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I went with the Xerograph as a treadle filter just because it's much smaller than the Moog. Works great. I also use a Chunk O.S. for envelope filter duties.

Wow, thanks for trying it out for me. Shame there's no way to load in other software effects although I sort of expected it. I guess they need to sell upgrades and there would be no GUI for a third-party plugin unless it was developed specifically for Guitar Rig. I will also look at Amplitube, thanks for reminding me of it, I thought of Guitar Rig first because I've got a Maschine and I really like it.

I'm getting to the point where I need more effects than it's practical to lug around, and it's getting expensive too, so I'm looking at Guitar Rig and a Roland FC300 as a potential alternative route. Couple of questions though if anybody knows: Is it possible to load plugin effects into Guitar Rig or are you stuck with what NI gives you in their bundle? Would I need to load Guitar Rig into something like Ableton and do it that way? If so does mapping everything to the MIDI controller then get annoyingly complicated? Can the 'modifier' rack units be used to modify more than one thing? Like... Can you set up an LFO and have it wired to several parameters, and have those toggleable on/off via MIDI? I know that last one is a bit complicated, fair enough if nobody's done that.

I don't like Strat jack sockets on basses, or pearloid anything (I suppose it's ok on bowling balls). Aside from that it looks like a P with the wrong headstock.

Good stuff.

[quote name='discreet' timestamp='1405712339' post='2504699'] Pat a badger? [/quote] I've got a pretty good Stroke Boxer sound going on here.

[quote name='skankdelvar' timestamp='1405353621' post='2501131'] Nice twist there Clarky. Shame that [i]some[/i] subsequent posters have used it as a platform to extend their sly, unpleasant mockery of BC-er Thunderbird beyond the thread he posted elsewhere[/quote] I've seen it happen before on BC. I think some people are just desperate to be part of the gang.

Nice performance.

Yeah he impressed me when I was a kid but as much as I dug it I didn't understand what he was doing and I didn't gain anything from listening to him. These days I play a lot of reggae influenced music and I listen to a lot of Jamaican recordings from the '60s onwards, and now it makes sense. I can't imagine a lot of young British players having the self-control to do a good job of playing reggae bass. It's an old man's game. ;-)

[quote name='MilkyBarKid' timestamp='1405461973' post='2502209']I had about three or four pints and stayed in the restaurant for a couple of hours, at the time it wasn't much compared to what I consumed every night, so I wasn't in any way inebriated, but the difference it made to my ski-ing was tremendous,[/quote] While I wouldn't advocate relying on substance abuse, it's otherwise a good point - maybe you've got inappropriate expectations of your practice time. It seems you might be sitting down to a session where you're expecting to impress yourself with the fruits of your labour. Of course it takes time to grow fruit. Instead you should be expecting to surprise yourself with the things you can't do, and feeling the excitement of opportunity with the realisation that it's something you have recognised that you can learn. It's such a small change in your perception, but it will make a big difference your experience.

He's a really creative player and a great example of what you can do with just a few notes in interesting places.

Practise time is mistakes time, making mistakes and recognising what you did wrong are the things that make you a better player. When I'm practising alone I deliberately go for stuff I can't do, moving to positions on the fingerboard that are a bit of a leap of faith or going for an interval I'm not sure about just because I'll figure it out along the way, and if it does work out I'll feel like a champ. Improvement comes steadily and you shouldn't expect too much too soon. You might not notice it happening at all but it is happening and obviously if you don't push yourself when you're practising and make mistakes, it will only happen slower.

I think it's good to get into the habit of always using your finger tip, although I do barre if I don't have time to finger each note separately, I always feel a bit sketchy when I do that though. :-)

The Bass Micro Synth is pretty good at this but the problem you'll encounter (with any effect pedal) is trying to get the filter envelope to re-trigger reliably if you play anything fast. I've tried writing my own tracking system in Max/MSP and when you see what the string does at the input each time you pick and how little it decays at first you can see it's a very difficult problem to solve. The best possible performance would require throwing pitch tracking at it and using a hexaphonic pickup, by which point you might as well be using a MIDI system anyway.

[quote name='Thunderbird' timestamp='1405057666' post='2498309'] Yep but in all fairness the D and G were not that bad but the E and A were just unplayable IMO they had this horrible kind of droning ehco sound it was just awful kind of like the sound of twanging a half stretched rubber band [/quote] I've had this sort of sound before when my pickups were too high for strings. Might be worth a try to lower them a little.

I only ever had to deal with Warwick once. I had a 6-string Corvette Proline, one of the first they made (serial 000014) and the truss rod broke. I'd bought it used from a guy in the USA. I took it to a luthier here in the UK who decided we should contact Warwick about it. Warwick asked to see the bass so we shipped it to them, and three weeks later they shipped it back with a new neck, in a new gig bag, with a new pot of wax, a couple of packs of strings, a T-shirt, and an explanation that the laminates used in the early 6-strings had in some cases proven not to be stiff enough, so they'd replaced it for me. No charge. Best customer service I've ever had from any company.

Double basses vary greatly in weight. I had two for a while, one laminate, one carved and the laminate was considerably heavier even though they had almost identical dimensions. A friend of mine recently bought a new bass and it's heavier again than my old laminate, it's a real lump of a thing. Sounds great but I would not want to be lugging it around and I'm a good 6" bigger than him! So it might be worth you checking out some alternative basses to see if you can find something lighter. Unless you know that your existing bass is particularly light?

I used to know their sister, she would always be trying to get me drunk. True story.

Yeah I've never had a problem buying and selling on here. I had one item poorly (terribly, actually) packed and arrived damaged (or it was already damaged and the seller didn't mention it), and I had one item arrive that had some very strange idiosyncrasies that I was surprised the seller hadn't mentioned, but I've bought and sold loads of stuff on here over the years and the number of users who've been complete gents far outweighs those two slightly substandard traders.

[quote name='Kev' timestamp='1404578047' post='2493898'] And I clicked on this expecting to read about someone else who has sold all their basses and bought a Precision....[/quote] Haha, same here. We've been here too long.