Maude

Cannot agree enough with this. I probably do effects wrong but if I get the sound I want then it's right for me. Since I bought a Line 6 X3 I've found the answer to avoid mud/mush is the ability to run two signal paths together, one with your disired effects and the other clean and punchy. No matter how dirty the effected channel gets the low mid punch is always there, unless of course you don't want it to be. The other I do, which relates to the quoted post above, is when creating an effect at home with the Line 6 is to copy that tone to a whole bank or two on the pedal with little tweaks to the amount of effect and EQ, then at rehearsal with the band at volume I can just tap through the patches to find the best one, it really helps to be able to a/b like this, then copy the best patch and make minimal tweaks to that copy to fine tune, you still then have the original 'best patch' to a/b with. Good sound doesn't have cost the earth.

I wonder how nasty a well played string would look under magnification? 🤔

I've never really thought about it but when are the strings coated? Is it before they're wound, in which case crud will still get into the windings, or is it after they're wound, which surely would inhibit the strings ability to vibrate freely? BTW, there's a bunch of old guys locally playing classic rock and metal called 'Metal Fatigue'.

There's a little bit towards the end. We do Mod/Ska/Northern Soul, tailored to the age group that were into that whole late 70s early 80s Specials, Jam, Clash Ska and Mod revival scene, so also do the 60s stuff that inspired that movement. We try to tailor the sets to the audience, hence no Northern Soul in that last vid.

Haven't heard them but I'll look them up in a bit.

This is a whole compressed to 20 mins which includes about five of our own songs. It was a while ago and a very quiet night but the bass came out nicely (Yamaha Bex4) so I like it 😁

A curveball medley, that I managed to get lost on at the beginning, ha. https://m.facebook.com/story.php?story_fbid=10156358000234359&id=25549984358

https://m.facebook.com/story.php?story_fbid=2779441705429728&id=100000917761449

Go on then, terribly quality phone footage coming up 😁 Mostly off of facebook posts so someone will have to let me know if they're viewable by them please. https://m.facebook.com/story.php?story_fbid=746951822153611&id=580855958763199

Ah didn't see this one sneaked in at the end, possibly my favourite SLAG track.

I really like this one 👍

Too true! I've looked and it's gone, it was one of those 'facebook live' videos, maybe they only last for so long. I really must make a proper effort to get a camera set up and get some footage, it's usually the terrible stuff people record on their phones.

Hmm, it did link to a Facebook video, it was on someone else's fb so maybe it's gone, I'm not good with that stuff. A photo from it will have to do then 😁

That's pretty cool 👍

OMG you're in 'Imports Misc O', that's so cool! 😎 Actually one of your CD's is in my car right now. I've just bought a Jaguar, I brought it home and needed to stock it with CD's, a neighbour saw the new car and said "it's proper old school gangster that is" (it really isn't) "You know, 'Get in the car you Slaaag' ". And that was one CD chosen for me. Never had any band reference crop up although the first time I heard us unexpectedly on the radio was cool.

This seems very weird for me as well. I use a stage name, (not through my choice, I set up facebook for band related stuff and used a different name and the bands started using it), and the first few times I didn't know whether to sign my real name or 'stage name', especially as I don't have a signature for the stage name. It was like being a kid again and choosing how to do a signature. It still seems odd signing setlists, posters, cd's, etc.

Just once more please.

I wear a suits a lot in our Mod band, material covered buttons are the best (including style wise), plastic buttons have never really marked my bass (the odd tiny dent that you really have to catch in the light to see but I do get pretty lively with it) never have, or will, tried metal buttons.

Oh well aren't you just a little ray of sunshine. 😉

Wasn't Horn's Fairlight first used on a Dollar single? Oh the shame of it 🤒

From memory of interviews it was Trevor Horn's, cost something like £18,000 back in the early 80s.

I used to do it in a previous band a few years back, it always went down well but as has been mentioned, keep the speed in check. It's all too easy to let adrenaline get the better of you and start it too fast. I got pretty close to the sound using my Line6 X3. As you can run two completely separate signal paths with these I had one channel with the effects and one clean, albeit with some octaver, to keep it punchy and not too muddy.

Very true. We all go on about Norman Watt Roy's bass playing, and rightly so, but the entire band really were a cut above, extremely creative and Ian Dury's lyrics were just sublime, poetic and beautiful, yet slightly seedy with some market trader swagger.

Eh? The string still vibrates between the fret and the bridge saddle, it's just the pad of your finger hanging past the fret very slightly mutes the string. Palm muting is the same thing at the other end of the string, albeit a different amount, and doesn't pull it out of tune.