BassTractor

Doesn't surprise us. You have already been seen to agree with me, so your dementia is certainly reaching a new stage. From the amount of similar questions, my guess is it's one of the forum software bugs. However, just to be sure: You are aware that the "My Content" function is leaky, and will not show all your content? Also, AFAIK, searching is not fuzzy. It requires the exact string you're looking for (though it will find individual word occurances if your string contains more words). But yeah, still seems to me that this is a bug of its own. I just hope you paid your seven quid twice. (BC needs it, yes?)

Welcome, Rosscoe! Yup, you assume correctly. It's a good place to learn. Yesterday, I learned about the Jacobites. Innersting! Enjoy! Bert

Nice vid of a guy playing along a track and having some fun. He is NOT standing on a stage having certain responsibilites, and we do not know how he would have chosen to play the bass line were he to be in such a position. I liked it.

Sorry, but I don't understand the Buzz. [color=#ffffff].[/color] [color=#ffffff].[/color] [color=#ffffff].[/color] [color=#ffffff].[/color] [color=#ffffff].[/color] [color=#ffffff].[/color] [color=#ffffff].[/color] [color=#ffffff].[/color] [color=#ffffff].[/color] [color=#ffffff].[/color] [color=#ffffff].[/color] Or rather: is it a Buzz? Suddenly realised I have no clue. Does sound grand though, and very lovely played too, IMHO. Another thing is that to my noob ears it sounds surprisingly like a fretless StingRay despite what looks like a PJ config. I'm probably wrong.

[quote name='flyfisher' timestamp='1400952827' post='2458549'] Even better than Oasis really [/quote] Also, this great line opens a new perspective: that of tribute through your own compositions, like XTC's open tribute to the Beatles. Ethical? Interesting? Worth a punt? Etc. Not that I'm asking these questions. This thread has become more interesting than earlier, similar threads, IMS&IMHO. Thanks, BC.

Aye! After "attack"*. The initial amplitude with its higher pitch not only lasts for a short time only, and you don't want the long decaying sound to be off, but it also contains harmonic and disharmonic components that make its being in tune less important. Though I can imagine scenarios with quick changes and staccato playing where one would tune on the "attack"* instead. Nowst I think of it, I think the best thing to do is buy an extra bass for those songs, and also one for the songs with medium long tones as well. SHE MUST UNDERSTAND THIS IS NECESSARY!!! *) "Attack" as in the first occurence of a recognisable tone after the real attack.

... or the Xenakis!

[quote name='BetaFunk' timestamp='1400882416' post='2457973'] I went to see an orchestra play music by Haydn recently. None of musicians wore frock coats, buckle shoes or powdered wigs tied at the back of the neck with a ribbon. If they had then maybe they could have been a tribute band. They didn't so maybe they were a just covers orchestra. [/quote] Aye. That's why I wrote: [quote name='BassTractor' timestamp='1400321307' post='2452854'] I've been to a lot of Bach and Strawinsky tribute shows. Music was always good, but they tend to dress poorly, really looking nothing like the originals. I think I'm done with this now. [/quote] ... but truth be told, some orchestras do not only use period instruments and play them in perceived period-correct ways, but will also dress in olde period-correct clothing as well as perform in buildings from that time, especially when they're making a tv programme. Not that I condone it. Most of the time it gets to be slightly too half-arsed, and even tacky. Just look at their digital watches and their modern sets of glasses if you can't be arsed to have a stern look at heir facial expressions.

[quote name='Diablo' timestamp='1400881007' post='2457957'] I think cover bands probably started many centuries ago when someone would piano a Bach or other such dusty type composer in an ale house or at a private ball event. [/quote] Aye. It's said that one always played the music of one's time until that dusty ole Mendelssohn studied some dusty notebooks with Bach music in them, and decided to perform it, something which became an avalanche that has not stopped yet.

Re the exchange between BetaFunk and Flyfisher: Twas me who brought up classical music, and twas only for bringing in an idea about that it all depends on what kind of music one talks about. Orchestras, ensembles and individual classical artists do indeed exist who'll only play music by one composer, but I'd think they can hardly be compared to tribute bands in the pop/rock vain, because it's customary in the classical world not to try and sound exactly like a perceived period-correct performance of the work, but to try and interpret the work in a fashion deemed valid for a modern audience: "a new look at old music". There's a funny bit here though that makes it more complicated, as the last 50 years have seen a growing interest in "authentic" interpretations, if you forgive the contradictio-in-terminis that this seems to be. Some of them would mainly perform works of one composer only. A good example would be Ton Koopman and the Amsterdam Baroque Orchestra playing mainly Bach. These orchestras and ensembles would be closest to a tribute band, I reckon. Much could be said about it, but I've deleted the even more verbose stuff before hitting "Post".

That Ray has a 34' scale? (Yes, I bloody well know what I did!)

[quote name='action_panzer' timestamp='1400839501' post='2457387'] perhaps this is God's way of telling me to take the plunge [/quote] Oh my Gawd! For decades, we have been having discussions about how to tell the wife when we've bought new gear, and I think you're the first one to come up with a simple: "God told me to, honey. You know I never disobey God... "

Demn you, Alembic! You's stealing the members from my band! It's plagiarism, fer cryin' out loud! OK, then. Here's a shamefully plagiarised song. Soft Machine's Karl Jenkins so-called "wrote it" for the "Bundles" album, but in reality he had stolen it from Nucleus' Karl Jenkins who really had written it for their "Hemispheres" album. http://youtu.be/eN90gwVPJdc

[quote name='neepheid' timestamp='1400762497' post='2456729'] I think that's unfair and presumptuous. I prefer to email, I'm not very confident on the phone, I don't enjoy phoning people I don't know. Email is way more comfortable for me, and I'm no timewaster - if I make an enquiry about something it's because I want to buy it. [/quote] I think I sense where you're coming from, and myself often feel way more comfy when writing and having the time to iron out the worst blunders. But I don't think Iconic was being unfair and presumptuous, as what he wrote was a pun-like condensate of our experiences. Also, I feel quite confident that your e-mail to a firm would be easily recognised as a serious one, by most firms. I think one can see the difference in most cases.

[quote name='waynepunkdude' timestamp='1400855131' post='2457608'] Never got the appeal of Will Ferrell, this remains the case. [/quote] I must admit I've never ever liked his humour, but I did like him here. "In America?"

Not funny. This imposter got away with way too much, ruining the [i]camaraderie[/i] in one of my fave bands!!!!! Thanks for posting, I guess. [color=#ffffff].[/color] [color=#ffffff].[/color] [color=#ffffff].[/color] [color=#ffffff].[/color] [color=#ffffff].[/color] [color=#ffffff].[/color]

http://basschat.co.uk/topic/235744-1-unit-power-amp-options/ might help? Unless I've overlooked an important detail, of course.

[quote name='OliverBlackman' timestamp='1400689851' post='2456154'] You can do that, or if you really want to develop your hearing in the process the alternative would be playing along to music. [/quote] Thanks, Oliver, for trying. However, and I'm not sure about this, I think you answered the question "How do I work on MY intonation" whilst I meant to ask "How to start working on the best placement of the individual saddles", seeing as that Gaf had worked on the bass's intonation and got it to be spot on. Language, eh?

Wow. That was kinda yummy, and a good example how gold hardware can tone down rather than ostentatiate (well ... it [b]should[/b] have been a word!) Well done! BTW, what is the smart/quick way of starting to work on the intonation of a fretless? Simply measuring up 17" from the nut and remember/mark that point, or?

[quote name='HowieBass' timestamp='1400673735' post='2455964'] ... and from hence forth your nickname shall be "Smashed'n" [/quote]

Told it before IMS, but a friend of my uncle had horns through several floors in his house, starting in the basement where the turntable and the amp were, and finishing in the lving room where he'd listen to the music. So he'd put on a record and jump up the stairs, always arriving too late to hear the beginning. Bliss!

Wow! Hadn't expected that. Still made to last then, eh? I suspect that in time you'll fill in the rough bits with wood "splinters" and colour them black. Just always play on dark stages, and you'll be fine.

Another BC accomplishment and victory! I'm so proud of myself now! Oh.... wait! Another SlapbassSteve accomplishment and victory! Kudos to SlapbassSteve! Congrats, Sam. Does it play OK?

BTW, IBWT: In Belfast We Trust, or?