GarethFlatlands

Tomorrow's controversial thread! "Your favourite bass player: They're a bit crap really aren't they?"

[quote name='mike257' timestamp='1449573575' post='2924695'] If you can stretch to £35-£45 per mic, then grabbing some second hand AKG D5 would be my choice. They're my go-to live vocal mic and I prefer them to my Shure Beta 58A. On a tighter budget, Thomann's own brand "T-Bone" mics are generally pretty decent for cheapies and their Beta58-a-like is just over £20. [/quote] Beat me to it, I got a D5 after reading about the amount of fake SM58's in circulation and it's a great mic for not much money.

I'm of the view you might as well listen to work by someone considered as one of the greats. Even if you don't like the music, there's something you'll be able to take from it. I'll sit down and learn some of his stuff when I get some free time.

[quote name='MarshallBTB' timestamp='1449602302' post='2925103'] Big fan of Glassjaw, although this track hasn't clicked for me...yet. [/quote] Same here, a friend described this track as "album filler" which seemed accurate. Shame, as there's a good tune buried in there somewhere.

A friend of mine recorded a Christmas single for a local homeless charity called HARC (explanation below). It's free to listen to on their Bandcamp page and yours to download for £1 + possibly some VAT. All proceeds go to the charity. Hope you like it even if you don't decide to buy it! Bass on the track by me "HARC is a Sheffield-based charity providing shelter, hot meals and a warm welcome for homeless, rootless and vulnerable men and women between Christmas Eve and New Year's Day. Every penny that you spend on this track will go to them. We're taking nothing at all. Please feel free to spend as much as you like on the track. " [url="https://earlycartographers.bandcamp.com/track/what-will-you-open-an-invitation-to-christmas"]https://earlycartographers.bandcamp.com/track/what-will-you-open-an-invitation-to-christmas[/url]

No problems, hope he can sort it out. Fair warning, apparently he could talk for England!

I like it Love natural wood finish guitars, I don't know why more companies don't offer it as a standard finish over painted.

The Beatles are one of those bands my folks used to listen to and claim were amazing but I never got into but my time on here makes me think I should sit down and learn some of his lines. What little I've heard, I've had a lot more respect for him as a player having previously identified with him as the guy who did The Frog Chorus. Any suggestions as to songs to learn as a starting point?

Gutted about this, I basically learned guitar by brute forcing my way through the tab books for the first 3 STP albums so they'll always be a favourite and an important part of shaping me as a musician. Spending the day listening to the classic STP tracks on Youtube and Spotify and getting unusually emotional.

Only synth repair place I know around here is Nightingale Audio in Sheffield but I don't have any personal experience with them. I'll ask on FB for you as I've got an old Wavestation that needs looking at as well. Edit: Nightingale seems very well thought of by my FB friends who've used him.

There's a company on Ebay selling the Behringer at £50 with free delivery if you collect at Argos. Not a great deal but speedier and easier for me now they've shut my Post Office collection place down and I have to drive 6 miles out of town to get my missed parcels The LD does indeed look nice but a lack of buying options from the UK is stopping me pulling the trigger on one, although I am still debating it.

If it'll translate my off notes into key then I'm sold!

[quote name='EBS_freak' timestamp='1440066686' post='2847961'] Yes. P1. It is a rip of the Fischer unit as Martin above implied. Its a lot cheaper than the Fischer offering and actually quite robust. Don't be put off by the Behringer name on it! [/quote] Thanks for pointing me to this thread EBS, I'm thinking about dipping my toe in the IEM world with a Behringer P1 and some off the shelf buds and it's good to hear the P1 is one of the decent Brehringer products. I was torn between that and the LD HPA1 but they seem very hard to get hold of without going via Thomann.

Thanks EBS, my sleep deprived brain failed me there.

It might help if you put up where you were based so people could suggest places near(ish) you? I'd imagine those things are a bugger to ship up and down the country although needs must sometimes.

Used to have a BYOC Optical compressor on my board all the time until I had to take whatever I could carry in a gig bag to practice (car issues) and left it at home. Honestly preferred the sound without it, although I am a very meat and potatoes bassist, no slap, no journeys to the dusty on of the board, no 'out there' effects etc so it's not something I find essential compared to other more adventurous players. I'll probably put it back on now the car is back up and running (don't leave your headlights on overnight kids!) but run the compression at a much lower level just to keep me under control when I start really whacking the strings.

I'd second an EQ, you should be able to dial in the frequencies you feel are lacking, see how it works out and tweak from there. It's not a low gain pedal but I kick in a standard Rat to give me a little "grrr" when I feel I need it. Surprised how well it works on bass but something with a blend would obviously work better.

This has probably been asked before but I was too tired after a gig to spend too long searching the forums for a similar thread so apologies. Feel free to point me in the direction of another thread where this has been covered. In short, I'm tired of lugging an amp and cab round to gigs when one of the perks of playing bass is the ability to DI at gigs which is what I did tonight. However, the on stage monitoring was pretty much non existent so I was thinking about getting an in ear monitoring system I can put on my pedalboard after my Behringer BDI-21 and have a rig I could get on the bus. Please give me your recommendations on decent systems and your experiences with them. Budget would be around £200-300 but the cheaper the better obviously! Thanks in advance.

[quote name='RickyV' timestamp='1448392227' post='2915078'] Excellent. My guilty pleasure also........ (I hope you are being serious, otherwise I have made myself look a right mug ) [/quote] Entirely serious! I'm a sucker for a good pop song and they've got plenty.

Million Dead. They cancelled a small festival in Reading last minute as their van broke down on the way. They toured one more time including Nottingham but I have driving so much I didn't go. They split very soon after. aaaannd.... Girls Aloud. I love them, great collection of songs. Got asked to go last minute and didn't due to band practice. Again, split shortly after.

Love it. Been a really casual Bowie fan over the years but I've been learning a lot of basslines of his due to joining a Bowie covers band recently and I'm actually taking notice that he's got a new album out. Good job it sounds like it's going to be great if this is anything to go by. We've got a gig next Friday and we're going to try and learn this for it!

Picked up a flight case by the wheel, which then predictably spun round trapping my left hand index finger tip between the wheel and the bit that holds the wheel on (technical term). 30 minutes or so before the gig obviously. Played the whole thing not using that finger which looked weird and required a lot of concentration. Not an injury but I attempted to bias a valve and heard a loud pop when I put the multi meter on one of the base contacts. I took it to a tech who showed me what to do and said "It's this contact. If you touch that contact next to it, you'll get an electric shock strong enough to stop your heart." He was pointing to the one I'd got the pop from. Never opened the amp up again. I'm still convinced I'm on borrowed time.

[quote name='Samfordia' timestamp='1445803280' post='2894388'] Would this be it? [url="https://www.bax-shop.co.uk/reverb-delay/digitech-hardwire-supernatural-ambient-reverb?gclid=Cj0KEQjw-7GxBRCL_Kq6mZSHvdsBEiQA7r8VhGdrhng4NA_wjiSlJs9QYtybcgpQNkFIvQr_Ghdf55oaAlil8P8HAQ"]https://www.bax-shop...f55oaAlil8P8HAQ[/url] [/quote] I was thinking of the red RV-7 as I haven't tried the one you linked. Looks nice though. Guitar demo here but I managed to get it sounding pretty nasty on bass too. [url="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=10Q_sO-3LNQ"]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=10Q_sO-3LNQ[/url]

If you're after horror textures, the reverse reverb on Digitech pedals on full wet mix produces a really interesting spooky tone. The Hardwire sounds best but the X series does it very well too and can be had for fairly cheap.

3 situations in normal life where you'll be asked about the weight of something: 1. Catching a fish 2. Having a baby 3. Buying/selling a bass