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16 hours ago, Dudgeman said:
and then re tunes to standard 440 to play live...
tuning the guitar in Eb doesn't mean they moved away from 440Hz.
16 hours ago, Dudgeman said:have thy effectively altered the key?
they transposed
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1 hour ago, Henrythe8 said:
Highly philosophical.
I'd play semantics and say that there are more successful artists than others. Artist that are better sellers than others. Musicians that are more famous than others.
If we say it's a competition, you need to find a metric to measure performance.
ANd as an artistic form, music has no clear metric and when you don't pay for music (like all the streams that are counted today are not a commitment froim a fan, like @tauzero mentioned, people buying CDs had a commitment toward an artist. But the people just streaming an artist are not commited.
The most album sold is a metric, but that doesn't make a better artist, it's just a better fame/distribution/time continuum.
What contemporary artist is going to sell more recordings than the Beatles (still selling after all these years...) now that music is not sold anymore.
I'd go further saying that now more than ever, a musician is a marketing product but the music is not what is sold.
I'd play on words saying music is competitive, but not a competition. As even if you loose in a way eg records selling), you can still be a champion in another recognition, musical genius, legendary performer...).
That is a great way to put it! I agree 100%.Also, semantic is quite important. Words are important, and we shouldn't take the meaning out of them, or just attribute them a meaning they don't actually have.
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just saw this at the National Museum of Musical Instruments in Rome - not from the 80s though
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4 hours ago, Lozz196 said:
Definitely, can even add in - if an originals band - competing with yourself to write better material on an ongoing basis.
maybe we can file that under "improving"
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4 hours ago, SteveXFR said:
Last night I ran the Le Bass preamp in to the Orange effects return and it sounded so much better than running it in to the front end of the Orange. Maybe what I really need is just a power amp rather than a bass amp
Some good info here too
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1 hour ago, BigRedX said:
...as this will only add as much latency as any other good quality AD/DA system, but that's not as versatile from a sonic PoV.
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BTW I was assuming you have the sound module and are looking for a way to load/change sounds on the fly, but I just realised you might mean you're after a sound module that does that.
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You'd need to make sure that the sound generator you want to play via MIDI accepts Program Changes MIDI messages, and at that point you can use a MIDI controller (anything from a pad controller to footswitches, as long as they send the right MIDI msg) to load the preset/sound on the fly.
In order to better understand the details, you'd need to share more info about the sound generator.
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On 27/12/2022 at 17:31, BillyBass said:
I have two MIM Fenders and two MIM Charvels to compare it to. all of my Mexican made basses have needed shielding and I was assuming this would be the case with the Squier too, but no. No unwanted noise with this one.
Are they P basses?
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Not reggae, but heavily influenced by dub.
Bill Laswell's use of envelope filters to get that sub sound is great!
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1 hour ago, chris_b said:
Music and being a musician is definitely competitive.
What's an audition but a competition. Look at the competitive atmosphere in every department and at every level in Motown. The competitive environment for the song writers in the Brill Building. The record charts. Back in the day, trying to get signed to management and labels. Getting gigs. There is one local gig where they have 200 bands in contact with the promoter vying for 24 gigs for the year. That's competition. Trying to find great players, then trying to keep them. The guys who make our gear are in competition with each other for our money.
There is competition in everything we do as musicians.
Most likely just semantic, but all the things listed above aren't music.
I agree that being a pro musician has all these competitive aspects though, similar to other jobs.
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I think music is art.
And as such, there might be some competitive aspects, but I wouldn't say it's a competition (eg car races).
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But, glad to see they are making more lefties anyway.
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On 21/01/2023 at 09:50, uk_lefty said:
They've done it again... Fender have done the Player Plus range in left handed. PJ basses in three colours from what I've seen so far. They're on Thomann at £999.
Not after a bass atm, but I always liked to see (ehm... have) a Fender Boxer, lefty!
Not sure they even made it lefty though.
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Just saw this, if anyone's interested
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The MXR M82 seems really versatile, but I never played with one. That said, on YT there are several good videos.
Months ago I got this
https://www.gear4music.com/Guitar-and-Bass/Eden-CaliforniWAH-Bass-Wah-Pedal-with-PSU/4UX6 And I am happy with it.
It's still on sale.
It seems less versatile than the MXR, but nontheless it has personality. It is dirty and squelchy if you want, but goes low as well with the right settings.
2 things about it, it wants its 15v psu (that comes with it), and the size.
Everybody thinks it is big, but it is not.
It's as big as a Boss pedal, but sits horizontally instead of vertically, if that makes sense.
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8 hours ago, northcountrybob said:
On the MK1 Terror Bass the loop send and return are both valve. It's not the best design. The send is a typical 12AX7 gain stage and driven from the plate of a tube (This also feeds the DI out, which is opamp buffered but IIRC fairly spicy!) It won't be very low output impedance. Using only the return bypasses the preamp but then the signal goes into the second half of V2 which is set up as an AC coupled cathode follower. As your signal goes into the return it's hitting a capacitor to block DC, then a 68k resistor, then a 250K master volume pot. So the input impedance isn't massive. The tone stack is passive, so the front label "cut and boost" on the EQ is a bit misleading.
I've used sansamp BDDI and now use an Origin Bassrig. If I use it into something like my markbass little mark III or most other loaner amp, I start with that amp's EQ "flat". With other amps, I'm debating putting a splitter on my board to run a pre-preamp signal to a nice amp if I want... if the amp doesn't have an FX return. Like an AD200B
I don't have the amp, but I recently watched a video on the official page where they say only the send goes through the valve, the return doesn't
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1 hour ago, Al Krow said:
FWIW - I understand the Soundcraft Signature 12MTK is also fully analogue. However, they've added a multi-track recording option to enhance the capability of the unit as compared to the non-MTK version. There's a £110 price-hike for this added capability, but given a latency of 3.5ms vs a latency of around 2ms for a high-end audio interface such as a Focusrite, that's still pretty decent. And I'm not sure there are too many decent audio interfaces offering 12 multi-track recording, certainly for £110?
To exceed the 8-10 ch, usually one wants to use analogue + adat. So, an audio interface with an A/D/A converter. Ie Clarett + Octopre
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34 minutes ago, Al Krow said:
Ah ok. But is that because your mixer does not permit multitrack recording? If so, I can see the benefit.
If you had something like Soundcraft Signature12 MTK would that dispense of the need for a separate audio interface?
Exactly. I should have said that, the mixer is fully analogue
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Just now, Al Krow said:
What scenarios require both? It seems that a decent mixing desk can provide everything that an audio interface typically can?
I have bass and other instruments (keyboards/synths, drum machine, fx, etc.) going to the mixer. Aux/bus go to the audio device for multitrack recordings.
Several stereo outs from the audio device go back to the mixer too.
This allows me to mix on the desk both "external instruments" and channels from the DAW.
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1 hour ago, Mottlefeeder said:
Agreed, but with a mixer you can just fade up an additional channel - you don't have to rewire the system to accomodate another music source.
David
I was just pointing out that some audio interfaces have these capabilities. Personally I love mixers and use them, with an audio interface.
But it's all about the use case. Certain scenarios don't require mixers, others don't require audio interfaces, some need both.
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Interesting you get noise with P basses. Have you got to the bottom of it? Any noise source in your place? eg neon lights