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    Handedness and guitar (in general)

    in General Discussion

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    Mark King is left handed but plays right handed (The only {playing} thing I've got in common with him LOL)

    [url="http://status-graphite.com/status/stock/2008/mark/0956.jpg"]http://status-graphite.com/status/stock/2008/mark/0956.jpg[/url]

    [url="http://status-graphite.com/status/stock/2008/mark/0960.jpg"]http://status-graphite.com/status/stock/2008/mark/0960.jpg[/url]

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    Loop Pedal

    in Effects

    Posted

    Has anyone tried or got the line 6 JM4? it seems to have some good features & extras and it has recently come down to the price of the Boss & Digitech --- Not sure of the quality & sound though.

    Brendan

    What's the most over-rated bass, or bass related product???

    in General Discussion

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    [quote name='ianrunci' post='655072' date='Nov 15 2009, 11:18 AM'][color="#000000"][size=2]any strings over 15 quid, a complete con
    * Ampeg bass gear (three tone settings rock, rock and sh*te)
    * gay basses like jaydee, status wal ect
    * most high end bass cabs, you can have one built just as good for less than half the price
    * Six string basses, for god sake get a guitar
    * plectrum bass playing, clunk click clunk
    * Rickenbackers, the worst sounding basses ever invented

    [/size][/color][/quote]


    I have a couple of six string stati, my life partner is a Jaydee (see what I did there!), I love Rickenbackers & really enjoy (when appropriate) playing with a pick.

    I don't suppose we will be going on a date!

    But can you just help me lift my Bergantino into the car? :)

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    Status S2 for sale

    in Basses For Sale

    Posted

    QUOTE (Sibob @ Oct 28 2009, 02:37 PM)
    Crikey, it's Status exodus month

    Si

    [quote name='OutToPlayJazz' post='639593' date='Oct 28 2009, 11:30 PM']Not at my house, it ain't! :)[/quote]

    Yeah + 1 to that --- And as someone else said please buy this as it is way too tempting!!!

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    "The golden age of infinite music"?

    in General Discussion

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    [quote name='Rich' post='641060' date='Oct 30 2009, 01:22 PM']I come from the age of vinyl, like the author of that article -- when you went into town on Saturday afternoon with your few quid and scoured the record shops, coming home with 2,3, maybe 4 carefully selected albums. You put on an album, you listened to the whole thing, all the way through, carefully. Listened again. And again, if it really grabbed you. And again, if it was an instant classic. Back then I think I probably knew every lyric to every song on every album I owned, because music was very definitely finite and so we listened more carefully. Perhaps we even treasured it more?[/quote]

    +1 to that -- And you got a 12" piece of art to go with it...

    ... and the girl behind the counter at RE-cords in Burton-on-Trent was gorgeous...

    Yeah I'm old too!

    Brendan

    Mark King

    in General Discussion

    Posted · Edited by Sonic_Groove

    [quote name='GreeneKing' post='632168' date='Oct 21 2009, 10:29 AM']I agree, I loved his more melodic stuff, in fact I'm inclined to download an album now to listen to while I get some Uni work done today. My ex ended up with the vinyl, many moons ago.

    So what should it be? Running in the Family? In pursuit of Accidents?

    You could influence my decision here guys :)[/quote]

    The self titled Level 42 album (that spurred this thread) is a must for any music collection (even for those that "don't like Level 42"!) cool bass, throbbing Moog it's like Return to Forever with songs!

    Brendan

    Strange Power Socket

    in Amps and Cabs

    Posted

    I agree with all of the above (and I won't tell you how we used to power up domestic equipment that didn't have a lead!!!) apart from the get it replaced bit. I would decommission the unit (it is not as if it's an old AC30 or Marshall).
    If it's been standing in a cupboard you don't need it and H&H weren't "cool" even when the Floyd used them at Pompeii !

    Bin it save yourself the grief!

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    Machine Gun By The Commodores

    in General Discussion

    Posted

    Thanks Pete for rediscovering this gem. I have coped my 79p & downloaded it from iTunes. The bass line has got to be a synth there is an extended chord & glissando near the end that must be keyboard.

    As someone said earlier Stevie Wonder was using synths in early 1970 here is a youtube clip of [url="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wuaSzFf7yq0"]Stevie & TONTO (Clicky)[/url] --- Hippies gone Funky!!! Now I got to get me one of them!!! :)

    Brendan

    Machine Gun By The Commodores

    in General Discussion

    Posted

    [quote name='Pete Academy' post='627248' date='Oct 15 2009, 07:29 PM']I've always thought the bass part sounds too precise to be played by a human.[/quote]

    [url="http://www.flickr.com/photos/smason/142075706/sizes/l/"]http://www.flickr.com/photos/smason/142075706/sizes/l/[/url]

    :)

    Machine Gun By The Commodores

    in General Discussion

    Posted

    [quote name='Stingray5' post='626815' date='Oct 15 2009, 12:05 PM']Haha, beat me to it, but +1 to the above.
    In one of the bands I was in, back in the 70's, our keyboard player had one of the staple combination set-ups of the time: a Wurlitzer electric piano (later a Fender Rhodes) plus a Hohner D6 Clavinet. (I loved that sound). He then added one of the (then) new Korg synths. Can't remember the model but it was only monophonic. Not bad for solo's anyway. He 'upgraded' to a Moog.[/quote]


    Them were the day hey? Looking at your avatar I guess you like me also love the sound of the Melotron?

    I would love to work in a band with someone with one of those, but would hate to help them carry it!! :)

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    Machine Gun By The Commodores

    in General Discussion

    Posted

    [quote name='Pete Academy' post='626637' date='Oct 15 2009, 07:31 AM']I've always wondered how this amazing bass sound was achieved. Is it a synth? Surely they weren't using bass synths on record then...or am I wrong?

    [url="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ubd2uUPT5ww"]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ubd2uUPT5ww[/url][/quote]


    Most of the sounds were generated with one of these [url="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clavinet"]Clavinet[/url] Probably the bass line is tic/tak of Clav & real bass? (I can't hear it properly at moment I am on laptop speakers).


    Brendan

    Bruce Foxton - Even More Of A Genius Than I Thought

    in General Discussion

    Posted

    [quote name='tredders' post='624235' date='Oct 12 2009, 06:32 PM']Foxton's the reason I first played bass. I love his stuff - always lots going on, but most importantly, the bassline always fitted the song. Scrimped and saved when I was a kid to buy a jetglo Ric like the one he used on the Going Underground video. I can remember being horrified that I actually didn't sound exactly like him when I plugged it in, too :)

    Having been a fan since I was a kid, I think I can play *most* of his basslines.

    To add to the list of more obscure tracks with nice bass lines above: -

    All Mod Cons
    David Watts
    Mr Clean
    In the Crowd
    Butterfly Collector
    The Planner's Dream Goes Wrong

    To be honest, it's hard to find a Jam album without a couple of corking bass lines on!

    Mark.[/quote]


    Yep same here Bruce was my original personal development

    The Bass lines on such as:
    All Mod Cons
    Fly
    Butterfly Collector
    Funeral Pyre, Etc, Etc

    Would be great in any genera -- Listen to the live at the BBC stuff, when he steps back from his vocal mic & it picks up the spiting sounds of his Marshall stack, mixed with the close miked cab -- Sounds phenomenal.

    Bring back the late 70's!!! (I feel old now!!!)

    Brendan

    Effects into a separate Amp

    in Effects

    Posted

    [quote name='fretmeister' post='622325' date='Oct 10 2009, 11:11 AM']Then I went to Rig of Doom version 2:




    That was an Ampeg SVT BSP for the clean lows, and a Pod Pro XT for the Highs and FX - used each side of the Yamaha poweramp into Harke Pro 2200 2x12 cabs.

    Then I started to blend 4 tones, so I could have frequency specific drive. Dear god it was MASSIVE.[/quote]


    Wow it looks massive & cool. There are two pods aren't there? (one guitar one bass) did you blend them or run separate pick-ups amps?

    Have fun building your new one (and can you bring it round for the morons next door to me (I don't have neighbours) to hear?

    :)

    Brendan

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