blisters on my fingers

Did you check the delivery on the DPD website? Who had signed for it? "franzbassist" (joking obviously, but your name obtained from the label) and a squiggle ?? If that is the case then it is a fraudulent delivery. Did you complain to DPD ?? Most people don't, they've received their items intact and still on their doorstep, luckily before some toerag has nicked it The drivers are under a huge amount of pressure to deliver X amount of parcels. In Y amount of time The management doesn't give an effing tOss as long as the depot is clear. Complain about this to DPD and ask them if it is acceptable for such a high value item to be left on a doorstep without a signature from the customer

I think it lets you use another keyboard to trigger the sounds from the Roland and vice versa

I agree with everything you are saying, but I would double that amount of deliveries at least !

This is the original release and the bass line is exactly as notated in the previous post from Lowdown. A two bar pattern using A and F# notes. No B at all is there?

Ok that's not the way it sounds to me. Where is the B note in the bass line ? Cannot hear that at all.

Well the key of the song is D to my ears, but the bassline is two notes A and F#, the fifth and third of D major. If the song is in the key of D then the bassline (which repeats through the whole song) never plays the tonic. Which is why I was asking what key we think it is in.

Depends what key you think it is

Once in a Lifetime ?

I agree with Billy Corgan, the colour of the instrument changes the sound of the instrument. Well played stew -- it looks and sounds fab !! 💟

Yeah I know that feeling only too well (not with our drummer I hasten to add, it's usually the 6 stringers counting with their five fingers that fecks it up) 😖

Yeah I would, can't see why your drummer is having a problem with it !

Just listened a few times and you are spot on - two bar break and then everything comes back on the beat.

You know the second part of the solo is the first part reversed by studio trickery ? Not that helps with your question 😃

It is SQUIER Jesus Christ !!!!! how many more times ????

Didn't Jaco Pastorius do this when he played a fretted bass?

A result indeed ! Well done mate Now what can I bugle up next

I jumped in at the deep end, trying to lower the action on an Ibanez piezo equipped guitar and achieved fantastic results, even with my somewhat rudimentary skills. The fantastic results were achieved by carefully filing the bottom of the saddle, refitting it, filing a bit more until the action was spot on. So pleased with myself until it was plugged in - disaster. The volume from the strings was now completely unmatched. I'd turned a decent enough guitar into a dog's dinner. I glued a strip of fine sandpaper to a spare bathroom tile and then gently resanded the underneath of the plastic saddle, checking the result against the untouched still glazed part of the tile, to ensure that the saddle would now be completely flat. Put it back in the slot in the bridge and now the volume was even across all the strings. A kind of good result I suppose, more by luck than judgement, the surface contact and pressure between the saddle and piezo pickup is so crucial. Glad yours worked out Stewblack and like you say we're all learning

Thanks Andy I have zero knowledge of retail "3. The big brands need to shift units...so go with the big chains with ridiculous dealership demands. I think the last buy in for a Gibson dealership was £35k. Small chains cannot do this." How does the buy in for a dealership work ?

Mr Al Krow My post started off as a jokey response to your idea that a retailer would swap out pickups at no expense to himself The scenario was that of a kid in a sweetshop which in my tired and emotional state I neglected to mention. Do not post when pisshed is my motto from now on

I do have a positive experience of this. The retailer told me to make my own mind up, stop wasting his time and try living in the real world. My mum agreed. Hope this helps.

Glad it is up and running. Looks like you have a sizable monitor, I'm using a standard size laptop and your second screenshot is in proportion to what I get on my machine. This caused me a bit of headscratching at first --- why won't it expand to fill the entire screen ? When you use it with a DAW however this makes perfect sense, as krispn states above. You can drag and drop patterns into the DAW to establish the song structure, whilst using EZ 2 as a VST instrument. Also while I'm blethering away, feel I may have overstated the midi controller angle a bit, AFAIK you cannot tweak sounds in a TB303 acid house or Rebirth way but there is still a lot of functionality available. Bet your neighbours are having the time of their lives

Have you downloaded the Toontrack Product Manager ?

Well in that case Al, EZ drummer 2 comes with meticulously recorded performances by real drummers that are used to provide the midi input to immaculately recorded real drums recorded in real studios. Check out the videos. You could choose a style that suits your song, choose an intro then verses choruses etc. change the complete kit, tweak it with studio effects, add tambourines, shakers even COWBELL or just leave it as it is, save it and quickly get on with the songwriting then return to tweakiness later ! You can learn a lot about mixing a kit from the er... mixer You don't even need a DAW it will download with a standalone version full of drummy goodness You will definitely understand drums more deeply... I most certainly did. Would a drum machine do any of this ? Download the demo and spend a few days with it

Al, what is it that you want your drum patterns for ? Is it for songwriting purposes or to take along to a rehearsal if your drummer is unavailable ? Are you aiming for realistic drum patterns with realistic drum sounds or are you more interested in using a drum machine with lots of tweakability- tweakableness-knobtwiddly ness.??? Cos there is nothing wrong with that - huge amounts of fun. But that can all be achieved with software with the addition of a midi controller. You could tweak and trigger drum loops and edit sounds in real time and save all your creations ready for the next rehearsal or the next stage of the song. Are you using a DAW and if so which one ?

Review of EZ drummer 2 here www.soundonsound.com/reviews/toontrack-ezdrummer-2 from our friends in Bar Hill, from 5 years ago. There are a mind boggling amount of expansions, different kits etc, now available five years after this review. Toontrack often sell bundles at a reduced price and have a plethora of their own videos available along with the usual Youtube stuff from others. I don't think anybody could fail to be impressed by the capabilities of this software, it is as flexible as you want it to be and sounds amazing. And if not there is always Superior Drummer ! There is an expansion pack of electronic drums if that floats your boat. Al, download a demo and see if it works for you. Will cost you Sweet craddock Adams. Did that get through the profanity filter... Er no it didn't