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Couple things as a long-time Reaper user: Like any platform, Reaper falls over sometimes. Coming to it from scratch as an almost total DAW newbie the learning curve was initially shallow (digital tape recorder) then vertiginous and now I just assume if there's absolutely anything I want to do there's probably a way to do it and a video that shows me how. If you've used Pro_tools to any degree you'll be fine going straight in. Kenny Gioia's instructional videos on YT are a god-send, even if he sounds like a New Jersey made-guy. Is Reaper resource hungry? Not in my experience. I'm running it on a 12 year-old PC with 4Gb of RAM of which about half is committed to other things so when the CPU hits 50% then a twenty track song starts to stutter. I can track with Skype, Google and AVG open in the background with about 3ms of latency. I've had upwards of 60 VST's open across multiple audio and midi tracks. Some midi latency with hungry VST's like a polyphonic pitch-to-midi converter. The bundled VST's are visually ugly and a bit limited but they do the job, they're resource-light and there's quite a lot of them. They're mostly tonally neutral (characterlessness can be good, sometimes) but there are loads of character VST freebies out there if you want tonal voodoo. I've worked my way through a crillion EQ plug-ins and these days I'm mostly back to the bundled ReaEQ which is simple, tonally neutral and flexible. The bundled sampler isn't great but there's a script circulating in the community which - it is alleged - vibes it up a bit. Reaper's cheap. Free trial (nag screen, no functional limitations) then £60 for the non-commercial license. That buys you all updates and a free upgrade to the next version iteration. So I went from V3 to V6 in two hops costing me £120.00 (at today's prices). Amazingly, it downloads as 12Mb (zipped inc VSTs). Furthermore, I installed V6 (current) over V4 in about a minute and every project and setting was saved in place. Maybe that's normal but it seemed miraculous to me. Reaper fan? Very much so. Tried anything else? Well, no, apart from Cakewalk, back in the day. Should you try Reaper? Absitively posilutely. Should you buy it? See how you get on

Welcome to the forum Trevge1 and sorry to hear about your flood In respect of your query re: "Recommend a 2x10 amp with a horn" you might get some suggestions here in the Introduction section of the forum but you'll likely have more responses if you post it as a new topic in the Amps and Cabs section https://www.basschat.co.uk/forum/5-amps-and-cabs/ Cheers, Skank

OK, forget it. The VST was a Fretted Synth 3rd Bass - an amp sim with an incredibly basic 'synth' section and a bit shyte tbph OTOH it seems Fretted Synth also did the GCBS4 (a so-called 'guitar controlled bass synth') here: https://plugins4free.com/plugin/446/ Run through of sounds here ↓

Correct. They're just modules that accept a midi note and spit out audio. You can't just apply them to an audio track. Two approaches suggest themselves: * Copy the audio track, put it in another channel and convert the audio to midi then send into one of the synths above then combine the two channels via a buss and render as a single audio track - doable but fiddly, also note tracking issues. * Apply a dedicated 'bass synth' VST effect to the audio - basically like running your bass through a 'bass synth' effects pedal. Probably won't be as authentic sounding but it would get you there. PS: I've got an old Synth Bass VST lurking somewhere on an external drive - let me have a poke around and get back to you.

Bach? Over-rated organ humper. Irving Berlin? Total amateur, couldn't read music. People who don't know stuff will disagree with me but I'm used to it.

It's 1957 again. And following Lurk's suggestion I turned the vocals up. Lyrics ↓↓

Seeing as we all love BC so much we can always bung them some cash (£20) by subscribing to the Marketplace even if we're probably not going to be selling anything: Yes, I'm a shill for the management.

Nah, that's Pecos @ped, the notorious ban-slinger and llama rustler. He's different now, all touchy-feely and 'Let's sing Kumbayah'.

Among various nice noises the Podolski free VST synth by U-he has a slab of bass pre-sets which might be of interest. The first minute or so of this demo vid plays some of them:

It's been a long journey BassChat Then BassChat Now

Be careful with reverb because it pushes you further back in the mix. If you want a pedal to go between your mic and the desk then the TC Mic Mechanic offers simple reverb / delay, EQ / De-Essing and pitch correction with pre-sets. No harmonies.

It should be noted that Segovia was at the (small c) conservative end of the spectrum when it came to performances. One time, he raised an eyebrow while onstage and women in the audience fainted from shock. At the other end of the spectrum is Paganini who embraced a 'physical' approach to his stage appearances and sometimes even deliberately weakened his strings so that they would break in mid-performance, this to demonstrate his virtuoso ability to rock out on three, then two, then finally one string. True, this. Nigel Kennedy sits somewhere in between but he is a twonk and therefore outwith the scope of our analysis.

What I'd like to see / hear (as well as everything else suggested above): Un-effected bass > play one note > let it ring, decay to silence Switch pedal on and repeat above.

Welcome, Jeezy

I would have to say, on the one hand, they do, and on the other, they don't. If he'd come on here with a vid about using a particle accelerator to analyse the sonic properties of a slab body Precision we'd have been all 'That's so amazing, like' and sending him boxes of chocolates.

TBPH, the last time I saw a reaction like this it was when I saw a bloke wearing a cravat walk into the hardest pub in Acton.

Y'see, the problem with this YT vid is that it would probably go down well with an audience composed in the main of peppy, young tyros, e.g. little Beppo gasps, mops brow: 'Must remember to move around, make eye contact, where's Eb on the board?' Trouble is, the average BassChatter is about 58 years-old and has either (i) played every toilet gig from Penzance to Aberdeen or (ii) never got out of the bedroom (which is fine, btw). Thusly, exhortations to wiggle around and / or wave to the audience between songs must gain little traction among those who already know it and already do it, or by predisposition won't do it, or don't need to do it because they'll never play out, or through infirmity can't do it.

Welcome to the forum Supernaut

Voodoo sells.

Budget for a breeze block construction, heavily sound-proofed garden practice room. Heavy airlocked entrance doors, isolated window, double sandbagged ceiling and air con with sound baffles. Put in an en-suite bog so you can describe it as a 'guest annexe / granny flat' when you move on. Or don't buy a semi. The alternative is fear, loathing and madness, either for your neighbour or for you when you're practising those disco octave stops and your brain's worrying whether you're pi55ing off them next door. Or both of you go mad and the news report ends with the words 'before pulling the trigger on himself'.

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A plectrum that comes from Liverpool?

It's another TV show theme. My Seven Sumo Dads (Japanese TV series) From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia My Seven Sumo Dads 私の父は7人の力士の一人です is a Japanese TV series of 20 x 1 hour episodes first broadcast on Japanese national television in 2017. Produced by Hokkaido Broadcast System the series attracted an average 2.2 rating during its run. In 2020 the international broadcast rights were sold to Del Var Omniglobal Media which is in negotiation with streaming service Netflix for an intended UK air date of June 2021. Synopsis After eight year-old Naiki's single-parent mother disappears he reads her old diary in which he discovers that she was dating seven different sumo wrestlers (Rikishi) at the time of his conception. On a quest to find his absent father little Naiki sets off for Tokyo where he meets anti-social schoolgirl martial artist Ichika who becomes his protector along with a host of other heart-warming characters including absent-minded Mrs Nakatomi and her talking cat Hime, a mysterious elderly man known only as 'The Sensei', the love-struck teen couple Dizzy and Bitsy, and the feuding Sumo promoters Aoi and Eiji.