MiltyG565

[quote name='Donnyboy' timestamp='1371322638' post='2112629'] When can I get Falkirk put on The Map of Honour? After of before it's done? [/quote] I have no idea. I think Sir Lurksalot is in charge of the map

Because I haven't mentioned it yet - I also happen to think Guy Pratt is also a bit of a prat. What tipped the scale in that persuasion was when he posted something about gay marriage on Twitter, and I asked if he was pro or anti, and he decided the best response was "I'm offended to even be asked"... I thought "Pro" or "Anti" might have sufficed as a response, but nope, he had to be offended that I had asked, as if that makes any difference to me. I'm offended when people get offended that I ask them a simple question to clarify their position on the topic they just brought up, but I don't feel the need to announce every time I'm offended by something.

It's a cool idea, but redundant with today's technology.

[quote name='skankdelvar' timestamp='1371313006' post='2112496'] Endorsees are not always the best judge of what is most saleable. Direct from the early 1970's, let's welcome the Gibson 'Les Paul Recording', the design and execution for which were - IIRC - very much at the behest of The Great Man. [/quote] The only thing that I can see wrong with that is that control plate. Who loaded the gun with switches and buttons and aimed it at that guitar?

[quote name='skankdelvar' timestamp='1371311813' post='2112478'] one takes one's first bite with the eyes. [/quote] There's never a truer word spoken than this. A few years ago, the school canteen my aunt was in charge of shut down, and was relocated into a brand spanking new canteen. The old one was VERY old, and very run down, but as you'd expect, the new one was all lovely and shiny and bright. Anyway, one day, one of the kids in the canteen said to my aunt how great the new canteen was, and how nice the food was. My aunt lead with "Do you think the food is nicer than it was in the old canteen", the answer was an indefinite yes. The recipes and suppliers hadn't changed. The only thing that had changed was the canteen. We like to think that these things don't matter to us, but they really do. Anyway... I agree with what you are saying. Too few modifications, and it's a bit of a "why would I buy that over a standard one?" kind of deal, and too radical, people gasp and faint and drop their monocles into their not so reasonably priced French wine. Trying to get something that is aesthetically pleasing the a large demographic is, I imagine, incredibly hard. Personally, I quite like the shape of the bass, and how it looks generally. To me, it's kind of an improved Les Paul kind of shape. I don't even mind the massive route in the middle of it, but I just don't like the idea that he could have made it sound however he wanted, but it's nearly as if he sat on the fence and said "let's make it sound like EVERYTHING!", which isn't a bad idea, but it's not what I expect to see from a signature model.

[quote name='Kiwi' timestamp='1371310114' post='2112452'] Of course there are rules in music... sonatas, movements, madrigals, ANY piece by Bach, three minute pop song, intro/verse/verse/chorus/verse/chorus/bridge/solo/verse/chorus/repeat and fade, root fourth fifth, first third fifth....bottom line is this is a piece of industrial design not a specific genre of music that deliberately avoids riules such as avante garde jazz. [/quote] You don't really have to follow those rules in music, BUT, we are talking about design, not music, and design has many rules. Can the fretboard have a loop-de-loop? no. There's just one example. What Guy Pratt and Warwick have done here isn't radical, and it isn't breaking any rules, so let's not get all "Music is a free art form" about this. It's not music, it's a bass. My reservations about it aren't based on how different it looks, or how unconventional it might be, but just that, with the ability to place as many or as few pickups and controls on the bass as he liked, and in whatever arrangement he liked, according to his own personal taste, he chose to have a rail. It just baffles me. Rails are what you have when you want to market a bass for everyone. It's no longer a bass to "get that sound" that "Guy Pratt has", it's just a bass he helped design.

[quote name='Donnyboy' timestamp='1371299788' post='2112281'] [b] I posted this on the Facebook page , thought I'd share here too![/b] [b] Ok , I'm patiently waiting for the Relay Bass to arrive in Falkirk on Tuesday , when I'll be getting interviewed by the Falkirk Herald. Why? Well, because on Sun 23 June I'll be meeting up with John " Rhino" Edwards bass player for some 27 years with Status Quo when they play Falkirk Stadium. That's why! Rhino has very kindly, at short notice, agreed to get involved - not exactly sure what we'll do but it'll involve pictures at the least. Also I've managed to get a gig for my band The Signals on Sat 22 June at the Callendar Arms here in Falkirk, and close to the Stadium. That day/night there's a big 80's fest at the stadium with Midge Ure, Paul young , 5 Star, T'pau, Curiosity Killed the Cat and the like . So hopefully the place will be jumping. I shall be fumbling my way through some tunes using the Relay Bass and hopefully raising loadsa money for Cancer Research. Let's Rock!![/b] This means I'll have finished with it after 23 June so it'll be available up here for a little while or it can go back down the road sooner than i'd thought previously. [/quote] Great! I saw the post on the Facebook group! Well done, Donald

[quote name='lou24d53' timestamp='1371303439' post='2112349'] Noticed there's only 182 'likes' on the Facebook page, seems awful low considering the number of forum members on here. [/quote] It's awfully low regardless of how many forum members there are! We've been trying to get more likes on Facebook and we even have dedicated Twitter account now (piloted by me), but neither seem to get a great amount of attention. Some posts on Facebook will be seen by a fair few people, sometimes around 6 times the amount posts would normally get, just from a few shares. So what I think is, anybody who likes the Facebook page should go and share a status; maybe the one about how to donate? Ask people to like the page and consider a donation. 10 shares should get it seen by thousands, and hopefully some likes would come out of that. So I reckon that's what we should all do today!

[quote name='waynepunkdude' timestamp='1371290187' post='2112138'] From what I've seen you may be last. [/quote] Sssshhh, it can be our little secret

[quote name='paul h' timestamp='1371289549' post='2112124'] It's all in the fingers. Your argument is invalid. BOOM! POW! I WIN AT BASSCHAT!!!! [/quote] Haha! I wanted to win it

[quote name='iceonaboy' timestamp='1371276975' post='2111960'] I cant be doing with headless or bodyless basses. Im gonna stick with good old one place pups [/quote] As guy should have done, having creative control over the project.

What is the rail in the back had notches or little lines like a ruler? That would make it easier to remember where the pickups go. I'm surprised they haven't got them in there.

Very nice! Very nice indeed! Not exactly my thing, but very nice all the same. HBs and a floyd trem on a telecaster just isn't what I like at all! Hope you are happy with it though

[quote name='Skol303' timestamp='1371216396' post='2111308'] I'm downing tools and calling the Union... I never signed up for [i]this!![/i] [/quote] The union, eh? *folds arms* And what are [i]they[/i] going to do? *big foreman laugh*

I think it looks good, although I don't understand why, given the chance to position pickups wherever and in whatever manner he pleased, he went for a sliding rail? Ok, I get that it allows you to change the tone vastly, but I thought it was more for people who maybe could only afford one bass to do lots of things, or somebody who didn't really know what sound they wanted, not somebody who was being asked to help design and endorse a bass for one of the worlds largest bass manufacturing companies! I just don't get it. He could have asked for 20 different pickups and the most ridiculous switching system ever to be installed on the bass, but he went for a rail. Personally, I probably would get it, if I only had money to ever buy one bass, and I thought it felt nice to play, but I just don't understand this at all, coming from a pretty famous bass player.

[quote name='Skol303' timestamp='1371203518' post='2111095'] I've got wood! ...literally Paul picked up the materials for the build yesterday, so things are back underway. The mahogany apparently has a nice tap tone, which is great. Hardware is being ordered as a next step while Paul gets to work on the bass itself. I'll keep y'all posted as and when I hear more (especially Milty, who is now the honorary foreman of this project). In the meantime, here are some pics... [i]The wood: mahogany and wenge[/i] [i]Paul sizing up materials[/i] [/quote] Yay! Hang on... I'm foreman? COOL! Alright, sweep that up, put that over there, screw that on, let's get finished and get home, folks, it's Friday ffs!

[quote name='lurksalot' timestamp='1371160049' post='2110809'] [url="https://maps.google.co.uk/maps/ms?msid=210691614987351235849.0004d5f2ff114291042ee&msa=0"]Yup[/url] , I believe it is linked to the BC Relay facebook page aswell [/quote] That's right, and also linked in my blog post!

[quote name='lurksalot' timestamp='1371159506' post='2110799'] Awesome updates , are there definitive dates and venues I can pin onto the map ? [/quote] Not yet! I think James wants to wait closer to the date of the next gig before announcing it, so we shall keep it on the down low for now!

I've written a blog post about it, which took me a few hours. It includes links and pictures and everything! Feel free to take any info you wish from it http://miltong565.wordpress.com/2013/06/13/about-the-bass-relay-and-why-we-should-all-support-it/

Nacho, you need to clear a space in your sig and add the relay sig

[quote name='triviul' timestamp='1371150147' post='2110628'] [b]Mix K: MiltyG565[/b] There's something a bit funny going on in this mix, I think. I'm not sure whether it's just super-heavy compression on everything, or you've been adding some kind of sitar/harpsichord-like layer in there. Whatever the reason, I think you might have got the wrong end of the stick with this style, because you shouldn't have to process it till your nose bleeds! It reminds me a bit of Private Psychedelic Reel... Anyway, my advice would be to got back to the drawing board here, take off all your plug-ins and concentrate more on getting the balance with faders, phase matching, and high-pass filtering. Once you've got something that makes sense like that you can work more subtly with compression and effects to enrich the basic raw materials, rather than trying to completely reinvent the sounds as you seem to have done here. [/quote] Thanks Over-compression may be the issue. I certainly did out compression on a lot of things, but I generally just used presets, but then I also put a multi-band compressor on, which might just have made it too much, I don't know, I'm far from an expert I think what really happened, especially with the vocals and bass, was that my headphones are treble heavy/bass lacking, and I tried to make up for that. And the only other thing I have to listen on is my MacBook speakers, which are INCREDIBLY bass lacking, as you might know (and not good for listening to music anyway). Also, that harpsichord might just be the piano, it's very low in the mix, with lots of reverb and other effects on it to try and disguise the jerkiness and heavy handed way it's played. I was my first go, and I tried my best. You'll have forgotten more than I know about mixing, so thanks for the feedback! Consider it noted, and highly appreciated!

H-hem! *taps foot. Looks at watch*

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[quote name='ubassman' timestamp='1371107763' post='2109782'] If I'd know that I would have hand delivered it ! ...just how sunny and warm does it get in Falkirk? [/quote] Eh... hmm.... Not sure how to answer that one. I could be funny and just say "very", but I don't want you to waste your hard earned money on a trip to "warm, sunny Falkirk", because it doesn't exist

[quote name='Skol303' timestamp='1371104976' post='2109757'] Wow! Fantastically useful feedback from Mike. Thanks again for offering up your words of wisdom as a prize this month. And for commenting on all of the mixes too - very generous. We're all going to learn plenty from it, so cheers A quick update on the next mix-off... Firstly that it will be starting on Monday next week (I'll be posting up a new thread for it that evening). Secondly that the genre is going to be reggae(ish!). I'm hoping to use some stems from a fellow Basschat member but failing that I'll use a track from Mike's online library. So oil your faders and sharpen your, err, ears? We'll be kicking off again soon... [/quote] Hurray! I can't wait And I know what Reggae should sound like, so maybe i'll be better this time around