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[quote name='steverickwood' timestamp='1320936391' post='1433419'] I don't know about autotune on show of Hands DVD [/quote] Marathon - I had it on in the background, while I was doing something else, and I thought... WTF is that? It jumps right out. No idea why - there was never anything that bothered me on the VHS.... Incidentally, Marathon on the TM Blu Ray is awesome. Strange watching him play it on a Jazz. It's just so... Wal.

[quote name='steve-bbb' timestamp='1320916448' post='1432989'] not being a studio tech expert but...does anybody else get the same impression as me that the fluctuations in the voice (especially the SOR clip) sound like auto-tune struggling to track correctly ? [/quote] Hmm.. I think that's just how he sounds. Mind you, they've used it before - The Show Of Hands DVD is autotuned to hell in some parts.

[quote name='steverickwood' timestamp='1320911221' post='1432943'] I just got the dvd - The performance is vibrant and as for sound, well, everyones a sound guy these days aren't they? Like everyone at a football match knows 'what the manager needs to do'.. [/quote] Dunno if that was aimed at me, but my comments were based on the CD. I'll have the Blu-Ray and day now, and I'd expect (hope) the mix to be a lot better, as they generally are. Going back to the CD - I'll revise my opinion slightly based on listening to quite a bit of it in the car on the way to work this morning. Not very scientific, but... Anyway, IMO... Ged's bass tone is the best recorded tone he's had in years. The Camera Eye sounds great. Less fizz, more growl. I was never a fan on Alex's big fat Gibson tone, but the guitar on the CD is much more defined than it has been recently. So, apart from the horrible reverb they've used, my main beef is with the compression. Because of that, I'll probably only listen to it a handful of times before i get bored of it. Like I say, hopefully the Blu-Ray will redeem it...

[quote name='silddx' timestamp='1320890103' post='1432913'] Presto was the last album I truly love. Thought most of Roll the Bones and Counterparts was dull, although I still love Cut to The Chase. Test for Echo makes me cringe now, but I did like a lot of it when it came out. After that they lost me really. Although I buy all their albums out of some sort of duty. [/quote] I feel pretty much the same way, although I think RtB and Counterparts are OK. Their weakness since then, IMO, is that they've stopped writing [i]songs.[/i] Now it's just a lumpy collection of riffs cobbled together in ProTools, with Geddy shoehorning in a melody almost as an afterthought. Some of the phrasing sounds so forced. Also, what happened to the classic instrumental breaks? Y'know - Freewill, Camera Eye, Marathon, etc. etc. etc? And why doesn't Geddy write great bass parts anymore? And why are Alex's solos so contrived? But, like Silddx... it's Rush, so I'll buy their records anyway.

Nothing technical, it's just to my ears it sounds flat and lacks dynamics. But then, so do so many releases these days.

Ry Cooder - El UFO Cayo Jean Michel Jarre - Equinoxe I Highlands - Bob Dylan Beethoven - Moonlight Sonata Loads of others. I love tunes that just roll on and on....

[quote name='JTUK' timestamp='1320844948' post='1432150'] Paul Simon in Central Park ( Graceland era ) [/quote] Good call.. love this tune from that gig: [url="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZegjDaDsu9Y"]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZegjDaDsu9Y[/url]

Lovely! I didn't think I'd ever see one older than mine (Feb '71), but I've been beaten by a couple of months! Incidentally, we share a neck-pocket stamp... Incidentally, I put a Raven Labs PBR-1 active pre in mine. It's nice, but I'm not sure I need it. Happy mwaaahing!

[quote name='Chris2112' timestamp='1320800316' post='1431723'] Hmm, I'll see if I can find some samples. I have to say, I saw them on the Snakes and Arrows tour and the sound was fantastic, at the same venue on the Time Machine tour the bass was a little mushier and it sounded a little bit boomy. Still a great show though, I really enjoyed it. Realistically though, we'll never see Rush playing small venues with masterfully scultped sound again. [/quote] Were you at Newcastle on the TM tour? Where I was, it was so boomy as to be almost unlistenable. I mentioned this to friends who were there who said the spund was spot-on where they were. I must have been in the middlle of a standing wave or something.

[quote name='arthurhenry' timestamp='1320780824' post='1431388'] I'm a huge fan, but I won't be bothering with this. I simply don't have the time to wade through four or five hours of DVD which is probably very, very similar to the last one and the one before that. I've watched the R30 DVD once, in installments and that came out six or seven years ago! [/quote] I kinda see your point, but... two words. Camera. Eye. [quote name='Green Alsatian' timestamp='1320780807' post='1431386'] Oh bugger - I was looking forward to that too. They were fantastic when I saw 'em in Manchester earlier in the year. Perhaps I'll play it on a CD player in an empty adjacent room and pretend I'm standing outside the stadium, listening in. [/quote] Don't bother with the 'adjacent room' bit. It'll sound like that if you listen in the same room.

Lindisfarne's 'Magic in the Air'. Rod Clements' unmistakeable fretless Precision tone. Great player, and a huge influence on me. [url="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=upb_kVfy9PA"]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=upb_kVfy9PA[/url]

OK.. the Blu Ray hasn't arrived yet, but I've had a listen to the CD. My God, it's terrible. Rush live CDs have never sounded great, but this is one of the worst. It sounds like a bootleg. Compressed, lifeless, echoey... why do they do this? Are they going deaf? Don't they care? If you're thinking of buying it, don't. Record the DVD / Blu Ray soundtrack on an old cassette player from an adjacent room instead. It'll sound better and save yourself a few quid. Rant over. (By the way, the first person to say something along the lines of 'It's Rush. of course it sounds terrible. They [i]are[/i] terrible!' wins the wooden spoon of unoriginality.)

[quote name='Jean-Luc Pickguard' timestamp='1320744508' post='1430655'] There were a lot of 'Made in China' Bodies, Necks & basses which appeared to be off the same production line as SX & Jim Deacons being sold as New-old-stock Canadian 'Signature' products a while ago by an ebay seller who span a yarn about clearing out a factory or some such nonsense. Some kind of scammery appeared to be going on. [/quote] ^^^ This - there's a thread on TB about it that you might want to read before committing to anything...

If one breaks and has to be repaired, you have a spare.

I'm struggling to think why a studio wouldn't have DI boxes. After all, it's their job to record a musician's instrument, not their DI box.

[quote name='BigAlonBass' timestamp='1320535575' post='1428232'] Found out (too late ) that the new tablets I had been given for my Arthritis were Ototoxic, and the accumulated effect has made me virtually deaf. Had to pack in playing, not because of any on-stage problems, but the fact that I got angry at not being able to hold a conversation with anyone whilst at a Gig. The 'social' aspect of it all went out of the window, which was one of the main reasons I liked playing in a Band. On the bright side, my Daughter and Son-in-Law presented us with a brand-new Grandson, and asked us if we would look after him while they were both at Work. Talk about a new lease of life! [/quote] Bittersweet, Al - sorry to hear about the ear troubles.

[quote name='discreet' timestamp='1320532755' post='1428198'] Should have said 'no' a bit earlier! [/quote] This advice is about ten months too late...

By new year's eve, I'll have done 63 'proper' gigs this year (not including open mics, etc.). Five or six different bands, original material and covers, all sorts of venues up-and-down the country. I could have done more, but I recently became a dad for the second time so I had to say no to a few things. It's been fun, and better than last year which was a bit of a washout. If there's one disappointment, it's that I didn't have many summer festivally things this year, which I enjoy but there's a few pencilled in next year. Yes, it's tiring balancing music, family and a 'proper' job, but I don't really know any other way. I love it.

Lovely! Put the case in the loft and forget about it... Don't sell it!

They look lovely. 250w might not seem like much, but it's 14w more than the TC RH450. *ducks behind rock*

[quote name='discreet' timestamp='1320324919' post='1425290'] How did you know I checked my junk?? Have you got CCTV in my house? [/quote] I could have sworn I saw you mention that. I'm losing my mind...!

I love Sousaphoneses. Here's the closest I'll ever get to playing one.. impersonating one on a Precision: [url="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A6cfwI7dVnI"]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A6cfwI7dVnI[/url]

I know you've checked your junk, but more and more of my notifications are ending up in junk. Maybe they're being filtered off earlier in the process somewhere?

There's a similar thing on Talkbass which works really well, but rather than a popup it displays it in a tool-tip. It's very useful, and the tool-tips are much cleaner and quicker than popups.

[quote name='Lozz196' timestamp='1320218166' post='1423782'] Used them "in anger" last night. First impressions are that with the band I was with last night - which has two bassists, me being the "thud" as opposed to the "twang" - they fit in very well. Very easy to play, and although there seems to be a lot of fret-noise when the bass is on it`s own, this doesn`t come through in the mix, and I get a nice thud, which is great as my role in this band is really emphasising the bass-drum patterns. After years of playing Roto Rounds though, these flats feel "wrong" but I`ve got to give them time, and not make any snap decisions. I`m juust going to have to wait until next week to try them in my other band, which is a more traditional punk covers band. I think that will be the deal maker or breaker. [/quote] They're going to change beyond recognition over the coming weeks - try not to get too attached to / disappointed with how they sound and feel at the moment.