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[quote name='liamcapleton' post='449125' date='Mar 30 2009, 12:18 AM']Surprises me the amount of negativity she provokes. I happen to think she's a marvelous player. I read some of the idiotic comments that some people had posted up on the video itself. Some people shouldn't be allowed the internet...[/quote] I'm sure she wouldn't provoke so much discussion if she wasn't a girl / tiny / quite cute It polarises opinion as well - some people think she's great because she's a good player & a female in a predominantly male environment whilst others think she's rubbish for exactly the same reason. Meanwhile everyone else can;t quite see what all the fuss is about either way, lol

[quote name='steve-soar' post='449061' date='Mar 29 2009, 10:46 PM']Big smiles, lots of joy, playing music is the best. [/quote] This is really what does it for me when watching her play. Far too many of the, technically amazing, bass playing fraternity pulling serious faces whilst playing. She just always looks like she's having the greatest time on stage Not sure I could really listen to much of her stuff on cd though

Is it one of these? If so then I really like these I don't think they've been desperately popular because they don't have the 'typical' parametric eq of the SM400/500/900 and the internal speaker is already running at 4 ohms. SWR say it'll happily run down 2 ohms but a lot of people are wary of running anything below 4 ohms. Personally I would think it's gonna cover most gigs as a standalone unit so that shouldn't be a problem anyway

Only bass I've ever owned that had people come up to me and say how nice it looked was my Roscoe SKB in a rather fetching shade of flamed maple dark greenburst. I actually had three different women ask me about it at the only gig I used it at! As the pic shows - they obviously weren't interested in me, just the bass, lol Shame I traded it when I decided to go all out to 5 strings

I'm sitting here in a vaguely mellow Sunday night mood & listening to Laura Nyro's last album - Angel in the Dark - which has some great songs, both original & classic covers. Bass duties are mostly covered by Freddy Washington & Will Lee & I've been really impressed by Will Lee's near perfect studio tone that just fits some of Nyro's songs so well. There's a couple of intros where the bass is really high in the mix &, to my ears, the recording of the bass is near perfect, plenty of depth but with crisp highs & some nice finger noise so you know it's all live & not nastily processed. I've seen him featured in Bass Player & stuff but never really listened to him before. I'll have to dig some more of his stuff out Quite liking the look of his new signature Sadowsky as well:

I hadn't seen this clip before - really like it Bit of a condescending git of presenter though. Very happy with that wrist angle - that's not far off what my wrist looks like & I always think it looks a bit odd!

Feels to me like there's something of a polarisation of standards amongst younger musicians. The good ones are phenomenal technically, the stuff I hear being played by some everyday '20 somethings' is nothing short of amazing compared to what I remember from about 30 or so years ago. Meanwhile the ability of a decent engineer & a Pro Tools expert means that a lot of stuff can be 'fixed in the mix' and there are some musicians recording stuff that's not well played, or even remotely in time, but that can be made to sound great after some serious processing. Of course both of these examples have been around for a long time but it seems to me like the extremes are more pronounced now than they've ever been.

[url="http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/Overwater-Bass-Guitar_W0QQitemZ220382907027QQcmdZViewItemQQptZUK_Musical_Instruments_Guitars_CV?hash=item220382907027&_trksid=p3286.c0.m14&_trkparms=66%3A2|65%3A10|39%3A1|240%3A1318"]http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/Overwater-Bass-Guita...%3A1|240%3A1318[/url] This ought to be worth £600+ of anyone's money? If it was a 5 I'd be bidding on it already

My current drummer is a machine He reads every single song we play & has a click running in the background through his in-ear monitors. He's a jazzer at heart & still manages to throw in little odd time signature fills every now & then & copes with temp changes seamlessly. The whole band relies on him for stops / starts / endings etc. He cocks up now & then but it's so rare that the rest of the band usually think they've made the mistake if an ending isn't quite perfect

I used to run a single bi-ampable twin channel head with lows into a 1x15 & highs into my 2x10. To be honest I never really liked the sound up close. The 15 always seemed to be too muddy & the 10's lacked enough punch. I had a variable frequency control on the amp & the only way I ever got it quite how I wanted it was to run most of the frequency range through the 10's & leave the 15 as more of a sub cab. In the end I just the whole set up in stereo &, to my ears on stage, it sounded much nicer.

[quote name='jonsmith' post='439231' date='Mar 19 2009, 01:45 PM']I have a set of Ultimate Ears ones - the Superfi Pro 5. I resisted the temptation to get the enhanced bass response ones and went for the flatter respose version (which is actually more expensive). I am very impressed with these, although if you have anything on your iPod that has been encoded at a lower quality, you will really notice it. Like most in-ears, if they are not seated correctly in the ear they don't sound very good. You will notice some noise if the cable rubs on your clothing. They are fantastic for the Tube. With all the outside noise blocked off I don't even have to have them up loud at all. My volume never even gets up to half way. They are quite expensive though.[/quote] I also use Ultimate Ears phones & I love them. i only really use them for iPod use but my drummer uses the same ones for live in-ear monitoring work. The design has changed slightly now but I think mine were the Super Fi Pro twin driver ones. Cost me about £110 I think but you ahve to really shop around on price, I've seen them over £150.