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StickyDBRmf is a curious name for a restaurant...
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Fixing a pickguard to a Jazz bass without using screws
Baloney Balderdash replied to rushbo's topic in Repairs and Technical
Wouh, sentient tape! And a true testament to mind over matter... -
What are you listening to right now?
Baloney Balderdash replied to Sarah5string's topic in General Discussion
Señor Coconut - El Baile Aleman (A Latin Tribute to Kraftwerk) : -
Much of the same unfortunately apply to Denmark where I live, much unlike our Scandinavian brothers/sisters.
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Also the majority voted a certain unfamous guy in Germany to power once. Hardly any valid measurement for quality or stuff being right. Popularity is a quantitative measurement and nothing else, in no way can it ever be a measurement for quality. And much in the line of the general hateful mindset of before mentioned fellow I could say little flattering stuff about the majority of people in general.
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I actually really like bass as a solo instrument, just not this particular one. Uke bass is an abomination!
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Impressive, but not a big fan of the tone of that bass. Completely void of any form of interesting character. Just absolutely neutral and tasteless, kind of like noodles without any spices or anything else whatsoever.
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Scooping out the 800Hz frequency area is what the Tech 21 Bass Driver, or cheap Behringer BDI21 clone, does as well. I stroke my strings lightly too, rather than striking or pulling them, but I do so in sort of an inwards sort of slapping motion. Personally though I very much like my mids, and the articulation and snap that the 800Hz frequency area helps with enhancing. Not going to pay for having my tone, in my opinion, sound like a floppy dead dull wet noodle with no definition, articulation or edge.
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Combinations of kit that are a sonic match made in heaven
Baloney Balderdash replied to BillyBass's topic in Amps and Cabs
You might not believe me, as this is predominantly all relatively budget gear, but: My Ibanez Mikro Bass, equipped with an EMG Geezer Butler P pickup wired directly to the output jack socket /-> ->/ My ampless setup: EHX Black Finger (tube driven optical compressor/tube preamp stage) -> NUX MLD Bass Preamp,using the Aguilar Tone Hammer amp emulation combined with the Ampeg SVT-212AV IR cab sim -> ART Tube MP Project Series (tube preamp and DI) /-> ->/ Effects Return (poweramp input) of my Peavey Solo Special 112 160W combo guitar amp, with its build in 12" speaker unit disconnected and instead hooked up to a FRFR PA speaker /-> ->/ The Box PA 502 (passive FRFR PA speaker with 1 x 15" bass/mids driver + 1 x 1.7" high frequency tweeter) If weight is no issue I simply can't recommend the quite budget The Box PA 502 enough for everyone looking for a passive FRFR cab (there's an active version as well, with a SS, not Class D, poweramp section, the The Box PA 502 A but have no personal experience with that), the only downside really is that it weights about a ton: https://www.thomann.de/gb/the_box_pa502_fullrangesystem.htm Truly amazing sounding, regardless of price, as said very clear and articulate, and with an impressive, but tight and punchy, low end response, and in it's price class simply unbelievably astonishing. Really punchy, clear and articulated. -
As people before me has already said a tuner usually won't draw much current, so should last a very long time with just a battery. Just be aware that it will draw power from the battery as soon as a jack plug is plugged into the input jack socket of the tuner, regardless if it is engaged or not, so if choosing to power it with a battery remember to unplug it when not in use.
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Refret, fret dress, or leave it alone
Baloney Balderdash replied to asingardenof's topic in Repairs and Technical
Wouh, that's bad, man, you would need a new bass, a new amp, a new wife, and quite possibly a new hip bone as well, to fix that! -
Singing and playing at the same time
Baloney Balderdash replied to kwmlondon's topic in General Discussion
I played bass in a hardcore and noise rock influenced math rock band where the not only the bass parts but also often the guitar parts would be rather complex rhythmically and go completely against the vocals parts. I'll never figure out how the vocalist who also happened to be the guitarist managed, but I got great respect for him being able to. To me it's kind of like as if having to solve a mathematical equation with one hand while simultaneously writing a poem with the other, no matter how well I know the bass and vocal parts individually. Seems absolutely impossible to me. To me it's a skill up there with people who are able to do tightrope walking while juggling lit torches. -
How long is your strap?
Baloney Balderdash replied to Jean-Luc Pickguard's topic in General Discussion
It is indeed a really great strap, feels extremely comfortable, even with heavy basses, and it has a relatively good grip as well, making it great at dealing with neck diving basses. And while you can get cheaper straps, and that it is one of the more expensive ones Harley Benton offers, it's not really expensive, in fact rather cheap for what it is. Harley Benton is a budget brand after all. It is 29£/34 Euro. Only issue I really have with it is that the memory foam doesn't seem to be covered/draped with another layer of leather or even just cloth, which I got a suspicion potentially could cause the foam to deteriorate over time being exposed to sweat and eventually crumble away. I assume though, and it does seem like it, that the memory foam at least has been treated with a thin protective film/layer of some kind. -
How long is your strap?
Baloney Balderdash replied to Jean-Luc Pickguard's topic in General Discussion
Pretty much where I got my strap adjusted to as well. To hang at about the same height as if I was playing sitting down without a strap. And this is the strap in question: The Harley Benton 85mm wide black suede strap with 6mm memory foam padding, and the length adjustable from 105 to 150 cm -
If only it had allowed for parallel effect processing. That said it seems like a pretty amazing multi effect in an astonishing small, very pedal board friendly package, basically from what I can see about the size of 2 standard Boss pedals or so, relatively high quality, and a quite affordable price. Seems like this might very well be the most advanced mini multi effect on the market, and as said even for a quite reasonable price. I could totally see myself getting one of these to replace all my modulation effects, some additional reverb and delay, plus more. The link in the OP by the way doesn't work for me, this does though: https://www.hotoneaudio.com/products/multi-effects/Ampero Mini And here's a spec comparison with the other Ampero multi effects:
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Well, I think that really depends on the music being played. At a Top 40 hits cover band gig, sure, at an avantgarde free jazz gig, probably not so much. Personally I don't make music for the average person. Your average person doesn't really care for music, certainly not music as an art form, they care about being entertained, and the medium really is secondary to them.
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If you are playing for the sake of the people who couldn't care less if you do or not why then even bother playing?
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Try re-stringing your bass with a gauge .100 - .080 - .060 - .045 set of strings (and of course re-set the neck relief, string action and intonation accordingly).
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Could be the strings got too high tension and are too stiff to vibrate properly in standard tuning. Tuning them down would lower the tension and make the strings less stiff allowing for them to vibrate more freely, resulting in a more lively tone with more harmonic content, higher output and longer sustain. Try a set of strings of lower gauge and see if that helps.
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Bass eq. Sorting the boom on certain notes
Baloney Balderdash replied to ricksterphil's topic in Effects
Well, sometimes you need to be willing to make compromised, think of it, he could have chosen to make his job even easier and just told all of you not to play at all. Kind of like how painters usually needs to be payed extra to bother putting up masking tape and not just paint over wall power outlets e.t.c. -
Can you tell the difference?? More AI
Baloney Balderdash replied to TheGreek's topic in General Discussion
I wasn't. Frankly it sucked. I mean comically bad. It failed to write anything but primitive poems with very strictly rhyming structures that stayed verry strictly within simple rhythmic patterns, it also has consistently bad habit of telling rather than showing, that it literally tell what it wanted to say 1:1, rather than showing, which also meant that it's level of abstraction was very limited and each poem only had 1 possible interpretation, or that is, since it was telling what the poem was about 1:1 as part of it's respective "poems" there was no room and any less any reason to interpret it. In other words it used totally old fashioned and horribly outdated templates to create poetry and the quality level beside that was just about that of your average high school kid. I was badly disappointed after hearing from several people how advanced this chat bot was supposed to be. What I did find that this AI chat bot was extremely great at though was finding possible hypothetical meanings of complete nonsense words, that is if you asked something in the lines of "If the word [nonsense] really did exist what would it then likely mean?", it came up with a very impressive linguistic analyze and several possible and seemingly very plausible suggestions to what it could possibly mean. It even guessed pretty accurately what the claimed nonsense word "krusedulle" would mean if it existed, a word that does actually exist in Danish. I guess not as surprising when you think of it as it is basically exactly those AI chat machine is, an extremely powerful language analyzing machine that learns how to make sense of what essentially to it is just an utter nonsense string of seemingly random letters. And yes pretty much all Top 40 music is made from the exact same formular, with primitive melodies and harmonic content, and so compressed, quantized, and autotuned, again processed that, beside making it sound less human, also makes it much less complex, so perfect job for a machine to do. I am pretty confident that when it comes to real art AI has a very long way yet to be up to standards with that made by real human artists. -
What are you listening to right now?
Baloney Balderdash replied to Sarah5string's topic in General Discussion
"Sort Tulipan" by the Norwegian band Seigmen and their masterpiece of an album "Total" from 1994: This is the original Norwegian lyrics translated to English as best as I could (not because it's extraordinary poetry exactly, but more for the sake of people being able to understand what is being sung) : Black Tulip The Sun dissolves in an ocean of sorrow the Sun absolves the sky of yesterday from ashes I have come to dust I shall become some want to return some will remain All time has passed all time (forever) is over The Sun becomes sky and the sky turns to rain rain turns into waves and waves become an ocean All time has passed all time (forever) is over -
What are you listening to right now?
Baloney Balderdash replied to Sarah5string's topic in General Discussion
My absolute favorite, though there are many great tracks, from those two albums (Musick to Play in the Dark Vol. 1 and Vol. 2) is this though: Even my absolute favorite Coil track, heck one of my all time favorite pieces of music overall. -
There shouldn't be. Theoretically the difference in output volume between 200W and 280W would be something like 1dB.
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Can you tell the difference?? More AI
Baloney Balderdash replied to TheGreek's topic in General Discussion