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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.

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    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.
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    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!

  10. Kiwi
    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.
  12. Kiwi
    Like...a crossover for biamping?
  13. Kiwi
    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.
  17. 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.
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    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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    Yes that's sort of the direction I was hoping it might go in. The ability to route different voices to either one of the output sockets could be handy too - could even make the Future Impact redundant. MIDI connectivity is still a bit of an issue though, without that Disaster Area USB/MIDI interface. Speaking of connectivity, I managed to clock sync the Moment Machine with the Adrenalinn III today. For some reason they were getting on with each other today while they weren't yesterday. So I can adjust tap tempo on the Adrenalinn regardless of audio connections and within about a second maybe two, the Moment Machine adjusts to match. I haven't yet tried to check how well they sound together. Maybe tomorrow if I have a chance. Tom from Cooper FX also replied to an email I sent asking about how to confirm the Moment Machine was sync'd. He mentioned that the BPM display goes blank but needed more information. Before I replied, I discovered the tap tempo LED actually flashes in time. I also discovered the Adrenalinn's clock signal is generated by the drum machine function not by the tap tempo. There is a way of stopping the drum machine from making a sound but I would need to check whether this affects the clock signal also. The one thing that is becoming apparent is how little detail on how to use the deeper features in the user manuals of both pedals.
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    I do want to use MIDI clock, the challenge seems to be connectivity when syncing tempo across all pedals. Like...how am I going to connect a USB port to a MIDI port... Change of subject, apparently there is a wet only mod available for the EHX Freeze from a company called Mimmotronics. https://mimmotronics.com/product/ehx-freeze/
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    Yes its definitely of interest. I'm just doing a bit of digging around to see how easy it might be to use as a pedal and how it handles tempo when there are no MIDI ports. Am I correct in understanding there are only 6 user defined presets available? The stacked voicings look particularly interesting if I can dedicate one sequencer exclusively to a voice. It looks like it might be able to do the Heartbreak bassline all by itself if that is possible.
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    So looking at the user manuals for both, the Moment Machine's MIDI port is input only. The Adrenalinn III has both in and out MIDI. So I set the MIDI clock setting in the Adrenalinn to send (out) and the Moment Machine to recieve (MIDI). Any joy..? No. The Adrenalinn is sending a clock signal as it's possible to test by setting up a clock sync feedback loop by connecting the MIDI in and MIDI out together. So something is up with the Moment Machine.
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    I woke up this morning with a bit of a plan - put the Adrenalinn III after the Moment Machine and clock sync them to each other (assuming one can send clock sync messages) then use the Adrenalinn's envelope filter to slice whatever is coming out of the Moment Machine. So long as they are in sync there is no need for the Adrenalinn to be velocity sensitive. So I gave it a go - just proof of concept at this stage without tempo sync as I was impatient. You'll see in the video, I start with the FI using the editor to trigger a patch. Then I engage the Moment Machine for 15 seconds or so, then the Adrenalinn III. It kind of works. But the Moment Machine and the Adrenalinn III are definitely working on a different tempo despite both being set to 120bpm and need syncing via MIDI. 20191015_093510.mp4
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