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Can't we claim to be key workers? Not always the right key in all cases mind you.. Seconded!

Alas not about the gentleman from Yes, I was mislead!!

Advice on cameras would be welcome here too. We are doing our first livestream on Sunday, but are running with phones as IP cameras for the first two services before we purchase anything.

Poles Apart, and Lost for Words. Both about Roger Waters, on The Division Bell.

Like the Orchard logo a lot, and the tweaks suggested by @Fishman would give it a bit more polish. I looked up Aukrug, so I guessed Orchard would be the brand name. Very cool and definitely different to the curly scripts we are used to.

Just bought a USB audio interface from @thebrig. Despatched really quickly, arrived exactly as described and very well wrapped. A pleasure to buy from.

Very nice indeed! 👍

Great resource, thank you. More hours of my life I'm not going to spend actually practicing!

Absolutely! Not so much with music but 100% with lyrics: "A predictable rhyme is a waste of my time Can't you write any better, you peasant? You treat us like sheep with your lyrics so cheap. Obnoxious, naff, and repellant" 4/10, Must try harder

Lovely bass. 👍 Now the one thing that nobody else of the forum will tell you is this: before you buy another one, learn to play the one you've got!

Correct! I presume you recognised those terrible knees 🤣

The new v3 Google reCaptcha doesn't actually provide a test for the human to solve. It looks at what you are logging in from, and makes an assessment of whether or not you might be a bot. There is no fallback test it seems. Good article here: https://medium.com/@jsoverson/thoughts-on-recaptcha-v3-e837d4a0a63

I prefer to buy my candles ready made for precisely this reason.

Welcome aboard! If you can, I would play a few in shops and see what you think. There's a lot of variation in basses: neck thickness, width, length, shape, and they all affect how one person feels about the instrument. I play a 35" four string, so in theory a 35" five string should feel comfortable, but I have yet to find one I want to spend money on. A 34" I tried in PMT was OK, but sounded mediocre. A friend's 37" Dingwall multiscale was surprisingly easy play, but waaaaaaay too expensive. Sire and Ibanez are definitely good starting points though 👍. And if you can't make up your mind or don't get on with them, either are easy to sell on. A couple on the for sale forum here I think. And despite what @Teebs says, you find a lot of 5 string players in church worship bands 😉

Agree wholeheartedly. But my approach is buy the best I can at the time and sweat the asset. The warranty on the last PC ran out in 2009*, and the car was bought in 2010 and I intend to take it round the clock sometime in 2021/22. *I did put a couple of second hand SSDs in it in about 2017 though.

+1 for Scott's Bass lessons, and for Players' Path. For the cost of four face-to-face lessons there is just so much content. His theory lessons are really good.

Every day I write the book - Elvis Costello (Anything to avoid either Paperback Writer or Lady Madonna 😉 )

Compromise on cost. The budget was £1200, and 16GB is more than enough for audio, and easy to upgrade later on. Intel chip - again because the machine was specced for audio and so low latency and real time performance is more important than horsepower. Best advice is to talk to Pete at Scan. We swapped several emails about specs, what recording I do and intend to, what audio interface I have and so on, so we got the best bang per buck for what I need. If the focus is pure video then other components may be better. But it's quick, very quiet, and runs DaVinci without a problem. Happy bunny here 😁

https://www.scan.co.uk/3xs/shared/f9e9d3eb-155c-43e2-8e04-ac5846d939ec?utm_source=3xsconfigshare&utm_medium=link&utm_campaign=copypaste The link above doesn't have exactly the same part numbers as mine - as @Happy Jack says, specs change quite quickly! The machine was specified as a music production PC first and foremost, so low latency throughout rather than brute force processing power. The graphics card was a compromise as I couldn't really justify an 8GB card.

I have just done this, as we now are doing a lot if video editing for church and my 11 year old PC died. Custom build from Scan. £1300 was the compromise between cost and performance for me. I can link to the specs if you want. Some observations, based on 5 people times 30 weeks regular production of mainly talking heads but also multicam bands. DaVinci is fabulous, but it needs decent hardware to run without crashing. That means a proper GPU, optimised throughput for disk, memory, cpu etc. The multicam auto sync does not work for band music unless all the cameras have really good sound. Which they won't have. Shotcut is well liked by our team and runs much better on average hardware. Lightworks will do almost anything and I like it, but it doesn't hold your hand and the free version only exports 720p. As I have the hardware I moved to DaVinci as it is quicker to use. You must prepare for a band video in advance. A clear, loud, visible, clapper board or stick count is essential. Lining up manually is by far the best way. If you can set the frame rate of the cameras at the start do so, if not then don't worry, but fix the project rate and let the software adjust the incoming. Lightworks is crap at this unless you tell it mixed frame rate at the start. Get a rough audio mix and any cutting done first, using whatever you want, then add the video to that. You can remix the audio, but if the length changes you have to juggle the video which is a pain. Whatever software you choose, watch the company's training videos. Then watch them again and do the practice or training examples! Enjoy yourself 😁

Welcome aboard! I love Barcelona, one of my favourite cites anywhere. Look forward to going back some day, assuming we are ever allowed to travel again.

Welcome aboard, again. Love the colour on that bass.

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