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Very nice work @BigRedX, actually does take me straight back to 1984 👍
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Double bass rebuild - not for the faint of heart!
Beedster replied to The Guitar Weasel's topic in EUB and Double Bass
Great thread, I'll be watching keenly as I have a similar project here, albeit one that's on ice -
Read some of @joel406 other posts last night, seems he only has one thing to say, but boy he really does like saying it 😒
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You're gonna need a Badass on there Andy
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On topic I just found this….. Bought the neck on eBay where it was advertised as ‘luthier built’; I suspect it was one of the new Chinese CNC luthiers, but it’s playable and stable. I got the body from BC. Pocket is not standard Fender length (width and depth are fine) so for the dots to line up with the notes you need to have a bridge with decently long intonation screws or mount the bridge a little closer to the PUP. Or do what I did and play by ear! This is NOT Warmoth quality, but is a decent intro to fretless and looks f***ing cool built up. £100 as is or £150 as a bass with Squier PUP, circuit, and tuners and generic BBOT bridge. I’d digout a pickguard also 👍
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It is intelligent in the same way humans are intelligent, that is it has the means ('senses') to interact with information and the inherent capacity to restructure what it has sensed ('learn') on the basis of new information. Re sentient, see above, it's probably going to become a semantic as opposed to technical debate as time goes on
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Funny old thing, I always go on gut instinct when I look at a bass, and while I can't tell you why, as far as my gut is concerned the neck says no. No help at all in real terms Brian 🤔
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Relic'ing - my first attempt. (and probably my only one!)
Beedster replied to carlsim's topic in Build Diaries
Yep, similarly lend your bass to the singer/guitarist/drummist when they 'need to write some bass parts for the song they're working on' (because you're not trusted to do that), and you'll see authentic wear within days 👍 -
Agreed, but while it's easy to see the problem with generative processes, predictive AI still has huge limitations, many of which are being overlooked
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Thanks for saying what I held back from saying earlier
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And if I am to believe the sources, the errors that have already been made using AI in military applications are pretty horrific.....
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I won't go into why I have these totally new and unplayed, suffice to say it was an emergency Xmas present that I had to buy for myself last year but which I've never used (I used to own the same unit years ago and loved it but now use virtual drums with my DAW so have less need for boxes). The two units together seem to retail in the £350 space so this seems a good price, but a degree of haggling can be tolerated Happy to post
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In my field it's the subtle errors AI makes that are concerning, because some of them are hard to spot for anyone but an expert. And those subtle errors will of course be amplified the more the machine uses the information in question. Businesses think they can do things cheaper by using AI, which they can, but in doing so they risk doing things less well. This might not matter in for example advertising or similar text/image generation, but can be critical in law, engineering, medicine and science, where it's increasingly being used.
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Very true, in part because it has been aggressively marketed to those business leaders by Big Tech
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These posts sum it up nicely, over the next few years AI is going to make many professionals, including musicians, redundant. It's also going to mean that many of us to have our work in the public domain see that work plagiarised, often inappropriately and out of context, by the machine. Members here will find a piece of their music, text, artwork, will suddenly appear, possibly widely, and they will have no control, comeback, or royalties (there might be someone somewhere pissed off about the muppets in this thread for that very reason). And over and above that the energy consumption is ridiculous, if you really want all those lovely green fields to become battery farms in the next few years, go ahead.... We should think a little more carefully before clicking a link these days
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Yep, i imagine it's for exactly that reason, it gives them deniability, which at their prices and with their reputation, they should not need. Poor form
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'51s are the new black Andy. You watch, this time next year they'll all be playing them 👍