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When you consider how this thread started, it's such a damn shame.
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Bass to guitar ratio??
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Seeing SVTs behind Flea after all these years is just odd!
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Well, that's just an album of B Sides. Its going to need several listens to figure it all out, but I'm amazed they didn't cut this down into a single album. Amazed. It makes Stadium Arcadium look allergic to filler. I'll report back, there as some decent moments, but wow. What I will say is that they don't give two stinky poos what is expected of them and theyre clearly creating the music that comes naturally to them now, and absolute fair play to that. EDIT Just realised it isn't a double album, it just felt like it. I'll rephrase and say I'm amazed they didn't cut it to a 45 min/12 tracker.
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Imagine its probably nearly four decades of success and millions of dollars that gave him the idea.
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I'll listen when I get in tonight, but that doesn't sound promising. Flea's tone peaked with BSSM and that Wal, the Modulus was cool and punchy, but the Fender doesn't do anything for me at all.
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Awaken Eternity's debut album is out now! https://www.basschat.co.uk/topic/462833-awaken-eternitys-debut-album-leviathan-out-now/
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A few of you enjoyed the single releases, so thought id pop another post up as its debut album release day! Metalcore/Progressive vibes, think Architects/Northlane/Monuments/TesseracT, just not as good
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That's mostly because it seemed to have all been booked in before they changed their minds. Glanced at their IG earlier, seems about 1 in 9 posts are bass related, rest guitar...
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Still not going, on principle more than anything else. Really interested to hear feedback of whether or not it does end up being just another guitar show with a slither of bass, or whether it is mostly bassists that are there. I feel I know the answer, but to those who are going I hope I'm wrong.
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Have the QC issues been sorted out in this range? I remember the initial thread here being plagued with reports of bad finishing/sharp edges/tone pots falling off etc.
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That was my concern, it seemed like it would sort of angle the bass up at you at the kind of strap height I have, which doesn't sound like something I'd want?
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Awaken Eternity - Shatter the Prophet Video Premiere!
Kev replied to Kev's topic in Share Your Music
Video out for a week. For some reason hasn't hit the algorithms as well as previous singles (at least I think that's what it is) and view count isn't great this time. Anyone who can spare 5 minutes, would be really appreciated! -
Haven't had chance to play one yet. Can't make my mind up what I'll think of the bizarre body contouring on the back?
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My disappointment is unique to this one. First single was really good, 2nd was the best I'd heard from them in years, 3rd I have nothing good to say about really. Ah well, 1 week before everyone can enjoy pumelling the album 😉
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Not a fan of today's release, guitar at the start reminded me of Venice Queen but nope, a complete nothing track for me, struggled to finish it.
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Those new pickups sounded the best of the lot there for me, I like that BTB.
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I guess the point I am trying to make, perhaps badly, is that if you have a 1 piece maple neck, a different 1 piece maple neck may sound just as different as a neck made of something else. The variation within just a species is huge, otherwise every Fender bass would sound the same. But to expect a specific tone shift from changing a neck, to the extent of changing its character in a specific direction, I'd just be very surprised. Stingray is a good example; stick a graphite neck on a 'ray and it still sounds like a stingray. Sure, some differences, but the character remains very much stingray. I daresay if you put a 1 piece maple neck on your Wal, it would still have all the character of the Wal.
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I think though that you will find big differences in how the strings vibrate and how the neck feels even from Wal to Wal, be it MK1 to MK3, 4 string to 6 string, eighties to 20's, and yet they'll all have that Wal character in the tone, that same character. The neck may serve to enhance and shift what is already there, but I can't envisage a neck alone totally changing the tone of an instrument beyond recognition. My Wal (a nineties Mk2) had something about it that I've never heard close to in any other bass, but it wasn't its playability, vibrations or the feel of the bass in general. It was entirely the sound it made.
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I'm not feeling that the neck wood of a Wal impacts meaningfully on that legendary tone. It's there, in spades, on every Wal i've heard, be it rosewood or ebony, and the almost infinite natural variation in the maple and laminates used. The weight range alone tells you how much the wood varies, but the tone remains. The only thing we know never changes is the pickups. For me, so much of the tone is from that recipe, fine-tuned by the preamp (but the tone is still there passive). Your bass sounds good in that video, but as you say, it doesn't really have much essence of the Wal character. I hope it works out, but i'd be astounded if a neck change brought you much closer to the Wal tone. Watching with keen interest if it does!!
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Awaken Eternity - Shatter the Prophet Video Premiere!
Kev replied to Kev's topic in Share Your Music
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My band's new single launches today! Anyone who likes a bit of metal, please jump on the premiere and check it out
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That all sounds very promising to me! I don't feel like Josh era tracks came from jam sessions, so its good that the jam vibe is back.
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Looks tasty!
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The manufacture of the camera that took that photo deserves some kind of technological innovation award for snapping that shot without motion blur so cleanly before the headstock buried itself into the basement milliseconds later.
