stingrayPete1977

I have Musescore which does exactly what you want and I think its free!? In fact I think this was your recommendation Doddy when I posted a similar thread over a year ago?

Naughty

ha good point

Nice! how long did it take you?

[quote name='Jimryan' timestamp='1358094669' post='1932983'] I like it. Lets see how well it goes first, but aspiring to get it overseas? I love it :-p as long as I returns to get auctioned. Can any of the mods help out with sorting a white BC polo for this? [/quote] I was just thinking along the lines of someone who perhaps goes over anyway that could call in at a members gig/practice/studio film it sign it and bring it back or similar, we all travel with work and stuff so I bet someone gets over there, could ask Johnston, Doh!

I think any kind of musical venture should be included, some younger members might not do gigs as such but might be doing college or school shows etc, one of MiltyG's web shows would be cool, a studio session etc as long as its documented? Gives everyone a chance which will also generate more pounds

Be nice to get it over to Ireland and maybe some of the little islands too?

Pete Stingray - Stafford (Staffordshire obviously)

[quote name='steve-bbb' timestamp='1358092059' post='1932920'] bass clef wizard 1.3 seconds tremble with fear mortals [/quote] What were you doing making a brew between notes?

Thats it even after a couple of years since I started to try and read properly (I am still very much a novice) I return to this tool just to sharpen up the note positions on the staff in my head, used to take me ages to get a decent score, this time I got wizard on my first go and all the others until the .89 came out of the bag, I never dropped even to master for one but it did take about 10 goes to get the great wizard though which is less than 1 second btw. Have fun, next thing you know you are onto note durations then ties and slurs, triplets and 16th triplets and rests!

You say that but this is what got me started 2 years ago!

Just got my best ever score! [IMG]http://i997.photobucket.com/albums/af100/stingraypete/20130113_134005.jpg[/IMG] Give it a go if you have not before but be warned its [i]very[/i] addictive! [url="http://www.studybass.com/tools/bass-clef-notes/"]http://www.studybass.com/tools/bass-clef-notes/[/url]

[quote name='Jimryan' timestamp='1358071165' post='1932490'] I'll sort out a mock up of a wee set of rules later this afternoon and post them. Also, Can I at least choose the charity please? [/quote] I was going to suggest that as there will be too many suggestions, if anyone has a problem they can go and think of their own awesome idea

Good, that's too far to tempt me too

Sorted re the strings then mate, cool. What about anyone that uses it puts a pound in a jar (paypal or similar)?

I have a set of strings spare to get it started if you want them? As long as it passes by me on its way up

Where is it? I really should not be looking as I have no where to keep it and only been playing upright for a month

That bloody Framus cutaway keeps on popping into my mind! Where can I put it? haha

Back to Maplins tomorrow then! They must love me in there

That is good advice! After years of string swaps I am a bit wary on this big old beast. I dont sweat that much so I think the left hand area should be ok although the cheap ones have lost their shine already in the mainly played area, what about the rosin though will that make a mess of the bridge end of the strings?

They are in transit somewhere mate along with my bow from Yita music, strings should be on before next practice with the full band on thursday though, bow will be a while yet from china though What is the best way to keep them clean after playing?

Rufus Reid book has arrived, up to page 29 already! Lots to learn there though and it pretty much makes all the other books I was reading redundant too My wife said he looks like the Nutty Professor, see what I am dealing with?

[quote name='Phil Starr' timestamp='1358001512' post='1931639'] Amplifying electric guitar or bass is a matter of design philosophies and compromises. If you are amplifying double bass or an acoustic guitar then you are usually trying to get a 'natural' sound but there's nothing natural about amplified electric bass. All speaker design is a matter of compromise. For example you can have a speaker that goes deep, you can have a speaker that is efficient and you can have a speaker that goes loud but you can't have all three because they place different demands upon the voice coils, magnets and cones. I'll explain: To make a cabinet go deep you need to add weight to the cone and put in a long voice coil to get the extra movement. A heavy cone is harder to accelerate so the speaker is less efficient. The longer voice coil means most of it will be outside of the magnet gap and you lose more efficiency. To make a speaker more efficient you can make sure all the voice coil sits inside the magnet gap so all the electrical input is used, but as soon as you put a signal in it moves out of the gap and the speaker starts to compress and distort. the deeper the bass the more air you need to move so if you want to get efficiency this way you have to limit the bass response and the power you feed to the speaker. To get the cab to be loud enough you're going to use a lot of speakers or put up with bass being limited. The one positive thing you can do is to increase the size of the magnet, There's a limit to this though, partly because the cost gets to be extraordinary and also the weight becomes significant, Eventually you also have problems with saturation of the pole pieces and so it goes on. The advent of neodymium magnets has given us a bit more wriggle room and new opportunities but at significant cost. Designers like Barefaced have grasped the opportunities of new materials and cheap amplifier power. By using long throw speakers they can get more sound out of single drivers and they can get deeper bass without compression or exceeding the limits of speaker movement but the 'cost' is very good drivers, which are expensive, and long coils which are by their nature less efficient, This isn't a problem in a world where you can buy lots of watts for relatively little outlay. The big plus is a versatile sound and light weight. You could take a completely different design philosophy though. Since the whole sound of electric bass is artificial anyway then go for the distortion, embrace the 'natural sound' of 'under-powered' valve amps driven hard and the 'louder' sound of a short voice coil in a speaker with prominent peaks in the bass and mid-range. Valve amps are pricey so you are stuck with low watts or an overdraft but you can spend on extra speakers to give you more sound for your watts. You'll lose deep bass and your top end will be restricted by the problems of multiple drivers but you'll have the classic sound of rock and incidentally the look which 'modern' designs probably still don't quite achieve. These design philosophies are only two of the options though. BFM designs for example use horns to raise efficiency, which imposes a different set of compromises and there are other conventional designs which just set the compromises in different parts of the spectrum. [/quote] Thanks, thats a good reply I actually dont really like much colour to my sound so I am after clean volume hence the Genz gear (all shuttles not streamliners) and a range of their cabs which the 2x12T is along the lines of what you are talking about anyway afaik. Also I play Db through the various rigs so I am almost after a clean single channel pa system to myself, the 3.0 and 2x12 is about as close as I can afford and a popular choice amongst uprightists (? ) Thanks

Yes I am sure he has used them live too, Pink 5 string? He also uses P basses even on some Jamiroquai stuff and obviously did for the Mark Ronson stuff, I saw him

You purchased a cab with building a suitable lab to test it first?