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Anybody in London use a contact mic (Ischell or similar)? I’d love to pop over and test one before shelling out. Cheers!

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an absolute gem. when I walk into his shop I suddenly feel like I'm in rural france with all the time in the world. an amazing guy who does amazing work!

there are other tutorials for other softwares, and all the softwares are pretty similar in principle. I have a technical background but to be honest once the router setup was done, and some basic terminal knowledge is there, I found that all the audio routing stuff was only as difficult as e.g. learning how to use Logic and route things to your audio interface in the right way. Once you grasp what the inputs and outputs in Jack are and where signals are going, it becomes clear. I'll be keeping up with this field a bit in a sort of journalistic capacity, and will soon have an article on the ISM site where I interview a few of the software developers involved. Keep an eye out and I'll try to remember to post an update here too.

With decent internet and proximity, it is possible to play online (and record and livestream) in realtime, in high quality, with other musician(s). There are plenty of programs available for this but they're all quite similar. I've put up an exhaustive tutorial for one particular method, on Youtube. It's a long video to cater to absolute beginners, but the process itself is pretty short and you can use the timestamps (in the description, on Youtube) to click through quickly once you've cracked each section. This topic has recently gone from being a niche pre-occupation of mostly interested amateurs, to something of interest to most professional musicians. I'll be getting together an article to summarise the principles of this type of software, to try and help us become 'informed consumers' of it, in the same we as we are informed consumers of bass gear and so on. Enjoy.

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I'm a professional bassist based in London (not that location matters at the moment) with many years of diverse experience. I've a high-quality home setup for giving online lessons, via Skype or preferably Zoom, and am a patient and articulate teacher. 🙂 I'm happy to teach pretty much any aspect of electric bass playing. You will particularly benefit from lessons with me if you're interested in: -- applying theory and harmonic understanding to your basslines and solos -- developing a reliable, consistent, safe and adaptable technique -- general musicianship -- ear-training -- sight-reading For more details about me, look here: https://johnjosephwilliamson.com. Get in touch if you're interested!