BigRedX

Finally someone suitably bonkers but with the right amount of pop sensibility for the job. Or maybe he'll do a 3 minute 100 oscillator drone piece?

I would suspect "stereo" wiring so that each half of the split pickup can be routed to a different amp. The rest of it? Surely it's "mojo"?I

Thanks for taking the time to answer my questions. The lead times are one of the things that worry me. For your release it's currently 3 weeks for the CD and almost 6 weeks for vinyl, which seems somewhat excessive, when I consider that in the days when I used to do this myself at home for promo copies for my band, each CD took less than 30 minutes to produce and would have been even quicker if I had a separate printers for the on-body and the wallet. Maybe these long lead times are a result of the service being more popular than the company can comfortably deal with? I had a look through these and some of the information directly contradicts what I was told the last time I had any vinyl commercially produced which was for the best audio quality I should aim for no more than 12 minutes a side and cut at 45rpm. This is why many current vinyl album releases are in the form of two 12" "singles" even though the music would comfortably fit on a standard single 33rpm disc. I suppose if they only offer 33rpm discs then they are going to downplay this information. However that means that giving some guidance on the running order of tracks, and why it is good idea to put all the fast/loud/energetic songs at start of each side and put something more laid-back as the closing track, should be paramount, but I have seen nothing. Of course there's nothing stopping you from having whatever track order you want, but from experience putting something loud and energetic at the end of a 20 minute side makes it sound less impressive than it should. There are ways around this, but they involve a sympathetic cutting engineer and several test cuts to achieve and are not really within the scope of an on-demand service. The big advantage though is that because this is an on-demand service I could do several of my own "tests" with different running orders under the guise of different releases at £27.90 a go before settling on the version I think is the best compromise for the official release. I think also we'll probably do the CD version the traditional way as there are plenty of services offering proper glass mastered CD runs of 250 minimum at very competitive prices with a lead time of around 2 weeks for the complete production run, and from experience actually having physical product on the merch table is always more lucrative. However I think PoD makes sense for 12" vinyl formats as IME they are too unwieldy to sell at gigs and too easy to get damaged if the same copies go for too long without being sold. We'll probably get 5-10 copies ourselves just so we've got some on display, but I certainly don't want to end up with 350 unsold copies of an album on vinyl again.

I think I might have sorted it. In the notification preferences where before it said "enable in this browser" after clicking on that and getting a message asking me if I wanted to enable Push Notifications which I rejected, the status has now changed to "Permission was denied in this browser" I still don't have the cookie mentioned in your post, and I'll have to wait until sometime tomorrow at the earliest when someone replies to one of the threads I'm following to see whether or not I get the message asking me if I want to enable Push Notifications.

Thanks for looking into this for me. The problems isn't with getting Push Notifications. I have them switched off and always have since they were first introduced. I believe this is the setting you were referring to: It's the pleading for me to turn them on each time I get new notification more than 24 hours after the last one. Consequently I got another this morning as a result of your reply to this thread: As I said. I don't need Push Notifications. As far as I know I have opted out so why do I still get messages pleading with me to turn them on? Looking at the list of Cookies that are active in this browser, I notice that the Push Notification one is missing from my list. Will this be the reason that I keep getting these messages? The only reason I can think of for it to be missing is because it contravenes Apple's default privacy settings for Safari.

These days unless your band is pretty well known and has record label or management financial backing, most "tours" are a series of weekend gigs spread out over a month or so. I did two conventional tour with The Terrortones organised by someone who wanted to be our manager. The weekend gigs were fine although we could have probably organised them all ourselves and got the same result. The mid-week gigs not so good. One of the tours was supporting a German Rockabilly band who despite being excellent were completely unknown in the UK. Apart from the last gig on a Saturday night where The Meteors also played and which was packed, the only people in the audience for the other gigs had come specifically to see us. For the other tour, we were supposed to have a decent local band in a compatible genre as support for each gig, however the support bands were either non-existent or had zero following which pretty much defeated the object of having them. Needless to say we told the organiser of the tours that we didn't required his management services. Also it was hardly a Rock 'n' Roll lifestyle. We drove home each night after playing apart from one weekend where we had three gigs in South Wales and stayed at Mr Venom's parents house.

The great thing about Ishibashi is because their on line presence is based on the stock from all their shops, they have a regular turnover of new and especially of used instruments. Therefore if the bass you are after isn't in stock to today, it may well be in stock tomorrow, or next week or next month. It just depends on how long you want to wait before one comes up. None of the basses I bought from them were exactly common - the Yamaha BJ-5B was made in a limited edition of just 50 - but all of them eventually came up for sale on Ishibashi.

These are the cookies currently associated with Basschat. Can you let me know which of these is responsible for the Push Notification reminder, or if it is missing what it is called. Thanks!

Can you let me know the name/ID of the cookie involved so I can see what is happening with it?

Not that I'm aware of. Besides if I was blocking cookies wouldn't I also need to log in every time I visited? Also if I was blocking cookies wouldn't I get this message every time I got a notification?

In case anyone is wondering what I am on about, it is this: I'm currently getting it once a day when I have a new notification. I'll not see it again until I next get a notification tomorrow or later. However I've already opted out of Push Notifications so why all this pleading for me to turn them on?

My band is looking at this for our debut album, so can I please pick your brains on the process as the website is very light on actual production specifications? 1. Since this appears to be essentially print on demand I assume the CD version is CDR rather than glass-mastered. Can you confirm this? 2. Did Elastic Stage offer any advice for the running order and side length for the vinyl version? 3. Can the vinyl version have a different track order to the CD? I see that your CD version has additional tracks on the end but what I'm interested in is having a different running order for the tracks that are common to both formats to make the most of the strengths and weakness of each format. 4. Can I have different artwork for the CD and Vinyl versions? Or are they just scaled versions of each other? I don't want completely different designs but I would like the "small print" to be at an appropriate size for each size of cover. Thanks in advance.

That's the one. Here are some better photos of the one I actually owned: IIRC it was sold on to someone in the UK so it should still be around. Fernandes do lots of limited edition models with custom graphics for both the bass and guitar versions of this. You rarely see any of them outside of Japan.

Have you doubled checked that they are actually different bases and not the one on Digimart being offered by various "middlemen".

There's one on Digimart