Woodwind

A few weeks in how are you finding Logic on the Air?

I hate modern lead free solder and whether it is fluxcore or plain I tend to use some Bakers No.3 Fluid Flux on the surfaces to be joined. you can mask off areas using tipex and get some really neat solder joints.

I can't wait to make one of these!

wow!! I absolutely love the look of this cab. Absolutely impractical for any musical context I'm in though.

Are you looking to try and sell it? The crack on the soundpost side is going to be a bit of a job to fix, but standard practice for a decent double bass luthier. My worry is the discoloration around it. Has a DIY fix been attempted at some point? That might cause more problems than the crack itself. My guess is a late 19th century German workshop bass, but not a blockless wonder. Get it to a luthier for appraisal and a quote on getting it in tip-top playing condition

By the lack of any hearing protection on anyone in the video my guess is it was underwhelmingly quiet. Spitfire has and works with some pretty serious engineers and there is no way any of them would be damaging their ears. They probably cranked it just enough to excite the resonance and reverb in that amazing sounding hall and got some good spatial recordings for the sample pack.

I would imagine any of the Bjork live Blu-rays would be well worth investigating with the obvious caveat you'd need to enjoy her music. (I say imagine as I haven't done so myself, but this thread makes me want to investigate myself)

I've been following them in Instagram for a while. I wouldn't be rushing to buy one based on my current musical contexts, but I am very pleased they exist. The fewer Fender clones in the world the better as far as I'm concerned. I hope Robin does well.

I'm quite intrigued by how many players of passive instruments have the tone on full. When I played a passive jazz the tone was mostly under half and it was similar on my aluminium neck kramer with passive humbucker. In both thos cases I would use new strings regularly, but found opening up the tone beyond half seemed to bring up an unpleasant midrange. YMMV of course

Fretless stingray 4, 3 band eq. currently set at: Treble down a third. Mids boosted a tiny amount and bass adjusted + or - a tiny bit based on the resonance of the room.

How does the pricing in Pond5 work? You set your price presumably? Is this regarded as royalty free music, so you exempt yourself from PRS and PPL earnings once the track is in use? 13quid seems very, very cheap for a track. I hadn't heard of Pond5 before so had a quick browse around the site. As a place to sell SFX it seems quite interesting.

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This is exactly how Stradivarius violins are owned by investment companies. They buy them, then loan them to pro players and then sell them at a later date

Massive thread resurrection. I know the world stopping over the last 18months would have made this project more difficult. How have you found it looking back now?

Pretty much my only purchase in 2021. A Mantic Hulk. I bought it for a new composition I was working on and got to road test it on an excerpt of this piece at my show on the 1st of October. Superb! I can't wait to use it again. (apologies for the stock image photo')

when I played rounds I changed them before every gig (originals band playing once a month). Now I play on light weight ground-wounds. I have the had the same set for 6 years. I think about buying a fresh set, but that's more remembering habit rather than desiring a new sound 😂

Is the bass sound in the video just from your micro cabinet? Blimey, that's superb!

This! Not on bass guitar, but there are many times I have left the stage deflated due to fluff ups etc, but am accosted in the bar after by many new fans. A performance full of conviction and life is worth a great deal more than a technically perfect show which may happen to be devoid of feeling.

Perseverance. Stick with the fretless. Concentrated practice and mindful playing will reap rewards. For my own playing, when I'm working on something new and my intonation is out I'm aware I'm too conscious of the note I'm trying to play and not what has surrounded it, ie the shift to get there and what my left hand was doing to play the previous note

Hello Den, Any videos of you in action with the bass trombone? I'm a massive fan of the bass 'bone.

Thanks for linking this. It certainly confirms my on the ground experiences.

Car amplifier is a great idea. Several 12v mixers around to run all the OP's inputs from this as well

other options - I see a lot of solo singer guitarists using the Roland street cube. Once away from a supportive resonant wall they sound awful to my ears - really straining hard. The newer street cube ex is much better. I was watching a player with one yesterday. It is clearly more powerful and they were running several inputs. The sound was much nicer. I see Harley Benton now have a busking amp that may be worth a look: https://www.thomann.de/gb/harley_benton_streetbox_60.htm?ref=mobile#bewertung If you could run two of these you'd be spreading the headroom a bit - ideal for percussive instruments like your Cajon

Will you be busking in resonant spaces (eg railway arches) or completely outdoors? I ask as I used my phil jones double4 running off a battery as a two channel system for my Contrabassoon effects and samples. In railway arches it is the perfect volume. In unsupported areas - footpath etc it completely dissappears. It's like I'm making no sound at all. I have seen people running multi instrument sets ups in outdoor spaces using the new 240v powerblock systems and using a mixer into a single powered pa speaker. If I was starting from scratch tomorrow this is the route I would go. The battery for my double4 was 100quid right off the bat which makes this thing pretty good value - https://www.amazon.co.uk/Jackery-Portable-Explorer-Generator-Outdoors/dp/B08RNPYLQW/ It says it will provide 200w (400w peak) so that would do a mixer and 100watt+ PA speaker

Hi Phil, That's very kind thank you. I'm not in a position to start building yet, but I'll send you a PM in due course 😎