paul_5

I've got the Korg MS20 Legacy plugin and love it, but I use a MIDI control keyboard to play it - I don't get on with little keys.

I've just spent 30 minutes on a 2 octave Ab scale going up and down in 4ths. I got up to 80bpm (using semiquavers) and now my hands feel as though they've really had a workout. This is true. At the same time as this my ears got a good drilling, and my brain helped me to find the most comfortable positions to play certain modes off the parent scale. I reckon that [i]just[/i] playing scales is educational and worthwhile for more than dexterity /muscle development. It also improved my intonation as I was playing my fretless. Tomorrow night - 'A major scale' 2 octaves.....

Bah! Stupid Y chromosome!

You say that like 80 naked cyclists is a [i]bad[/i] thing?

It happens all of the time unfortunately - I've done it myself on a couple of albums where the playing was 'sub prime'. Not because I wanted a playing royalty (waived them anyway), but it's often easier than spending hours and hours trying to edit / pitch correct / polish the proverbial.

Jump up and down with it round your neck for 90 minutes - if you're tired at the end then it's too heavy.

You'll know it when you hear it - kinda like somebody took one of the sliders on a graphic EQ and slid it all the way to the top - then cut most of the rest. It just means that the two versions of the same signal are crossing each other and part of one wave is cancelling out part of another.

Move the mic around until it goes away! Seriously, move the mic. Doing it in the DAW is possible by nudging the one of the tracks by a couple of milliseconds so that waveforms aren't cancelling each other out but I'm of the opinion that if you want it to sound right at the end, get it right at the start.

Caravan with a drum solo? I might just 'freak out!'

Of those 3 mics I'd go for the 57 on the best sounding cone and DI as well. I'd do some test recording before actual 'takes' to check that the microphone channel isn't out of phase with the DI - you'll know if they are on playback; when you listen to them individually they should sound OK (but different from each other), but when you play them together the sound will start to sound 'thin', like some of the sound is missing...

There aren't any hard or fast rules on this, I tend to run my bass into a valve DI and record that on its own channel, then take another feed from the DI onto my pedalboard (sometimes then to an SWR head and DI that) into another channel in ProTools. Gives greater flexibility for mixing but on the other hand might make mixing more complicated.

I'm just north of Manchester, 'Band on the Wall' in Manchester has reopened recently and might be up for a 'big name' evening to promote their relaunch.

Anything outside of that London?

[quote name='lowdown' timestamp='1371233572' post='2111614'] The only problem I can see, is if you have kids. Turn up on a booking with Lego bricks, Action man boots and old stinking fish fingers rattling about. [/quote] Welcome to my gig bags!

Nice that.

A Tele with a trem and humbuckers - where do I sign? Nice that!

yeah, quite pleased with it.

Samples - [url="https://soundcloud.com/paul_5/sets/amp-eg-scrambler-clone-samples"]https://soundcloud.c...r-clone-samples[/url] It's not [i]quite[/i] as dirty as it should be as I used a 2n3904 instead of the 2n5088 transistor as Q2, but it's still pretty extreme!

Mains cable is actually very good speaker cable, rated at 13A too!

alright, I'll play. First up - my fretted 'home bass' P bass body hacked at to take a MM pickup and a J neck PUP, 'Yamato' neck and Artec 2 band EQ [URL=http://s1221.photobucket.com/user/paul_510/media/fretted_zps9a89abfd.jpg.html][IMG]http://i1221.photobucket.com/albums/dd471/paul_510/fretted_zps9a89abfd.jpg[/IMG][/URL] then my main squeeze - J body altered to take the MM bridge PUP, Mighty Mite fretless J neck and an Artec 3 band EQ [URL=http://s1221.photobucket.com/user/paul_510/media/fretless_zpsd996afeb.jpg.html][IMG]http://i1221.photobucket.com/albums/dd471/paul_510/fretless_zpsd996afeb.jpg[/IMG][/URL]

[quote name='Lfalex v1.1' timestamp='1371192113' post='2110950'] If he doesn't want his salmon pink Jazz, I'll look after it for him.... [/quote] +1!

Nice. I had the CE2-B a few years ago and that was lovely too.

will it feedback, d'you think?

+1 to all of the usual suspects - plus Keith Emerson's left hand.

Welcome on board skipper.