DanOwens

Check out [url="http://www.thebrokendoor.co.uk"]www.thebrokendoor.co.uk[/url] for more info. I doubt many BCers live in Wigan and of the ones that do I doubt they'll come down but if this boosts our site traffic or gets people to search for us on [url="http://www.myspace.com/thebrokendoor"]myspace[/url] and listen to the tunes, or even follow us on [url="http://www.twitter.com/thebrokendoor"]twitter[/url] then my band will be placated and everyone will be happy!! Dan

One of my students has asked me to go over his Grade 3 theory for his exam in the next few weeks. I don't know what board he's doing but I was wondering if anyone had any past papers or tips that I could pass on to him for it. My knowledge of the subject is sound but not the exam. Ta.

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Isn't it an in-joke for all us Curb Your Enthusiasm fans? Either that or he really is selling it like a Brit rather than an American: "This is our new product. It is acceptable." ^_^ Dan

[quote name='silddx' post='722340' date='Jan 23 2010, 05:20 PM']Yeah, thanks mate, nice one. You owe me £25 for a new keyboard, unless you fancy spending an afternoon cleaning the puke off it for me. I was just about to serve dinner aswell. Swinehund![/quote] If you want I can disguise the pukespray by airbrushing a star exploding on top of it? You wouldn't be able to type, but then you wouldn't be able to inspire me to search for the worst examples of guitar airbrushing and therefore waste my valuable time. PS:

I AGREE!!!

BP88 - I know I PMd you but now I understand the context of your message. Playing pitch to midi can be a hassle, but the benefits of triggering a MicroKorg live are worth it. I watch the midibass demos with people playing flutes and pianos and I laugh. Pitch to midi is so you can make HUGE sub sounds. Also, if I had the cash to invest another grand in my rig, I'd find a way to split my 13-pin signal and feed a V-Bass unit as well as my pitch-to-midi setup. I had a play and some of the synth sounds are incredible. Dan

Yamaha Clickstation is my favourite metronome for any drummer. It has a MIDI-In so can take MIDI Time Code and still allow your player to alter subdivisions and levels; plus it has a Aux-In so your drummer can use it as an In-Ear-Monitor Mixer. That's what my drummer uses. He bought the Tama Rhythm-Watch because the Yamaha is discontinued, but it has no MIDI-In and the display isn't backlit (handy for a dark stage). He eventually found a Yamaha and now the band are all MIDI-Synched (Arpeggiators and Tremolos galore!). Dan

I use a TC Helicon Voicetone Synth that includes Vocoders and autotune.

[quote name='MythSte' post='702378' date='Jan 6 2010, 01:01 AM']Thanks for the compliments! I dont envy those of you that are trying to do all the low end duty on Bass guitar only. I certainly wouldnt have fancied it... Get yourselves a microkorg and double up![/quote] I pitch-to-midi my bass signal and double everything I play but still do everything on the bass guitar. Sick!

Phantom screenprint. Awesome service and product at a great price. All my bands use them now! Dan

I totally agree with you, Ste. When you listen to DnB, the sounds that occupy the lower end of the spectrum are constantly changing and morphing, and there's lots of them! That's why I use multilayers, because I'm effectively reinforcing sounds that I create on-the-fly. TheBrokenDoor is improvised but if it wasn't my setup would be simpler and i'd be playing to preprogammed stuff. Dan

Hey Zach, send me some details and I'll see what I can do. I'm a music teacher and regularly put on/help out with under 18s gigs. Re: FX - What I've got has taken about 6 years to amass; no-one gets this overnight but Basschat is a wealth of info, and I'd be glad to help out where I can. Happy New Year! Dan

Check out my band thebrokendoor on myspace and spotify. I use a parallel splitter, one layer is octave > fuzz > chorus > lpf (controlled by expression pedal) > tube distorion > delay. The pedals are OC2, Wooly Mammoth, CEB3, MF101, DHA VT2 Dual, DL4. That'll get you a few different usable sounds, and you can probably try some combinations on a multifx. My layers are: 1. Board as above. 2. Adrenalinn 2 3. Pitch to midi controlling MicroKorg 4. Freqbox feeding customised Bass Microsynth It can lead to some serious subsonic annihilation!

[quote name='thisnameistaken' post='695697' date='Dec 29 2009, 04:26 PM']I haven't tried this pedal but I wouldn't run a tremolo on bass without tap tempo. It's such a destructive effect, I don't think it works unless you can sync it to the song.[/quote] +1 - or with my bands' a midi sync. Although I think tremolo can be used in many ways, to me a sync'd stutter effect is the best thing about tremolo. Dan

Boss LS2 and GEB7. You set the pedal to A+B which is parallel. One loop you connect directly to itself, the other you put your GEB7 before your chorus and pull out all the low-end. There you have a splitter and mixer together and two parallel loops so effectively a blendable FX loop, and use the GEB as your cross-over. Dan

I couldn't do what I do without seperates. I used to use a pod but sonce going to seperates I have managed to realise my wacky imagination! For rock bass playing, though, I still resort to the pod ( a very simple multiFX. Dan

I guess a spring reverb might come close? I think Danelectro do one. Dan

Out of the box, but I bought a TC Helicon Voicelive Synth yesterday as my christmas treat. I love it!

I guess that something's got to give in a situation where someone has limited time and high R&D. I have had custom 1-offs by competent, well-regarded professionals that has not cut it in the real world, and whilst annoying, I tend to have sympathy for these people who are juggling too many commitments. I guess that what I'm trying to say is that if Barefaced are the high-quality products that a lot of BCers claim them to be, then this was a simple anomaly that Alex can learn from. This review would not, however, stop me from buying Barefaced. Dan

[quote name='BigRedX' post='677814' date='Dec 8 2009, 01:03 PM']A tuner isn't just for tuning up on stage. If you're doing your own setups you want the best you can get.[/quote] I agree. Also when you're playing along with a synth with strong fundamental content, you're tuning is actually noticeable. It's not like the audience are going to hear tuning issues and understand it, but they will hear what is right and what is wrong and tuning is a mathematical principle free from subjective assessment. You are in tune, or you're not but it doesn't matter that much. I'm usually in the latter category but every so often I regret not using a more accurate tuner. Dan

I generally do three takes. A very simple one, a very complicated one and one in the middle. The producer can then compose the bass part they want from my building blocks. Easy enough, and like others have said: "We get paid!!" Dan