Spike Vincent

On 20/05/2018 at 10:03, Cat Burrito said:

We played a Skinhead pub in Brockworth in '94 looking like below. The lowest point was when a bar stool was thrown at the band onstage.... so we did an encore! They offered what could only be described as a "carry to the car" service once we finished. Apparently the pub closed down in the late 90s.

Not the Flying Machine, by any chance ?

Anyone know more than I do about Vox V125 bass heads ? (Which is basically they're early 80's and heavy )

I 've just scrounged a non working one and was wondering if it's worth costing a repair or just use it as an ornament.

The E string, because that's the only one I use

And yes, I have bust one on stage

Audicity. It's free and makes a passable multi track studio as well.

Selling a Selmer Zodiac 100w valve amp to get an H +H VS Musician was not the best move.

How bad were the cables you replaced ?

Anything other than 4 in a row is confusing

Adam Clayton gave me a badge

I've only ever owned K + M ones.30 years of trouble free use so far.

I spent the early part of my musical career tuning up to " yeah that's close enough"

I miss my Granada.It was ace.

Or the alternative title, How Good are Your Speakers.

I have one.A proper one with the black painted finish, none of yer carpet nonsense. Can't say it gets out of the house much because there is a Ford Granada hiding inside it, at least that would explain the weight.







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I've done a lot of engineering in pub sized venues, and whilst it does depend on the drummer and the venue, my default setting is mic up kick and snare,Cymbals will generally cut through, and most pub audiences aren't bothered with frilly tom tom stuff being quieter . ( not my description...) Given time and space I will do hi hat and overhead as well, but the bare minimum is make sure the kick and snare can be heard.

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The compression thing is all to do with how the signal is processed to appeal to the market. This is totally independent of the reproduction method - except that the CD allows you to compress more and still be able to fit it it on a CD, whereas an LP cannot support that degree of compression.

If you copy an original vinyl to CD through half decent gear then you won't know the difference on play back, it will all be there, complete with surface noise and scratches.

The good news is that a half decent CD player costs a fraction of a half decent record deck, and the CD will still sound the same in 20 years time, whereas an LP won't (if you've played it at all).

An LP might sound good, or even better, according to taste, but to claim it's amore accurate reproduction is just silly.
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Spot on. "Sounds better" is personal perception

I have known a Theresa Green, a Richard Head and two Mike Hunts.

Having read the article, the phrase "Key market niche" is the important bit.Carry on listening to 19th century technology all you want, I'll continue to embrace the 21st century and record and listen to lossless digital and uncompressed CD's that don't require a 4 figure sum's worth of audio system to get the best out of and don't crackle and skip. Ahhh nostalgia.It's big business.

I just stand there and look terrified

I've just measured my Indonesian P Special and it's 60mm ?

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Now you can play Guess how old I am.

DR Black Beauties.Because they're black.

They're also very good strings

Yes.

Get a proper stand.One plummet to the floor and you won't have a Basstation any more.Not worth the risk.

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That's what I find too (in fact I joined because more and more things I wanted -info, photographs, etc- were shared through FB and not being there just made it unnecessarily harder, for no good reason in my opinion).
The idea of "a place for people with no real friends" is so laughable I won't even start especially when brought up at an internet forum like this one

FB seems to be whatever you want it to be. You're not obliged to start posting pictures of your breakfast or chat to anyone... I treat it as a public place, so nothing personal goes there, so I don't care about privacy settings. The main page where you get "suggestions" is as easy to ignore as a multitude of threads in Off-Topic here that I don't even touch

You don't need to behave like a 15 year old in heat just because you have an account and it makes it extremely easy to keep in touch with other musicians. We have a band FB page and we get a lot of invitations through it (via messenger)... I could stay away but I would certainly be missing out. Then again, I don't have a compulsive personality that makes me want to read everything possible on FB just because it's there.

Now I'm off, I still have 37 threads to catch up on here
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I was looking for the "Like" button for a moment..

No love for Facebook here then... Facebook is a useful tool for the independent musician.