rwillett

If you have a design, I’ll print it

Due to a major cockup from me, I managed to pull the cardboard side off a new 1Kg reel of black PETG filament. Never done that before. Bloody cardboard reels from Overture. This means I have a 1KG reel that I need to use pretty quickly. Trying to despool it and spool to a new empty reel is really difficult so thats out as an option. Tried that and it just doesn't work and tangles up. I need to print things with it or it will get tangled up and I'll just have to throw it away. So if anybody needs anything printed in black PETG and needs it in the next few days, I'll happily do it for nothing, just pay the postage. Size is fairly immaterial but the bigger the better. I hate to waste filamant, it was my last roll of black and I'll buy some more, but its annoying to throw it away. Rob

Due to a major cockup from me, I managed to pull the cardboard side off a new 1Kg reel of black PETG filament. Never done that before. Bloody cardboard reels from Overture. This means I have a 1KG reel that I need to use pretty quickly. Trying to despool it and spool to a new empty reel is really difficult so thats out as an option. Tried that and it just doesn't work and tangles up. I need to print things with it or it will get tangled up and I'll just have to throw it away. It's currently on a lazy susan on my laser printer whilst I print some ears for @alexjbassist The water bottle is full of water to weigh the reel down so as the printer pulls filament in, the lazy susan spins and the reel isn't pulled off. Not bad for 3 mins of panic even if I do say so myself. So if anybody needs anything printed in black PETG and needs it in the next few days, I'll happily do it for nothing, just pay the postage. Size is fairly immaterial but the bigger the better I hate to waste filamant, it was my last roll and I'll buy some more, but its annoying to throw it away. Rob

All ordered. Managed to buy from Thomann without adding in a guitar or indeed anything else, though sorely tempted by their Rickenbacker look-a-likes.

Rush / Closer to the Heart

Given the way my kids are behaving at the problem, I'm very happy to swap both of them for a broken Squier bass with two strings and no fretboard. Rob

@Reggaebass That's as good a reason as any. If you ever want to offload any, more than happy to help you I don't charge for my services. Rob

It's gone to a good home if that makes it any better...

This is the essential argument for art. Why is the Mona Lisa worth circa $900M? Why is a Ferrari 250GTO worth $60M? Why is Christian Ronaldo worth $200M to play in a Saudi football team? Why is a NHS nurse only worth £30K per annum? I know which is the most important to me. The classic economic theory is a scarce resource and more people wanting it (who have a lot of money) than demand to satisfy the need. I have a very small collection of old maps, I have a Booths poverty map of Greenwich, an old foldable map of London from 1829, one of Derbyshire from 1800 or so and a few others. I paid very little, even though they are scarce, other people don't seem to want them, so they are relatively cheap. Thats the same economic theory as above. Booths poverty maps have attracted a lot more attention recently and their price has gone up around 10x from what I paid. However I'm not going to be able to retire and buy and island by selling it. I paid £100 and it's worth around £1,200 now. Nice but not life changing. Rob

Nick was a great bloke to work with. Good comms and delighted to help him out with laptop.

That video is great, its a great track as well. My head is nodding and my feet are tapping. What more needs to be said. Rob

Head out south west from London to Winchester and start counting big houses, or head to Blackheath in SE London and count the houses around the common and in the Cator Estate. I lived in Greenwich for 15 or so years and coached minis rugby at Blackheath RUFC, the car park on a Sunday morning had a lot of very upmarket cars, I managed to bring the average price down with my 59 Skoda Octavia There are a lot of very, very wealthy people in London and surrounding areas. £2-£5M bonuses are not uncommon for the top. When you earn £750K + £2M bonus because you asset stripped a company, £20K for a bass is chump change.

Let me have a look at it when I get to work. If it’s simple enough I’ll do it for free. rob

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That's an excellent answer and why I come to Basschat. many thanks Rob

@BigRedX Thanks for taking the time to reply. I can also see a E205 with USB as well as the original one. https://www.thomann.de/gb/superlux_e205.htm https://www.thomann.de/gb/superlux_e205umkii.htm I would have throught that the USB one would be the one to have, would I be wrong here? I would assume I am wrong and the 48V is the to get I can also see the suspension units so thats OK. https://www.thomann.de/gb/superlux_hm56b_shockmount.htm A pop guard is no big deal. My <ahem> recording studio is my office. It's on the first floor and has a suspended wooden floor with business office tiles. My office isn't that large and isn't heavily damped, indeed I would say it's lots of hard reflective services and unlikely to change. Tripods and stands aren't a problem, I do astrophotography and have a range of different tripods from 10Kg loading up to 50Kg+. I can 3d print any fittings, Thanks Rob

@Burns-bass thanks for your kind offer. The Macbook is now going to a bass player in South Yorkshire. Just looked through my very large collection of cables and I cannot find a displayport to HDMI cable. Serial cables (including some home made special ones for various uses), parallel port, USB of various sorts, DVI to anything, VGA to anything, but can I find a Mac display port to HDMI. No! I Have a Mac DisplayPort to HDMI adaptor that I'll send, but if @Burns-bass doesn;t mind, can he send his cable as well. I'll DM him now. Thanks Rob

I'm looking for a recommendation for a microphone to do home vocal recording with Garageband and a Presonus Audiobox iTwo. This thread has some great examples, but most of them are a number of years old. What I know about vocal recordings could be written on a very small electron and still have space left over for it's mass and position in space. People have suggsted the Superlux E205 (https://www.thomann.de/gb/superlux_e205.htm). Am trying to avoid adding in a new guitar to justify shipping The price is OK, does this still stand as a recommendation these days? I can see that the Prosunus has a 48V button and their FAQ states this is for phantom power so am assuming that's OK. Is it? I hate assuming anything as I've conjured up the magic smoke too many times. My record for magic smoke is £25K when £25K was quite a lot more money than it is now. My boss was not amused but since he was there with me at the time, he couldn't say much and I kept my job. Beyond that I haven't a clue what to do. I haven't sung for probably 40+ years when I did have a rather nice voice as a kid and then things happened and I didn't have a nice voice <sniff>. I don't want to spend hundreds but £50-£100 is fine for a mike. Any help or advice greatfully received. Rob

Its now rebuilt with a fresh install of Mojave. Its absolutely fine as a desktop with an external monitor, keyboard and mouse. In fact if nobody wants it, it may well become that for me Thanks Rob

Now before you get too excited about this, the screen is busted. The cat walked across the mantelpiece and knocked a vase off and it landed on the Macbook Air lying on the floor and damaged the screen. The screen is completely unusable It is not in pieces, or physically broken into parts, see the picture. Gosh how we laughed when Sparkles knocked the vase off. Somewhat suprisingly you can drop kick a cat, I was as surprised as the cat as it's a rugby skill I never had before. However the Macbook Air works perfectly well when used with an external screen and the lid closed. I am just in the process of reformatting the disk so it's clean. It has two USB ports, so attach a keyboard and mouse a display port for video and I'll throw a display port to VGA adapter in for nothing as well. It does not have the PSU, that got lost in the move, it's a Magsafe adapter, from memory, a Magsafe 2 but not 100% sure. It doesn't work well with a KVM or at least my Tesmart 4 port HDMI KVM. It did with an older VGA based KVM. If any of this makes sense you know about mouse emulation on KVM for later versions of Windows and how Macs don't have it. It even has a case protector which is useless for stopping a vase landing on the open screen. Apart from that and the broken screen it's in decent nick. The cost and effort for a new screen is more than I want to bear. It runs Mojave and will have a newly installed version on. I'll set up a new admin user, probably imaginatively named "admin" with password "password". It's free to a good home. Not sure how I define good though. The only criteria is you do not expect me to support you getting this going (unless you are a charity or school or something and then I'll try), so unless you are a worthy organisation, you are on your own. If I wanted to spend lots of time getting it going, I'd fix it myself and flog it on eBay. You will need a power supply, £20 off Amazon, and a keyboard and mouse. Wifi works though. You'll need to plug a PSU in, open the lid to start it up. once its started up, close the lid (possiby before then) and the display automatically transfers to the external monitor. Pretty simple TBH. I'll even post for free in the UK, but would appreciate a voluntary donation to the North West Air Ambulance. I won't chase you on it, and it's whatever you can afford. They saved a member of my families life, so I'm always helping them raise money. Thanks Rob

What an interesting thread. I would have said it was fake based on the routing, it looks like I did it and was not what I would expect of an expensive guitar. Shows how little I know about Rickenbackers. Be interested in how this finishes. Always like learning new things. Thanks Rob

And the backup bass for that just in case

I don't even know what some of this stuff is, exotic animals, plants, alien creatures?

Fortunately you can always squeeze another double bass in a Hilbert Hotel without evicting any children even if the hotel is full. See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hilbert's_paradox_of_the_Grand_Hotel The solution here is to move into the Hilbert Hotel and you never have to worry about storage space again, so you can have an infinite number of basses, even double basses. You give me problems, I give you (philosophical) solutions. I remember doing this years ago when I was heavy into maths and I might have ingested too much of something before reading and it made perfect sense at the time. I've just looked at it again and it doesn't make quite as much sense now. Rob