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Just a wee thought, 90% of professional bands don't play their own songs the same live as what they recorded.

If it's a straight copy of each song then listen to the song & it's arrangement & break it down & pop onto web & get the chord arrangement (chordie or 911 tabs, etc). Learn the original bassline & then take your own spin on it if you want. If it's not a straight copy then get the rest of the band, find out the arrangement & chords used & make sh!t up.

+1 on the grill, looks similar to the Markbass grills. Spray it black (primer it first).

+1 to all the guys who suggest getting a cheap starter pack. Doesn't have to be the squire one tho (I'm not a Fender fan I'm afraid), but any cheap second hand Ibanez or Rockbass will get you started for £1-200 & you can get a cheap combo for next to nothing that'll be fine for bedroom use until you decide if bass is or isn't for you. Have a look in the For Sale sections on here, there's some good starter stuff for not a lot of money. Personally I wouldn't spend too much to start with & then if you like it you can put what you saved towards a better combo or whatever.

Hi, I managed to get a quick recording of it & have put it in the review section as part of my existing review. Might be what you're looking for, or it might not be. Can get some good Synth like sounds with it as well as 70's funky wah.

I've now gotten the EP2 expression pedal & the FS1 footswitch. I use the FS1 just for tap tempo on the Bass MuRF but my drummer can't get his head around playing in time with something (I guess this is a common drummer issue ) so it gets used mainly in my acoustic band (no drummer there, you see). The EP2 I mainly use on the MF101 & usually have it in the AMOUNT input, but also like using it in the CUTOFF input & I'm seriously considering getting a 2nd pedal or making a footswitch to switch between the two. Most of the time I have the filter set to 4-pole as I like the sub sounds I can get. Here's the EP2 being used on the MF101... [attachment=20344:Exp_on_101.mp3] I started with a bit of bass in Bypass mode & then I'm using the pedal on the Envelope Amount & had the filter set to 2-pole for a brighter sound (I think I did anyway). The next part is using the EP2 on the Filter Cutoff. First on 4-pole & then on 2-pole. This is just my bass (Ibby SR100) plugged into the MF105b set to bypass (which is true BP) then into the MF101 (which doesn't have true BP) then straight into the back of my iMac & recorded into Garageband 08.

The main purpose of the recordings is to get gigs. So far I've had nothing back, but I have only tried the Perth area.

Moogerfooger mf101 with an expression pedal (or two) is very controllable. Some 101's buzz a bit but you can fix this by shielding the insides of the wood panels with copper sheet. I'll get some samples up using the ep in my review later.

When I export (share) as a wav (or mp3) in GB it does lose a lot of top end. The mixes on myspace was finished off in Audacity, I only used GB to fix mistakes & line up tracks so they all started at the same time & then exported each individually (which seemed to keep the clarity there) as a wav & put them all into Audacity & balanced them off in there before mixing down in Audacity.

I use GB '08.

[quote name='stingrayfan' post='409318' date='Feb 14 2009, 11:30 AM']You can switch this off though and bounce down to CD quality. Deselect "compress" when you click on the "Send to iTunes" tab on "Share".[/quote] I thought that, cause I had done that with tracks that arn't on Myspace, didn't sound any better tho. Does it convert the wav files to MP3 for individual tracks to start with tho as opposed to what you export it as?

It did all start off on an Alesis HD, not sure if it is the 24 tho. I've downloaded Reaper & had 5 mins on it so far & it sounds much better already. It is more a case of getting things to "gel together" & sound like a finished song as opposed to high sound quality, but I suppose they go hand in hand. When I get some time I'll get the wavs for one of the tracks uploaded somewhere & post a link. G

Most cuntry music is the same old bollo*s as the last one, but there is one or two that are gems, but that is literally ONE or TWO! My singer is Canadian & we have an AltDot band & he's tried introducing a couple of cuntry style songs to us that he's written & we end up trying to make it as uncuntry as much as we can. I go to Vegas nearly every December & they have the rodeo on (another pile of crap) & all you get is cuntry music with cowboy hats & tassles & we get thrown out of casinos for taking the mick. Good fun indeedy I do like Steve Earl tho, Copperhead Road is a great album. shitnia twain I can't stand!

I was just thinking, "there's a lot of good stuff in the for sale section". I bought new only because the other half wont allow me to buy s/h electrical goods. I used to all the time before I met her too as I love to take things apart!

I was planning on spending about £6-700 last year & quickly found out that I was very limited. Best thing I found was slightly over budget but got it & that was the MB cmd102p 2x10 combo. was thinking about Ashdown & Ampeg & GK, was very unimpressed with the first two & never got to try the GK but lightness won the day & I'm now a very happy chappy.

Thanks for all the advice here, it's all good stuff. I know GB isn't a great bit of software (I used to use Reason 2.5 & Cubase 5.1 when I had a PC) but I've heard better results than what I've gotten. Reaper looks like a good bit of kit, so I'll give that a try. But I do need to get something decent like Logic or Ableton. I'll have a look at finding what places I can get some space to upload MP3s of files like cheddatom suggests (Reverbnation comes to mind) if anybody want's a mess with them. Cheers G

Cheers, That link gave for some good reading & shall have another go from scratch & see how things turn out. The Alesis HD does have an excellent sound quality, it's just too complex for it's own good & we lost stuff on it (the engineer said he's gonna get a tekky to try & get the other 3 tracks off it). I did read some stuff on finalising the mix using compression, eq & reverb & I put a touch of these onto the overall mix which has me wondering, if there is something peaking like an occasional drum, would this cause the compressor to keep the volume down? I could apply a touch of compression to all tracks individually to stop peaks & see if that will make a difference. G

My rock band recorded a few songs several months ago in a studio. We mic'd up the drum kit & the guitar amps & I DI'd straight from my amp to the mixer & recorded the instruments & then did a separate take for the vocals (so the vocal mic didn't get bleed). We went thru a mixer straight onto an Alesis HD recorder (A big complex heap of sh!te). I then got all the individual tracks & proceeded to mix them in Garageband & Audacity (it was losing top end when mixing down in GB) & have spent ages on these but they still don't sound right & not anything like we do when playing live or in rehearsals. Could anyone take a listen & tell me where I'm going wrong? I've heard loads of other folks stuff mixed in GB & it sounded good but I just can't seem to get this right & I'm wondering if it's just cause I've heard the songs so much. Here's our MySpace link, all 4 songs was done on the same day. [url="http://www.myspace.com/frigorific"]http://www.myspace.com/frigorific[/url] It also seems to be a bit low in volume compared to other stuff too & I keep trying to get the volume up without peaking. Should I pop some compression on each track to level everything? The initial recordings I got was all really low in volume. Am I trying to polish a jobby & should we go to a different studio & redo it all? Cheers, G

I'd go just wearing speedos & goggles, & maybe flippers if it's raining.

Very nice indeed. On Bass Direct's website it says the rrp is just over £1400, but on Thomann's their price is over £1800! I understand that this might have something to do with € - £ exchange but £400 difference? WTF.

[quote]No, I'm absolutely wonderful at bass, so I decided that the larger guitar community should benefit from my greatness.[/quote] Fair enough. But the world does need more great bassists & there's already billions (in the astronomical term) of great guitarists (me being one of them). On another note about good service tho. I recently called DV247 for some advice on a couple of products & get a very good service & they price matched & then knocked the postage off. Sounds Live didn't have what I was looking for but I did try them as well.

Sound desk is a skill in itself, especially if the gitter is like the one in my rock band, can never play at a steady volume & constantly plays over the vocals instead of with them or between them, and then when it's time for a solo, he's run out of steam! He is good at hooklines & as he is really a folk gitterer we forgive him. But the singer is gonna get control of the volume pedal for him! :brow: I'm enjoying playing gitt on a couple of tracks in my altDot band (BigRoom) & have dropped bass in a couple more to get the singer/gitter to play banjo or trumpet (the ukeist is sh!te on gitt as has no dynamic concept, a bit like my rock gitter).

"Bass is cr*p", don't you mean you're cr*p at bass? I'm kinda the opposite from you, converted to bass from guitar (converted from keys to guitar before that) but I still play whatever instrument I can as it's good fun to be able to play several. I've looked at Soundslive before & never heard any bad reports about them so I may give them a try for my next purchase. I've no idea what that is yet tho!

Hi, I got a few books in the 80's about all sorts of techniques & one had Bill Sheehan talking about how he would put his middle finger over his index finger to tap as it would give more pressure onto the "tap". I used to do this but as I got better at the technique I found I crossed my fingers less & less. A lot of tapping in the vein of what Mr Hamm is doing requires turning the volume up louder than what you would have it for "normal" playing (you can see him do this on the Japan vid) as to hear the hammered on notes clearer with left & right hands & learn to have a more lighter touch than you would for most other styles. He's still some player! Hope this info assists you a little. G

I'd say sell the lot & buy a multi fx pedal :ph34r: Only kidding. I would probably put the tuner before the akai if you're going into PA as well, this way if you want to mute then it's gonna mute the PA signal as well. As for where you put all the pedals, I'd mess about until you find the desired effect or one that you really like the sound of. This can take bloody ages tho hence your post I suppose.