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Excellent, highly recommended. Immediate despatch, the pedal was exactly as described, and very well packaged.

Maybe email Mark at Bass direct? They usually have a good selection of instruments, he's also very knowledgeable and generally helpful.

[quote name='Nicko' timestamp='1504786487' post='3367288'] Yes, I get all that. But knowledge of the notes, intervals and theory is all independent of the ability to read notation which was at least the original question. In some ways learning theory using tab is more difficult (eg for C minor the standard notation will tell you which notes are flat, tab wont). You have to work backwards or remember the intervals. [/quote] I think I learned both at the same time.

[quote name='Ghost_Bass' timestamp='1504774645' post='3367167'] My cats don't like me to play, they get scared with the noise. I practise in my studio with a closed door to prevent them to enter and spread all kinds of mayhem trying to flee as soon as they hear the first note. They do love my gear. They're allways climbing up my bass case and cables trolley bag and using it as a nail scratcher whenever i forget them in the lobby after coming home late. I've posted this here some time ago but they also have a special fondness for my cab... this one time i was replacing the tweeter and had to step out of the room for a while... [/quote] That's lovely!

[quote name='Marc S' timestamp='1504773989' post='3367161'] I too have a Siamese cat, plus a tabby moggie The Siamese is just such a different breed. She's absolutely in your face, as often as she can be Loves a lap, hates it when I've got a bass on my lap, because she wants that lap! But she also loves a jam evening, when other musicians pop around - because she loves a well-padded gigbag but even better, she prefers a fur lined fiddle case or guitar case. She also doesn't mind the sound of live music in the house our moggie runs a mile when anyone plays an instrument - esp the violin. But oddly enough, even she doesn't mind the sound of my DB [/quote] Mine doesn't like strangers. When I have people over for lessons she'll occasionally look into the room, but won't come in. Like your's, she assumes that cases and bags are for her to sleep in .

[quote name='project_c' timestamp='1504736392' post='3367034'] My cat does the same thing, bass time means lap time. [/quote] Lovely .

[quote name='Mykesbass' timestamp='1504733648' post='3367016'] Remind her from what the strings used to be made [/quote] Evil

[quote name='josie' timestamp='1504729206' post='3366984'] Monty (now sadly lost to cancer) - a very large, strong, heavy (not overweight) cat - never tried to climb into my lap, but he would leap on my guitar teacher and persistently head-butt him under the left arm while he was trying to play. Monty's true love, though, was my used-to-be duo partner, a lovely lady and fine singer with an "ample bosom" and fondness for low-cut tops. At any possible chance he would jump up and knead his front paws in her cleavage. Our best moment was when we were working on "Romeo and Juliet" and she improvised spoof "Monty" lyrics which I so wish I could remember - all I can remember is that we were both laughing so hard we literally cried. Good times. We never liked each other that much, to be honest, but I miss him. [/quote] Cats are brilliant, so full of character.

[quote name='Dandelion' timestamp='1504730935' post='3367002'] Buy a carpeted bass cab, a veritable cat magnet. [/quote] I know, I used to have one. She'd hang off it with her claws well and truly embedded.

[quote name='TimR' timestamp='1504729793' post='3366990'] Kick it out into the garden. [/quote] She's a house cat, she doesn't go out, only to sit in the sun occasionally.

She's a very determined Siamese. I do spend a very long time each day playing, I suppose I ought to spare her more time . She jumps up on to my desk, then steps on to my knee, from there she's able to get under the neck of the bass, then between to and me. She then starts howling at me until I relent and lie the bass down on my lap. Then she goes to sleep . [attachment=253029:20637977_746880238853573_7475737249451581024_n.jpg][attachment=253030:20914628_752131321661798_9147661950633448162_n.jpg]

The TC Dittos are great, and very simple to use. The only thing with using one in a band situation is to make sure that everyone can hear it, just to avoid timing issues.

I'm guessing that if the sponge is too rigid then it's maybe having the effect of shifting the bridge forward? Maybe make sure that whatever you use is just muting the strings.

I thought these guys were rather good. [url="https://ameaningfulsilence.bandcamp.com/album/emergence"]https://ameaningfulsilence.bandcamp.com/album/emergence[/url]

[quote name='Nicko' timestamp='1504706014' post='3366759'] Why would knowing the note names make the slightest difference? I know the fretboard well enough to find a note if someone asks for it, but if I'm playing a phrase the intervals are important, not the notes. If someone asks me to play an E# Major scale I can do it. In order to tell you the names of the scale tones I'd have to work backwards from where I put my fingers. My brain works better on patterns than on names. BTW I picked E# deliberately before you pedants start mocking me. Seems like you might have locked yourself in to a way of thinking purely because you read standard notation. [/quote] I know the note and it's relationship to the other notes and within the piece I'm playing. I'm not thinking patterns. I play a lot of chordal stuff, whether played as a straight chord or more horizontally, a good knowledge is prerequisite I think. 98% of what I do doesn't require sight-reading, I'm improvising solo, which again I think does require a thorough knowledge. I'm certainly not locked into a way of thinking, my knowledge frees my thinking.

[quote name='BigRedX' timestamp='1504703171' post='3366723'] I can drive, but I hate it and I'm not a very good driver. Consequently I don't drive and the roads are a much safer place without me behind the wheel of a motor vehicle. [/quote] That about sums up my driving too .

[quote name='SpondonBassed' timestamp='1504703130' post='3366721'] Of course. You aren't in charge however. I've made my choice. [/quote] I've not said otherwise. I've said all along that people can play and learn whatever way they want,. You can play blindfold using your toes for all I care 😊.

[quote name='SpondonBassed' timestamp='1504702597' post='3366714'] I have a low B and it isn't hard to work out how many octaves and alternatives there are. What do you do? [/quote] I just know what all the notes are. It's never occurred to me that you can play an instrument without knowing what note you're playing.

[quote name='SpondonBassed' timestamp='1504701622' post='3366695'] I know my open strings. I have little use for note names other than that, if that's what you mean. [/quote] So someone says to you to play 8th notes on a B, what do you do?

[quote name='PaulGibsonBass' timestamp='1504650161' post='3366403'] Do those of you who use public transport ever feel uneasy about carrying your gear around, from a safety / security perspective? [/quote] No, never. I think most thieves are opportunist, they see a car with a boot full of gear and try their luck. If they're caught they've broken into a car. Stealing from a person is a whole more serious thing. Plus in my case my bass weighs 6.5kg, plus another 2 or 3kg for the gig bag and MacBook that travels in the pocket. My other gear is on a trolley.

Don't really see what you can do. You won the auction, but it's still his property. You can't exactly go round and remove it, eBay can't force him to sell it either. He should have put a reserve price on it, but I think you have to pay to do that.

[quote name='SpondonBassed' timestamp='1504695894' post='3366603'] Again, no. It is a form of communication into which you have to be educated. Hardly universal unless you consider the universe to be populated solely by standard notation readers. Not everyone is literate or educated. We are never going to agree on it being universally acceptable. [/quote] I used the term universal to mean it can be understood by violinists, cellists, pianists, guitarists, flautists.....the list goes on and on, and they could be anywhere in the world. Yes, they would have to be musically literate, I wasn't saying otherwise. Most drummers I know, at least the ones I was at uni with would understand it. Everyone be they vocalists, drummers, bassists studied piano as a second instrument, and had to write arrangements for other instruments. My guitarist friend understood it perfectly. I wrote a piece ages ago for oboe and 6 string bass, I wouldn't know how to start writing TAB for oboe .

[quote name='SpondonBassed' timestamp='1504686670' post='3366503'] Both systems are dependent on good source material. Are you saying that there are [i]no[/i] poorly written scores? Whatever system you use, if you don't hear what you expect for a piece you are working up, you look at alternatives, modify, improvise, beg advice etc. whatever system you've been reading. [/quote] Personally, like I've said before, I couldn't care less what someone uses. If someone wants to use TAB then cool, if someone wants to use an app where a hand rises by magic from the device, extends a forefinger and points at each note on the fretboard in turn, then again that's cool. In 20 years of playing I've only ever come across one badly written notated chart. That was actually on a gig aboard a cruise ship, sight-reading a song I'd never played before. I knew enough though to ignore what was written. Someone had used a marker pen to write the 'natural' sign next to a the Bs on the chart, it was in F. The thing with standard notation and TAB, you don't need to be 'working up' the line from notation, you can just play it. That's what notation is for. It enables me sitting in my room in Birmingham, to send a chart to anyone else, anywhere in the world, and regardless of what instrument they play, they can look at it, and understand it. I'm recording stuff at the moment with a guitarist. I recorded a piece last night on my bass. it took me 10 minutes afterwards to write out what I'd played using Sibelius, and i sent it to him. The piece was played on my 7 string bass, played up past the 12th fret. Using TAB for that wouldn't make any sense to him. What I did was written in treble clef, he'll look at it and understand straight off what the underlying harmony is, and be able to record his part. Notation is a universal way of communication, TAB isn't, it's instrument specific, but as a means to learning something it's fine, if that's the course that your personal playing has followed.

[quote name='MoonBassAlpha' timestamp='1504615144' post='3366055'] Did they say what was causing it? [/quote] No, the guy just replaced the control panel. Excellent service. This was the very first one that had gone wrong.

[quote name='NickD' timestamp='1504528118' post='3365439'] Nice little setup there, did it a couple of weeks ago. Soundguy is pretty cool too, sound on stage and out front was great. London is a bit of a special case I guess. particularly the central London Venues. There's pretty much nowhere more than an hour away on the Tube/Overground, and most have everything you need. I just need to take a gigbag and a smile! [/quote] Excellent . It's an event called Mental notes, 9th October 2017. Quite looking forward to it..........shameless gig plug .