Akio Dāku

😂 This is like watching ants death spiral now. "Hz, Hz, fundamental, assert dominance, mild passive aggression..." I love bass players, we truly overthink our craft. 😋

2 hours ago, Skol303 said:

I tend to use 24-bit/48kHz for just about everything. I think the difference between 44kHz and 96kHz is audible; but it depends a lot on the playback system.

Snap! 🙌

Really it depends on your ears/monitoring and also bit depth. If you're recording at 96k you want to be using a bit depth of 32bit minimum or it's kinda like "what's the point?". Basically the sample rate frequency is how many samples or "frames" if you're comparing it to video are taken a second. Because humans hear up to 20kHz then we use at least 44.1k because the your still getting a few samples even if you're recording sounds right on the periphery of our hearing range. 48k or 96k will give you more samples or "frames" if you will but that's why I say what are you monitoring on. Because like a TV it doesn't matter if your watching a 60fps video if you're TV has a refresh rate of less than 60Hz then it's dropping frames anyway. So in conclusion, do two test recordings, one at each rate, if you can't hear the difference, stick with 44.1k/24bit. Oh and bit depth is how many "steps" or bits are in single one of those samples. CD quality is 44.1k/16bit just so you have a reference point.

Personally I like to think of it in terms of frequency bandwidth and room acoustics. No matter your situation your limited to the human hearing range of 20Hz - 20kHz, thats your bandwidth. So if your playing alone then you have the full range open to you and it sounds "better" if you fill that space, if your playing with a group the you still have the same bandwidth limitation but it's shared, so you have to cut out certain zones in the spectrum so everyone has a space to fit. The extra thing to consider is the room acoustics, different rooms will have different frequency responses so for instance a boost of 6dB in a room with some weird response, might equate to a larger perceivable boost than intended or vice versa if your cutting frequencies. It's all about  fitting/filling the space available to you as a player. 

The theme from the animé series Cowboy Bebop, it's a classic! 

I'm glad you both liked it, I think she's utterly amazing and should be a household name for everything she's achieved in music. 🙌

@Mornats man this is sick! I'm well impressed, the Ethera EVI synth sounds awesome. I wasn't aware vocal synthesis could sound so good, I might have to get a copy, I'm in awe. 🙌🙇🙌🙇🙌🙇🙏

I've been watching this and it's amazingly interesting/insightful; 

Man this is awesome! I've followed thi on SoundCloud. 🙌

@Old_Ben the link you posted is broken for me for some reason this one works though; https://www.soundcloud.com/ben-webb-15/hopeinside boss track as well man, really digging it! 🙌

Cheers for the feedback @dedindi, it's very much appreciated. 🙏

Cheers @BreadBin, when inspiration strikes an all that. 

Bank holiday made use of!  Just a rough demo mind but I figured it's a composition challenge not a mixing/mastering challenge. 

Tell him; Nicely done young Sir. 👏 Very impressive, I don't think I knew what a bass even was at 9! 🙌🙇🙌🙇🙌🙇🙏

I think I'll make use of our bank holiday tomorrow and track something for this. I'm really digging the vibe of the image. 🙌 

Please be brutally honest, any constructive criticism will be greatly received. 🙏

Nothing... I went solo 2 years ago. 😂

35" I play five string (B-G) and l prefer light gauge strings  from a timbral standpoint, so the extra inch brings the tension back to where I like it.  

For me a band can be called anything... As a general rule of thumb, everyone gets about 40 - 60 seconds to hook me and I'll try three songs. If one of the three gets me passed the minute  and a half mark, I'm yours.  

I feel like people are conflating "songs you know off by heart" with "songs you've played across your life time as a musician"... 

14 minutes ago, Woodinblack said:

It is not a sequential memory though, I wouldn't be able to write down the sequence of notes for any song, but I have no problem remembering a pattern of patterns. Even if it is a group of single patterns. I guess it is the way you learn it in the first place. 

I understand what your getting at but it is sequential memory... A pattern is a regular and intelligible form or sequence and a pattern of patterns quite is literally a sequence of sequences...  

1 hour ago, Delberthot said:

I would think that it has to be over 1000 for me.

Over 1000! 😲 I'd have a hard time naming 1000 songs let alone knowing 1000 off by heart! 😵 I've forgotten how to play full albums that I've written! For me, if I've not played a song in a year or two, hell even a few months can do it for some tunes, it's gone, formatted from my brain. I mean sure I could relearn them very quickly but the material would still require refreshing and no chance could I just play them;

12 hours ago, T-Bay said:

instantly if asked without reference to music/ tabs or practice.

Call me a cynic and by no means do I intend to call anyone's claims into question but this is all very hard for me to rap my head around... It just sounds super human to me. 😓 Maybe my inclination to indulge in "herbal remedies" has done more damage than I first thought. 😜

@thepurpleblob I'm totally with you Sir. Thank god I'm not the only one. 🙌

I'm amazed that some people have a repertoire of 100+ songs. 😵 I have my set list of originals that I keep under my hands but if it's not on the list it's getting deleted from my RAM. Fair does and hats off to you savants capable of up to 200! That kind of sequential memory is far beyond my faculty. 🙏

Cheers @dedindi thanks for the kind words. 😊🙏 X

Already found it and shared! 🙌 I do appreciate the heads up though @SpondonBassed, very thoughtful of you. 😊