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Is there a popular bass player, that you just don’t get?
Baloney Balderdash replied to Rayman's topic in General Discussion
From different, strictly logical, perspective popularity will always be a strictly quantitative parameter/statement, and can never be a qualitative parameter/statement. -
Is there a popular bass player, that you just don’t get?
Baloney Balderdash replied to Rayman's topic in General Discussion
Pizza with chicken, mushrooms and green and red pepper fruit, eventual with chili (the kind that is chili flakes and seeds in oil) as well (and of course including the basic tomato sauce and cheese as well), is my go to pizza, and absolutely delicious. -
Is there a popular bass player, that you just don’t get?
Baloney Balderdash replied to Rayman's topic in General Discussion
"Law of Jante", here in Denmark, as also mentioned in that Wiki article. -
Is there a popular bass player, that you just don’t get?
Baloney Balderdash replied to Rayman's topic in General Discussion
I don't get Einstein. And I am pretty sure his Theory of Relativity is just nonsense. For sure quantum mechanics are, even a ten years old can tell that. Why try so hard to be clever? -
Is there a popular bass player, that you just don’t get?
Baloney Balderdash replied to Rayman's topic in General Discussion
You forget that in many a bass players view here bass being anything but root notes is considered unnecessary flashy meaningless noise and heresy, regardless if it serves the song or not, according to these people it is simply by definition not possible to groove if you play more than just 1 note, and all songs should groove, if not they are simply by definition to be categorized as meaningless noise! -
What exactly did You did after Your last gig ?
Baloney Balderdash replied to nilorius's topic in General Discussion
Wouldn't make much sense in the context though, would it? Beside I was right: -
Very cool. Congratulations. Though it seems to also be missing one of the intonation things, for the high G string. I am strongly considering buying the fretless Harley Benton take of the Violin/Beatles Bass, sounds phenomenal on the YouTube demo I watched, even if having been recorded DI, without anything further done to the signal.
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What exactly did You did after Your last gig ?
Baloney Balderdash replied to nilorius's topic in General Discussion
I am not entirely certain, but my best guess is that "KG" is referring to the official abbreviation of Kilogram (measurement unit for mass aka weight), and combined with the "-up" a reference to your weight going up, due to intake of McDonald's food. -
Which is 30" scale, 38mm nut width, not 34", 42mm nut width! Not that that makes it any less a real bass...
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Is there a popular bass player, that you just don’t get?
Baloney Balderdash replied to Rayman's topic in General Discussion
With clips of them playing all root notes, to display their true "greatness"? So he should have chosen 10 second clips of all of them playing nothing but root notes? -
Is there a popular bass player, that you just don’t get?
Baloney Balderdash replied to Rayman's topic in General Discussion
On a more serious note, I can totally get behind this list. -
What exactly did You did after Your last gig ?
Baloney Balderdash replied to nilorius's topic in General Discussion
What did you did? Diddle liddle dee, dum Did you did Diddle liddle dee, dum Dum-dee-dum Did you did Tjuh, HEY! -
I wonder why they felt the need to update the drive circuit in the first place, and what went through their heads when they tweaked it and after testing it thought: "Spot on, that's THE tone, definitely a clear improvement, this is bound to be a hit!".
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If he was he must have been a genious, inventing the first ever wireless bass system. It's so ridiculous it is cool!
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Is there a popular bass player, that you just don’t get?
Baloney Balderdash replied to Rayman's topic in General Discussion
Maybe because he instinctively knew this: Good morning -
This is you answer!
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Just what I have always been looking for! Instead of joking around though I'd rather they would make the bass equivalent to their Bass9 Bass Machine, for guitar to sound like a bass, the Guitar9 Guitar Machine, for bass to sound like a guitar.
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The Mollusk - Ween
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Advice for phaser fx pedal, looking for cool new/used at +/- 100e.
Baloney Balderdash replied to nilorius's topic in Effects
Hated that one, no matter which Toneprint I use, or how much I tweaked it, send it back. Best phaser ever is the original big box EHX Small Stone phaser, but the Behringer clone, the VP1 Vintage Phaser does an amazing job at sounding just like it, better than EHX's own Nano reissue. -
Then show the huge man Stanley Clarke with his huge hands and petite 30" short scale main electric bass and what he can do with that, as well.
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I think the bad reviews might primarily concern the early Chinese made ones, the quality went considerably up when production moved to the Cort factory in Indonesia. That's right, Cort makes these basses now for Ibanez, and the quality is pretty consistently great, even pretty amazing considering the price point. As for the weight I have little idea as to the current production, since they have changed body and fretboard wood types since mine were made.
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What are you listening to right now?
Baloney Balderdash replied to Sarah5string's topic in General Discussion
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It does come in purple though, which might be passable (note that this is for some reason an old picture, the Mikros now come with proper metal dome knobs):
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The Ibanez GSRM20 and GSRM20B Mikro Bass is an amazing bass. I both got the 4 and 5 string GSRM25 version, and both sounds pretty great from stock, with a pickup upgrade no short of amazing even, and the frets were basically dead on perfectly leveled from stock, and super fun to play.
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Recommend an onboard preamp
Baloney Balderdash replied to velvetkevorkian's topic in Repairs and Technical
I would say growl rather than just being a mids heavy tone contributes to a fairly specific combination of low and high mids. My best guess would be something like a bump at around 200Hz or so, and then a bump as well around 1kHz to 2kHz or so. Like a combination of low mids punch and high mids grind.