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    Who did you see live last?

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    Better Lovers in Brighton last night - it's 3/5 of Every Time I Die, with producer Will Putney on guitar and ex-Dillinger Escape Plan singer Greg Puciato on vocals

     

    Superb - seriously tight and put on a great show. Wasn't a long set - 35ish minutes as they've only released four songs so far and played those along with three new ones and a cover of Soundgarden's Rusty Cage

     

    Really looking forward to the full album and hoping to be back at the same venue in March for Greg's solo tour

    The End of a Beautiful Thing?

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    On 28/09/2023 at 23:09, Woodwind said:

    It may be a good thing.

    The press release implies you'll be able to put your music forward for sync opportunities, but how this would work in reality is beyond me.

     

    I like bandcamp a great deal, but the way users engage with it is changing. As my sales dwindle, my complete plays increase massively, so it seems more people are using it as a streaming service.

     

    I use it as a pay per album streaming service, could download the albums I've bought, but never have.

     

    Hopefully this new take-over, after the Epic one won't have any issues but I may need to re-evaluate the not downloading if starts going wrong

    How was your gig last night?

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    Pretty decent, 50th birthday party in a social club, so went exactly as you'd expect it to.

     

    Had a slight issue with my slimmed down pedal board, I think a connection came loose at one point so I went silent. No drama, just by-passed the pedal board and went straight into the amp until there was a moment to re-jig.

     

    However what it did highlight is what an integral part of my sound the TC Spectracomp is. Without it, the sound was thinner and lacked some umph, turning on my EBS amp's built in compressor was no comparison either. Just set to 12:00 on the default tone-print brought out some very pleasing frequencies and filled out the sound.

     

    It's remarkable how good the Spectracomp is, particularly for a one-knob pedal at it's price point

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    Doom metal

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    36 minutes ago, Baloney Balderdash said:

    Seems like i haven't mentioned yet that I actually got a doom/stoner rock project going myself, named "all I nil".

     

    A solo project where the core main instrumentation will be a tenor bass (that is a bass tuned to A standard tuning, like the 4 upper strings on a 6 string bass in regular B standard tuning), programmed/played via a weighted keys midi keyboard drums/percussion, and then vocals, with some additional, more flavor oriented, programmed and physically played instrumentation added from other instruments.

     

    So far I got 7 more, but mostly less, traditional stoner/doom regular songs, and then an additional 4 more folky instrumentals, where almost all the bass parts and the form of the songs is in place, that just needs to be recorded down and then having drums and additional instrumentation added.

     

     

    This is the "amp-less" setup that I use for this project:

     

    But planning to an EHX Attack Decay, an EHX Freeze at some point, as well as a TC Electronic Ditto X4 looper, and then possibly an EHX Bass9 (to be able to play lower than A1), and possibly some of the other EHX 9 pedals as well, mainly interested in the B9, Mel9 and Synth9.

     

     

    And I should add treating my tenor bass as sort of a hybrid bass/guitar in terms of how and what I play on it, as well as I make use of a slide, obviously for slide guitar/steel guitar like stuff, and a mallet, used to play dulcimer like stuff. 

     

     

    My Ibanez GSRM20 neck + GSRM20B body Mikro Bass, that I named "Dud Bottomfeeder" , with the stick pickups pulled out, replaced with just one EMG Geezer Butler P pickup, wired directly to the output jack socket, the stock side mounted barrel type one having been pulled out and replaced for a front mounted regular jack socket, and tuned to tenor bass, A standard, tuning :

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    Sounds like a great project, I'd be particularly interested to hear the dulcimer like parts

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    Cr#p covers by artists who should have known better

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    10 minutes ago, Cosmo Valdemar said:

    I was actually chatting to a mate about this yesterday. In hindsight, The Burning Red is a much better album than its reputation would suggest and, apart from some unfortunate rapping, isn't really a Nu-Metal album at all. It has aged well.

     

    Supercharger, however, definitely is 😆

    On The Burning Red, Rob asks you to "watch me fall" definitely nu-metal 😁

     

    And yes, agreed about Supercharger

    Cr#p covers by artists who should have known better

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    Just now, SteveXFR said:

     

    The title of this thread included "...by bands who should know better" nu metal bands wouldn't have been nu metal if they knew better.

    Machine Head weren't really nu metal but Robb Flynn is an absolute tool

    Machine Head as a rule aren't nu-metal, but The Burning Red absolutely is.

     

    I did hear a story that they'd not planned to record the cover, but were jamming it in the studio and Ross Robinson persuaded them to put it on the album

    Cr#p covers by artists who should have known better

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    2 minutes ago, Barking Spiders said:

    Couldn't agree more though these bands wouldn't have known better as they're c@ck. Nu-metal was one of the lowest points in music along with the all those post grunge bands though these genres are interchangeable . The Disturbed cover is just too painfully earnest/earnestly painful.  Then there's that atrocious take on Smooth Criminal. 

    Oh, I quite like the Smooth Criminal cover, partly because it's fun and also because it is very nostalgic for me - I was exactly the right age when it came out

    Non standard tunings

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    I've just thought, back when I was in a Melod-death band, the guitarists were in drop B, but I just played in B standard as I'm not a fan of drop tunings.

     

    Made for some awkward fingerings (and who hasn't in their youth?) But I preferred that to the intervals shifting and messing with my head

    Non standard tunings

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    12 minutes ago, SteveXFR said:

     

    I know what you mean. I've not bothered with much in C because my 4 string won't go that low and my 5 won't go that high.

     

    I like Carcass because they tuned to B, so it's easy on a five string

     

    But most metal seems to be in C or C# tuning, which is just a pain.

     

    Or modern stuff which is super down tuned to low F#/drop E where the bass is almost pointless

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    Non standard tunings

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    58 minutes ago, SteveXFR said:

    Are non standard tunings common outside of hard Rock and metal? I'm constantly changing tunings anywhere between drop A and E standard for metal covers but if I try anything like soul, pop or reggae it is almost always in E standard tuning. 

    So many metal songs I've never learned as I can't be fecked with messing about with tunings, even on a five string

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    Arriving, reflecting and departing - music for your funeral

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    2 hours ago, SteveXFR said:

    Starting with a song that just blows my mind, and incredible vocal performance and a brilliant piece of heavy music

    Reflection to the soundtrack of a song which I just love. Beautifully dark. 

    Departure to something much more upbeat. My favourite punk record of all time with a bass line I could never play.

     

     

    Arrival 

     

     

    Reflection

     

     

     

    Departure 

     

     

     

    I love Mariner so much, quite possibly my favourite album of all time

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