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[quote name='FinnDave' timestamp='1412784100' post='2572024'] Call it Gerald, like the mouse. [/quote] Surely you mean Gerald the Mole ...

[quote name='JTUK' timestamp='1412781521' post='2571990'] Does YT have a space limit..? [/quote] It's more a matter of how long it takes to upload on the connection I have here ... a three minute file is quoted as taking 90 minutes! [quote name='dannybuoy' timestamp='1412782015' post='2572000'] This also means you could re-encode an AVI with embedded MPEG2 video into an AVI with embedded MPEG4 video for example. [/quote] Sad to relate, but to me this is roughly equivalent to "t'crossbeam's gone askew on't treddle". [quote name='HowieBass' timestamp='1412782104' post='2572001'] What's the frame size of the original video? If a clip of about 10 minutes needs a full gigabyte I'd guess it might be full HD? Thats 1920 x 1080 in 16:9 widescreen format. Try resampling/rendering it to something like 1280 x 720 or even 853 x 480 which should reduce the file size a fair bit. [/quote] OK, so all I need to know now is how to resample/render ...

OK, just tried converting the same file as before into .FLV. Results just in: Original MOV file = 565 Mb Converted to MP4 = 546 Mb Converted to WMV = 361 Mb Converted to FLV = 549 Mb It's hard to see that as progress ...

Are these 8x10 or 6x10?

[quote name='M@23' timestamp='1412769030' post='2571773'] I don't want to fan any flames here, but I have to ask, why are people so accepting of this? [/quote] If you lean your bass against your cab while you have a cuppa, and it falls over and gets damaged, I don't see that as a design flaw in the bass. I see it as an example of "well don't DO that then". I don't see how someone else picking up a cab by the wrong handle is something I should either accept or be appalled by. It's his cab and if that's what he wants to do, well so be it.

I've spent far too much time trying to work out the answer to this. I already have, or am given, videos of my bands in either .MOV or .AVI. Typically a single song will be in the region of a gigabyte, which is pretty unwieldy especially if I want to upload it to YouTube. I have, or can obtain, file converters which will take those videos into .MP4 or .WMV but this doesn't seem to achieve a great deal. File sizes remain huge (WMV is about a third smaller) and it's not clear what I achieve by doing this. I realise that this can be a hugely complex subject. All I really want to do is to reduce a 1Gb file to something a lot smaller, say 250Mb, without a noticeable drop in quality when played back on a PC or through YouTube. It follows that the converted file, in whatever format, must be playable and uploadable without further conversion. I've searched the various bits of video handling software I have for tools that will allow me to reduce or compress filesize but I'm not finding anything. Am I barking up the wrong tree?

MoJoW

Really excellent BBC documentary on Yes playing Hemel in 1971. The band were (IMHO) hitting their peak, with (IMHO) their best line-up and (IMHO) their best album. I was a 15-year-old living in Guernsey, so gigs were something that happened to other people. I was desperately looking for someone to "replace the Beatles" (yes, I know, I know) and then along came Fragile. The rest is progrock. http://youtu.be/YuEZUG1ci1M

I have one of these: http://www.guitarguitar.co.uk/pa-live/detail.asp?stock=13092511441632&gclid=CjwKEAjwns6hBRDTpb_jkbTv1UYSJACBhberuADhFDfmjhErm-fuHsku77wHrw6KjsAt0415_-G4URoCHJXw_wcB It's an excellent box, it's built like a tank and totally reliable, and it sounds great to my ears ... your ears may be different! I have had no problems using it with passive basses (mainly Fender Precision). BUT if I was only going to own just one DI box then I'd go with a Sansamp BDDI or similar. A studio-quality DI box like the Radial is superb for some purposes, but it not very versatile. A BDDI or MXR pre-amp pedal offers so many more possibilities.

Looks like a helluva lot of bass for £280. I'll bet it's heavy though.

Sad to relate, but I don't do Facebook at all. Not even a little bit. Please don't hate me.

Has anyone contacted Stephen Hawking yet?

this sort of complete-and-utter bollocks is still being produced. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z-FFRpBKeiU Warning: This is NOT a suggestion that you should waste an hour of your life on it. Very little happens until 10 minutes in, and it will then take less than two minutes to convince you that these idiots should be locked up for their own protection. [url="http://s1128.photobucket.com/user/h4ppyjack/media/Just%20Stuff/GIF%20files/AbbeyRoadmoving_zps1de8ff88.gif.html"][/url]

I've been plenty busy this last couple of years, but I've been keeping an eye out on Gumtree for interesting side-projects. Several recent mentions of Join-My-Band and MusoFinder have had me re-visiting such sites today (stored for ages in my Favourites folder) and I've been shocked at just how poor they all are. The search facilities are usually a joke, and the filters either ludicrously complicated - and always returning zero results as a consequence - or completely non-existent. Hmmmm. There is another possibility of course, which is that I am being totally incompetent, or perhaps that you need to be a paid-up subscription member to see any of the good stuff. So, what's really out there guys? Are any of these muso-websites actually worth putting a bit of effort into?

[quote name='CamdenRob' timestamp='1412601570' post='2570244'] .. your not coming across as ethereal enough.... [/quote] Heathcliffe, it's me, erm, Wayne ...

[quote name='scalpy' timestamp='1412527423' post='2569601'] Met my wife playing an open mic night. Haven't felt the need to play another such evening since. [/quote] Oh come on, she can't be [i][b]that[/b][/i] bad, and anyway now you can't get caught like that again.

[quote name='bartelby' timestamp='1412588339' post='2570093'] Here's a good example of traditional Tuvan overtone singing. [media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZIvCHK-OSkw[/media] [/quote] Proof, if proof were needed, that cowboy music always sounds like cowboy music.

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[quote name='Bilbo' timestamp='1412594364' post='2570146'] ... Jazzers would be playing stadia!! [/quote] Is that in 9/4?

I don't think that started as a Precision. Look at the shadow of the routing under the scratchplate, and see where the pickup (or possibly one of the two pickups) originally lived.

No, they're a well-chosen colour. You can step in all sorts of stuff and no one will know it was you. Apart from the smell of course.

I must agree with Discreet. I've had several Skyline models, supposedly the 'cheap' ones, and they easily match any of the (many) US-made Fenders I've had. One day, I'll get around to trying a US-made Lakland; they're supposed to be even better. As an aside, I play mainly fives in covers bands. Lakland 5-string basses tend to be 35" scale, which I really like.

Forget the guitarist ... how old is that bloody drummer?

[quote name='toneknob' timestamp='1412285366' post='2567591'] Here's some more with JS from (I think) the same show as the original clip. Familiar fare for Satch fans for the first few minutes, but then after 4m20s it's all systems go, we have lift off on Satriani spaceways. The pickup from 7m45s onwards is amazing all round. [media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b1DzRb4DHGw[/media] [/quote] I'm sure I'm in a tiny minority here, but there are few things my life needs less than an 11-minute guitar solo played to an audience of wannabee guitar heroes. That was painfully dull, and the "all systems go" from 4m20s sounded far better when The Who started Baba Yaga with that riff & sound. The bass playing from 7m45s was astonishing technical stuff and I will never be able to get anywhere near that standard. Which is fine, because I would never want to play bass like that. Not having a pop at anyone, especially not toneknob, just saying ... not everyone likes this sort of stuff.

Thank God I don't fall into the category of "most people" then ...