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WinterMute started following Worst reasons your band broke up... , Is there a popular bass player, that you just don’t get? , What’s your home practice setup? and 5 others
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Is there a popular bass player, that you just don’t get?
WinterMute replied to Rayman's topic in General Discussion
I can appreciate the work of any bassist in the context of impressive work in a band or ensemble, it's a difficult job being rhythmic and melodic and we have to pay attention to drummers... That said, most of the solo exhibitionist work I see leaves me completely cold, doesn't matter who really, Jaco solo is not a patch on his work with Weather Report or Joni Mitchell, and I do love some Jaco, Joe Darts solos are dull dull dull, but he sits in the pocket with the whole band and grooves like a b*st*rd. If you solo Entwistle's tracks they are a cacophony, but in the context of the Who in full cry, it's a thing of wonder. McCartney's Beatles tone was absolute dogs*t solo, but works brilliantly in the band's overall sound. Context is everything, as always. Except for Geddy Lee, that guy just sucks donkey balls. 😜 -
Quad Cortex into a QSC K12.2, Boss Bass Chorus on an FX loop. Also my rehearsal rig. Also my recording rig with a Shelford Channel as a DI.
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Mine are insured on the house contents, the 2 I use for rehearsals or gigs are insured away from the home, the others just in the studio at home, the policy covers everything under £1500, with the other stuff as named items. Just make sure you name anything expensive you intend to use away from home, and note that it's very unlikely to be covered if left unattended in a car etc. It does get a bit expensive if you have a studio full of pricy kit, but it's all on new for old, and I really couldn't afford to replace it all if it was nicked or the house caught fire.
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well, if the XXXXL joggers fit...
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The things we do for money eh? I'm glad that phase of my career only lasted about a year, I moved to a excellent studio after that and nearly all the sessions were of good quality, and then I went freelance and I could chose the sessions I worked on after that. Now I work purely for the fun of it, and it's a great hobby to have.
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Just out of interest, and I expect the answer is "turnover", but why would you accept a booking from a band that ill-disciplined a second time? I will completely accept, and support, the wildest changes in direction and planning provided there are sound creative reasons for doing so, simply adding more and more rubbish to an already overloaded arrangement "to give it a try" is not a good reason to over-run a session by 5 hours... I had one band heading into the mix on an album that'd taken 3 weeks to track come in and demand that the entire drum recording were to be replaced because the drummer had a new drum kit. This was on 24 track analogue and there was no room to lay the new kit in parallel, I would be literally erasing the old drum tracks as the new ones were captured. They insisted that the new kit was better and the drummer was capable of tracking the whole album in a "reasonable" amount of time, but that it would have to come out of the mix time budget. This simply became a matter of 'Just do it" as far as the band were concerned. I did point out that if he wasn't, the whole album was at risk. I fully expected to have to rush the mix. I set it up, mic'ed the new kit (which was an absolute belter as it happened) and kept my fingers crossed that the poor drummer could keep going for what I thought would be at least 2 days... Pressing play and record on that first track was one of the hardest things I've ever done in a recording studio. He nailed 7 tracks in 4 hours, 2 in one take and 3 with drop-ins into break downs, he had a pizza and an hour break and cleared the last 5 before midnight. I had him drop an intro the next morning and started mixing. We finished the album 2 days early. Sometimes it works out. Good musicians are worth their weight in gold, good drummers doubly so.
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As a hard rule, I never update MacOS on the studio Mac until I have seen confirmation from Avid, Universal Audio, PACE and Sound Toys that they all play nicely, I let the early adopters take all the pain. Too many botched updates in the past.
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How was your recording session last night/yesterday...?
WinterMute replied to MacDaddy's topic in General Discussion
Going to have to finish re-building this studio before we can get anything done... -
Used to use Final Cut Pro and Premier, but these days I just shove it all into iMovie and have done, video edits don't need to be Micheal Bay level and it's easy enough to sync the footage with whatever audio you have. If I'm editing video to the audio, as you would with a band promo, it's very easy, if you're doing post-style sound design for existing footage, I'd definitely go ProTools/Reaper/Logic etc.
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I wonder if Horoscope based face make-up featured anywhere...
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You know, I was expecting the usual ego, drugs sex and musical differences, but murder and firearms.... I've led a sheltered life...
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I was reading through the Being in Bands that Broke UP thread, and it occurred to me that i've had a couple of bands break up for the most pathetic and minor reasons. I'd been working for about a year on the late 80s with a brother and sister (guitarist and singer) and a very good young drummer, we'd got demos done and most of an hour set properly sorted, it was well run and well financed, both having been in moderately successful with bands in the late 70's and 80s. The stage show rehearsals were going well and new material was arriving that was better than the current stuff. We had some small company interest etc. etc. The band finished abruptly one morning outside my house when they had a fist-fight in the road over who was going to sit in the middle seat in the front of the bands van... Claret all over the gaff from a busted nose. Apparently they didn't speak for 10 years after that. I was not well pleased. What's the most petty reason your band broke up?
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Regents on TOTP2 - what bass is this?
WinterMute replied to Cosmo Valdemar's topic in General Discussion
it looks like a lefty being played right handed to me, never seen that pickup config though, could be custom. Is that back part actually part of the bass? looks like a handbag in some shots. -
How Clean/Overdriven Is Your Basic "Clean" Tone?
WinterMute replied to Baloney Balderdash's topic in General Discussion
No option for "absolutely f*ck*ng filthy" then? What is this "clean tone" to which you refer?- 40 replies
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