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These are pretty good alternatives, in my experience (google paint can opener, available at places like B&Q for £1.50 or so, sometimes free

(looks around... waits for a moment when nobody is listening, just in case... but then remembers he's not in Glasgow so it's probably safe ) Scots are both stereotypes at the same time. Especially if drinking Buckfast.

The thing with the British is that you have two polar opposite stereotypes which have their element of truth even if exaggerated (as stereotypes usually are). On the one hand you have the polite, responsible and thoroughly nice and helpful type, and on the other you've got the hooligan type. Every country have all sorts of people, of course, but I think this duality is very... British. That's my personal impression, as a non-Brit who's lived in various countries. Not that it means much, as it's a very broad generalisation.

Hogwash indeed. It was Bill Gates' microchips distributed in the vaccines finally being activated through 5G. I could tell you how I know but I closed the YouTube tab and I can't find it again. It's probably been taken down by our overlords.

This pseudo stream of consciousness is getting really hard to understand... over and out

Good choice. I like the Seymour Duncan SMB4A but it's not a faithful copy, it's definitely a more 'modern' take. The Nordstrand MM4.2 is as close as I ever hear a pickup get to an original MusicMan.

That's most likely because, as said earlier, the original master was made for vinyl and it wasn't processed as well as it could have been when transforming it to CD media. When CDs started to become popular there were a lot of albums reissued quickly on CD, and many were very poor by comparison. Then they'd be 'remasters' etc but it would be up to the people doing the remaster to make it sound one way or another. As @BigRedX was hinting, unless you know how the original source sounded, comparing a vinyl to a CD version doesn't really tell you much about how the different media compared.

The neodymium ones certainly, I'm not sure about the other (ceramic?) ones. I like the neodymium ones, but they're not the best match for 'vintagey' traditional Precision sounds.

whoa, those Kali L6 look fantastic, if they sound anywhere as nice... hmmm. I bought a set of Presonus E4.5BT not long ago. My needs are basic and I didn't want to spend too much. They were about £170-180 for the pair and I liked having the bluetooth built-in, although I have a couple of nice bluetooth receivers I could use with any monitor. My first impression was not fantastic. They're a bit shy on the low end, as I expected based on the specs, but it was still a bit of a shock. They had a lot more clarity than the cheap speakers I was using before, but I found them I bit tiring to listen to. They do the monitor job reasonably well, I can hear details I could not with my older 'pleasant' speakers, at least as well as you can expect for the price (whenever I hear monitors I like, their price tag is scary... I seem to have expensive taste and I just cannot justify that investment), so that's ok, but for normal listening I found that I needed to apply some EQ to boost the low end and tame some of the mids... and then all is good. I use a little EQ app with presets etc, and I just turn it off when I want to pay attention to a mix, otherwise it stays on.

I'd love to have as much time as you do

Thank you for all the very useful information Unfortunately changing the lighting is not practical at the moment.

I seem to have noise issues in my new place, which is annoying for recording. It's the kind of noise you often get when there are dimmers or fluorescent lighting, and I have both nearby in the house so that's likely what it is. I see 'power conditioners' that claim to help with this... Has anybody got any good results that way? Stuff like this (although I'd prefer something where you just plug the standard UK plug at the back): https://www.amazon.co.uk/Way-IEC-Power-Conditioner-Filter-Black/dp/B01N8U252T/ref=sr_1_4?adgrpid=54831262698&dchild=1&gclid=Cj0KCQjw3duCBhCAARIsAJeFyPVtKYzW8nUJ9DB-X_gPfwifNvoJPK87OTcn__BLUkzlQMr7u7Oe_3saAs35EALw_wcB&hvadid=259038328311&hvdev=c&hvlocphy=9046891&hvnetw=g&hvqmt=e&hvrand=12099201200206595915&hvtargid=kwd-11463301&hydadcr=28152_1724844&keywords=power+conditioner&qid=1616332497&sr=8-4 If something like that does the trick (the description suggests it does) it's not expensive, but I see others that cost 10x more, so... I'm not sure.

Thank you, that sounds just right. It's not a big issue normally (stereo) but sometimes I do wish I could. If you get a chance to verify whether the switch means one USB can be used for powering it and another for data that would very really useful, thank you again not a big deal, but it would streamline my connections somewhat.

I hope he's ok. I don't know him personally but we exchanged a few messages when I wanted my MB-5 ones and he came across as a good guy. There was a small imperfection in one of mine (on the material used itself, not on the duplication/cutting) and he sent me another one straight away without even waiting for me to send him pictures or anything.

The UR22C interface looks cool, I have considered getting one as it looks like it *might* be able to work with two condenser microphones, for stereo recording: can it do that? Also, I see there's a switch in the back to choose whether the power comes via USB-C or microUSB. Can that be used so that it's powered via say microUSB and use USB-C for data transfer between the interface and laptop/tablet?

+1 My recordings are very basic demos to share with the band, so I'm not terribly concerned about sound quality, but I still try to make it sound balanced. The most important thing is to be familiar with how your speakers/headphones sound, I think. They all have their biases unless proper reference monitors (and even then, reference monitors are very useful to set a mix but you still want 'real life' speakers to check how it all translates in practice), but if you know how they sound when applied to music that sounds like the way you want to sound, you'll get close. I tend to have a few songs that I like how they sound and compare roughly what I record to them. When my mix doesn't sound too far off my 'reference songs' I call it a day. Also I find that generally if it sounds ok in the car, it sounds ok anywhere. But I'm not going for polished mixes, I have to say, although the rule is the same... just the amount of work you want to put on it.

Is that the cable with the splitter that allows you to hook it up to a charger while still being connected to the iPad? I use something like that and connect it to a stand alone power pack sometimes if I'm concerned about running out of juice.

I use some very basic powered monitors whose primary function was simply play music from my PC, nothing special. I only use headphones if using a microphone (I'm using a cheap nylon string guitar a lot these days, it sounds nicer with a microphone than using its built-in preamp).

well, if you MUST go pearloid 😛 How about black pearloid? (obviously it's your bass, so whatever you like... hey, I had a pink guitar once )

I had these, and didn't love them. I moved to the Audiotechnica ATH-M50X mentioned by the OP and I found them to be a LOT better both for sound and build.

Just not pearl, ugh... white is good, black better, no pickguard is nice too, but pearl? pass me the bucket please, I need to vomit. Almost as bad as gold hardware.

Please let us know when he tells you that he's got the PB-20 one

Ha! Three of mine are in that picture (5 string Stingray style MB-5 SBK) Great stuff about the PB-20, I want a black one (my girlfriend's bass) and it looks like I will not have to send the original anymore

Hi Andrew! Beautiful bass, I love that combination of blue/maple and how well colour coordinated it is with your printer

what @bertbass said: that will fix it.