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First, as a card-carrying computer scientist, I am pleased to hear that people are working in linux. Please let me know the general status in the community either by private or public post. I have used an Audiobox 44VSL for a couple of years and could not be happier. It has all of the I/O I...

I have ~15 basses and have been playing professionally for 40 or so years. I've experimented with a variety of strings. My default set of strings are Rotosound Roundwound 66. I'll always make sure I have one P-bass and one J-bass strung with Rotosoundsound Flatwound 77 for variety and a J-...

On Sunday night at 8:00EST on CBS there will be an episode of Undercover Boss in which Peavy's COO goes "undercover" to get some hands-on insight into what's going on in the company. I'm looking forward to it and hoping it's a good episode.

Let me echo what others have said. I've been in many studios from high-end professional to cost-effective home studios over 35+ years. Monitors and headphones are not only key to producing an excellent product, but are a long-term investment compared to many other items in a studio.

A related mystery. I have a SC link in my sig. I have tried to edit it over the past coiple of days, but get a BB URL error when I try and save. Interesting that I also get the same error if I just try and preview my current sig in the sig editor. Strange.

For me, as a bass player, some of the choices are based on generation, genre, and band characteristics. I've certainly used very different setups when playing classic rock, metal, or punk. I've used different set ups depending on whether a power trio, 2G/B/D, or whether a keyboard is added...

I'm a bass player - any others care to comment? While tons of stage effects have come and gone over the years, the ones that seem to stay with me are Boss pedals I originally picked up in the 1970s: Chorus CE-2, Flanger BF-2, and Overdrive OD-2.

When I have encountered clicking or popping during a recording session, I have gone in and shut down/paused as much software as possible on my computer - browser, wifi, automated backups to cloud services, etc. etc. Anything that will take CPU power. Typically, this has resolved the issue...

I'm not sure anyone has said that you would not want good lyrics regardless of the quality of the remainder of the song. I think what people are saying is that there is evidence that there are very popular songs that have great melodies and poor lyrics (all subjective, of course), while the...

There is no formula (think of Robin Williams discussing ways to evaluate quality poetry by Dr. J. Evans Pritchard, Ph.D. in Dead Poets Society). For me, when I look back on songs that I really enjoy, there always seems to be a melody that stands out. There might be other songs that I recognize...

Relatively new to the forum, but not to studio work. The SM57 is a real standard. An absolute workhorse. Great for a wide variety of situations. I have never heard of anyone having issues getting a great sound from an authentic Shure SM57 (lots of problems with illegitimate ones). Lately, I...

While relatively new to the forum, I have been playing bass for many moons in small and large venues. For me, playing the bass on the following bring back excellent memories of early gigs: Space Truckin' - Deep Purple Jumpin' Jack Flash - Rolling Stones Sweet Jane - Lou Reed White Rabbit -...