tauzero

[quote name='molan' timestamp='1470750158' post='3108138'] I've met him 4 times and he was really friendly and totally unpretentious each time. [/quote] And I'm quite prepared to believe you too. My credulousness is going through the roof. Can anyone else who's met Adam Clayton come in with the casting vote please?

[quote name='NancyJohnson' timestamp='1470748950' post='3108128'] Mr Tauzero, thanks for the namecheck! Don't forget to put your hand up and tell teacher they've forgotten to give us homework as well. [/quote] That's OK. Saved me hunting down the link that someone asked for. [quote name='NancyJohnson' timestamp='1470748950' post='3108128'] Aah, Mr Clayton. My nemesis. As I've posted before, I don't think it's quite hate because that's something I would apply to root vegetables, moreover I simply don't like the guy and like his playing even less. You know, for the record, I met him just the once and he was thoroughly unpleasant, smug and arrogant. He just had this air of incredulity about him, akin to that of someone who had reached the giddy echelons of a given field without having a credible bone in their body to support where they'd got to. On the shoulders of giants. Which I suppose is where I came in. We do live in a world where we have a degree of freewill and comes with that the ability to like and dislike things, people, places. We also seem to live in a world where it seems it's OK to heap praise on things but it's bad to castigate, unless it's Nigel Farage I suppose. [/quote] Actually I may have been wrong - you may have said he had no musical ability. Can't remember now. Anyroadup, I happen to like U2 (for which I'm sure I will be hated) and he does the job for the music. I have no knowledge of him other than that, so you have the advantage of me there, and I'm quite prepared to believe you. Are you sure you mean "incredulity", as that seems to me to imply he couldn't quite believe he'd managed to get where he has, which runs counter to your other comments.

[quote name='neepheid' timestamp='1470746736' post='3108094'] Cool, I'm not famous enough to be a hate figure. [/quote] It's good to have an ambition.

Peavey Grind.

Peavey Grind.

[quote name='Big_Stu' timestamp='1470735945' post='3107979'] Got any links? can't say as I've seen it - especially on BC. [/quote] NancyJohnson described Adam Clayton as talentless about two days ago.

[quote name='BigRedX' timestamp='1470662821' post='3107433'] But what exactly is a bassist. The band [url="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chikinki"]Chikinki[/url] have a member who plays the bass parts on synth (and only bass parts and only on synth). Does he count? And would a Chapman Stick player who uses it simply for tapping chords and melodies and never ventures below the low E of a normal guitar count? [/quote] If the mods wouldn't throw it out of the "Basses for sale" section, it's a bass. How you use it defines whether you're a bassist. Other definitions are available. May contain nuts. Contents may have settled in transit. HTH, HAND.

a-ha on their first three albums (there's one track with a bassist credited). They used bass (as in the instrument) more and more in later albums. Gary Wright, in his solo career (Dream Weaver and following).

The petition cites the US rules, but looking at them, it seems all they say is that if you haven't reserved cabin luggage space for your instrument, you can take it as cabin luggage if it will fit on a first-come, first-served basis, and you should be able to buy a seat for it as long as it's lighter and no larger than the average American 10-year-old.

[quote name='Nicko' timestamp='1470659246' post='3107378'] Theres a tiered import duty as well, anything under £390 is free to import for personal use but its unlikley you'll save much on low end gear. If its value is between £390 and £630 you would pay 2.5% on the whole value, plus vat at 20%. [/quote] Where can you find this information? All I can see is import duty at 3.7% and VAT at 20%. It might be important as I'm going to New York, New York in October.

The way the wording has been amended means it is now self-contradictory. [color=#666666][font=Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif][size=3]Musical instruments should [/size][/font][/color][color=#666666][font=Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif][size=3]as far as possible[/size][/font][/color][color=#666666][font=Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif][size=3] be accepted as baggage within the passenger cabin and, where this is not possible, should [/size][/font][/color][color=#666666][font=Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif][size=3]where possible[/size][/font][/color][color=#666666][font=Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif][size=3] be carried under the appropriate conditions in the cargo compartment of the aircraft. [/size][/font][/color][color=#666666][font=Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif][size=3][b][i]In order to allow the passengers concerned to assess whether their instrument can be stored in the cabin, air carriers should inform them about the size of storage facilities.[/i][/b][/size][/font][/color] Removing the "as far as possible" means that it becomes mandatory, so they must be accepted as baggage within the passenger cabin, even when it's not possible. Except that then it says if it's not possible, they can be put into the hold. But in that case, why remove "as far as possible"? When we went to Munich, Easyjet told us how big the maximum cabin luggage size was. Opting not to saw the neck off my bass, I went for the hold luggage option instead, which was painless and damage-free. I don't know if I'd have been able to buy a seat for it, nor if we could have bought a seat for my bass and the guitarist's guitar to share. But the proposed amendment to the regulation doesn't say that the carrier must provide the ability to buy a seat for a musical instrument, nor even compel it to tell me whether it's OK to buy a seat for a musical instrument or not. Oh, and would I qualify for a reduced rate if my bass is less than 14 years old?

You could always just recombine the split signals with a small mixer and run them into your amp, if you're not bothered about sending to two separate cabs.

Mrs Zero and I intend to go out as a duo - that'll be one guitar and two vocals, for which I'll happily use the pair of Behringer B210Ds that I use as floor monitors with the band. About 400W. Four-piece band (which has the same requirements as a trio) - we've got a pair of SRM450 Mk IIs, so about 800-900W.

Yes, before I posted here I emailed them about it. They replied to say an upload failed and they were trying to get it sorted out - obviously they now have. Which is nice.

Gigs - I unplug when I'm not playing it, as I use a wireless and it's attached to my belt, not the strap. Rehearsals - I unplug if I take the bass off. I've got a switching jack plug on the lead I use for rehearsals for exactly that reason. Can't remember when I last changed the battery in the Sei, and if it should suddenly die on me, I can just pull my knob.

Although I'm GES, there is one very specific bass that, if it were to come up for sale (again), I would very definitely consider buying it.

Just went onto [url="http://www.stringbusters.com/"]stringbusters.com[/url] and it's all changed, from the slightly clunky but very usable old one with a string selection list down the left-hand side to a mass of little pictures of string packets, which when clicked just say "Item out of stock" when you're not even able to see any items to select. I can only hope that this is a temporary blip, otherwise they won't have any customers.

[quote name='crez5150' timestamp='1470392246' post='3105666'] Well to be fair we haven't increased prices over the past two years. Plus we are running a cash back promo on our most popular lines at the moment [/quote] Clever. The cash is worth less so it doesn't cost you as much.

What's all this nonsense about clapping in assembly anyway? We only clapped in assembly once a year, on prizegiving day. The rest of the time we were quiet and attentive, at least in the main. There were occasional disturbances when one of the giganotosauruses got loose.

[quote name='MoJo' timestamp='1470291064' post='3104728'] ...used a five string tuned to concert pitch in a band that is tuned down half a step? [/quote] Yes, regularly. The guitarist in one band had two guitars, one tuned standard and the other a semitone flat, and would swap between them. We did consistently do songs with one or the other, though, rather than him switching on a whim. I've played Dakota in three different keys now, Eb, E, and F. I'm depping for an old band in a couple of weeks and I can't remember which they do it in. Not that it really matters, put my fingers in the correct starting position, click Go, and go to sleep.

I used to use a GK 200MB - current equivalent is the GK MB150.

The way it would work would be significantly different to opto-compressors and light-controlled wah pedals. Those are used to provide a variable resistance in a signal path or a filter network, so don't themselves need to carry the signal. This is more akin to a MIDI opto-isolator (which is carrying digital information at 31kHz or so), except that the signal is analogue and not digital. You'd have a laser diode or LED at one end driven by the signal from the guitar. This points down a fibre cable to a photodiode. You then use the photodiode in a potential divider circuit (I should think) which will give an output voltage varying with the intensity of the light from the laser diode. This (allowing for all the distortions introduced by the laser diode and photodiode) is a replica of the signal output by the guitar.

[quote name='stingrayPete1977' timestamp='1470249804' post='3104510'] We know they are scumbags so partly yes and partly anyone who voted out. When they let murderers out of prison after 8 years when they categorically declare that they will kill the first person they see, and they do, it's fair to say the murderer is still to blame but so is the idiot that signed them out early imo. [/quote] Ah, we're getting somewhere then. I'll try and make myself clearer - Brexit and all the uncertainty about it caused a fall in the pound's value. This fall is insufficient (by a factor of two or three) to account for the entirety of a 30% price hike. Therefore, although Brexit is partly the problem, it's also being used as an excuse to profiteer.

[quote name='Earbrass' timestamp='1470053376' post='3102897'] Damn! I've forgotten what I came onto this thread for now. [/quote] What are you doing in my bathroom?

[quote name='4stringslow' timestamp='1470235023' post='3104365'] There are plenty of semiconductor devices that provide these functions. You can buy them online, eg [url="http://uk.rs-online.com/web/c/displays-optoelectronics/fibre-optic-components/fibre-optic-transmitters/"]http://uk.rs-online....c-transmitters/[/url] I'm not suggesting that any of those devices are suitable for this specific application as I've not checked the data sheets, but it gives an idea about how mainstream these sorts of components actually are, and have been for decades. [/quote] They're digital rather than analogue - it would require either transmitting and receiving devices having very linear responses, or for them to at least match, or some form of compensating circuitry at one or both ends to cope with the non-linearity. Come to think of it, I've got some laser diodes and photodiodes, maybe I could do some experimenting.