Newfoundfreedom

It depends on how much data you need to store. HDD's are a lot cheaper per Gig but SSD's are a lot faster. If you need a huge amount of storage then HDD, if you need a fast drive go with SSD. If you want a comprise between the two buy a hybrid drive.

Around 13500 on the phone. Couldn't be arsed to find earphones.

Love it!

Good stuff. I'm glad you like it Stu. I'm massively impressed with mine. I honestly don't know why anyone would spend more money on a class D than it costs to buy one of these. (Other than brand snobbery) They're absolutely superb!

There are seventy thirteen running about P basses. What's your point? 😂

I think that's probably the best answer yet.

You see that's the thing. It's only intriguing and mysterious as long as people don't know. If I started to explain it peoples eyes would glaze over and they'd soon lose interest. I just tell people I earn my living online and let their imaginations run wild. I could almost guarantee pretty much anything they come up with is more interesting than the reality.

Oh God no! That means my drummer is officially a musician. I'll never live that one down. 😂

This is something I absolutely loathe. It's almost always the first question a person asks when you meet them and I find it incredibly rude. Trying to define someone by how they put food on the table is just nonsense. In fact very few people know how I earn a living because it's a question I refuse to answer. As I live a very nice life outside the UK and make my living from home it drives people insane because I refuse to tell them how I do it. Which suits me just fine.

I don't know. That's precisely the point of the question. I don't think there's any right or wrong answer. But I'm interested in where other people feel that threshold is.

In that case, thankfully I'll never be a pro.

Another very good point.

Yeah tell me about it. I used to be a nightclub doorman (bouncer). Try that one on your can insurance renewal.

Thanks. That's my point exactly. I certainly don't feel that I deserve the title either.

So by that logic then anyone who doesn't make a taxable income through making music isn't a musician?

I would put DJ's in that category too. To me they're not musicians but others may disagree.

It's a fair point but again I don't entirely agree. There are loads of people out there that would primarily consider themselves musicians, but still have to do a day job to pay the bills.

A ballerina dancing to Swan lake doesn't have heft. A fat lass raving on the other hand...... (Snowflake disclaimer. Please note no swans, lakes, or fat lasses were harmed during the making of this comment)

Yes I think if I had to pick a definite line this would probably be it. But then you could argue that Ed Sheeran isn't a musician. (To be fair some would probably argue that anyway 😂)

That's another very valid point. Singers of course are also musicians, as are composers and writers. Even some drummers hang around with musicians. 😂

Yeah I would agree with that in the context you say. Maybe it's a term that's over used. For example my band get together socially every Monday night for a few beers and often chat about all things musical. Someone overhearing wound say something along the lines of "oh, you're all musicians". Well in that context they've never heard us play, so we certainly haven't earned the title. Yet it's not wrong. It just makes me feel a little awkward and fraudulent sometimes.

Yeah I get what you're saying, but would that also apply if you only had a kick about with your mates at the weekend? Would you still describe yourself as a footballer? I suppose you could. In so much as you enjoy it and you play it, but it just somehow seems disingenuous to me.

It always makes me cringe when someone calls me a musician. Not because it's a term I find insulting, but because it's a moniker I don't feel I deserve. I'm a bass player, no problem with that. I'm not a very good one admittedly, but I can hold a tune and get through a few songs relatively unscathed and with a reasonable sense of timing. But the songs I've learned, for the main part I've learned verbatim by copying the original. I've even written a few basic songs just by doing what sounds right to my ear, but I know very little of the theory behind music or how and why it works. To me that's the difference between a bass player and a musician. So I was just wondering what other people's definition of "musician" is. At what point do you consider you became / will become one, if at all? Is it when you first pick up an instrument and master your first song? In which case was is musician when I played Little Donkey on recorder at 8 years old? I don't really think so. Is it when you earn money by playing music? I think there are probably many great musicians out there that never really make any money. Is it the point at which you are proficient enough to play along with other people? I guess I'm pretty much at that stage but still don't consider myself one. So what is it? What is that point at which a mere mortal becomes a "musician".

I would say that is true of whether or not you need one, certainly in so much as whether or not you "need" to play the lower ranges in your chosen repertoire. Whether or not you use one (outside of the above) is totally down to personal preference as far as I can see.

It's actually meaningless as is any phrase to describe a sound. At best it's a metaphor. We're all guilty of using certain words to try and describe something tonal but in reality is actually nonsense when you think about it. You could say for example "fat" "rich" or "heavy" which are equally meaningless yet somehow convey what we're taking about. As the tones we hear are totally subjective It's like trying to describe a colour to a blind person.