funkgod

yea, its defo not for people with stairs, you could put the wife at the bottom and say "CATCH" 🥵

Honest m' lord,,,,, it was an accident.

what ?  well yes i did up her insurance, from £1000 to 2 million only last week,

did my ex wife go the same way ? what, squashed by bass cab ?

god noooooo pfffffff.. that was just a rumour....... and anyway... i was acquitted.

so....

if you do buy it...

dont forget to up the wifes insurance, you know... just incase 🙂

hi, its no lightweight thats for sure, its a quality solid build, if it fell down stairs it would prob take your wall out, but hay the combo would be fine 🙂 i too dont mind the weight of bass gear, i will always go with sound over weight so if it sounds good i dont care

if fact i pref heavy basses also, my wal iv had since the 80s is a ton in weight, and when i retired it cus its battered now, i could not find anything to replace it untill i tried the early G&L L2000 E. and i have a few of them now and all of them are very heavy, in fact doug wilkes has just made me a fretless jazz bass because i could not find an early G&L fretless, PED snapped up the last one i had hopes on and i missed the auction, ( come on ped youve had it long enough now 🙂  ) and i said make it using heavy woods, his reply was " be carefull what you wish for" and he was right,  that too is a tank, but man the sound of it, so yea i dont mind heavy,

regarding the sound, its just killer, tried all sorts of combos over the years, and for my tone and recording the swr is just hands down the best for lots of reasons.

check this out... really interesting read about steve rabe.

https://bassmagazine.com/artists/true-genius-remembering-steve-rabe-and-swr

oh and anything good is worth travilling for 🙂

its found out its for sale and its not happy,

its turned around and is facing the wall, it just wont turn around and look at me.

oh well, iv got a gig coming up and when i went to ask it,  i was met with this...

not exactly living my best life, just doing what im good at,

i still have to earn a crust, and sometimes it does not put steak on the table,

mostly sausages at best, which i dont mind cus i like sausages 🙂

shame you had to pack in the band, i use mine as therapy, without it and music i would crack up too, as i hate tv,

not watched tv for 20 years, so that extra time i try to use to create.

if you decide to get back into a band let me know, because i taught bass for awhile and i do get a few bands

asking for bass players, have got a few local  bass players on here back into bands, infact i have got one right now on the wirral looking for a bass player, so just pm me when you feel the need.

lets get you back playing again.

you know you mis it 🙂

keep well

On 04/05/2019 at 17:14, lurksalot said:

Here is a picture.

Well in all fairness, my mate Dave wanted a selfie and his phone was flat , so I obliged .

As it happened a bunch of blokes brought some kit in and a gig broke out, resulting in @funkgod photobombing Daves selfie 

AAAHHH i remember that gig, Nantwich Jazz fest. the mother of all sh!t gigs, not the fest, just the band, theres one i just knew would never go away, someone, somewhere, would have evidence of it to use later on.... and hay presto 🙂

4 hours ago, Grezza 1 said:

Thanks Funkgod, appreciate the kind words and support 👍

Hope alls good with you mate

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im good thanks, hope you are too, spending as much free time as i can doing a 5 track ep for release for my funky band with a more disco vibe.

some sounding very good at the mo, even if i do say so myself and some abit soso that im not too sure about, but all great fun, esp looking for some old disco sounding studio toys, just aquired a nice "Electrix Warp Factory " yeeeee ...we will see.

so that, and the 80s tribute band, and still fixing mixing consoles in my workshop with a few beers down the local at the end of the night, makes for a pritty good day.

What you up to ? tell all....and dont skip bits 🙂

🙂

its a great price, and to be fair to him its only what he bought it for 🙂

its alot of amp and cabs in very good condition for not alot of money, £300 ! !

he could if wanted almost double that.

so a more than fair price from an upstanding guy not wanting to make cash on it.

not often you get that these days.

Recording studio band Demos 7x master CD DVD copyer FAST, Hardly used perfect working order just put your cd in the top, blancs in the bottom press ok, done, easy This is a stand alone unit and does not need a pc. reduced to 130 ! Bargain.

please pm me if interested

1 pair of heavy duty Recording studio monitor speaker wall mounts brackets TANNOY KRK MACKIE YAMAHA RCF Great for recording studio home office pod cast everywhere really, Brand new great heavy duty, with proper bolts in the sides to clamp the speaker that do not trash the sides of your speakers, they tilt and you can set them 90 Degrees round, comes with covers and a quality mounting kit complete with spanner and alan key. you can get most mid size monitors on them Tannoy reveal size no problem, up to about 11" wide and 13" up to the front of the bracket from the back so allowing for overhang safely get16/17" ish front to back sized speaker so lots of options to choose from, so will take any weight speaker in that size powered or not. collect from ellesmere port. or can post at cost

hope they are of use to someone, cheap as chips for only £15

i do have 2 pairs of these to go

great player really sharp notes, cuts well when recorded in a mix, made in the usa, comes with a great condition Blessing mouthpiece just isopropinal cleaned, so its spotless, and with case also in great condition, and even better great price of only 150 ! yep 150, cash on collection from ellesmere port.

midi patch bay and adat, smpte MTC sync or distributer or master sync, loads of uses, great stand alone unit or pc/mac link,

no longer needed as i mainly use apogee internal for my recorders. bargin price £75

please pm me if interested,

cheers.

sorry wrong section al move it

ALESIS MASTERLINK Recording studio mix storage, and mastering tools and cd recorder.

with 52 hours of record time

Not every day you see one of these unused brand new in its box !

yep UNUSED, still with the battries taped to the remote control and rack ears stll with the plastic on not even been connected

real time warp stuff here.

if you dont know about these then check it out

 https://www.soundonsound.com/reviews/alesis-masterlink

https://www.alesis.com/products/view/masterlink-ml-9600

£1,500.00 new so its a good price for £340
you can bounce all your mix either digital spdif or light pipe or analog to store in its internal drive tracks of 24bit 96khz !

then master them in it using its internal tools, either single tracks or a whole album so all the tracks have been mastered the same, so same levels same compression so your tracks on the album all sound equal,

then either spdif or analog or adat it out to your daw  or just burn your mix to its own very high quality redbook cd.

loads of top studios traided their dat machines and bounced all their stuff to these.

also... its a great live or practice recorder right of the desk to the internal drive,

you can then bounce back out to your daw for editing later

so its a really handy studio/live tool with loads of uses.
i turned it on just to check  the storage time see att.
collect from ellesmere port, or post will be about £13
if you want it dont hang about because i doubt you will see another new one.

please pm me if interested,

cheers.

PS i will take a px for other studio toys 🙂

On 24/05/2023 at 13:57, Nail Soup said:

Just something that puzzles me, would be interested to hear some discussion and thoughts on it.

Go to a drum tutorial and before long the teacher is teaching how to do rolls etc which are expressed in terms of left and right hand. So a paradiddle is RRLR-LLRL, and another different sounding roll is RRLL-RRLL. Both have the same 'hits' as each other, it's just the handedness that varies.

So far so good.

So...  in a world with sophisticated drum sounds, multi-layered samples etc why does no drum programming software I've ever seen have the ability to program a 'left hit' and 'right hit'?

hi nail, i have always done paradiddles as RLRR LRLL like the word.. pa,ra, di, dul, (ba be ba ba... be ba be be.   repeat) 🙂

On 04/07/2023 at 06:35, lowdown said:

Bass > Avalon U5 DI/Preamp > Steinberg Interface > Computer. 

 

mmmmmmm Avalon U5, now theres an expensive bit of kit, but while were on some hi end stuff, check out if you can lowdown the AMEK 9098 you can use it for all sorts so you can get alot of milage out of it, mainly NEVE mic pre and eq, but i have found that thing will suck every bit of info right out of your pickups, if you have a active pre in your bass set it to passive if you can cus the eq  and pre in the amek is 1 billion x better than any bass pre amp in terms of eq scope and range with no crusshing of band width and frequencys. check it out, its another world. you might even hate it 🙂

2nd one down

also found the di out of the swr red head to be very very good.

did i say very twice then ?

yea?

thats because its twice as good as just very good 🙂

ahhh im sorry, its getting late...😴

Jermaine Jackson was no slouch either to be fair, a good bass player, i think the best he got was when jean luc ponty was pushing him, this is him on this track, a lovely bass line and a nice track to learn, with some stunning drumming as well, in fact stunning playing by everyone 🙂

content aside, either it works for you or not, but just the fact shes playing it on a kala bass ! cant be easy that.

i did try one once it just felt awfull, the rubbery strings felt all baggy and fat, ..

i knew a girl like that once, couldn't get on with that either 🙂

sorry should of read "Hollywood" backing singers.... (Edted)

its impressive no doubt, it sucked me right it, i found with hollywood

it took alot of messing about to get right, it would suck a few hours of your life away just to get

small things to sound right, but once grasped, your good to go, this is another level i think,

if only EW could do this in the same way as hollywood backing singers, that would be good.

i did wonder if lettuce used EW?HBS toward the end of their track "Love is too strong" ? if so they made good use of it,

not too much, just enough...al check it out.

37 minutes ago, Sparky Mark said:

Your avatar is dancing in time! 

yea it dances in time with everything, its got better timing than me 🙂

well have to say this blew me away, its hard enough to play on a normal bass fgs.

How long is my strap ?

a bit personal, but lets just say.. i dont get many complaints 🙂

On 25/05/2023 at 14:48, Wolfram said:

Ok, very last minute but I just managed to get this finished!

The photo immediately put me in mind of an Enigma album cover, and I was (and am still) a big fan, so that's where I've gone with this one - "I See You" - a dreamy flight of fantasy. I hope you enjoy listening as much as I enjoyed putting it together!

 

The tech stuff:

 

There's some actual hardware on this one! Drums were sourced from the Yamaha SY99, pads from Korg Trinity and I played the flute sound live on a Yamaha WX5 wind controller through a Yamaha VL70m physical modelling synth. Bass is a Dingwall ABII recorded through Line6 Helix.

The monks are courtesy of Eduardo Tarilonte's Cantus VST and the synthetic female vocal is generated with Synthesizer V's Solaria voice. All reverb is from Lexicon's MPX1 native.

well impressed with Solaria it sounds great, never heard of it before, i do have hollywood backing singers, word manipulation i think is not as good as this for clarity of words, ! but is still very good, so... just counting my cash in the piggy bank 🙂 thanks for that

some crazy stuff going on there jelly, trippy almost, loads of textures going on, the blob sounds like mick karns bass nice tone.

well done, lets have some more

yea there are deffo levels to singing and playing.

this just freaks me out.......

yea, depends on the band, i do backing vocals in my originals funk band, but i dont do them in our 80s tribute band.

thats because in the 80s tribute band its more of a show and two backing girl singers are far far better looking than me, sound far far better than me, its abit of eye candy as well, looks more pro, and everyone can consentrate on their job better ( i was going to say  "everyone can concentrate their bits better" 🙂  but i know where you bunch deviants would take that.)