Stub Mandrel

Hi Joe, I struggle to play slap and have it sound half-decent. I can alternate octave slap/pops all day but struggle to be fluent playing more complex patterns with any force. It's not really a speed issue, more one of getting a pleasant sound! I've tried playing lines I know well by slapping rather than fingerstyle but they just come out as terribly stilted. Have you got a favourite exercise for developing a more fluent slap technique taht isn't playing 'Higher Ground' endlessly? Thanks!

The Beatles?

My brother is proud of the fact that he still gigs an (expensive) cable I bought him in the 80s; I have one as well although it had about 23 years off...

Happened here too. I use another forum which has the safe 'engine' and this usually means the webserver is re indexing, which takes an hour or three.

It starts heavy, and gets heavier. Probably the heaviest bassline ever, made even more so by the use of light and shade. Such a shame that stoner rock bands can't learn something about subtlety as well as sheer force from Sabbath.

https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Steinberger-USA-Doubleneck-Bass-and-Guitar-GM4TP-XM-2-Headless-Transtrem/183765761712?hash=item2ac94afeb0:g:IogAAOSwXyVYJPVG (over?)priced to match it's scarcity

If it fits in a Hohner case it's no bigger than a standard Hohner/Steinberger. But those look like guitar tuners, only one pickup and Hondo isn't a name to get over-excited about... You might get a genuine Hohner for that price and they are very good.

Selection of double bass tunings: EADG ADG CADG (with fingerboard extension) CEADG BEADG CGDA CGDAE GDAE F#BEA EG#DG FADE FAFE ADGC EADGC Any questions? (Thanks to Wikipedia)

Is there anyone with a better name for metal?

I'd be very surprised if Boss don't do all this in the digital domain.

You need the conversion software like Midi Guitar 2 as well

Mostly just 'wonderin' aloud'. The Jamorigin software is £87 both both guitar and bass versions. It's polyphonic but needs a quality interface rather than working with the a soundcard but I have a focusrite Scarlett 2i I can use. It will let me use my Ignite and Abelton Lite plugins, including amp and effect modelling. Sounds fun, but the SY1 is a lot less hardware...

How long does it take to detect pitch? At 120 beats per minute a quarter note lasts 500ms, a sixteenth note 125ms or just five wave-cycles. The minimum must be two zero crossings - half a cycle. For E1 that's ~1/80 of a second, or 12.5ms. In practice two in the same direction is more reliable (most real world waveforms are somewhat asymmetric), so 25ms. If you guess after half a cycle then refine each half cycle after that the minimum delay is going to be 12.5 + a bit milliseconds. For a low B you are looking at 16.7 and 33 milliseconds. Apparently the human ear can detect a delay of 40ms* so to avoid latency on low notes it looks like you ideally have to get it right in one wave-cycle. *I did read along time ago that we are very sensitive to sounds arriving early (e.g. the bang before the flash jars) but accept slight delays (because we regularly experience these in real life whenever we see the distant source of a sound).

Whack!

Strictly speaking, 'bass' is an adjective not a noun. When you tell someone 'I play bass' they shoudl ask 'bass what?' 🙂

You never know when 'Come into the garden, Maude' and 'Mad Dogs and Englishmen' will come in handy.

1:16 scratchbuild. Must get round to finishing it - I typically take about 20 years to build a boat. I did 3D print new turrets this year!

I tried Migi, it doesn't work below ~A/B on a bass and struggled with a guitar but part of that might be my setup

Do we know each other? If you were in Aberocsoc you would have known me as Joey - probably.

Careful observation also reveals that bass appears to be his instrument of choice 🙂

I was about to hit 'buy' but " The G2M is designed for solo instrumental lines meaning it does not support polyphonic input (i.e. it will only detect solo guitar notes - not full chords). " I think I will try this with my focusrite: https://www.jamorigin.com/

Yes but you're a Yankee hoodlum 🙂

🙂 Perhaps I should have said 'sound making bits'

Yes but if you got rid of all the sound processing bits?

Wouldn't the ideal be a pedal that uses the SY-1's polyphonic engine to output general MIDI through a USB lead, then you could hook up to a laptop and play sound you wanted. (I've been playing with a cheap as chips mini keyboard and ignite today).