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err get rid of him then....... good drummers make my life really easy, bad drummers make it intolerable.

[quote name='dannybuoy' post='443402' date='Mar 24 2009, 08:35 AM']The Little Mark Tube has a push/pull mute switch, plusyou can crossfade between solid state and preamps. I want! [/quote] Yup, that one and its 800 watt brother are going to be a monster hit IMO I see no reason whatsoever to upgrade my 450 though. Size is irrelevant (its in a rack case) and I absolutely love the sound of it as is.

[quote name='Stewart' post='443790' date='Mar 24 2009, 02:12 PM']I'm very fond of Audix D4 and D6...[/quote] +1 heard many good things Also though do yourself a favour and check out the Heil PR40 - its a cracking mic!!!! Forget that its a 'broadcast' mic - so is an electrovoice RE20 and thats considered by many to be the 'king' of bass mics. I would recommend avoiding a kick drum mic. Simply because it will tend to eq your sound, and thats not always what you want, overlaying an overtly kick drum orientated fixed eq over the sound of a bass guitar doesn't work for me, esp if the kick was recorded with the same mic!

This started happening to me recently when the band I'm writing with were all writing together whilst I only ever heard the results (I'm based about 50 miles away from most of them) Problem was they are all way into the rockier side, whilst I mean to be funky always. A lot of what they'd come up with was really turning me off. Musical differences eh! Well I took ownership of a couple of sets of lyrics and have been writing and recording around them pretty much on my own, then feeding back my ideas to them - has really changed up my enjoyment, and means we now have more than one string to our bow as it were (they cant help but play funkier with what I'm giving them - I hope!) Just wish I could write decent lyrics (and sing, and play guitar; I can program drums and keys fine), I'd never be involved with a band again

[quote name='Mr Fudge' post='439767' date='Mar 19 2009, 09:39 PM']My new rig has changed my perspective completely, MB SA450 and 2xAE 112 Bergs. I hardly use effects anymore, just a bit of wah and phlange when our 2 guitar players double up on keyboards and I am the only "guitar" on certain tracks. Im picking my lines more carefully and really enjoying my new found clarity in the mix. It has moved my playing on again which is always a good thing. By far the best sound I have got is through my bog standard 97 Jazz. I tried a super Nordy bass through it and although it was a lovely guitar wouldnt have swapped it for my old reliable jazz.[/quote] I experienced the same thing when I got my rig, which is ever so similar to yours! Also since getting the Roscoe I've finally got into having more depth as well as punch, largely because it seems not to sacrifice articulation in any way for depth, unlike every other deeper bass/rig combination I have ever played. Up until the Roscoe I was really into that burpy bridge pickup tone of the Vester, but the Roscoe has amazing neck pickup grindy P tones going on too, which are at the same time really deep and really growly. Now I'm spoilt for choice with the one instrument - its brilliant! I've never been a fan of toppy or scooped tones, but I do like the articulation around 800Hz a lot, and the harmonic richness of newer strings. Having said all that in a band situation I find I'm using less and less tweeter these days, preferring the top end of the 10s over the much higher up top end of the tweeter. Its set right for me if you only realise its there at all when I pop a note, the rest of the time I like it to seem like the tweeter isnt on at all....

[quote name='BigBeefChief' post='440085' date='Mar 20 2009, 10:36 AM']Seems like a nice fella to me. I remeber the Scientology interview he gave outside a Scientology centre. I think Scientology is a cult that rips people I get the impression that if you told him you hated his music, he'd take it on the chin without being a dick. Billy Sheehan - he's alright by me.[/quote] Yeah totally agree, definitely thick skinned I think. Certainly very humble about it all too.

[quote name='ARGH' post='440199' date='Mar 20 2009, 12:18 PM']A big fat shut the f*** up to the antiSheehan collective. [url="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p49yndQKoFE&feature=related"]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p49yndQKoFE...feature=related[/url][/quote] Yeah thats the vid that made me cringe etc etc

Cant imagine when you'd need that kind of grunt, we have PAs these days!

Billy SHeehan plays music that gets right up most peoples nose. He is ridiculously gifted technically. Jeff Berlin states he regards him as the best rock bassist of all time, and they've hung out enough for Jeff to have a decent insight on this one. His early Niacin stuff is staggering (Elbow Grease and Stomping Ground are wicked super fast grooves) His instructional video is hysterical, one of the funniest most cringe worthy pieces of interviewing ever - but it has some great info in it too. His attitude in interview is great though - very cool guy, crap sense of humour mind I cant listen to more than 1 minute of that shred stuff without going postal though.....

Reaper. really not going to bother saying again!

[quote name='Musky' post='438324' date='Mar 18 2009, 03:03 PM']+1. It sounds like he's being impossibly anal about the whole thing. He probably won't be happy after redoing the parts either... [/quote] An impossibly anal guitarist? Well I've met enough who are ****holes Sorry, apologies to all those offended, I'll get my coat!

Its truly not that important which way you play. My son is a lefty, writes lefty, does everything lefty, except music. He played violin righty, he plays DB righty, and he plays EB righty. I have a guitarist friend who is righty but can play with equal ability righty or lefty or upside down righty (as a lefty). He just got really into the whole idea of being able to play ambidextrously to see how far he could take it. Its pretty neat, I've seen him play half a solo righty, spin the guitar over and play the other half lefty (upside down righty); he used to be seamless at that and as fine a piece of showboating as I have ever seen it was too! He reckoned it took him 6t months to get comfy and a year to get the musculature all the way there. Dont know if he still does this though...

Tell him you're putting what you have up, if he wants to spend more of his own time and money redoing parts he's welcome to, next time he should get his stuff down before going into the studio though.

Last 4 offers:- $1000 $1000 $1000 $1000 If there was any sanity in the world - which there isn't!

Depends on the quality of the cab the crossover and the tweater. I really dislike the tweeters in the Eden gear I've tried, you have to turn them wayyyy down or lose any hearing abpve 2K I like the tweeter in my ae410 more, and can live with it louder esp in a band setting - its very nice. Even then I dont like too much, just enough! The tweeter in my son's HT210 is gorgeous though, way smoother than even the ae410

Another one converted... Mwahahhahhahhahhaaaaaaaaaaaaa!!!! Top looking rig mate. Only reason I went for a single 410 is it fit in my car better - that and I'm a skin flint of course

I've had a bad back since I lifted an old HH 215 and tried to carry it through a doorway that I didnt quite fit through when I was about 22. Its never properly healed, so I know how debilitating backs can be. The AE410 is tiny for a 410, really small but sounds huge. I can carry it from car to stage without any problems and I'm unfit and lazy as hell as well as having said bad back. Its not the most comfortable lift in the world (it does way something after all) but its nothing like you'd expect. I have nothing against the 112 and 210 concept, but if a single cab solution is what you want then the 410 is magic!

Whenever I walk away from my rig I pocket the fuses. I take my bass in its gig bag everywhere. Whenever anyone says 'Can I have a go' I say 'Sorry, no'. The inevitable 'Why? Oh go on!' is responded to with 'Put 7 grand in my hand right now and you can have a go, anything happens to any of my gear at all and I pocket all the cash' shuts them up. I don't lend gear to anyone, too many accidents through lack of care even by trusted friends to do it anymore. I'm polite but firm. I have spent a huge amount of effort saving up for the kit I have. I am not about to risk losing the kit or a friend over the kit. It's best for everyone that way. I think you did exactly the right thing mate.

Immense [size=6]+1[/size] from me for Berg AE cabs, you will be hard pushed to actually buy a better cab IMO. You may find one that suits you more, but better, I dont think so... Also really dig the Markbass kit, but its become very expensive recently...

Sheesh mate, get over it, thats the risk, try again. The reward for me would be to play in a truly original band again and blow away a big crowd of people I've never met in a venue out of town with a bunch of other bands there too. Only happened once to me before that I can remember (the important part being how original/different this band sounded to the generic stuff at the time) and that band folded two months later after 6 years work getting to that point... Get back on the bike and keep on pedalling!

[quote name='Plux_the_Duck' post='431949' date='Mar 11 2009, 10:02 PM']Yeah well times have changed since 1870, father, we have high rise buildings and well paid jobs (and cheeky swines for sons)_[/quote] Well as soon as you get yourself one of them there well paid jobs in a new fangled high rise you'll be able to afford even better gear than you currently have. And be old enough to drive to gigs yourself too no doubt....