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bobbass4k

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  1. Justin Chancellor Jeff Caxide Neil Mahony Steven Hodson Jon Ellis Troy Sanders Jesse F. Keeler Dominic Aitchison Scott Reeder Chris Wolstenholme
  2. [quote name='Myke' timestamp='1371068100' post='2109521'] I really love it! [/quote] Then you sir, are in for a treat. If you also like 3/4, power chords and 7 different time signatures in the space of 5 minutes you might want to sit down before listening to mine.
  3. Final pointless update from me: I've decided to track and mix mine after all, the technical problem appears to not be debilitating as i first thought and it's proving a nice distraction from giant black cloud hanging over my foreseeable future. Unfortunately I've reached that inevitable point where I've written a pretty good riff, but after listening to it over and over again I'm convinced I've subconsciously stolen it from somewhere. Oh well, hope you all like B minor...
  4. [quote name='discreet' timestamp='1370989312' post='2108471'] This is all academic, surely..? It's GREEN, ffs. [/quote] This. Why you'd take a lovely streamer and cover it green paint is beyond me.
  5. [quote name='Marvin' timestamp='1370976085' post='2108227'] I have nothing against the use of capo's per se. It's when I'm being told, insistently, that x chord is being played when it clearly isn't. Piss and boil etc etc. [/quote] All that fiddly music theory stuff annoys me, it just seems so unnecessary. Cb and Fb? Oh, you mean B and E? What do you mean they're not the same? Show me the Cb key on a piano that isn't also the B key, then I'll believe they're not the same.
  6. I use a capo on bass fairly often, does that make me some sort of malevolent goblin?
  7. There is, sounds perfect for me, but geography has conspired against us. Hope you find someone.
  8. Losers are streaming their new album for today only, I figured some of you may be interested: [url="http://www.rocksound.tv/features/article/losers?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=twitter&utm_campaign=rocksound"]http://www.rocksound...paign=rocksound[/url] Losers is one of the guys from Cooper Temple Clause, one of the guys from yourcodenameis:milo (and young legionnaire) and a DJ fellow, and it pretty much sounds like you'd expect those 3 things together to. Excellent stuff.
  9. Finished writing mine, but an unfortunate confluence of events means I won't get it all tracked and mixed. I might record the gp5 (it's how I write them) and put it up if I can muster the time and inclination.
  10. [quote name='SpaceChick' timestamp='1370499239' post='2101767'] "You can't sing, your singing is out of tune and you sound welshy.... Do you know I really don't like your singing voice. The mix is all over the place, it may sound better if you sort that out, but ultimately if you do, don't play it to me again as hearing it once was enough. It really is a depressing song you know. You aren't really going to enter it are you?" you sure you are ready for a female entry boys [/quote] Don't worry, mines going to be pretty gloomy too, and instrumentals are the way forward. Mine might sound interesting, provided you've never listened to ISIS....
  11. [quote name='Mornats' timestamp='1370347134' post='2099379'] I'm in for this one! It's been a while as I've been busy with my band but I've put something down that just needs tidied up. I think it was in me and was desperate to get out for a while as I got it down in a day It's snuck past the 5 min mark though and is 5:26 so far. How strict are we with this? I think I could cut it down... (if I remove all the bum notes I'd have it down to 0:26 hehe). And it has some Miroslav in it (As an aside, I need to fix a weird bug with Miroslav in Reaper. The Miroslav track sometimes cuts out the sound or leaves a note playing all through the track. It changes each time I play it... weird!) [/quote] One of mine was 6 minutes and I didn't even realize there was a time limit until I actually read the first post of next months thread properly, we're quite a laid back lot, I'd say you're fine. I had a bug with one of my VST's last month, it would occasionally, and completely at random, slip into horrendous feedback, or suddenly introduce a really piercing constant high note, but it was called "Element of Surprise" so I suppose I had it coming...
  12. Worryingly, I've already got the bones of an idea laid out, it usually takes longer...
  13. Hmm, I was planning on going heavy this month as my last two have been kind of quiet, it'll probably be kind of gloomy too for depressing reasons. I did decide I was going to do nice simple drums for once, no shifting poly-rhythms, no fancy snare stuff that takes 3 hours to program, and no 30 unique fills, unfortunately the idea I'm currently nursing probably involves a complex drum part, oh well.
  14. [quote name='discreet' timestamp='1370199210' post='2097529'] Er... ha, ha. [/quote] Entropy, it's just not what it used to be.
  15. Quite liked this weeks actually, the poet chap was excellent, more of that please. That is why Jools Holland is still worth watching. I honestly struggle to think of another TV show, or indeed any media outlet where you could see a young poet reciting intelligent, well crafted verse in a lovely lyrical drawl, and then cut to Liam Gallagher, a man whose entire musical career could be ended at any time by over the counter sinus medication. Re: Deap Vally, they are quite possibly the most important band in the world at the moment. Not for the music, good god no, bland, insipid mulch every single song, but somebody has managed to extract Quentin Tarantino's thoughts and manifest them physically as a female generic rock duo. I for one find that spectacular.
  16. I don't use loops but I've got a few sample libraries that don't seem to be up anymore, all my electronic/glitch drum stuff comes from there, I can host them somewhere if anyone's interested?
  17. Excellent crop this month, although no surprise at the eventual winner...
  18. I'm embarrassed to say I got all of them (that means I know who the bassist in McFly is, hence the embarrassment). I actually guessed Chris Wolstenholme would be the lowest, I watch a fair bit of Pointless (yea I know...) and from a lot of the questions it's clear the sample is generally more middle-aged, on music questions that span a few decades the 70's 80's stuff is always more popular. And I remember there was a question about Prime Ministers and Harold Wilson and James Callaghan scored more than Tony Blair.
  19. [quote name='xilddx' timestamp='1369873334' post='2093906'] I'm also wondering if you feel the bands you are a fan of owe you something. And what they owe you. I saw an interview with Deftones yesterday and they have had a couple of difficult, slightly dodgy albums, and I'm a huge fan and didn't like the albums they had problems with, which was due to their own evolution and personal problems. Do they owe me something for supporting them through their journey? I personally don't, not in the slightest. But I know people who feel otherwise. [/quote] Nah, I'd much prefer a band to make the album they want to make rather than tailor it to fans expectations, because lets face it, fans, while capable individually of being intelligent, reasonable people, are, en masse, raving idiotic morons who just want band to remake the album they like the most for the rest of their career. Bands have a basic obligation of respect towards fans sure, showing up to gigs on time etc., but creatively bands don't "owe" fans anything, and frankly I'm grateful to any band who's ever made an album I like.
  20. I think it's more of a gradual thing, bands that I'm a "fan" of are the bands that I make an active effort to keep up with, and are really familiar with. I'd say I'm a fan of any band whose entire back catalogue I've listened to (if they have a few albums out), if I only like one or two albums, I'd probably say I'm not a fan. The other big thing is keeping up with news on the band, if I'm a fan, I'm periodically checking up on what they're doing, I know if they're working on a new album, and I pre-order it. If I just like a band, a new album might go unnoticed until someone mentions it, at which point I'll check it out. Spending money is the other main thing, I listen to so much music I only tend to buy stuff from bands I'm a fan of, because I'm pretty confident I'll like it, case in point, I've just bought an album that doesn't even exist yet, because I love the band.
  21. Ahh, I've just run through the offline process and it just generates a .html file to copy onto an internet PC that sends you to a link to put your serial numbers in, then generates a .xml file for you to copy back on to the offline PC. Unfortunatley you have to load the .xml through the authorization manager, so you probably can't get round it if you can't run the program. Personally, if I'd already payed for the software I wouldn't feel bad about cracking it, but obviously you may not feel the same way.
  22. Have you tried running it as administrator (depending on which windows you're running)? Just right click the .exe and the option is there, for some reason it makes a lot of programs run perfectly that otherwise don't.
  23. What do you mean your PC just spits it out? It won't install or it won't run? Which version is it? Have you tried downloading the latest version from the site? Are you sure they didn't email you the mac version?
  24. Remixed and rejigged mine slightly, to avoid confusing poor little Charic I've edited the new link into my post on the previous page. The minute silence at the end is accidental, but I can't be bothered to reupload it, so just know the track ends at 5:00. Eventually I'm going to figure out how to mix a track so soundcloud transcoding doesn't mess up the high end.
  25. [quote name='Skol303' timestamp='1369314984' post='2087660'] Well done getting your track finished Bob! I've not had chance to listen as yet but will do so. I actually quite like the idea of a 'collaboration month'... might be tricky to organize but plenty of potential for some very interesting outcomes! Food for thought anyway. [/quote] Thanks man, I think another cool idea might be to do an "exquisite corpse", I've just pre-ordered an album based on the idea, it's an old surrealist thing. How they've done it for music is someone composes a few minutes of music, then passes the last 20 seconds on to the next person, who composes another few minutes from that as a launching point, then they pass on the final 20 seconds of theirs and so on, the idea being that you end up with one album length song that no one hears until it's completed (except the person who compiles it). I'm not sure how we could make it a competition, but it might be a cool thing to do one month. Re: mine, I'm considering chopping the ending off, it seemed like a good idea at the time but now I'm not sure, how about a straw poll, keep the big noisy ending, yay or nay?
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