paul_5

Bobby is the demo player on the MXR website - he plays some cool stuff on those videos too.

Ooh, I'd like some too. Not found any yet though.

Nice, thanks for the tip off.

Why not just find tunes that have arpeggios in the baselines and learn those? - two birds, one stone. For example - Night in Tunisia by Charlie Parker or I Feel Good by James Brown. There are loads of others too.

Ah, 'twas always thus.

OR you could 'man up' and pull the trigger on one of these bad boys... http://www.davehallamps.co.uk/page29.html They're the kipper's knickers!

Try turning up the AUX knob on the bass and channels 5 and 6, then press the AUX to mon button and turn up the master aux knob (the one above the 3 push buttons), then try turning up the headphone level and see if that helps - it may be that the headphone output is tied in with the internal routing for the aux send...

[quote name='AttitudeCastle' timestamp='1343339248' post='1749346'] That's what I was first thinking, however I realised I know nothing about them... so thought I'd ask as everything I found seemed to say you need things costing a million and one pounds which didn't seem right, which is why I posted the thread! [/quote] Hmm, some splitters will use transformer balanced and isolated outputs - does tend to drive the cost up a little... Depends how fussy you are. That might be considered 'overkill' for playing down the Dog and Duck.

You could probably get one fairly cheap from your local Maplins or similar.

[quote name='Tankdave' timestamp='1343325221' post='1749038'] Some of the noise is cool, it proves a real bass is being played and not just some synth or sampled stuff. [/quote] This - I've had some recording jobs where we've deliberately gone for a 'clanky' sound. Congratulations, you've nailed this technique, now that you feel it's time to move onto another approach I'd echo what's been said on here already - flats and cut the top of your EQ. The disadvantage to playing semi-acoustic bass guitars is that the pickup is invariably a piezo mounted under the bridge - the place of least bass and most top. That is going to be a major factor in the amount of squeaks and such, so don't beat yourself up about it too much. Altering your RH technique is something that I had to consider when I was playing my SA bass; it took a while, but I got there in the end. Oh, that and I removed the frets - got rid of the fret noise, see?

[quote name='discreet' timestamp='1343303996' post='1748551'] Fender-knockers! [/quote] fnar fnar!

Joy Division were (for me at least) a band that was significantly greater than the sum of its parts. I would't consider any of the members a particularly great musician (Ian Curtis couldn't even sing), but that didn't stand in their way. Fair play to them for getting up and doing it. They managed to capture everything about who they were and where they were from brilliantly, warts and all.

^ Look at his posture - that's a guitarist posing as a bassist! ^

Jeremy - Pearl Jam, not sure how you'd get it to sound right without an 8 string bass though...

Isn't that Steve Albini?

[quote name='discreet' timestamp='1343229335' post='1747427'] I think one dirtbox is about right, isn't it..? [/quote] Nah; Wooly Mammoth, Russian Big Muff and DHA VT1EQ. I've got a couple of others that aren't on the board right now, but you never know. I've only got one rectum though.

Seen Les Claypool (3 times), Geddy Lee (twice) and Lemmy, Flea and Billy Sheehan (just the once each). Other major influences on my playing would be people like Duck Dunn, John Paul Jones, James Jamerson, Jaco and Charles Mingus - not likely so see them live unfortunately (though I might get lucky with JPJ).

[quote name='Adrenochrome' timestamp='1343228264' post='1747400'] How about dialling in the BDI21 for the higher level of gain, and just playing a bit gentler when you'd don't need all the grit? [/quote] What? and just have one dirtbox? Sort yourself out man!

Since someone else beat me to the 'me first' canon of work I'll offer this one up: [media]http://youtu.be/LOMsDV4CPLk[/media]

Relisted? relisted.

Man on the moon - REM