pete.young

[quote name='BurritoBass' post='700008' date='Jan 3 2010, 09:38 PM']I'm looking to record a new album this year but I'm struggling to find a decent studio that isn't geared more towards Emo / Indie acts. I want a studio engineer that isn't phased by double bass, banjo or mandolin & ideally with an understanding of Americana / Folk / Country music. We're based mainly across Berkshire but with a drummer in Dorset so our catchment area would be there but with West London being a consideration if it was a good studio. Also South Oxfordshire or North Hants are certainly areas we'd consider. Anyone? Google isn't giving much away[/quote] I was thinking that Bellowhead probably present the greatest ever challenge to a studio engineer, although they don't have a double bass they do have virtually every other awkward acoustic instrument known to man so anyone who can record them should be a contender. This page lists the studios/engineers they've used: [url="http://www.informatik.uni-hamburg.de/~zierke/folk/records/bellowhead.html"]http://www.informatik.uni-hamburg.de/~zier...bellowhead.html[/url]

[quote name='YouMa' post='700836' date='Jan 4 2010, 07:27 PM']Dancing in the moonlight for me![/quote] +1 for me too, with The Rocker a close second. Don't have any guinness, but I do have a bottle of St Peter's awesome Cream Stout left over from the Xmas beer stash, which seems entirely appropriate. RIP Phil.

[quote name='Bassassin' post='697172' date='Dec 31 2009, 01:35 PM']Ebonol & phenolic are both non-porous plastics, so anything that doesn't actually polish the surface of the material will just sit there as a coating - and come off on your hands & strings.[/quote] Another good reason not to use WD40 if you ask me. It's essentially a solution containing a solvent, so all the things it does manage to remove will dissolve straight through your skin and into you. I can't understand why anyone uses this on musical instruments, it's horrible stuff. If I have to use it on a car I make sure that I've got protective gloves and barrier cream on my hands for the same reason.

[quote name='12stringbassist' post='697170' date='Dec 31 2009, 01:33 PM']According to Ebay "The instrument was custom built for 70s Glam Rock Band Shawoddy woddy"[/quote] Glam Rock Band? I think not!

[quote name='Thor' post='696970' date='Dec 31 2009, 09:35 AM']and also the quality factor of the Mexican built guitars too[/quote] I've just been playing a MIM Roadworn '60s Jazz, and while I'm not a great fan of this whole pre-aged thing, I have to say that this played very nicely (wonderful neck), was well put together and sounded marvellous through a T&C 450 rig.

My G&L 2500 has a 3-way selector switch - neck, both or bridge. No way to blend sounds. Still manages to nail most of the sounds you'd want to make with a bass.

[quote name='Higgie' post='692018' date='Dec 23 2009, 02:33 AM']Ok so my notation skills aren't perfect, I found it really hard to replicate the feel in the score, but as far as I can tell the notes are right, so you should be able to match them to the song and nail the feel by your self! This is all I could knock up since my last post, and is from when the bass enters, up to the first chorus Hope it helps, may finish it off tomorrow if I get time![/quote] Nice work Higgie. Hearing that bassline really was a 'stop the car by the side of the road and listen in wonder' moment for me. What software did you use to notate this, if you dont' mind me askin' ?

Jakesbass is right , the melody is mostly based around the E harmonic minor scale. Those were bass notes by the way, not chords - the D# - F# notes are over a B chord. If you want to improve your ability to pick up songs by ear, I'd say the most important thing to work on is recognising intervals. Key signatures seem to be out of fashion with a lot of modern arrangers - I'm seeing a lot of recent brass band stuff which is written in the same key throughout the piece but which modulates through several other keys, written with a lot of accidentals rather than a key change.

A decent pair of side cutters and a delicate touch.

Portrait of Tracy - just kidding :-) Addicted to Love fits this particular bill quite nicely.

[quote name='chris_b' post='684428' date='Dec 14 2009, 08:21 PM']I don't understand how you could find the Vintage lacking in lows! I played my Lakland and Thunderfunk through 2 Compacts at the SE Bass Bash and everyone standing within 6 feet had their rib cages vibrating when I hit the lower notes![/quote] +1. I played my 5-string G&L Tribute through my puny old-school Burman 100W all valve amp and Merton's Vintage at the SE bass bass, and there was plenty of volume, no loss of lows and no question of the low B getting quieter - if anything it got louder.

[quote name='BurritoBass' post='683491' date='Dec 13 2009, 10:23 PM']but that mandolin tune he did recently (Dance Tonight) showed he still has something to offer.[/quote] For me that 'mandolin tune' was convincing proof that Macca had nothing else to offer. It takes all sorts. I have no idea why he got involved with this charade, but hey - it's McCartney, why would he care what anyone thinks?

[quote name='neilb' post='680595' date='Dec 10 2009, 07:58 PM'][url="http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=320459736595#description"]http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?Vie...595#description[/url] IMHO, the stock looks sus from the photo,thats not a MIM logo from any era.[/quote] Hmm, did Vintage (the company) ever make a Precision copy?

Aria RSB Pro II Deluxe 5 - anyone here get this? [url="http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=140364278552"]http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?Vie...em=140364278552[/url]

[quote name='Protium' post='677241' date='Dec 7 2009, 09:33 PM']Another idea - is there enough juice from the power supply (in terms of mA) to power all the pedals?[/quote] I thought so, but apparently not! The DC Brick supposedly has an output of 1000 mA. But, read the small print. The maximum current it will deliver to all the 9V outlets is a puny total of 375 mA. The adaptor for the G5 is rated at 600mA, so I think you guys have hit the nail on the head. I'll try running the G5 on it's own power supply and run the rest of the board off the DC brick and see where that takes me. Shoulda bought a Diago! Many thanks for all the help, it is much appreciated.

I think this is a very fine-looking and rather special guitar. The guitarseholes (thank you whoever came up with that gem) on MusicRadar have no idea.

[quote name='Paul_C' post='676273' date='Dec 6 2009, 10:59 PM']I like them . . .[/quote] Like? I seem to recall you had about 14 of them, including the lovely Miki Furokawa sig. I had a blue SBV500 for a while, they're decent sounding well-made and unusual basses and this one looks as though it will go for next to nothing.

I've been having some problems with my pedal board recently and have been trying to find the source of the trouble. Pedal arrangement is like this: Korg DT10 -> EBS Multicomp -> Double bypass loop -> Amp Loop 1: EBS Octave -> Bass Big Muff -> Korg G5 analog synth Loop 2: Boss C5 chorus Power is provided by a Dunlop DC Brick. All pedals are 9V except for the chorus, which is 18V. All the cables are relatively new. The problem is when I switch in loop 1, I have an intermittent drop in gain. Sometimes none at all, sometimes 50% , sometimes complete silence. I don't think the problem is with the Bypass loop pedal - there's essentially nothing in it except for switches, which either work or not. This got me thinking about the power supply voltages so I whipped out the multimeter - 9V outputs are giving 8.7V, 18V outputs are giving 16.5V . The DC Brick wall wart puts out a nominal 18V which goes straight through to the 18V outputs. I stumbled across another 18V transformer - output 23 V. The 9V transformer that came with the G5 puts out - 14.4 Volts ! So how sensitive are these pedals to voltage drop? I admit I'd be thinking about changing a battery that read only 8.7 volts. Comments, questions, thoughts?

Played support to these guys earlier this year: [url="http://www.jonbyjovi.com/"]http://www.jonbyjovi.com/[/url] Nice people, good act and 'Jon' really does look like Jon.

[quote name='alexclaber' post='674864' date='Dec 5 2009, 12:18 PM']An interesting challenge would be to see how a Barefaced cab survives a 6' drop compared to a standard cab - I suspect the lighter cab is likely to suffer less damage.[/quote] We used to do that with PCs. Drop each one from a height of 6 feet onto the workbench, and measure the size of the dent. It's called 'benchmarking' ;-)