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I see Robert Cray has cut any ties or links with Clapton after Clapton likened lockdowns etc with slavery. For someone who made a fortune from ripping off black American music, Clapton has an unenviable propensity of looking like he's either thick, nasty, a racist or all 3.

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Did you need to provide any proof of purchase?

I've watched all of it now, and followed it up by watching McCartney 321 (Rick Rubin interviews, sort of, McCartney). There should be a lot in Get Back that is very familiar to anyone who's been in any sort of band. But then you have to think about the work rate, and the success of that work rate the was The Beatles. Help, Rubber Soul and Revolver all recorded in approximately a year. 3 weeks after recording Let It Be they're back in the studio recording Abbey Road. It's really something. One of the most poignant parts is in ep1, where George has quit and Paul and Ringo don't know if John is going to turn up either. Paul says 'and then there were 2'. Paul's face is one of this could be all over, and that he's losing his creative partner. Mccarthy 321 is worth a watch. I think it's ep5 where there's a bit of a look at bass specifically (not a huge amount).

Wasn't he barred from Basschat? A lot of threads on Finnbass occupied themselves with what was going on on Basschat.

It could have been a good forum. The technical threads and advice were good, there was good stuff on self build cabs for example. All of that got drowned out by most of the rest of it being plain stupid. It often struck me that many contributors probably spent too much time on the internet with their trousers and undies keeping their ankles warms.

This makes an interesting read. It was the people who've bought tickets but aren't as 'committed' to attend that stuck out. It seems there's a long haul back for acts playing ticket venues https://www.theguardian.com/music/2021/dec/12/bands-and-djs-count-the-costs-as-uk-fans-fail-to-show-up-for-gigs

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A set of strings, that's it, which doesn't even count as gear tbh

That's fortuitous timing. I was going through my cables a few days ago and my Fender guitar cable doesn't work at all. Cheers for the heads up

It's a great list...of bass players who were active in 2021 and nobody knew.

Thank you for your help. In the end it was my old audio interface causing the problem. As they're quite cheap, I bought the Behringer UCA202 that you mentioned @RhythmJunky and it works a treat.

He's probably got a high boredom threshold 😁

I'm not going to watch ep3. McCartney just said bass can be a bit boring in ep2. So I'm done with it, I'm done with it all!! 😎

My brother has always maintained that the best Foo Fighter's album is...The Best of The Foo Fighters. Regards music, he's right on this one occasion. I like Grohl, his sheer enthusiasm for music is great, but regards the Foos, they're ok, I couldn't listen to a whole album.

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I literally stumbled across an interview with Peter Jackson regards his making of this, and it really does explain the film's length and other things. I think it gives the film a lot of perspective. If you watch that with Ringo talking to Jimmy Kimmel it really puts a different spin on it. I'm half way through part 2. I'm liking it, maybe not loving it, but there is something important in all of it. In many ways The Beatles were just like millions of other bands, the writing, the boredom, the pranks, all that. What's different is to see how the most influential band went through the motions. I'll watch all of it. It's fascinating to see how McCartney plays his bass, it looks like it picks really hard, and all that strumming. Don't Let Me Down is one of my favourite Beatles/ all time songs, love the song, love the bass playing, I just find it mind boggling that it was never on the album! Billy Preston though, he really made the songs he played on...and just like bands do, he drops in to say hello and gets invited to sit in and play. It's an important piece of film for The Beatles story.

Is the DAC to the desk for monitoring? This is why it's quite frustrating. The interface is the selected input, there's sound going in as you get the input level bars going up and down as you play...but no sound to the person you're 'calling'. I'm inclined yo think it's the interface.

Tried on Mac and 2 different Windows machines, no joy at all. I've got a signal going in. When you open up the audio settings in Skype there's sound going to Skype as the bars move. However, nothing can be heard the other end by the person I'm calling. Yet I can hear them with the headphones from the audio interface. 🤔

I've got sound going into the computer as it works on a DAW on its own. However, when I close the DAW and try on Skype I get nothing. I get a faint bit of guitar if I put the input at maximum on the interface, but I'm also getting a massive amount of hiss/white noise. Real head scrater

My son may have to have guitar lessons using Skype (or similar) soon, as his guitar tutor is moving and he'd like to stay with the same tutor. He's had Skype lessons before but just used the laptop mic, which isn't the best. Ideally I'd want him to be able to route his guitar into the laptop, use a proper mic not the laptop one and use headphones to hear himself and his tutor. I've got an old non USB mixer and a very old USB interface that might do the job (I'd need a mic). I've used it before on my Mac and GarageBand, but not for anything like online lessons. (pic below). Would this gear work? Would it be better to buy a different USB interface, one that you can plug in the guitar and mic? Would a USB mixer be a better solution? Do I need a DAW to make all this work for online lessons? As you might be able to see I'm not knowledgeable in anything like this, so any advice or pointers would be great. Cheers

Ive just watched the PG rig rundown, with Dallas Schoo, of The Edge's set up...the sheer amount that goes on 'off stage'! It's mind boggling. There is a lot of getting the sound "absolutely right", before it goes to the desk. I can't see that someone so 'particular' about his own sound would allow anyone else in the band have a that'll do approach. PG also did a rig rundown on GnR. There are no bass cabs on their stage, they all use IEM. However, off stage Duff has a 115 and a 410 cab mic'd. That signal, along with 3 or 4 other signals from different sources are sent to the desk and blended. From what I remember I think there are guitar cabs mic'd in, near soundproofed, boxes off stage as well. These big bands may use IEM, but it's not as simple as DI the bass to the desk and that's it. They have a sound, and a lot of them seem very particular about recreating that sound by using A LOT of gear

He can talk about politics all he wants, it's his massive hypocrisy that disgusts many people.

With regard to Achtung Baby, Clayton's contribution seemed to be nil, apart from being incredibly negative when he heard the demos

ITV, a few years ago, aired a documentary to mark the 25th(?) anniversary of the release of Achtung Baby. Throughout the film they played several of the demos, that the Edge and Bono had made, for the album to present to Clayton and Mullins. The bass parts were already there, and are the lines you hear on the album. Solid and reliable he is, but it made me wonder what is it he does other than be solid. How much does he bring to the writing process to get that writing royalty cut he gets? I don't find what he does interesting. Others might say the same about the bassists I like, Mike Mills, McCartney, Jimi Goodwin (Doves). To me these players seem more musical and more interested in music, they have 'something'. Clayton strikes as someone who just wanted to be a rock star. I don't like U2, but that's not the reason I don't find Clayton interesting. I'm not a fan of Rolling Stones, but I find Keith Richards and Ronnie Wood musically very interesting. Competent, but beyond that I don't see someone who is of interest musically