tayste_2000

[quote name='Wolverinebass' post='968727' date='Sep 26 2010, 07:40 PM']I then turn up and go for a jam. The guitarist says I'm playing the "wrong" notes as I'm playing the D an octave higher up. I could go on about this but if they had told me they wanted someone who had a bass with only 1 string I would have said "no thanks." It's not about scores or whatever, it's about people saying one thing and doing another.[/quote] Some would argue that you can put your own stamp on the track, just in the correct register it was written in. I'm currently working through some songs for a band that have a heavy dropped tuning and lots of open string riffage, very similar to Tool but it evolves all the way through the song instead of being a fairly repetative unison riffage. Now I'm learning it note for note from the notation they supplied even down to playing the notes on the correct string for example their tuning is GCGCF and I'm riffing away around the 5th and 7th fret on the higher G string then suddenly I have to jump to low down on the lower C string then up to the 8th fret on the low G String, now I could redo this so my hand is in a pretty static position but it doesn't sound right using thinner strings for these particular notes. It may sound pedantic but it works for what they are doing and they are very tone concious. When I go to the audition I'm going to take my 8x10, 200w tube head, Overwater 5 string tuned GCGCF and my Rickenbacker 4003 Tuned CGCF now it maybe I end up retuning the Overwater to GDCGF as apparently they have songs in this tuning but so far I've not come across them. I will likely end up using a smaller cab in future but I've done my research and its very likely they are massively loud so I'm making sure I take the right tool for the job, I'll also be taking my Line 6 M13 with a bunch of FX I've preprogrammed up to suit their music but it will only be getting stepped on if they ask me to, i.e something is pointed out as missing to my sound. It sounds like your auditioning for the wrong things initially and secondly you aren't willing to just play what is required to get the job done, I mean are the songs you are learning for the audition the only songs they do? Will they never do anymore ever? What's to say if you like the people and like the music that you won't get to put your stamp on it in future writing sessions? When we auditioned 2 new guitarist both of them had to play the songs note for note, why? because they were the album tracks from the album we released in Japan, it is what it is and it's essentially set in stone. However since they've been in the band we've written the 2nd album and its massively different, much heavier. much more the direction we wanted to move in and they facilitated this in the music they brought to the band and neither of them were told what to play or were told to play things simply. Hope this helps

Bit of a tweak to make the pt jr more workable with the m13. Basically it sits in the loop and depending on the scene the loop moves. The boss expr can be used as an expr on the m13 or when just using the pt jr I just add a patch lead between it and the Prometheus and voila volume pedal. Signal chain is Bass - M13 - M13 Loop ( Kimbara/Shin Ei Wah - Fredric Effects Unpleasant Companion - Subdecay Proteus - Subdecay Tomato Fuzz - Mojohand 442 Red - Subdecay Prometheus) - Out of M13 in stereo - Left to amp passive input, right to Trace Elliot TVT9 Or at home into the different channels on the Dynacord MV15 I use for home practice, but basically all effects into a clean channel and a dirty channel at the same time. Some times I'll place a volume pedal before the dirt pre so I can blend it in and out of the signal. Having a lot of fun with this at the moment, got a lot of oddly placed dirts and mod effects.