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same here with flute and trombone i find most of my tracks now have flute and bone in them somewhere, although i cant say with conviction people love my playing 🙉.... yet... but im working on it 😎

me Ar$e ! what sort of pish is this 🙂 if you pack in you will end up on the coutch watchin tv with the Missus 😞 do you really want that ? i would do ANYTHING than watch tv, and i would do ABSOLUTLY ANYTHING than sit and watch tv with her. Fu@k all that, im 58, as well as playing in a 80s tribute show, i write all the songs for my 8 piece funk band and record them all thats my love thang, and i cant imagine a world where i could not do this, i would hate it, im in my studio having a break right now typing this. get some recording gear, cheap now days, skol has done a great thred in the Recording section called BEGINNER'S GUIDE TO HOME RECORDING. Dont wast that good sound you have been striving to get, get it down, create if that does not convince you then this might.... creating songs and releasing them, dead easy nowdays, will be one of the only things you can leave here when your gone, your name will always be attached with them songs, you will never die, also to learn all them songs over the years you will have gained alot of skill and knowledge, you going to let all that just go ? years of work ? with nothing to show for it ? no reward ? NOTHING ? Naaarrrrrr, what a wast. If you have not tried then maybe think about writing, get some chunes out there and when you have done enough, you can decide if you want to surround your self with good players to play them live ! Because there is no Buzz on the planet like it. Packin in ?? me Ar$e. comone... chin up a tv bum ...or... a creative soul. Tonight matthew,, i am going to be............

i think this was a door opener for aspiring bass players and pros alike, and the fact most bass players have heard it, weather they like it or not matters not, i dont think he is over rated, his 16th funky fingerstyle is for me just killer, thats where id like to be. but not to be a copy, but just to have that feel under my fingers as and when its needed Bad solos ? iv said this once befor on here, but here it is again because its in the running here... i was playing in a rock covers band in the 80s and we played in a pub called the mersey clipper that was on corporation road in Birkenhead, a VERY scruffy rough little dive with the smallest stage on the planet , anyone remember that ? we use to go on after the stripper ( not joking), so half way through the set i did a bass solo and i use to ware dark sunglasses trying to look cool, half way through my bass solo one of the lenses fell out my crap sunglasses, i looked up and the whole place creased up. al never forget that, and the bass solo was crap too thinking about it 🙂 Moral of the story ??? dont go on stage with cheap sh!t sunglasses, you know its going to happen.....it will. it will... 🙂

got some tuners from chris. nothing was too much trouble, even sending me pics on how to reverse them, because a crayon has more brain cells than me, and i needed the step by step account on how to do it, which was perfect, arrived perfect, well packed, nice and quick post from germany thanks alot chris al be baaaaaack chris

old skool vibe cool metal rock the 80s rock the 90s too cool for skool pedel to the metal spandex hair and beer spandex carrot. ...................... haha sums up 90s rock bands, you could all even ware...... no, no, forget it, we dont want to go there again 🙂

i started a sort of modern cajun band and racked my head coming up with a name.. in the end came up with... "SlackJaw Hoboes" i love that name. its still sort of going.. was in another doing a mix of uptempo songs in a bastardised jazzy way with a girl singer... band name.... ? "Jazz slags" oh... and another that never really got off the ground, 5 of the members of a soul band i was in decided to fire ourselfs and left to do a smaller band and mix of stuff ...( or did we just sack the 3 brass players ?) so we were called "The Spud gun 5" 🙂 just go with what comes into your head, you can make it witty if wanted. could even make it age related, for ex, how many of you would get "Ernie's turbo milk cart" ?

and in that lays the biggest problem, "greed" fender if wanted could of taken a big chunk of the guitar pie early on and kept it stable, but, with cost cutting and making a great product as cheap as they can they cut their own throats, in that the quality went down so bad that even the japan ( respect to japan here by the way ) made better instruments for fender, and then to licence the mex ones out as well under the fender brand and flooding the market with ( what ever you want to call them) all it did was water down, thin out, spred out, cheaply globilise an iconic product, it was only a matter of time, greed and bad managerment just looking at the bonus at the end of the year. i still say fender produce the cheapest product at the higest price based on name, they give you a product that works great out of the box, ( some of the time) but if you really want to make it special you have to work on it and upgrade your self. fender should of stayed self contained, the legacy was given to them on a plate for gods sake, why could they not see that ? greed ! each to their own and all that.

"The music industry is weighted against artists, with even successful pop stars seeing "pitiful returns" from streaming, a committee of MPs has said. They are calling for a "complete reset" of the market, with musicians given a "fair share" of the £736.5 million that UK record labels earn from streaming. In a report, they said royalties should be split 50/50, instead of the current rate, where artists receive about 16%. The findings came after a six-month inquiry into music streaming. "While streaming has brought significant profits to the recorded music industry, the talent behind it - performers, songwriters and composers - are losing out," said Julian Knight, MP, who chairs parliament's Digital, Culture, Media and Sport (DCMS) committee. "Only a complete reset of streaming that enshrines in law their rights to a fair share of the earnings will do." full bbc report here https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-57838473

there is indeed and a great forum you can down load anything from the database with very good back up from boffins and designers some that worked on them at mackie http://www.d8bforum.com/phpBB3/index.php just looking at your rack ( if you will excuse the pun 🙂) im a bit of a rack junkie, what you using there ? i also have a rack but im getting sick if squeezing round the back to connect things up, so iv just about finished making one of these... so i can hard wire everything with patchbays on one side, will send photo when installed, at the mo its this....

agreed there is all that, , and also to add to that there is no midi recording either, there is midi sync but thats about it. its more about bringing it to peoples attention and giving a bit of insight into it as old tec, but i think as all old gear, its still very usable and sounds good, like all gear while it lasts. the small floppy disc thing was just to show how small the O/S program is, you can you usb emulators in place of course. and change the hard drives for flash cards if wanted, i hope it does not clap out on me as my work flow around it is almost a pleasure to use and iv got a good grasp how to use it which it would take me ages to learn another system or software as good, but i do have another one just incase. loads of studios now using them as software daw controllers so also quite adaptable, here you go

Was just reading nail soups post about needing more ram which prompted me to do this post just in case anyone is interested..... this is more about showing you what old tec can and cant do, and bring it to peoples attention as it seems not allot of people know about it, or forgotten about it, maybe on purpose haha, each to their own and all that. There is a system you can get quite cheapish now ( for what you are getting) which i have been using for 20+years, never crashes, it is old, but, still to this day its just amazing, i still don't think there is anything out there quite like it. For example, if i said there was a mixer and recorder system out there that can....... record 24 tracks at 24bit 44/96 at the same time all day and never crash ( in 20 years!) full on screen editing like cubase only easier the desk is 72 channels 8 bus 12 aux out and 12 aux internal with a mastering section every track has its own compressor gate, and range of EQs with full automation going through the desk into the recorder and back out from the recorder back to the desk and have top quality plugins running like..... Massenberg EQ drawmer ADX dynamics TC reverbs Mackie Reverbs and delays and FX Mackie vocal correction suit Antares autotune acuma final mix, mastering ( now owned by Trackion mastermix but not as good) Stereo and mono Delays RTA 31 graphics 5.1 cinema surround sound + a load more the desk is fully automated and i mean everything, in real time and records to the recorder 24 tracks via light pipe ( adat) The recorder, each track has 8 virtual tracks for other takes, thats 8x24 = 192 tracks for one song all on the screen at the same time, if wanted ! Also if wanted the desk can control your DAW be it cubase, logic, protools etc, with everything right in front of you on a desk, And everything listed above running ALL AT THE SAME TIME ! with no crashing, drivers or windows in sight, and all that runs with only... wait for it....... 256mb ram a 333mhz intel pent processor 120g and 32g hard drives the whole O/S on 3 floppy discs. Would you believe it ??? Probably not, yet this was available toward the end of the 90s ! yep, even then, all that was available, no idea how mackie did it, but, it is a great feat of electrical engineering even by today's standards The desk Is the Mackie D8B the recorder is the Mackie HDR 24 youtube them I run one D8B with two HDR recorders running into it, recording 48 tracks of wide open full bandwidth WAVS and i think it sounds great, with more than enough tools to use to get most jobs done ready for release. All sounds great and to be fair it still is, but... by todays standards there are a few draw backs. if they bother you, but nothing to do with the quality of the recording or wav stamping. 1, the recorder is like a digital tape recorder, you can not slow it down or speed it up, its set, you can alter the BPM but only as a time frame at the top for the markers, so the transport wont slow or speed up, this never once bothered me as all my songs start at a set BPM anyway and im happy with that. 2, on the recorder you cant flip wavs backward, or time stretch wavs, again iv never needed them, but would be nice to try, 3 on the recorder you can not create more tracks, they are set at 24 with 8 virtual tracks per track, so enough for the most. 4 if you want to take the wav files or songs from the recorder to your daw, or bouncing wavs or tracks over to your daw, you need to use a FTP link to your pc using an ip address, which i use all the time and find it no problem once set up, or you can just inport the wavs from the hard drive or just play them in to your daw via spdif out as there is no USB connection. or just backup to the caddy drive and use that drive in a one of them drive bays that usb connect to your pc or laptop, easy really. When these when came out they were... the desk about £15k + depending which plugins and options, Review here..https://www.soundonsound.com/reviews/mackie-d8b The recorder about £5k all in review here...https://www.soundonsound.com/reviews/mackie-hdr2496 So thats about £20.000.00 of usable stuff you can get today for ! about 700 if you scoot around, a great deal i think if your into this type of stuff. anyway, i just thought i would throw this out there, it could be an option for you if you wanted to look at something else. i know at least one other basschat member that is still using them, anyone else ? or if you want to know more, ask away.

Thats cool 🙂 we all need a flash point. mine was nils Landgren, loved that band, i was playing in a funk band doing more than a few of his songs you know how it is, you obsess and i ended up getting everything by him, and then when magnum Coltrane price joined as much as i envy Lars Danielsson as a top bass player that band then with magnum seem to spark something and i wanted to play trombone, must of just been seeping through all them years, plus my friend i was in the funk band with was a top bone player using wah wah and all sorts tom foolery. also the necessity of asking brass players to play on my tracks, in the end i just thought "how hard can it be, get a bone and find the notes" so i did, so i think thats where it all began with me, with nils,

just a thought from another post someone mentioned, it does seem quite a few bass players either started on trombone and went to bass or started on bass and went to trombone. i know a few on here play bone as well. for me i started on bass guitar and trombone came much later, of all i talk to who play bass and trombone it seems like a natural progression either way, it must be a low end kinship. i now love playing trombone, im nowhere near where i want to be im good enough to do all the parts on my songs, but i now do wish i had started earlier. For those who have thought about giving it a go, i would say do it, for the most im sure you will love it. so... how many of you play bone as well, and while we are at it how many have thought of giving it a go ?