TimR

Yes a simple, "No, that's the price, take it or leave it." reply is easy enough. Takes seconds. The pedals I've bought I've paid the asking price. I'm not going to haggle to change the price by £5. Anything over £200 I'm probably going to put in an offer. I don't understand how that would offend anyone. That's often what happens on the second hand market.

I am also suffering the keys players left hand problem. It's just a musical maturity thing. I've had to talk to keys players before and explain why it doesn't work and the way I've done it is to say that we would need lots of extra practice to make sure we are exactly together otherwise it'll sound a mess. In the same way as backing vocals need extra practice. These things don't just happen. Make it a two way problem rather than suggesting the keys can't play what you're playing and that's their problem. I did have the same problem in a two guitar band where I had to diplomatically tell the guitarists to play different parts as it sounded a mess. They had more fun working out what to play instead and it sounded 100% better.

I bought one of these, that has a compartment big enough for my Warwick iPro but also all my leads and my Tablet, and other bits and pieces. https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B076M85W1K/?coliid=I1J85TUPEASG7I&colid=8M7DXGXY9TOP&psc=1&ref_=cm_sw_r_apann_lstpd_SFRJJTXQ48AGVBP91G7P&language=en_US

That monotone adjective laden voiceover 'man' and 'woman' are dreadful. The AI doesn't understand the words or know what they mean, it just knows how to pronounce them. Hopefully it will improve exponentially or the algorithm learns quickly that people don't want to listen to them.

Some interesting stuff here. Has he come round to it?

Ikea Hack?

Yes. I use BOSE that have a wired connection as well as Bluetooth, but there's too much latency on them.

Ultra low latency Bluetooth. Apparently consumer level airpods etc are 500ms (i struggle to watch video with them), and those are 7ms. Interested to see how noticeable that is for bass.

What headphones are they? Not Bluetooth?

The cost to me of creating content is zero plus my spare time. I already own the tools to create the content. Laptop/phone/free software. Recording is not the reason I have purchased the above or the instruments I own. I guess it boils down to why you are making recordings. Is that you're sole aim, or are you a live musician first. I've just spent an hour playing in a recording studio for a songwriter. I still have no idea what he intends to do with what he has recorded. I don't think he has either. I haven't spent any money doing it and I had the evening free. He is unlikely to make any money from the recording and even if he does, good luck to him.

Spotify's cost of creating content is certainly zero.

I use BandMix and haven't needed to pay. I'm not sure what paying gets you?

@Dave Evans Your "about me" runs to 9 pages. Your "philosophy" also runs to several paragraphs. You need a single paragraph on your Home page that says who you are, (where you live, what you play, what kind of music you play, (age?), how long you've been playing) And that's it. Even your 2 posts here are extremely long winded and difficult to follow. When people contact you, what kind of communication are you doing yourself, because I'm already disuaded due to what my first impressions are. And you could be seen to be spamming Basschat with you website. I'm trying to be candid while remaining helpful.

There's no stereo image to create a 'sweet spot'. If everything is backline and only vocals are PA, you'll get different effect wherever you stand. There won't be a stereo effect anywhere created from the PA.

I don't. All the adverts are full of old people's music.

The stereo image for the audience is created when they move their heads. The source may be 'mono', but the band are in front of you and reverb from the walls adds to the stereo image. If you wear headphones/IEMs and turn your head, the band 'moves' but the sound doesn't, and there's no natural reverb. You are literally separated from the surroundings. Even when using backline, the amps are in different locations on the stage.

I'll paraphrase it. They played lots of people a 30sec clip of each song from a selection of songs from the last few decades. People had to rate them as tonehetehr they liked the songs or not. Study was done in 2010. My guess is that since then radio has stopped playing the 'latest hits' and teenagers are consuming music from different sources. However, the age at which you are introduced to songs and in particular the events in your life that coincide with you first hearing those songs will be reinforced as music, emotion and memory forming are all very closely related. As are smells and tastes. Teenagers may well be listening to ABBA and other 80s songs more nowadays, possibly due to a lack of quality new music or maybe those songs are being used in films and advertising by 40 somethings because they remind them of their youth. Are we reaching peak music saturation, and hence music becoming more bland or having to have greater shock value to grab peoples attention? Either way, in my experience, the pub crowd and party crowd don't want to listen to classic rock anymore. It's been done to death by various quality pub bands.

https://www.researchgate.net/publication/360136919_The_power_of_nostalgia_Age_and_preference_for_popular_music

Yes. We had a clumsy message from one member. He asked what time we were on as the poster said x o'clock. The member who organised the gig took it as a dig. I thought it was an odd thing to message. If the poster says x o'clock then usually we are on some time shortly after. Most bands have a 'doors open time' and a 'show starts at' time. Pubs are very loose in my experience. It was hardly something to even message about, let alone start a long exchange over. People just seem to be very edgy and sensitive at the moment. Then they complain that no one answers their messages.

I have been playing in bands for over 40 years and have yet to be given a list of songs we are not allowed to play at a gig. 🤷‍♂️ What gigs are you playing where they're telling you what not to play?

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I would expect a fan of classic rock to be in their 50s or 60s. Jazz in their late 60s unless they're musicians. Classic and Opera wouldn't figure on that list would it. It would be well down the left hand side.

Books have always been edited. The dictionary is changed every year. Words added and removed. Check out the revisions and versions of the Bible. No one has removed Brown Sugar. You can still buy it, listen to it, play it. Last time I played it at a gig, along with some other Stones numbers, we were asked if we could play some modern music. 5 years on we have a completely different set of material. Brown Sugar was written in 1960s. It's nearly 60 years old. It's a bit like expecting me to have been listening to songs recorded in the 1920s when I was a teenager.