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I find it both amusing and instructive to see the differing attitudes of folks to the notion of change. Some with a hyper-conservative attitude ('It wouldn't be the same...'), others welcoming the fresh approach brought by a relative stranger to the affair. No judgement here; both are legitimate, and perfectly respectable, but interesting just the same to imagine the differing personalities behind these reactions, highlighting the vast diversity of BC, and, to an extent, the population in general. A gold mine for the psychologists among us..! Just sayin'.

[quote name='ped' timestamp='1502960954' post='3354629'] I only use picture hosting sites for the 'throwaway' images used on forums etc... [/quote] Exactly. The hosting site has to fit one's personal needs; the 'features' must be those wanted; no more and no less. Imgbb is fine for 'one-off' picture posting, less friendly for archiving or 'cloud' storage. I'm more of a 'squirrel', so like to find things months or years later and re-use 'em, though, hence the use of albums.

[quote name='scrumpymike' timestamp='1502960204' post='3354620'] Happy Jack's a Basschatter-cum-poet (as we all may be but just don't know it) Any more want to try - make us laugh, make us cry? You can stick with the bass if you blow it. (I'll get me coat.) [/quote] That, sir, just goes to show That making rhyme's the way to go

The only downside I've found with Imgur is their chaotic, unreliable album arrangement; the pics just do what they want, it seems. The only downside I've found with Flickr is their verbose BBCode, which contains links back to their site which I don't want, so I strip 'em off by hand. Imgbb doesn't propose albums, so I don't use it, but at least it's simple to use, which is a Good Thing.

[quote name='bazztard' timestamp='1502941606' post='3354516'] very clever we jammed with acoustics and a cajon last night, no buggery at all [/quote] [quote name='SICbass' timestamp='1502944513' post='3354520'] Oh come onnnnnn, not even a little? [/quote] [quote name='scrumpymike' timestamp='1502959715' post='3354610'] Not possible while you're playing the cajon (I know, I've tried ). [/quote] As Rupert Bear would say with glee It should be said with poetry

[quote name='scrumpymike' timestamp='1502920121' post='3354453'] Your cajon/champion rhyme is much appreciated. [/quote] Hmm... When composing a post for this topic T'would be best to become philanthropic One could take greater pains Just by using one's brains Unless they are too microscopic

Good evening, Kev, and ... [sharedmedia=core:attachments:167528] Plenty to read and amuse you here, and lots to learn and share.

[quote name='Mykesbass' timestamp='1502910624' post='3354366'] Just misread composting... [/quote] That's the Gardening thread.

Good evening, BBB, and ... [sharedmedia=core:attachments:167528] Plenty to read and amuse you here, and lots to learn and share.

[quote name='TheGreek' timestamp='1502883978' post='3354141'] You're missing out on one of the best things on this forum... [/quote] That, and the excellent bargains to be had in the Marketplace section. Oh, and, of course there's 'Bad Jokes'. Not forgetting the Basschat Composition Challenge. And the Gardening. And the football topic. (No, on second thoughts, skip that...) There are even some 'running jokes' that recur from TIM to TIM Soooooo much to enjoy...

[quote name='chris_b' timestamp='1502875504' post='3354047'] Just get a dep and everything is covered. A band should do all the gigs it can so cancelling everyone's gig just because one person can't do it is the least acceptable course of action in my book. [/quote] It's for the person that accepted the gig to get a dep, as it had already been made clear that the OP would not be available.

Time for new spectacles..? I use each month's Challenge picture as screen 'wallpaper'; this allows me to cogitate on the theme whenever I turn the PC on (which is often...). This morning (and for the second time..!), I tried to get rid of the fly that had landed on the screen, only to realise that it was not a fly, nor speck of dust, but a lone traveller crossing the scene on his camel..! D'oh..!

My 'phones are too cheap to be worth listing; I've taken a screenshot of the curve of the closest relative (Superlux 681...) which I'll try to emulate, and see if it sounds better to me. Too expensive for me, of course, but if I can get an approximation, it may improve things a little for me. The comparison from the 'on-line' sample was pretty effective.

[quote name='chrisanthony1211' timestamp='1502810570' post='3353694'] If I have several effects pedal which are centre negative, and one which is centre positive, am I able to use a polarity altering attachment on one of the cables and daisy chain the power or do I need a separate power supply for this? [/quote] A polarity reversing cable, such as this one ... [url="http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Keyboard-Guitar-Effect-Pedal-Power-Supply-Reverse-Polarity-Cable-Lead-5-5-x2-1mm-/142384068565?hash=item2126c077d5:g:hMkAAOSwrhBZGf2-"]Polarity Reverse Adaptor ...[/url] ... will do the job; just make sure to identify which pedal uses which power plug, so as not to mix 'em up, ever..! I can't think of any other downsides, as long as the tension (voltage...) is suitable. No need for a dedicated PSU for just one pedal.

[quote name='Bigwan' timestamp='1502795252' post='3353560'] £137!!! [/quote] Lots of folks have petite bassist daughters, it seems.

[quote name='ambient' timestamp='1502755736' post='3353346'] What I meant was that most bass lines are formed using notes from chord tones, which are derived from scales, as are guitar solos, melody lines etc........I may be wrong of course. [/quote] No, you're not wrong at all; that's exactly right. It is, however, equally possible to turn the telescope the other way around, play bass lines (one's own or other folk's creations...) and derive scales and chords and melodies from them. It's also perfectly possible to play along to a disk and never know what the notes are called, or their relations to each other. Not that this is the 'best' way, nor the quickest, but it's the way very many folks start out, and often enough turn later on to the more formal, or technical side (so much the better...). Starting out in one's bedroom, or a garage with one's buddies, and jamming away, making a racket, getting blisters, maybe even breaking a string or two... This is a perfectly legitimate activity for a budding musician. Some study alongside is good; some 'letting one's hair down' and enjoying the simplest of riffs for twenty minutes solid is good, too. Look at scales, certainly, but don't imagine that one [i]has [/i]to remember any of that to play the bass (or any other instrument, of course...) Just sayin'.

[quote name='ambient' timestamp='1502754304' post='3353341']... Scales are where it all comes from... [/quote] Maybe a rather pedantic point, but I'd suggest that it's the opposite: scales came about because of music folks were playing. It's perfectly legitimate, for some, to completely forego all formal knowledge of these mechanical constructions and still become virtuoso performers and skilled musicians. I wouldn't suggest for a moment that scales etc should [i]not [/i]be looked at and/or studied, but I consider it a blinkered view to say that they're the crux of the matter. Different folks have differing perspectives; one size does not fit all.

For the anecdote... Several years ago now we played a gig for a friend's village fête, in their modern village hall. Our sound man had set up recording from the console to a stereo disk; we were very pleased. The gig went off very well; we played our usual pretty good standard, so we were more than keen to listen back to the disk. Horror..! A mistake in the setting up had produced a very mushy (a technical term...), buried rendering; difficult for us to even recognise what song was what..! Darn it, a good opportunity wasted, or so we thought. Back home, our thinking was along the lines of 'we've nothing to lose'; we transferred to our DAW and gave the whole sorry track a dose of Ozone. Goodness knows how that stuff works, but the result was as good a take as we could have hoped for initially; we could even hear (all too clearly..!) the flubs (another technical term...) made on the bass intro to Karma Police. Nothing else needed much at all, just cutting up into bite-sized separate songs for commodity. It's now our pride and joy, being our first 'live' recording. I suspect that it's linked to witchcraft, or at the very least voodoo, to get such a result from the murky original we fed into it. It was worth the night spent on a dark hilltop beheading chickens. I'll see if I can dig up the tracks for comparison, all these years later... Now then, where did I put those shellac disks..? Hmm...

[quote name='T-Bay' timestamp='1502726550' post='3353142'] Great book but always a lot cheaper on eBay (I think I paid £11 last year) ... [/quote] ... but just make sure it's the spiral-bound version, for ease of use.

[quote name='louisthebass' timestamp='1502651579' post='3352725'] Get this: [url="https://www.amazon.co.uk/Hal-Leonard-Bass-Method-Complete/dp/0793563836"]https://www.amazon.c...e/dp/0793563836[/url] Best beginner bass method book ever - takes you from beginner through to intermediate standard. Vast majority of the book is notation & tab, but it also does get you started on the reading thing (if you want to go down that route) as well. [/quote] +1 for this bass method ^^. Maybe the best £20 you'll spend (get the spiral-back edition, which will lie flat on a table, or even (gasp..!) on a music stand..!). It's very progressive, has interesting enough pieces to play and goes through just about everything you're likely to ask, at your own pace. Recommended, even whilst going over Youtube videos and all. This method has the keys to bass playing that you're looking for.

[quote name='MoonBassAlpha' timestamp='1502713578' post='3353017']... Could I get any sound back out? Turns out that the little volume control that sets the click level in stand alone mode acts as a volume for the DAW when used as an audio interface. .. [/quote] Not strictly true; it's a 'Balance' control between listening to the interface direct input and listening to the DAW. When playing an instrument, you may want to not listen to the DAW (there could be a delay due to latency, for instance...), in which case you'd dial anti-clockwise to 'Direct'. To hear the result of your input [i]including [/i]any DAW treatment or tracks playing, you'd dial to 'DAW'. Anywhere in between is admissible, of course. Just sayin'; hope this helps.

A buddy of ours, running an events business, is from the '80s 'disco' era; his 'default' sound is based on the subs being audible for literally miles around. When he's doing the PA for our gigs, there's quite a lot of 'education' involved (difficult, and sometimes painful, as he's a very big chap..!). The ears of this generation of sound guys are not tuned to 'hifi' systems, but to festivals ending with a dub session, with hour after hour of DJ, or reggae. Typically, our fellow will arrive with three times too many subs for the occasion; that's just his way of thinking that the event will go down well. It usually does, too, but there's a fair bit of re-adjustment for our sets. It's an inheritance from the dark days of disco, I think, which has skewed their hearing and expectations of what constitutes 'good sound'.