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[quote name='Bilbo' post='1114071' date='Feb 3 2011, 04:18 PM']Thanks, EB. I should point out that the example was purely a metaphor for illustrative purposes and, in reality, I really coudn't give a rat's [/quote] Fair enough! [quote name='blackmn90' post='1114073' date='Feb 3 2011, 04:20 PM']Not sure i understand, basically i was playing along to a keyboard and trying out some ideas with harmonics. It sounded fine just when i would go to play the harmonic on/ around the 4th fret. I know its the equivalent to the strings major 3rd. So i played my bass through the tuner and everything was bang on in tune except for these specific harmonics. The octave harmonics are fine both on the 12th and 5th fret, and the 5th on the 7th fret is fine. Just these major 3rd's are ever so slighty flat on the tuner.[/quote] Could this be an equal temperament issue? The harmonic will be a "pure" maj 3rd, while the keyboard will be tuned to equal temperament. Could this account for the discrepancy?

[quote name='Bilbo' post='1114048' date='Feb 3 2011, 04:03 PM']What are you measuring it with? If everything else is spot on, this is technically impossible But then again, so is flight in bumble bees![/quote] Not this old chestnut again! [url="http://www.straightdope.com/columns/read/1076/is-it-aerodynamically-impossible-for-bumblebees-to-fly"]http://www.straightdope.com/columns/read/1...mblebees-to-fly[/url]

Not many people realise* that Mrs T is actually Suzi Quatro ([i][b]Can[/b][/i] the Can - Mrs [i][b]Tin[/b][/i]man - you see what she did there?), while skank is none other than former PM John Major. [size=1]*mostly because I just made it up. Or did I?[/size]

In: nothing Out: nothing Shake-it-all-about: Peavey Milestone III

[quote name='setekh' post='1111151' date='Feb 1 2011, 03:43 PM']I got the red strat (if you'd like some photos I might get them up in a couple of days) It looks pretty good, the neck is very much straight, the fretwoks is good and the tuners are decent (still in tune after a few of hours of messing around). Can't really comment on the pickups since I played it through the bass pod (which sounds horrible, but I haven't picked up a guitar pod), but output seems good and the pots are OK (no scratching). All in all, a lot of guitar for £60![/quote] Cheers for that. I fancy one of the black LPs myself.

Any more news/views of the 6-stringers? I don't need another bass, but I could do with a half-decent basic guitar for my studio.

I can only play this version....

[quote name='morsefull' post='1104568' date='Jan 26 2011, 11:39 PM']Found a liking for Bill evans on spotify tonight as well.[/quote] Excellent choice. I think he's probably my favourite jazz pianist. But sometimes it's Erroll Garner. Or Duke Ellington. Mostly, though, it's Bill.

[quote name='dlloyd' post='1101699' date='Jan 25 2011, 07:30 AM'] [/quote] Why would you ever need anything else?

[quote name='silddx' post='1103214' date='Jan 26 2011, 09:40 AM']So why do secondhand premium German Warwicks only seem to command less than a third of the new price, but people appear prepared to pay up to £700 for a secondhand Japan Fender Reissue. Make that nearly a grand with shipping and import duty if they source them from Japan. Fender could probably only manage about three or four of those bullets above.[/quote] ARE YOU SUGGESTING IT'S A WASTE OF TIM TO ADVERTISE WARWICKS ON BASSCHAT???

Great stuff! From a recording pov, particularly impressed with the drum sound, given that it's someone's front room - how was the kit mic'ed up?

[quote name='zero9' post='1102913' date='Jan 25 2011, 10:30 PM']Colin Hodgkinson[/quote] +100 John Wetton

[quote name='KingPrawn' post='1101158' date='Jan 24 2011, 06:22 PM']Just remember we are the superior bread[/quote] What, like Kingsmill?

[quote name='derrenleepoole' post='1092402' date='Jan 17 2011, 12:48 PM']Great musicians for sure, but totally leaves me cold.[/quote] I'd agree with that. Sounds like background music for a tv show or something - instantly forgettable.

ENTHUSIASM FOR MUSIC 78% MUSICAL PERCEPTION 99% EMOTIONAL CONNECTION 82% SOCIAL CREATIVITY 93% MUSICAL CURIOSITY 19% group the music - all over the place: but then "pop" and "hip-hop" both come under "rubbish" in my book (see MUSICAL CURIOSITY score above ) match the beat 12/18 tap beat 6 high 3 medium melody memory 12/12

[quote name='Bilbo' post='1085509' date='Jan 11 2011, 02:02 PM']High on everything except emotional connection.[/quote] We've all had weekends like that.

[quote name='Doddy' post='1085436' date='Jan 11 2011, 01:14 PM']Brilliant [/quote] +1

[quote name='Bilbo' post='1084226' date='Jan 10 2011, 02:11 PM']Good times is, subjectively, a shallow, nothing little tune (listen to the lyrics, ffs) that all of us [b]could[/b] quite easily live without.[/quote] and some of us [b]do[/b]!

[quote name='Bassassin' post='1082533' date='Jan 8 2011, 08:19 PM']Nah. You can buy a bass that looks, plays & sounds pretty much identical to that for about a hundred quid. If I had £8000 to blow on a bass, I'd get my head examined. Jon.[/quote] +1

Without wishing to hi-jack the thread, I notice that the Beyer DT-100 phones come in 400 ohm and 16 ohm versions. What factors would determine which was more suitable? (I would want to use them with a) my hi-fi amp my studio mixer c) my bass practice amp). Any advice appreciated.

Something a bit different....(warning, there's a tiny bit of French swearing at the end :-))

[quote name='Bilbo' post='1068619' date='Dec 24 2010, 11:04 AM']I regret to say, however, that a lot of music performed in the region I work in is not performed particularly well and playing music I don't like badly is not a good place for me to be and it is that which I seek to avoid where I can.[/quote] Hi Bilbo, When you say "the region I work in", are you speaking geographically or musically? Just curious! E

[quote name='Spoombung' post='1079649' date='Jan 6 2011, 11:29 AM']Yeah...what is that all about? (I have a feeling no one's gonna give me a straight answer)[/quote] [url="http://basschat.co.uk/index.php?showtopic=111461"]http://basschat.co.uk/index.php?showtopic=111461[/url]

[quote name='silddx' post='1079583' date='Jan 6 2011, 10:29 AM']That's all fine, Stuart, but I don't have an iPad I can read on the khazi [/quote] Still using a khazi? Get yourself an iPoo - defecate via bluetooth from wherever you are.