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Seems a bit odd, but whatever works for him lol. I found that La Bella’s sound great and ‘played in’ out the pack, I had Chromes on my ‘71 before that, and they only really started to sound ‘right’ after about a years gigging on them. Si

Cool bass, really like the Racing Green colour. Presumably it's hand-built at that price-point, but yes they'll do very well with a Tribute version I should think. Si

There will be a market for the spec, high-end active classics while retaining the 'F' branding......but I'm also underwhelmed by the colours. Olympic White being the best it seems, the two-tone is quite nice. Cherry-burst is never a good idea 🤮 Si

The Jazz 5 thumbnail was up for a split second just now, down again now. So clearly they're mid-upload. The J5 looked nice, tobacco sunburst I think, presumably with other options, £1959 There was a P/J 4 string too, and a J4. No P5. Si

Oh well, at least there's the Am Pro P5, think I'm gonna go for one of those in the next couple of weeks. Si

Too much to hope for a P5 I wonder?! Si

I love Jaco for what he did for the instrument, but I always tend towards his big-band stuff. If you're not a fan of the solo bass stuff or 'fusion' stuff, try the Word Of Mouth album. Si

Hi all, Does anyone have one of the newer American Professional Precision 5s? If so, would be good to get the weight of yours from you, build up an average. Cheers Si

*Headphones/decent speakers needed* These are the 760FL on my ‘71 P: These are the 760FS on my Lakland 44-64: Si

I'm essentially a Precision player at heart, but if someone said "What is your signature bass"...in many ways, like the thread is doing...I'd say the Lakland 44-94 they built on my request. Basically a modern passive P/J bass with that fantastic 44-94 fret access: Si

I'm not really sure how I feel about this types of promotions. I certainly understand that it's a great deal if you win, but not sure I'd want to spend £50 on nothing as most of the entrants will be doing. Again, not sure how I feel about them.....as such, won't be entering. Good luck to everyone though, does look like a lovely bass Si

La Bella 760FS for me! Best flats available IMO Si

You could route whatever audio you want to any of the outputs via Mix Control. So if you wanted, you could send a couple of channels of audio from your DAW out of the SPDIF outputs, or indeed you could route any of the analogue inputs of the interface out of the SPDIF out, or any of the outs. They're just ins and outs, Mix Control allows you to route the audio as you wish, you could simply consider the interface as a junction box in that regard. It's worth noting that the SPDIF is a digital in and out, so while the connection looks like a standard RCA, you would need a specific SPDIF cable to utilise it, and similarly connect it to another unit that has a SPDIF connection, not just RCA in/out. There's a full rundown of how to use Mix Control on page 11 here: https://customer.focusrite.com/sites/customer/files/focusrite/downloads/7235/userguidesaffirepro14eng02.pdf Anything else, just let me know Si // Focusrite

The P4s he’s been making look stunning, around $4200 I think though, clearly they sell in small batches, so good on Carey, but too rich for me. Si

Yeah you’re exactly right, while the driver is a component, when you’re talking about projects like that, the overall grunt of the machine is what you’re interested in. The Scarlett 18i8 is the equivalent in that range to the Clarett 4Pre (although do have different I/O). I think it basically comes to budget, if you can afford the Clarett without flinching, go for that. If you are budget conscious, then Scarlett still sound more than professional. Si // Focusrite

It’s not a thing with extensive tattoos, nothing to do with the ink, but might simply be something to do with the colour. Black absorbs heat, white reflects it (why houses in very hot countries are usually white). I don’t have solid black on my arms like the picture above, but both sleeves are relatively dark, fair amount of black....I don’t notice it being any more uncomfortable in the sun than normal. I also wish that people would work with artists on the designs they want, you’ll get a better tattoo, I guarantee you that there’s nothing less inspiring to a tattoo artist than a customer designed piece. And if the artist you’ve chosen can’t come up with something you like, it’s the wrong artist. Si

Ultimately, it’s less important what’s happening in Mix Control (That’s essentially just a monitoring and routing tool), it’s about how you set the inputs up in your DAW. As I said, drop me a message if you get stuck, and i’ll get the Tech Support team to get in touch to help set it up Si // Focusrite

There’s a few things to unpack here so sorry if I miss something (and am on my phone, so a little awkward lol). Feedback loop won’t really be a problem, just a case of routing whatever channel in your DAW to say something like output 3, through the hardware and monitor the input when you come back in again. If you want output 3 to form part of your main monitor mix (for some reason that I can’t think of), then you’ll just not monitor the signal coming back in again. So easy to avoid feedback. It’s a pretty common use-case, so quite normal to set an interface up that way. Drivers are certainly a component of latency, but yes, as is the rest of the computer. The easy way around any latency issues (which I don't think you’ll encounter), is simply to avoid any processing until you’re done tracking, when you’re fully done with tracking, up your buffer size all the way to 1024 or whatever, basically giving you all the CPU power ready for processing (because don’t need to worry about latency, because tracking is done). And yes, everything above relates to Scarlett’s as well as Claretts. Just be aware that Scarlett 18i8 is the first in the range that has ADAT In (If channel expansion is important to you in the future), whereas all Claretts have ADAT in. While Scarlett’s sound great, Claretts do have improved audio specs, hence the price differences Cheers Si // Focusrite

It’s been a LONG time since I’ve done anything with Saffires, and i’m obviously not at work at the moment to check with the Tech Team, but i’m pretty sure that within Dual Mode you can only switch between the two units in Mix Control as you describe, it was part of the restrictions that we weren’t able to get around with those units (now discontinued). If you haven’t see already, there is a full guide to Dual Unit mode here: https://resource.focusrite.com/sites/default/files/focusrite/downloads/20956/saffire-dual-unit-en.pdf There’s also a guide to setting up the channels in your DAW, although be aware this is written as if two Pro40’s are being used, so the channel counts will be different with one Pro40 and a Pro14: https://support.focusrite.com/hc/en-gb/articles/207546605-Why-can-t-I-hear-my-second-Pro-40-in-Dual-Unit-Mode- Let us know how you get on, and if still no luck, then let me know and I can get someone from Tech Support to contact you when you’re with the setup Si //Focusrite

Of course! You’re mistaking what i’m saying as ‘what should it shouldn’t happen’. I fake walking all the time, with some relatively rudimentary chordal structure knowledge. My point was simply that if one wants to increase their musicality (because you’ll almost always sound more musical if you know what you’re doing), or if you’re interested in getting more gigs with good musicians, then having them listen to you and hear that you know what you're doing will certainly help. Even if no-one knows, but it’s important for YOU to feel what you’re doing is genuine, then carry on learning and applying that knowledge. If none of that matters and it suits someone to fake something to a degree, and still sound fine doing that to jo-bloggs, then brilliant, more power to them 🙂 Si

While I appreciate the humour (😉), in the context of the thread, I’m suggesting he’d stick out like a sore thumb. Si

On a serious note (no pun intended), I suppose it depends who your audience is. If it’s jazz musicians, at worst you’ll look like a blagger who doesn’t know what they’re doing, at best you’ll look like someone who is un-musical (poor note choices). Contrary to what people think/hear, there’s nothing random about Jazz, 9.5 times out of 10, each note, whether you like it or not, will be a considered harmonic choice by that musician. So random to some people, extremely considered choices to others. So yes, depends on your audience, and of course, how important your musical output is to you 🙂 Si