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I don't really find YouTube a very useful resource. It's too full of waffle, self-promotion, and takes far too long to get to meat of of the "lessons". Plus I don't think there is any real substitute for one-on-one personal lessons when it comes to music. I certainly can't tell if I doing sometime right or not from a video tutorial, I would need to teacher to be there with me giving instant feedback. My guitar, bass and keyboard playing is full of nasty in-grained habits which over 45 years of playing I have finally managed to make work for me. I don't want (or have time for) the same to happen to my singing.

Thanks Ped. I'd have never seen it myself. I also think that it might be a good idea to remove the link in the OP until you are 100% sure that publishing this is not going to land Basschat in legal trouble for copyright infringement.

IME buying a 5-string set and chucking away the G, nearly always works out cheaper than buying individual strings. Also that low B is way too light gauge compared with the others. For those gauges I'd be looking at a 135 minimum.

It's a Reverend Mercalli.

I suspect there is also an element of maintaining the "vintage vibe" behind Ampeg's continued use of jacks instead of Speakons. They would probably also still be using Bulgin mains connectors if they thought they could get away with it ;-)

This was indeed my first thought, but it appears that he hasn't been on Basschat for almost 3 years, and if my internet stalking is up to scratch this is him now, and TBH I can't afford the rates he charges for the amount of lessons I'm probably going to need.

135 tends to be at the heavier end of the scale for a low B so unless the rest of your strings are heavy gauge that should be fine. There should be much to do regarding the truss rod going from G-E to D-B, it might need slackening off a bit as the low B is lower tension than the high G. Most of the work would be widening the nut slots.

Are you 100% sure and prepared to stake all your worldly possessions on being right? BTW being dyslexic the only way I can make sure what I type is right is if people point out my mistakes so please what is wrong with the phrase "No I’m not a lawyer specialising music copyright" to warrant it having a "sic" after it in your post? Because I can't see anything wrong with it.

Start by trying the 5-string set with the same E A D and G strings that you would normally use, but make sure that the low B is at least 128 minimum for a 40 - 100 set. IME most low B strings are too low in tension compared with the rest of the string unless you go slightly heavier than normal. However getting a good balanced sounding and feeling low B is a bit of a dark art and you may have to trial and error your way through several sets to find what works best for you. Unfortunately what works for one player on one bass won't necessarily work for you on your bass.

Are you a lawyer specialising music copyright and prepared to offer your services for free to Basschat should they need it? Courts make all sorts of weird decisions when it comes to music copyright. It would be a pity to see Basschat disappear due to poor advice.

Apparently when I was a boy I had a lovely singing voice, but adolescence combined with a love of shouty rock and punk music plus the fact that really don't like how my voice sounds when recorded (much like the Red Dalek) means I haven't really done much singing for the last 40 years. However I think I'm missing out a lot in my musical development by not being at least a competent singer, so I've decided to look at getting some lessons in order to improve the, pitching, range and tone of my singing. Is there anyone in Nottingham that Basschat members would recommend? I am really looking for a personal recommendation rather than a list of Google results. I'm not looking at becoming a fantastic lead vocalist, but some help in being able to provide a competent vocal performance that I would not be embarrassed about is what I am after. Thanks in advance!

So I'm sorry Dad but your opinion on this matter is simply that, an opinion, and won't help Basschat in the slightest when a big copyright IP lawyer comes after them and closes the forum down. If you'd taken the time to read through the two links that Bluejay posted, the general consensus appears to be that while a chord sequence on its own isn't subject to copyright as soon as you associate that chord sequence with a song title then it does become copyrightable. The safest thing is for Basschat to hold off publishing this information (and personally I'd also remove the link in the OP and any subsequent post that quotes it just to be safe) until they have taken some serious legal advice from qualified to give them the right information in this matter. Sorry to be a bit of a killjoy, but in these instances it always better to play safe than to be sorry. Personally I like Basschat and wouldn't like to see it closed down.

Simply go to the first post in the thread and click edit.

If you are a member of the MU maybe now would be the time to take advantage of their free legal advice service. Personally I wouldn't risk it without it being approved by some with specialist legal knowledge in music copyright and IP.

The best DAW to use is the one that most closely matches the way you want to work, or failing that the one that majority of people you collaborate with use. Other than that they are all much of a muchness these days when it comes to features, so I'll take ease of use and ease of transferring projects between different machines over everything else. I'm a Logic user because back in the mid 90s when I bought my first computer for music, the person I was mostly collaborating with, was also a Logic user and that meant it was simple to exchange song ideas. Left to my own devices I'd have probably chosen Studio Vision, because of all the DAWs I'd seen this was the one that most closely matched the way I'd like to work. Luckily I didn't because within a couple of years it was dead following Opcode's acquisition by Gibson - a similar fate that has recently befallen Cakewalk. TBH once you've got used to how a particular DAW works its becomes easier to use, and you are going to be reluctant to change hence... And that for me is the next most important thing when it comes to picking a DAW. How long is it likely to be around. Logic is pretty safe because it is one of Apple's core Pro Applications, as for the others it very much depends on the whims of their parent companies. The future for ProTools has been looking particularly dodgy for the last couple of years with Avid's on-going problems. Plus their reliance on the less than brilliant iLok copy protection. And that brings the last key feature - copy protection. Reaper doesn't need it because it's essentially free and if you are going to pay for it, then it is stupidly cheap. Logic is also relatively cheap (certainly these days the full version cost less than the price an upgrade used to) and is tied to your App store account so it doesn't really need anything more than that. Personally I'd be suspicious of anything requiring an iLok to function. Whilst the idea is excellent the implementation is less than brilliant, and if there is a problem with iLok it can render all your iLok protected software useless, as has happen several times in the past few years to large numbers of their user base.

It's a good idea, but I suggest that Ped and the other Basschat owners check that there are no copyright issues with any of the songs published. It would be a terrible thing if Basschat got closed down for IP infringement.

Unfortunately that's not going to happen with an acoustic bass guitar unless the only person you want to entertain is yourself.

3rds never sound properly in tune to me on the guitar so for instance in an A chord I'll always swap out the C# for a B.

I don't like 3rds (either major or minor) in my guitar chords so I always replace them with 9ths. Much nicer.

The original post mentioned the possibility of prizes. Any update on this?

IME you need some significant radio play to qualify.

You'd be surprised by what people try to cram into the lockers on budget flights. Just because there doesn't look as though there is any room in the locker won't stop someone having a go to get their bag in using the door to force it into place.

Actually someone posted a link to an experiment Fodera did with 3 identical (or as near to identical as you can get considering that IMO every piece of wood is different) basses one each with bolt-on, set neck and thought neck construction. Whilst there was a difference in the tone between the three basses in the clips they put up, it was extremely subtle and in the context of a band mix would be completely indistinguishable. IME the most important thing to do with a bolt-on neck is to get it to sit as deep into the end of the neck pocket as is possible and this is best achieved by stringing up the guitar or bass with the neck screws very slightly slackened off and then using the force of the strings to pull the neck hard against the end of the neck pocket before tightening the neck screws fully. Whether or not there is a shim in the neck pocket has no bearing on this in the slightest.

I certainly wouldn't want to be putting anything in the overhead lockers if it didn't have something like a Mono case as the minimum protection.

Bu if your are betting on the fact you'll never need to make a claim, you are probably better off not paying out for insurance at all (unless it is a legal requirement), because paying for crap insurance is definitely a waste of money.