Graham

I always play on headphones at home as any amplification wakes the kids, so I run my bass into a small mixer via a Sansamp BDDI as an amp sim and then add either my phone for YouTube or my CD player through a mini-jack to phono cable and take a headphone out, works really well.

[quote name='stinson' timestamp='1366316926' post='2051105'] Good man [/quote] I love the green one, don't see that colour often. Edit: the quote isn't pulling through Gareth's picture

We used an intro track for some of the bigger gigs we did in my old melo-death band, it was from the soundtrack to Angels And Demons, film scores have some great examples you can use.

After reading some of my pals comments on Facebook I had fairly low expectations for this, but liked it - not a patch on their early stuff, but a good solid track, keeping with the Metallica analogy I can see this album being their Death Magnetic - a decent album with some good songs but nothing you'd call a classic. Lovely bass sound though, I assume it's Lakland / Hartke

Cheers guys, will avoid and probably go for a Diago Gigman if I get a bonus this quarter to supplement my funds

[quote name='4 Strings' timestamp='1366268941' post='2050227'] If you're using an active guitar would it be worth experimenting by sending a lighter tone to the amp? Do you use flats? [/quote] Passive P/J Lakland with roundwound DR nickel plated Lo-Riders - though I normally have the J pickup turned off / down. Part of the problem is I'm not giggin a lot at the moment and can't use it at home as it disturbs the children so I'm not getting as much experience with the EQ in a band mix as I'd like, It'll come I'm sure. Also, my previous amp was a EBS Fafner / Proline 4x10 so I'm used to having a more full-range sound

I'm finding something similar with my Streamliner / BF Compact combination, it does seem a bit too bottom heavy, even with the bass rolled off and midst boosted at 3k, I suspect the answer is to add a Midget T, but can't afford one right now.

I used to be in a melodic death metal band, [url="http://www.myspace.com/echovirus"]www.myspace.com/echovirus[/url] called it a day about a year ago, good fun; got a Tool-esque progressive rock / metal studio project on the go at the moment, when we have some material fully recorded I'll put it up.

Great tone, wonderfully expressive, effortless groove and feel; a real loss to the musical world. Though if there's a lesson here, it's alwayss wear a seatbelt

It was.....ok, not terrible, but not good either, the drummer could pretty much hold a beat, but not a lot more than that, so we busked our way through a few of the numbers. He found playing drums for two hours a real endurance test too, I don't think he realised just how much hard work it was going to be. Not a bad crowd though, quite justifiably they got into it when we played well and were a bit more indifferent when were making mistakes or lacked groove. Had a slightly surreal end to the night where one punter begged us to play Mr Brightside again as he'd missed it the first time round and the insisted on getting up and (poorly) singing the final chorus before doing some X-Factor / Christina Aguilera style vocal runs at the end. Made the boy happy though, so worth it for that.

Cheers guys, I've not played here before, but heard good things about it. The person stepping in is a singer rather than a drummer, so we'll have to work around what he knows but I think it'll work out ok.

Not to worry, sorted now, cheers.

Hello everyone, I know this is the wrong forum but as time is of the essence I thought I'd put it in here where more people will see it. I'm supposed to be playing a paid dep gig tonight at The Jolly Farmers in Purley with a rock covers outfit called Carbon Skyline, but the drummer's just dropped out, if anyone knows of someone suitable and available let me know ASAP. This was supposed to be my first time depping with these guys so pretty disapointed it's turned out like this, set list is below: Set 1 American Idiot - Green Day Beautiful Day - U2 Vertigo - U2 Pick A Part That's New - Stereophonics Brown Eyed Girl - Van Morrison Go Your Own Way - Fleetwood Mac Going Underground - The Jam All The Small Things - Blink 182 Place Your Hands - Reef Under The Bridge - RHCP Message In A Bottle - The Police Hard To Handle - Black Crows Wishing Well - Free Saturday Night - Elton John Chelsea Dagger - The Fratellis Crazy Little Thing Called Love - Queen + Paul Rogers Set 2 Basket case - Green Day Your Give Love A Bad Name - Bon Jovi You Really Got Me - Van Halen Long Train Runnin' - Doobie Brothers Mustang Sally - Commitments Superstition - Stevie Wonder Play Thay Funky Music - Wild Cherry Back In Black - AC/DC All Right Now - Free Sweet Home Alabama - Lynyrd Skynyrd Mr Brightside - The Killers I Predict A Riot - Kaiser Chiefs Sex On Fire - Kings Of Leon Sweet Child O' Mine - GnR Tush - ZZ Top Wanted Dead Or Alive - Bon Jovi All standard stuff, a lot of us could play all that, so I'm hoping someone knows a drummer who could too.

Has anyone used a Kinsman pedalboard? I found this on Ebay which looks like it might be good, but I don't know anything about the brand and don't know what the quality will be like - I want something better than a Stagg / Behringer type board. http://item.mobileweb.ebay.co.uk/viewitem?itemId=360634195758&index=23&nav=SEARCH&nid=02842459823 Cheers

Tuesdays is our local jam night and last night we had a Blues Brothers theme, it went great a bunch of us dressed up (I went as Duck Dunn, obviously) and The guy who runs it went to a lot of effort with his pall who between the two of them look the spit of Jake and Ellwood. I got to play Everybody Needs Somebody, Gimme Some Lovin, Peter Gunn Shake Your Tailfeather, I've been wanting to play Everybody... for years so was grinning after that. Best bit is, the fellow who organised it has a taste for it now and is making noises about doing a proper tribute night at the venue.

Pretty simple, it's the most common car on the road, so statistically a large number of bassists (and any other group you care to name that doesn't correct for wealth) will drive them Edit: including me, '53 plate hatchback, it is quite nice that a Barefaced Compact fits perfectly in the boot

[quote name='JJTee' timestamp='1185537730' post='37786'] I had one, but even with the bass input, I found it lost the low end quite a bit. The humanizer effect is quite cool. [/quote] That was exactly my experience