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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.

Confirmation dialogue box for making all threads in a forum as read by clicking on the forum icon was active briefly over the weekend but now appears to be off again. Also now that the mobile version of BassChat is essentially a resized version of the standard layout it is quite tricky to differentiate between the thread title and the bullet icon next to it that takes you directly to the first unread post, on smaller screens - phones and iPad Mini. Previously on the mobile version clicking either the thread title or the bullet icon would take you to the first unread post. Finally going to first unread post in a thread tends to overshoot, usually ending up a post or two further down. I think this may be a a browser issue caused by the page dynamically resizing as the content loads. Certainly affecting the Mac OS version of Safari.

But there is still over 24 hours to go. All the serious bidding will happen in the last 30 seconds.

From my own experience very much this. I've posted that link in another thread the OP started so he doesn't need to read it again, but for those who haven't seen it before it's little cautionary tale of home recording. That's not to say the OP can't do it all himself, but he really needs to stop asking questions here and just get on and start experimenting with recording. The great advantage with having your own space and recording equipment, is that you're not constantly watching the clock and worrying that your time/money is going to run out before you get the results you are after. But you really need to be in the "studio" every day working on refining your recording skills and techniques.

Once you've got them set up they are both excellent bridges. However IME the 2000 is a complete pain to adjust. I would seriously have to be in love with everything else about a bass to contemplate buying one fitted with the 2000 bridge again. If I was going to retro-fit one to a bass it would have to be the 3D.

IIRC the pre-amp for Super-8 pickups is specially designed by John East and also functions to balance the output between the 3 pickup modes. So not a Glockenklang.

Because in the past the accepted way was to make your solid electric instrument out of as few pieces as possible of the most stable wood available. Nowadays with modern construction techniques it is possible to make multi-layer bodies and use interesting looking wood which isn't strong or stable enough on its own as a facing (most fancy tops/backs are less than 5mm thick).