BigRedX

I posted a while back in thread about inconsistencies in the way the "Mark forum as read" works, but having has some time the play about with this function I have found even more, as follows: On Safari 11.0 (Mac OS 10.11.6) only clicking on the "Mark forum as read" link at the top of the list of topics within a forum will bring up the "Are You Sure?" dialogue box. Clicking the icon next to the forum heading will mark the forum as read without any warning. However on the iPad (iOS 11.1) Safari, the behaviour is somewhat different as follows: If I click the icon next to the forum heading will bring up the "Are You Sure?" dialogue box, but only if I do it from the Basschat "Home" page - the one that lists all of the individual forums. If I was to click the icon next to "Gear Porn" while in the "Gear" section rather than the "Home" page, I don't get a warning dialogue box and the page reloads taking me back to the top of the page. When I do get the warning dialogue the page doesn't reload and after clicking cancel or OK I remain at the same point on the page as I was before. Hopefully this will help track down what is going wrong with this function.

You still can link to individual posts. Click on the symbol next to “report post” for the post you want to link to.

There’s a switch at the bottom of the reply box to turn this off and on

EBS_freak, having recently upgraded my BassPod XT to a Helix, I'm seriously looking at this route and ditching all my "old school" amps and cabs. TBH from my perspective a good amp is just a device with some EQ and a baked-in sound that I find pleasing plus some extra circuitry to make my bass sound loud. In fact for most of the 90s I ran a Peavey Bassfex straight into a power amp and had a great sound, so "realism" of the amp/cab sims is of minimal interest to me, having lots of tonal options (which the Helix most definitely does) is far more important. Even when I was using the BassPod my preferred starting point was the SuDub preset which isn't even based on an amp! So to get to the point, until I'm at the stage where IEM makes practical sense for the bands I am currently playing what would you recommend for FRFR speaker for my bass? Is the RCF worth the extra money, or will one of the QSC K.2 Series be perfectly adequate? Your input would be welcomed.

Except for all the comedy records that George Matin made prior to The Beatles.

No. Not in the slightest.

Except that most of those innovative recording techniques were developed when George Martin was working on comedy records with the likes of Peter Sellers well before he got involved with The Beatles. And as for "STEREO" it was deemed so important for The Beatles records that the mixes were mostly dashed off in an afternoon, after the serious work spending a couple of days getting the mono mixes right had been completed.

I know someone who used a half-finished white Strat as his main guitar in the early 80s. He'd been able to pick it up at a stupidly cheap price due to the fact that it was considered to be a hideous colour. The last time I saw the guitar, it had been "refinished" by covering it in old postage stamps.

Sh!t Brown to be more precise. When I was working in a music shop in the late 70s I couldn't make my mind up whether this or the semi-transparent white that looked as though the finishers had knocked off early for the weekend without applying the correct number of coats of paint was more horrible.

Did you try the ground lift switch?

The problem I have with Eastwood instruments (and that includes the Custom Shop Offerings) is that essentially they are made up almost entirely of standard off-the-shelf parts and therefore often completely lose the vibe of the instruments that they are supposed to be re-creating. The EB1 does look cool, but apart from the violin-esque body shape it doesn't seem to have a lot in common with the Gibson model it is based on.

I'll just put this out here... Many fans of The Beatles on this thread are starting to sound much like my parents did when they went on about the "superiority" of classical music and how this new pop/rock wasn't proper music back in the early 70s.

Are you sure it’s the right foot switch for that particular model of amp?

I happy that everyone has their own opinions and tastes when it comes to their choice of instruments, it makes life interesting. What I am not so happy with is the fact that someone who's main creative output appears to be copies of other well-know designs is having bit of a rant on the internet about other manufacturers being able to produce something similar for a lot less money (especially in light of the fact that a lot of his output is based on instruments that were specifically designed to be mass-produced by relatively unskilled workers). Despite what he might think, he's not an artist. He's a craftsman. He might be a very good craftsman (I haven't played any of his guitars myself so I don't know), but to claim to be an artist is somewhat disingenuous.

Very noble, but remember that even if the products you are buying were made in the UK or Europe they are probably assembled from components mostly manufactured in China/Far East.

If there is already a digital version available, you are far better off buying it. From personal experience, the only analogue recordings that are worth the time and effort to do yourself are ones that cannot be obtained in legal digital format any other way.

If you already have an audio interface for your Mac you don't need anything else. Connect the outputs of your cassette player to the line ins on your interface, and record into your DAW of choice. Cut the resulting audio file up into individual tracks. Job done. My personal method is Aiwa F660 cassette recorder > TC Finalizer > MotU 2408 > Logic 9. Which is probably overkill for cassette demos but produces excellent results.

And therefore IMO he's made a rod for his own back. If he was doing something original and different (like Alan who has brought this video to our attention) I might have some more sympathy. But by choosing simply to rehash "classic" designs he deliberately sets himself up against the high-volume low cost mass manufacturers, and finds himself in a market where the average musician isn't bothered enough to want to pay the premium for a hand-crafted instrument. So instead of getting on and producing some designs that are truly original he's made a video to have a moan on the internet. Besides the whole point of the Fender-style instrument that make up much of his output is that they were originally designed not to require the skills of a master luthier to produce them.

Yes he's got a point, but as a maker of small volume hand-made instruments are you really competing with large-scale mass production? IME your customers are very different people. Also I take him a lot more seriously as a master luthier if his web site featured some actual original designs and not rehashed versions the same old suspects...

That's more like it. The amp won't go for as much as it could, because the seller won't post, but I still expect it to be over £100 by the time the auction ends

What's the problem? If you don't like the modifications and/or you think it's overpriced just move on. I'm sure there will be something you do like popping up in the for sale section very soon.

Interesting. Unfortunately for me (and anyone else with an interest in proper scientific methodology) one sample of three different instruments does not prove anything. Now if they made 100 sets and got consistent results across each set then I might be convinced. Also if the photos that accompany the sound clips are of the basses in question, there are extra pieces of wood in the set neck and through neck constructions, which could be skewing the results. And finally TBH the difference between the bolt-on and through neck to me was close to imperceptible and would be even more so in the context of a band mix.

Surely no-one still using XP should be on the internet in the first place?

Played on Thursday with In Isolation at the Tap n Tumbler in Nottingham. We were supposed to be supporting Rodney Bakerr (legendary Chicago house music pioneer) in his Strange Circuits guise, but it turned out that the promoter wanted us to "headline". We were a little bit worried that most of the audience would leave after Mr Bakerr had done his thing, but luckily that wasn't the case at all, and we ended up with a decent sized and very enthusiastic audience. Rodney Bakerr was excellent too - like Gil Scott-Heron being backed by The Normal. Edit: found a photo of Rodney Bakerr from this gig:

There is a mistaken tendency for musicians to think that technical ability is more important than putting on a good performance. Obviously you need a certain amount of technical ability to be able to play the music competently, but anything above that is IMO purely for your own personal satisfaction and nothing more. In fact these days where the live performance is the product and the recording is simply the promotional item (and besides all but the most dire of takes in the studio can be fixed in production) it is far more important to look right and have the passion for putting on a show your audience will enjoy, rather than simply standing there concentrating on playing the right notes perfectly.