Dad3353

As long as one has a Macintosh. 

1 hour ago, Raslee said:

... 'i can tell times are hard gigging a Squier'...

Yes, I get the same sort of remark every time I go out in the Bentley. 'Strapped for cash, so sold the Roller and laid off the chauffeur, eh, old chap..? Here, have a cigar...' (I don't smoke, of course...) 

3 hours ago, Happy Jack said:

Different strokes for different folks. 

 

As an absolutely amateur DAW-user who mainly needs to mix live recordings taken in pubs & clubs the night before, I find it hard to imagine spending 20p on 3rd-party plug-ins, let alone £200. 

 

10 years ago I was happily publishing unmixed, unprocessed MP3s recorded with a Zoom H2 set on a shelf behind the bar at the pub. At the time, unbelievably, that was enough to put my covers band head & shoulders above the local pack. 😂

 

"That's a live, no-frills recording of us playing the Dog & Duck last week. That's exactly what we sound like. Book my band to play here, and what you hear is what you'll get."

 

I got a LOT of gigs like that.

 

All very different from how @BigRedX (and many others) use a DAW, and I get that.

 

It's worth bearing in mind that the OP (from 2017!) was not "the best DAW" or even "the right DAW for me"; it was "the best value DAW" and a product as good as Reaper that can be had for nothing, not a sausage, bugger all, represents value that simply can't be matched by any of the established high-end competitors. Even if you choose to buy a licence (as I did) you're still looking at a one-off £40 payment for a product that gets improved/fixed/updated quite literally every week.

 

 

^^ Word. 

1 minute ago, Dan Dare said:

If you're buying a bass for the sort of money custom shop instruments go for, you'd be foolish not to do an online lookup of the serial number before handing over the cash.

Only if one is bothered by it. If it's a nice instrument and worth paying to asking price, what difference does it make, unless it's for investment purposes, and needs to pander to a collector's market..? Whether it's the 'real deal' or not is only of interest to those looking at financial value, rather than (subjective...) quality for the Buyer. Either a thing is worth its price or it's not. 

1 hour ago, chyc said:

I doubt it's too difficult for someone skilled with the right tools. The tongue and groove parts interlock together so nicely I would hesitate to say you could do it with a jigsaw. The routed edges are very professionally done as is the rubber protective trim, but yeah there's nothing magical about it, and it isn't even plywood: it's MDF. If you didn't care for collapsability then absolutely it would make a nice project.

 

However, I do care about how small it is in the back of the car, and despite getting my hands dirty making BC112 and four BC110 speaker cabinets, if I were to lose my stool I'd probably still buy another one. The design of this along with the quality of the finish really is very nice.

It's all in the design, getting it to clip together as it does, and having a nice finish is a real bonus, so the shop cost doesn't seem excessive. If one was stuck for a stand, however, it looks like a promising way to go, as a 'one-off' private project. The folk that made that one certainly new what they were doing. I like it. 

10 minutes ago, chyc said:

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How hard would that be to make..? It's basically two identical sides, a front and back spreader and a top seat. Granted, that looks like a quality finish, at surely low production runs, but it's half a sheet of ply and some padding for the seat. Anyone with a band-saw could do that, I think. Is there a woodwork class at a nearby school or college..? T'would be a nice project, making something along those lines. Just a thought. 

40 minutes ago, rwillett said:

Let me know where you can find that please....

1 hour ago, BigRedX said:

... you shouldn't be altering how you play in order to satisfy the laws of physics.

Horn players have to anticipate their notes to compensate for the physics of air producing the sound. Most noticeable for the bassier stuff, such as tubas, sousaphones, bass trombones et el. 

I use a Sonuus i2m for recording MIDI tracks into my Reaper DAW. I'm not worried by delay, as I can shift the resulting track to line up with whatever else is there. It wouldn't do for real-time synchronising, such as you seem to want to do. A 'standard' audio interface (Focusrite and the like...) should give much better results. Keep the i2m solely for MIDI conversion when synchro is not an issue; it does a pretty good job for that. Hope this helps. 

39 minutes ago, Al Krow said:

I mean, should I be feeling quite so smug that my three choices (Jamerson, Entwistle and Geddy Lee) have all made it into the top 10? Or does it merely confirm what a boring / conventional bass player I am who needs to get out more? 😅

Yes. 

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Frivolous..? Good gracious, no..! I'd pop it straight into the savings account, awaiting a thunderbolt from the blue. Ha Ha..! Take that, Fate..!  

My first e-kit was simply for commodity, to have a practice kit to stay 'on form'.  I learned what was missing from my point of view, and upgraded, twice, until I got the e-kit that does what I want it to do. This involved adding a laptop and a screen, all in a flight case with an audio interface, so that it's a quality feed going to the PA, whilst I enjoy my perfect dosage in my wired iem's. We don't gig much nowadays, but I'd now rather take the e-kit out than dismember my acoustic kit, which stays in our micro-studio, semi-retired. We did a rare gig a few weeks ago, though, using the e-kit, and it worked perfectly. If I add up the cost of an e-kit such as mine, with the laptop, screen and software, it's still at least half, probably less still, than the cost of any equivalent acoustic kit, with decent cymbals. Far easier and quicker to set up, perfect volume at every gig, with the option of swapping drum sounds for every song, if required (I don't do this now, as I've set up a sound that works well with all our current repertoire, but I can dial in timpani, or steel drums, or even marimba if needed...). If it's only the 'look' that counts, count me out, as it's never been a concern; others may have a different opinion. Weird..? Maybe, to some, but, as a drummer, I'll take 'weird' if it means getting so many advantages.
There are a few things it does less well, such as brush swirls for light jazz numbers, or changing sticks mid-song for timpani mallets, but for most modern or classic pop-rock, it's all win, I say. One does need a decent PA, of course..! 

2 minutes ago, Lfalex v1.1 said:

... Also,  all the drums look the same! So there was a major disconnect when this diminutive unit (in the "wrong" place!) started sounding like a floor tom!...

It must have been a similar shock when the first players to use an electric bass turned up, leaving the Luddites drop-jawed when they realised that there was no 'bass fiddle'. The Stratocaster looked a little strange, too, when it started to replace the Dreadnought folk guitars everyone was using. It's just the wheel turning, s'all; it's all done with software on an iPad now, anyway, so even these new-fangled novelties are 'old hat'. One gets used to it all after a few generations. 

I'd vote for Jack Casady, Phil Lesh  and Ashley Hutchings, were they to appear on the list. 

Bert Weedon's Play in a Day ... Still relevant, after all this time... 

2 hours ago, Downunderwonder said:

... A drink that isn't left on top of an amp can never get spilled on the amp.

Oh, I dunno; where does this gobelet land..? 

21 minutes ago, nilorius said:

Some one - please don't take it personal, but what is it so bad with those small energy drinks ?

Energy Drink Consumption ...

Extract . Conclusion ...

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Energy drinks may show positive beneficial effects on exercise performance in various sport activities. However, while energy drinks might benefit performance, possible detrimental health problems have been documented, particularly amongst children and adolescents. Various parts of the body are negatively affected by energy drink consumption. Considering this fact and the increasing popularity of these drinks, caution should be exercised while consuming energy drinks. Overambitious marketing and non-scientific claims should be regulated by governments until independent studies confirm that that these products are safe.

Mmm... Tea...

53 minutes ago, BigRedX said:

... on the whole up to the late 80s sound quality at gigs was appalling compared with what even the lowliest of pub covers bands expects these days...

Steady on, there, old chap..! I attended a fair number of concerts 'back then', and my (admittedly failing...) memory and rose-tinted glasses tell a quite different story. There were some ropy events, but, on the whole, I'd say that the quality was there. Special mention for Jefferson Airplane/The Door at Chalk Farm's Roundhouse and the Godshill, Isle of Wight Festival, and a Traffic concert at Bracknell; there were dozens more, but those, at least, stand out. It's true that some venues were rather, shall we say, 'over loud' (The Ox, at Brunel University, and The Marquee, for instance...), but I didn't stay around too long in those cases. 

Classical orchestras (and soloists...) are still playing, 'live', the music of yesteryear by the likes of Mozart, Bach, Dvorak etc. Could we not consider this as being in the 'tribute' corner, and have 'tribute' bands playing stuff from Kiss, Abba or whoever..? T'would be a 'live' performance, at least, with the option of having 'real' interaction with the audience. Just a thought. 

6 minutes ago, jezzaboy said:

Thanks Dad, I thought as much. Need to find one that uses a cable that goes into the transmitter on the strap as I can`t stand those ones that go into the input with that big dongle like thing.

 

Off to Thomann!!

One like this, then..?

14 minutes ago, jezzaboy said:

...Would it cause any problems with the 2 of us using the same type of units on a gig?...

Yes, it would cause problems, as this unit has only one, fixed, frequency channel, so another would interfere. There are plenty of other systems available now that don't have this inconvenience, so you might be best advised to choose another. I can recommend SmoothHound; there are many others, at no higher cost than his AKG. Have a look at the Thomann range of products to see what's out there. Hope this helps.