Woodinblack

People pay that sort of money for them? 😮 I guess its true that something that is old has value regardless of what it is. I understand people collecting old quirky things, for interest etc, like buying an old Lada or something. It is interesting because it is quirky and old, not because it is actually something worth having in its own right.

Sounds a plan, that is what I would do.

Almost all EMGs can be driven without a preamp, as they have a preamp built in anyway. They can't be driven without power but that is provided separately.

They can be run passively yes. There will always be a bit of treble attenuation running anything passive (and why often people prefer passive) but it isn't going to be that noticable. Note that all the premiums have a active / passive switch so can run big singles passively and there really isn't much difference (with good cables).

Genuinely I would never pay that sort of money for a genuine mid range ibanez preamp - they are not that good. If you have that sort of money to spend, get a Glok or a Darkglass or an Agular or one of the other named preamps. For that sort of money get a John East!

Put the big singles in, make it passive for now and leave it until you have a bit more money. I read somewhere you were a fan

Taylor swift did have her music on spotify and then removed it because she didn't want her music to appear on the free tier, as she didn't think music should be given away free, but an artist couldn't choose that as an option. Then spotify whizzed her off a bit. So she wasn't there for a few years, and windowed a few albums so they were available on album for 3 weeks before streaming (which seems sensible). Obviously a bit harder for her now as she seems to be producing a new album every month. Tool was a weird one - they weren't on any streaming service for a long time, then with the latest album, they released it as only a £45 luxury album or streaming only. So for someone like me who wants the £10 album version, there wasn't anything.

And.. so what? Your job isn't writing transcriptions so that other bass players can see what you were doing, you are doing it because people have asked (neh, nagged!) you too, as a favour. Before you did it, there wasn't a definitive version, now there is. The world has gained something. If the transcriptions aren't right, and it bothers someone, they can just take those transcriptions and redo them now they are on the internet, or they can just ignore them. But for those of us who wanted to see them, they are fantastic, and we can listen to the tracks and look at the transcriptions and know how to do it, and it keeps us going waiting for your video lessons

Will give it a try tonight. Obviously that one is easier as you only have to upload, but its also less free and flexable.

I use streaming and still by CDs if I like something. I don't use amazon.

Not necessarily wasp - Chris Holmes worked in the construction industry when they weren't touring as Blackie Lawless wouldn't pay him. He said it was a pain on tour as he had to get his hands in condition to play again. And he was also married to Lita Ford! I guess it only worked for a few people. The maximum you would get for 1,000,000 streams at spotifys maximum pay out is $4366, which is just over £3000. Before tax. Yes, that is more than £33 and more enough to finance a round of recordings, but not a living, which sounds a bit crazy for those sort of numbers. So yes, if you were getting half a million streams a month, you might be able to manage minimum wage.

Just wire it direct and change whatever you want to change on the amp, turn the tone down there..You cant get back what you have taken it out, but you can later take out what you don't want.

I only recently (which recent is yesterday) heard about spleeter, although it has been round for a couple of years. I would be very surprised if it hadn't taken off hugely if it wasn't a massive pain to install. Spleeter is an AI bit of software (literally a tensorflow model if that means anything to you) which you put audio through and it attempts to split the sound in the component instruments. The amazing thing is that it doesn't do that bad a job of it and is thus, pretty close to magic. Unfortunately it is one of those python 'right version of python, right version of every package manager, right version of everything else and a guess at what the errors mean' but after failing to get it to work on the PC, I got it to work on the mac tonight. I actually did it because I wanted to isolate the bass line from 'learning to fly' by pink floyd, as the bass is a chapman stick. It does a fairly good job except it does tend to remove the higher parts. I tried 'fool for your loving', on it as more posts have been done on this forum about it than anything else. Its a command line thing, so it works like this: % spleeter separate -o ~/Music/audio-out -p spleeter:4stems /Users/woody/Music/iTunes/iTunes\ Music/Whitesnake/Best\ Of\ Whitesnake/01\ Fool\ For\ Your\ Loving.m4a INFO:spleeter:File /Users/woody/Music/audio-out/01 Fool For Your Loving/bass.wav written succesfully INFO:spleeter:File /Users/woody/Music/audio-out/01 Fool For Your Loving/vocals.wav written succesfully INFO:spleeter:File /Users/woody/Music/audio-out/01 Fool For Your Loving/drums.wav written succesfully INFO:spleeter:File /Users/woody/Music/audio-out/01 Fool For Your Loving/other.wav written succesfully And the output, well, obviously I can't put it all up here, it is copyrighted stuff after all, but here are bits of the sections in one audio file as examples.. mix.mp3 Obviously it is not the sort of quality you want to listen to isolated, but it is convincingly pulled apart and lets you hear stuff that is hard to hear otherwise. - edit - Should have added the links. Heres it release page https://deezer.io/releasing-spleeter-deezer-r-d-source-separation-engine-2b88985e797e and here is the source page https://github.com/deezer/spleeter although if you are setting it up rather than editing it, python (max 3.7 as it uses tensorflow) will download the files

That falls in the completely crazy category for me, but if that is the thing that is important to you, I guess go for it. My daughter got married on the Isle of Sky up a hill (wedding dress and walking boots!), just them and some officials, then we had parties afterwards. Yes, I remember I was invited to the wedding of a friend a few companies ago, which was fine, nice venue etc. I was contacted by his event organiser with a list of the 'stag do' which involved going to another country for a day out drinking, clay pigeon shooting on some estate and a couple of other things over 3 days - I wouldn't do that for myself, let alone a work coleague!

Yep - I sold my LT for £600 or so, and if you want the facilities and have the space it is a winner. Too big for me though. Bigger than the HX FX is a no from me.

I certainly like the idea, but then as most short scales are 4 string I end up not being able to gig it, as I don't have time to swap (as the guitarist is oblivious to everything on stage that isn't him). And the 5 I had, the messinger just didn't sound right (looked great though!). Of course the new ibanez 32" look interesting but not sure if it is enough difference from my srs, and I would love the new Ibanez short scales but they are not squier prices!

The pickups didn't do it for me. Although I am thinking of the earlier model, the SR805MS - maybe it is different. Also there was something unnaturally odd about the neck for an ibanez. Also the nut seemed 'hacked', like they had taken a normal SR neck and put the nut on at an angle and didn't know what to do with the space, it had sharp edges and just felt wrong. The EHB solves all of those, it feels just like it was made that way. The SR2600? I just sold a 2650. There was nothing wrong with it but with the 1605 and 5005 I had a bit too much of a monoculture, so I sold it to get an EHB, except I have no patience and it took a long time to sell so I have had the EHB for quite a while. Note that the string spacing on the 2400/2405 is wrong - they obviously decided that some of those huged handed people who can handle jumping from string to string needed a proper bass, so they put P bass spacing on it - so if you like narrow necks, the 2400 is not your friend and unlike every other SR. Agreed - it looks nice

ok, so it is over £250 for a couple more buttons. Maybe skip that then!

Yes, they are a lot more expensive, although maybe justified. If the SRMS805 works for you then that is fine. I got rid of mine because it didnt work for me. Also the EHB is a very different bass to the SR - I have many more SRs than EHBs (even though I have recently got rid of a couple), I have the 1000/1605 and 5005 - two of which have barts, although US barts which are the same price as the nords. (actually looking at the below, slightly more). It will presumably in the BOM of the 5000 if you can dig that up on the japanese site. There are 4 models of 5000, 1-4. Selecting the latest one, the parts list is: https://cs.hoshinogakki.co.jp/pcw.nsf/item.xsp?documentId=5C353C9377D4BAB449258386007A9A66&strItemKey=SR5000_OL_00_04&curSuffix=0004&curFromYMTX=2018/12&curToYMTX=&strMode=newpage and the pickup leads to here: https://www.guitar-lounge.at/Ibanez-Parts-Merch-Amps-Effects/ibanez-pickups/guitar-parts-pick-up-ibanez-en.html?language=en

Actually, I do have some big blades in a box on the shelf, maybe they are the right size. Got them for something that I never did, but currently dont have any basses with wrong pickups! Still keeping an eye out then .That was why I got the 1505 over the 1005 - less hassle all round, which is what worries me with the 1005sms

For me the yamaha was just marginally more likeable on some sections, but only because they were switched in small sections. If the guy and done one whole section, waited a minute and done the same thing on the other bass, I doubt I would have been able to tell the difference. And of course from a practical point of view, the jazz had a string missing!

Yeh - i leave it a while, I get really keen and then go off the idea, but this seems to be holding. But I have had 4 short scales and currently don't have any, so I am not sure if I need them or not!

Would love the pink in a 5! But I would be happy with whatever colour. But then it has those pickups in which I know I wouldn't like, and then it all gets expensive again!

I tried to buy one but it turned out that they hadn't started producing them yet, so I cancelled the order. Now I have one in my basket online. It has been there a few days now...

I never really found the sounds convincing but it isn't what I use it for so I never found it an issue