Woodinblack

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?

What tablet is that? I never found it unobvious, it just has the big buttons along the top. Not sure I am missing something here, but if you take an ethernet cable and plug one end in the laptop and the other end in the XR18! As long as your addresses are in the same group, that is, jobs good

That happens - if you look at the actual waveform, it is clearly a 31hz signal (if you measure it the main peaks are 32ms apart) but the peaks are 2nd (plus others) harmonics. It would be counter intuitive looking at the waveform to say it was anything other than a 31Hz signal. On the oscilloscope it is the same signal but with more of the curve that hasn't been filtered out by audio recording equipment.

I have seen Kays going for silly money, with people saying 'rare kay guitar' - yes, the reason they are rare is that most people burned them as soon as they got a proper guitar! Over a tenner for sentimental value to hang on the wall is daft.

Things can just die. Are you sure it has phantom power?

Last night we were playing at a social club we hadn't played before. It was quite a lot of space but the band was round the corner from the bar which wasn't ideal. Not a huge audience but a couple of people came from the end to sit in sight, so that was nice, and some people danced at the end of the first half. At the half time, the drummers parents came in and his dad said 'oh busy weekend for you guys then, you are playing the foresters tomorrow I see'. Me and the guitarist looked at each other confused, no we aren't - well, you are on the board there. Checked calendar, nothing, looked for singer (who controls the calendar bookings), couldn't find him. The guitarist rings up the pub 'Hello, do you have a pub on tomorrow, oh good, what time is that? Yes, we will come and see them!', sure enough, we are there tomorrow (today) at 3:30. The singer came back, couldn't remember but later on admitted remembering organising a gig, but on searching the calendar couldn't find it! Rest of the gig was good, crowd were friendly, a few people asked for cards on the way out. So not much point unloading the car today! -- Next day - glad we found out about that, it was a good gig, seemed like it was a bit small and we would have to be quiet, but turned out we didn't, they liked us and booked us again for april at the end of the gig!

Bath wood is one I hadn't heard before! You would be surprised. Some can be nice, some can be bad. If you are prepared to do the work on it, and the neck isn't fundamentally fendered, you can get a nice guitar out of it.

Almost agreed with you there. I recorded my B string, and the fundamental was several dB down on the 2nd harmonic and similar to the 3rd (much higher than the others). Then I thought about it, and dragged the scope out and looked. The fundamental was about the same amplitude as the 2nd harmonic (I also found out that my fireman is clipping - need to do something about that), indicating that the device I was using as a computer interface was filtering more on 31hz than 62 (which bearing in mind it is fundamentally a guitar interface which doesn't need anything below 80 is reasonable). However, this is a derail really, the clarity of a B string isn't really affected by the presence or absence of any even harmonic. Ibanez 5005 bart pickup Ibanez 2605 Nord pickup

Please tell me more - not sure what you mean about effective flexibility. Do you have a link or a paper I can look at?

Like any bass. I never found a P bass with a decent neck, but people seem to like them.

Of course it can. They are fender, mass producing necks. They hardly attach a neck to a body and then cut it by hand before shipping them new do they?

Mine is up for sale at the moment. And in my gig bag ready to go out. And I am thinking, well, it isn't really worth selling, might as well hang on to it!

I would also say that fodera and those sort are a different market to Maruszczyk. I would put them more in a fender custom sort of market. I love my Maruszczyk but it is not without its quality problems. I have never had a fodera and to be honest never will as I don't find them very appealing, but if I found the same issues with one of those that I have had with my Maruszczyk I would be at their door asking to talk to the MD!

Indeed, if you want 'the best', with whatever the best means to you and you can afford it, why would you go for the 'almost as good' because it is a fraction of the price. Some people are happy with that, some people aren't. That is why there is always a market for hand built stuff / craftsmen / Tailors etc.