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There isn't any page restriction, if you hit the Quote button next to the plus, it will just quote that post, or if you want to quote many, just press the + on the ones you want.
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i love that video, he is putting as much effort into doing that with the kids than he is live, and he is having a great time. Its true to say that none of my youth bands had a drummer like that to play with!
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The Pneuma drum video? That is a good one.
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I have never seen a chapman stick in an actual shop. I have only really seen one advertised in an actual shop and that was crazy money.
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I moved to the states in the mid/late 90s and sold all my music stuff. While I was there i bought a guitar and synth so played those. When I came back all my stuff was still on a boat waiting to get back and would be a while, so I walked into a second hand guitar shop* and thought, well, I had a guitar when it came back, i would get a bass, but I didn't have much money as my company weren't paying us reliably and we just had to get a new flat and stuff. There was a cheap 5 string bass with narrow string spacing that looked ok, and played ok. i had never had a 5, but it was cheap and thought why not. That was the only bass i had for 8 years so by the time I had a desire to get a new bass, i had got used to the 5, and though my new fancy bass was 4 string, and obviously better, I was still playing the 5 string more. 5 strings are niche as people didn't sell them. People didn't sell them as 5 strings are niche. * Portsmouth was pretty blessed by guitar shops in the 80s/90s.
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Close. An 'apartment' is what you Americans would call a 'flat'. An 'Apartment' over here would be considered a more expensive or flashier 'flat'.
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The law of diminishing returns, Tonewood and other folly’s
Woodinblack replied to tegs07's topic in General Discussion
Not surprisingly because I got a flute that didn't have a silver mouth piece and caused a huge reaction on my lips which hurt quite a bit. Its easier (and looks better) getting silver than putting tape over it! Glad I am not a discerning high level player then as it isn't good enough for me. it obviously is or they wouldn't exist, and I have seen them. -
Bass instrument cable straight into amp
Woodinblack replied to Thunderbird's topic in General Discussion
Why would you need to tune? Just buy a bass that is in tune in the first place! At the risk of falling into a 4 yorkshireman sketch, my dads parents always had an outside loo until my gran died in 1987, and my grandad got a flat (with an inside loo). Not only that, they had a tin bath that they used in the kitchen (which was tiny, both the bath and the kitchen). As a kid, I was not a great fan of going there! -
Yes, sometimes their estimates are way out!
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I doubt it was a consideration, they couldn't keep doing the same, the songwriter wasn't there any more, so they just continued. They almost certainly lost fans and they gained more. I honestly think the whole argument is just a misunderstand in the words, not the concepts. When I go and buy a bass, I play it and I either enjoy playing it or I don't. I listen to the sound and not once have I ever thought 'I bet an audience would like the sound of this', and I seriously doubt anyone has. It is all 'about me' when selecting equipment, which is why we are getting different stuff, apart from those people who get some instrument because it matches, and I guess that is restricted mostly to people in tribute groups or very specific genres of music (and here I am aware that I played motown on a shuker uberhorn). Learning music can be either incredibly selfish if you are self taught or very public if you are classically trained, where you learn to play the right way for exams, and have to learn what people want to hear and play it in the right way. I remember my mum getting annoyed I was playing the same thing over and over, becuase i liked the sound of it. What I mean is that I think there is less distance from the two extremes of this thread than it would seem. I play cover band stuff in public because my own stuff wouldn't be interesting to anyone. I think both are valid.
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The Short Scale Bass Appreciation Society!
Woodinblack replied to Baloney Balderdash's topic in Bass Guitars
I have gigged with my mustang, my Ibanez Talman 35 which are both 30" and my 27" JR. I seriously doubt that anyone noticed any difference. I wouldn't normally do a full gig with the first and last as they are 4 strings, but I would have no hesitation doing the whole gig with the TM35. -
12 step and ipad/iphone? Anyone using this?
Woodinblack replied to skidder652003's topic in Other Instruments
I use a 12 step and an iPad to run synths for my setup, but ironically also use a Jam Man to trigger individual sounds. Every so often I look for a decent one shot looper on the iPad, but the only ones I can ever find are fantastically clever complicated things, rather than just the one shot samples I want.- 1 reply
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And I guess this is android, there isn't anything on the iPad list, other than the old Mixing Station Pro. I find it handy in emergency but not a fan of things moving round, so I just stick to the normal channels.
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Ah, can't help with that, i didn't know there was a new app. I used the old app a few times but never really bothered to set it up, so just use the default X-Air application.
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So what is it specifically that you don't like or can't do easily? I did a gig for a friend the other day, doing the sound. They had an old mixer with knobs, really not much fun to go back that way!
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If you don't mind the word 'super', the behringer video is pretty good:
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No, I have another little wifi / ethernet box that is powered by the USB port in the X-Touch. It can pretty well replace all the functions of the tablet, although it isn't an and / or situation. Some things are easier to see on the tablet but do on the X-Touch. Obviously all the level functions are easy on the X-Touch, so channel volumes, bus volumes effects levels and all those sort of thing, pan, adjusting basic stuff like input levels, compressor, etc. But the EQ although you can set it on the X-Touch it is easier to see on the tablet, such as Q etc. But I can't think of anything you can't actually do on a tablet that you would want to do in a show, so everything except changing which bus went to which channel and USB playback functions. Also naming channels and the colour of them needs to be done on the iPad. The sort of thing you don't normally need to edit in a show. I have both and happy to use both, its just that I am always getting asked to change things while I have my lyrics on the iPad, or I am playing so jabbing the iPad is hard.
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Oh sorry, I always get the name wrong, an X-Touch https://www.behringer.com/product.html?modelCode=P0B1X I had been waiting for one to appear on the behringer outlet for a while as I decided that to do the mixing live, and unlike you lucky people with someone out the front to do it, this is just me, I wanted the actual sliders on top of my amp, so when I am busy playing I don't have to try and grab a virtual slider. So now the X18 is on the floor where everyone plugs in, I still have the XAir app on my iPad (never really got on with mixing station), and also the X-Touch wirelessly connecting sitting on top of my amp.
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The increase in price is purely down to the markup at the bottom. So you have a squier which costs £50 in parts at pure cost level, once you add labour and markup you end up at £300, whereas the american professional you use £120 of parts, and by the time you have more labour and markup it ends up in the £1000s. The main difference in the American vs Mexican vs Indonesians is the cost of the premises and the workforce. Very small price differences in the parts make quite huge differences by the time it is hanging in the shop
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Is there any reason why the aesthetic isn't important? Or maybe there is something. I love the look of maple, but looking around me, I haven't got one maple fingerboarded instrument. I have had several but haven't kept them for reasons that probably aren't anything to do with the fingerboard (or maybe they are but I don't notice?)
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No experience of that, but do you mean the XAir software or the third party mixer amp? People always seem to complain about the XAir software and recommend mixing station, although I quite like XAir. I do have mixing station on my phone as it is a handy backup. I just got a X-Control for my X18, so looking forward greatly to the next gig to see how that goes,.
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Donnar have been advertising heavily on facebook. They have a buy 2, get one free offer at the moment they are pushing. I have a donnar ABY switch, which works fine (although I can't think of any way an ABY switch could not work), and their effects are cheap. I was getting fairly tempted and even considering getting the effects to replace my line6 effects to see if I could have a smaller board.