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  1. Kiwi
    I had a V8 for a while. It sounded monstrous compared to my Shuttle 6's and 140w Burman heads. All enveloping throbbing bass and a top end which could be compressed and overdriven at will. I once threw a couple of 4x12 bass cabs under it and it shifted air like nothing else I have ever played.
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    Mooer make some great stuff. I have their Ocean Machine delay/reverb on my guitar pedal board. But that pedal doesn't have MIDI so it seems there is no clock sync available.
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    I have a couple of early Ibanez TSA5 combos which are 5w 5E3 based for 99 quid each. They sound very nice when at full voice, I had some nice comments from BC-ers when I brought them to the SE Bassbash in 2014. I also have a 50w Burman Pro501 combo and a 60w Fender Concert II (Rivera era) but they're a little too loud for home use.
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    @Quatschmacher does the sequencer on the C4 have a null option for each step? By that I mean the capacity for a step to be silenced in a pattern?
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    I have two F112 cabs from them and they are probably the last cabs I will ever own. Really great sound and very portable.
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    Still for sale? I'm interested...I actually have this bass as one of three on my bucket list because of the string spacing.
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    A great example of the great, writhing serpent of irony trying too hard and eating it's own tail. At which point I'd imagine much angst would be generated over being misunderstood and not appreciated. Cue: Flailing of teeth and much gnashing of fists. Mind you, if this was the late 70's I thought most amateur mod bands dressed like that anyway.
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    Jaco Pastorius

    Kiwi replied to a topic in General Discussion

    Of course these days 13 year old girls are on Youtube ripping away on Donna Lee and JP is considered a bit passe...as is Hendrix. But while they were both alive they were blowing everyone else out of the water in terms of both technique and creativity. Context is everything.
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    FFS, I went in for a replacement filling and after 2.5 hours came away with prep for two crowns (prepaid).  I hate it when events deviate from the plan.

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      prowla

      It's called upselling...

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      Kiwi

      Hah, I paid for them in 2016 because my back teeth are basically crumbling due to stress grinding in my sleep and very tall cusps.  It wasn't urgent work but since I was there and they had been paid for...urgh.

  10. Kiwi
    Special brew is for pussies. Baiju at 70% by vol is the nations choice of poison for formal occasions. It tastes like the angels' share from a homemade vodka experiment mixed with sake. Initially sweet and enticing but with a brutal, steel toe capped DM to the soft palette and a distinct after taste of scorched Nankang streetsteel radial. And the after taste hangs around like that lonely drunk bloke you met in Whetherspoons one evening, the one who decided that a jovial exchange of three sentences in the gents as you were both reaching for the paper towels at the same time meant you were going to be best mates forever in the bar.
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    Thank goodness for acid jazz which managed to cling on to the public consciousness for it's life until around 1996.
  12. Kiwi
    I don't know much about music, I just want something to Dad dance to. Actually there's also the factor of IP lawsuits, economic efficiency and levels of accessibility to music making technology. Lots more people are able to make music. There is less demand for recordings from record companies as more routes to publishing have become available. Record companies have streamlined their economic interests to reflect the reduction in demand for their product. Record companies also have better information on who is buying what and when. Where before everyone worshipped at the altar of creativity and novelty as being the key to success, now it's looks a song that is crafted within certain parameters, a certain look to the lead singer, and a whole load of slick and persistent marketing. Creativity doesn't matter that much to the record company's target demographic (which seems to have been tweenies for quite some time)...so one could argue why even consider record companies as part of the creative side of things any more? Then add onto all of that the fact that song writers/artists are constantly under threat of being sued by anyone with a back catalogue and the remotest hope of establishing they had a significant influence over that song writer's process...which, arguably is impossible to avoid given the amount of back catalogue out there these days. Sure, these factors aren't going to stymie the most dedicated and persistent artist in itself but the business isn't as romantic and glamorous as it used to be. It's a bit of a wet blanket. Anyway, music today is shit. It all went to pot in the mid 90's.
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    I dated someone from the sun in 2013, sort of near where you are. Maybe you have met? I would tell you her name. It was a sort of dolphin scream followed by violent swinging between guttural clicks, whistling and gobbing but I can't find those sounds on my keyboard unfortunately.
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    Today I discovered Marc Cerrone.  One of the most influential disco drummers to have ever lived.  And I'm wondering how the hell had I not heard of him before now...he's a groove beast!

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    bargain
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    I have one too. Haven't actually played it yet owing to the small matter of 6,000 miles distance between us. I used to own a Trace V8 but it was too much for me in every way.
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    Like...a crossover for biamping?
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    FEA Labs Dual Band Compressor Limiter. I have one for the same reasons. https://www.fealabs.com/ It's great. Digitech did one too but I thought it was crap. Way too much colouring.
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    At risk of sounding conceited, noone influenced me in the beginning. It was a change out of convenience. I was a groove obsessed drummer but damaged my wrists playing volleyball at the age of 14. So I switched to the next grooviest instrument which was bass because it was a bit more complicated harmonically than drums. About 9 months later I took my first (and only) bass lessons from a brilliant teacher immediately after my birthday. Ironically my first lesson with him was the same week that Jaco died. He exposed me to Mark King, Flea, Stanley Clarke, Jaco (of course), Pino and Norman Watt Roy and it was an epiphany. The grooves on Level 42 Live at Wembley on VHS in particular blew my mind. Level 42 were never the same after the original members split (as much as I idolise Alan Murphy now).
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    Petrol power? Luxury! When I were a lad, we didn't have basses, we had fence posts and no.8 fence wire which we plucked w' our teeth! Our families had to press their ears against the ground to hear us.
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    Thank God I can't afford it.
  22. Kiwi
    Just be aware that the firmware update won't install v3 patches, you will need to do that after downloading the patch files and saving them via the editor in a separate process. Chrome apparently installs firmware and patches at once like the editor used to do.
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    Yes, absolutely no issues at all.
  24. Kiwi
    I use the most basic, cheap USB to MIDI cable and have no problems with connections. https://www.amazon.com/VicTsing-Cable-Converter-Keyboard-Adapter/dp/B00ACGMOA6
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    I was speaking in context of my pedalboard aspirations and needs. Perhaps i didn't make the context clear enough.
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