Mornats

Thanks Mingsa, yeah they're my own compositions (except where the vocals have been supplied by someone else in which case they're collaborations I guess). I only started playing the bass again a year and a half ago after having not picked up one for about 17 years. I had no clue about music theory and still only know some basics now. For me, the best way of learning was to have an idea in my head and then attempt to get it down. Got loads of books, read a lot on the web about it and only learnt what I needed to at the time. It's well worth jumping into just to see what you're capable of!

Hmmmm:

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[left][font="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"][color="#000000"]So that makes two owners, the original owner plus himself. Or am I being picky and I shouldn't class him as an owner if he's a shop that's simply selling it on?[/color][/font][/left]

I'll have a listen later on but just wanted to say that you shouldn't worry about hearing small mistakes. REcording yourself is a brilliant way of analysing your playing so that you can improve. I was terrified of recording myself at first but a mate of mine encouraged me by saying that only I have to listen to the messes I make It gives you a nice confidence boost when you nail a bassline and you can listen back to it.

I totally agree about how accessible all of this is too. You can see a list of software that I use in my signature. EZDrummer is brilliant at letting me get some decent drum tracks down very quickly and easily. It's just a case of selecting a drumkit and dragging and dropping a midi loop into it. I can use my midi keyboard to record synths, pianos and all sorts of other instruments too. A big surprise was finding out how easy it is to get some decent string sections going on with the midi keyboard.

Reaper's philosophy on DRM is fantastic which is one of the reasons I support them. However I've ran out of authorisations on Toontrack's EZdrummer (it's on a Mac, my PC and I've upgraded my PC a couple of times which has gone through 3 out of the 4 auths). I'll need two more auths to get it working on my old drives then again on a new SSD. Such a pain! I know piracy is a problem for these companies but making it harder for the people who are happy to pay for it isn't the way forward.

Bah, my SSD has just failed on me so I've switched back to an old pair of Raptor hard drives to keep me going. Trouble is, none of my virtual instrument software is authorised and on some of it (due to upgrading) I've ran out of authorisations. It's going to take a few days just get them reauthorised and then I'm going to run into the same problem when I get a new SSD.

If I'd ripped off this software I'd be fine, but as I paid good money for it all I'm screwed. I can't record the song I've had in my head all day. I wonder what the point of being 100% legit is sometimes.

Rant over!

Would love to hear the CTM Dan. I bought an Ashdown 220 Touring last week and my Overwater has never sounded better. The tube pre-amp just gives it a lovely warm grinding sound if I push it. Even my cheapo Dean Hillsboro sounds good through it and I've never liked the sound of that one! Might get an EMG MMTW pickup put in it now to give the sounds more depth (it's lacking vs. my Overwater). I tried the Ashdown MAG300 and EB 180 too and liked the tone but preferred the Touring series. It sounds a bit more classic rock to me which I like.

My "I'm-going-to-make-it-big-so-can-splash-out" amp will definitely be an all-valve Ashdown I think.

It's funny Deb but I was almost ready to order a GK MB112 as well but I'd never heard one so went to try the Ashdown's instead. Glad I did!

I've done worse. I thought the J pickup on my Overwater wasn't working properly (I even contacted Overwater about it and they were puzzled). It turns out I'd been turning the bass knob instead of the pickup pan knob.

Hmm, I wonder if they've sent you one of these instead: [url="http://www.thomann.de/gb/ashdown_magc115300.htm"]http://www.thomann.de/gb/ashdown_magc115300.htm[/url]. If so, you've just saved yourself £90 and got yourself an extra bit of power! The MAG 300s are pretty good amps (I did try one, but the warm tube sound from the Touring amp just really did it for me). Does yours have the compressor on? I think that's another difference between the two and the only useful thing that the 220 Touring didn't have.

Or it could be that the Thomann amp is a version of the MAG 300 combo but without the compressor. Either way, it should be a great amp!

Yes, the rain stayed away just enough to get a few people watching thanks!

So, with the new Standard models and the Inspiration models Overwater now have a bass to suit most budgets. Well worth trying one if you're out looking for any bass IMO.

I've ordered from Thomann a few times Deb and the delivery's been fine. Hopefully you should have you amp by now so let us know what you think. I bought an Ashdown 220 Touring combo at the weekend love it to bits. Gigged it in the park at the weekend (first gig in 17 years for me) and it had buckets of volume. So much so that it drowned out the PA a bit but hey, you can never have too much bass IMO

Gotcha. That wouldn't be my Guitar Rig Session then. Unless one of the things I've got my monitors plugged into would do it... hmmm. Oh, I'm an idiot. My monitors are plugged in using XLR to jack cables. OK, I'll go play with some music now and will stop asking silly questions!

EDIT: Ah hang on, they're male plugs and I need female plugs. Carry on...

That's interesting, how do you record a DI straight from the bass as well as going through an amp? My noobishness is saying to me that this would require a guitar lead that split into two connectors but that doesn't sound right.

You had me at "it would look cool"

Sorry, prices are between £1300 - £1600 depending on spec.

Here's the link to the info on their website. Prices are around £1300 (give or take a ton or so) and are made in Carlisle by the Overwater team if I read it right. [url="http://overwaterbasses.com/basses/inspiration/"]http://overwaterbasses.com/basses/inspiration/[/url]

You guys rock. Cheers for the help!

Oh, I thought that was for microphones only! Would I have to do anything with the phantom power button if I plug the amp into that? I'm assuming that the XLR to XLR would be the best quality (if using the same quality leads that is).

And if I do end up buying a decent mic I could record using the mic and the DI and blend away.

This isn't quite related to Denmark Street (I've never been there) but being a Northerner I find that shopping in Newcastle is a world apart from shopping in London in general. Newcastle, and to be fair most other places in the UK, can be quite pleasant. London is just full of people who don't give a sh*t IME.

Anyway, what I really wanted to say was that Ihad a decent experience in PMT in Bristol on Saturday. I strolled in, wandered around the bass section for 2 minutes when the sales guy walked up and asked if I needed any help. I did indeed as I was looking for a new amp. So he let me try 5 different amps, let me choose a bass (any bass I liked) to try it with and walked me through the controls on each, trying to get a fair comparison.

When it came to buy it he talked through the options, I haggled a bit, he tried price-matching it (but they had the same price as everywhere else as the amp was discounted everywhere anyway) and in the end I got a £20 Klotz lead out of him which wasn't too bad. So it was quite good really. I even wandered around the store for 10 mins thinking about it and he was there when I got back to do the deal.

To add to this, I've been into that PMT 3-4 times before that trip where I'd tried out pretty much every bass in there without even giving the inkling that I was going to buy so I could have been labelled as a tire-kicker. So all-in-all, it was quite a nice experience! Some shops, even chain shops can still be good.

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Indeed. Adam Yauch was a practicing Buddhist so he would believe in reincarnation so it's not so much a case of R.I.P but "see you next time around". Looking forward to it.

They may be the new Aspiration Standard and Aspiration Standard Plus models. They've been added to this page: [url="http://overwaterbasses.com/basses/overwater-by-tanglewood/"]http://overwaterbasses.com/basses/overwater-by-tanglewood/[/url], plus some online retailers are stocking them.

Wow, they're £80 cheaper than anywhere else! I don't think I need the added volume just yet but I'd be interested in what it does for the overall sound. Plus I think it would look well cool sitting under my combo

If it's the version that's been out since the Mac App store opened then it is indeed good. The timestretch thingy in it is well worth it if you need to mess about with getting stuff in time with the rest of the track. Remember that you can get Logic Pro on the app store for the same price as they sold Logic Express at (£140) - well worth the money I reckon.

It's a little beast, I love it Glad you could make it down and I hope we didn't make you cringe at the mistakes we all made! I don't think I'll need the extension cab any time soon as I pretty much drowned out the PA today hehe.

Drop an email to Overwater and ask about them. I'm sure Chris or Lawrence will be happy to fill you in on the details. I suspect they're too busy with getting the new models out to get their website updated with the info on them.

Ah, but then I'd have to buy a mic and I'll be on here forever asking for advice on that one! I'll take a guitar lead out of the FX send to see how that works out and I'll grab a XLR to jack lead soon. Cheers for the help guys!