steve-bbb

very nice check out the first couple of minutes of this (ike willis) [media]http://youtu.be/Hzsou4RSb3k[/media]

too many ins and outs if you ask me

[quote name='Skol303' timestamp='1382081556' post='2247539'] Press play/record! I have Nanostudio on my phone - it's great. I'm not sure whether it can record audio, but you should be able to use the keyboard you've connected to play and record MIDI notes - literally by hitting record and noodling away. Try it. If it doesn't work I'll have a quick look into the desktop copy of Nanostudio and try to find a solution for ya. [/quote] didnt work lol - the keyboard is making groovy noises but nothing is recording on the track - tried it in reaper too going to stick to just playing bass edit - thenanostudio is on my desktop pc btw - i do also have it on my iphone but have never bothered using it so that was 11 quid well spent i guess

Here is my blue affinity series J bought a couple of years ago from [url="https://www.facebook.com/mannysmusicshop"]Manny's Music[/url] when i saw it in the shop i loved the colour so i picked it up and even with knackered and extremely dead strings it sounded and felt great so for 150 squid it was mine have looked at a few others in shops of same make model and colour and it appears that mine has a slightly better factory finish and detail attention than some of the brand spanking new ones ive seen - sound is great, passive stock squier pups with a relatively hot output , was planning on dropping a set of wizards in there but alas they are now even harder to come by - the only mod ive done to this is placing a heavy bridge on which imho did make a difference - not sure if the scratchplate was from factory it is a sort of dirty off white which has the appearance of once being clean but has been hung up in a room with somebody smoking 200 cigs a day - it is regularly gigged!

ok i found my power supply and midi cable for the kybd (evolution mk425c) 2 octave jobbie - found the breakout cable for my emu 0404 - all connected up and the keyboard is working through nanostudio (installed on pc not mac btw) what do i do now

will be even better if they carry on improving and gaining a bigger audience by their own good efforts and tell the likes of SC where to shove his format

dont worry too much about passive or active - i have two passive squiers (J's) and the output from both of them is as big as my active basses

dont forget that if you want to go for black nylons they are heavier gauge and you might end up needing to cut the slots in the nut to accommodate the string diameter

[quote name='Skol303' timestamp='1381916982' post='2245297'] Haha! If it's any consolation Steve, this is [i]exactly[/i] how I felt three years ago when I came back to tinkering with music at home after a ten year break. It's also exactly the sort of thing the Recording forum is there to help with. I think a lot of people are understandably put off from recording their own music because it's something that's typically surrounded by lots of techy jargon and photos of expensive studio set ups. Truth is it's very easy to get started and produce good quality tracks on a shoestring and with very little technical know-how. In many ways it really is no more complicated than just hitting 'play/record'! We're going to be posting up a 'Beginners Guide to Recording' thread fairly soon, which will provide a step-by-step guide to getting started (equipment, software, free resources, etc). In the meantime if you have any questions just ask... Paul [/quote] thanks i will keep an eye out for this

are you kidding me? i tried it once all that stuff about busses and auxs and spdif and midi dont get me started on midi is there a subforum for just plugging something in and press the red and white button together? they seem to have got away with it quite well in the 60s on a serious note i did browse thorugh the other day looking for suggestions for software frrebies to download (i have an emu0404 and a small evolution keyboard controller) - ive installed some stuff but thats about as far as it got [i]Confused - Tunbridge Wells[/i]

[url="http://youtu.be/Z8g0keED2fI"]http://youtu.be/Z8g0keED2fI[/url]

[quote name='Donnyboy' timestamp='1381821048' post='2244061'] I've had interesting experiences on Gumtree, including meeting a nice chap off the overnight bus from London in Glasgow , so that he could buy a £200 bass. It all went well and was a bit of an adventure, and was based 100% on trust. I would suggest you speak with the seller and that way you'll be better able to suss it out. Good luck! [/quote] this - if you are unsure then probably best to politely decline personally i would only buy off gumtree if it was close enough that i could go in person and inspect the goods and take the cash with me even on our beloved basschat forum i have bought two basses from here (one 20 mins and the other about 80 mins drive away) and a further on from evilbay which was about 40 mins drive away - buying stuff like pedals is different as they pretty much do what they say on the tin but an instrument you need to pick up and handle and play and see how it feels - just because you like the make and model is not always a guarantee for satisfaction and the best way to ensure you do like the instrument imho is to pick it up and play it having said all that i do appreciate your geographic location might have a significant effect on your decision - please excuse us south-east londoncentric spoilt for choice bassists

[quote name='Lowender' timestamp='1381794587' post='2243981'] Some advice -- as long as you try to figure out basslines and make and read tabs, you'll struggle for the rest of your life. What you need to do is understand what chords you're playing over and the notes within those chords and how they correspond to each other. In other words -- basic theory. Learn the modes. Play them up and down and backwards and sideways. Play some jazz standards and walk over the changes. Once you get good at that, you can rip through a song like that Whitesnake tune without even thinking. He's just playing basic busy rock runs over the chords. If you know the chords, it's childsplay. If you try to memorize the runs, it's calculus. [/quote] some people can memorize long intricate lines easily and struggle with chords patterns and keys and scales while others find scales and keys easy but struggle to memorize solo lines note for note might be calculus to you but not necessarily to others

[quote name='Jus Lukin' timestamp='1381769212' post='2243441'] So it's OK to pay someone to professionally relic a bass, but sacrilege to let your mates do it? [/quote] well im sure the guys in the sandberg factory probably make a concerted and careful effect to achieve a planned result rather than just twattin around like beavis and butthead

bunch of f***ing tools

yup i just bought a fretless vmJ recently off here and modded it a wee bit new gotoh bridge and new set of swingbass on it and it sounds absolutlely lush and secretly i would probably choose it if i only had one dont know if i could part with the other three though

despite the double fretw*** warning above i still clicked play just to be objective ..... until i heard some hip-hoppy snoop dogg dogg wanannabe f-ing and cursing so 10 seconds was about as far as i got

never heard of it but now i have i rather like it

[quote name='Paul S' timestamp='1381568944' post='2240686'] I'd say the difference was always there, well before Love is Like Oxygen. They'd been writing, and had a cult following for, their own B sides on most/all of the early hits. They came out of the heavy rock closet with the album 'Sweet Fanny Adams' in 1974 - the track 'Set Me Free' was a belter of a rock tune. Mick Tucker had a huge following as a powerful and talented rock drummer. [media]http://youtu.be/SW6zZAigmMo[/media] [/quote] and this [url="http://youtu.be/a_3vvo6Ebb4"]http://youtu.be/a_3vvo6Ebb4[/url]

one thing i did find vaguely entertaining was the contrast of his apparent smugness with his own playing and his irritation of his hair getting in the way

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