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I think you're confusing technical and functional. The point in question was that if the cab works for the player - and for most players that includes the player's bands and audiences because, they'll soon find out when it doesn't - then it doesn't mater whether it's a 1x10, 1x12, 1x15 etc. I've had 15s that worked (in my case Mesa) and 15s that didn't (in my case Markbass), it's not the 15-ness that defined the functionality

Nicely put @tegs07

I think there's an element of personal responsibility missing here also, if you put content online and that content is either not protected or you choose not to enforce protection when it is, while you are not to blame per se, but you are leaving yourself open to plagiarism, because where there's content of any sort, there's plagiarism

Fame an status are addictions, usually less tangible than to a substance and usually less damaging than to gambling, but just as easy to get caught out by and for a small number of people catastrophic. You only have to look at the Love Island phenomenon to see the damage that can be done

I had a similar experience, in the early 80's I assumed I was simply a crap bass player because I sounded nothing like the players I was trying to emulate. Then as the gear got better, it became obvious that yes, I was just a crap bass player after all, albeit one with better gear

....many of whom, I suspect, we aware of what the guy was up to, and some of who are probably doing the same - fakery and theft - albeit at a less industrial scale

You looking for an argument @BabyBlueSound? OK for you this thread is about the theft, but for others it's as much about the fakery/pretending part, as are some of the videos posted. It's a discussion forum, people will take that discussion wherever they want to take it, and personally, like @Burns-bass I find the fakery of this whole space the disappointing not because stealing of IP has always been there in music (as it is everywhere, it doesn't make it right but neither does it surprise me), but because I think of a whole generation of aspiring kids who will never be able to achieve the techniques they aspire to from watching these videos because no one can actually play half the stuff in them What DOES surprise me is that the fakery had not been called out sooner because looking at some of the videos it's so obvious 🤔

Funny isn't it, shit tone isolated = great tone in the mix

Read 'all music gear' ^

Well they are precision polished, which perhaps suggests that the standard strings aren't precision polished, merely polished imprecisely

Whole set still cheaper than a single decent DB string But, yeh, they seem really expensive by the standards of electric bass strings, at least with DB strings there really - or usually is - is a noticeable difference in quality and tone as you go up through the price bands, I wonder if the same's true here?

Fair point although I was referring to the need to record detail not the specifics of the mic 👍

I've got a nice pair of ribbons......

Can't you do that with your rather lovely modelling mic......? Or is that the large diaphragm you're referring to mate?

‘Zarg’

That's the truth of it, and any percentage applied to the confiscation of proceeds versus number of prosecutions would be dependent on the rate of prosecution, the estimates of unlawful gains etc. In short, the overall percentage of money confiscated versus money stolen is far lower than would appear - the reality with most fraud is this it goes undetected or if detected unpunished and if punished often at nothing like equivalence That's true

I missed that first time around

Show me where else the same is true - certainly not in banking fraud, tax avoidance etc - and also tell me who would enforce it?

There will no doubt be a 'second wave' of accusations, cancellations, and people further capitalising on this. There'll already be hundreds if not thousands of people around the web digging for any evidence, no matter how tenuous, that one of the music influencers accusing this guy are guilty of the same thing. The desperate need to feed the machine to get attention drives fakery and plagiarism everywhere because it requires levels of creativity beyond nearly all normal people, so people become magpies, relying on the creativity of multiple other people to maintain status - I used to be an 'ideas man' in a science business, I'd open my mouth at a client meeting and two hours later there'd be a good chance that someone at the meeting had posted a 'Thought Leadership' piece on Linkedin along the lines 'So, I was talking to a guy this morning and it got me thinking.......' when it didn't 'get them thinking', they literally took my ideas word for word and presented them as their own. It happens in the arts, in science, in literature, in product design and manufacture, everywhere, it's rife and is being fuelled by what is to all intents the wild and lawless frontier of the internet about to be made infinitely worse by the indiscriminate use of AI by the type of muppets who would do that sort of thing........

There's a real sense that cancel culture has evolved into capitalise culture

There's truth in @BabyBlueSound point re opening people's eyes to the fact that fakery is wrong, but the almost hysterical and fever-pitched responses from what is starting to feel like a baying mob are unedifying and I suspect in many cases are at least a little hypocritical. OK, the guy's a con artist, he's not the first in music and he won't be the last. Jeez imagine if the internet had been around when these guys were doing their thing......

Mind if I use that in the promo text, love it 👍