Richard R

Absolutely this! I bought a 5 string in lockdown, and have hardly played the 4 since as I'd have to re-learn the chord shapes again. I can see when a six would be useful, but if I was playing notes that high the keyboard player would complain I was treading on his right hand.

Will do!

See how it goes! That time had a different glitch and couldn't finish the sentence !

Thanks for finding that. Had anyone contacted Samsung to report the problem? I shall try it amd

That's my post above. It's making BC unusable on my phone. Samsung Galaxy S22, running Edge as the browser.

Sorry about all the hard returns. Only on BC on my phone do I get this problem!

Pool balls would be cute. Or eyeballs for the punk and goth scene. Fishes for church bassist. The market is endless!!

Grimelight. 👍👍

Let down rather badly by the advertising and graphics team then!

I've just looked at Zoom on my laptop where I have the v-cables installed. The options don't look as I remember them, but it really ought to be possible! I'll have a play and PM you if I think I've made any progress and it's worth a call to test.

Hi @Owen I assume you're still using the Qu32? Is Zoom seeing it as just a stereo microphone? Is the zoom audio still terrible if you play a media file into the desk then stream that? That's not a slur on your FOH mixing , but if it does sound OK when you do that then we can solve the problem with a different mix to the stream, rather than with PC shenanigans. Zoom handles computer audio differently to microphone input, and is optimised for spoken word. So if you play a WAV file on your PC over Zoom with "play computer audio" then it sounds great, but the same quality of live sound is dire. So if I recall correctly I had to convince Zoom that the input was "computer audio", so it didn't muck about trying to improve it. I think I solved this sometime in 2020. I also recall it was a bit of a faff, but we did get it working as a Proof of Concept, a possible alternative to YT for services and we have used it for church meetings. I think what I did was use virtual audio cables to effectively patch the microphone input to a virtual output, and told Zoom to use that "computer sound" as the input rather than the microphone. With a bit of swearing we also got the zoom output to go back to the desk as an output, so we could here the remote users in the sanctuary, but I don't think you need that. I think it was these: VB-Audio Virtual Apps I was also using OBS as a virtual camera and it all got a bit complicated, which is why I can't remember the details. I would have to have a play and see if I can remember what I did and if I can make it work. This week is mad, but if you like I can have a go with my setup at home, and if it looks promising I'll let you know.

Let me know when you do. If I've not bought one by then I'll take if your hands.

I think I used to have a block of teflon somewhere in the garage. If I can find it over the weekend I'll let you know

And not too shabbily either. Tasteful bass playing, nicely understated.

Fairport Convention, Half Man Half Biscuit, Joe Satriani. Not on the same bill mind you ...

Dire Straits, right at the end of the 200 year long Brothers In Arms tour. They were still going for it, but definitely sounded tired. A million times better than I would have been after that long on the road mind you.

Far too many! ELO 2: a 24hr weather monitoring overnight at school. The strange feeling laying out sleeping bags in the physics lab, and the teacher's distainful dislike of "In Old England Town".

Active bass - straight in via active or passive DI. Passive bass - either straight in via an Active DI, or any of the emulators listed above. The Berry BDi is cheapbas chips and just works.

@Geek99 - were you effectively the House Band then?

I will send this on to our church worship leader,at once.

Another great film, and soundtrack. The Blues Brothers were a great band both before and after the movie. I can't find the reference, but somewhere there is a quote from Duck Dunn where he recounts being criticised by a bunch of musicians for slumming it on SNL witha couple of actors. His reply was something to the effect that 1) Ackroyd really could play the blues harmonica, 2) Belushi was among the greatest vocalists he had ever worked with (think about who he worked with!) and 3) the whole band just nailed it every time. It's not on Wikipedia but must be on the net somewhere. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Blues_Brothers

I have spent lunchtime looking at my vinyl and CDs. (Hooray for working from home!) There is nothing I used to really like that I now dislike, but plenty I used to dislike that I now have on CD and play a lot.

The CD almost a permanent fixture in the car. Along with a pair of sunglasses and half a pack of cigarettes, of course.