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[quote name='sdgrsr400' post='653529' date='Nov 13 2009, 12:29 PM']Are there any vids of him playing fast? The examples above are very spacey and perhaps not representative?[/quote] (Slapping it up big-style in that one. Trouble is, he's tuned to near-standard pitch, and his ultra-light piccolo strings do that bwwwoooowww drifting-out-of-tune-when-you-slap-them thing.) (10-string bass in that one -- 5 paired courses, mainly tuned in non-unison/octave intervals.) (Not particularly fast, but a definite groove going on.) None of these are the reason I like Michael Manring. I love the spacier, more melodic tracks like "The Enormous Room" and "Selene", and particularly this one (no visuals available for this tune, so you can just appreciate the chilledness):

[quote name='chardbass' post='650483' date='Nov 10 2009, 11:25 AM']Joe Longthorne doing Shirley Bassey[/quote] Oh lord. That's quite the mental image.

[quote name='iamapirate' post='642856' date='Nov 1 2009, 09:27 PM']to be fair, I heard jamiroquai the other night - JK sounded awesome live, played it back on my mate's sound recorder and it was diabolical! Not sure why....[/quote] I suspect (but I don't know) there's a relationship between high SPL at the ear and tuning difficulties. Kind of like "the louder it gets, the more flat you'll hear it" (or maybe sharp -- like I say, it's only a suspicion). Obviously, in the gig situation, you're hearing things at roughly the same SPL as the vocalist, so (s)he will sound in tune at the time. Listen back to it later, with volumes at a sensible level, and you'll hear how much the ear was distorting the tuning. I've heard this effect several times with recordings of high-volume situations, and it's come up on BC before in relation to tuning sounding different when you nip to the bogs and the walls cut the SPL down to size. Seriously, next time you're at a LOUD gig, go to the toilet and listen to the vocal tuning. Yeeeuuchh.

[quote name='jonthebass' post='642816' date='Nov 1 2009, 08:51 PM']Chaps, I have to be careful here, but I work at the studios. No bull. The monitors are under black metal grilles at the front, curved edge, of the stage and there's some seriously big speaker boxes flown in the air too. Trust me it's loud and they hear EVERYTHING on stage. JBJ used the monitors, no IEM's, and JLS were on IEM's. Cheers, Jon.[/quote] Thanks for the info, Jon. So they [i]can[/i] hear themselves. Yikes. No excuses then.

[quote name='Buzz' post='642803' date='Nov 1 2009, 08:39 PM']They mime.[/quote] Oh god yes, in that horrendous group-singing thing in the results show. [i]Terrible[/i] miming. Ugh. Not for their proper performances though.

Don't usually watch X Factor, but Mrs Endian has done for the last couple of years. It was on tonight as we munched through dinner (still is, I think), and I noticed that I couldn't see IEMs in any of the performers' ears. Fair enough, I thought, there'll be some wedges down front. Waited for the camera to pan... nope. No wedges to be seen. Then Bon Jovi came on and JBJ did one of the most sexually limp-making vocal performances I've ever heard. Dull and lifeless, like he wasn't really sure of himself (I'm no fan, but the guy should be a pro at this stuff by now). I would've thought he'd have IEMs, but no. So... does anyone have inside knowledge of how the performers actually hear what they or the backing tracks/band are doing in the X Factor studio? If there's inadequate monitoring, it's no wonder they're so often out of tune and unsure.

Ah, that's a shame. Still, we could look after any basses you're not using while you're out of the house. Security 'n' that.

James Jamerson played [i]loads[/i] of open strings, using them as passing notes across pretty much any key. It's one of the things that defines his style in my eyes. I play shedloads of open strings in my stoner-doom bass role. Especially the drone side project.

[quote name='ped' post='641063' date='Oct 30 2009, 01:27 PM']the Metro Centre in Tyneside is the biggest in terms of lettable square footage[/quote] That may be, but it's one of the most miserable retail experiences known to humanity.

[quote name='Shockwave' post='640796' date='Oct 30 2009, 09:56 AM']Or when i receive it early next week [/quote] Good lord, that was quick! Surely it's only a couple of weeks since you ordered it?

[quote name='Major-Minor' post='640160' date='Oct 29 2009, 03:57 PM']Try this turn-around sequence in C major: ...[/quote] And again, the tab: [code] C C#dim Dm7 D#dim Em7 Eb7 Dm7 Db7 --17-- --15-- --17-- --17-- --19-- --18-- --17-- --16-- --14-- --14-- --15-- --16-- --17-- --17-- --15-- --15-- --15-- --16-- --17-- --18-- --19-- --18-- --17-- --16-- ------ ------ ------ ------ ------ ------ ------ ------[/code] Another lovely little sequence, Major!

Just picked up the new issue, and the first thing I turned to (having thought it was a pretty interesting idea for a series of articles) was Mike Dimin's "Art of Solo Bass" bit (p.78-9). My eyes fall to example 3, the little F blues he's written... and those eyes can't make head nor tail of what they're seeing. The time sig says 12/8. Well, there aren't many bars here that look remotely like 12/8 at first glance. Ignoring the pickup, the first two bars are 11/8, then a daring 10/8 (two 5/8 bars combined, by the look of it) in bar 3. Then back to the 11s, and... wait... an actual bar of 12/8 at the Bdim chord. Having then watched the Youtube video of the lesson, it's pretty clear what's happened (the second note of the first full bar -- and all other notes like it -- should be a crotchet, not a quaver), but it's such a simple mistake that even a brief glance over the stave indicated that something was amiss. It's just a shame that my first glance at this month's issue was a huge c*ck-and-balls of an error.

[quote name='51m0n' post='639771' date='Oct 29 2009, 09:44 AM']Ni invite required people:- [url="http://www.spotify.com/en/download/windows/"]http://www.spotify.com/en/download/windows/[/url][/quote] Not to download the client, but you still need an invite to create an account. I don't understand why they've gone back to invite-only.

[quote name='wateroftyne' post='639258' date='Oct 28 2009, 05:15 PM']No offence taken. [/quote] No bassists in tonight, then...

Yes. Yes. Yes. That's just awesome. And it's nice to know that it's obviously not just bassists who think that Bakithi absolutely makes this track.

[quote name='alexclaber' post='634775' date='Oct 23 2009, 07:21 PM']Website has been swapped, just lots of editing and expanding for me to do now.[/quote] Like putting in a picture of an actual Vintage!

[quote name='umph' post='632580' date='Oct 21 2009, 05:14 PM']nowt wrong with H&H amps, very underated in my opinion[/quote] +1, and built to last.

[quote name='endorka' post='631604' date='Oct 20 2009, 06:09 PM']"As the world falls down" from Labyrinth, by David Bowie.[/quote] Love it. Love it. Love it. Aaaah, nostalgia...

[quote name='beerdragon' post='629754' date='Oct 18 2009, 07:51 PM']This does nothing for me. nothing at all. to me i wondered why they bothered covering the tune anyway. someone might as well have said lets do some noodling in G for eight minutes. i just dont get it.[/quote] +1. It kind of... misses the point of the tune in a way. This is what it's all about: Yes, even longer, but more... kind of... visceral. Mmmm. Nice.

Oh my stars. That's just... mmmm. Wow. :wub:

[quote name='Finbar' post='628922' date='Oct 17 2009, 06:37 PM']I work for Royal Mail, where next day is actually next day (or supposed to be, before anyone pipes up ), Saturday or not. It doesn't cost more to deliver on a Saturday does it.[/quote] What's the £2.20 RM Special Delivery surcharge for guaranteed Saturday delivery about then?

[quote name='MythSte' post='629070' date='Oct 17 2009, 09:40 PM']thats more valve and vintage porn i just dont need [/quote] Bah. We can just revel in the delicious dichotomy of our lightweight micro-heads with their accompanying monstrous cabs. Let's face it -- the load-in's easier.

[quote name='MythSte' post='627915' date='Oct 16 2009, 02:27 PM']Just out of interest Alex, what would be the effect of placing any of your cabs on the side? Ive been tempted to put my vintage on its side just to look even more old skool...[/quote] [url="http://basschat.co.uk/index.php?s=&showtopic=13344&view=findpost&p=398118"]See here...[/url]