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    John Entwistle

    in General Discussion

    Posted

    2 hours ago, Beedster said:

     

    There is nothing quite like his late 60's/early 70's tone, for me it started to go away a little when he moved towards more specialised instruments - to my mind in the mid-late 60's he was teasing better tones of out his Precisions than most players were 10 years later getting out of their Alembics - and his skill and creativity on what many consider quite a crude instrument puts him and Jamerson in the same camp; genius creative technicians, in short virtuosos. Yep, there were other good players, Macca was solid and had some lovely lyrical moments, Jaco was the Paganini of bass but a very acquired taste musically, and then...... well who else was there in the late 60's/early 70's? OK, loads of highly competent touring and session players, but Entwistle was one of a very small band of bass players who turned bass into a virtuoso instrument. 

     

    Oddly enough, from that period, 'Happy Jack' popped up on my YouTube feed today. JE sounded very tight, controlled and very much like the session players of the time - Really attacking the note.

     

    I presume he was playing a Precision Bass.

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    Heads up! Great VST deals spotted

    in Recording

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    I downloaded this a couple of days ago, and yes, it's excellent, as is 'Supermassive'.

    I'm working on a Sound Design & Transitions project for someone at the moment and I have found a use for 'SpaceBlender' already.

     

    Defiantly worth downloading, as is the Valhalla reverb/delay FX.

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    New 'Phones

    in Recording

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    My oldest boy has a pair and he let me use them for the day, I was quite impressed. I'm actually contemplating getting myself a pair.

    The online reviews are always pretty good when it comes to the sound quality of the *'Phones*.

     

    My boy also has the RØDE NTH-Mic attachment that plugs into one of the two sockets on the phones. That is very good quality as well.

    He uses that for just about everything he does online. I think he paid just under £50 for the mic.

     

     

    Has any Song Totally Defeated You?

    in General Discussion

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    On 13/04/2025 at 15:26, itu said:

    MM starts his solo @ 2.50. I didn't make it when my teacher gave it to me 30 years ago.

     

     

    When that album came out, I couldn't stop playing it. 

    Friends & Strangers was also the first Bass solo I ever transcribed.

    I had gone over it so many times; it eventually fell naturally under my fingers.

     

    It's a lovely, melodic solo from a young Marcus. Very lyrical.

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    Music documentaries

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    This is a documentary on YouTube from one day of the studio sessions for the Netflix comedy film, 'Bank Of Dave 2'.

    Media composer, Christain Henson', videoed some bits and pieces, including the scoring and him getting stressed out. It's about 35 minutes long.

    There is a bit of swearing here and there:

    :D

     

     

     

     

     

    Your BASS or Guitar player Influences

    in General Discussion

    Posted

    1 hour ago, diskwave said:

    Scott Edwards (Philly session player)

    Ronnie Baker  (ditto)

     

     

    Two giants of groove, soul and disco music (Scott Edwards also played on a fair amount of TV themes out in LA). The number of chart-topping tunes they played on certainly gave Jamerson and the likes a run for their money.

    Incredible achievements by both, and they both had a terrific feel for the above genres. If you played in a disco band back then, you would almost certainly be playing plenty of their Bass lines.

    I learned so much by transcribing and playing their contributions in various bands I was in during that golden period.

     

     

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    Virtual Drummist Plugin Recommendations

    in Recording

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    Both Cubase and Studio One have their own Drum VSTI's which come with Midi patterns and various styles that you can use or customise. You can also program your own rhythms and grooves.

    They are sample based so you can also drag and drop/import any external drum audio files you may have to make custom kits.

     

    All versions of Cubase have Groove Agent 5SE. Cubase Pro14 also has a drum machine and a pattern editor.

    Studio One has Impact XT and a pattern editor.

    Heads up! Great VST deals spotted

    in Recording

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    4 hours ago, SumOne said:

    I'm getting into VSTs for playing live (well, right now just at home practice but considering doing it live via 'Gig Performer' hosting). So I'm looking for simple stompbox emulations, low CPU  use, low latency...and ideally low cost!

     

    So far I've found a few decent free ones that don't ask you for email address/signup spamming and have not infected my Laptop with viruses:

     

    • TAL have a free Juno 60 type chorus, simple and sounds great.
    • Mercuriall have decent free Tubescreamer, Chorus, and a few more guitar related things.
    • Valhalla have some excellent free reverb, echo, delays.

     

    • And this needs email signup: Auditory for a Phase 90/45, 10 band Graphic EQ, and 'Dr Drive', all are very good.

     

    I feel I might be pushing my luck to do more internet digging and downloading random Zip files, so recommendations to legit stuff would be good. Any more out there that you'd recommend?

     

    I have spent on a couple of things, Moog are doing the MF 101 for $29 (about 60% off), I've just bought that and it seems great - probably better than any multi-fx or pedal I've used for those sounds.

     

     

     

        

    'Magic7 Reverb' by Wave Alchemy - It's a free VST and it's based on the Bricasti M7 reverb. Very light on CPU and sounds very good.

     

    Magic7 | Free M7 Reverb Plugin

     

     

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