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Yeah bring back the like button Back on topic. Sometimes you do get people, neighbours or whatever who'll moan just for the sake of it. Where we used to live, our neighbours were really nice people, but soooooo noisy ! They'd have the radio on in the garden on a sunny summer afternoon, listening to the local awful radio station. No big deal but annoying if you didn't want to listen to it on a sunny summer afternoon. The guy played darts in a local pub, and would practice with his dart board on a joining wall, you'd hear thunk, thunk thunk, followed by a slight pause as he retrieved his darts, then the same again for maybe an hour or 2. Anyway when I was about 14 I started playing guitar, just a classical acoustic, you've never heard moaning like it from her when I'd be practicing. Despite my room not adjoining their house, quite often she'd complain about my playing even when I hadn't been. She just knew I'd got a guitar so blamed that if she'd maybe been woken at night by something, or had heard music. But to the guy who started this post, right now I'm listening to dream theater quite loudly through my studio monitors, my parents are both out at work and I know the neighbours are out, so I can do so without disturbing anyone. You just need to consider the appropriateness of playing your bass loudly in a multi occupancy dwelling for any length of time, it just isn't right dude. Blaming soundproofing or lack of doesn't come into it, it's not there so you need to be hyper careful. I doubt you'd get much sympathy from your landlord, especially if you make a fuss about the lack of soundproofing. I should imagine it'd be expensive to lift all the floor boards and get soundproofing put in. Plus it'd be your neighbours who suffer the hassle of getting the floorboards up, if they're above you.

[quote name='discreet' timestamp='1383651701' post='2266963'] ...in your opinion. [size=4]It makes me laugh when people have their car stereos way too loud. Their attitude is, 'check out what I'm into, isn't it great?'[/size] [size=4]But it's never Mozart, is it?? [/size] [/quote] There should be a 'like' button on this site, like on Facebook

Each album is of its time, I think anyway. Roll the bones had some great tracks, ghost of a chance for example. I sometimes think it's a case that people like a particular album or a band from from a particular period, they don't then like it that the band evolves, their playing changes, what they're actually listening to at the time is maybe different, then of course there are happenings in their personal lives that affect the song writing. Personally I liked clockwork angels, but I'm not a huge fan of the early stuff.

I practice maybe 7 or 8 hours a day, but have the volume turned down I can hear it but I can't be heard in any other room. If I'm practicing late at night after everyone had gone to bed, then I'm unamped. It's a question of thoughtfulness, I don't wanna hear other peoples music or tv, I don't expect them to have to put up with me. Just turn down dude.

Shallow grave and a new patio.

I think I was told that you only don't pay if you've been abroad for more than 6 months. I was on a P and O ship, and got paid when I came home. I just declared it in that years return. Either way, you'll get taxed by someone, sorry. You really need to speak to your tax office, someone telling you something on a muso forum won't be much of a defence if you get it wrong.

You do pay tax on what you earn, it's treated as if your earning in this country. I played on one a few years ago, and just declared it on my return.

Can't do this cos of my uni course, but please advertise on here if you need someone next summer !

The main thing to consider is the neck width and string spacing. My Yamaha has 19mm spacing at the bridge and the neck is quite wide. My other 6 has 17mm spacing, consequently the neck is a lot slimmer. Both are very comfortable to play. The Yamaha actually requires a bit less thought when you play it, the tighter spacing on my other bass requires a lot more accuracy, especially If you're playing something requiring string skipping. Why the unusual tuning ? Personally I get annoyed when people ask why I've got a 6 string bass.

I'm in the mu, you get insurance as part of the package which is good, and free advice etc. I'm a student though, so it's only £20 for me, I'm not sure that I'd join if I had to pay the full price.

I read 2 days ago that their websites now been taken down. They stopped building early part of the year. Just search on talkbass and you'll see.

[quote name='icastle' timestamp='1383418093' post='2264329'] Yeah mine's pretty quiet as well. I bought a Fishman for mine and it's made a real difference. [/quote] Thanks, I may try one .

I bought an NS NXT5 string EUB a while ago. I've only really used it for recording up to now, but have a few live things coming up soon. It seems to have rather a low output. I used to have an EA Micro 550 head, and it seemed fine through one channel on that, my new amp though, I'm having to really increase the gain. Should I be using an external preamp ? Maybe something like the Fishman Platinum, that'd be useful I guess for EQ'ing it too.

But for something to be perfect, which is highly subjective anyway, you have t realise that you may be wrong.

[quote name='MB1' timestamp='1383395175' post='2263987'] MB1. "Total Dicks???" I can imagine they can't stop kicking each other every time they get a bank statement! ...What a pair eh? [/quote] It was their attitudes, maybe it's just me, what has record sales got to do with how they came across anyway ? A lot of 'stars' are very full of themselves.

[quote name='bubinga5' timestamp='1383393729' post='2263966'] why did you think they were dicks? just interested. [/quote] It was their attitudes to the musicians they worked with. The list of session players on tracks (not necessarily the album, cos a lot of players recorded tracks that didn't get used) was like a 'who's who' of world class session musicians. There was an interview with Chuck Rainey who played a slapped line which they didn't want him to do, but he did it anyway, it seems they didn't realise it was slapped at the time, but they had told him no when he'd suggested it'd be cool. It must have worked otherwise they'd have had him do it again, but in the interview when the slap bit was brought up they said they didn't like it, but if that'd been the case then they wouldn't have kept it, their attitude to that really annoyed me. They didn't want to admit that they'd been wrong about someone's contribution to their recording. I think it was just their attitude that they wanted it a certain way, and anything else was rubbish. It must have cost a fortune in session fees, I couldn't work out why they'd record a guitar solo (they went through something like 9 different guitarists on one solo), and then the following day record the same thing with someone else. Could they not communicate exactly what they wanted or didn't want with Someone who wouldn't have gotten the call to record for them in the first place if he couldn't have done what they wanted.

Maybe you just need to give the new playing style time, use a metronome and build up your speed gradually. Just check all your notes are consistent and smooth.