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1 hour ago, WinterMute said:

Anything that gets recommended or I stumble across gets some time in the Apple Music library, if it survives a week or so, it gets bought on CD and ripped to lossless in a Bluesound Vault 2 network player.

 

The 1500 or so CD's I've got are all in there and are playable round the house network. I've even digitised some old vinyl for SnG's. I compress the lossless files to AAC for the iPhone as it gets used in the car and on trains. 

 

I can't abide most streaming services, the only good one is Tidal, but the quality comes at a price for a service I wouldn't use that much.

You say ‘ripped in’? So does that rip and store as a standalone device?

19 minutes ago, Lw. said:

Worth noting here that the royalties calculated & paid out by the platforms isn't done on a per stream basis (despite what many high profile artists think), it's not even done on a per artist basis. Fair point though, the artists don't get much cash from streaming but it's a mess of the labels making. It's not just digital though, the whole industry is structured so that the artists receive the smallest share of the income. 

 

Speaking of messes - I've moved house three times with my CD collection in boxes, they're all just sat in the loft taking up space as I don't even have a CD player anymore! 

From what I remember, this has always been a complete shzit show. I remember some label guy once telling me that if a cd costs a tenner the band usually get less than a pound out of it. It’s probably worse than that now.

I’m not all that worried about this anyway tbh, most of the bands I listen to are either dead or that rich I think they’ll be fine. I’ve also bought some of their albums more than once on various formats already.If there’s something new I like, I’ll put my hand in my pocket.

I’m even more unsure now than at the start of this thread. I was honestly expecting it to be a lot more one sided towards streaming.

24 minutes ago, Lw. said:

Spotify for most things for me, if I decide I really like an album I'll then go & buy it on vinyl. 

Given the price of new vinyl these days, I very rarely buy without listening to the album a few times first to confirm it's worth it. 

I do occasionally pop into the local record stores and buy used records without pre-listening though, good way to burn through an hour of the weekend. 

I own some vinyl and the player, but at this point I’m pretty much ruling out a large vinyl collection because of the price. I like vinyl mainly for the artwork tbh. 
 

If I had to subscribe for music for the rest of my life it would cost me about 4 grand or something near. I reckon I could rack that up in LPs a lot sooner! No snazzy artwork though. 

25 minutes ago, BigRedX said:

If everything you want to listen to is on one of the streaming services then you are probably best sticking with that. 

 

However at least a quarter of my record and CD collection still hasn't made to any streaming service, and that includes a lot of albums and songs that I would consider indispensable for my listening enjoyment. You could consider the combo of Apple Music and iTunes on your computer because that way you can also make the contents of your iTunes library available to stream for you via Apple Music which gets around the problem of ant essential tunes being missing.

 

This is what I have done, my complete CD collection (around 2500 CDs and most of my vinyl) has been digitised at 16bit 44.1Hz on a 4TB SSD attached to a Mac and then made available to stream to my Apple Music account.

If I was going to go for a subscription Apple would *probably* be what I’d go for. I do own some stuff on iTunes - not enough to really tie me to it, but it’s enough to make me think I’d probably stay with Apple.

At this point I don’t really own much in the way of CDs, vinyl or digital though - more like an assortment of them all - so it would be almost like starting from scratch. The only thing I would need to buy hardware wise would be a Bluetooth receiver so I could use my half decent old amp and speakers. That’s also something else I need to consider; some of this gear is from the 90s and won’t last forever, if it packs up is it worth replacing considering some of it (CD player mainly) is considered ‘old tech’?

How does everyone listen to music these days? I’m coming to the end of a discounted period of Amazon’s Music unlimited. It’s been fine while I’ve had it, but I’m not sure I want to pay for a full price music subscription - basically paying to own nothing - and have been thinking it’d be nice to build a collection of music back up. I’m pretty sure you could buy a ton of used CDs for the cost of a years Amazon or Apple Music. Am I just living in the past and should I just suck it up and pay for a subscription?! I have been using it on my phone on the way to work and stuff, but there’s always YouTube etc.

I Want to be Straight - Ian Dury & The Blockheads.

I fitted a Badass II to my Fender Jazz some years ago. No problems whatsoever, it’s pretty much the easiest upgrade I’ve done. Been fine ever since.

Brilliant, sorted (kind of). I’ve at least narrowed it down to some pickup/pole piece noise now. That’s a job for another day.

I’ve been getting a lot of noise from my Precision, so this morning I decided to shield it. I’ve covered the cavity in copper tape and attached a strip from the cavity to under the pickguard which is also shielded. It’s all one cavity, no separate PU cavity. I’ve also checked the bridge wire and added a bit of tape. It doesn’t seems to have made much difference. Do I need a wire going from the ground on the jack socket to the cavity? Or the bridge to the cavity? I’ve done all this once on a different bass and can’t remember exactly what I did.

2 hours ago, ped said:

 

I think the 80ohm are a nice balance between flattering the sound without going too far, and they have a really wide soundstage so they're excellent for playing bass along to a track. It never sounds crowded.

They also do a very good job of bringing out every pop, crackle and scratch on my old soul 7 inchers 😂. But yeah, they sound really well balanced for most uses including casual listening.

19 minutes ago, Bolo said:

The DT770 pros are excellent, widely used headphones.  Buy with confidence. The 250 Ohm are the standard unless you plan to use mainly portable devices, then get the 80 Ohm version that is a little easier to drive. The 250 sounds a bit better.

That’s what I went for in the end (80 Ohm) 👍. Seem pretty decent across the board so far.

Maybe some kind of bicycle wall mount would work (hung sideways, not upright)?

19 hours ago, bartelby said:

some Siouxsie & the Banshees...

That’s one of my favourite covers.

I would’ve had that, Bought the same model in tidepool blue though a few weeks back. Really nice basses, much nicer than the old MiM models.

I had a 70s Fender Jazz in the 90s - sold it.

Had a Stingray - sold it.

Had a Spector Euro LX- sold it.

Had a Squier P I bought used for 70 quid - sold it. 
 

The only one I actually miss? The Squier. It was the one I expected nothing from, so felt like I got the most out of (I also really like P basses tbf).

If I had any of the others land in my lap I’d probably wind up selling them all over again.

Sometimes the hunt is better than the catch. 

5 hours ago, MothMan said:

Otyken - Legend

 

 

Well that’s certainly different! 

1 hour ago, Richard R said:

Welcome aboard! 

Where are you based?

Oops, forgot about that - Sheffield.

2 hours ago, iconic said:

As above. There's lot of things going on to give it that tone, flats, the windings/wire thickness on the pups, producing a darker sounds etc. 

 

Not mentioned do often so often, are recording techniques regarding the sound mix on older 50s and 60s records. 

 

Most were mixed very light on bass as it tended to make needles skip...lest we forget in our digital age. 

Interesting. That probably helped the bass stay audible on the radios etc of the time (as someone else noted above).

49 minutes ago, Steve Browning said:

I'm not aware any bass lines were written for him.

I’m guessing this is the exception rather than the rule though. And it doesn’t really matter either way considering the rest of his work: