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The 7th in the harmonic minor scale is raised a semitone compared to the natural minor. edit: [url="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harmonic_minor#Harmonic_and_melodic_minor"]Wikipedia link[/url]

Took it into the Violin Shop today and they reset the soundpost and cleaned up my dubious bridge work in about half an hour, then popped a few doors along to where I was having coffee with my dad to let me know. That's service. £15 all in, which is their minimum charge. He did remark on the bridge warpage- suggested probably a combination of high tension (it's a five string) and cheap wood, but not an immediate problem.

If by "new string squeak" you mean finger noise when moving along the string, surely that's just part of the longer lasting treble coated strings have? That's my perception as a long time Elixir user anyway.

For me personally it would be two outputs, but I like the whole parallel signal chain idea. Bear in mind you would have to have a way of combining them both back together or an extra channel to use. I guess it depends on how (or if!) you plan on using it.

I'm not normally one for autographs but that ^^ is really cool.

Thanks, the strings are slackened as the bridge is actually off at the moment- I had to remove a Realist and I need to do some filing to fit a new pickup to the bridge wing. Its just a bit annoying as I laid the bass down specifically so the soundpost wouldn't collapse when I removed the bridge! Didn't realise it would fall anyway. Live and learn I guess.

Hello folks, got a couple of Qs about setup and stuff. I've been carefully lowering the action at the bridge on my bass and I've noticed that its not straight- there's a noticeable bend towards the nut. You can see the extent of this in the pics. How much of an issue would you say this is? Will it require a new bridge? I'm going to have to take it into the shop anyway as the soundpost fell when I took the bridge off to remove a dead pickup, and I have neither the tools nor the patience to sort that. Does anyone know of anywhere in Glasgow that will do this other than the Violin Shop? Not chuffed.

I think the tone and the playing were both pretty good, the tone fits in a metal context well, I just don't think its viable to use that technique in the long term. I'll be surprised if he still has full use of his hand in ten years time.

[quote name='mikebass78' post='659833' date='Nov 20 2009, 05:40 AM']Had the same problem myself, on analysis I was 'hitting' the string rather than picking it. maybe check that your not playing the string 'inwards' towards the pickup instead of letting it vibrate up+down. you can dial off towards the high end of your eq to avoid the fretty sound, but you may still be betting an odd tone to the note people are hearing.[/quote] This is good advice. Also, check your frets closely. I've (carefully!) done fret dresses on all my basses and that helped clean up extra rattles.

As far as I recall he gets his parts finished from [url="http://www.usacustomguitars.com/"]USA Custom Guitars[/url], although I stand to be corrected if that's changed.

I concur. Looks very cool. I like the idea of parallel outputs on a stereo jack too.

Jesus, I think I just got tendinitis in my first finger just watching that Fast, but waaay too much tension in his hand IMO.

Would you consider selling the German bow separately? Always wanted to try it...

Is that a Christian Olde Wolbers (sp?) sig?

[quote name='iamapirate' post='660463' date='Nov 20 2009, 06:56 PM']These very forums got me into extreme![/quote] Well, I suppose there had to be a downside somewhere.

Never taken a spare. Keep your gear in good working order and be prepared to improvise at short notice if you do have something go horribly wrong in the middle of a song.

He's a [url="http://basschat.co.uk/index.php?showuser=12"]forum member[/url] who makes cables, supposed to be very high quality although I've not tried them myself.

[quote name='joerattray' post='659295' date='Nov 19 2009, 02:56 PM']I was at this same gig, it was incredible.[/quote] I was so interested in it, I completely forgot I was meant to be playing with my band the same night. Oops. Wasn't too popular for a while after that...

[quote name='metaltime' post='659797' date='Nov 20 2009, 12:25 AM']I would be interested in some examples of this in the tech metal genre. Can you think of any obvious examples?[/quote] My drummer claims the drums from Lamb Of God are done this way- don't know the source of that though.

[quote name='Eight' post='659636' date='Nov 19 2009, 08:52 PM']He could write it exactly how *he* wanted it played if he knew his onions, and the readers were used to fairly complicated scores (since to write down every detail and performance direction could result in something quite hideous to look at it). My gut feeling is that there wouldn't be many people capable of scoring every detail so well that it sounded natural (groovey?) if played dot to dot by a band. But it's conceptually possible - you'd need very small writing and a lot of paper. [/quote] I agree with this- it's theoretically possible but would be a total pain in the ass to execute. Its a similar situation with making programmed drums sound like a real drummer- when it comes down to it its just very fine subdivisions if you want to have it played, say, slightly in front of the beat (or whatever). All written music requires some interpretation at some point- in an orchestra its easy to do as long as everyone watches the conductor. You can get a similar effect by taking a midi version of a piano piece, for example, and feeding it into a sequencer and a top notch piano VST. You will then get the notes at the right time in the right order, but you would have to spend much longer tweaking every single bit of MIDI to get it to sound like a real person playing- the small dynamic variations, the slight tempo differences and so on. edit- no good reading musician will [i]only[/i] look at the chart- they will listen to what's going on and use what they know of the idiom they're playing in, and that will [i]inform [/i] how they interpret the written notes.

Conventional slap notation is a nightmare to sightread though. I think the OP was thinking more of the overall feel, which as has been said, basically takes getting used to.

As far as looks go, bigger is definitely better. Doom indeed.