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Kiwi
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The Shuker is a great bass. Although after playing @Dood's 6 stringer in 2015, I actually preferred his to mine. At the time I spec'd mine, I asked Jon to use my Smith BSR6 as the template. If I were to spec the bass again I would have gone for three pieces of wenge with a few stringers of flame maple in the neck and maybe an ebony or richlite fingerboard and 15mm string spacing, with the neck profile of Dood's bass. Also my bass has needed a lot of time to bed in because of how dense the maple is in the neck. So now it sounds a little mellower sounding now than it did after it first came into my possession. Given I have had it in storage since 2015, perhaps it has mellowed further. But regardless, it has a piano like tone which I'm sure would appeal immensely to some players. It's also superbly made and I guess I've learned quite a bit about wood and construction from it. The bass I made for myself since, under Jon's expert supervision, is a load closer to what I've been looking for but even then there are things I would change. It's proving to be an expensive journey.
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thanks, I'll pm you as it could get a little long winded.
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Funnily enough, this is exactly what I've been looking for in a para eq...a notch filter with a super narrow bandwidth for boosting around 250Hz. Are you suggesting the narrow bandwidth isn't a good idea?
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Mr Blue Sky - ELO
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"McGonagall you say...?" "One mention of the Famous Tay Whale and I'll turn you into one. Somewhere high above the surface of a mythical planet."
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Yeah, the problem is he's basing musicality on popularity being an anathema to proficiency. It's a polarising position which I'm pretty confident isn't what Victor intended given his rep as a teacher. In any case a simple response to the argument would be for Alan Holdsworth to play 'Good Times' or 'Papa's Got A Brand New Bag'. Debate over. But...oh, he's dead.
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I can't see how it makes sense from a fingering point of view. Your fretting thumb is anchored, your fingers move around in an arc as they go from string to string. The idea behind a radiussed fingerboard is to make the stretch for each note relatively consistent...isn't it?
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Loved it up until the point where he compared Alan Holdsworth to BB King and then I was like...hmmm. Steve Vai talks about Alan Holdsworth as the only player he couldn't get a fix on musically. The ONLY one. So that makes him a guitarist's guitarist I guess in Victor Wooten's context. It doesn't detract from the point Victor was making but I would chosen someone who wasn't respected and revered. Yngwie for example.
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Suggested avatar? ;)
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I always tend to struggle with getting into the pocket of Let's Dance. It's a simple line but played so far behind the beat, and when you're on stage the last thing you are able to do is relax and slide into it.
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Try the status forum :) -
Update on this: Source Audio mentioned that they discussed the email over staff lunch the day after I sent it which was promising. I haven't heard anything more back from them than that. The Freeze pedal will be couriered back to Mimmo for repair very soon now that couriers are sending stuff out of China again. So hopefully it will be with him soon.
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https://www.basschat.co.uk/topic/366657-bass-synth-and-the-search-for-an-accessible-arpeggiator/
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Some of them you could do on the C4. I got the C4 specifically so I could give Heartbreak Make Me A Dancer a crack, but then you'd need my pedalboard as well. It might be that more than one FI wouldn't be necessary if one of the patches is relatively simple - like a squelchy saw wave for example and even the Zoom B3 has a bass synth patch.
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I decided to teach myself guitar about 10 years ago and haven't looked back. I'm still crap though. BTW: All of you guitarists...www.guitarchat.co.uk needs your wit, talent and unique brand of BS. Don't be neglecting your sister forum now.
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Graphite necked basses sound fantastic through these.
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If it were me, I'd see what happens with the envelope depth or knock back 800-1000Hz maybe and seeing what that does. Beyond that I would need to play with the patch myself.
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Did you set it up on the FI or on the C4?
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@Quatschmacher Play list is here: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLse4iJAB00SvQkR1t_U1NxlHOdI4MIdCl I've added a few more and deleted a load from the list above. A couple of them could probably benefit from a remix - for example, no one has managed to do a great remix of Sweet Dreams and there are literally hundreds out there...but it's a classic.
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Really good, the only thing I'd suggest is that the filter or resonance is a tad too high. The original sounds a little more rubbery. Perfect! Wouldn't mind playing it myself and seeing how it feels in terms of tracking. Some of the fills are fast.
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You're welcome. Yeah it's a big ask to do all the tracks. I was inclined to make a second pass and filter out those that didn't have enough energy. Some of them are floor fillers, others are in cruise control.
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Have fun :)
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@QuatschmacherHere are some starters for ten, some of them might already be done in your collection but perhaps not labelled yet: A-ha Take On Me Bananarama* Venus Britney Spears Toxic One More Time Bronski Beat/Communards Don't Leave Me This Way Small Town Boy Chaka Khan Ain't Nobody (already done?) I Feel For You Depeche Mode I Just Can't Get Enough Personal Jesus Donna Summer I Feel Love She Works Hard For The Money (montage music) Duke So In Love With You Eurythmics Sweet Dreams Love Is A Stranger Everything But The Girl Miss you George Michael I Want Your Sex Too Funky Girls Aloud Something Kinda Jump Sound of the Underground No Good Advice (pre-chorus/chorus) All I Need I Don't Gwen Guthrie Ain't Nothin' Going On (but the rent) Heavy D and The Boyz Now That We Found Love (square wave on this one) Jackson 5 Shake Your Body Down To The Ground Can You Feel It Kylie* Locomotion Can't Get You Out Of My Head Lisa Stansfield Some Day (I'm Coming Back) Madonna Into The Groove Holiday Blue Monday Vogue Like A Virgin Mel and Kim* Showing Out Respectable FLM Michael Jackson The Way You Make Me Feel BAD Billie Jean Thriller Wanna Be Startin' Something Nelly Furtado Maneater Say It Right Outkast Hey Ya Pet Shop Boys Opportunities Go West It's a Sin West End Girls Pointer Sisters Neutron Dance Jump (For My Love) Rick Astley* Never Gonna Give You Up Rihanna Don't Stop The Music (note the phase/sweep filter) Umbrella (prechorus+chorus) Only Girl (In The World) - layered bass line Seal Killer (w/Adamski) Crazy Sia Titanium Snap Rythmn Is A Dancer Sophie Ellis Bextor Get Over You Heartbreak (Make Me A Dancer) Take Me Home SOS Band Just Be Good To Me Stonebridge Freak On (w/ Ultra Nate) Put 'Em High (w/ Therese) The Real Thing Can You Feel The Force (mix of real and synth bass) Three Degrees Giving Up Giving In Ultra Nate I'm Free Yazz The Only Way Is Up * Could be a variation of the same Stock Aitken Waterman bass line.
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I'm thinking about throwing a list together of covers with synth bass lines. Stuff that a gigging bassist might play.
