iamapirate

try 3 solid days of 9am-5pm rehersals before a new year's eve gig with a drummer who doesn't want to be there! bahh!

IMO the best drummersare the ones that canmake the ximpest of beats sound like the best thing in the world. It's all about confidence. What YOU need to do is just follow whatever he's doing. The kick drum is always the best place to start, and if you're not hitting your note on almost every time that kick hits the skin, then you need to sort something out. Something I have noticed, is that f he's hitting it on 2 and 4 on a quiet section, hitting it on 1 and 3 actually works. It makes it sound like you're hitting it on all 4, but you're in fact not. it's a good way of building up. Now I have a question that is based on what this guy will probably experience: The lead singer/guitarist goes out of time. The drummer can't quite tell - but he knows something's gone wrong. The g-tard singer decides in his mind that he is right and everyone should follow him. The drummer's heard that he's the centre of the band and carries on. Who do you follow??

Check out the MXR one as well, I had a go on it and it's awesome IMO About £80 second hand off here??

[quote name='Higgie' post='548941' date='Jul 23 2009, 01:30 PM']Yeah, not too fond of the Morley (Is it the Dual Bass Wah you're talking about?) - I've had before and sold it after getting the 105Q, so I know that I prefer the 105Q over the Morley. Also, the Morley is pretty huge, as is the Weeping Demon, so they're both out...[/quote] ahh, I used ot have a morley guitar wah pedal that looked similar to the dual bass, only was a 'classic' one. I put my ODB-3 in front of it and it sounded like a duck! great for build ups, though. Lost it, though as I couldn't keep it in my old pedalboard - too high!

hah, yeah, make an effort to wear nice stuff, but don't become a 'pretty boy': then again... the other end of the scale...

[quote name='flatwound' post='548817' date='Jul 23 2009, 12:39 PM']Imbecile, ....give the girl the credit she deserves[/quote] You see, usually when something like that happens I'd be the first to say that we need a little bit of balance, but that was just plain mean!

In my current band, we had ot kick out the second guitarist, and with him quite a few fans. The problem was that when he was in the band, we would all really bring in different groups of people to the gigs. So I got in all the socially unstable ones (cos I make frinds with them - it's called being nice ), the drummer would bring in all the senior management (he was the head boy ) the lead guitarist would generally bring in all the cool people, the singer all the other cool people who were too cool to speak to the slightly-less-cool people that the lead guitarist brought in and the second guitarist would bring in all the chavs! So when the second guitarist got kicked out, we lost about 20 fans (99%) of the people attending the gigs. However, as in kongo's band, we all contribute things equally. Our drummer is ridiculously technical in his beats, the singer has perfect pitch and it the main image of the band, the guitarist doesn't solo - he performs witchcraft, and I come up with basslines, etc. that IMO are unique to me! Plus I'm the only good-looking one in the band

[quote name='dannybuoy' post='548905' date='Jul 23 2009, 12:47 PM']Unless you're desparate, I'd hold off until the new Markbass one comes out. It could be the synth to end all synths. Or it could be pony, we shall see.[/quote] oh +1 on that one. Can't flippin wait for that!! Almost forgot about it!

Got a fender 2008 american standard jazz from GAK at a special price of £769 inc case brand new and it's one of the best basses I've ever played. I kinda look forward to the day when it's all beaten up and stuff, but seriously, I got one of them with a bass microsynths with money spare from a £1000 inheritance fund my parents decided to give me out of my grandad's inheritance and it's the single best transaction I have ever made! I can't recommend the '08 jazz bass highly enough. HOWEVER, I would highly reccommend sticking around the for sale section and waiting for a good deal to come up. You could probably get (I'm guessing here) my bass for about £500 from there if you wait long enough. But for me, especially as I was new and untrusting of this little community, I decided I had to buy new. (and btw, gak.co.uk is the best place to buy online )

Not much has changed - There's a new bass microsynth that is slightly smaller, and sounds a bit worse - not worth the upgrade apparently (I've got one and it's awesome IMO). Obviously the behringer isn't nearly as good sound quality as anything else and the tracking below the a string is horrible. Pretty much the same goes for the boss SYB-5, but I can only compare it, really, to my BMS :/

[quote name='thisnameistaken' post='547239' date='Jul 22 2009, 05:05 AM']Well... I think if you want to clone a Mammoth for yourself, nobody's going to know are they? But making money out of cloning it for other people is poor form. You can say "It's a Fuzz Face" all day, but a fuzz face doesn't have four knobs. Why aren't you producing a two-knob fuzz if you're just using the Fuzz Face circuit? Because you're not, you're cloning a ZVex pedal. Nobody here who's producing Woolly Mammoth clones would be doing it if the Woolly Mammoth didn't exist, clearly. So saying it's based on a Fuzz Face fuzz doesn't make reproducing the Mammoth OK. IMHO.[/quote] Just to get this out in the clear [size=5]He is not making any money out of this[/size] So why do people still think this is wrong?

to be honest, I'm pretty annoyed that people automatically think that because people are young, it means that they're rubbish! EDIT steve-soar that wasn't directed at you! :blush:

16 but what difference does it make, anyway??

[quote name='Faithless' post='548057' date='Jul 22 2009, 07:53 PM']Just because of what? Just because they're young and they try to come over the stuff, that [i]normally[/i] [i]shouldn't[/i] be taken by a kid?[/quote] Well, I don't agree with you there! I think that if they're at that level, then you should push them onto new lines. I have no doubt that Zoe is a very talented bassist (by listening to her other tracks) and that she could nail this one with a bit more practise. The important thing is that [i]she[/i] also knows that - [b]which she does.[/b] I expect there have been many times (especially after making this) that she has nailed it, and I reckon she probably now looks at it now thinking it was a bad (hey, I know I think that 99% of my old recordings are horribly out of time, sometimes just after recording it). Also, I think that it [i]is[/i] right to praise a kid when s/he nails a line, or gets very close. There's been at least 5 people who have said how they can't even play that line or get close to her efforts. I don't think it was too bad. If she'd been playing the first beat on the 2nd beat that would be another matter... [quote name='Faithless' post='548057' date='Jul 22 2009, 07:53 PM']I'm getting my coat, Faith.[/quote] Don't listen to the idiots above me telling you to leave! I agree with some of what you're saying: Yes, she went out of time from God-knows what, Yes we should stop kids from half-doing a song, and moving on because 'oh yeah, I learnt it'. However, I don't think that we should stop them from playing and learning them. I know that playing though 'sir duke' by Stevie Wonder on my thrid bass lesson was one of the things that inspired me to play bass, [b]even though I could hardly play it[/b] (ok, I kinda played all of it except the run-down)

Yeah, I'm trying to decide at the moment between backing tracks and literally a looper. What I'm thinking is, buy one of those boss things, track all my synth things into it before the gig, then have it on my pedalboard (not going through my amp or anything) and have no input to it, either, just have it go through a DI box, and triger the samples with my feet. The only problem is hat my drummer would HAVE to play to a click track, and keep to that tempo, and not move from it, or the samples would be out. But it is quite a flexible way of having a keyboard player's samples, but not having a keyboard player to cramp your style Also, the other thing that's really useful is that if you decide to do a section again (or it happens accidently) then you can just trigger the samples again!

[quote name='bubinga5' post='546386' date='Jul 21 2009, 01:19 PM']Well some have put preamps in there basses but this means routing...But no an external preamp i mean...Is the tone hammer that big?? Does it matter, its no bigger than an effects pedal or unit....[/quote] Well, maybe but as far as I can see it's really just a very nice EQ that has been tweaked to make a bass sound at it's best, so I'd set it and leave it. I can understand taking up 2 boss-sized pedal spaces with something like a EHX BMS, but for something that's 'set and leave' like the tone-hammer it is rather large.

Yeah, I mean whats the point in cloning something if no one knows it's a clone - IMO that would be even worse because you are ripping it off as your own.

Tis awesome! Can't believe I've only just come across all this! Great stuff - and for once I can actually understand melodically what slapping is all about. Really melodic stuff, and it feels like it's been structured rather than just some kid hitting all the notes in a minor pentatonic with a I IV V IV chord sequence!

ok, updated. Added the water rats - big caution sign should help!

I'm still not sure whether to go wireless from my pedalboard or to my pedalboard. I mean, it would help going from because then I can place it any distance from the amp, but from the bass would probably be easierbecause of no wires. EDIT I've just realised how stupid a wuestion that is. the pedalboard doesn't move!

Don't shoot me down too quickly - I know almost nothing about this kind of thing. COuld you fit active pickups onto it, and make a custom lead to go from your bass into a home-made pedal on the floor, which would house the preamp circuit? Or would the cable lose too much signal?