune, really don't like the Beatles, whilst recognising their significance as songwriters and the quality of McCartneys bass work (and Ringo's drumming for that matter), can't listen to most Jazz, or classical. The limitation is in me, not them, I fully admit. That said, Morrisey can do one, any day of the week, muppet.

The new SVT models are killer and the new cab IRs are much more characterful, much like the best of the 3rd party captures that you can find on the cloud. The GED2112 models are cracking too, I had the pre-amp for a while, really captures the tone well. Looks like a very good update all round but I do wonder at the significant DSP overheads of these new models, even in a unit with processing to burn.