TimR

Surely this is the issue. It's not in the system. I would think everything is computerised now. Rather than malice its just a complete system breakdown. Computer says no. I've never had an issue with RM or PF. They deliver my monthly prescription and send far too many emails and texts tbh.

My Samsung Tablet will convert photos to PDF and also has some kind of recognition software that makes everything legible. I'm not on it now and can't remember how it does it. (Edit*) I'm using MobileSheets that backs up to onedrive and my phone and tablet are synced. If the tablet dies I can still use the phone in an emergency. Albeit a very limited tiny screen. *Google: https://share.google/aimode/jHPiSmJJIoZhkflmZ

Who has the bass actually been stolen from? The only actual facts are that it didn't reach the buyer but was sent to Auction (possibly in error) by PF. In which case, the auction house would have contacted PF, said that someone had been in touch and pointed out the error. PF would then have to have the bass back to correct the error. Remember several people have now contacted the auction house to alert them. The auction house would have no way of verifying the actual owner of the bass or whether it was actually stolen. If the police had arrived at the Auction house then the same process would be followed. The theft is only alleged, and the identity of the person guilty of the alleged theft is unknown. The sender of the bass remains the property of the owner until the bass arrives with the buyer, and is supposed to be in the care of PF. Let them sort it out.

Sorry to report I have had a terrible accident. I accidentally drove to Camden tonight and bought a new gig bag. The old one was very tatty. Unfortunately the bass I had ordered to just try out, also accidentally left the shop in the bag after I accidentally paid for both of said items. A terrible state of affairs. I now have 4 basses! I am practically a hoarder now.

No. They don't. There will be a THD% accompanying the X Watts at 1kHz. That will tell you how much distortion the amp suffers at that output. The lower the better.

I'm surprised it's not USB C.

Most bass players are incredibly chilled people. We have to be. There's only so many drummers you can kill before someone starts to notice.

Sensitivity. My 500W amp spends much of its time set at 3. If I adjust it to 2.5 its far too quiet, 3.5 too loud. I guess a 200W amp might give more range.

I think it's when the attempts of middle aged people dancing to a medium rock song fail when it turns into a full on house rave.

It's called the "amateurs disease", to make something more exciting, just play it quicker. The alternative is to actually work out why it sounds dull. Some bands have sped up recordings but I suspect that's under controlled conditions while listening to it. I also played Livin' on a Prayer in a band with a drummer who would speed up. I used to spend most of the gig trying to hold him back. One gig I'd had enough and just went with him. By the end of the song the singer couldn't get the words in and was giving the drummer daggers, and the people on the dance floor were begining to give up one by one.

I blame the "keeping up with the drummer" mindset. Even I have fallen into that trap in my post. The drummer should be playing at the appropriate volume. Too many non-musical drummers playing at one volume. But that's another thread.

Electronics is a lot cheaper and easier to mass produce than it was 'in the old days' Manufacturers will do market research and watch sales figures and know what sells. My first Amp in 1987 was 100w. It was just about loud enough to keep up with a drummer in a pub. But everything got louder as it got cheaper. That's not good for anyone imo. Everything is getting lighter now. It'll get to the point where everything becomes 1000W as it'll cost the same and be the same size as a 100W amp.

It won't be free for long.

AI slop. The backlash has started. https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c9wx2dz2v44o

Tube is easy to mistype as tibe as U and I are next to each other. Tibe autocorrects to time.

No. The rest of us needed someone clever to spot it as well. 🤣

Conversely, I've just had an hour long meeting with a couple of people I don't know very well on a personal level. We discussed something very important to all of us and required every ounce of my emotional intelligence to learn and pick up on their micro body language and inferred language. I'm ready to go back to bed. I certainly couldn't do that regularly for very long. When machines have learned to do that, we are in trouble. Until machines learn to do that, they are not going to be much of a problem to us.

I would say the first three hours of my weekday, every day, is exactly the same and can be done on autopilot. I suggest most people are the same.

A lot of what we think of as human intelligence is just accessing a database. Very little of what we do requires actual intelligence*. *Luckily, or most people wouldn't survive longer than a day

I can't imagine anyone employing people to sit a desk all day, looking at the music you like and then working out what other music you would like. For a start, no human would have that massive encyclopedic knowledge of songs and genres, including album tracks etc. Certain jobs/processes are only possible and have been created because of AI. I suspect this will be the better use. Self driving cars, where one accident can be analysed and then the scenario be exported to all the other self driving cars so they don't make the same mistake, unlike human drivers who all seem to make the same mistakes over and over again and never learn from either themselves or others.

A lot of kids are being taught programming by assembling pre built units, that do things, together. We should remember that a lot of programming we do, if we are using a language is also assembling things that other people have already written for us. No one writes in binary or assembler. Very few of us have built our own amplifiers, leads, guitars. We all rely on the donkey work being already done for us. It just depends on what level of individual human input you're comfortable with. Seems most of us draw the line at the actual performance. There's some very interesting music created from received telescopic data by NASA's Sonification project. I think all AI produce should be labelled as such.

Wood isn't magnetic though?

Before the days the internet really got going I received an email reveiw from a 'producer' who had been at one of our gigs. I'm sure he was trying to be helpful. I read it several times before replying - "Thanks for your email." In hindsight I think that was 4 words too many.

"And this next one is one that my computer wrote earlier"...

Not really. There's no actual skill in assembling something the same over and over again. Practically anyone who has ever worked on a production line can do it. They have children doing it in some countries. I used to put bottles on a conveyor belt in a bottling plant. No skill, just a bad back. Robots do it now, thank god. This is why AI will only replace certain mundane tasks.