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    The red light never lies

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    Some interesting takes on here. 

    Mine for the OP is take heart! It's quite difficult to be the best you can be once the red light goes on.

    Record more often- you'll get better at it.

    While recording, make sure that you have correct mix you need to hear in your headphones - this is crucial to being able to play accurately and with the correct feel. Also, I don't know what your recording situation is but are all the other performances spot on? On quite a few occasions in the studio I've been asked to fix a wee fill or something which sounded out on the listen back but the problem has been on an existing track which hadn't been noticed before. As you up your game everyone else has to as well.

    Finally, enjoy. If a couple of bits need fixed either by overdubbing or by studio manipulation, so what? That's all part of the art of recording. And be happy for the end result to be as smooth or as rough as you and your colleagues want.

    The red light never lies

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    On 01/02/2021 at 19:50, chris_b said:

    Listening to your playing can be enlightening. When minidiscs came out I recorded everything and used them as a learning tool. Sadly the recorder broke and I can't play them anymore. It would be interesting (maybe not!) to go back 20 years and compare.

    Should your curiosity become insatiable, I still have a minidisc deck here and would be happy to transfer some stuff for you.

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    Atrocious bass tone!

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    Something is definitely not right here - the B3 is part of my live setup and I've not had issues like this at all.

    Is your power supply good? What happens when you back off the volume on the bass to halfway? Do you  have the B3 XLR output set to pre or post?

    What does the headphone output on the B3 sound like when you just plug a pair of headphones in to it? That is to say bass into B3 input, headphones into L/Mono Phones output.

    How long have you been using the B3 for and did you buy it new? You could try a factory reset on the unit to see if that clears it. If you have a load of your own patches then you would probably want to save them first - this can be done using the Zoom Edit and Share software.

    This sort of problem can only be solved by logical process of elimination.

    westbury track 4

    in Bass Guitars

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    On 31/01/2021 at 01:18, dudewheresmybass said:

    they’re very underrated as instruments, and unfortunately seem to have been easy targets for people that like to attack basses with chisels and stuff. 😳

     

    Haha- indeed.

    I notoriously took a jigsaw to a Track 4 bass and the equivalent guitar model to create a demountable double neck. This was sometime in the early 80s and unfortunately I have no photographic evidence of it whatsoever. In fact the topic came up with an old friend of mine recently and I’m afraid that I can’t even remember what happened to it/ them in the end. I only know that I no longer have them. 
    it was a good bass with that favourite pickup configuration of mine, the double P. 

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    Graphite (Steinberger vs Status)

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    6 hours ago, mark_ir said:

    Hi 
    I'm very interested in this Status one. Forgive me if you've been asked before, but can't see it..
    how does it compare? 
    I love the size and shape and practicality of Steinbergers, but just don't get on with the string spacing and neck profile to some extent. I love Status and have had a few, the necks are more me, though a smaller fretboard radius would nail it. This hybrid really appeals. 
    Did Rob take much convincing? :) 
    Intrigued if there's much difference sound     wise, which pre amp is in there and where the strap attaches - boomerang or other arrangement? 

    cheers 

    Mark

    PS the L2 in the Facebook group post mentioned on P6 of this thread is still for sale :) 

    Well, it's definitely more Status than Steinberger in character. How much of that is down to construction and how much to pickups I don't know. The Steinberger L series basses are very punchy and warm and the Status is I would say, a bit more "polite" sounding. Closer to an XL2 than an L2 if you've had experience of both. That said, it sounds great and a guitarist friend of mine who I work with a lot tells me it's his favourite out of all my basses.

    It came from Status with a 2 band EQ preamp but I have changed that for an ACG/John East filter based pre.

    It also has a stealthy Roland Hex pickup on there for use with a Vbass unit or synths - pictures on this post Variax Bass Electronics in a Non Variax Bass - Page 3 - Bass Guitars - Basschat

    Rob supplied the bass without strap buttons as it was always my intention to fit a Steinberger pivot plate to it. I also had a spare fold out leg rest which I installed although I tend to just use the strap on my Steinies whether sitting or standing. You could certainly use an NS Boomerang if you don't like the way Hohners or Steinberger Spirit basses sit on the strap.

    It's a great bass really- ultra stable- the neck has a truss rod that I've never actually touched in the 14 years that I've had it.

    Rob was fine about doing the bass but this was pre Streamline days- when I enquired he mentioned that he had been thinking about doing a compact bodied model and I guess that's what then happened. If you're interested give him a call and ask - he and Dawn are very nice and super helpful.

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    Enfield

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    6 hours ago, Bigwan said:

    Aren't all carbon fiber basses/necks a skin over a core? Isn't the core usually a foam just to provide the base shape?

    No, not necessarily. Original Steinbergers were moulded in the traditional glass/ carbon fibre way. 
    A mould was first treated with a release agent and the gel coat was sprayed into it. Then carbon and glass fibres were layer in the mould in a very specific way and the phenolic fingerboard placed on top. The mould was then vacuum injected with the resin/ hardener mix. When that had all cured the neck or neck/ body was prised out of the mould. No wood or foam core.

    I could be wrong but I suspect that the original GMT Status basses ie the ones where you couldn’t see the carbon weave on the neck were the same. I think the German Basslab instruments had fully hollow necks. 
     

    So, many different construction methods.

    Joni Mitchell's albums ranked. Discuss

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    Late to this as usual- do all you guys not do anything else? 😀

    Joni fan since the 1970s here- my all time favourite artist.

    The Guardian falling into all the usual time-honoured traps with JM - a nostalgia for the "simpler" times when Joni was a west coast acoustic guitar playing singer songwriter in the mould of Dylan, James Taylor etc.

    My all time favourite Joni Album is... Chalkmark in a Rainstorm! Heresy, I know but it has everything - great storytelling, performances, collaborations, arrangements, production. 

    Truth is, whatever album Joni released over most of her career is likely to have been one of the best released in that year. An amazing career and portfolio of work.

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    Decent video editing software for Windows

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    4 hours ago, Dad3353 said:

    When I finally graduated up to an Atari colour screen, I did some POV images. A popular model was the Caterpillar (a series of coloured balls in line, really...). I slavishly typed in the coding, and set it off overnight. The following evening, it was supposed to be ready. OK for the Big Moment, I hit the space bar, and there it was..., in brilliant multi-colour on the screen... for half a second. In my precipitation I had neglected to firstly press the key combination to save the image; it was gone forever. :facepalm:
    I didn't have the heart to type it up and run it again; I went back to my monochrome screen and 68K programming. :(

    ...

    :lol:

    Oh god- POV! I had totally forgotten that horror story. Now I'm having flashbacks!

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    Decent video editing software for Windows

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    8 hours ago, BigRedX said:

    I think we've all become complacent about the power of modern technology.

    In the mid 90s I was doing quite a bit of (static) 3D work. It was not uncommon for render times for a single image that was suitable to be printed on an A3 poster to be measured in days - and that's if the computer didn't crash mid-way through the process. 

    Me too- mainly arcviz stills and animations. We had a wee render farm of half a dozen high spec (for the time) PCs and they would all have to run overnight to provide a 30 second clip at the huge TV resolution of 768*576! Usually when you came in in the morning and checked it, you would have forgotten to switch some object on for the render and it would all have to be done over again- how we laughed!

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