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Thanks mate, had a Genesis moment today also, so perhaps my brain is slowly coming around to this stuff

And was really surprised just how much I liked it 👍 A while back my daughters insisted on a bloody Alexa, and while it took me a while, I've learned to shout "Alexa, play...." and then say the first band name that comes into my head. And today it was Genesis, and amazingly the first track was from Duke, an album I had heard and dismissed a long time ago but which just worked today. Wasn't so good when the first band that came into my head was Steps however. And not so good when Alexa's hearing aid failed and UFO become JLS. But otherwise, the Alexa game can be quite good fun 🤔

Crikey, this thread feels like a million years ago now, I should try listening again sometime 👍

Well you decide folks...... I recorded a really nice interview with a scientist a few months back using their original 'Classic' platform - which I'd been using pretty much without problem for two years - but to my serious annoyance the guest's audio track wouldn't download. I got in touch with Zencastr support and after a few attempts to retrieve the track (apparently) their ultimate response was "Hey, why were you using our legacy product in the first place when you should have been using our really cool new version". My response was pretty much "I'm ********* ****** ***** paying you for this ****** platform and you still have it ******* live so it should ******* **** ***** work whether you consider it 'legacy' or not". A not unreasonable response given I could not really ask the guest to re-record the session so had lost a morning's work plus some PR? So, given the fact that Zencastr has been clear that the 'legacy' version might be a problem, for the next session I though I'd use the new version. Now, there was nothing when I logged in or on screen to suggest that the sample rate was higher in this version, and now way to select it, so I was bloody miffed to find the above source/destination problem. OK, when I replicated the error it was clear from two of the dialogue boxes in Pro Tools that there was a mismatch between source and destination rates, but I could be forgiven for not noticing given I've imported Zencastr tracks into Pro Tools about 200 times without that problem. Again, I went back to them and in classic US style their response was 'Yeh, hey it's great isn't it, we're working at 48k now" to which mine was "well, none of my audience will notice the slightest ******* difference in sound quality but you just gave me another extra afternoon's work through simply not making this clear". So yes Paul, spot on - and with due respect to skidder who's Pro Tools MMV - Zencastr was and is very much the problem here, and having had two bad experiences in four podcasts - one of which meant the irretrievable loss of the important audio track - I am looking at other options now, which is a shame as for two years I used Zencastr very happily without a problem.

I'm with you dude, it was never acoustic guitars per se, it was always strummed acoustic guitars. As any reasonable person will no doubt agree, strumming is about the laziest form of musicianship possible, the word itself even sounds lazy "Hey you gonna pick?" "No man, I'm gonna struuuum...". But there is something worse than a strummed 6-string acoustic.......... a strummed 12-string acoustic, the work of the devil and something that ultimately made me hate much of Tom Petty's recorded music despite loving his songs

You juts won't let that one go will you Nik, although I suspect Jamiroquoi might be a French Jamiroquai tribute act.... 🤔

Think I've sorted it, easier than I thought, clues were here

I use Zencastr to record podcasts with experts in a range of fields. I recorded one last week which was really quite good but in which there was a repeated noise in the background at the guest's end that we could do little about. I told the guest I'd edit it out of the final mix, which I spent about 90 minutes doing (in some places I could remove it, in others I had to reduce its impact). Anyway, in removing the noise - which was easy to see on the waveform - I wasn't really listening to the conversation which I then edited at the end of a very long day. A colleague listened to it and said 'It sounds a bit odd', and when I listened back it did seem a little slow. Turns out that Zencastr changed their default sample rate from 44 to 48 and I'd downloaded and edited vocal tracks sampled at 48 with my usual Pro Tools setting of 44, hence playback of the edited track is noticeably slower. Normally if I made a schoolboy error like this I'd reload the tracks and re-edit, but I'm not sure I can face the hell of the noise removal again. I've tried making a copy of the Pro Tools tracks at the correct sample rate but that didn't work, tried bouncing to mp3 at the correct sample rate and that didn't work. Suggestions welcome!

Love the DVD, feels like the last moment of an era 👍

Looked barely able to swing that guitar, not quite Pete Townshend 🤔

Thanks Paul, I checked and the box was unticked. I think what threw me was that the files Pro Tools was trying to link to on the second computer were two .wav files I had downloaded from a web podcasting platform and had imported into the Pro Tools session on the original computer as opposed to having recorded them directly into that Pro Tools session as I've usually done before. I guess in the later case the audio files would be saved and if needs be copied as part of the session which is why this hadn't happened before? Either way, many thanks, you've saved me a lot of head scratching 👍

I'd really appreciate some help with this as it's causing me a few problems at present. I moved some Pro Tools files - in short the whole folder containing what appear to be all the files from a session - to an external drive and then to a different computer yesterday. When I opened the session the tracks were empty. I plugged the external drive back into the source computer and opened the Pro Tools session from that external drive and the tracks were fine. So I assumed that there must be files on the source computer that are needed for, and linked to, that session that are not contained within the session folder. But I can't find them? I have tried a few problem solving threads elsewhere suggesting, for example, that I save the files as a new session before I transfer to the external drive but the problem persists. As IIRC I used to do this without problem a few years back when I'd regularly edit on a laptop in the house having recorded using the desktop in my studio, I'm flummoxed?

Has it got a truss rod?

There's been a lot of debate around this issue on various sites, i'd see this post as the definitive answer at last 👍

Walkabout will run at 2ohms apparently but I wouldn’t risk it Nik, they’re not easy to replace or even repair these days

Some great advice in this thread, @Dad3353 and @BigRedX wish I’d had similar advice 20 years back 👍

Ironically of course you're probably one of the very few of us in a domestic situation that's welcoming of new basses. Seems almost a waste of such extraordinary cunning.....? Unless of course it's s coded message to the rest of us 🤔

So, with apologies if this has already been pointed out, I haven't read the whole thread, but Jack has basically had a new neck built for a body for which he already had a neck, and then decided to get a new body built for the spare neck? Genius, getting another bass into the house without actually ever buying another bass 👍

Bought back memories that did! I bought a bass on eBay from the US years ago, and the seller indicated a valuation of around twice what I paid on the basis that in his opinion that's what the bass was worth should it be lost or damaged. Can almost see his logic but didn't do me any favours when it came to import duty, VAT etc.

Hold fire, someone here will help out 👍

Great review @fretless, many thanks. Are you finding that battery life isn't in fact a problem, or at least no more than with an active electric bass?

My interest in the 300 will be revised once they appear for sale again. Having checked when I sold my SLB-100, most of the retailers who suggested that they have the SLB-300 in stock are, to use a well worn phrase, actually 'awaiting delivery'..... There also seem to be some serious issues around battery life, so I'm wondering whether there's some post-Covid component availability issues preventing more units coming off the production lines, it's odd for Yamaha to have gone to market with a unit with (alleged) performance issue and to then offer such poor availability, especially as it seems that not many players have taken the plunge and bought one yet? The shame is that I bet it's a cracking instrument and had there been one available a month or so ago it would be sitting in my studio now 👍