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  1. caitlin

    5 string fretless is the BEST. I am so glad I got his HB monstrosity.

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      caitlin

      the unlined fretless thingy, deluxe 2005 fl whatever it is. bit rough in places but sounds fine and seems well set up and stable.

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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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      caitlin

      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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    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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      caitlin

      yeh, i have one of their delays which is hilarious if stereoed into two guitar amps. I wonder how confused about this BH800 I am, it's got two slots but i have no clue 'what' can go in them.

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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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      caitlin

      isn't that video mostly using the thing as an expander? I guess i don't understand compressors... are they an expander and a limiter in the same box?

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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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      caitlin

      who has the best patches then? I don't really grok tone print. it's like someone else fiddled with the 84 knobs on a 'real pedal' and then took a photo of it and you can upload that into a 'slot' is it?

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    I played power of love on a fretless and had the biggest grin. wheeeeeeee.

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      caitlin

      I was getting confused on my 5 string and the only 4 near me was the fretless so off we went but it's just a fun track. and yeh, the news.

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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 :P

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      caitlin

      fair enough, i'm too new to have developed a preference. excepting that I seem to be addicted to the low B :/

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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 :P

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      caitlin

      cheesewire?

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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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      caitlin

      The hippo is seriously kicking my donkey :/ I'm sure I'm having fun, but actually I'm taking a break. If I can get ONE bar transcribed today I will be happy.

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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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      caitlin

      also what are you on about? isn't this some speech to text rubbish? Don't you want to point people at melodyne for pulling the tones out of things?

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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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      caitlin

      well now, how would that help me develop my ear?

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    I can't even PLAY bass, why am I drop D on a fretless failing to transcribe Bela Fleck? 50739730751_4171a9f698_b.jpg

    Oh yeh, because it's LUSH and I'm DESPERATE to make those noises.

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      caitlin

      lies, D minor, sorry

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    I can't even PLAY bass, why am I drop D on a fretless failing to transcribe Bela Fleck? 50739730751_4171a9f698_b.jpg

    Oh yeh, because it's LUSH and I'm DESPERATE to make those noises.

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      caitlin

      Isn't that an Ab in 24 and 26?

      Thanks for the comments! you're entirely right of course, but I'm doing clumsy markup because my READING as as bad as my writing, and I  get very confused in the chromatic bits when the 'note' is on the same line, but can be in any of three frets depending on the # or b grrrr. Enharmonics annoy me :P

      I'm pretty sure it's in Db minor so i've been avoiding marking anything up as a # sign. but perhaps I should go back and look at the scale tones an check which ones are in the scale and which are passing tones and how best to mark them out.

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  14. caitlin

    urgh, bought a fretless /o\

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      caitlin

      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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    urgh, bought a fretless /o\

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      caitlin

      @alyctes Dunno I'll have to wait and find out, it's unlined since I'm a masochist idiot

      @lownote12 right?! now I'll have ALL the notes, not just the imagined 12 /o\

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  16. caitlin

    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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      caitlin

      I mean I'm an idiot for 5ing it RATHER than playing it in on a normal Drop D bass. You're quite correct, I can't grammar.

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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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      caitlin

      I got it off one of the tab sites, there's *one* place where it seems to want a low D but I don't have good enough ears to know if that's *really* the case. I've got a spare low D obv so I can leave my tuning alone.

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  18. caitlin

    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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      caitlin

      Shan't thank you then, ner. (leaves button un-clicked)

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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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      caitlin

      yeh, but have you seen what they WANT for a psu? I'm pretty sure my alesis one works. either that or raid a kitchen cupboard for another 4 AAs. Thanks anyway. Sometimes I just like to complain :D

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  20. caitlin

    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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      caitlin

      acK, I've drilled it so that's done, for better or for worse, now I need to find some neck paint of some kind and then understand how to sand compound curves :/

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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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      caitlin

      well, my swingarm is welded up, I *think* acceptably and I'm trying to convince my self it's time to drill.

      here's measured up to drop the saddles at 34"

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      See

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      Here's the literal 'strings' over the saddles

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      And here's the 24th fret area, I dunno who that bloke is.

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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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      caitlin

      Well for better or worse, I'm covered in bits of bass. I'm not not having fun. Of course I'm also rebuilding a rusty motorbike. I'm just trying to avoid one project with another.

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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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      caitlin

      I *have* a proper 4 string and I suck at it. GAS GAS GAS.

      The Greek has the right of it, but petulance....

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  24. caitlin

    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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      caitlin

      interesting, I do have a mac in my wee studio for running logic on, because no way am I dealing with linux real time audio and flipping jack on a laptop but I don't expect to use zoom's software on it.

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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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      caitlin

      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? :P

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