paul_5

my first thought on seeing this was "holy f*ck, that's ugly". It looks like someone took the proverbial ugly stick, got some hicksville yokel to whittle it down on the front porch and then gave it to his buck-toothed inbred girlfriend to chew on it fer a while, probably while she was straining in the can. The final stage of 'production' invariably involved force feeding Larry Grayson wood glue and sawdust, then pointing his bottom at the offending article and squeezing his abdomen REALLY hard to get that 'sh*t/toothpaste' veneer.

I don't like it.

yeah, Mrs_5 caught me playing fretless in the spare room the other week, I tried to lie and tell her I was watching porn, but she knew. I'm so embarrassed.

On a real 'bass related' topic I was listening to some early Marillion stuff the other day, and Pete Trewavas' fretless sound seems to be 90% flanger, 10% bass - maybe this is the way to compensate for intonation errors? Maybe [i]this[/i] will make the fretless acceptable again, as it's practically self-tuning!

(rant) Another thought has just occurred to me - how many other BCers have been told "there's no demand for that" when you ask for a specialised piece of kit in a music shop? The fact that I've just asked for it means that there is SOME demand for it you halfwit. (/rant)

[quote name='cameltoe' post='1074011' date='Dec 31 2010, 08:45 PM']Get the bass terror 1000w!

[url="http://www.soundslive.co.uk/product~name~Orange-Terror-Bass-1000~ID~13655.asp"]HERE[/url][/quote]

Hucking fell - that's a face-melter!

Them purty amps. I've done quite a bit of recording g**tars over the years, and my the easiest tones to record come from an Orange Tiny Terror and a 4x12. Period. Just a great sound. With this in mind I've toyed with getting rid of my LH1000 head and using the Bass Terror head instead, I know that (on paper at least) there's a massive drop in power output ratings, but that's not really an issue. How do you guys reckon the Terror would stack up into a Hartke Hydrive 410 cabinet?

PS I reckon my wife wouldn't notice ANY change of amp apart from an Orange, Everything else seems to be the ubiquitous black / grey, so no massive change visually.

[quote name='Soliloquy' post='1073902' date='Dec 31 2010, 06:08 PM']See my previous reply, there's only Flea in my list of players who uses (sometimes) a Stingray.[/quote]

Turns out that the basslines on BloodSugarSexMagic were done on a Wal, and for the later stuff he's using a Jazz. Personally I reckon his best tones come from the Jazz. Just my 2p worth.

I've promised myself that I'll nail "Giant Steps" this year, we'll see...

On the rare occasion that I use one Cactus picks - heavy (1mm) - got some free when I bought some vintage Boss gear from the birminghambossboutique, actually really comfortable to use and a nice edgy tone too.

[url="http://cactuspicks.com/"]http://cactuspicks.com/[/url]

Everything else just falls apart after a couple of thrashings, but these seem to last and last.

Hi All. I used to have a TE rig years ago: AH130, 2103H, 1153 and an SMX compressor pedal. I don't have any pics, but if I close my eyes tight and listen [i]really[/i] hard...

Welcome on board Boris, good to see some love for the Costello stuff down there in sunny Brum! Wasn't your Trace rig recently in the TE porn thread? I seem to remember someone posting that they'd recently had theirs serviced after they thought it was goosed?

Cheers, Paul

Good do, really enjoyed these tracks, "Sea people" is my favourite - I'm a sucker for music in 7. I'll give you the same advice that Zappa gave to Steve Vai way back when -

"Don't stop, keep going and keep your publishing".

Hello to you, good to have another low ender on board.

I remember hearing some Wham tracks when I was out shopping with my girlfriend in the late '90s, I also remember thinking "wow, that could be Flea playing that" turns out it wasn't, nice to put a name (and a face) to the line.

Going one better than Chris Squire's fluid 'bass dismount'...

[url="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YeicBoeq_Yc"]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YeicBoeq_Yc[/url]

Poor kid.

probably the easiest way to do it is to solder two pieces of wire to the terminals onto a 1/4" guitar lead plug, then get your meter across the ends of the wire as you play the bass - this will be in millivolts, so make sure that your meter is set to read really small voltages. Because of the design of guitar pickups the harder you hit the strings, the more voltage is produced, so you're probably better taking an average. Solo each pickup using their respective volume knobs and compare the output levels. Hey presto, pickups still intact and measured. Simples.

That is special alright. Very special...

[quote name='0175westwood29' post='1064112' date='Dec 19 2010, 10:34 PM']ok cool sounds good!

any idea what pedals are ok to be used with it?

andy[/quote]

The Boss EV5 is designed to work with Boss pedals, or for roughly half the money a Moog EP2 is compatible with Boss stuff - bit more rugged construction too.

Here's my 2p worth. Turn on your radio, have a listen. Chances are that there's some insipid pre-digested pop music that has no cultural worth or value, 'sung' by an artist that will maybe only do the one album before being dropped for 'the next big thing' within 12 months. Record companies simply don't invest in [i] artists[i] anymore - they release all of this tosh because it's guaranteed to sell - and thus make a return on their investment.

Arguably if everyone who stole music from the internet started to pay for it then the record companies would have more cash to support not just new, but semi-established artists who need nurturing artistically to produce their best material (good for artists, good for punters). Back in the day labels would tolerate months of studio time because they could afford to have faith in their roster of artists. Yes, they weren't all zingers, but how many truly ground-breaking albums are produced now? Labels just can't afford to do that anymore. I'm not saying that they are pure of thought, word and deed - this is business after all - but they need to make a quick buck to keep the wheels turning. Sadly that's a sign of the times. That is all.

[quote name='merello' post='1070468' date='Dec 27 2010, 08:17 PM']Bought today, getting returned tomorrow.
Just would not install on my Mac despite every instruction, driver and support site being used.
Really disappointing.[/quote]

I know PT 6.x can't run on an intel mac, and 7.x and up won't play with a PPC chip, I know that this is a really noddy suggestion, but I had similar issues a while back. Hope this helps.

Ah yes, this is the fabled "convenience amp". Jimmy Page done a poo on it, SRV used it as a step for painting the ceiling, Eddie Van used it as a cigarette holder on the '1984' tour, Rolf used it as the test bed when developing the stylophone etc... of course I can't prove any of this. Still worth a grand though.

in answer to the OP, then yes. This video is very 'listenable' in my book; the fact that this stuff is [i]musical[/i], and the techniques and chops enhance the music, and not strangle it, help enormously. I very much enjoyed it, thanks for posting it.

EZ drummer has some great sounds and you can literally 'drag and drop' loops to create realistic tracks really easily. Also it follows MIDI commands e.g. dynamics, tempo etc... Winner.

While we're on the subject of 'unsung heroes' of the low end I've recently developed uber-love for John Giblin's fretless playing on Fish's first solo album "Vigil in a wilderness of mirrors". I did some digging around, and it turns out that he's quite the session player.

[quote name='sprocketflup' post='1068735' date='Dec 24 2010, 01:46 PM']I had something fail on me a verse into a song at a gig in Leicester once, to this day I still dont know what it was, the rest of the band played on like pros whilst I and a few members of support bands threw new cables and the likes at my set up.

the sound came back in just in time for me to hit teh very last note of the track! pure comedy! half the audience were about wetting themselves lol[/quote]

Sounds like "Rock and Roll Creation" by Spinal Tap.

I've got the LH1000 and a Hydrive 410 and have never had any noticeable "loss of low end" from my 5 string.

Nothing major really, an expression pedal for my SYB5, then maybe get my Blade B15 de-fretted. That's all I can think of really (though this shouldn't be taken as legally binding...)