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Never tried the Orange rigs, but I'd happily suggest trying MarkBass gear. Used mine in church many times. If you need a bit of valve sound, then get either a LMT or a TTE, or add a pre pedal.

Sack the drum machine & stick a DAW on your computer. Download some drum loops of various styles & that's you sorted for simple or complex grooves. You can record the rest of the song in here too. If you're still wanting to go with the drum machine, then you need to think like a drummer. Listen to songs with a similar feel or drum style & try recreating the basics of it on the drum machine. Start with just the kick & snare, then add the hats, etc.

A reversible way would be to get a little masking tape, put a small piece over the led & cut around the tape with a Stanley or craft knife.

It gets my vote too. Well done to Bleat. Cracking tune. I enjoyed listening to the others too & it would have been hard to choose just one. Looking forward to this mumph's comp. Cracking pic.

I see lots of taxis, lots of colour & lots of movement. I've got my basic idea in my head already.

I've sold all my fx & my rig. Kept my bass which has now been in it's case for about a year. Playing about with Korg Gadget for my musical fixes.

Taxman is an old fave of mine. Simple bassline to start off & then gets a good workout.

Ooh! How about that. I was letting the Mrs hear this album for her first time 2 nights ago. Got an excuse to play it again tonight. Class album.

If you're struggling to hear a song's relation to the picture, read Dad's "Play of the day' reviews. For mine, the chords represent the Pistons chuggng, with the faint ride cymbal to represent the steam from them. The hi hats were to represent the train track sounds & the < > crash to represent a big billow of steam There's a repetitive train whistle in there (which does eventually go, only to return later) & the rest of the song was to make it feel as though there was a heavy load being pulled. Well that was my idea behind it. That track would never have come to be without the pic. I'm pretty sure all the other composers could tell a similar story.

I've just not long sold my CMD102p to a fellow BC member. The only reason I sold it was because I no longer play. If I do, I'd more than likely buy the same combo again. It's very much a "what you put in, comes out louder" combo. The filters are very useable & it's probably the loudest 2x10 I've ever played through (the B&C drivers have a fair bit of excursion & being yellow, you get to see them move). I never needed an extension cab for any of the gigs that I did & it never felt pushed. Also at 19kg, it's an easy 1 hand carry.

Thanks Dad. I know this style of stuff isn't to everyone's cuppa, so your feedback is most welcome. I've always been one for making things a bit too long or repetitive (or both). I'll take your advice & see if I can apply it in the next composition.

That's me finally gotten through them all & there's some truly fantastic tracks here. I'm glad it's "choose 3" as It would be really hard to choose just one (it was hard enough picking 3!). Nice work all. I'm looking forward to seeing what's in store for next month now. This month's pic would have been a good entry for the Feb photo comp. The train has a smiley:)

Same here. I've never had a chance to read these before, but this makes me want to listen to the tracks (which I was going to do later today & tomorrow. Nice one Dad!

Oooh. I'm looking forward to listening to this month's entries & also intrigued to see what the voting system is.

I wasn't happy with mine, the bassline and the outro got too boring. Happier now, but I wish I could sing. How much better it would be with some vocals. https://soundcloud.com/xgsjx/ivor-revisited

[quote name='Samfordia' timestamp='1423945303' post='2690795'] This looks like something I need to read, thanks. I mean, I can't think of anything else I should be doing on 14th February! [/quote] A chap once said "these women are all very well, but you can't beat the real thing". I need to go. The Mrs is giving me funny looks. :s

It might be worth your while going for a read at Shep's blog (a fellow BCer). http://sheponbass.co.uk/blog/?category=Signal+Chain+BASSics Start from the bottom. He goes over just about every type of effect there is (The Moog Bass Murf isn't there, but if you want one of those, you'll know what it does). Have fun.

That's the funny thing about music. Different people like different stuff. As a musician, I try to listen to as wide a range of genres as possible. I could easily have chosen something from Holst, Miles Davis, Jean Michel Jarre or Technotrax. Some of you lot do like some crap, mind. Only kidding, I couldn't resist.

Oi! NO. If you choose more than 1, then it's gonna take forever to get through the list!!! Ok then, here's another from me that you really need to listen to. When I started listening to each song, I thought "this is guff". But as with every single song on the album, at the end of each one I thought "that songwriting is pure genius! So get your Deezer or Spotify opened & put on Talking Heads 77.

[quote name='Maude' timestamp='1423772937' post='2688962'] Just too many to choose a favourite but one album I absolutely love from my teens is Disintegration by The Cure, perfection in every way. [/quote] That's another album I was listening to just a few nights ago. Some of the basslines are just so much fun to play. Fascination Street being a prime example.

[quote name='Skol303' timestamp='1423695886' post='2688147'] Good thread! And great suggestions already Does 1992 count as bygone? If so mine would be the unimaginatively entitled 'Selected Ambient Works' by Aphex Twin. http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Selected_Ambient_Works_85–92 Not to everyone's taste for sure. But an important album for me and one that triggers a whole bunch of memories whenever I put it on. I wore out my original vinyl copy and bought it again quite recently at a much inflated price. [/quote] I actually listened to that album 2 weeks ago, for the 1st time too!

[quote name='ambient' timestamp='1423695573' post='2688144'] The beginning of ambient music - [url="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wG03l_fMI70"]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wG03l_fMI70[/url] Eno was in bed recovering from a motor accident. A friend had given him an album of harp music as a gift which he struggled out of bed to play. He got back into bed to listen to the record, only to find that the volume on the record player was turned right down. Lacking the energy to get back out of bed, he was forced to lie there and listen to the barely audible music. This was a revelation to him, a new way of hearing music - as part of the ambience of the environment. [/quote] I've been listening to Apollo in bed this past few months (falling asleep to it). Gonna give that album a turn.

Having listened to a couple of classic albums from my childhood that haven't been listened to for well over a decade, I thought I'd start a thread to uncover things we should all hear from our past. Simple rules. Post One of the albums that you loved from bygone. Doesn't matter if that's from 5 or 50 years ago. Something that we should listen to from start to finish, even if we've heard it before. Do it again & appreciate it. Mine's an album that I loved from the days of cassettes and records. So after much humming & haaing, I give you New Gold Dream by Simple Minds Mr Forbes was (& still is) a cracking bassist & there's even an appearance from Herbie Hancock.

Here's my entry. Made entirely on the iPad using Korg Gadget. https://soundcloud.com/xgsjx/ivor

Just been having a listen to the entries. Good interpretations of the picture. All different from what I envisioned, but that's the beauty of music. Mine's almost done, it's just getting time to do a little her & there & get the iPad off the Mrs. I'm gonna get back to it just now.