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[quote name='charic' timestamp='1368105339' post='2073261'] 2 weeks left! You pansy! I done mine in 4 days [/quote] [quote name='charic' timestamp='1368105381' post='2073263'] I'm not a music teacher so I'm not a good candidate for your survey [/quote] Is there a correlation here?

[quote name='grenadilla' timestamp='1368047057' post='2072608'] How did he get that distortion? Is it a Vox amp cranked with a bit of speaker distortion? What speakers and how long before they were blown out? Would you loan him an amp? [/quote] http://www.chrissquire.com/technotes

[quote name='Clarky' timestamp='1368043823' post='2072563'] Cheers Nige, Karl, Jack and Ray! I've been champing at the bit for us to release this as I'm so excited by it (it was recorded and mixed over summer and autumn 2012 but only recently mastered) [/quote] I get really impatient waiting to release our things into the wild

Clarky, it's superb mate! I really like the song, the vocals are really well recorded, great mix and recording in general, I love the trippy surf reverb. The snare work is f***ing crisp! And yer man makes my guitar sound wicked Bass is excellent in the way that I hardly noticed it was there, it makes the song sound better without being obtrusive and part of that is in the perfect timing, but when I hear it I really like it, it's a rich, warm texture. I like the spaghetti western kinda vibe too. It's really lovely mate, you should be well proud of this.

Just had a proper listen to HOTS in the OP, it's wonderful! Thanks for a great find.

[quote name='spongebob' timestamp='1368029839' post='2072281'] Good call. [b]I was warming up for a gig on Sunday - ran through a few of my own lines, and then played the main riff from 'Tempus Fugit'.[/b] Unbelievably, a fellow bassist from the previous band (very nice chap) came across, and recognised the line instantly! First time I've jammed a Yes bassline, and had it noticed! Nobody noticed my own lines though, probably as the last bands' records sold about 3 copies....... [/quote] ahaha, I do that too Never had anyone recognise it though.

[quote name='steve-bbb' timestamp='1367995461' post='2071945'] which bit ? [/quote] The best example is at 4:26 on the video, it's just a little connecting run that sounds so lovely and liquid and effortless. He does it slightly differently each time and it's things like that which set apart the really great nuanced players from the plodders and imitators. It's a bitch to get even close to sounding good, I emailed him about it but got no reply of course [url="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iN4m4v06e_s"]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iN4m4v06e_s[/url]

[quote name='Conan' timestamp='1368025392' post='2072207'] I'm quite a big Muse fan, and I especially like the drummer. Think I'll go and listen to the Origin of Symmetry right now in fact. When I'm in the mood, I like to Pop a Dom CD in.... [/quote] I need a song off that album, Feeling Good, we're covering it for a wedding gig on Saturday. If I send you a fiver will you rip us a copy on your CD Bhuna please?

[quote name='charic' timestamp='1368024412' post='2072184'] If we link this with the curry thread we could call it the "Saag Bast*rd" [/quote] No mate, you're thinking of the Auto-Paneer

[quote name='charic' timestamp='1368024074' post='2072175'] That's it, I'm changing my life goals. You heard it here first folks.... I'm going to make "The Bouncinator"! [/quote] Call it the 'Sag Bastard' and I'll have one.

[quote name='Dave Vader' timestamp='1368024140' post='2072177'] Everyone knows black USB sticks sound better. [/quote] They are the best sticks for metal.

[quote name='skankdelvar' timestamp='1368023532' post='2072168'] Oh, I is all in favour of [i]everything[/i]. Chacun a son gout, one man's floor, let freedom ring, give me beer or give me death, etc. [/quote] I KNEW your lyrics would be ace!

[quote name='charic' timestamp='1368022651' post='2072148'] Christ... can you imagine gearspotting a Kemper... "What USB stick is he using?" "The Red One" "We think thats an SVT clone on that one don't we?" [/quote] 'Yeah but it just don't have that valve 'bounce' does it. That's the main problem wiv all this digital sh*t'

[quote name='skankdelvar' timestamp='1368023257' post='2072160'] Certainly. They'd want to know which bits of analogue kit the patch was modelled upon even though they'd never heard the real thing. [/quote] Unless prejudice got in the way

[quote name='Twigman' timestamp='1368022702' post='2072150'] Really? Hadn't really noticed. Do I really seem that paranoid? Scotch & Ginger, ta, a large one [/quote]

[quote name='Twigman' timestamp='1368022224' post='2072136'] your point? Try it, it works.... For years I've been trying to get fills to sound more natural.......drummers, in reality tend to pause before they start a roll...they've been 'in the groove' and then realise sh*t I have to do something else and it always happens 'late'.... [/quote] Yeah, I've been programming drums since the HR16, it took f***ing ages to get natural feel, but I use EZDrummer now and it's really easy, it's very human to start with. Maybe Milty is using Ultrabeat, I've only dicked around with it for a few hours, it seems like an amazing piece of kit, but I haven't done a rock drum track in earnest so I can't say how natural it sounds.

[quote name='Twigman' timestamp='1368022224' post='2072136'] your point? [/quote] Drummers thinking. Mate, I know we don't get on, but not everything I write is having a pop at you, you know. If we ever meet I'll get the beers in.

[quote name='Twigman' timestamp='1368016811' post='2072059'] what samples are you using? I find it best using a drum sample player that uses layered samples so that at differing velocities different samples play. [Battery3 for electronic sounding / Superior Drummer2 for acousticdrums] I also find that varying the velocity to reflect how a drummer hits his skins then adds a groove/ vibe to it - this will only work if the kit you play uses velocity layered samples.. Also vary the timing slightly as not all drummers are metronomic. There a few other tricks especially when it comes to getting fills to sound natural...eg put the fill 15ticks (of 960) late...[b]this reflects the drummer's 'thinking time'....[/b] Edit: oh and ghost notes make it sound more real and balancing the close and room mics (assuming your sample player has them) will probably create enough reverb in itself.. [/quote]

Does this gear obsession (other than the bass itself) only extend to analogue kit? If the musician was using digital modeling equipment like Axe FX, POD, Kemper, etc. would anyone give a f***?

Listening to again now, it's f***ing great Love The Clash section that starts at 1:28, and the section at 2:34 and ends at the metal part.

Did you hear the African-American gentleman witness on the news? Said hew knew something was up when he saw a pretty little white girl run into the arms of a black man I thought that was brilliant.

Awesome! I wish I could find Tempus Fugit isolated. There's a fabulous bit in there that I can't work out how he executed. Very weird.

[quote name='skankdelvar' timestamp='1367945154' post='2071396'] Maybe, C**tyb******s, but the guy who sold Jaco his #1 Jazz categorically states* that the woolly-hatted one rammed two whole packs of Golden Grahams up the truss rod channel to improve tuning stability. [size=2]* See page 92 of '1001 facts about Jaco's gear that'll make you gouge your own eyes out' (Random House)[/size] . [/quote] Well Mr Ringjob, I saw Jaco down the King's Bellend last week and he quietly told me he made that sh*t up because the '80s were not very LGBT friendly. Golden Graham was actually his 'friend', and Jaco stuffed his trussrod up GG's channel to improve his emotional stability.

[quote name='skankdelvar' timestamp='1367941752' post='2071299'] Idle curiosity? A desire to know stuff so that one may draw upon said knowledge when circumstances demand? Mayhap they heard Mr P's bass sound upon an enchanted evening and thought 'That's one [i]spicy [/i]meatball - rush me the appropriate combination within 28 days, no refunds, E&OE'. Which would be entirely understandable, given the general Quest For Tone round here. And from who better might one elicit this intelligence than the Original Player? Saves all those gruesome threads where - for example - people speculate about whether Jaco stuffed his control cavity with Rice Krispies (yes he did, no he didn't, yes he did, IBTL, I've got pix, no, those are Fruitloops, f**k off you c**t, etc) [/quote] It was Golden Nuggets you fackin mappit.