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The guitarist I play with did exactly this. He's got sick and tired of PCs and uses an Zoom digital multitrack. Still makes great music. I used Ableton for quite a while and I know how you feel. It's very powerful but not in any direction I ever felt I needed. Now I use Reaper basically as a PC-based multi-track. I think you'll find it an awful lot easier to use than that Ableton malarkey !

Couldn't agree more. Fascination Street is a monstrous bassline. I pretty much taught myself to play bass by learning Cure stuff. Thanks for the vid - crackng playing there.

Sorry to hear that Stew, hope things are looking a bit more rosy soon.

IIRC you need to be in working in Arrangement View, not Session View for Ableton to act like a 4-track....I think. It's been a while !

Brilliant !

Great stuff. Thanks again for putting this quiz together @toneknob, proper headscratcher. (And props for getting Ms. Goodge in there !)

Very much so.

Robust exchanges ? Here ? Well I never

And Darkglass asking £300 for distortions !

Here's an idea for a fret leveling beam, not tried it myself (no space for saw tables in my shed !), but might be worth a try.

I'm with @NicoMcJ That's pretty darn impressive, given the circumstances.

I'm scared to ask how he plays the keys

Nowhere near as straightforward as the Reverb one, nice work ! Can't name them all, but here's what I can do. #4 is Deb Goodge with a First Act Delgada Bass (think that's what it's called) #5 is Geddy Lee with some flavour of Fender Jazz #7 is Pino Palladino with his hat-laying fretless Stingray #10 is Billy Sheehan with a two Yamaga Attutude basses that had an accident with some Araldite #13 is Stu Hamm, most likely a Fender Urge #14 is Jack Casady with one of his Epiohone signature basses. #15 is Chrus Wolstenholm with a Status that suffered a similar fate as Mr. Sheehan's basses, but someone dropped a Gameboy on it when the glue was wet.

Very nice indeed, but the fan frets are making my eyes wonky....a bit of false perspective going on. But it's a cool wonky !

Got all the guitarist ones too.

Mrs. Pook showed me this. It's brilliant.

Had this on my mental list but forgot 🤦‍♂️ Any good ?

No, I knew too. 15/15. No guesses (EDIT: Mrs. Pook, who doesn't play bass got 12 !)

Not the singing then ?

You look sexier too !

Me too, but dress it up like an 'artistic choice' like I did. Erm......this thing isn't on is it...?

Exactly. If you're putting your desires ahead of the song then you're not being a very good musicuan IMHO

Brilliant stuff !

Oh no, really ? That makes me sad.

Why are all the cooler-looking basses short scale ? No fair !