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Mikey D

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  1. [quote name='OldGit' post='228376' date='Jun 28 2008, 12:24 AM']There's something ironic about a Drum Throne called "peace" [/quote] Ha, you're not wrong!
  2. I think it would actually be nicer without the scratchplate(s)! Not a bad looking bass though.
  3. [quote name='cheddatom' post='228175' date='Jun 27 2008, 05:06 PM']Prices?[/quote] Sorted.
  4. In case anyone on here is a closet drummer or has a drummer buddy looking for new gear! I'm listing it on [url="http://www.drumclassifieds.co.uk"]Drum Classifieds[/url] as well. £450 - Premier Artist Heritage Club Kit (20 bass, 10*6 & 13*11 Toms, 13*5.5 Snare) - Silver Sparkle including fairly new Evans EMAD bass drum skin and premier cymbal arm. [NO PHOTO AT THE MOMENT] £160 - Pearl Free Floating Sheel (FFS) Brass 14" * 3.5" [b]SOLD - Cheers to Some French Man on eBay[/b]£90 - Iron Cobra Ltd Edition Chrome Single Pedal in Metal Case £320 (The Lot) or £155 - Dream Bliss Cymbals - 24" Ride[b]SOLD[/b], £70 - 20" Crash/Ride, £80 - 14" Hi-hats signed by (Chris "Daddy" Dave), £25 - 10" Splash [b]SOLD - Cheers to my Housemate! [/b]£25 - Zildjian 14" ZXT Trashformer £20 - Sabian Pro 10" China Splash £200 (The lot) - [url="http://www.dwdrums.com/hardware/6000Series.htm"]DW 6000 series Hardware[/url] (Snare Stand, Straight Stand, Boom Stand and HiHat, all MINT, and boxed except boom stand) £10 - Peace Drum Stool [b]SOLD - Cheers BigRedX (Mike)[/b]£10 - Cowbell and Clamp for Bass Drum Leave me a message or PM if you are interested in anything in particular.. Everything in MINT CONDITION (Chris Dave even plays for them! ) Based in Birmingham and would prefer cash on collection, but courier can be organised I suppose for most things.
  5. [size=4][b]Pigtronix EP-1 Envelope Filter[/b][/size] [i]Website:[/i] [url="http://www.pigtronix.com/products/EP-1.htm"]Pigtronix[/url] [i]Condition:[/i] Cosmetically excellent and fully functional. [i]RRP:[/i] They sell new for about £198 (Not including additional expression pedal) [i]Price:[/i] [s]£100[/s] £90. Prefer buyer to collect but can post for £12.50. [i]Comments:[/i] Great effect for bass, guitar, keys or even using in a studio setup. Comes with extra expression pedal and boxes.
  6. [size=4][b]PJB Suitcase = 4B Extension Cab[/b][/size] Suitcase: SPEAKERS: 4 high-power, full-range dedicated 5" bass instrument loudspeakers in a computer-optimized, vented 8ohm enclosure POWER: 200W / 8ohm - 300W / 4ohm (with 4B Extension Cabinet) WEIGHT: 49 lb DIMENSIONS: inch 16.5 x 13.75 x 17.5 INPUT: Active / Passive FEATURES: Two individual channels, Compressor/limiter, 5-Band EQ, Headphone out, Balanced-line out, Pre-amp out, Extension-speaker out AC VOLTAGE: 120-240 Volt 4B Cab: POWER HANDLING: For use up to 300W IMPEDANCE: 8 ohm FREQUENCY RESPONSE: 25Hz-15KHz SENSITIVITY: 95 dB / watt CONNECTIONS: Speakon connectors WEIGHT: 39 lb / 18 kg DIMENSIONS: inch 16.5 x 13.75 x 17.5 WxDxH: mm 420 x 350 x 445 [i]Website:[/i] [url="http://www.philjonesbass.com/"]Phil Jones Bass[/url] [i]Condition:[/i] Great condition. [i]RRP:[/i] Bass direct are doing an offer on this now for £1049 and Bass Centre for about £940. [i]Old Price:[/i] [s]800[/s] [s]£780[/s] £760 [updated] (Buyer collects) (Speakon cable included) [i]NEW PRICE:[/i] £700 for both (Will split as long as the combo has a buyer) [i]Comments:[/i] Great little amp and cab setup, has been more than enough for me volume-wise, only once or twice needing more oopmf, but to be honest those gigs should have had a pa. Now located in Milton Keynes.
  7. SPEED BUMP for new photos of actual items (MOTU photo to come soon)
  8. Bought at the end of January. I've only used this bass for a couple of gigs as I really am a fretless man, nothing against the bass, its great, but it just doesn't get used much! Definitely too nice to be sitting on a bass stand, although it does look good (IMO). • Colour: Ultra Amber • Original Spector NS curved body style • Graphite Reinforced 3pc Bolt-On Rock Maple Neck • Alder body. FM models feature Figured Maple Top, EX models feature exotic Zebra Wood Top • 24 Fret Rosewood Fingerboard, mother of pearl Spector inlays, 35" scale • Black Hardware, including aluminum Spector Locking Bridge • EMG-HZ passive humbuckers, Spector TonePump active tone controls. Boost only, internal voltage doubler. • Strung with an almost new set of strings (Think they are Rotosound Swing 66, blue ends) • RRP in Spector list $2099, tend to go for £650-£750 new depending where you get it. As my bass teacher put it: "That is a lot of bass and wood for the money" and now you can get it even cheaper. Negatives: Slight not very deep 'chip' on headstock as can be seen on photo, not as visible in the flesh. One/two indents on back of neck very low down around the 2nd fret (Not actually that bad, but just to let you know) Positives: Everything else! Basically as new, great sound, very playable, fresh strings and a new setup. Genuine reason for sale: In addition to not really playing fretted, I'm taking a year out of my studies and moving to Ireland for a bit and then doing a bit of travelling and can't take everything with me. I obviously need to fund it all as well! (That's why there is a LOT of my main gear up for sale-recording gear, drumkit, hardware, cymbals, my jazz beard isn't for sale, but we can haggle-check my signature for links to other posts.) Website: [url="http://www.spectorbass.com/bass_euro_ReBop5DLXFM_1.html"]Spector Rebop 5[/url] Price: [s]£500[/s] [s]£470[/s] £455 [updated] and I will throw in the stand (and leather strap now) Delivery/Collection: I would rather buyer collects as I don't have a spare gigbag/case for it. A larger resolution to see the lovely wood on the front:
  9. Kim Clarke. I'm not really into the playing on this though.
  10. Irakere - Chuco Valdes on bass, he also has a book out called "cuban bass" which is quite good and has a few transcriptions in. For salsa check out some stuff on Fania records. Such as the greatly named Willie Colon.
  11. Bilbo...no Steve Swallow! Shame on you. Also: Gary Willis (programs and writes a lot of the parts especially on albums like Actual Fiction) Jean Baudin (For solo bass composition) Wasn't Sammy Nestico originally a bassist?! He's probably composed more than most.
  12. [quote name='6stringbassist' post='224662' date='Jun 23 2008, 12:48 AM']I really like MG's tone, everyones different I suppose, the world would be really boring otherwise. Chris2112....... I was just reading a thread on talkbass about DR strings, and happened to notice that someone with the same name as you, I presume it is you, is banned, I'm just curious , what's a TOS violation ?.[/quote] I like matt's tone as well, especially on the future2future dvd. Is TOS, Terms Of Service?! as in the agreement when you sign up to the site?
  13. [quote name='P-T-P' post='222136' date='Jun 19 2008, 01:44 PM']Hi Mike, Forgive my possible ignorance here but I'm not entirely sure I understand how the mixer works in interaction with a computer. AmI right in thinking that to get the sound into a computer you need to run it through some kind of audio interface that will accept ADAT (like the lightbridge)? Once it is in the computer though, how do you make use of the mixing functions of the desk? Can it, in effect, control Cubase/Logic/Pro Tools etc. or would they just serve as a method of storing the tracks for supply back to the mixer for mix down? Intrigued but confused lol[/quote] Regarding the first question about the lightbridge, you are correct. This allows you to run the 16 ins and outs to the mixer and computer. Well the light bridge allows you more, but the desk is only 32 channels (16 in and 16 out) You can switch the 16 faders in banks between ins, outs and master groups & auxs. But you can also use the optical stereo track on the mixer and the optical buses, but i never did that. You don't need to use the adat, but this is probably the best way. The other interface iirc is the tascam connector, which looks like an old serial/parallel connector. The answer to your next question is: both. You can control the computer based sequencer from the desk with mmc or midi etc. So you can stop, start, record, arm tracks for recording etc from the desk. You can also use the midi aspects for automation of mixing just like other hardware controllers out there. You can also add lexicon effects onto tracks on input or mixdown internally from the desk. So you can use this mixer as a standalone with a tape machine, or in affect, your computer could be your tape machine and the mixer can also be your hardward controller. You can also get midi mixer maps for things such as rebirth etc. As a bonus you get 16 of the best mic pres built in to the desk. Does that help? I'm not sure if I have made it clear as it is quite late!
  14. Just wondering what VI you used for the strings?
  15. [quote name='queenofthedepths' post='222538' date='Jun 19 2008, 10:45 PM']here are (why do people always say "is"?) my tuppence:[/quote] Probably because it is a single item.
  16. Any particular style!? I know you have mentioned jazz a bit on here before, so maybe check this guy out [url="http://www.erikfriedlander.com/"]Erik Friedlander[/url], classical/jazz cellist. He has some tunes for both and you can get scores from him, for a fee, but he has a few ones available. On a side note, its a great resource for listings of cello in jazz.
  17. [quote name='Bit-Crusherrr' post='218583' date='Jun 13 2008, 09:48 PM']So then I ask, will any new learning help this? Have any of you ever reached the point where you feel as though you have to stop and think hard? I'm trying to get into the habit of reading about music when I'm not playing it, looking up new techniques, scales, chord passages, but I tend to become lethargic about it all as time goes on. So to you all out there, what have you done to overcome your plateaus and your obstacles? What method of self-teaching worked, or what changes to your solid hour a day improved your playing tenfold?[/quote] I have been there many times. As you say you get frustrated. You need to learn not to (easier said than done) and accept what you can do. It's probably better than most but you are blinded by the fact you feel you should be better. Accept the fact that it is not a competition and it has nothing to do with time. As has been said above, make yourself some achievable goals and work towards them. If you don't make them!? So what, its not the end of the world, frustrating yes, but you aren't going to die (even if you feel like it sometimes). Stop and think why you actually play bass. For me it is because I enjoy improvising. And it wasn't until I stopped and changed my way of thinking that I felt improvement. One book I would recommend is Effortless Mastery by Kenny Werner. He deals with basically everything you have said in your post. You can normally pick it up quite cheap on ebay, or your library may have it.
  18. [quote name='bassjamm' post='216360' date='Jun 10 2008, 06:29 PM']That's interesting mate...mind me asking where that work shop was? I personally quite like Hadrien's playing, he's got it together, although...i don't feel he's quite excelled! I'm in no position to comment to greatly on that though, i guess, like myself...he's still young and inexperienced to a large extent! So i really look forward to seeing him grow as a player and what not![/quote] It was part of the Sligo Jazz Project over in Ireland. This year they have got Reggie Washington teaching. Regarding Hadrian, I don't think I have given him much of my listening time, how knows, maybe I would love his playign if I really checked him out.
  19. [quote name='bassjamm' post='215953' date='Jun 10 2008, 10:04 AM']It was supposed to be Hadrien Feraud doing the tour, but he busted his hand in...not an ideal injury when you play bass really From what Urb was saying when i spoke to him at the Garrison gig, it sounds as though Dominique was on fire, Mike said that he thinks Dominique is at the top of his game right now, that's pretty awesome![/quote] I'm not really into Hadrien's playing, but I really regret not going, it's not often that Dominique is about, I did a week of workshops with Dipiazza last year and his playing totally floored me, one of the most musical players I have witnessed-but all he kept saying was, check out the other guys in Paris, they are the real deal! May have to get over sometime.
  20. [quote name='bassjamm' post='215821' date='Jun 9 2008, 11:08 PM']Did they come before the GWB1?[/quote] After.
  21. So I missed Dominique (Possibly my overall favourite!) aswell as Matt...great! I didn't know he was going to be with Mclaughlin!
  22. [quote name='XB26354' post='215432' date='Jun 9 2008, 01:50 PM']The 1005 has apparently sold literally a handful worldwide since it was released - one has been floating around in the UK for the last year or so but at such a ridiculous price no-one wants to touch it with a bargepole![/quote] You know how much or who was selling it!?
  23. Apart from ear training and theory, you can do some visualization. Basically think of anything you play and see in your mind how you would actually play it. Scale practice is good for example. It is all about your mind teaching your body and not the other way around as you are probably used to.
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