WalMan

[quote name='bassbloke' post='385436' date='Jan 19 2009, 09:33 PM']www.emusic.com rules[/quote] Don't it just most months

+1 to most of the above I only really do backing vocals (sometimes get caught doubling the vocalist ) but when we start on a new song I [u][i]HAVE[/i][/u] to get the bassline sorted so that it just flows before bothering thinking about the b/vox

Unitopia - The Garden Floydy in places, but for a first listen sounding good to me.

[quote name='Mickeyboro' post='384938' date='Jan 19 2009, 01:33 PM']I will get along as it's my local gig. We're due to play there four times this year![/quote]That'll be good. We used to do it loads - happy memories of packing up & getting to the curry house in Petersfield before closing (even got a Christmas card from them one year). Got a few coming (I hope) but the more the merrier [quote name='Mickeyboro' post='384938' date='Jan 19 2009, 01:33 PM']Beware of pi**ed teenagers yelling for 'Love SHack', however [/quote] Oh joy, something for our drummer to get in a strop about Well they won't get it

Back to [url="http://www.streetmap.co.uk/newmap.srf?x=480463&y=133780&z=0&ar=Y"]The Royal Oak, Whitehill[/url] this Saturday. Used to be a regular gig for us a few years back, and for more years than I like to think about, then it shut and I thought it had been razed to the ground, but no, it seems to have risen phoenix like & to be booking bands again. First outing for the Epifani cab with the MB combo as The Fountain last week was too small.

As mentioned elsewhere Saturday we were rock gods [url="http://planetsmilies.net"][/url] and today I am back at work The gig at The Fountain in Chichester is always great with a crowd that is up for it from the start and Saturday was no exception. Crowd line kept edging forwards until at the end they were right on top of us with one of the bouncers running cover & catching one particularly pished lass. Why the hell can all gigs not have a crowd like that (up for it, dancing & singing, not pished that is)!? Slung in some reworkings of songs that we used to do with the keyboard player that four of us ran through at r/h on Monday and Max taught Mike in a lenghty phone call r/h of the guitar parts later in the week and they sounded really good & fresh . Gun - Steal Your Fire & Aerosmith - Rag Doll in particular raaaaawked! The band as a whole was nicely tight with that certain looseness from the first one after a month lay off. A few minor fluffs, but we played through them , laughed them off amongst ourselves and I don't suppose anyone in the crowd really noticed. And so to next week and back to The Royal Oak at Whitehill, a gig we have not played for a few years (I thought it had been pulled down) but have in one form or another played at for over 20 years. I can only hope that goes as well.

[quote name='bumnote' post='383135' date='Jan 17 2009, 12:23 PM']I intended to pay a visit but ended up ferrying my kids around Will try to get to the next one[/quote] Shame, 'cos for a first gig back for the new year it was awesome. Band felt really tight. The new (resurrected) stuff sounded great with 2 guitars and as ever the crowd at the Fountain were brilliant, singing & dancing from the start. I wish they were all like that! It must be something in the water in Chichester. Long night too. First set was an hour and the second getting on for two Finally finished at around 12:15. I mentioned to the sound guy about getting the ADAT running & he declined on the basis it would jinx it and was the first one back. Wouldn't be swayed by "well don't tell anyone and the first one after a layoff is normally fresh for the layoff" Ah well, next time perhaps.

Well there you go. My first one for the New Year. New leads, new cab (though that may have to stay at home for space), new songs (ok some resurrected ones). Hoping for a good one that might be recorded. If you're about say hi

And a rather different one from the metal thing posted earlier this evening. A sort of jazzy shuffle in E with Steve Gadd on drums (courtesy of DrumCore ) and me on guit through a PodFarm. Got a bit ahead of Steve at one point - sorry Like the title says 115BPM, in E and about 33 secs long. [attachment=18524:JazzyThing.mp3]

Found some loops and was messing with Ableton (having actually bothered to follow a couple of the lessons and understood what goes ) [attachment=18523:Metal_Thing.mp3]

I shall add my thanks to Gareth for relieving me of some cash for the Epifani cab at our mini Wal bash this afternoon I fear the rest of my band may not be so considerate when I fire up the new improved & extended rig Top chap, particularly for not laughing out load at my tuneless attempts on his beautiful Wal 5 fretless

I came to bass 30+ years ago having taught myself guitar and spent my first 15 years on bass always using a pick because it sounded right for the punky / rocky stuff we were doing, and because I never spent enough time or had the inclination to work on using fingers. Then the band changed and we started doing a more bluesy set. Fingerstyle felt & and sounded better for that. I dug in, got a lot better using 3 or four fingers and stuck exclusively to that style until we changed the set to do more rock covers. I have now switched back virtually exclusively to a pick (3mm big Dunlop Stubby if you care) because again it just sounds so much better for the stuff we are doing, and also because my picking hand is twisting with arthritis so middle, ring & pinky get tied up quite easily. I may occasionally switch to fingers and/or thumb for a slow song for the tone, but not often. It's easy to throw out Steve Harris or Billy Sheehan as examples of players who do rock fingerstyle, but at the end of the day, as others have said, it is what feels and sounds best in the context of the material [u][i]you[/i][/u] are doing. Getting snooty about using a pick is just b0110x.

Funny how pretty much everyone runs the EQ flat, as do I on my CMD121H generally only rolling the EQ off when everyone's complaining I'm too loud and there's nowhere to go on the vols. MB seem to have got something right ion that basis

[quote name='johnnylager' post='362501' date='Dec 24 2008, 07:52 AM']I cannot recommend Peter Hall in Brighton.[/quote] No? He did a good job resurrecting my Superbass 100 and the price seemed fair for a major overhaul and complete revalve. Hope yours gets sorted soon and without too much additional cost Chris.

G&L L2500? You might be lucky and find a US for that or alternatively a Tribute should come in within budget easily. Obviously try first and possibly the neck might be a bit wide, but my hands & wrists hold up OK despite arthritis. EDIT - actually looking at respective specs perhaps not as the L2500 neck width at the nut is 44.5mm compared to 45mm for the Thumb

Moody, another thing I have only just realised when going through the Line6 setup/ optimisation notes while trying to cure blasts of white noise while recording is that the latencey setting in Tracktion and Line6 should be the same. Tracktion seems to default to a latency setting of 4096 samples. Changing it to 512 in my setup fixed the problem and I don't have to mute the track when recording now. DOH!!!

Well I'm seeing it in with the band, but sadly not gigging as our vocalist is away as always. Happy new year all. Have a good one if you're gigging (make that hope you had a good one as I expect most will be on the road for set up by now)

So Vintage Guitar Price Guide, [i][u]not[/u][/i] Vintage Guitar Magazine Price Guide? 'Cos I have hundreds of the damn things and I feel bad about sticking them in the recycling.

[quote name='silverfoxnik' post='365171' date='Dec 28 2008, 09:49 PM']Wal basses...[/quote] Have you found a secret stash then Nik!?

I presume you are talking of the Bass version? Can't help you with either at the mo as the BOD xt Pro is staying in my arsenal for the time being - though I might have the guitard kidney bean version for sale soon if I go for the UX2. If you weren't after it for serious use then you might look at the Behringer copies, which you can pick up cheaply now

[quote name='rasher80' post='361943' date='Dec 23 2008, 01:21 PM']Anybody ever bought anything from Anderton's? they're supposed to have some decent prices[/quote] Yes, but not online. They are just up the road from my office. Prices can be reasonable, but generally on a par with GAK who are fairly close to home one way & Nevada the other, though the "normal" stock differs so it give me a chance to compare stuff. I have used DV24 for more techy / recording stuff. Not had bad experiences with any to date, though I tend to gravitate towards the GAK shop most times

Sadly I don't think we has Arts in our sub. I shall have to look tonight. Great band and saw them a few times in Brighton and on the last ever tour in Portsmouth One of the Brighton gigs we were in backstage after and somehow I was at the front the queue and missed my chance when someone said to me "OK you can let them in now" Last gig at Portsmouth I stayed 'til the very last encore while my mates went to get the last train. Ended up sleeping in a train (it would have been the platform but a porter took pity on a few of us & let us onto a train witing to go in the morning) and catching the first one home in the morning. Happy days

[quote name='Gman' post='359018' date='Dec 19 2008, 06:09 PM']We used to do Big Spender with a male singer (he didn't change any of the words so it ended up sounding dead camp). Currently the most obscure song is 'Love it when you call' by The Feeling - a tricky little one to get all the bvox right and play that riff at the same time. G[/quote] Ah yes. Years back we used to do "Falling in love again" a la Sid Viscious - My Way

I have horrible problems with latency using either the BOD or POD, and I also run Tracktion 3 though I don't think that is the problem. I have tried changing settings as Ped says, switching off everything I don't need (like the internet connection, firewalls & virus checkers) to no avail. When I am recording using the USB I normally set the input in Tracktion and then mute the output of the track the POD/BOD is going into. With headphones on from the POD you get the live sound of the POD, with no latency, and the track for monitoring, and you will probably find you do not need to set any offset on the track. Once you have recorded you can then unmute the POD track output to hear the mixed playback (and if there is any offset to the backing you are playing along to just zoom in on the view in tracktion and slide your bass track back as necessary. I am thinking of getting a UX2 to get around other problems experienced recording with the POD that I cannot make go away - like short white noise blasts. I can then use the optical out on that, which I have used sucessfully with the BOD Pro. Of course what I really need is a Mac with a big HD and loads of memory that I can dedicate to recording and not clutter up with all the other Office / Virus checker / Internet detritus!!

[quote name='Huggy and the Bears' post='355950' date='Dec 16 2008, 01:48 PM']Hi Guys I sometimes use drum tracks (drummed by a session drummer) and play them on minidisc through the PA (for venues where a drummer can't fit in). I wondered if anyone else used them, had a supply of them or would be willing to trade them? The ones that i have I do own outright. Your thoughts... Cheers, Simon.[/quote] I have a load of royalty free loops in a variety of styles. I did try to burn a couple of DVD's for the last SE Bash but they both failed verification by Nero though they seem to be OK. PM me your address and I shall check them out tonight and sling them in the post of you like.