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    Physical preparation for a tour

    in General Discussion

    Posted

    [quote name='SteveK' post='471425' date='Apr 24 2009, 12:38 PM'][b]"Bulk up"[/b]? [b]"Put on a couple of pounds before you go"[/b]?

    Can someone please explain why?

    I've played these places many times in the last 25 years or so, and never once felt it was necessary to bulk up. Never once heard anyone say, "We should've bulked up before leaving home".

    These countries have food, it ain't expensive, and some of it is quite edible. :)

    Steve

    EDIT: When I say, "these places", I am referring more to the former Eastern Bloc countries.[/quote]
    In 'metal' circles...lets just say,at my level Im about to experience..... catering is a very low priority for promoters towards bands.

    Not-American Classics?

    in Bass Guitars

    Posted

    [quote name='maxrossell' post='469377' date='Apr 22 2009, 10:41 AM']Hmm. When I was a teen all I wanted was modern-looking eyesores. I actually had a really sweet Hohner fretless Jazz copy in white with a tortoiseshell guard, but I traded it in for a hideous Hohner B-Bass V just because it was active and had a through neck and five strings. But at the time I thought the Jazz bass was uncool, and modern basses were cooler. I didn't realise that ten years later it would be pretty much the only bass I'd consider owning.

    I think people who know what they're doing stick with these vintage-looking Fender-style models because they're as close as you'll get to the original electric bass - The '51 P, the Precision and the Jazz, you can't really get away from how damn close to perfect they were to begin with - as with guitars, the only real alternative was the Gibson take, set necks, shorter scale-lengths, humbucking pickups and so on, but less democratic and more "luxury".

    You look at what happens with basses today: The ultra-modern, "exotic-fish-nailed-to-ladder"-style custom 5, 6 or more strings and all that, ultimately what they are is the same notion as the super-strat, i.e. you take the principle that was established with the Jazz bass and you push it so far into nerdy tonewoods and active EQ gadgetry that you can't even begin to imagine a style of music complex enough to warrant it, just like when you get a guitar that has 10 pickup configurations and a coil-split and a massive whammy bar and locking this and that and the other, and a top that looks more like a 15th century French dresser than a musical instrument. They're second-generation variants that started out with the ultra-light super-japs and went from there. On the other hand, whatever Gibson started for some reason never really happened. A few people still play Grabbers and T-Birds and you might even see a Les Paul bass here and there, but Gibson isn't really a name that springs to mind when you think "what bass could I get".

    Not sure where I'm going with this, but I guess that although the teen market is something that obviously needs to be catered to with the Yamahas and the SDGRs and the Rockbasses and so on, I think that most of the kids who stick with bass will eventually arrive at the same conclusion, which is that there's a good reason people keep going back to the originals.

    AND might I add, when you look at the signature models that are coming out these days that are aimed at teens, the dude from Green Day, the dude from Blink 182, the dude from Fall Out Boy, they're Fender Jazzes and Precisions.[/quote]
    Guilty..and yeah I agree,Ive made similer mistakes (bought a 886 in 98,when I could have shelled another 200 and got a Alembic Spoiler)

    BUT..Like Warwick..Fender hurl anything ,including cash, for people to appear in magazines holding their instruments....And I play Fenders too.

    Dumping it all for a pod

    in General Discussion

    Posted · Edited by ARGH

    [quote name='ped' post='469847' date='Apr 22 2009, 06:42 PM']I dread to think what my recordings would have sounded like if I didn't already have intimate knowledge of how to work and setup the pod to match my needs. Obviously the engineer wasn't setting it up to your tastes. Not really the pod's fault. Poor old pod. :0(

    ;0)[/quote]
    It recalls me..the likeness between two Metal guitards....

    Trey Azagthoth (No it isnt his real name......thats George...) 6/7 string..Hamers,Gibbo's,Ibanez's,uber super heavy..Fast/slow...Death Metal..you name it..has all the bells and whistles,racks and Blackpool illuminati in his rig..the guys really good..VERY good....and his sound tears rendering from a wall....

    Trey is always tinkering..and probably will never stop....

    Compare this to Trevor Peres...Of Obituary....

    Strat,Rat,50w Marshall,4x10.........

    Guess whos got the nastier tone.....Is the faster setup onstage,easiest to work with,and generally the nicer guy....

    Dumping it all for a pod

    in General Discussion

    Posted

    [quote name='ped' post='469836' date='Apr 22 2009, 06:33 PM']Hardly surprising. Line6 did themselves a real disservice by loading the pod with terrible over the top presets and you simply cannot expect to get the best out of it by trying one in a shop!

    Fair play, if you don't like 'em, cool. Maybe you would feel differently if you actually picked one up, tried it with an open mind and gave it a chance, but perhaps you are not that kind of player, which is also of course totally cool!

    ped[/quote]
    recording demo....not a shop tryout....

    Dumping it all for a pod

    in General Discussion

    Posted

    [quote name='ped' post='469831' date='Apr 22 2009, 06:29 PM']OK :0)

    I think the thing about 'everyone would use them' is flawed though - after all not everyone uses a valve head. Maybe they are too expensive? Maybe people don't like IEMs (I know many don't for a fact). Maybe not everyone likes fiddling and messing about (see my post above Alex).

    As you are comparing it to your amplifier then I can only say that as a preamp, mated to an appropriate power amp, then it is just another option you can choose in terms of powering a speaker. Some love Markbass, some love valves, some love separates - horses for courses. FWIW my valve sound was always super clean and hifi so I can't speak for a grindy valve sound (I feel most of that is due to the valve power section anyway) but as a clean signal producer I found it every bit as good as both the Trace V4 and the Mesa 400+. I always play with a super clean sound with barely any EQ and as a result my bass sounds pretty much the same through anything. It just so happened that the pod also did lots of other jobs, so I kept it, for a while. Having said that, for live use my pod was pretty much bypassed anyway, as is my Vbass.

    ped[/quote]
    NAIL---->HEAD

    Thats why I didnt like them...No dirt..didnt feel grimey...bit like a G/K rig....a note that moves nowt.

    Dumping it all for a pod

    in General Discussion

    Posted

    [quote name='andy67' post='469821' date='Apr 22 2009, 06:22 PM']hi ped,

    stupid bit of argumentation there by me! I know the pod doesn't shift air.

    however, I have never heard a pod stand up to valve amp ever. I mean, you know, you just simply cant redefine the laws of physics. A DSP, at this very point in time, unless someone finds the solution to infinitive sampling, will never faithfully nor truly recreate an analogue signal but it gives it a bloody good try!



    andy[/quote]


    I have....And I still think Digital rigs in Metal are unreliable,and dont sound half as good.

    Dumping it all for a pod

    in General Discussion

    Posted

    [quote name='NancyJohnson' post='467199' date='Apr 20 2009, 08:50 AM']Dare I say it, have you actually even picked up a POD? The case is metal, the recessed button array is plastic, the knobs/controls are just like the knobs on a regular amp. They are very robust bits of kit.
    P[/quote]
    Spill beer,have a fat lad leap on it....water,sweat..spit....Plastic arrays...sorry,mea culpa.I thought they were plastic.....I still dont see digital technology being able to cope on a metal gig,Ive had too many Line6 Amp/Cab bands die on a gig...and They dont sound as good...I dont think they can take a pounding like a traditional amp set up...

    I like the visual element...Yes I dont play 'Nice' music....Yes I know they are lightweight..and yeah,I use a sansamp if Im travelling far..But I still dont see the real thing as being eclipsed or replaced by a little box that pretends.*



    *Jaded by the fact Ive been connected up to one on a demo,and it sounded sh*te....Great for a studio in a bedroom,but not live...saying that whats the difference between Geddy Lee using a Rackmount Sansamp and in the ear system and Pods...nowt really...

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