OliverBlackman

try everything!!!!!!!! i rarely get a set of strings more than once, although i have had 3 or 4 sets of elixirs in the past and might go for another set on my 5 after i've tried overwater.

[quote name='4 Strings' timestamp='1328536872' post='1528606'] Yes, this is all contributory, but in the end they generally have a sound and as long as they are not being passed through a string of fx this is a good fun exercise. I must say I'd not be able to tell whether its miked up or DI'd. As soon as I can work out how to do it, I'll put up an example or two myself. [/quote] without being mixed this is good experiment but once its been through the mixing process its a different storey. For example a mic'd cab usually delivers more bass and depth than DI will. But if you've DI'd it you can recapture the sound of a mic'd cab when your mixing it.

is it ginger on drums still? agreed it was a monster fill!

being able to tell what bass is what is too difficult most of the time because you've got to take into account; modifications, playing styles, personal taste, whether its DI'd, Mic'd or both, mixing, compression, effects, ect.

just incase you havnt quite got the message yet. I recently bought some speaker speaker cables from OBBM. They are brilliant quality and are going to be very difficult to wear down. Plus again dave is a great chap with a lovely jazz bass!

[quote name='BigRedX' timestamp='1328442388' post='1526874'] It's a beautiful piece of music,but IMO, it's as much a product of the tuning possibilities of his Zon Hyperbass as it is of his playing skills. [/quote] 4 detuning pegs do not compare to the years of practice he must have put in! awesome player

yhp again thumb's are different to most basses. Also new a NT is 3.5K!!!!!!! I would go for a stingray or a highway one fender jazz (often forgotten about but i think they're great)

[quote name='JimBobTTD' timestamp='1328430553' post='1526690'] I also rather liked it. It made me wonder what kind of theory I need to learn to be able to noodle something like that myself. And the sound is great, I thought. [/quote] although it sounds simple its obviously not. But first learn every note on the fretboard, learn what notes are avaliable in the key you have selected and use chromatics to add flavour. His playing is just very heavily licked based, so would be easy to emulate if you chose to. I like it up until about 1.04 because he is keeping to one lick and refers back to it, but after that it just becomes a mash up.

when i worked and was well paid i used to buy quite a few cds from a second hand record store. But i got bored with buying an album where most the songs are crap, so now i use spotify and if i really like the [b]whole[/b] album i will order it off amazon. Theres a massive difference between pokemon cards and music. Pokemon cards wasnt down to taste, it was a social status thing. The better the cards you had the more respected you would be at school. Too many people now dont give music a chance. If its not in the genre they subscribe to they usually wont even listen to a song

we've already established its with a pick. I want a better clue

talk to gary willis. He did exactly that at a masterclass

kind of like if a comedian was supposed to be doing improv about a subject but just blurted out words that were connected to the subject. Without it being a sentence its just not funny

thats not improvisation thats just noodling around a key centre. Completely un musical to me

thing is i don't get with the millions of bass vids on youtube that people put up is they just seem to be playing as many licks as they have at their disposal. Why can't people just come up with a melody and make a song out of it, then put that up instead? The bass sounds very nice though the guys got great technique.

its definitely pick. I give up, all picked basses sound the same to me.

i really dont think buying pedals is the answer. More likely to be the mix in levels is wrong in your band. Also you wont get the same tone as at home because you push the amp and cab more at louder levels when playing a gig

firstly if its just one sound your after then why have more than one bass that can deliver that sound? what basses have you tried that can deliver a tone similar to what your after? I would say the sadowsky pre amp will give you a punchy jazz bass tone that cuts through (going by sadowsky metro's I've played)

bought a strap off gareth and it came the next day! chuffed

one thing i've found with many students is they want to learn this stuff in a week. If your not practising everyday its going to be very difficult unless you have lots of previous experience on another instrument. Same with reading, its taken me a couple of years to get my reading to an ok standard and i've been doing it everyday for 3 years.

[quote name='jakenewmanbass' timestamp='1327970599' post='1519847'] Had a nice day at Abbey Rd, I was along to meet a guy working there as my mate (Andy Treacey) was doing a drum session for him... I will be doing some things with him hopefully too. Elliott Randall came down to play a bit of gtr, and I even bumped into Paul McCartney in the corridor... Sorry for the name drop but it's been a bit of a day [attachment=98735:IMG_0567.JPG] [attachment=98736:IMG_0570.jpg] [/quote] If you do the session in abbey road and you need a roadie...... sounds like a great day jake!

can't believe i couldn't afford tickets to brixton! I'm sure it will be one of the all time great musical moments that will come from this decade. It's pino at brixton, s i can't see a reason for them to change for this

on the subject of slap. Does anybody else find it really difficult to cut through the mix when slapping. Particually when there is 2 guitars playing

this was last year, possibly october/november. I know a jazz from a p bass