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[quote name='skankdelvar' timestamp='1340198365' post='1700853'] Well, obviously I'd say [i]fewer[/i] than 20-30 years ago. For one thing, all those medium sized gigs are gone. Basically, live music is either Enormodrome gigs by dreadful old dinosaurs / simpering pop kids. Or it's a bunch of no hopers down the Frog and Dog. Nothing in the middle, see. In my day you could see name bands in 1000 cap venues. Where are they now, the likes of ... (cont p.94)[/quote] Yes but I think "your day" is longer ago than you realise, and the decline of these medium sized gigs started in the mid-80s when I was born! Way before the internet. I'm always ready to be proven wrong though, as I often am! [quote name='skankdelvar' timestamp='1340198365' post='1700853'] Less. Definitley less. The internet has helped thousands of musos to find interesting bands both new and old. And copy them. Cookie-cutter dross, these days. Play me any new band you like and I'll find you a clear precedent inside half an hour. Everyone's ghastly and everything's bollocks. [/quote] Again I think it's always been the case that the majority of music will not be particularly original. A lot of bands people think are original actually grew out of a "movement" or "scene" consistnig of several bands which all sound the same. If not, you can be sure some bands will follow and produce similar sounding stuff. This is always going to happen. I really don't think there's any rational argument to say that the internet has diminished the possibilities for "original" music. On the other hand, along with other technology, it has meant that a lot more bands can record and share their music than before, and obviously this means that the few actually good/original acts do have a chance of being heard. Compared to the tiny few who were picked up by the music industry in the past, I think it's obvious this is an improvement.

[quote name='skankdelvar' timestamp='1340196175' post='1700773'] Since the internet came in, are more bands touring or fewer? [/quote] I'd guess more, what would you guess? Anyone got any stats? [quote name='skankdelvar' timestamp='1340196175' post='1700773'] Is more good music being made or less?[/quote] MORE deffinitely more. I find new music through friends sharing music with me. They will find it in the same way or on straming services such as spotify or last FM. I like the project Piratebay have where they'll stick a new artist's torrent (with their permission) on the homepage to publicise it. There are plenty of grey areas here and I would never dare to suggest I have it sussed.

[quote name='BigRedX' timestamp='1340192144' post='1700650'] No but there's a difference between getting a single track from a band (in amongst a load of others) on a mix tape from a mate and downloading their entire recorded output because you're too cheap to pay for it. [/quote] Sure, there's a big difference. Personally, I download music ilegally in the following scenarios: The album is no longer available for purchase I want to hear a song/band and the streaming options available are sh*t quality. (here I would download and listen, if I don't like it I delete it, if I do I buy it - I equate this to streaming media services and maybe i'm wrong to do that) I feel quite comfortable with that but this debate is making me question myself. Certainly if any of my bands' albums were ilegally downloaded it would cost me the price of the album, but then no-one has ever listened to my bands and we're not selling any anyway. The "free publicity" would be welcome.

Copyright infringement is not always morally wrong in my opinion. For example, if my friend makes me a mix-tape, that doesn't seem morally wrong to me. Am i wrong?

[quote name='silddx' timestamp='1340184414' post='1700440'] There are many ways to hear music before you buy it without thieving it. Your illegal actions mean that loss has occurred. Just because that loss led to some gain does not make your illegal action right or good. If you beat the sh*t out of me and that inspires me to become a Karate black belt, I'm not going to thank you for beating the sh*t out of me, am I. [/quote] Well i'm certainly not going to start critiquing anyone's analogies... If you say "band A is selling song X for 50p, anyone who downloads song X and never buys a legal copy is depriving band A of 50p" - you can't argue with that. The pirates have deprived that act of 50p and there's no recompense. If that's as complicated as you're going to allow the debate to be, fair enough. Personally, I think it's a little more nuanced than that. My friend gave me a Ben & jason mix tape once and it was so good I wanted to get all of their albums. I would have bought them all too, but some are "out of print". If I ever see them in a 2nd hand shop I will buy them but I admit, I did download one of them illegally, and I'm very glad I did. It's amazing music and there's no other way for me to get it. when i was a kid we all used to make each other mix tapes. Were we *****?

So, have I got this right?.. If I download a song illegally, i'm a ****, even if i've contributed to that artist's income in other ways If I stream the same song legally, i'm a good guy.

Is the rec out just a stereo output? If so it's probably for outputting a full mix, and so should be after the faders - they should have an effect. It may have direct outputs or record outputs on each channel, which would be pre fader and not effected by the faders.

the limiter at the end of my chain is just limiting peaks. Of course I can still get a volume boost! I also have compression at the start of my chain.

I like to use a limiter all the time. I use them when mixing to control any peaks. In conjunction with removing the "very lows" (a la thumpinator) I find it gives me more headroom from my amp without any audible changes to my tone.

Hmmm, for me it wouldn't work. I like the idea of seperate channels and I do that to an extent, but I wouldn't want a clean delay mixed in with dirty bass for example. A 4 loop box, each loop with EQ on and an EQ on the output sounds like a very useful box though, i'm sure SFX would knock one up. also, you need a limiter on the output :-p

so are these four channels to be used independantly or will you be mixing them?

Are you deffinitely monitoring the main stereo outputs of the mixer?

well there's probably an input gain setting on the soundcard - could be a knob on the actual box or a setting in the software. If you're maxing it out then you'll have to add more gain in Audacity.

I never get compliments, just questions about my pedals

if I wanted something simple, i'd get a compressor and set it always on, but so that it just lightly touching the attacky peaks. Then, get an EQ pedal and set this to a mid boost before the compressor. Turn that on when you wanty to get fatter. Last time I gigged was with 12 pedals and I thought that was simple!

This is my dream pedal: 3 band dirt pedal. Band 1 is compression with attack, threshold, ratio, and crossover to band 2. Bands 2 and 3 are distortion which goes from grit to fuzz like a way huge red lama, with a crossover in between. These have level and "drive" controls, as well as the crossover between the two. What would make this a truly amazing pedal would be if you could add individual attack controls to the dirty bands... so that would be 11 knobs, probably a stupid idea

As a drummer... Hitting drums less hard yields a different sound from them. There's no denying that fact. However, a good drummer should be able to get a usable sound at any "level". One band I play in are quiet, and also very dynamic, so I use light sticks and sometimes hot rods, and I play with a lighter touch. I can't get the same beautiful wack out of my snare as when I play hard rim shots all the time with my rock band, but who cares?! It still sounds good.

that looks like a sh*t load of fun!

i want to try some new strings. I play 6 strings and like to have a nice heavy B string, at least 135. That sounds pretty specific to me, so i'd like to narrow my search down on strings direct by "bass strings" and "6 string sets" and then "order by guage" or maybe order by price or whatever. The only sub categories on this site seem to be based on brands rather than actual requirements, and the sorting function doesn't work. I'm finding it extremely frustrating! Am I using the site in the wrong way or is it just crap?

If you're the type of guy to regularly subject himself to jam-nights, you probably do think your clip-on looks cool! Sorry, just joking Dave, whatever works for you

[quote name='xgsjx' timestamp='1338392785' post='1673838'] I don't think a clip-on is as uncool as a strap-on! [/quote] well you could whip them off a lot quicker that's for sure

[quote name='Dave Vader' timestamp='1338388588' post='1673731'] Or a clip on tuner and a volume control on your bass *broken record* [/quote] I've not used a clip on tuner so I don't know about it's multitude of practical shortcomings, but I would imagine it makes your bass look less cool

yeh my (latest) bass will stay in tune for weeks of gentle practising, but as soon as I start really playing I will inevitably knock a string out. you need to be able to tune on mute at gigs, and that's why you need a tuner pedal!

he slammed the door on her hand?!? That's your mum! I would suggest several courses of action but this is a public section of the forum