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I don't get why people stick with over bearing girlfriends? I've been in a few bands, the members have often had girlfriends, and it's never been a problem. I've been living with my girlfriend for 5 years but if she ever asked me to cancel a practise or a gig or something i'd be gone! Is it that some people just want to be controlled?

If it's worse with one specific bass would a ferrite ring at the bass end make more sense?

I use thumb picks which you don't have to grip hard, but the Dunlop ones (the only ones i can find) are very thick and stiff, so maybe not appropriate. Good luck anyway!

I'm interested in this "warming up" after 10 minutes. Are you sure that really happens?

so sad I didn't realise there were so many metallica fans on BC

Is Gary going to be OK?

A little bit of drunken dick-head behaviour destroyed the Premature Ejaculators. I hope it doesn't happen to your band! Oh, and thanks for the read

I had an old musicmaster before I ever knew they were sought after. I loved it but moved on to 6ers and so I swapped it for a sh*t drum kit. I'm glad I took up drums but I really miss that musicmaster.

[quote name='PauBass' timestamp='1317043515' post='1385832'] That's a nice tone...I like it a lot! Really digging Karnivool's John Stockman tone too...The song "Simple Boy" has a great bass tone. [/quote] Cheers! I love John Stockman's tone too. Have you seen them live? The tone is even more impressive, real ball-jangling stuff.

[quote name='Gust0o' timestamp='1317031469' post='1385561'] What compressor do you recommend, Tom? Are there any tips to blending the two? I'll admit, the compressor is the one thing I'm really missing - and a few people have mentioned it now, so could be time to learn from it. [/quote] I'm deffinitely the wrong guy to ask. I use an Ibanez sound tank guitar compressor which is horribly noisey. I only use it for loud sections. Other than that I have a Boss LMB3 at the end of my chain to reign in peaks and give me more headroom.

[quote name='bassman7755' timestamp='1316881526' post='1384033'] Yeah thats pretty evil (n a good way). whats the setup ? [/quote] A load of pedals. The important bits: A totally clean DI'd track with everything above 200Hz cut off. The rest is coming off my pedalboard which is an LS-2 blending some compression and sometimes ODB-3 with an Ibanez SS10 (weird old dirt pedal) which I drive varying amounts. there's more going on but I think the key to it is blending a compressor with an absolutely horrible distortion pedal. If you used the SS10 on it's own for bass you'd feel ill, and not in a good way.

Don't get me wrong, it sounds great! And the vocals work really well. I'm going to buy it later as i'm compiling some music for a short road trip this weekend. If I get chance i'll try and do some similar sounds

The one i'm talking about mainly is "The Threat Of Reason". I'd love to get hold of the bass and drum tracks seperately to show you what I mean. I don't think it has to sound any less synthy to be a bit more fat. Although, i'm sure you're right about it being different live. I will deffinitely catch you guys at some point

[quote name='silddx' timestamp='1316775927' post='1382653'] That is a good tone mate There are two aren't there? I like the tone in the staccato math bits a lot! [/quote] There are a few sounds on that one, yeh. The phaser just after the intro bit is on bass, and there's a quiet bit near the end where i'm tapping with delay and whammy. Just the general sound of it though - I went from years of humbuckers to a jazz pup configuration with the bridge solo'd and it's the best move I ever made.

I honestly am so arrogant that I think my bass tone is the best ever. Have a listen to this which is a recording of my old band re-recording our songs in April. There are mistakes etc but just listen to that tone!! [url="http://www.creepjoint.co.uk/nologo/how_to_lose_friends.mp3"]http://www.creepjoint.co.uk/nologo/how_to_lose_friends.mp3[/url]

I listened to this last night at home with my sub. I really like it! Especially the tracks with MCs (I get bored easy). To be honest I thought your sounds in general could have been "fatter" - more overdrive or something? It's difficult to describe the sounds i'm imagining in my head. Obviously you'd probably disagree as it's a personal thing and no doubt you've been through millions of sounds to get what you want. You should try and get a gig at The Sugarmill in Stoke. They have drum n bass and hip hop nights, although I don't know if they've had any live bands at them. I'd deffinitely come to watch you guys! In fact i've just texted the manager your band name as he'd love your stuff.

Marshall echohead is ace, very cheap, and will tap tempo if you plug in a momentary footswitch. I also like my DD-20 but that's a bit more pricey.

I find that playing a line an octave up with my OC-2 on blended often sounds fatter than playing open strings. I do have some overdrive and compression going on as well though. I play 6 strings but still do this for a fatter sound than the low B. I guess it's a personal thing.

weird, i've never actually tested that out before. Maybe in one mode the pot is adjusting the return level where on the other it's adjusting the send level. That would be unexpected. I've had phasing issues before, depending on what pedals are in the loops, but it sounds like you're testing it with no pedals in either loop?!

Shep - what's the little yellow box with a nuclear symbol on? I've never noticed that before

I forgot about this and just caught up. It looks great! and your sound insulation is pretty damn impressive.

[quote name='longtimefred' post='1374212' date='Sep 15 2011, 11:22 AM']Ladies and gentlemen....Miss Kittie Rachea[/quote] Where did you find a front woman 'round here? I've been looking for ages (although not very hard).

why not give yourself an extra option?

I do this fairly often. Lately i've been working on "lets get it on" - playing the bassline and the vocal line at the same time. It's really cool and one day i'll use it to seduce my girlfriend.

If I go in to buy, it's for thumb picks or 6 string sets or big fat drum sticks - basically whatever weird little thing you haven't got in stock that day I don't go out shopping really, but if I am in a town and there's a music shop i'll look at the used gear, anything weird, especially pedals. Sometimes I buy stuff, sometimes not.