Earbrass

Alan bought a shoulder pad for a guitar strap from me. All good.

I've played piano since I was, well, not sure really but I started proper lessons when I was 6. Started guitar when I was 12, but have never come close to mastering it - still can't do barre chords! Ironically, I really wanted to play bass, but was talked into starting on guitar - got a bass in my late teens and found it suited me so much better. More recently I briefly tried and abandoned piano accordion (too unwieldy and heavy and never got fluent on the stradella bass) and moved onto D/G melodeon. Been playing that for about eight years, and have reached the point where I can belt out morris tunes ok, but I've never really gelled with it - I still can't improvise fluently on it, the fact that it's not chromatic frequently frustrates me and I've realized I'll never have the strength or control in the upper left arm muscles to be a really good player. My latest love is nyckelharpa, which I've been playing for 2 years now - love it!!!! Wish I'd discovered this fabulous instrument a few decades earlier.

Pretty sure the pianist plays an Eb somewhere between 6:30 and 7.20. That was probably it. Nice to see God on bass - always knew he was one of us.

That's a lot of hazelnuts.

[quote name='Len_derby' timestamp='1500180775' post='3336050'] Over time, I've tried to stop fretting about it. [/quote] I see what you did there.

For what it's worth my advice would be to hold off spending any money for now. Have a go at recording a few tracks with what you already have. Limited options can be a great spur to creativity, and having wrung all you can out of your current gear you will have a much better idea of where your money is likely to yield the most improvement.

[color=#282828][font=helvetica, arial, sans-serif]What Punters Notice At Gigs, [/font][/color]Punters Don't Know The Difference nope, can't see any connection there.

[quote name='blue' timestamp='1499933595' post='3334546'] What's Dream Theater? [/quote] http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OaUbq3fghWQ

[quote name='Rich' timestamp='1498816788' post='3327225'] I bought a Novation K-Station recently and it's brilliant. Big phat pharty sounds and 70s-soundalike synthy goodness. And programmable memories. I still regret selling my old Roland SH-09 back in the day, but practically speaking the K is the superior instrument in every way. [/quote] ...not to mention the polyphony! I've had a K-Station for a few years and it is indeed a lovely thing. Still tempted by the new Novation Peak though....maybe one day I'll trade up, but I'm in no hurry

[quote name='Bass_Guardian' timestamp='1499257402' post='3330308'] Oh also my first ever bass. My Peavey Milestone III, the bass that kick started my love for bass. I didn't even want to learn bass funny how things turn out. [/quote] My Peavey Milestone III is the only bass I own. Bought from a Cash Converters for £50 in 2005, when I returned to bass after a gap of a couple of decades. Then I joined basschat, bought 3 more basses, including a Fender Aerodyne Jazz, and eventually sold all apart from the Milestone III when I realised that none of the others played or sounded any better. I have no emotional attachment to it, but it does everything I need a bass to do, it's light, well-balanced, feels and sounds great. I can't imagine why I'd replace it, and I have no desire to collect more basses for the sake of it.

[quote name='Dan Dare' timestamp='1499498362' post='3331850'] Chart music is a tiny part of the totality of music. It may have a high profile, but it is an irrelevance. The "future of singing" is safe. It just ain't in the hands of western chart music and its purveyors. [/quote] +100 Anyone wishing to reassure themselves as to the future of singing could do worse than come along to the Union Chapel, Islington tonight (Sat 8th July) to check out [url="http://laboratoriumpiesni.pl/en/"]Laboratorium Pieśni[/url] [media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xFOpZAjlBkk[/media] [media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wkxKfDmKzrk[/media]

Somewhere I have a slim volume called Remarkable Names of Real People. I haven't seen it in some years, but a few of the entries stand out in my memory: Heidi Yum-Yum Gluck Zita Apathy Mrs. Belcher Whack Whack and my personal favourite... Gaston J. Feeblebunny

[quote name='leftybassman392' timestamp='1498816319' post='3327222'] IIRC the only benefit of cassette tape over vinyl was convenience. Once CDs arrived it lost it's USP. [/quote] You are forgetting the recordability side - rewritable CDs came along a lot later and were still more of a faff to use (though far better quality) than cassette. I'm sure many of us will have memories of making "mix-tapes" or of borrowing friends' (expensive) LPs to tape.

Not sure whether to be depressed that people are so gullible, or pleased that this will boost the value of my 300+ vinyl collection (all purchased before CDs were available). Got to get round to selling that stuff one of these days. I will keep a handful just for the cover art / sentimental reasons.

It's times like this, when I'm staring at a laptop trying to think of hedge-related puns, that I wonder whether I could have done more with my life.

[quote name='SH73' timestamp='1497095619' post='3315822'] Do you hook it up as interface to PC. I'm after a di guitar pedal for recording as I don't get on recording guitar straight into focusrite. [/quote] Haven't tried it yet, but yes, you can do that. Will give it a go when I get my studio back together (probably later this week). You can see the full manual (you don't get a paper copy with the unit!) [url="https://3e7777c294b9bcaa5486-bc95634e606bab3d0a267a5a7901c44d.ssl.cf2.rackcdn.com/product_documents/documents/1822_1394663351/RP360-RP360XP_Manual_5041674-B_original.pdf"]here[/url].