GarethFlatlands

Believe it or not but a lot of Status Quo is 12 bar

[quote name='Dread Bass' timestamp='1392718164' post='2371847']
Boulty is the man and a good friend. i love that guy! We recorded vocals there Boulty mixed it and then Joe Cee mastered. I am going to give your bands a blast later on Gareth.
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If you like heavier stuff, you might prefer my old band, Flatlands. Album also recorded at Boulty's!

Nice to see you recorded at Boulty and Phil's place too.

I too like a bit of tech metal and that was excellent. Good job putting a beatdown into and not making it sound terrible! Nice 'American Psycho' reference too.

The Porter Cottage or the Porter Brook? Both are within a stones throw of each other and are pretty nice. I live very near there, as does andydye on here.

Yours is probably a very familiar story back in the days when record contracts were the sole aim of bands everywhere!

[quote name='Dingus' timestamp='1392393250' post='2368169']
Warp Records! I remember one of their "creative team" coming to watch a band I was in many, many years ago with a view to signing us, and him earnestly telling me in conversation afterwards that when it came to music, "Bleeps are out, clonks are in". Obviously , with the balance of hindsight, I should have taken him seriously .
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Anyone I might have heard of? I was playing in a electro/glitch band back in 2003-4. Long shot but our paths may have crossed.

I got reminded recently that Squarepusher used to live in the flats opposite one of my old girlfriends houses so an odd coincidence that this thread has cropped up again!

[quote name='Zenitram' timestamp='1392335217' post='2367664']
So are frets [i]only[/i] there to make the (electric) bass sound a particular way, and weren't actually designed to help with precise intonation at all?

That can't be right, surely, can it?
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My understanding was they were added to eliminate player related intonation issues you get with double bass, hence the name "Precision" bass. I might be wrong though.

[quote name='krysh' timestamp='1392025015' post='2363607']
due to some modifications, my guitars and pedalboards in front of my homestudio rig:
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Very nice, never heard of the Koch pedal before but it looks very interesting from the information I've found.

Do you mean classical style music? There's a surprising dearth of classical brass pieces, the valved cornet and trumpet weren't really taken seriously as solo classical instruments until relatively late on. There's a fair amount of baroque pieces using non valve trumpet, but as it relies solely on hitting harmonics and these are spaced fairly far apart in the lower registers (lowest on a regular trumpet is C to G or a 5th) making melodies difficult to write, they're all what is today thought of as played in the instruments very high registers where the harmonics are spaced much closer together. Swedish trumpeter Hakan Hardenberger, frustrated with a limited repertoire of classical trumpet has commissioned a number of newer pieces from modern composers you could track down if you want to explore further. That said, the tunes of the list here should be a good place to start:-

[url="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trumpet_concerto"]http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trumpet_concerto[/url]

(Guess who started playing trumpet last year)

[quote name='GazWills' timestamp='1392156068' post='2365520']
what a great band... and a lurvley drummer
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Indeed to both.

How about agreeing with him to get someone not in the band (soundguy, manager if you have one) to go out and check the levels front of house and make any tweaks on both his and your behalf? If they adjust your levels first (or pretend to), go back out and then adjust his then you might be able to do it stealthily.

Don't know if you've seen this thread or if it answers any of your questions but someone on there might be able to help out if you message them.

[url="http://basschat.co.uk/topic/164195-the-stick-thread/"]http://basschat.co.uk/topic/164195-the-stick-thread/[/url]

[quote name='OldG' timestamp='1391412600' post='2356719']
Cheers Gareth, sounds good... were you using neck, bridge or both on the clip there?
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Just the bridge P90, the neck is an unknown make regular tele style pickup and I'm having some phasing issues with both pickups at once so I just ignored it for the clip.

Right, sorry for the delay. Soundcloud wouldn't let me upload a track, saying I needed to confirm my email when I already did. It's now working.

Hope it works this time.

[url="https://soundcloud.com/garethflatlands/rebel-rider-p90"]https://soundcloud.c...rebel-rider-p90[/url]

Edit:- sorry for the tuning issues. I think the neck is a little warped.

Edit - Never mind, tried something and it didn't work. I'll have a look at it once I've had dinner.

Very nice, look forward to seeing what Tom comes up with!

Doh, sorry. Still getting the hang of Dropbox Any suggestions?

I'll knock something up this week and put a dropbox link up.

It will be entirely VST amps for convenience reasons but it should give you an idea of the tone.

Edit: - I did this very quickly.The amp is a free VST called Kuassa amplification, some EQ on the 3 different settings (clean, crunch, lead) but effect free apart from that. The volume and tone controls on the guitar are backed off a little, the guitar is very cheap and I haven't changed the strings in an incredibly long time but hopefully you can get a flavour of how the pickup sounds. Apologies if I've butchered a track you like but it was very much 1 take only.

Link removed as not working.

[quote name='RAY AGAINST THE MACHINE' timestamp='1390861094' post='2350709']
I would feel great sorrow from all the cats and dogs in the vicinity of those who frequently use them.
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Funny you should mention that...

[url="http://www.wimp.com/cattheremin/"]http://www.wimp.com/cattheremin/[/url]

[quote name='Noisyjon' timestamp='1389257277' post='2331882']
Please do keep us updated Rapscallion.

Thanks,
NJ
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Very late but I stuck one in a homebrew tele. Do you guys want a soundclip or something?

Even looking at these things makes my head hurt.

Still love to try one though!

I have an MIM strat which is now my favourite guitar out of however many I've owned over the years. I played it in the shop and it was love at first strum.

Try all the ones you can and get a good one!

OK, I decided to stop procrastinating and just try a neck shim on the grounds that it costs nothing and takes about 15 minutes. I don't know how legit it is but I used 2 pieces of card, on the full width of the neck and one half width to make the bass side slightly higher to try and compensate for the curve.

It seems to have worked out quite well, the action on the bass side is certainly lower and apart from a little buzzing in places, it plays significantly better. There are a couple of small jobs that need doing before I re-string and set the intonation but it's looking like it's a viable backup guitar if not a favourite in it's current state.

I may post it in the guitar porn thread if it turns out alright.

The closer I look, the more it seems like the first few frets aren't level. It looks like there's a slight twist in the neck and there's definitely a more pronounced curve on the bass side of the neck.

Straightening it seems like it's beyond my abilities so I need to decide now whether to get a new neck, live with the problem or sell it on as a work in progress. I just wish I'd noticed before I'd dropped £17 on a new scratchplate and £40 on a replacement pickup! I still need a 2nd opinion though so all might not be lost.

Looks OK from the 3rd fret test but looking at the neck side on, I'm not sure it's not warped actually. I'll take it in to my tech guy, he's a friend so he'd probably diagnose the problem for cheap and I can look at how to fix it in the new year when I've hopefully got some money. It's been sat in a case in our practice room for months untouched so I wouldn't be surprised if the neck has suffered.

Thanks for the info though, at least I know the nut seems to be alright.