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    NORWOOD!!

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    Posted · Edited by bassoctopus

    Kings X playing a few weeks before too.

    And my coverband - Dogman - doing Fishbone and Kings X covers in between at Trillians 15th April

    Strange thing going on with tickets though - I bought mine when they went on sale and they arrived last week, but a friend has been unable to buy tickets even from the academy box office, they claim they don't know what's happening apparently. Weird, especially since they've now sent me my 6 tickets.

    They're doing a full tour and you can buy tickets for all the other dates

    Early Pressie - 12 String Hamer

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    This was a factory second that a dealer in the US was selling on ebay for around $500. I sent it to some friends in the States as a joke saying buy this for me for Christmas - we always do silly stuff like that!

    I was a bit shocked when they turned up with it the other night :)

    I don't think Hamer make them any more, so they are pretty rare.

    My band do early 90s covers - Kings X/Pearl Jam etc, so the twelve string will fit in perfectly for some of the set

    I am a very lucky lad!

    Early Pressie - 12 String Hamer

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    Posted · Edited by bassoctopus

    I've been unexpectedly bought a 12 string bass for Christmas by some unvbelievably generous friends. It is an awesome sounding thing, but quite tricky to play :)

    So good that I've broken my self imposed rule of not posting bedroom playing stuff on Youtube.

    These are my band playing covers of stuff that originally used 12 string basses, with me playing new takes with the new bass

    [url="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rHrIIQbO0mA"]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rHrIIQbO0mA[/url]

    [url="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eMkG8VQ_Clc"]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eMkG8VQ_Clc[/url]

    How do you react when the engineer doesn't do your set-up as you want?

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    As a player and producer/engineer, I'd ask if you trust the engineer in question. If yes, then let him get on with it. If no or don't know, I suggest you familiarise yourself with some of his/their previous work before going much further.

    With my producer/engineer hat on, if a player was getting really arsey and I thought he/she was wrong, I'd record a decent DI and their amp signal, knowing that I could fall back in an emergency using the DI and re-amping when they weren't there.

    Luckily for me, I don't find myself in these situations. It isn't my day job and I can pick the people I want to work with :)

    Black Hole Sun and Dogman covers

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    I'd agree with you on Ian's voice :)

    Probably the new year for us now, as our drummer has a hernia op lined up and can't play at all at the moment. If you sign up to one of our myspace/facebook/twitter services we'll send out notices when we have our next gig organised :) www.dogmanband.co.uk

    Recording a bass through an amp

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    An AKG D112 in front of a cab, plus a good quality DI is the best way to go. As mentioned earlier, watch out for phase problems which will manifest themselves fairly obviously in the sound.

    For demos I just use a pod x3 live (or my old Bass POD), and again take a DI/clean signal and an effected one.

    When recording for material that will be released to the public, I would always use a DI and miced cab combination.

    Black Hole Sun and Dogman covers

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    I've recorded a few songs for demos for my new band Dogman.

    Black Hole Sun
    [url="http://www.youtube.com/dogmanband#p/a/u/0/URiK_h2cIYc"]http://www.youtube.com/dogmanband#p/a/u/0/URiK_h2cIYc[/url]

    Dogman
    [url="http://www.youtube.com/dogmanband#p/a/u/1/VQ03PaPK4QU"]http://www.youtube.com/dogmanband#p/a/u/1/VQ03PaPK4QU[/url]

    Hope you enjoy them.

    Recording:... No instruments were recorded acoustically :)

    Bass was Thumb NT going into a POD X3 Live - this is an awesome bass effects units as you can split two amps into a single output. This is an Ampeg SVT, then distortion/effects on the other channel. The Infinity may be may favourite ever bass, but the Thumb NT records like no other and is a joy to mix.

    Guitar was on the new POD HD 500 which is quite simply unbelivable

    Drums were recorded on one of the new 2Box kits

    Vocals were recorded normally

    Mixed on Cubase by me.

    Bass Bargains You've Found

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    Posted · Edited by bassoctopus

    2nd hand Warwick Infinity NT 5 bargained the shop down from £1450 to £1100 as it needed a little work. £100 at my luthier and it is now perfect. That's a £5.5k RRP bass :rolleyes:

    And Thunderfunk 550A bought from here for £300. New ones are £1300.

    I always get comments about my bass sound with this pairing - Thunderfunk even featured my band on their site because the combination sounds so good :) [url="http://www.thunderfunk.com/YouTube.html"]http://www.thunderfunk.com/YouTube.html[/url] Band is 300ft Gorilla

    Dave Funk (Thunderfunk builder) put my band on his site

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    After the comments from our gig vid clips on this and the Warwick site, I mailed Dave Funk ( who builds the Thunderfunk amp I'm using) to tell him how much I love the amp and what a good reaction I'm getting when I use it. And sent him a Youtube clip.

    This is his reply :)

    [quote]From the first note I could tell.

    Bass and singer sound great. I like it because I take sh*t about it not being a “rock” amp. Like there’s a difference?


    [url="http://www.thunderfunk.com/YouTube.html"]Thunderfunk, Youtube page[/url]

    Dave[/quote]


    How cool is that :rolleyes:

    And I can assure anyone that hasn't heard 300ft, that the Thunderfunk is an awesome rock amp - in fact it's fantastic for all types of players

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