WalMan

Who on earth wound the string in that ad!!!!???? I always thought it was three turns, top to bottom & don't muddle the windings like that......................or have I been doing it wrong all these years?

That SVT patch on the BOD

Well that's a bit more frickin' like it. The Swan, Woolston. Good night with a nice noisy, dancey crowd. Back to the full rig and sounding much better. Still a few alien abduction moments, but all in all a good one. So pleased we ended the w/e on a good note. The Friday gig will not be rebooked, it's just not worth the aggro, but The Swan is always good. Even had a couple who come to see us regularly, but have moved to Swansea turn up for the gig, which was nice. Was a bit worried at the start of the evening when the drummer copped one at an off the cuff remark by the singer, but laughed it off & basically ignored it and all was well soon after. It all stems from the PA, which we had a meeting about a couple of months back as it had been getting out of hand, and while it was supposed to stay the same for all gigs (except really small ones) has started to expand a little now, but personally I find it difficult to get too worked up about it when the sound is good, there's just quite a bit of it. Still I can go to bed happy after my wind down to Jools from Friday

Last night was distinctly average. Small pub with only a few in & I was playing like a tit most of the night, which as we were guitar, bass, drums & vox left me nowhere to hide. Polite response until the end of the evening, when of course more was required Had a few people up afterwards with compliments & one chap in particular saying "Good night. Haven't seen you for ages, where have you been hiding? Going back into hibernation there's no more on the gig list for this year or next. When are you back?" Didn't like to busrt his bubble so just smiled, chatted and we all managed to avoid "When hell freezes over" in reply to the last. Hope tonight goes better. Back to the full rig in a bigger gig, but still the same line up as the second guitarist is n/a this w/e. Better reload the car & get off soon. Here's hoping!!!

Not a good day then Beefy. Onwards & upwards it can surely only get better, until you get the bug & start spending hours tinkering.

[quote name='ped' post='299707' date='Oct 5 2008, 01:20 AM']Glad you like it!! I also did the 'Studio Clean' one and several others... glad someone found them useful! I shall expect royalties of course :0)[/quote] Can we call that DVD of loops quits I shall have to search out some more. It does require me to get the rack upstairs & plugged in, which tends not to happen too often. Looks like others may have taken it and run with it as it seemed to get a load of hits with a search yesterday when I was trying to work out what was in it without plugging the BOD in, which proved not possible. I shall have to try to get a clip of the patch in action up sometime MM 8x10 anything to do with you, that's another slightly smoother one I have been using. Oops sorry, dragging this off topic with the BC love in

[quote name='ped' post='299526' date='Oct 4 2008, 06:38 PM']Hey Walman - that 'SVT Grit' patch was by moi![/quote] Well Ped it is blahdy marvellous At long last I got into tweaking patches and overwriting the originals ('cos I can always recall them) and my starting point was a few from Customtone including that one. Works nicely with the L2500 as well as reamping stuff from the computer

I have been remixing old tapes and ran the old DI bass track back through my Bass Pod on a patch I downloaded called "SVT Grit" and that certainly gives it a nice edge. I have been tending to use the same patch at gigs since I got it

Try something like a [url="http://www.slider-straps.com/"]Slider strap[/url] Until it was replaced a couple of years back I was having increasing problems with my left shoulder (which disintegrated with arthritis) so that even with a comfort strap I could only manage 3 or 4 numbers with my Wal (fair enough not the lightest of basses) before my left arm went numb. I got a Slider strap, which distributes the weight of the bass evenly across both shoulders, and was able to play two hour long sets with not too much problem. I found the old one in my study last night so PM me your address and I could stick it in the mail if you want to try one out - I still have a second one in my case against future problems

Hard to resist isn't it. Welcome back

[quote name='Crazykiwi' post='296700' date='Oct 1 2008, 02:57 PM']On behalf of the forum, you're very welcome Polly Many thanks to Coasterbass (Nick) who deserves credit for organising the flowers and managing the whipround.[/quote] As I said to Nik before the Bash this is what I find particularly good about the forum, the fact that it is a generally friendly place and rallies round with support. As others have said already, but it never hurts to say again, condolences on your loss Polly

Where are you based & is age an issue

[quote name='dazco' post='296195' date='Oct 1 2008, 09:17 AM']Thanks for that info, in fact thanks to everyone who has replied. One question, if you are using just a computer with no equipment how do you get the sound into your computer? And is it a basic sound that goes into your computer (and you then apply effects) or is it would have come out of your amp/speakers.[/quote] What lowdown says. Personally I have an EMU sound card with assorted ins & outs and a little Yamaha mixer I had kicking aroud that I feed into the card. The PODs I could put in using the USB, but I have never been able to kill the latency on playback so tend to feed the guitar POD in through the mixer. That does mean that I am stuck with whatever patch I record The BOD Pro I recently worked out how to use the digital in/out so can feed the sound card bass model & plain DI to record to two separate tracks and then have the option to send the DI back out for a different patch if I want. I could just plug the bass into the yamaha so far as it goes, but as I have the extra toys they get used.

[quote name='dazco' post='295945' date='Sep 30 2008, 10:05 PM']Hi. What I would like to do is sit in the spare room and see if I can make my own music, just for me. So I would put a bass track, then a guitar, then a keyboard, that type of thing. I was lookig for a machine rather than a computer programme, unless the programme is superb of course[/quote] Well you could use one of the dedicated multitrackers available from the likes of Boss. I have not used them at all having got into Tracktion on the PC. Maybe because I have never used the dedicated machines in anger, but for what you are saying, and if you are happy with, and have a reasonable PC then I find the ease of using Tracktion, having it all there on screen in front of me and being easily able to set punch points, cut and paste tracks is great. The tracks [url="http://www.myspace.com/scatterometer"]HERE[/url] were all done in Tracktion with a couple of PODs (Bass & Guitar), either the Wal or L2500 for bass, a Peavey Generation Exp, drum loops for the kit and an M Audio USB keyboard with Sampletank for the keyboards. That said you don't need the PODs as you can use something like the [url="http://rekkerd.org/frettedsynth-updates-freeamp-to-v31/"]FreeAmp plugin[/url] and you can probably find free soft synths dotted around the web. What you want to do is what I am doing when the mood strikes, and I love Tracktion (can you tell ). I bought T2 and upgraded to T3 from that for the new stuff available, but T2 would work fine for what you want and for £29.99 including the LE plugins that come with it is a bargain IMHO

[quote name='dazco' post='295018' date='Sep 30 2008, 12:19 AM']Is there anything on the market that digitally records and mixes sounds in a very easy manner, ie you play a simple bass line or riff into it and it is easy to repeat it whenever you like. It should also be able to put things in tune/time and have some drums built in. I feel whatever it is will be linked to a PC, this does not scare me too much but ease of use is paramount. Thanks[/quote] Mackie Tracktion - [url="http://www.dv247.com/invt/27495/product.htm?gdftrk=gdfV2356_a_7c416_a_7c1181_a_7c27495"]v2 @ DV24[/url] is £29.99 and a selection of drumloops you can import (I have a load of royalty free ones in a selection of styles I could pass on). Easy to use as it flows across the screen from input to output with no sub menus / screens to navigate. Also comes with a load of plugins including Linplug RMIV, which is a midi drum sequencer that has a load of kits and loops supplied - some better than others it must be said, but all the same.... [url="http://www.soundonsound.com/sos/aug05/articles/tracktion2.htm"]Sound on Sound Review[/url]

[quote name='cetera' post='295411' date='Sep 30 2008, 02:09 PM']Looks like a great day had by all... shame I couldn't make it Who's was the white Pedulla? That looks lovely.... [/quote] I believe it was Adrian Ashton's

Looks a bit like Pino lurking at the back as well

Not bad, & a good crowd - which is always nice!! Drummer loves the gig for the half tiled floor for the positive effect on the kit. I hate it for the really bright clanky sound it gives, but in my IEM's I don't need to worry about that & the PA helps matters basswise

Bugger I missed the Bootsie bass The looks on the wedding party's faces as the wandered past "[i]Stay away from the scary men dear..... you don't know where they've been & they associate with drummers[/i]" Still think the suggestion of a bass orchestra of "Mustang Sally" should have been a goer

Well that was fun. Ran a bit late from a gig, but had a good day meeting BC'ers both new and old, and what an incredibly nice bunch we all were Interesting set of talks in the second room. Missed the set up from Joe White unfortunately, but Adrian Ashton, John East & Alex Claber all put on great shows. Thanks to Nik & Merton for all the work setting up a great day. Here's to the next one...........oh and I won a set of strings in the raffle - marvellous

[quote name='dave_bass5' post='293102' date='Sep 26 2008, 09:28 PM']Ill be interested to see what happens when he tries to bring it back to the UK. Hopefully nothing but i wouldn't risk it.[/quote] Indeed, Customs are certainly wise to guitars, so probably amps as well. And for £70 in VAT to import it that's still a saving so worth paying to avoid problems

[quote name='silverfoxnik' post='292983' date='Sep 26 2008, 06:32 PM']Guys, John East needs to use a really transparent rig to demonstrate his pre-amps tomorrow and I have asked Bernie Goodfellow if he can bring an EBS combo for that, which he said was cool. But if for any reason Bernie can't make it, gets delayed or some other problem occurs, is there anyone coming who has a rig that John could use for his talk between 1pm and 2pm? I would offer my Peavey T-Max and SWR Triad to John but it just isn't transparent really... Any offers? Thanks.... Cheers Nik[/quote] Is mine any good Nik? Some say they are not. See you tomorrow Al

[quote name='Merton' post='291854' date='Sep 25 2008, 03:18 PM']According to that it's in 2009 [/quote] ARSE Fixed now - I think [url="http://www.7is7.com/otto/countdown.html?year=2008&month=9&date=27&hrs=09&ts=24&min=30&sec=0&tz=0&lang=en&show=dhms&mode=r&cdir=down&bgcolor=%23CCFFFF&fgcolor=%23000000&title=Countdown%20To%20SE%20Bass%20Bash"]Countdown To SE Bass Bash[/url]

[quote name='johnnylager' post='291833' date='Sep 25 2008, 03:03 PM']Mine ain't rocket science either. EDIT: 43h and counting...[/quote] [url="http://www.7is7.com/otto/countdown.html?year=2008&month=9&date=27&hrs=09&ts=24&min=30&sec=0&tz=0&lang=en&show=dhms&mode=r&cdir=down&bgcolor=%23CCFFFF&fgcolor=%23000000&title=Countdown%20To%20SE%20Bass%20Bash"]Countdown To SE Bass Bash[/url]

[quote name='obbm' post='291773' date='Sep 25 2008, 02:01 PM']I have some I can bring.[/quote] I printed them last night for those on the attending list, otherwise it'll be marker pen <EDIT> Read to the end of the thread Al </EDIT>