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    Keeping it down a bit

    in General Discussion

    Posted · Edited by Skinnyman

    There's a chance that we'll be moving house soon and the property we've seen is a nice big semi-detached.

    Weirdly, given how often we've moved, we've never before lived anywhere with neighbours the other side of a party wall so my concern is that practicing at moderate volumes is likely to cause annoyance. Plus, Mrs S plays (acoustic) piano and that can get some volume to it when she's in full Rachmaninoff mode.

    Any advice on how to set things up to prevent noise leakage into next door? The property is about a hundred years old and pretty substantial. The only option for "The Music Room" (as we shall grandly call it whenever we get chance) is on the side of the house with the party wall although speakers and the piano can be placed around the room, away from the shared wall itself.   

    I'm not talking about late night sessions - just practice and playback at sensible volume during the day. 

    Am I worrying too much? Should I consider some sort of isolator to put a cab on to decouple the bass from the floor? 

    New GK Fusion S heads

    in Amps and Cabs

    Posted

    30 minutes ago, Al Krow said:

    Would you still stick by your first impressions post and also continue to summarise it as having "depth and clarity"?

    Absolutely. 

    Over the years I’ve had a Genz Benz 6.2, a Fender Bassman 100T, an Aguilar TH350, the Genzler Magellan and, most recently, the GK Fusion.

    I’ve liked them all in their own way but the GK is my favourite of the bunch - largely because it seems to be an amalgam of all the others. It can do the “dirty” sound of the Fender and the Aggie at one end of the scale and get close to the “clean” of the Genz/Genzler. 

    If one wanted to be picky, it lacks some of the build quality of the Genz(Ler) and it’s not as simple to use as the Aguilar but it’s certainly not flimsy or badly built and once you’ve found the sounds you want between the two channels, it’s easy enough to find them again.

    I tend not to play around with my amp settings that much - I might swap between a clean sound and something with a bit of grit but that’s about it - so once I’ve got an amp to sound the way I like I tend to leave it there. If I was playing lots of genres and needed to keep changing the fundamental sound of my bass then maybe the Genzler is a better and more flexible choice - or a Helix and an FRFR speaker. But as the amp that lets me find “my” tone, the Aguilar and the GK have been my favourites and, of those two, the GK has just that bit more versatility and character.

    I used to have a couple of Bergantino CN112s which I swapped out for a pair of Barefaced One10s so the pairing of GK head and One10 cab may have more of an impact than if I was still using the Bergs. That said, those Bergs were incredibly good and I wish I’d had chance to play the GK through them.

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    Atrocious bass tone!

    in General Discussion

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    I had a similar problem with a B3 when using it with a non-Zoom power supply. They seem to be okay with Boss PSUs but mine definitely had a tantrum when powered with an EHX power supply even though it was nominally the right rating.

     

    Chromatic Runs

    in Theory and Technique

    Posted · Edited by Skinnyman

    4 hours ago, Stub Mandrel said:

    Why do four-note chromatic runs work so well (at least in some genres - blues and rock especially)?

    And why do they tend work best in certain parts of the scale (e.g.up to the fifth or the root of a major scale)?

    As I understand it (and I could well be talking out of my fundament)...

    If you’re going up to the fifth you’ll be playing the major 3rd, 4th, flat 5th (the “blue note”) and 5th which will work nicely in a rock blues setting so long as the flat fifth is just a passing tone.

    If you’re going to the root you’re playing the 6th, flat 7, major 7 and root. Again, that flat 7/major 7 in a rock/blues context works nicely as passing tones before resolving to the root.

    In both cases, you’re introducing a note that clashes slightly before resolving it on the fifth or the root.

    Theres probably a better explanation but that’s how I’ve explained it to myself....

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    Macca at the Cavern

    in General Discussion

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    47 minutes ago, SteveK said:

    So, they not only managed to find a lookalike... they also found a soundalike, a leftiealike, a bassalike and a writealike! What are the chances, eh? 😂

    Obviously, they couldn’t find anyone with similar writing talent which is, of course, why Macca’s stuff has got worse over the years as the unpublished material from the real one has been used up.

    Macca at the Cavern

    in General Discussion

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    On 26/12/2020 at 20:25, odysseus said:

    but some of his performances have been a tad lacking of late

    That’s because it’s not really him. We all know that he’s been dead* for years.....

    Its the ear lobes that give it away, apparently 

     

     

    * I don’t actually subscribe to this theory but I do know several, otherwise rational, people who are convinced that the real Macca died in the sixties

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    From the Bench of...

    in Build Diaries

    Posted · Edited by Skinnyman

    9 minutes ago, Stub Mandrel said:

    Sorry, I should know better than to get Tufty shredding Rickies. Let's cut straight to the chase...

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    I expect this sort of nonsense from Teebs.

    I thought you were better than this.

    :on_the_quiet:

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