Richard R

Got the emails telling me about the gig,so your media and comms all work 👍. Couldn't go to the gig, so hoping for next year 🙂

I thought it was show us your pliers

And the younger generation are more likely to use social media platforms than web sites, which are a bit old school. So there is potentiality a large virtual community of younger female bass players using FB or equivalent, who avoid this site as mainly old farts and rockers... I'm sure the OP said he had formed an answer to his own question. I'm hoping to hear it.

I did say "it's like a proper but very friendly local pub full of blokes with the same interest", the like in that sentence is important. Clearly it's not a golf club where women aren't allowed, I've never seen even a hint of misogyny or prejudice, and the women usually outwit the men anyway. But you must admit that much of the banter is very blokey and conforms much more to male conversation patterns than female. I cite most of this thread as exhibit A.

I recently finished reading "Watching the English", which is a serious anthropological study of English culture disguised as an entertaining pop culture book. Looking at many aspects of life the author tries to identify essential English traits, and there are longish discourses on pubs, special interest groups, and male friendships. There is no claim that good traits or bad traits are exclusively English, but she does try to work.out what the combination and proportions are. BassChat works because it's like a proper but very friendly local pub full of blokes with the same interest. Very quickly if you understand the culture you are welcome, and if you don't then you aren't shunned, you're still welcome unless you're offensive.That culture includes being helpful, gentle teasing as part of bonding (stop sniggering), occasional willingness to share important stuff, accepting that it's not winning an argument here that counts it's getting the wittiest answer in, and a few other unwritten rules that I suggest you read the book to find out. It is almost a textbook example of the better traits of national character.The mods are the equivalent of the bar staff. I think the Bass Bashes help a lot as well. I have only been to one so far, but having met some of these folks they are now real people, not just strange avatars. The only other forum I have found vaguely comparable is the Sound On Sound forum, which is also fantastic. However it is more focussed on the topic in hand and less likely to get sidetracked. By soup, for example.

I should perhaps add that I have nothing against ukulele per se, but I am always a sucker for a terrible pun.

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Wow, a whole new land of confusion! Looks like more than I expect to ever use but if it can be made idiot proof on stage that's key. It seems it isn't free, but users of any Focusrite gear can apparently get a zero cost license so I will investigate that. Thanks @GisserD

Does anyone know of a really, really, idiot proof program for windows which would let me play a series of synth pad chords by pushing one button per chord, holding it then pressing the next one as required? Ideally with a performance UI comprising just four buttons with the chords on 😁 We played a song last Sunday which was crying out for synth pads to define the chords. In the absence of that I just played repeated root notes on the bass, which actually worked quite well but isn't the same.

Page liked , and the music too 👍😀

Well that's cheered me up 😁, having just got in from a rehearsal where frankly I was so out of time I would have been kicked out of the reception class end of term performance 🙁.

Best bass-related purchase, the EBS Session 60 bought from @xzodar. Alas can't post a pic as we have guests staying and the amp is tucked out of the way in the office. Best other music-related purchase, Qu32 mixing desk for church. Not sure it counts though, since I will be reimbursed. Hopefully before the bill comes in 🙂

That is just fantastic work!

Lots of rubbish talked as if the entire forum were down the pub, lots of really good helpful advice delivered with a side order of sarcasm, plenty of pictures of bass guitars, and a whole new way to spend time and possibly money. Welcome aboard!

Welcome aboard. Hopefully you'll be able to make the Midlands Bass Bash, around the May Bank Holiday.

I showed this to a couple of mates for a laugh. Which they all duly did, until one of them suggested we get a posse together and each put in for a £50 share., so we can each use it on occasional gigs. A bit like owning a racehorse, and probably as heavy. What have I started??

I want one for the Christmas Eve glow sticks service! *candles being a problem when the church is full of under 5s

We need to see it at a local bass bash 😉

There's a cats thread?? How does that work? "Weight 4kg, furry neck, fights like buggery if you try to put a strap on it but has a tonal range from purrr to screech?" Welcome to the forums - but don't get distracted from actually practicing. Like I am at the moment. 😉

Looks fantastic! I just googled the density of plexiglass, and acrylic polymer is around 1,000kg/m^3, whereas mahogany is around 850. No wonder those basses are so heavy!

Very possibly, but I have no idea 😉 One if the deciding factors on this desk vs the X32 was the ease of transition, especially for occasional users of which there are many in a church environment. But of course those of us for whom it's our main job have lots more to play with. I love it already 👍

I love reading this thread, but don't post because I don't gig. However I did spend Friday installing a new sound desk at church, and this morning was its first outing so here, by way of a change, is a gentle story from the man in black at the back 🙂 Going from an analogue to a digital desk is a bit like 4 string to 5 string I'm told. You can do all the same stuff and more, but you have to change your muscle memory. Apart from turning the gain on the preacher to zero (no idea how, took a while to track down while he used another mic), the to-be-expected EQ-ing the wrong channel, and grabbing the kick-drum fader instead of the clarinet (twice! d-oh!!) it was OK. The best comment was from one chap who used to mix a lot. "Well it's no worse than you usually sound and I wouldn't have known any difference if I didn't know it was a new desk". I think it was meant as a compliment! Photo from the Friday before rehearsal.

Like the reverse headstock 👍

I also have no use for an FX pedal, but I am really, really, impressed with this. Patches 70 and 73 I particularly like, but the sheer range is astonishing. Hats off to some very clever people.