Woodinblack

Tough act to follow, but someone is out there. At least for the musical side.

Good point. Maybe he is losing his touch? There was a time when if you wanted to put a ric copy on ebay you had to do it on a friday, so it would survive the whole weekend before he got back on monday and got it taken down. That has been there for a few days now and hasn't been taken down.

I play keys using the Korg iM1 app driven from a 12 step, just doing chords mostly. I keep wanting to do some sample stuff but haven't got round to it

Now I have had a look, yes, they exist, and they exist because there were problems with the Mexican fender factory for Squiers so they produced the same guitars in the American factory (which lets face it is only 180 miles down the road), using the same materials and cheaper finishes. As a result the american squiers are no better than the mexican squiers but people try to sell them for a lot due to scarcity, although they did produce a lot in the one year they were making them.

This is true. Although I would bet that noone here is going to buy it

I didn't know they did that. Seems an odd thing to do

No, I have actually played some awful ones!

We do one, in general I hadn't thought about it, I didn't really associate the song with MJ, probably because we have been doing it so long. I generally don't associate music with the artist that did it. Obviously if you go down that road there would be a lot of music you couldn't play, the people mentioned in there are just the tip of the iceberg, and as my wife and her friends used to live in Hollywood in their early 20s, I have heard stories of some very horrible people some of whoms behaviour was morally questionable, even at the time, and some of it downright criminal.

I have had an awful japanese squier and have a good chinese one. Classic vibes are great. There weren't any US squiers since fender have owned them, the whole point of that label is to make a cheap version to head off copies of the american ones by producing.. err.. copies of american ones.

It does look well good if they meant to put £699 with offers...

Well, its not a real ric and noone is sensibly trying to sell it...

Thats not too shabby is it?

I would say that Scott is not a reviewer, he runs a bass educational website (which is very good). I think his spamming is excessive, but that is probably why I have nothing like the money he has made, and you don't actually have to watch it. The only way you would see his spam is if you signed up for it (which you can unsubscribe from), so not sure what the problem is. I don't like those videos he does, but then I don't watch them so it isn't an issue. But I do watch his paid content, and he also puts out a lot of free content which has value. If I wanted a review of a bass though I wouldn't watch him, there are plenty of people who do it. I like andertons, even though they are a company, because there videos have quality, they are interesting, they show you the thing they are reviewing and talk about it, as well as showing you all the controls and sounds in several different styles. It is pretty hard to do a decent video, which is I guess why most people don't do them.

Is the router providing an IP address here? Is the IP address not tied to the interface (ie, on ethernet connection is it still dhcp?)

You haven't spent enough time looking at to the various flames in forums long gone as to which songs on the middle rush albums were the Ric and which were the jazz!

Not a fan of the song, it's a bit aimless. I think it could have been improved with a better mix though as it seems like she is struggling to break through

Yep. Many variations of it

Still got a few months until September. Why is it so difficult to get someone if there are so few consistent gigging bands? I would think you would have people queuing up to join. Hope it works out better than you expect

The built in wifi has WEP, which is fairly useless for security but better than nothing (it won't stop anyone hacking but it will stop casual connections) but it is not securing that is the issue, it is not a person looking for a connection, it is the phones themselves, it is just what they do. All the time you are walking round with a mobile phone it is trying to find a wifi it can connect to. When there are a lot of mobile phones together in the same place, like a gig, and there is no good wifi, the wifi connections are going mad, that is why for us it fell over at a rather packed outdoor gig. That is why people always say to get a decent router. It can handle it better.

Oh that is a bit odd. Means you either need a crossover lead or a hub of some kind. I must admit that I only ever used a direct ethernet connection to the X18 from a Macbook and an iPad, both of which autoswitch (actually my PC laptops do too). Never live though, only just for testing etc. Never had a need to go to ethernet, I always had this idea that if it went bad I could go with an ethernet cable to the iPad, but turns out that I trust it implicitly now, so I don't even carry the cable any more (and I carry cables for everything). Its done 100 gigs or so with us now, and apart from that one time* it has never had a problem. * I noticed you saying about the distance - the connection problem isn't caused by a distance issue or anything like that, I was right next to the mixer when I had the problem, it is caused by the rubbish quality wireless in the XR, it used an old wireless protocol and only allows 4 connections. Everyone on that dancefloor and at that gig has a mobile phone with wifi, and all those phones are hunting out a wifi network. Each of those phones are testing to see if they can automatically connect to your mixer. They can't, but they don't know until the try, and they will keep trying. When there are enough of them your mixer is too busy answering queries to talk to you, and that is when stuff goes bad, and when it does it doesn't matter if you are 50M or 5cm, connection will be the same.

Back in the day you used to have to have a cross over cable but any decent laptop made in the last few years should be able to automatically configure itself to be the right way round.

Be careful with the wifi though - I used the internal wifi for a year and a half without any trouble and then one day (at an open air gig), i just lost control of it completely. So I bought a little wifi portable usb powered router from pcworld (for around a tenner - maybe 15) and used that since, never had any trouble since. Not something you need to run out and get straight away but something worth picking up at some point

I have a filter effects pedal I can throw in

Really? There are people who are against unrelic'd basses?