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  1. ambient
    Had an excellent experience selling a gig bag to Mike.
  2. ambient
    Did your bass have any maker's name on it? It is a surprisingly good bass. I was playing it the other day, and I did a gig with for the friend who gave it to me.
  3. ambient
    Bought early part of the year, and unused. £20 including postage.
  4. ambient
    That’s nice.
  5. ambient
    forScore works well. You can organise your charts into set lists etc.
  6. ambient
    My bass is currently strung with: .100, .075, .055, .045, .029, .020. For me this works well. Just try a few gauges, see what works best for you.
  7. ambient
    Excerpts of some recently recorded stuff set to some photos from recent travels. All recorded in real time with no editing.
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    That’s a very good point there about backing up. I had a panic moment toward the end of my PhD work when I thought I’d lost the stuff I’d recorded over three very long years. Luckily it wasn’t lost. I learned my lesson though, and bought separate hard drive. I use iCloud too. it must be fascinating listening back to your old material. There’s something about recorded sound that I think is more nostalgia inducing than anything else.
  9. ambient
    I ran a workshop for a group of music students on mastering recently. You're welcome to my Keynote slides and the handout I produced for them.
  10. ambient
    I’ve read that a few times. I take it with a very large pinch of salt. When I was a student I was practicing for between 12 and 14 hours pretty much every day that I wasn’t in uni, that was for three years. I’ve easily gone past the 10,000 hours, I’m certainly not a master.
  11. ambient
    D’Addario, buy a four string set and a separate high C, I generally use either a .028 or a .032, depending on the gauge of the other strings.
  12. ambient
    I’ve been teaching music across a range of age groups at an academy school in the West Midlands. From the ten or so 6th formers, there was just one musician - a drummer, and one singer. In the other year groups there were maybe five students who could play an instrument, three of them were very good and enthusiastic. The head of music there blames Covid to a degree. Others are I think more into the technology side of music making.
  13. ambient
    There’s a branch of BIMM in Bristol. You’ll probably also get students studying music in Bath gigging there too.
  14. ambient
    I was given this by a friend last year. It’s possibly a Shine, though there are no identifying marks or labels anywhere on the bass, other than a ‘made in China’ sticker. I have gigged with it when I depped for my friend’s jazz band. It plays well and has recently been set up. It’s strung with a new set of D’Addario strings. The action is reasonably low, and the bass is very playable, belying its bargain price. It has a few cosmetic imperfections, though nothing that affects the instrument’s playability. it appears to have a rosewood fretboard, I have no idea what timber lurks underneath the paintwork. The bridge is of reasonable quality, the tuners do their job. Overall, bang for buck, it’s a pretty nice instrument. It comes with a Stagg padded gig bag. I would prefer collection from Sutton Coldfield.
  15. ambient
    All are in excellent condition. Prices include postage. Janek Gwizdala: All the good stuff - £15 Bill Evans Trio: Artist transcriptions - £15 John Patitucci: 60 Melodic Etudes (For Acoustic And Electric Bass - Sold Janek Gwizdala: Iconic Lines: An Interactive Chronology of the Genes of Jazz Vocabulary - Sold John Goldsby: The Jazz Bass Book: Technique and Tradition - Sold John Patitucci: Walking Bass - Sold Mark Levine: The Jazz Theory Book - Sold Charlie Parker Omnibook: Bass Clef - Sold The Real Book - Sixth Edition: Bass Clef Instruments, Mini Edition - Sold
  16. ambient
    A little different to my usual stuff. These use very little in the way of effects, with just a touch of reverb and some delay from my Mod Devices Dwarf. I've been experimenting with different tunings. These pieces are either B, C#, B, C#, D#, C# or Bb, F, Bb , F, A, C These are just a few excerpts. All were played/recorded in real-time.
  17. ambient
    Never used, still with labels attached. Bought new at Easter. Price includes postage.
  18. ambient
    There’s eight angled and two straight plugs. The cable is of varying length: 1 x 36cm 1 x 27cm 3 x 10cm 1 x 14cm 1 x15cm Includes 1st class postage.
  19. ambient
    Transcribe is good, use it along with a chord chart for the song, that’ll give you somewhere to start from. It’s good to get used to how intervals sound, that again will help when you’re working out a part.
  20. ambient
    In excellent condition. Very accurate and easy to use. Price includes 1st class postage.
  21. ambient
    Like new with box, power cable and assorted patch power cables. The DC5 link is a professional, small and very flat power supply for effect pedals with 5 isolated outlets. Being only 31mm high it fits under the flat Pedaltrain nano, mini, new nano+ and all metro boards. It offers voltages 9, 12 or 18V and has a total output current of 900mA. The top two switchable 9 or 12V outlets can power any two Strymon, Eventide or other two medium to high current pedals. The middle outlet in 18V setting can power one or two dirt pedals, Pigtronix, MXR or other 18V pedals. The bottom two outlets configurable to either 9 or 12V can power two or even more standard low current pedals when used with Split Flex or 3-way daisy chain Flex. In 12V setting using Stack Flex, they’ll power a 24V pedal. If needed, all 5 isolated outlets will give you 9V DC in the default position of the settings switch. The price includes next day special delivery.
  22. ambient
    This was bought earlier this year, and is like new. There is quite a lengthy review of mine elsewhere on this site. It’s an incredible pedal. It works as a headphone amp for practice. It’s also a DI box. There’s a very large library of IRs available for various amps and cabs via the Darkglass app. You can store up to five of these on the pedal itself, and switch between them using the touch sensitive selector. Whichever IR you’ve selected is then used whether you’re practicing with headphones or using the pedal as a DI. I’m selling simply because I use my Mod Dwarf for everything. I’ve had the Dwarf now for about 9 months, the deeper I delve into its functions, the more I realise that I no longer need other items in my signal chain. The Element comes with all its original packaging, and a usb cable for connecting to a computer. Its genuinely only had a couple of hours of usage. The price includes next day special delivery.
  23. ambient
    Maybe his mum bought it for him ouf of her catalogue?
  24. ambient
    I’d add to this, that he also put a smile on a great many faces last night.
  25. ambient
    I don’t drink alcohol. If I did I’d never drink on a gig or at a rehearsal. I can’t think of any job where drinking alcohol while working would be allowed.
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