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5 hours ago, casapete said:

I honestly believe you have a right to a quiet environment in your own home, and anyone regularly disrupting this should be advised it won’t be tolerated

I understand where you are coming from with this, but there are factors that have to be considered. Some houses are just poorly constructed and even music played at appropriate levels travels to next door neighbours. In these circumstances a balance has to be struck, as inevitably your neighbours will also have to tolerate noise you make by DIY and music etc. 

However I totally agree with you about acoustic drums. I spent a large amount of money putting rock wool and 2 layers of acoustic gyprock in my detached garage, put a drum kit in it and it could still be heard in everyone House in the street. It seems I would have to drop more cash to deal with the roof of the garage... The kit went... 

John Mayer Trio - Try! 

Holy crap, this shouldn't be around for long at that price! 

15 minutes ago, Lfalex v1.1 said:

I did think of Brian "The Brain" Mantia, and Tim Alexander (the other Primus drummer)

And I'll add another; Pat Mastelotto. Awesome drummer. 

I really love the funkiness of Brain's playing with Primus, as much as I love Tim's playing also he is much more linear. 

But then Brain can rock it up with the best of them too. 

I've got a fretless Alpher nearing completion that I can wait to get my hands on. 

Also some type of preamp for my pedalboard, can't make up my mind which one tho... 

Wow, page 4 and none of my picks have been said yet... 

Steve Jordan, 

Jojo Mayer

Brain (Brian Mantia) 

Sput (Robert Seawright) 

Not my cup of tea, but my brother in law is in a doom band you guys might enjoy: Owlcrusher. 

https://www.facebook.com/owlcrusherdoom/

So has anyone actually used one of these? I am thinking of putting this on a pedal train train nano + with hx stomp and mxr volume x mini. 

Possible perfect fly rig? Then ashdown abm 4x10 for some gigs, and getting some type of 1x10 for small gigs. 

I hope I'm wrong about them, it's just the side to side movement (not rotary😂) that I've seen in videos that concerns me. But I'm sure I'm probably wrong... I usually am. 

On 06/12/2020 at 21:46, Dood said:

For some really good live-studio recordings I've been really enjoying guitarist Martm Miller's page: https://www.youtube.com/c/MartinMillerGuitar

He's produced some superb footage with exceptional audio playing everything from 80's mash-ups to playing through Dark Side Of The Moon live - and much more. Full band and guests.

Yup these videos are top class, plus the band has an incredible bass player in Benni Jud. 

The whole band are incredible and also have amazing guests. 

3 minutes ago, LukeFRC said:

does it do that with a blank patch? turn things off one by one to see if you can work out what it could be

I have put headphones on and with logic it's not doing that, it must be a routing issues between my interface and logic. 

Thanks for your help folks. 

2 minutes ago, CameronJ said:

What’s your set up?

Are you listening through headphones? An amp? Monitors?

Going into my antelope discreet 8 interface, into logic, then KRK Rokit 5 monitors. 

On 05/02/2021 at 13:21, acidbass said:

Another tip is that most amp models are very highly gained and distorted, the first thing I would do is turn down the gain to hear what they are really like.

I also found this to be the case, however I updated to 3.01 this morning and they seem to have fixed that. 

When building patches, my signal always seems to sound like there is some chorus or reverb on it. I think it's possibly coming from the compressor block. Has anyone else had this issue? If so how did you overcome it? 

Stewart Lee is my favourite comedian, thanks for posting this. 

9 hours ago, Kwiatkowski_73 said:

Hey all! 

I've been tonking away at the lessons and got to a point where I'm playing the bass line from Billie Jean. I happened to record myself playing it and on play back noticed that when I'm moving between strings I'm almost getting a hammer on and pull off sound whilst moving. Once heard, never unheard. It is doing my head in. 

Is this down to Technique, Set Up, both or have I not sacrificed enough skin to the Bass Gods? 

Help Me Bass Kenobis. You're my only hope. 

Keep practicing, and perhaps work on your fretting hand fingerings. Apply enough pressure until you produce a clear tone, then you don't need to press any harder, the lighter your touch the faster you can change position, plus it will help with your intonation. 

Don't be too hard on yourself, listening to yourself play is always tough at first, but it shows you where you need to focus. 

Just watched the video, and as a huge claypool fan, it's just exactly what you would expect, left field strangeness. Love it. 

5 minutes ago, Lozz196 said:

I’m the same, my 2015 US Precision is the bass I feel most comfortable and familiar with, unfortunately the Precision sound is a bit too full for my current band so it’s taking a back seat at present.

Never underestimate what can be achieved with an eq pedal. You might be able to use your favourite bass after all. 

2 minutes ago, greavesbass said:

Primus tone is a good bass tone then we are on very different pages it seems.

It appears we are. 

1 minute ago, greavesbass said:

Honestly I really am a nice guy but I do enjoy robust debate.

Primus?.  What bass, hes playing it as a lead instrument....come off it r u serious?

MM?....hes slapping it which is nothing new, we were doing  that 40 years ago

Janek?.  Thats just Jaco with a variation.

The other  band is just a bassless noise...sorry

Whether you personally like the music / playing style / genre is irrelevant to the original point you made, which is that there is only 3 types of bass tone. Which is just not true I'm afraid. I have just in 5 minutes pointed out 4 different bass tones. 

8 minutes ago, greavesbass said:

Nope been at it a long time and Ive just bought  another bass so Im def not a troll.....But when I see young players today fretting over "their tone" I have to have a chortle...cause its all been done, there is no "new bass tone"....How can there be. We've had the bridge PU punch of Jaco, Bernie Edwards, John Taylor and John Patitucci, the synth bass of Jan Hammer with the clank of Geddy and Squire and the smooth woody P tone on a million top ten hits....Guess if you have a new tone we havent heard before then maybe we ought to be all ears.

In all honesty you haven't mentioned a single musician from the last 30 years so perhaps it's not the "young" players chasing their tone that need to open their ears. 

Just to get you started:

All different bass tones, not as the ones you have described above. 

15 minutes ago, greavesbass said:

I think most here are missing the point. There are basically with some subtle variations  three bass tones. Jaco, Squire and everyone else.

The Jaco tone is used by cruisers, pit guys and jazzers across the board with subtle variations.

The Squire "clank" and variations is used by Punks, Metal heads etc etc

And the rest which is a soft P bassy type of tone by just about everybody else.

There are no other radically different tones from those listed...unless you use a flanger reverb, or whah peddle all the time.

 

 

 

Can't help but think this is a trolling comment... 

https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B0091C03YG/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_apa_fabc_4NX7CYJKNZY0XSA002RF

This sounds like what you are describing but use them for your picking hand. 

I don't know if they would actually be any good to be honest, but maybe worth a try. 

I think for me it has been up and down, not having gigs or rehearsals has me concerned with me live sound as I've not played at volume in months.

Yet I have probably played a bit more than I would have but it's not necessarily been productive. 

3 minutes ago, knicknack said:

I've had a listen to the stems of the Dua album and honestly the bass parts are just compiled from a ton of sampled/programmed bits. Don't start now for instance has 5/6 bass tracks at least and i wouldn't be surprised if no real basses were touched in the making of it... 

One that flew under the radar a bit last year was Jessie Ware's latest album... in the same sonic space as Dua's, but to me it feels like the songs have a little more substance! 

Its on Wikipedia no real bass on don't start now. However I have nothing but love for it. That takes a whole level of skill to make a vst sound that real. Fair play to the producer.