BassTractor

Yup! A Schmidt 8-voice synth last year and a Buchla 200E modular the year before that, so this year I gather I'll get the Moog Sytem 55. Truthfully though: yes. Each year I buy one of the Global knives I fancy - those with the black dimples in the handle.

[quote name='spectoremg' timestamp='1482100047' post='3197691'] Bollox, I missed the irony [/quote] So one thing is clear: when I'm being very clear I'm being very unclear. At least I'm glad we got that one uncleared up!

[quote name='spectoremg' timestamp='1482091534' post='3197593'] So if I picked up Chris Squire's Rick, plugged into his effects and amps, I wouldn't sound at all like him? [/quote] I have no firm grasp on what you mean with that question, but do see several possibilities as to how to understand it. What I can tell you though is that I reacted ironically/sarcastically to Blue's claim, as that claim is utter nonsense. Sometimes I'm kinder than this, but sometimes one needs to be very clear (though, unwillingly, I may actually have been unclear, Idunno).

[quote name='blue' timestamp='1482089172' post='3197563'] A bass will never give you tone. You can EQ sound or use an effect ( gain, compression,boost). Tone comes from your fingers, that's where you develop your tone. Blue [/quote] This +1000, and that is why every time you recognise a Precision, a Wal, a StingRay or a Rick on a recording, this only means that the bass player has looked up the sound on Wikipedia, and has spent years trying to develop his fingers so the sound can be achieved at one point in time. Hard work, I tell ya!

The new IOS app called ODYSSEi (sic!) IMHO sounds stellar and has much going on. The app supports [i][b]polyphony[/b][/i]: up to 8 voices. I couldn't believe my eyes. Standard it comes with 100 presets and the Rev.3 skin but as expected with all three filter versions. Also has an unknown amount of user preset space. As in-app-purchase you can get Rev.1 and Rev.2 skins - each with 50 presets. Movement in sliders can be a part of a preset. One of the first presets I tried had three sliders dancing at the same time. It reminded me about how I got friends to do similar stuff decades ago - but for one gig only 'coz their being annoyed beamed from their faces. Apart from two keyboards, the largest one of them almost playable, it comes with two Kaos pads. When you move your finger over one of the pads, you can see the connected sliders move - which might be good as a learning tool. Dunno how this will work on an iPhone, and I'm sceptical, but on the iPad with 12.9" screen I think it's bloody fantastic. BTW, these are on offer until January the 5th, as a lot of Korg stuff is right now. IMS 30 to 50 percent off, depending on market.

[quote name='Cosmo Valdemar' timestamp='1481898095' post='3196109'] Focus have several songs titled Focus I, Focus II etc. Currently up to 9 I think. [/quote] Not only that, but on the original release of their first album, "Focus plays Focus" (the one currently known as "In and out of Focus" in normal countries, and "In And Out Of Focus" in other places), they had a whopping [b]two[/b] versions of a song called just "Focus" without any numbering attached. Later versions of the album would call them "Focus (vocal)" and "Focus (instrumental)", but IIRC the very first release dropped the additions altogether or had no more than one such addition. How cool is that. Incidentally, one of my own bands was partially re-named after a song of ours, so this does honor the thread title. ("Quaars-Liebrechts" was changed to "Quasar Librax".)

[quote name='EBS_freak' timestamp='1481849012' post='3195767'] *...%/$...@..|||'.\}!!^{~ [/quote] We had a good laugh at that one here at Bletchley Park! That is: after we'd used the whole night to find out what you'd done. You can't just set the rotors so you can avoid certain four-lettered words, you know! If the instructions say Rotor No. 2 is a "[b]U[/b]", then it IS a "[b]U[/b]" no matter what. Anyway, thanks for the laugh and don't do it again, please. No need to resend. Kind regards, Alan

[quote name='Ashweb' timestamp='1481671992' post='3194279'] So, is it a requirement to modify your avatar every year? [/quote] Just in case it's a serious question: Nope. It's just that some people on BC participate in Secret Santa - http://basschat.co.uk/topic/296150-well-jingle-my-bellsits-time-for-basschat-secret-santa-already/ - and that some of those again follow the idea of having a pic of the secret santa gift as their avatar - traditionally until the end of January, but I've seen many examples of people keeping the avatar for a whole year. My own gloriously beautiful, intriguingly intriguing and weirdly tantalising avatar is an example of the latter.

Just to remind all of you that it's SECRET SANTA time, and therefore soon AVATAR UPDATE TIME. Yes! Only one day to go, so hurry up if you're interested, and register in its thread: http://basschat.co.uk/topic/296150-well-jingle-my-bellsits-time-for-basschat-secret-santa-already/

[quote name='Woodinblack' timestamp='1481454392' post='3192338'] Those are the screws and rawl plugs that came with this hanger (a Hercules one). [/quote] Aye. That's a classic! A classic corner-cutting money-saving scheme, or a classic having-no-clue-whatsoever. In really many cases, the supplied stuff is only a sales booster, as you get the impression you buy something complete, and this here is a great example of it: In this type of rawl plug, any resistance gained from (on the picture) the upper part, is a freebie, and not [b][i]really[/i][/b] part of the system (though admittedly many objects do hang safely for decades on that "upper" part). This resistance is a product of the width of the hole and the materials that are in play. The real system on the other hand is much less critical of materials and widths, and starts where the plug is split into three loose ends. IOW exactly where your screws seem to stop (if the pic doesn't lie).

Judging from the picture only, and I hope I see it wrongly, your screws are [i][b]far too short[/b][/i] to even let the rawl plugs start to begin do their job, and that's even before talking about these exact rawl plugs and the capacities of the wall. You need screws twice the length. That's how the system is supposed to work. I'd say: if all your screws are this short, and the wall material the same, then remove the basses immediately. In a wall that fits these old-type plugs, these [i][b]will[/b][/i] do a good enough job, BTW.

[quote name='Skol303' timestamp='1481322245' post='3191584'] I was looking for Asschat, "a hamlet in the municipality Leusden" and ended up here in error. [/quote]

[i]Viola da gamba[/i], back in the seventies. Never learned it well, but could play some tunes. [i]Pipe organ[/i], my profession. I guess the pipe organ's getting more and more unusual, due to fewer churches, fewer concert venues with pipe organs, and the remaining churches investing in electronic alternatives to pipe organs. [i]Darbuka[/i], as in the larger Moroccan concert goblet drum for males. [i]Taarija[/i], a related, smaller procession goblet drum for females and children, and played differently. The darbuka has a head made of ray skin, whereas the taarija has goat skin and resonator ropes under its skin - much like a snare drum. I love both. I order to learn to play at all, I went to some djembe courses, even though the djembe traditionally is played differently to both.

[quote name='mikel' timestamp='1481054173' post='3189388'] "I think it may work better if you put wheels on it, you could call it a skateboard" [/quote] Fanbloodytastic

[quote name='anti-barbie' timestamp='1481017865' post='3188928'] Thought that was 36 hours? (Ish) [/quote] A physics 36 hours. Not a maths 36 hours of course, but more than good enough. I'll be posting this reply in 26 hours or so. C-ya then! Wait!

[quote name='leschirons' timestamp='1480975624' post='3188717'] The Blue boy was Gainsborough, this is Yeames. (royalist child being questioned by the Parliamentarians about his father) [/quote] Yes, but Yeames' blue boy was based on Gainsborough's blue boy, and IMS in real life was Yeames' nephew - or similarly related to Yeames. Also, if you look closely, you can see he's probably Blue's grandchild... er ... grandfather! (look at the characterful eyes and nose!)

"And When Did You Last See The Blue Boy On BassChat?

[quote name='SH73' timestamp='1480972987' post='3188660'] Only messing! There's only one Steve Harris. [/quote] Phew! Yes, there's only one of me. Only me. And JTUK. TWO! Two of us! And BassTractor... I'll come in again...

[quote name='SH73' timestamp='1480971686' post='3188641'] Are you on drugs? [/quote] Is that a serious question? My guess is that it is. In case: no, I'm not on drugs. I never am, nor am I ever drunk. Why would you ask the question? My guess is you just answered the thread title without reading the thread. Reading the thread would have explained to you what my post was about. That or the aforementioned Mr Harris has a certain relationship to drugs.

[quote name='mike257' timestamp='1480970003' post='3188606'] with an all-star band and an extensive rider of specific technical requirements for his gigs. [/quote] Not when I play for nowt though, which happens quite often. In those cases I only bring the all-star band. No riders or requirements.

[quote name='SH73' timestamp='1480962514' post='3188476'] I met Steve Harris after the gig last Friday, but doubt it very much he is a basschatter. [/quote] Ah. You're mistaken then. I'm very much a basschatter, though I use the JTUK login name most of the time, and BassTractor and the other mentioned ones slightly less often. You may call me Mr Harris or simply JTUK.

I'd get one with a temperature pot and interchangeable tips for different uses, rather than the type where you MUST change the tip to change the temperature. That said, I know some pro solderers swear by the latter. My Weller station with temperature pot and interchangeable tip is roughly 30 years old and still like new despite heavy use in periods.

[quote name='TimR' timestamp='1480884383' post='3187854'] Have you never played at last night of the proms? [/quote] Oh Yeah! That's true! I forgot those gigs. Good point though. There's a huge change going on as more and more members of the classical audience are people with an openness to all kinds of music, and as an audience they don't any more fit the description of the proverbial one I played for 30 to 40 years ago. There's a looser ambience these days, and more noise. Me like. (I take it the LNotP audience may contain some alcohol, but has never been seen to wreck the harps and the timpani.)

[quote name='stingrayPete1977' timestamp='1480882843' post='3187819'] I doubt many of the folks at the gig on friday had ever been to a classical performance, [/quote] Confirmed. I recognised none of the people in your photo.

As a classical musician I've never liked typical audiences for classical music, but reading this I may have to reconsider. At least they were never drunk, and they wouldn't wreck the instruments or the stage.