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[quote name='SH73' timestamp='1494701248' post='3298023'] Modesty. Perhaps you could start a thread on mixing, mastering, eq ing, compressing etc. So we can learn from master Dad.😊 [/quote] Everything you need to know right here: [media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f0m3n9mPssA&index=3&list=PL5Um7IgR_gBkYl_TIbLr4qWY0ekO1Qnbi[/media]

Can they even hear each other? Sounds like a total mess to me.

Dress appropriately..... [media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p6IyVzmetPg[/media]

[quote name='project_c' timestamp='1493462118' post='3288503'] The internet is responsible for killing a lot of culture and livelihoods. [/quote] Like the printing press, putting all those scribes and itinerant storytellers out of business.

[quote name='mep' timestamp='1491852685' post='3275918'] Will fixing a wheel to the log get it out of trouble then? [/quote] Well that's just silly. Surely you're going to need at least one each end?

Frigg in Guildford next Sunday (preceded by a Finnish fiddle tunes workshop - I'll be taking my nyckelharpa). Then Faustus in Clerkenwell on Thursday 6th

[quote name='pbasspecial' timestamp='1490290181' post='3264028'] I don't remember getting my knob out or taking a sh*t on the floor . [/quote] Maybe they thought that if you can't even remember that, you'd probably struggle memorising the set list.

Tricky one. On the one hand there's the opportunity to have all those hundreds of hours of solo practice honing one's skills finally appreciated by a receptive audience...on the other hand, the gig sounds pretty good too....

How about during? I remember seeing Henry Cow play on a Sunday afternoon in Southend - probably 1977ish. About half way through a tea-lady wandered across the front of the stage with a trolley full of tea and biscuits. The band were into one of their long "free impro" sections and one by one came to the front of the stage to help themselves. I recall being a bit miffed that we didn't get any. Rock'n'roll.

[quote name='Bassassin' timestamp='1483725451' post='3209652'] I think I'd struggle with anyone under 40-odd. Does that count? [/quote] Is that inches tall or stones in weight? From an ad on Bandmix: [i][color=#101010]I'm looking for other members who are preferably no older than 30 (as im 22), who have similar taste musically and who are pretty openminded.[/color][/i] [i][color=#101010] [/color][/i][i][color=#101010] [/color][/i]

[i][color=#555555]vitriolic noodle vendors[/color][/i] [color=#555555]Now that's a great band name.[/color]

No No No

Sold a Zoom MS-60B pedal to Andy. All good - recommended.

[quote name='PaulWarning' timestamp='1483696209' post='3209283'] agree with the deceasing audience ... [/quote] I think that comes under the heading of "accidentally accurate".

Did you deny having been influenced by the Beatles?

[quote name='Monkey Steve' timestamp='1481801010' post='3195227'] I use a similar technique to Entwistle - effectively fingerstyle but hitting the strings with the end of my fingers rather than picking or plucking them. Sounds very similar to slapping with a thumb, but allows for much more speed. [/quote] +1

Had a rush of blood to the mouse finger and bought a Dave Smith Instruments Evolver Mono desktop synth on ebay. Fancied trying it out, and got it for a price where if I don't get on with it I can hopefully move it on without major loss. Touch and go whether it will arrive before xmas.

[quote name='blue' timestamp='1482186962' post='3198367'] all genres outside of classical evolved from blues [/quote] There is a whole world of music out there that has nothing to do with either the blues or "classical".

I have been playing the nyckelharpa for almost a year and half now - it's a fabulous instrument and I regret not having discovered it several decades ago. I also play the D/G melodeon for morris (though I have taken a break from this for the past couple of months due to health issues). I also have a bit of a hankering for a kantele, but my sensible side tells me I have too many instruments already.

...and you stand by your claim to have played 4 hour bar gigs, hauling lights and sound for free....in Milwaukee?

I'll take a Russian dictionary, please.

Possibly a little off-topic, but, partly inspired by this thread I had a play on my old Novation K-Station last night. For those not familiar, it's a rather nice little 3 oscillator Virtual-Analogue synth with lots of slideriness and knobbage. Not actually an analogue synth, before the purists jump down my throat, but behaves pretty much like one, with the added benefits of not having to warm up and (optional) polyphony. Anyway, the point of the post is that although I understand in principle what all the functions do, I frequently find that tweaking one knob or another produces totally unpredicted results, and one several occasions I found myself wondering "why is it doing that?" and progressively removing oscillators, modulations etc from the sound to try to discover what was causing the unexpected effect. So I thought I'd pose the question to all the synth users out there - how much of your knob-tweaking is part of a purposeful pursuit of a sound that you know how to produce, and how much is semi-random? Or to put it another way, when you find a sound you like, or will use, how often is that the result of conscious sound-design, and how often a serendipitous accident?

[quote name='Ashweb' timestamp='1478039134' post='3166348'] Interesting topic this and it throws up an interesting point to me. Excuse my ignorance on this subject as I am new to it, but in theory if you are in a covers band and you play a Beatles number, for example, at a gig - should you be paying some form of royalty to Paul McCartney? [/quote] No, it's the venue that is liable - they should have a PRS licence which covers this. Not sure what the rule is if you're busking in the street, though.

[quote name='Bilbo' timestamp='1477591998' post='3163261'] Tessitura. [/quote] No need for that sort of language, even if the o.p. [i]is[/i] using tab.