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nicklathambass

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  • Birthday 22/09/1988

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  1. Hello Basschat, and this particular sub-forum. It's been forever since I've logged in here, honestly I forgot my password but today just chanced my arm at a long-unused one and hey presto the door opened! In 2012 I released my debut EP 'Can't Sleep in Silence'... so it's been a damn long time coming, but I am thrilled to share my brand new album 'NL1' here! You can check it out at: Spotify Apple Music Amazon (It's also available at every other digital platform you can think of, I just thought I'd include the most common ones). As scary as it is posting it here, I'm really looking forward to hear what you think of it. It's practically 100% self-made; the only thing I didn't do myself was the mastering, which I left to the legend Christopher Bolte. If you fancied a taster before diving into the whole album, here's the video I made for the opening track, 'Rise & Shine'. If you like cats you'll at least enjoy the video. Thanks for your time, folks. Have a good one. -Nicko
  2. [quote name='Perennial' timestamp='1360615625' post='1973545'] Music is an intellectual and sentimental endeavor. We go through different periods as musicians. Have patience and determination! And be honest with yourself. [/quote] This pretty much covers it!!
  3. Haha that sucks!! I once cracked half a tooth out on a MM SUB Stingray... it wasn't a bass limiting injury... but boy was it stupid. All I was doing was putting it on to play it and it decided it wanted to make out with me! Ow.
  4. I've had a Boss TU3 for ages and it's never once annoyed me...
  5. Haha what a cool thread! The MySpace page of my first ever band still exists... [url="http://myspace.com/takeinthetrash"]Click this[/url]. Haha! That was so long ago. 2006ish! Wow. And this is a play-along with of one of the songs from my EP, released in June of 2012. This video is from August though. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yi3GrrhvgCo Enjoy!
  6. Mine is [url="http://soundcloud.com/nicklathambass"]here[/url]! I don't post on there that much but... yeah. There it is!
  7. My general opinion on effects is pretty simple. If it fits the music, cool! If it actually adds another level to the sound that makes it more interesting, great! Use them! If a person is just using effects because they're available, and they just sound silly and don't add anything... Not so much. Of course it's all down to opinion though. My opinion of whether something sounds necessary could and probably would be different to other people. Like I said though, ^that's my own general rule on the subject!
  8. I tend not to force it.. sometimes we just get bad days. Sometimes bad weeks! Being English, a cup of tea often solves the problem. But if it doesn't, I just put my bass down and walk away for a while. Just doing something else. Relaxing, watching videos on YouTube, anything really. Oh. Apart from bass videos. Don't watch bass videos after you've had a bad day's/week's playing or you'll never want to pick it up again. I've had that before... Damn you Victorrrrr!! But yeah, in general, I just say "don't sweat it". Go do something else for a while and the wall will fall over. Silly wall. You weren't even there in the first place. THE POWER WAS INSIDE US ALL ALONG!!!!!!! *inspirational music*
  9. I had a Levin imitation P-Bass... I think I was about 14 at the time. When I was in the shop playing it, the amp room was being used so I was just playing it unplugged. It felt nice! And I thought "oh it'll just sound like a P-Bass! Cool!" So I bought it and took it home. I bought it with my birthday money that year actually. I took it out of the gig bag I got with it and plugged it into my amp... I played it and... oh god. It sounded like a toy. Awful. Not only that but if you gave it even the slightest of welly, it popped like crazy. Just an awful, awful instrument. Oh I also remember it being absurdly top-heavy. It was hard work holding the thing up while you played it! (That's what she said...) The only thing I could say about it that's positive is that it didn't feel bad when it was unplugged. So I guess it would have been okay to warm up on? Or good for a beginner to get used to what a neck feels like... But the moment it's plugged in, I think the beginner would quit! I took it back to the shop two days later. Hahaha.
  10. I feel extremely silly posting an entirely new thread to try to get my EP reviewed... when this thread was here the whole time. Sorry about that! I did say in my stupid thread that I haven't really got to grips with forums yet. Haha. Anyhoo, I'd love to hear what you guys think about my EP 'Can't Sleep In Silence'. You can listen to it for free [url="http://routenote.com/r/nicklathambass/5051813248016"]here on Routenote[/url]. Just thought I'd add; I'm working on a full album at the moment that I'm hoping will be out in the autumn! Boo-yah! Okay, thanks a lot! EDIT: Just seen the whole rule about reviewing the previous post first! Oops. So I listened to Cherry White. Pretty well written songs, your singer has an interesting voice! And I'm not saying that as a casual way of saying that it's rubbish... cos it's not. I genuinely mean she has an interesting voice. Haha! My favourite song was probably 'The Price'. I found her voice to suit the more stripped-back sound a little better. 'Superman' was cool too. I liked the groove in that one! I also liked the start of 'Empty City'. I like it when everything comes in all at once. That's what she said. My criticisms would be that the EP as a whole doesn't sound super-well mixed. It's decent though!! It's more like a very very good demo. I hope you're proud of it. *Moments later* AH! I just realised, your singer's voice reminds me of a less wobbly Gwen Stefani! I imagine she gets that a lot?
  11. Right now I'm listening to the 'All Roads Lead Here' EP by Chimp Spanner.
  12. 'Oh What A Night' by The Four Seasons always goes down a treat.. Also it's a fun song to play cos it has that tasty run in the bridge!! I'm kinda lucky though cos the band I play in also does 'Never Too Much' by Luther Vandross... Back to the question though... 'Brown Eyed Girl', 'Town Called Malice', 'I Got You (I Feel Good)'. All the hits!
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