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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.

This one has been a long time fav of mine. Made even better by Greg Philinganes' amazing Moog bass going briefly out of tune around 1:57! We Can Work It Out - Chaka Khan - YouTube

Liked that @WalMan- definitely shows it's lineage too. Good work!

I traditionally hate basses like this but even I like this one! Beautiful!

Keep going- stubbornness and persistence will get you there!

A few of my favourites already quoted but I always liked this one. At the time there were loads of rumours that it was McCartney under a pseudonym! Keeping the dream alive - Freiheit 1988 - YouTube

Nice one(s) @Happy Jack. Not sure if the upload to vimeo might have mangled your footage as well but as @EBS_freak says HD 1080p is a good target to aim for. If you shoot in 4k for example then you can crop and pan your shots whilst still retaining the target resolution in the output. Good work!

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.

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.

Never heard this before but it's absolutely right up my street! Thank you for posting. I checked out the Jones Girls original version and it's great too!

Couple of Belfast boys.

Very good, very clever, very funny- as you say, ace! Thanks for posting.

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

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!

Ah, Chris Rainbow/ Harley- an old pal of mine, sadly missed. He’d have been really chuffed to have been given a shout on a thread like this. Thanks.

I had this and it also managed to break my Arturia virtual instruments. Try Shotcut- much easier on the hardware.

The heavenly voice of Annie Haslam

Err... probably not! 😀

Never come across that before - brilliant- thank you!

Like them or loath them (and I know there's a bit of that around), that is the sound of people who really know what they are doing.

What's happened to the keyboard player/ singer?

These applications all work on the basis of overlaying. Unlike an audio mix where we hear a combination of all the tracks at once, in video we usually just see one of the available tracks. So if camera 1 is the main view, we add a track above it and pop camera 2, say on that. In the final render, if camera 2 has content (clips) all the way then that's all we will see. You need to go through and cut the camera 2 clip into the lengths (roughly) that you want and delete the bits you don't want. So in your case, pop the clip on a new track where you want it to show and trim off the end at the point where you want it to hide. Apologies if you know all that already but the little tutorial @wateroftyne posted shows exactly that process. I think at the start it can just be overwhelming and super frustrating.

With practise you'll soon be able to line tracks up very quickly. All ours have the same cues at the start - I find that I can just zoom into the waveforms and match them visually. A quick check and maybe a nudge a frame or two sees it done. I thought it would be a big hassle but it really hasn't turned out to be. The last one I did I had four separate tracks lined up with the audio mix in literally about 5 minutes.

Resolve managed to brick all my Arturia V-Collection instruments to the extent that I had to restore the complete machine from a backup. I liked the way it worked but found it to be a huge resource hog and quite flakey. Instead I've been doing the band lockdown videos on Shotcut. Free, light on requirements and versatile. Regularly updated as well. The vids are on a thread here so you can see some of what it can do. All footage mobile phones. Audio either DAW or Zoom H1 recorder assembled and mixed in Cubase before being brought into shotcut as a stereo mix.

It was already D.O.A.