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AI Jaco only needed three strings, that's why.

Why is it that AI can't count? So many generated images miss off tuners.

It’s not just images. It’s hoovering up all the content on the internet, including written content, music and images and regurgitating it. Plagiarism is, or should be, a moral outrage. We, as a society, are giving access of valuable material for free to tech companies who will then charge us to buy it back, repackaged and recontextualised. Mind you, this is the country where people will happily share their DNA with a company if they get some report that says they’re somehow related to a king etc. Anyone involved in the creative industries should hate and fear what AI is doing today - and could do in the future.

Anything off Fugazi - killer 80s tone and high up in the mix. Probably the rubbery, twisty main riff to Emerald Lies.

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AI isn’t smart, it just copies existing things - and the image libraries they are copying (like a regular google image search) mostly have copywrite held by someone else. Either a company or artist (imagine an image of Daffy Duck or David Hockney image) or owned by someone else (my holiday snaps of my kids meeting Daffy Duck at Disneyland or Tate gallery’s photo of a Hockney image) so while AI could make me look like Daffy Duck in a hockney photo - it has no right to the images it’s training itself on. which isn’t good.

That’s actually very good. cGPT has managed to recreate my video review set in pretty incredible detail, not to mention the great big muppet sat front and centre.

I taught guitar in schools for many years. Here's a few thoughts you may want to bear in mind Dunno about recent changes that might have taken place, but county music services used not to like working with kids under 7. That said, if the student is keen and the teacher/parent is prepared to put in the work (and be patient - a quality you will need in spades), I don't see why not. Just a few pointers if I may: 1. Start small - as in 1/4 size guitars. There's no point in giving her a guitar with a neck she can't get her fingers round, as it will likely kill her enthusiasm stone dead. 2. I would suggest nylon strung at this stage. (tbh I'm not sure you can even buy a 1/4 electric, and even if you can, chances are it'll be poor quality. Most small electrics I've come across have been absolute rubbish.) Then again, times have changed since I last taught, so things may have improved. 3. You'll need plenty of patience (did I say that already?). When you've been playing most of your life, it's very easy to forget that at 5, everything is new. Early progress is likely to be slow and painstaking, and most of the bad playing habits I've had to try and sort out over the years had been acquired early on. 4. If she can maintain interest, you might want to start looking for a tutor after a few months. As I said, a lot of tutors don't work with really young kids, but if you can find a good one who does, that would be worth considering. As always in such matters, this is all just my opinion based on my years of experience. Feel free to ignore any or all of it.

The subtle, non-confrontational approach then.....😁

If there was a demonstratable likeness to any Muppet character, one would have to argue one's case against a battery of highfaluting Disney lawyers with deep pockets. Whether one wins or not could be independent of the rights or wrongs of the case, just the finances engaged. Such is Justice in these realms.

If your ever in the USA (I don't know why you would want to be) hit me up.

I say to the drummer (always the same guy) "you're slowing down" (or speeding up).

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Quite the claim. I think you should tell us what band you are in. I'd be keen to see the best sounding band ever

Ah - the word muppet (I was thinking about the tech)... I hadn't realised it was that old, but the term, "marionette" + "puppet", was first used by Jim Henson in 1955. The point does bring up an interesting question, though: if the developers of the system don't code in the word "muppet" and the request is to "draw me like a puppet", where is the infringement?

Four... and three strings?

Having owned my XR18 for just over ten years, mixing from the side of the stage whilst playing, last night was a first for me as I went out as a sound guy, working for a mates band who had just bought their own XR18 (albeit v2). So before the gig, I created a new scene file on my XR with all the basic settings I could pre-gig (channel layout, hpf’s, global effects, stereo combinator etc and then took my Surface Go to the gig with the scene file loaded and simply transferred the scene to the their XR. I did update my firmware and X-Air Edit to the latest versions first so there were no difficulties between the v1 and v2 hardware and all worked perfectly. Being able to sit with a live band going for it really taught me a lot about my mix, particularly around eq’ing. Making space for each instrument is vital, and gating all those horrible open drum mics is essential to stop your whole mix becoming a mud bath. I really enjoyed the experience and the only complaint was they were too loud 😎 I also managed to multi-track record about 75% of the gig for them so will have fun over the coming days mixing that lot down. Interestingly, they were using a TP Link router with both 5GHz and 2.4GHz channels. I was using the 5GHz channel for the Surface Go, but my old 2012 MacBook that I was using as a back-up and to do the recording was connected on the 2.4GHz channel. The Surface Go suffered three drop outs over the course of the night whereas the MacBook stayed connected throughout the whole evening. The venue POS system was running on a 5GHz network albeit separate channel but I guess this was the culprit.

The term 'Muppet' is owned by Disney and/or Henson, and anything that resembles any Muppet character could be subject to litigation.

Not what I would choose for myself, but when you mentioned uncoloured power with good eq options this is what came to mind. I’ve only played with one once and it had a great, detailed sound.

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Living In A Box... ehhh, alrady done

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