Doctor J

Short answer, no, within reason. Get a cup of tea and read through this most entertaining thread on the matter.

What if it's Rage Against The Machine? Then you won't get the gig if you do what they tell you.

I left this uncomfortably late to finish, but here we go. The technical stuff. The usual, Yamaha kit, Thomann mics, Behringer preamp. I picked up a Stingray a couple of weeks ago and wanted to use it for something. It is strung with flats and that lead me in a disco-ish direction. Guitars were the Tokai 335 and a Bacchus Duke P90. Bass and guitars into an Avid Eleven and everything got mushed together in Protools. My good lady is Italian and takes great entertainment in my poor Ronnie Drew impression so I wheeled it out again. The song: I kept looking at the picture... van... moon... van ... moon... and then it came to me... Mooned Ants! The next level of pest control using lunar gravity to discombobulate pesky ant infestations. Call Morrisson's today!

There's a good deal of appreciation here 🙂

As played by Booty Collins, I think. Sorry, I'll walk the gangplank for that one.

Ah, you mean a Fendarrrrrrr? There's my coat, right by the door.

I got a set of fakes from an internet-based vendor before. The windings at the ball end were the real giveaway. The brass ball was different from the real thing, as was the winding pattern. The packaging was low quality too. The vendor did not question when I went back to them complaining they sold me fakes. As Ped says, post pics of the packaging too.

You can't use them for House music.

They must not read forums, otherwise they'd know they have committed a lot of cardinal sins of design there and the instruments must be next to useless. I'd love to try one. It's ugly as f*** but that's a really interesting interpretation of a stringed instrument.

Amazing looking thing. Congratulations!

He's not known for playing the wrong thing. His interview on the Rockonteurs recently was most entertaining, too.

There is music and there is the music business. They are not the same thing.

Get roasted maple, the colour is somewhere in between.

I built a PC a good few years ago with an i7 processor, 16gb of RAM running Windows 10. I don't connect it to the internet so I don't need to have anything on it other than my music software. No startup apps, no other crapp and Windows 10 is quite efficient if you want it to be. If you McAfee is the culprit, disconnect it from the internet and disable McAfee for as along as you need to finish your music, it might get you through for now.

Don't worry, I won't attack your Toyota for people having different opinions on an internet forum 🙂

You have the solderless kit, why are you soldering anything? Can you turn the blend pot over and take a pic of that? Edit -> Ah, ok, I see the B16RB is not solderless. I thought all their pots were solderless now. Hellzero has everything covered correctly. Follow his advice.

Positive bias based on good experience is perfectly normal, but it's different to brand loyalty, no? You appear to have moved on from VW? Is loyalty not sticking with a brand despite there being good reason to go elsewhere?

I don't see the point in brand loyalty. It's a bizarre concept. I know a guy who dresses only in SuperDry branded clothes. I don't understand that. Doing the same for instruments, only playing X or having multiples of the same model by the same manufacturer... I just find it quite tragic. I appreciate we're bombarded with marketing designed to manipulate and instil brand loyalty in our brains from the time we leave the womb, but we should be able to see past these things. We've never had it better, never had a greater choice, even with traditional designs. There are faithful recreations and creative reinterpretations of utterly magnificent quality, as well as the mass-produced mundane. There is so much out there to experience. To pay for the pleasure of allegiance because of the name of the parent company... I just don't understand it.

I usually do a bit of boo-wappa-doo followed by some bip-bap-buppa-deee which leads me nicely into some shoo-wabba-doobey-doooop-bappa-doop and then ease back into the song. There's no point in going over the top, with these things, you've got to keep it tasteful.

It's my first venture above a 5-piece 😂 The guy was selling the 8/10/12/14/16/20 as a lot and, once I got them home, I just set it all up to see what it was like. Once it's there, looking at you, you tend to use it, I find 😁 I could probably do without the 8 but I'm enjoying it. It's making me try harder, just to make use of them, which is good. It's my first 20" bass drum, too. I was a little unsure about it, having always had a 22", but it's got more than enough depth and works even with the doomy stuff I sometimes record. The side snare is just so I have somewhere to put whichever one I'm not using. They just swap position depending on what I'm up to. I don't quite have the skill to keep two snares on the go together but, again, it's new and interesting to have it there.

I came at it the other way, I started on bass. I started playing guitar because none of my guitar playing mates were writing music and I wanted to do original music. A few years later I accidentally drifted into drums because we were trying to do some very low-tempo stuff and couldn't find any drummers who wanted to play slow 😂 I started in the mid 90's and played until maybe 10 years ago, when I sold my drum gear and thought I would use programmed drums for music. I don't have the patience to make programmed drums not sound like programmed drums anymore, so I picked up an old Pearl Export a couple of years ago and enjoyed it so much, I splashed out on an old Yamaha Birch Custom Absolute this year. I am also a Yamaha convert. I have Oak Custom X and old Brass snares. The oak sounds better in the room but the brass records really well. I narrowly missed out on an old 80's Recording Custom due to not being able to travel inter-county during the lockdown earlier this year, but I'm delighted with the one I have, which I picked up the day lockdown ended 😁

Not at all, the line out still works if the amp output is muted. Edit -> Over the years, I've gotten into the habit of having as little as possible which can kill your signal at the front of the stage due to stage divers, spilled beer and anything else which can dislodge or damage a cable.

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I usually have it on the line out.

One guy definitely got a craddock look, though. edit -> cursed swear filter.