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48kHz was/is standard if using video/film for two channel stereo recording. A decent read here. https://www.thebroadcastbridge.com/content/entry/7999/should-audio-for-video-be-recorded-at-high-sample-rates

Yeah, of course.. But these days everything seems to be USB. I think there are more dongles, extra midi controllers & Pads, external hard drives for audio, and the big bespoke sample library hard drives (all fighting for ports). I have eight, seven of them are being used. I suppose the whole thing is never ending...

I think the main reason folks still use midi 5 pin din (apart from controllers that are not USB), is that you only need to use one USB socket on the puter for the interface. The USB interface then takes care of the Audio and midi.

As far as I know, the 2i2 doesn't have midi I/O. I think the 2i4 does though. So you would be relying on USB to USB from the controller.

5 pin din (midi) lead from a controller into a (decent) Interface, then out from the Interface into a PC via USB works absolutely fine with no latency issues. (I use a Steinberg UR22mkII for the above way) I think it's the USB out from a keyboard into the PC via USB that might cause a few problems latency wise reported by some. But, I have a second USB to USB controller, just for single lines and controlling cc#'s etc, and I don't seem to have any latency problems. Maybe any problems are down to interfaces? With such high specs these days, I thought latency wasn't really a major issue anymore?

Yeah....Me too. That awful weedy, warbling vibrato, Nanny Goat voice makes me cringe. He sounds like one of those Swiss Mountain Goats.

I saw him with the AWB down at the Black Prince in Bexley (just before they went off to record that Album). Terrific Drummer... If Cher hadn't helped Alan Gorrie at that party, he would have died too...

Hamish Stuart played Bass on the album track, ‘You Got It’ , from The AWB Album. Alan Gorrie on the track below. As a side note, there are some serious big name players on this album. The whole album is very soulful, with great funky grooves on. One of my favourite albums.

Maybe that is a Fender Mustang Bass, rather than a Jazz Bass?

Old, Philly sound, but it drives along great. Groovy Bassline...

^^^ I thought she was more of a 39B (Kirkcaldy - Glenrothes Newcastle) The posh route, and arrives 6 times a day.

'Rabbit', by Chaz & Dave?

The melody is there. It’s been a chops workout on Bass Gtr since Jaco burst onto the scene. Joe Pass & Niels-Henning Ørsted Pedersen gave it a good going over as well.

I love the word 'noise', it always reminds me of the 'Sir Thomas Beecham' quote. It tickles me for some reason. (not aimed at you by the way) "It is quite untrue that British people don't appreciate music. They may not understand it but they absolutely love the noise it makes."

Voted.

Yeah, agree. Both have excellent control in their technique as well. A couple of guys on top of their game.

An English Bassist called Mike Watson played on 'SOS' and a few other tracks as well. Arnold Paseiro played Bass on 'Voulez Vous'. So it wasn't all (the great) Rutger Gunnarsson, although he seemed play on the bulk of the ABBA material. Interesting read about Gunnarsson and the other Bassists, along with who played on what. https://philwbass.com/2014/01/02/the-bassists-of-abba/

"The triangle dude is such a Baddass !!"

Not one particular musician, many! Ranging from Ralph Vaughan Williams, Aaron Copland through to Dave Grusin & Richard Bona. They all have the melodic, emotional, composing styles that really appeal to my ears.

A few days after the first Gulf War ended, I was doing CSE forces shows in Kuwait & Saudi Arabia. While having pre gig refreshments about a 1/2 mile from the gig (Kuwait), we heard a rather loud explosion. A sergeant marched into the mess, then informed us that the show wouldn't go on. He shouted out at the top of his military voice, with a sh*t eating grin, that the Stage and all the hired equipment had gone up in smoke. Amazingly & stupidly, the Stage had been erected near an ammunition dump, which indeed, had gone up in smoke....You could tell by the look on the face of the Sergeant, that us wimpy musicians, should have gone up with the stage as well. The turn was an Impressionist called Bobby Davro, who minus the band, then offered to tell gags to the troops for some kind of entertainment (no mic - shouting at the top of his voice). He went down a (Desert) storm for making the effort, while we got smashed on some home made wine some French SF's troops had given us. (So, not a complete disaster)