u/Ikarian

I was just wondering this morning why the industry is trying to invent a new (to me) display type for the "holy grail" of AR glasses, where the display is baked into the lens.

Transparent OLED, assuming a high enough resolution, would be cheaper/easier to fabricate than waveguide lenses, which seem to be rather finicky to mass produce. Is it just the fact they can be seen from the other side of the lens? Still seems like there would be applications for this where privacy isn't a concern (industrial stuff I suspect), and I'm guessing you could produce them cheap enough that it would allow for some smaller makers to get into the market.

I used to work at a big-box music store, back in the old days when there was more than just GC in that category. Most of the guys in the guitar dept looked like they stepped out of a Wayne's World movie. Naturally there was a posted "NO Stairway To Heaven" sign in the guitar section. Regardless, there's probably a half dozen or so riffs that every GC employee absolutely despises because everyone that picks up an axe tries to play.

What's the bass equivalent of this phenomenon?

EDIT: I'm just gonna see how long I can go in this thread without seeing one of my go-to songs listed. It's the most suspenseful game of "never have I ever" ...ever.

The opener started playing The Impression That I Get and Dickie walked onstage and sang. People generally seemed to be happy to see him. Kinda weird to me since to me he’s just the guy that broke up the Bosstones, but I guess different strokes and all.

I’m just getting back into playing in a band after about a decade. IEMs are now an affordable setup for a nobody like me and I invested in a set with the emphasis on isolation.

Anyway, say you’re playing in a bar and someone is yelling out a request, heckling, replying to a joke, etc., are you pulling out your ears all the time, or what do you do?

When you guys are facing a mountain of new material to learn/memorize (new band, etc), do you usually just play one song over and over until you have it down, or do you loop through a chunk of them, or all of them?

Sub-question: How do you approach an audiologist about getting custom ear molds?

I have the CCA C12, and they're my first IEMs. They were recommended on Reddit a few places and for the money they're really not bad. My 2 main complaints are lack of low end (I play bass) and mainly that it's really tough to maintain a good seal. I don't think I'm ready to spend 4 figures on IEMs yet, but I could maybe go up to a couple hundred bucks or so (USD). Any suggestions?

Also, yeah. Ear molds. If I go through my medical network portal and make an appointment, do I just put "custom IEM molds" in the appointment comments? Do they want to give you a full workup first, or can I just get an appt and work with a lab tech? Does insurance typically cover something like this?

Sub-sub question: I've seen drummers with a sort of rigid band that keeps their IEMs in place, but I haven't had much luck searching for these. What is this called? Can you buy them separately, or do you have to buy drummer-specific IEMs?

Just got a new bass delivered today. Trying to dial in the sound to where I like the tone. I think part of the problem is the brand new strings. They sound very springy and I hate it.

I’m relatively new to bass and I kinda feel like I could use a veteran to come over and just adjust all my knobs because sometimes I feel a bit lost trying to dial in the sound. Any tips?

I've been playing for about 5 months now, and while it's not my biggest problem, I sometimes get the 7th and 9th frets mixed up when just taking a quick look down, and sometimes I wish I had a little more visual distinction between them.

I'm considering a second bass, and a couple that I'm looking at have block inlays instead of dots, where the blocks are at least a bit different between 7 and 9. Haven't had a chance to play one yet. Does anyone else have this issue, and did this style of inlays help with it?

I bought a Sterling Ray34 HH knowing I’d probably be using the bridge pickup all the time as I play mostly punk/pop-punk. But I’ve found that the next switch position up, which is the bottom row of the bridge pickup and the top row of the neck pickup is “my tone”. It’s got a lot of those harmonic sparkles that make it stand out in the mix without pumping up the volume.

I’m considering a second bass, and I’m just trying to look for something with a similar tone, but maybe not a Stingray. The tone I like is not too different from a Mike Dirnt kinda thing, so I’m guessing a Grabber with both pickups on is an option, though I’m not a fan of the look. Any other suggestions?

I've been playing one instrument or another for about 35 years. But recently I picked up a bass guitar and started playing in a cover band. Took us a while to find a drummer (we still haven't but we've got two lined up and the first sit-in is this weekend), so in the meantime we've been playing along with my Songsterr app and I've been pretty dependent on the tab because it's a lot more detail than chords for a guitar or melody lines I could riff around and not have 100% accurate on wind instruments.

I'm worried that when we try to play without the backing tracks, I'm going to find myself no longer able to keep up with the more seasoned musicians in the band. Memorizing the tab is obviously one task and I'm working on it, but it's going pretty slow. But I'm also worried that if a song veers even slightly away from the album version, I'm going to get lost.

I'd love any tricks or tips you guys have. I'm super focused on not being the weakest link in the band, so I want to try to minimize these problems before they start.