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[quote name='blackmn90' post='913645' date='Aug 3 2010, 11:01 AM']Just to have 4 vocal condensors for under 1k is pretty good going, my hats off to you sir[/quote] Yeh I shouldn't have used the word "nice" though. I mean like SE2200s and NT1s

You should do a build diary!! Depending on your location, perhaps soundproofing isn't that necessary IE if you're moving out to the sticks where no-one will hear. Sound proofing is where the main cost will come in I think. I've been able to set up a (bit of a dodgy amateur) studio where we rehearse so we can record every practise. I have two sets of drum mics, 4 nice vocal condensors, plenty of dynamics for the cabs, cables, pre-amps, and I can record up to 24 channels into Cubase at a time - all for under £1k. Also, my room is very "live" but i've learned to love the sound of it, although it did take some EQing of the bass amp to stop the ground quaking.

Yeh I have a guitar wah in a loop, blended with other stuff for my low end.

ahh, it should work fine then, but I could test it tomorrow for you (if I remember).

Everyone seems to agree that passive and active are two opposing sounds. I don't have much trouble getting my active schecter to sound like my passive brice (both 6ers) although I do tend to use lots of effects. I guess i'd prefer to have the added flexibility of an active pre with a passive switch.

[quote name='chrisd24' post='912649' date='Aug 2 2010, 11:51 AM']His mum?[/quote] I would describe her as a plastic nectarine in her early 20s but she might be a bass player and I was sworn to secrecy.

Ahhh. It looked a bit overkill for just controlling a whammy!

So what does the Roland control other than the whammy?

Ahhh, when you said "resigned on stage" I thought it was half way through a song or something. Perhaps a girl in the front of the audience shouted "oooh the bass player is so sexy!" or the like, and he stopped the song half way through shouting "f*** you all!!" rather than "i'd like to announce tonight that i'll be leaving the band, we've had some great times.......

This Saturday I was at the same wedding as a girl who once had her nipple sucked by Dizzie Rascal.

[quote name='waynepunkdude' post='912303' date='Aug 1 2010, 10:15 PM']Can we hear this story?[/quote] +1 and i'd like this one too... [quote name='hillbilly deluxe' post='911937' date='Aug 1 2010, 02:56 PM']To cut a long story short,we were dumped in the crap when our singer resigned on stage at the Americana festival,where we were headlining the night[/quote]

Won't your condensers require phantom power? I reckon a mic would work but i've not tried it as I have the mic version sorry.

[quote name='Pete Academy' post='910103' date='Jul 30 2010, 11:38 AM']I would never like to be called a drummer. [/quote] Well at first i'd say "oi, i'm not a drummer, I just play 'cos we can't find one" but people didn't get that I was joking based on the musicians hierarchy - The general public don't see drummers as crazy idiots, so i'm ok with it! I think the more worrying thing is that the general public haven't been educated in the ways of the drummer.

I don't care. Whatever people want to call me. I've always thought of myself as a bassist, but people call me a drummer these days, and I started on guitar.

nice one! I'd rather make my own cables as I have a huge reel of mains cable I got for free.

I recently made some speaker cables because of all this talk about burning patch cables. I used mains cable because for whatever reason I have a big reel of the stuff. My problem is that the cable is so chunky I couldn't possibly get it to fit into a standard jack plug, and my cables (which work perfectly) are covered in insulation tape at the end, rather than a nice silver jack. Anyone know where I can get bigger jacks?

Hah, I know Screwloose really well, and they toured with Everything on Red before. Sounds like a good gig! Shame it's 2 hours up north.

[quote name='gnasher1993' post='903001' date='Jul 23 2010, 11:30 AM']It's a great pedal. Absolutely hopeless (IMO) in a band setting as it sounds quite digital and thin but great for noodling at home.[/quote] If you had it on a seperate effects chain it could be more useful? I'd use it to create textures to play over, and I wouldn't necessarily need much low end from that, but I suppose if you fancy doing big bassy drones, you'd need that.

I watched a video of the freeze the other day. I really want one!

I bought a mic from Sean. I say bought, but it was one of those very generous "pay the postage and you can have it" deals. Anyway, he was a pleasure to deal with and the mic made it here safe and sound

If you want to make a carear out of playing all sorts of sessions then obviously you need to be versatile. If you want to make a carear ou of playing your own weird music, then versatility is clearly not needed. I suppose your point would be that versatility can't hurt - like reading music. You can't really argue with that.

[quote name='thisnameistaken' post='900395' date='Jul 20 2010, 07:34 PM']Yeah I love playing to younger crowds. The two bands on before us last week were all 16-19 year olds and their crowd were all packed up against the barriers for our set too.[/quote] Fiendish. Our bassist is a 6th form teacher so we always get young mental crowds. We played at his school last night to a load of 15-18 year olds in the school hall. The hall was a bit too big for 60ish kids, but it was a fun gig! The lighting guy was having some fun, but I must have sweated 2 litres - probably the hottest stage i've been on.

I'm not bothered about being versatile - I don't want to play covers or sessions. However, the things I do want to play often require versatility, so while I think of myself as having a bit of a style, that style means quite a bit of slapping, fingering, picking, playing chords, playing very high up, and using a f*** load of effects. That pretty much covered all the techniques mentioned in this thread, but I wouldn't call myself versatile at all. How did you like reading that load of pointless sh*te?