tauzero

I had an email from Steve Bailey telling me that the webinar is going to be edited and then will be available for viewing (you've probably all had it too). I find playing vibrato the proper fretless way very awkward, for some reason. I resist side to side vibrato when playing fretless but I really must work on it.

Aaaaand there's a bug fix to the firmware, 3.11 is now out but still uses HX Edit 3.10.

Not sure how I managed to break that URL, paul_5 has posted the correct version of it. I think all the ones who mentioned acoustic bass said they used flats on them. I may get some flats for the acoustic bass I never use. Also, Steve Bailey made the point that none of them mentioned damage to fretboards as anything to do with their decision of which string to use. If anyone tells me my playing is out, I'll just tell them it's village tuning.

Well, that was good. Some very interesting stuff, and a book to download and look at: https://ia803000.us.archive.org/24/items/nicolasslonimskythesaurusofscalesandmelodicpatterns/Nicolas Slonimsky - Thesaurus OfScales And Melodic Patterns.pdf

Just shows that your hearing is rubbish. Uneducated hearing, that's your problem.

I'm just going to say Jan Akkerman again. Classical guitar, lute, renaissance music, jazz, rock, prog rock (in Focus's case, jazz/classical/rock fusion), voted best guitarist in the world by Melody Maker readers in 1973.

His log has been in trouble with the mods. Or the mods' log has been in trouble with him.

Could be a bit understaffed then, their largest hub is a couple of miles up the road from me and a significant proportion of the workforce is (or was) Polish so they might have lost a lorra lorra staff after Brexit.

And when did the change to UPS from being good to not being good happen? I've always used them when sending instruments etc as they used to provide very good service.

Jan Akkerman. Prince? Don't make me laugh. Capable multi-instrumentalist, yes, greatest anything, no.

0:52. Must have been too paralysed to press the space bar.

I prefer mackerel.

He composed the soundtrack to my biking youth. The live version of "Paradise by the Dashboard Light" shown on the OGWT stuck in my head for ever.

So you're OK reading on alternate days then?

They were so crāp that most of them got thrown away, so they're very rare.

Are you saying Hellzero had a pea in the bed?

HX Edit and Stomp firmware v3.10 are now out.

I've got two Seis and a Hohner B2AV, and a MihaDo Fingybass. I've had a Status and a B2 before them. They're lighter than the equivalent headed bass, balance better (well, can you imagine how a headed B2 would balance?), and don't have dead spots. The only disadvantages are you can't use headstock-grabbing hangers or clip-on tuners. I intend to experiment with strap peg placement on the B2AV, I've seen an example where the strap peg was moved round from the back to the edge above the neck, equivalent to where it would be on a conventional instrument. Although I may not, as it's my back-up bass and I normally play sitting down anyway.

Yes, the energy is conserved. However, it's changed to a different form as the energy from string vibration is absorbed by making the wood flex, which in turn heats the wood up, thus converting vibratory energy to heat. The string is also vibrating in a magnetic field (as you have pointed out several times) and some of the energy in the string is transferred to the pickup windings in the form of electrical energy.

It's not the only variable. The player is also a variable. Do an experiment using a test rig which will hold a bass in a fixed position and pluck the strings in an identical position with identical force, altering the note played with a capo. That would be an experiment. I could hear some difference, except when he played slap when all four basses sounded identical. So tone is all about how you slap your wood.

Far canal.

That's barking mad.

Not a rhyme but a scansion issue. Tyrannosaurus Rex, "Child Star" - to make the lines "Debussy and Mendelssohn, Handel and Dvorak of old" fit, Marc Bolan sings "Dvorak" as "devorack". In "Ballrooms of Mars", he just gives up completely, apart from a desultory "stars/Mars" rhyme halfway through. "Telegram Sam" has "Sam/man" and "Slim/been" (in mitigation, he sings "been" as "bin").

I've finally got round to doing my own version. This uses 6 buttons and a 20 x 4 I2C display (much easier than messing around with 16 connectors). I've got the facility to change the selections on the screen but as yet I've just got one set of selections. I used a 5V Arduino Nano. Power supply is via a 9V socket, and I used a bridge rectifier to avoid any embarrassment about having the wrong polarity. There's two 220R resistors, one to the MIDI +5V and one to the MIDI Tx pin. All built on a bit of Vero, secured to the lid by 4 M3 spacers held on by J-B Weld. At first I had a problem with issuing multiple commands, but I realised that the Stomp would have to react to one before doing the next so I put a delay in. I found 100mS worked - I didn't bother experimenting further. This is the sketch: Stomp_switch_I2C.ino

Haven't you noticed who you're replying to?