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Godwhacker..! SD odd lyrics! Haitian Divorce is fab too.

I tried one when they first came out, sat it on top of an Ampeg 8x10, I didn't really notice a difference... Ended up using a Hartke Transporter 2x10 with the ally cones, that had some cut to it! Used them with an 800RB that had a variable x-over built in.

Depending on the players rig, I'll often take a DI from the bass, a DI from the amp's pre-amp output (a lot of amps have a DI output these days) and I'll mic the cab too, the variation that affords in the mix is well worth the effort. I will always re-align the mic'ed track with the DI tracks, because it'll be slightly late and the phase change will rob you of some LF, just a case of dragging the mic audio forward by a few milliseconds in Protools.

As above, I have a 201 on my VMJ fretless and I did indeed have to shim the neck, the base plate of the Gotoh is just too thick to let the action drop lower. Followed the excellent "How to shim a neck" guide right here, no probs at all, bass plays like a dream now.

I have Wizard 84's in my Squire VMJ fretless, they are darker than the 64's, more aggressive and tighter in the LF I think. Thoroughly recommend Wizard pups.

Loving Mike's 'tache in the first clip...! Never a big fan, but if your gonna slap, might as well slap like a bastard eh?

<cough> Geddy Lee </cough> I started out as a singer, picked up bass when we needed a bassist, never thought it was an odd thing to do until we started gigging and lots of people asked "how do you do that?" If I learn a bassline and then try to learn the vocals I fail big-time, always try to learn both together, so that it becomes second nature to sing along with the line and rhythm, then you can refine both separately. Then practice. A lot.

[quote name='Rimskidog' post='609201' date='Sep 26 2009, 01:11 PM']No need for it to be in a tom shell. Mount it on a stand[/quote] mounting it in a shell approximates a cardioid pattern, open backed it's decidedly omni... I jest, although it does sound a bit tighter in the shell, and it's easier to store.

[quote name='Rimskidog' post='609044' date='Sep 26 2009, 09:25 AM']That's absolutely right. I had a home made job for a long time. I didnt 'buy' a subkick until that one died.[/quote] Mount any 8 or 10 driver into an old 10" tom-tom shell, stick it on a stand, voila!!

if I get the ability with the gig: Rush, Zep, Gabriel or with Joni for Shadows and Light. If the ability has to come from me: Leonard Cohen's current tour (although thats probably stretching it a bit...) Sh*ts and giggles: AC/DC

OK, I think I'm missing something, I have the license on my iLok, but not the plug-in, and I can;t seem to find where the download is, I just get shunted back to the iLok license generator. Any ideas? edit: Forget it, I found the DL link... Thanks for the heads up. :-)

When I went to 5 strings, I sold all my 4 string basses, a Wal Pro 1 fretless, a JD supernatural and a precision, never thought I'd go back. Well, I sold the Warwick last year and now have a Geddy Lee and a VMJ fretless, I really miss the Wal, and to some extent the others too. Never say never. GAS'ing for a Wal fretless or something in that league. 4 strings, 5 strings, 6 strings.... Who cares? It's what you do with it that counts, only having 4 strings never slowed Geddy or Tal down, and Jaco did more with 4 than most will ever do with 5 or 6. That said, advances in amps and speakers mean that 5 and 6 string basses are perfectly acceptable in more genres these days.

[quote name='Rimskidog' post='601552' date='Sep 17 2009, 06:31 PM']are you running an API then? Which one?[/quote] Sadly not, we have an Otari Elite, a Raindirk Symphony and a stack of the Audient ASP's which are very decent desks for the little money they charge, we also have Digi C24's and a few Mackie DXB's. Our main problem (as ever) is financing big desks, I can build a couple of new rooms fully fitted for the price of a decent API. I've used API desks in pro-land, lovely chunks of kit that they are. You can see some of our rooms here: [url="http://music.tvu.ac.uk/index.php/virtual-studio-tour.html"]LCM Studios[/url] These are a few yers old now, and we have updated the labs and some of the other rooms, but not the website as yet, we don't have the Sony desks anymore.

[quote name='Rimskidog' post='601139' date='Sep 17 2009, 11:06 AM']Wow! That's huge! Is that a teaching facility of some kind? Love the Adams. Stuff just translates[/quote] Yep, its the music tech department of the London College of Music, which is part of Thames Valley University. We use Dynaudio M1 and BM5a's for near-fields, a few PMC's too, mainly PMC and ATC for mains, I've been meaning to get some Adams in for comparison for a while, Pip Williams lectures with us and he has Adams near-fields, swears by em.

[quote name='Rimskidog' post='600650' date='Sep 16 2009, 07:57 PM']thanks man though I don't use 192s. I have 32 I/o of lynx aurora and a cranesong hedd on the mixbus midfields are Adam s3a. Mains are dynaudio m3s[/quote] Good choices all round there! We're stuck with 192's as we have a job lot from Digi, we have 14 HD rigs and 24 studio rooms, I can't afford to even begin thinking about changing the I/O...! How are you getting on with the Adams?

[quote name='molan' post='600826' date='Sep 16 2009, 10:27 PM']Go for the box set - it's always my 'reserve' on the iPod playlist whenever I can't think what else to listen to [/quote] A friend of mine at Uni in the 80's was a big Dan fan, I was a total Rush head at the time and there were often audio duels in the corridor between Signals/Permanent Waves and whatever overcomplicated bilgewater Fagan had produced at the time (spot the irony). Oddly I bought the double Greatest Hits compilation (Kids something?) at a boot sale and I'm happy to say much of it made perfect sense this time. Ewen, you weren't the deaf uncultured Welsh bugger I thought you were mate, sorry about that. Now playing Everything Must Go.

Looking good mate, the API is a cracking desk to run PT through, makes the 192's sound good! Couldn't see what monitoring you use (admittedly on a cursory glance) what's in the control room?

[quote name='YouMa' post='599827' date='Sep 16 2009, 03:42 AM']I saw the making of aja on telly i still think more slap than pop.[/quote] Sort of slop then?

[quote name='bilbo230763' post='594709' date='Sep 10 2009, 01:20 PM']My recollection is Karn is completely untrained and doesn't know what he is doing, he just does it. Or was that just 'anti-establishment' posturing? Who care? He pushed the envelope and that is always a good thing. I'll read it. And he had great taste in basses [/quote] ...but often no eyebrows...

When I was playing in bands in the 80's and 90's my 5 sting Thumb was a perfect beast for the job, particularly for the more proggy stuff I used to play, the B lets you work under the layers of guitars that wold inevitably appear as if by magic.... Now I'm just noodling around for my own pleasure I've gone back to 4 strings, and bought a fretless again, I have no need for the 5th (or 6th or 7th....) string, and I get to play a Geddy Lee Jazz with that perfect neck. The point has been made, you choose the tools for the job in hand, and no amount of expensive kit will make you a better player than you actually are.

[quote name='Bay Splayer' post='590778' date='Sep 5 2009, 04:27 PM']tried out the marcus miller today.....what a lovely bass, then tried out the geddy lee...... WOW! EVEN BETTER!! (imo) just ordered online from GAK, cant bloody wait [/quote] Good man, tbh you'd be more than happy with either. I'm seriously considering a fretless MM to replace my Squire VMJ.

The MOTU if you can afford it, and then add the Focusrite Octa pre (with the optical interface) for another 8 or 16 inputs if you need them (I do). Oddly the old Digidesign 002 rack is a good buy, as long as you have FW400, which some of the new MacBook Pros don't have. You don't need to use Protools with it and they are very reasonable off ebay.

I had a headless double neck built in about 86, fretted and fretless mainly to switch between the two during songs (it was a proggy band tbh). Damn thing nearly killed me, waaaay too heavy and unwieldy, ended up stripping it for the hardware and skipping it. How long does it take to switch a bass over with a good footswitch switcher? Alternatively, buy an Chapman NS Stick half-fretless and string it like 2 bases on 1 neck!!! A steal for £2500.