BassMunkee

[quote name='woodster' post='275498' date='Sep 2 2008, 03:15 PM']Elites strings - I can hear them deadening as I open the pack.
Ampeg - I just don't get it.
Wireless systems - Why...? Your amp is right behind you...!
LED's on the fretboard - "if my mediocre playing can't hold your attention, maybe my fairy lights will?
Basses once owned by 'stars' - Yeah, and it was so good they sold it...!


Just a bit of fun :-)[/quote]
LED's on fretboards are similar to those lights that you can get that go under your car...

Actually I have used a Behringer DSP2024 and found it to be very good.
I think people slag Behringer off "just because". So they are cheap, it doesn't make them bad.

Fields Of The Nephilim:
Psychonaut libIII - you know the section I mean.
Celebrate.

Tony Petit is a cracking bassist, IMHO.

It's certainly a thought, or I could alternatively cut a section off the bottom and then hinge it.
All the practicality for standing up, plus the looks when I need them!

Not that I imagine it's overly helpful but I would never buy a bass off of ebay without going and checking it for myself first, and if I couldn't then I wouldn't.
Still, hope you get at least some of your expenditure back and chalk that up to experience...

I used to use a Zoom MRS4b - worked very well, saved to SD card, and had loads of features.

Thanks for this - when my new Tbird eventually arrives - (14/11 currently) - I think a Hercules will be in order!

[quote]85% of people who say they don't like rotosound strings are just distasted because they either can't play them well, or can't afford them. 10% are just saying it to be contrary or because they think it'll earn them 'bass cred'.



I like their 40-100 gauges[/quote]
+1
My strings of choice.

How about Geddy Lee?

Oh, sorry, i misunderstood.

(I'll get my coat).

85% of people who say they don't like rotosound strings are just distasted because they either can't play them well, or can't afford them. 10% are just saying it to be contrary or because they think it'll earn them 'bass cred'.

[quote]QUOTE (Rich @ Sep 1 2008, 12:19 PM)
Surely, given the speed (or otherwise) of yer average steamroller, it's more of a 'walkaway'...


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INSERT FAT YANK HOG HERE.[/quote]
Exactly, only goes to prove Rich's comment...

[quote]QUOTE (BassMunkee @ Sep 1 2008, 11:58 AM)
Actually, why ARE straps so expensve...?

They aren't.
Many a good strap is less than the cost of a few pints of beer or a set of strings and last way longer than either ...

Oh and the right strap can transform how your bass feels and hangs and thus how well you perform and play ....[/quote]
+1 to your last statement - preferably so that my bass hangs somewhere around my thighs, and actually I've had my current strap for about a decade, and it's still going strong, and it wasn't very expensive, so with hinsight my comment was somewhat without merit.

Actually, why ARE straps so expensve...?

[quote]QUOTE (Oscar South @ Aug 31 2008, 04:40 PM)
85% of people who say they don't like basses with more than 4 strings are just distasted because they either can't play a 5+ stringer well, or can't afford one. 10% are just saying it to be contrary or because they think it'll earn them 'bass cred'.[/quote]
100% of this is made up.
Distated is not a word.
(85 + 10) = 95, I am assuming therefore that I fall into the remaining 5% who don't like them for other than the reasons that you have stated...

1. Boutique basses - just because it's taken one old man in a shack on a mountain 7 years to make and it's composed chiefly of wood from trees that grow only on 1 Pacific Island bonded together with glue mixed from the tears of orphaned seal cubs and nectar from rainforest plants and costs more than my house does not necessarily make it a good bass to play
2. People who own (1) above - just because they can tell people that they own (1) above
3. I own lots of music that can be described as sterile and cold - nothing wrong with that
4. Any bass with more than 5 strings - get a guitar and detune it for heaven's sake and anything with 7 or more - sorry but no, just no
5. finger style snobbery - "oh it's just playing bass properly if you use a pick" b*ll*x
6. Everybody who blindly worships Wooten and Entwhistle and all the others who appear to have ascended to the Bass Pantheon of divinity stop basing your frame of reference on them! Find your own way!!!!!
7. (non-) effect snobbery - effects are perfectly valid, *if properly used*
8. Mark King - because no one should ever play a bass that high (on his body)
9. People who whinge about Thunderbirds "oh but the neck drops!" well boo hoo cry me a river people just deal with it or get a different guitar or fix it but don't whine about it
10. Jazz and Blues are overrated as genres
11. "The Pocket" - I don't like it and I don't want to stay in it thank you very much
12. Headless basses - clumsy and unbalanced
Well that should be everyone on the forum covered by now sorry but it's monday and I need to vent!!!!
Gerrrrrrr.............

This is my stuff:

No fancy cabs, but it's all good.
(Zoom 708II courtesy of Wooks).
NAD 3020i amp for monitoring
Hartke wedge for non-fecked-about-with playing
Zoom Studio 1201, Boss rc20xl, Marshall Reflector, Echohead, Vibratrem, GLX Noise gate, Boss SYB-3, Zoom 607II, Zoom 708II
Oxygen8v2
Yamaha QY70
Tosh Satellite uber laptop
Cakewalk Sonar Powerstudio 660
Various footswitches inc. RedOnionSolutions loop switch and one for the Boss looper
Couple of Mission Speakers
Aria ProII Bass.

That's me.

[quote name='Adrenochrome' post='272673' date='Aug 29 2008, 04:19 PM']...the only song I've ever sang lead vocals on![/quote]
Nice.
Do you know, judging by your avatar and your name, I would never have taken you for a Sisters fan?!

Fields Of The Nephilim - Dust, Last Exit For The Lost, Psychonaut - to name but 3.
Sisters Of Mercy - Fix, Lucretia

Quality idea.
Round of applause required methinks.

A good idea would be to borrow or invest in something like a Boss Loopstation.
That way you can provide your own rythm to work to, record a phrase and loop that, then play over it - it's very good for that sort of thing, it even varied metronome sounds if you want that too.

[quote]The Funk
The hardest part of playing to a click is actually setting the right tempo in the first place. That might sound dumb but it's true.[/quote]
QFT +1

Apologies if this has already been mentioned, I only read the headlines!
It might be the type of metronome sound you are using that's the problem, if it's very undifferentiated then it your ears don't have as much to "key on" as it were.
I use clicktracks quite a lot, one way or another and found them to be very useful on the whole, but more often than not, for a timing track I'll knock up a kick/snare or a closed/open hat type thing as it provides more differentiation, if you have a decent metronome or drum machine you can add groove or "humanisation" into the track anyway.
(cakewalk has a very good built-in metronome FWIW).
Just to throw my ten pence worth into the click track debate - (if there is one) - I think click tracks can be very useful live, if you're after something a lot more mathematically accurate where you are sticking to an absolute rythm with no deviation then that's very useful.
It's not all about blues and jazz and swing...

I bought a Zoom 708II bass effects pedal jobbie off of Mr Wooks and it arrived today.
A. It was promptly sorted.
B. It was properly packaged.
C. It's exactly as described.
D. He's a pleasure to do business with.

Thank you very much.

A+++++ as they say on Ebay, would use this seller again.

[quote]johnnylager:
The Hanson Brothers - 'Brad' EP[/quote]
What as in "mmm bop"...?!

[quote]That's the one - it may be quite a tight fit so after the screws are out be prepared to [b]give it a bit of a tug[/b] ![/quote]
...snigger...