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  1. BabyBlueSound
    Cory Wong next February, in London
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    I had fake Elixirs from Amazon, missing the nanoweb coat, looking used... only buying from proper retailers since.
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    Let me summon my inner grumpy old man. Subjectively I think 95% of the world has terrible, terrible musical taste. Otherwise autotuned, musically completely empty crap by some "Li'l Facetattoo" would not be popular, but it is. Or anything done by the likes of Kanye West, where I have been struggling for years to understand WHY? I simply could not feel an ounce of musicality, talent, or any positive factor at all when trying my best to understand this "music"... So yeah, AI music will be written for these people, and it might become popular, but will this matter to the rest of us? Will it change anything that the tasteless boring crap they consume is not done by people any more? Pop overlords will realise AI is simply cheaper than a narcissistic idiot who might become a public hitler fan one day. People who can't stand this type of dull nothingmusic will continue to look for proper, exciting music created by other people. The same rate of people will listen to good music and crap music. And I simply don't think GOOD music will be taken over by AI... and looking at the current state of pop music, I don't even mind if AI eats it all up. Maybe those "musicians' will have to learn not to be boring.
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    I can always appreciate someone spending a ridiculous amount of time to properly pimp out a cheaper Ibanez! My Talman mods defo worth more than the bass itself, I really do get it!
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    Oh my, I haven't seen the OLP logo for about 16 years, when I sold my sparkly silver Stingray... 😂 And I always appreciate a nice mirror pickguard 😁
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    The case is a perfect fit! The leather plectrums are ridiculously good for this bass, never tried them before.
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    Interesting you mention the stickiness, I consider these very slippery strings and I like them for it! Never tried on a fretless though. If you want them to die a little bit, I think you need literally any other flats that sound more "dead" from right the start
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    I can imagine it's fine in a band where you mostly need the low end, I am also quite alright with it when plugged in to my tiny home amp, but try recording it... it's really the worst. Of course one should never record with old strings anyway, so... 😁 But still, this price/lifetime ratio is the only factor keeping me from buying these strings forever.
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    Cobalt flats are so good. I don't like the flat sound but love the flat feel under my fingers, so it's perfect for me with it's round-like sound. However once it gets dull, it SUCKS. I have a new set so will do a comparison soon, but it's hard to record a bass-like sound with a used one. Lifeless thumps. Lifespan is much, much shorter than Elixirs. Sometimes the string ends can get a bit brownish rust on them, and I don't even store it in a humid environment! I keep the old ones on the Sterling to practice now, so I don't wear the new ones down before recording them. They're expensive for the sound's lifespan.
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    Oh, I did not realise! Cool
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    It's just nicer, and a bit easier to install, but there's really not a lot of difference. A new set of Elixirs is actually on the way. Currently I use EB Cobalt flats, those do not have a shortie version either.
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    Well you did not ask me, but I had Elixirs before on both my Ibanez and Sterling short scales, can be cut down with no issues. E string's winding can get bulky and tricky but nothing crazy.
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    Ok, the D'addario nyltech rubber ones arrived and they don't have a ball end, wow. I guess a knot will work just fine. But that E string, whoah! Almost 20mm, really need to enlarge the bridge hole at some point.
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    Oh thanks, but I prefer more... shape we realised we need more stuff from Thomann anyway, like Elixirs for the shortie, so went ahead with that Thomann bag. I also got a spare nut which I can file to rubber string size, so I can have one nut for the regular strings (if I'd go for those RIDICULOUSLY expensive flats at some time in fhe future), and another for the rubber ones. I think the bridge holes might need to be enlarged for those rubbers tho... 😓
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    Not yet, not a priority for me being a living room bassist, but I was eyeballing this one as I don't plan to spend a fortune: https://www.thomann.de/gb/thomann_uke_bass_baritone_uke_gigbag.htm Apparently baritone uke bags work.
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    @JohnDaBass how is your E string though? Mine was pretty dead, and the A is already losing brightness, and I always play with clean hands. Ordered D'addario nylons anyway, might need to file the nut a bit
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    One thing I must highlight is since the strings stretched to their length, I barely have to re-tune the little guy, holds the tuning very steadily!
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    Sounds about right, I would have never gigged with this. But so perfect and comfy for noodling around at home, and hobby recording. Just too loud to play next to a TV in the living room 😀
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    ...and how did it go? 😁 I am still enjoying mine, but I am just a living room bassist, no band. My experience is similar with the tone knob, anything above 50% becomes scratchy, artificially metallic sounding. My only problem is, it's so easy to pick it up and play it's loose-ish comfy strings and tiny neck, my muscle memory is already starting to reset and I am making more mistakes on the shortscales 😄
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    Here's a fun little thing Moises does. Sometimes it can fall "between" tempos somehow I was recording my most recent video the other day, and used Moises for backing, basically playing to the drum track and the smart click track from the song I was recording. It was running from my phone for simple handling, through a bluetooth speaker. When I was finished, and wanted to add the full, clickless backing track, I have exported it via the web client, imported to Reaper, and was trying to align them without any success, they always sounded bad together. I noticed despite both being 164, they're not the same tempo, the web version was slightly faster. So if I synced up the beginning of the song, the end was out of sync, and vice versa. No problem, I thought, I'll just export it via the phone app then. But now the phone one matched the one from the web... so seems like I played my song to a "magic" 164 bpm that just can't be replicated, and now I'm without a backing track. But I still had my video where the "magic" 164 and it's click was still audible, so I added that audio to Reaper, and then started playing around with the web export to try to match the magic one. Ultimately I found if you decrease the playback rate from 1 to 0.9988something, they finally match. Lesson learned: if recording, always export the track first, and play along using a good ol' wav file. edit: even better, export the click track and the clickless at the same time, so no gremlin can mess with rounding errors etc
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    If I had a penny every time a new technology / approach / genre / instrument completely devalued music... 😁 Like how garage/techno "defeated" all other music with it's simplicity. I mean I get where you're coming from. But about 99% of the world's current human-made music is absolute trash (at least from a very subjective perspective, what exactly makes up the 99% varies), I really don't think the 1% most of humanity will be listening to will actually be premium quality AI made music. I am a lot more concerned about Gen-Z being absolutely crazy about what I consider today's absolute nothingburgers, those crap tracks where there's like a 80 bpm digital drum with 16th-32th hi-hat runs, some bloops and beeps, and a guy or girl basically speaking in an autotuned voice about something in a monotone, bored manner. And there's millions of songs of this same thing. Even AI can do better than THIS.
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    I love mine when practicing, the bluetooth connectivity to the phone is so useful. But I don't think I'd try to record it. The output is very digital to my taste, I can hear the sound is coming through a cheapish toy. But if this is the only device you have for recording, then it's definitely better than nothing, and should do the job for Youtube and stuff! And I have never tried the "Mightier" app yet that is supposed to give you more control...
  23. BabyBlueSound
    So the little guy has arrived, and I am enjoying it a lot. I guess it's not for everyone, but as a mainly shortscale guy, this is MY shortscale. The build quality is not terrible for £220. The wood is fine, the pieces are joined up nice, it's a pleasure to look at. It DOES sound prec-ish somehow. The fretwork is where the "made in China" shows, they don't even show on photos that much, but the fitting is quite disgusting around a few frets. As you can see, the fretboard was dried out to the point where the wood starts to become grey-ish, so gave it some lemon oil, and it turned nice dark brown. However at this point my nut fell off. After a brief panic, I used some very weak wood glue to stop it from moving sideways and I let the strings hold it in place. It's working and should be fine. Unfortunately the E string is pretty much dead, compared to the other 3 strings which sounds fine. But I don't mind as I never care about the factory strings anyway. Might try the weird postie rubber strings just for kicks, but I in the long run I just plan to put some proper strings on it. I might also try cutting up my older coated strings, try to put them on and see what happens. After re-stringing, it takes ages before the strings stretch to wherever they should be. Intonation is... what it is. For any bass ukes, usually this is the pain point. The G is spot on, but the D is almost a quarter tone off at 12th, and there are smaller differences for A and E as well. Just play the low frets, or get a real uke 😜 The electronics are pretty nice, colourful accurate tuner, and a pretty wide TONE knob. I guess it's active, having a battery, but's surprisingly loud even compared to the "hot" pot setting on my Sterling Stingray. I was genuinely surprised how crappy and dull the Sterling sounds after playing the uke (but I got 1yo bummed out cobalt flat strings on the Sterling, so that's somewhat expected, I was just surprised at how big the difference was in clarity). My biggest pain point is, there's no blue coloured uke bass. They made a blue uke... but not a bass uke. So now I got an instrument that's not blue Mildly Sansamped sound in action below. Please excuse the crappy playing, this is just a test short, I shall use this instrument properly in the near future
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    Made this short just to test the fun size bass in action, so far enjoying the little thing!
  25. BabyBlueSound
    "Hey again, it's Mark here from TalkingBass" is my all time favourite online teacher. No nonsense, only useful stuff, and I am a fan of the deadpan presentation. Teaches technique, approach, and specific basslines as well, dissecting everything into consumable little steps.
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