bartelby

58 minutes ago, jonno1981 said:

New sleep token album “take me back to Eden”. It’s going to divide opinion for sure. For anyone not aware they’re an intriguing anonymous bunch who dress up on stage that are on their third album. Previous material is strong, particularly 1st album. 
Becoming quite the crossover act blending detuned metal with pop sensibilities. I know this sounds hideous but hear me out. 

Not much in the way of prominent bass parts but really enjoying the album as a whole. 

The production is absolutely massive sounding, very polished. 
Highlights are the snare drum sound, all singles released so far, the riff on ascensionism around 4mins in. Lots of colour in this and it improves on repeat. 
 

 

I’ve seen these guys mentioned on some music groups I’m in on Facebook. 
 

Just checked them out, Chokehold was good for me to go back to the first album.

It’s all pretty good

20 hours ago, Baloney Balderdash said:

This album is pretty damn astonishing!

 

And I love the cover artwork as well!

 

Thank you for making me aware of its existence. 

 

 

😊

glad to be of service.

I’m a big fan of both Gnod and White Hills. But this colab is my favourite release by them both..

Kicking back with a beer and some Gnod & White Hills

Yep, if you have a mic, interface and software you can make your own.

Logic Pro on the Mac comes with an IR Utility program. That’s really simple to use 

2 hours ago, NancyJohnson said:

I read a little piece yesterday about how Living Colour's Stain album was now 30 years old and how the initial US release had different guitar solos on tracks 2-4 (Ignorance Is Bliss, Leave It It Alone, Bi) - I was a huge fan (although it has to be said, I'm more Team Muzzy that Doug Wimbush) and have both the alternate and regular versions.  This was kind of enough to kick off a bit of a Living Colour deep dive - been working though from the original demos, the official releases, bootlegs, the lot.  

 

This is a crazy mental version of Funny Vibe.  Muzz was so great.

 

 

I first saw Living Colour supporting Anthrax on the State of Euphoria tour. They pretty much out played/entertained Anthrax.

I then saw them a few years later with Stereo MCs supporting. Stereo MCs were so badly received that Living Colour refused to come on stage until the crowd gave the Stereo MCs a cheer.

6th anniversary of Chris Cornell's death today, so:

@Baloney Balderdash

I've just updated the firmware in my pedal and everything still works.

I use the IR from here:

https://shift-line.com/irpackbass

Have you tried these?

A Clutch gig:

Now that's an interesting pedal!

Looks like a lot of fun.

45 minutes ago, snorkie635 said:

Can't see any basses in there to 'give away'. 🙏

Much to my wife's disappointment...

I'm sitting down.

At some point soon we're due to have the loft converted. So over the the last few weeks we've been going through all the crap up there. Most of the actual junk has gone, now we're getting around to sorting the stuff we want to keep from the stuff to sell/donate/give away. This is 2/3 of that...

2 hours ago, fleabag said:

Stubborn just called me and said that 2trk phono in pic above is switchable between Input and Output, and isn't just Input only.  Uh ?

 

That's not how I read the manual:

"10 - 2TK LEVEL

The rotary control sets the level of the 2 Track Tape input, which is routed to the headphones, monitor outputs and meters, or directly to the Mix outputs by pressing the adjacent switch (12). These unbalanced inputs, on RCA phono connectors, are ideal to connect the playback of a tape machine for monitoring.

11 - 2TK REPLACES MIX OUTPUT!

This switch does what it says! When pressed the Mix output is switched to the 2 Track input and is an ideal way of feeding pre-show music to the main outputs in live applications without using up valuable input channels. For example, with the switch pressed and a CD connected and playing pre-show music, the engineer can be setting up channel levels, adjusting EQ, talking back to performers and monitoring any part of the mix (including final Mix) without affecting the sound to the audience. Releasing the switch instantly swaps the Mix Outputs back to the mixer and cuts off the CD.

CAUTION: Pressing this switch cuts off the normal Mix L/R signal and it should therefore NOT be used during live performance or recording"

@BigRedX just to add to confusion if you google Kent Armstrong pickup wiring you get either this from the Kent Armstrong site

or WD Music have a link to KA wiring diagrams that gives you...

11 minutes ago, stewblack said:

*Ahem*

You putting rounds or flats on that?

31 minutes ago, BigRedX said:

It's great pity that not everyone's experience of Ashdown's customer service is as good as that.

 

Personally I'll never buy another Ashdown product again.

I had issues with them in the past. Like single word replies to emails.

But that was about 12 years ago, they've been really helpful in recent years.

some Siouxsie & the Banshees...

So I had few mins free this morning and went and did some more messing around, but with the CTM300.

Can anyone explain this?
All the buttons out, bass and mid set to 100% then setting the treble to 0%, 50% and 100%.

At 50% there's less treble than at 0%. Then at 100% it tilts the curve.

New Julie Christmas single 'Not Enough'

2 minutes ago, NancyJohnson said:

No Gibson or Fender?

 

 

Dp they need to be there*?
They may as well just have a stand full of colour chips...


*maybe from a NAMM financial point of view they do, but not for a showing off new products...

This CTM30 preamp is a bit weird.

With the Mid at 100%, the Treble at 50% and all the switches up the Bass control behaves like a Tilt:

Flick the Bass switch down, with the rest of the settings staying the same as before, and you get:

Sticking the Bass switch back up and putting the Mid switch down gets you:

and both Bass and Mid switches down:

Remember these are from the DI, running through 2 15" cabs you obviously lose below around 40Hz and about 4KHz...

Putting the Treble over about 60% and the highs start to dominate, engaging the Bright switch is way too top end for me.

I quickly scanned through that TB thread.

All I could think was there's a lot of Fender and Ernie Ball clones and

$2700 for the black Aria Pro II SB-1000 and it doesn't even have the original style bridge!!!

I have the same username across a few forums, fora?.  So back when I joined my first one, over 20 years ago, I wanted Loki as my username. But that was taken.
So I then thought of Bartleby, as in Bartleby and Loki from the film Dogma. But being dyslexic I didn't spot my typo, until someone on the forum pointed it out.

Not particularly entertaining, I know.

So I've done some messing about today. Comparing the CTM300 and the CTM30. Running white noise into them and then taking a signal from the DI on each.
So this is with the Bass, Middle and Treble controls at 50% and all the buttons on the CTM300 out and the switches on the CTM30 up.

Nothing changed, setup wise, when I swapped the amps over. RTA set at 1/3 octave smoothing and 4 averages.

I have about 30 more charts for each of the amps. So I might post more