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Status Updates posted by caitlin
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I knew the tab for 'are you in' (inkybus) was crap and I was fully struggling with the shift into the middle 8. But the tab had lead me to learn it *unsyncopated* but I figured it out and now it's all groovy. Screw you, tab.
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5 string fretless is the BEST. I am so glad I got his HB monstrosity.
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explain this spectracomp thing for TC amps. I did a stupid late night purchase and have a pointless 800W of ANGRY and this phone app has a billion options under 'spectracomp' what am I looking for?
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heh, thanks Dood. sadly i figured that out the hard way. the manual is just about useless. linux can see the usb port but can't use it obv. a mac doesn't show the amp in the app so that's rubbish. toneprint doesn't seem joyful to go through my active pups, but if i hold the phone between the strings and let it touch the pup case then i can 50% of the time send a print. got an octaver and a spectracomp in it and will probably leave it the hell alone now.
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There are some combined TonePrints in the TonePrint Bass Amps library and I guess if you use the editor you can make your own (I haven’t tried). There is a straight forward SpectraComp TonePrint that I think behaves like the pedal with one knob adjustment. TonePrint transmission with a mobile doesn’t work that well with active basses; if you can put it in passive mode it works better, or use a passive instrument to set it up.
I don’t use effects that much, so I haven’t tried changing them on the fly during a gig. Drive and no chorus is enough for me. Personally I don’t think it is a very practical proposition to be getting your mobile out at a gig and messing around with your bass. I barely get enough time to check my tuning between numbers.
The tuner on my BH550 does B to C with LEDs for B to G (C is a combo of the D & G LEDs). There are 2 green LEDs to indicate flat/sharp and in tune (both lights simultaneously). it’s OK for live situations but not as accurate as a pedal like a Peterson. It doesn’t help with alternative tunings, like one of the bands I play in tunes down half a tone to help the vocalists. We’re getting on 😏
The current price Andertons are offering the BH550 and 800 at is really tweaking my nose, as I paid nearer list for mine a few years ago. You get a lot of amp for your money at that price and IMO it’s a good amp for the money. It has quite a warm sound with the 4 band EQ at unity, which I like and there is quite a lot of headroom, obviously more on the 800. It’s relatively compact and light, so at the current street price, it might make a good back up amp for folks with more up-market main amps. It does as a main amp for me, when I need a bit of volume.
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I played power of love on a fretless and had the biggest grin. wheeeeeeee.
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Huey Lewis I guess, not Jennifer Rush😁
I introduced that song to a past cover band's set list - great treat for the bass player!
Not tried it on fretless, never crossed my mind, but I will give it a go.
I did once do a whole rehearsal using the fretless and I don't think anyone noticed (it was a Jazz with lines) - either I did OK or the rest of band don't really care... I'll never know. -
@Soledad it could also have been Frankie goes to Hollywood...
There was obviously a lot of discussion regarding the Power of love in the late 80s
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I'm pretty sure the crap crap crap strings that came with my kit bass is a 0.135 B.... I'm getting new strings before I go at the nut now i have feeler gauges. Everything needs to go lower by a lot. Question is, how much would I regret a 0.130 B ? much less clank, much less rattle, much less boom?
I assume real strings will actually have more *wire* in them than what came with the rather price conscious kit
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YASSSSSS I just 'finished' (pending finding all my mistakes) transcribing Love Is by Alannah Myles. It's a better bass part than that boring old Black Velvet anyway. Now I have to get back to the flight of the cosmic hippo which is a bit, uh, harder. 5 strings is the best.
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I can't even PLAY bass, why am I drop D on a fretless failing to transcribe Bela Fleck?
Oh yeh, because it's LUSH and I'm DESPERATE to make those noises.
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urgh, bought a fretless /o\
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I'm hoping to improve my ears rather than my eyes also unlined is stylish. Stupid but stylish.
I'm pretty sure it's got roundwounds on it, so they'll get swapped for flats as soon as possible.
My bass collection is complete now, right... a 4 a 5 and fl? I really have nothing to do now except learn to play them. sob.
Just waiting to see if it survives the postal system.
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Moved the bridge back 6mm and over 2mm towards the deep end. The string to board edge is equal now and I can intonate without violence. It's getting less scary working on these things.
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More Than A Feeling is harder to play than I expected considering I know the song of old. Nothing in it is particularly hard, but I'm a noob and it's stretching me. What fun!
(obv playing it on a 5 st not a DADG 4 Like an idiot)
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My zoom b1x thingy ran out of batteries and I can't remember which psu is compatible with it, darn centre positive non centre positive junk.
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Convince me TO or TO NOT grab a 5 string kit bass to help me while away the lock down hours and my reduced working week to end up with a pointless bass with no resale value. Go on, convince me!
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I know it's the wrong 6 string bass, but that weegie kid who played on steel panther's encore having been pulled out of the crowd flipping SMASHED it. What a hero.
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Well, I got a zoom b1x four and what can I say beyond "now I can't feel the fingertips on my right hand" it sure does give one the confidence to dig in. The octaver is a nice thing and there's a lot of bleepy bloop in that box AND it connects to linux just fine.
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Yup, all I did was plug it in to see if linux saw it, used the computer to select octaver so i didn't have to find it by scrolling and then i played sledgehammer on repeat for about 20 mins
a trip through the inbuilt patches one by one and then put it to bed because 'dinner' and 'going to the cinema' and stuff.
I generally can't stand messing about with tiny menus and button combi-presses which is one reason I went for a computerable doodle. I think that's going to be a really big help.
the explosion thing is stupid, what is that even for?
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Stretching off, how does that work? I'm trying to stay relaxed, but pushing tempo on some riffs, inevitably there's a build up of lactic acid and whatnot in the muscles that don't understand what's needed of them yet, how does one warm up and down as a noob so one doesn't turn into a total mess?
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Srsly though why do people keep trying to steal my cable? Is there a decent system for labelling them? grrr.
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That was scarier than it should have been.
I broke my bass.
I fixed my bass.
Wasn't quite careful enough and grounded out the signal lead on the body of the new jack socket like a *chump*. Zero noises when the cable is knocked now.
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What's the deal with 18V preamps, that just seems a total annoyance
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But I'm thinking that if ONE of the two batteries gets a bit meh, it's going to drag voltages all over the place, and it has all the scope for mix loading the two cell packs and asking for them to leak.
A 9V battery is already 6 cells in series wrapped in foil, so you can't really escape that!
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Yeh, that's a fair point, and it's not like it's a 40C drain on the things, so I'm being a bit precious, I just KNOW I'll end up with one too few batteries at the crucial moment.
Nothing for it, I'll have to go high end and get a bass with a rechargeable lipo in it which will deffo never burn my house down.
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Urk, Cort Action V Plus 5 string on a deal for £180, would I be a muppet to leave that on the shelf? it's going to cost me about a tenner to fix the socket on my 4, which otherwise works fine. Why would I need another budget bass?
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I Wish, that's in E flat right? Do I need to detune everything a half step, just the E or shut up and this is played on a 5 you idiot, or am I tone deaf?
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Bass a bit tricky for the next day or so since my mixer is out of its tin and getting a good going over with cleaner and some tiny rags to get the snot and soot out. It would be rather nice to not loose a channel once in a while, since it doesn't half put one off ones chops
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I have started learning Forever by Haim, and omfg if this is grade 4 Trinity then I can't imagine getting much higher than this. I'd thought rhythms would come over easy from drums but this is taking some TIME to bed in the feel.