Twigman

[quote name='Fraktal' post='486909' date='May 13 2009, 01:53 PM']Boss CE-2B Now if you would excuse me, need to find a wall where to bang my head for a few hours... Happens to me always when I remember I had one of those and I sold it![/quote] Not as frustrating as actually having lost one.....I might still have it i just don't know where!!

[quote name='lowdown' post='482040' date='May 7 2009, 02:48 PM']Hey Twigman Do you hang around the Sonar Forum Much? Garry[/quote] I used to a lot. I'm known as Twigman over there too.

[quote name='sk8' post='481990' date='May 7 2009, 02:05 PM']BBE Opto Stomp[/quote] I bought one of these a few eeeks ago and can say it was £55 very well spent. Lovely - it pulls up my troughs and squashes my peaks subtly and cleanly - exactly like a decent compressor should.

To my mind the reliced basses do not show 'natural' signs of wear though - they just look like they've been bashed about or attacked with brillo pads or the like.... My JV bass is aging nicely - it's an 83 and is showing signs of wear but not in the places a modern reliced bass is 'worn'. If it's to replicate the look of truly aged vintage basses then surely they'd be damaging the finish in the appropriate places?

I just don't get it. Why would someone want to pay through the nose for an artificially beaten up bass? Someone please explain the attraction. Thanks

PC with RME HDSP9632 soundcard with the I/O extension boards Alesis 3630 compressor for vocal compression prior to recording Cakewalk Sonar 7 producer edition I record at 16bit 44100kHz to keep file sizes down and I hear little difference at the end of the day from 24bit. 16/44.1 gives less headroom when mixing than say 24/96 but uses a lot fewer CPU cycles which means I can keep my buffers smaller.

[url="http://basschat.co.uk/index.php?showuser=4887"]http://basschat.co.uk/index.php?showuser=4887[/url] Last Seen: 7th December 2008 - 02:12 PM Never to be seen again no doubt.

I had an 80s Brown Boss Bass Chorus pedal (mono - not stereo) which I loved. Sadly I have lost it.

1/18th notes will be semiquaver triplets in 6/8 time

I can't play for sh*t. It's never really bothered me. I play in a band which doesn't require that I can play complex stuff. I still enjoy playing to the 600odd that pay to see us but I would never cut it on open mic night.

Alan Shearer He's about to give a master class in how to go down.

sky blue pink with purple spots 4 ply 'shell is what you obviously don't want - despite it being the correct answer

[quote name='dlloyd' post='474267' date='Apr 28 2009, 03:28 PM']That's £360 in todays prices... can that still be thought of as a 'budget' bass?[/quote] It was budget at the time though. if you wanted cheaper you'd have to buy a Hondo or a crappy Kay (I had a crappy Kay at the time and it was just a lump of very heavy cheap wood - hardly a bass at all).

[quote name='MacDaddy' post='430722' date='Mar 10 2009, 06:05 PM']post a pic [/quote] If you insist

Normally one of these Airbus A319

[quote name='DanFold' post='474099' date='Apr 28 2009, 12:04 PM']Is that 'yellow thing' not a power box or whatever you wanna call em?![/quote] Yes it was - but unconnected and the heaviest thing we could find to dampen the vibes...

I get to play with a different rig every gig as all our gigs are abroad and all the backline is always hired. Sometimes I get what I ask for and sometimes I don't. On Sunday I was told I'd be getting a Trace Elliot 1215V - what actually turned up was a Trace Elliot 2x10 combo which didn't work so in the end they gave me this: Ampeg312 head with 8x10cab - the yellow thing on top is a heavy weight to dampen the rack case which was buzzing a bit:

[quote name='chris_pokkuri' post='474048' date='Apr 28 2009, 10:51 AM']I'm going to be looking to try to organise some gigs for my band across Europe in the near future - any advice you can give me?[/quote] I don't do the bookings, myself. Our guitarist does most of the legwork ( he's a co-owner of Anjunabeats records and has loads of contacts 'in the business' ). The promoters we use generally come to us and ask us to go there and play- the luxury of having put out half a dozen albums and already having a fan base...and then it's a case of establishing the venue size, ticket price and identifying how much the promoter is likely to make and then naming our price.... We never played abroad when we were unsigned so I really won't be much help to you. Advice I'd definitely give though is with whoever you deal with make sure, before you go, that you know exactly who is expected to pay for what and when..... Good luck

Sunday night 26th. We were the only band on the bill at Gagarin205 in Athens, Greece. All in all a good show with (for once) a well organised promoter - although the Bass rig he'd told me I'd have didn't work (!!) - Luckily he was able to get hold of an Ampeg 312 and 8 x 10 cab for the show - which was nice. Here are some pics of our audience: A great time was had by all......

and already the fans are posting on youtube Now to organise some dates in Spain....

ATHENS THIS WEEKEND 26TH APRIL Woo! I get to play at being rock star for another weekend!!!!

IME learning how to sleep anywhere and everywhere is essential. On tour sleep deprivation is what hurts me most. I find it impossible to sleep on buses or in cars so I have to catch what I can when I can.