SteveXFR

The main talent needed is entertaining an audience. Its entirely possible to be musically amazing but boring to an audience

If you're in a small town, lie about your location in your social media and any other bios. There's lots of small venues in cities who support the scene by only booking local bands as support acts. Those are the venues you need to get in to. Thats where you'll gain a following and be seen by promoters. Im in Frome in Somerset, our nearest city is Bristol so if we want to play there, we have to say thats where we're based. Be as helpful as you can if you want repeat bookings. Send the venue logos and pics straight away if they want them and make sure they have a tech list so the sound tech can be prepared and have an easier night. If he's prepared for a standard 4 piece rock band and you turn up with 9 horns without warning then he won't want to see you again.

Paid gigs for unknown bands playing original music are a rarity around here. If we only played paid gig, we'd never play anywhere and we quite enjoy it so we'll play the free ones. Pay is a bonus these days. Playing heavy metal is my hobby. Bar staff and security aren't there for fun so they get paid. The sound tech at our local does it for beer and bands get the same. If I was in it for the money, Id buy a white P bass and a white suit and play 80's covers at weddings but thats my idea of hell.

Is anyone here using a Motorbass overdrive? Ive checked out some reviews online and it sounds amazing but online review videos often add in all sorts of plugins to the signal chain. Does it really get you to that Lemmy style distortion?

I quite like that. Good band name as well.

I can't watch anything with Scott Devine. The jazz noodling just gets irritating after a while and when someone else is playing its like he's got jazz bass tourettes with random outbursts of "pocket", "tasty" or "ooh yeah". His American clone is much better though.

Plague Rages - Napalm Death

I had a rehearsal with my old style metal band last night and the only times I used the G was the intro to one song which is E, D, G power chords with the octave above the root added in. Other than that,its all on the E and A strings other than fills getting in to the D string.

No, its fine. Ive tuned a few to BEAD

There are some metal riffs that only use the D and G strings, 46 & 2 by Tool is one that comes to mind and (I think) Bridge Burner by Mutoid Man but generally, its mostly on the E and A. Maybe its the clanky, trebley tone commonly used in metal makes the higher strings mostly unusable

So you agree? Metal is noise to you, jazz is nonsense to me. I don't see the difference.

To me, yes. To those who get it no. Im sure a lot of the metal I enjoy is just meaningless noise to jazz fans.

Nope. Too much jazz, not enough punk Don't tell anyone else here but I don't like the sound of fretless. It sounds like a mental kazoo to me.

Did Jaco play doom? I can't be listening to that jazz nonsense but if he made a doom record, I should have a listen.

Owlwood - Cult Of Luna

Be quiet and drive (far away) - Deftones

Forgive me father for i have sinned

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DR Dragonskin strings for my Spector. Nice bright, zingy tone and they feel nice. Boss CEB3 Chorus pedal. Put infront of my Two Notes Revolt, a bit of chorus with the dirt channel engaged on the preamp, absolutely disgusting tone. It really makes the distortion stand out and adds a nice bit of bottom end.

You may as well take the mid and treble knobs off your amp while you're at it.

Im getting lots of emails telling me my X account has been hacked. Ive never had an X/twitter account so it can't have been hacked. Oddly the emails appear to have actually come from X. I guess its all AI operated and like most AI, it's got it wrong.

Not for hydraulic brakes!

Id need to file the nut and bridge to accept the thicker stings. I can only just get a .110 string in the E string slot in the bridge.

I have done that in the past. The only thing that puts me off now is the thought of modifying the expensive bridge and brass nut on my Spector to accept the heavier strings and the cost of putting it back to original. Maybe I should trade it for a 5 string.

I realised that I don't touch my G string (the one on my bass) while playing with either of my metal bands or while playing any of my favourite covers at home. Is this unusual? I play notes that exist on the G but find they sound better on the D or A string. I have quite a bright tone with quite a lot of high mids so maybe Ive made it unusable. Whatever the reason, I replaced a probably unused G with the rest of my strings earlier.