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sounds like the main problem is programming drums? I wouldn't worry too much about the actual samples, you can change them after, just get used to drawing in the patterns. On Cubase you get a big grid with a keyboard down the left. When you press a key, it activates a drum sample. You figure out which key is which drum, and draw in one measure of the beat. Then just copy paste that until it's long enough I normally come up with a beat, repeat it for 5 minutes, record bass along to it, then when I have a bassline I like, I'll cut it up using the snap tool so that it's always in time with the beat, and move it so that it repeats just 4 or 8 times for a verse. Then I would hopefully come up with another part to go with it. This will have the same tempo so I'll record it to the same beat, but then go back after and change the beat for this section of the song etc etc No idea if this is any help, I guess everyone does things differently

they're all the same aren't they? The best one I had was only a month ago. UPS promised to deliver from Brussels to Stoke by the Thursday. I tracked it on Thursday, it said it was at East Midlands depot. I called them, they said they didn't know when I'd have it, they'd get the depot to call. The Stoke depot called to say it was at East Midlands. No-one at UPS would put me through to East Midlands. I called their landline and held on for 20 minutes with it just ringing and ringing. On the Friday it still hadn't moved so I sent a guy to get it. The guy at the depot refused to release the package. One week later it had found its way to the Stoke depot. Then another week later it was back in Brussels. They sent me an invoice saying the address was wrong and I'd have to pay them for moving it to stoke and back. I wasn't even the sender!!

brilliant!

what does that do?!

[quote name='Ant' timestamp='1399375248' post='2443516'] ibanez session man! love those little guys! [/quote] with a clean blend there is nothing better! So responsive to my playing. Also going in to the red llama is just filthy I would love another couple of SS10s because it really is my favorite pedal, but I never see them for sale

oh right, didn't realise that Reverb Nation is pretty good. My folk band are on that but it seems there are some regional charts etc which should really be ignored

has everyone gone off bandcamp? I always thought bandcamp looked pretty good

My quickly bodged together set-up for a jam the other day. First time on bass in ages and I sounded incredible!

I thought the consensus was that our instrument lead can make quite a difference, your speaker lead might make some difference, and your power lead definitely doesn't. It made sense to me the last few times this came up? [quote name='Dingus' timestamp='1399327908' post='2443246'] According to the laws of physics a bumble bee shouldn't be able to fly [/quote]

I'd just put your logo on a page, then a link to all the social media sites. Embed a feed from twitter or facebook, stick your email address on there and you're done! Obviously it'd be nice to have a full site with "bio" and "gallery" and whatever you want to put on Not sure if this is a good example or not but this is the most recent site I did www.headsticks.co.uk and I think it works well enough although it's not well linked in to social media. It's just very, very simple

any old graphic EQ should do the job. I have the boss one and it's fine. I'd just get the cheapest you can find My bass has active EQ so I can roll off the low end with that

I understand the need to mic if you're using dirt pedals, because without the colouration of amp/cab there will be lots of nasty high end

I would never rely on a mic for the low end, DI is always going to be better IMO I like to take a low passed DI and a high passed mic, a SM57 is fine

A compressor will help, beware of your noise floor as above I'm surprised no-one's mentioned volume. If you turn up loud and stand by your amp you should be able to get more than enough sustain

I've seen original bands who really should have been covers bands!

Bought a pedal from Graeme, it couldn't have gone better!

never heard of the hum debugger before! If you're not sure about sheilding it might be worth taking it in to a guitar shop to get them to check the electrics. It's probably something simple and they'll fix it for 10-20 quid, then you won't need any pedals!

I use a boss NS-2 to gate my signal when using lots of compression and/or dirt

[quote name='Spoombung' timestamp='1396867535' post='2418063'] It's just 3 or 4. Anything like 5 or 7 I write in 4. You can make nearly anything beyond 3 make sense in 4 apart from 6 which is the same as 3. [/quote] This is how I work it, and I manage to play drums in some pretty weird timings. One of our riffs is 13/4 apparently. It just feels like a bit of a weird 4 for me. My right hand is keeping "half time" but my snare and kick are doing 6, then 7. Every time my right hand has done 13 half time hits it's back round to the start. Makes sense right?!

"noise gate" is a bit misleading really. A gate is the opposite of a limiter. Once your signal falls below a given threshold it will cut to silence. Great for stopping feedback from very high gain pedals, and likewise will get rid of the hiss from high gain pedals in between notes. However, if your pickup hums, it will hum while you play, and a gate won't solve it.

You get a buzz from the neck pickup but not the bridge? Something is wrong there, I'd get your bass looked at before you buy any pedals

[quote name='51m0n' timestamp='1396114086' post='2410094'] It's also why a real mix takes a good 15 hours graft [/quote] Hmm, sometimes it seems a lot easier! My latest CreepJoint track took about 2 hours in total. It was in 3 seperate sessions, but it's my best mix yet, and definitely the quickest!

I don't think a gramma pad will help. Someone posted some ace plans for making your own bass traps in the recording forum. I think it might have been 5imon. There are lots of plans around, but as far as I know you just get the densest rockwool you can afford, and as much of it as you can, chuck it in a corner and cover it with some fabric A sofa or a matress would probably soak up some bass too

cheers PauBass. Dirty bass sounds are a bit of a speciality for me, but this one is definitely the best I've ever done

[quote name='PauBass' timestamp='1396520208' post='2414529'] Thanks! I did think it had a kind of Sansamp tone to it. So the distortion comes from the BDI21? Or did you use any other pedal? [/quote] a small bit of dirt from the behringer pedal, yeh. No other pedals. In the verse section the only dirt is coming from the BDI21, but it's not that dirty. In the other heavier sections the extra distortion channel kicks in, and that's an old Cubase plug-in called Quadrafuzz. I've always loved that plug-in as the filters are very useful. Normally I'd have sent the signal out to a chain of pedals and spent hours tweaking them but I decided to try Quadrafuzz and it works really well