charic

[quote name='crez5150' timestamp='1334563689' post='1617502'] We did think that as we do not play any Jazz at all..... [/quote]

[quote name='crez5150' timestamp='1334563392' post='1617493'] I like your style..... I'm putting together a set for a new duo at the moment. We are going to call ourselves 'The Herrington Jazz Trio' and charge a premium.... [/quote] You might want to leave "Jazz" out of it too

[quote name='4 Strings' timestamp='1334562461' post='1617480'] Had a look on the Newtone website - look really interesting (and they're British!), especially the Platinum Bass type. Anyone had any experience with these? At £25 a set (3 times the price of the Legacies) I'm conservative with trying out new strings, but these look really interesting. [/quote] No experience with the standard sets but the quality in general is really spot on. I asked for them to slightly raise the tension on one string further than they had before and this particular set play BRILLIANTLY for a bass in drop C!

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[quote name='sprocket123' timestamp='1334186041' post='1612441'] Yep , some good choices , it depends on what one wants , & personal tastes right . Yes charic , ACG s seem kind of complicated , but once one s used to it , it must be a blast [/quote] Definitely, although it's much easier to work out what sound with a recording than through a cab I've found

[quote name='sprocket123' timestamp='1334426454' post='1616143'] Be careful that some companies don t steal your ideas , some are notoreous for that . [/quote] Yeah It's one of the things that worry me. Luckily in order to pitch my idea I don't have to tell them HOW I broke a scientific theory

[quote name='crez5150' timestamp='1334561860' post='1617472'] Yes indeed but most pubs IME won't pay the same for a duo as they do for a band..... [/quote] That's true, moral? Don't tell them you're a duo when doing the booking

[quote name='waynepunkdude' timestamp='1334484572' post='1616639'] And they'll get a 2 word one back. [/quote] I'm Sorry?

The number of people in a band have no impact on what the band should be paid unfortunately. They're paying per show rather than per person

[quote name='icastle' timestamp='1334480682' post='1616573'] You don't need an entire handy, just a couple of fingerys... Did you make models using torn up newspaper and wallpaper paste at school? This is exactly the same thing [/quote] If this ends up as bad as that these are screwed :-P I guess I'd have a job making it worse lol

[quote name='51m0n' timestamp='1334440509' post='1616334'] No I said this:- And I said it for a very very good reason. I've heard the result of Kit's voice being recorded with an AKG C414, a classic high quality large condensor mic, and its very very strident in the upper mids, far too much. I had to do an awful lot of vaery careful work on her voice to make it sound big and natural and not so peaky. This was as a result of the mismatch of the mic used to record her voice, it simply isnt suited to that kind of mic. One of my first comments to Kit about this was that I would love to hear her voice captured with a quality ribbon mic, or a really good dynamic, both would help in this area. As would a pucker tube mic possibly, but I've never used one on a female vocalist so I'm not sure 100%. Her response was that the best her voice has ever sounded on a recording was when it was tracked with a ribbon - so I know I'm not making this up to justify something, its a happy accident IMO. An sm58 is not often considered a great vocal mic for the studio these days, but you would be amazed at how many great vocals are made with its close cousin the SM7, (closer to an SM57 as it goes, but still in that ballpark). How about that little known album Thriller by some wannabe Michael Jackson? It is absolutely possible that an SM58 bcould sound better on certain voices than an LDC. Not always, but sometimes, and Kit actually happens to have a voice where that is the case IMO. Marti Pello of Wet Wet Wet fame liked the sound of a Sennheiser e845 on his voice, more than any fancy LDC that he had at his disposal. Its not b0110cks, its a fact, if you knew much at all about tracking you would have stopped to think about that possibility before making that comment., I'm done here, bye. [/quote] Awesome post

[quote name='icastle' timestamp='1334434413' post='1616274'] That's not too bad. Copydex and some white tissue paper torn* to the right sort of size to make a patch will sort that out. Two layers front and rear. Don't be tempted to use PVA or EvoStick though - they set harder than Copydex and that inflexibility will potentially cause another tear. *If you cut the tissue paper then you end up with a straight edged patch which shows up - tear the paper and the randomness helps it blend in. [/quote] Thanks icastle, I'm not particularly handy though.

[quote name='spiderjazz' timestamp='1334432995' post='1616260'] Do you mind if I ask how it happened? Was it purely from use or did they get physically damaged? Have a set of them myself, wouldn't be too happy if it happened! [/quote] No idea but I've had them for years. I'm thinking probably when I moved them at somepoint.

Really cool A/B on that vid about 15 mins in!

That'll teach me not to watch videos

For just loading tracks in you could use something as simple as audacity

[quote name='silddx' timestamp='1334410696' post='1615855'] Wow! How amazing is that! [/quote] Not a ridiculous price either... kinda scary! [url="http://www.dv247.com/guitars/kemper-profiling-amplifier--82068"]http://www.dv247.com/guitars/kemper-profiling-amplifier--82068[/url]

[quote name='icastle' timestamp='1334356930' post='1615277'] You taking the p*ss out of my cardigan collection..? [/quote] You know I'm jealous of your cardigans, that's why I tell you to keep it on

Here's the piccies, not the best (took them while phone was on low battery) but you can see the extent of the damage.

[quote name='Johnston' timestamp='1334407444' post='1615791'] Amazing bit of kit. Kills alot of the argument too IMO. [/quote] Agreed, incredible stuff! [url="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NyPgBzqKlUs"]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NyPgBzqKlUs[/url]

[quote name='discreet' timestamp='1334399908' post='1615620'] Orange with black pickguard? I approve of that decision, given the options... [/quote] I do like that but I still prefer: [sharedmedia=core:attachments:90464]

[quote name='ThomBassmonkey' timestamp='1334405262' post='1615732'] More than happy to say that. If I heard a processing unit for a guitar that sounded as good distorted as an actual valve guitar amp (particularly along the Mesa/Engl lines), I'd be on the net straight away trying to find out if I could afford one. I'm sure they're not far away now, if they don't already exist. The clean tones especially can sound great (which is why I have no problem believing that people like Silddx can sound good in a band), I just prefer the sound of my GKs for now. [/quote] I don't reckon it'll be to long till they're out there. I know the fractal stuff is considered "close". Don't expect it to be cheap though I think a lot of the problem currently stems from trying to emulate 100 different amps sounding OK rather than trying to emulate 1 amp sounding exactly the same. But in that situation most people would say "buy the original" and I would tend to agree. Although if someone released an amp that could sound exactly like a mesa, engl, marshall and orange amp (randomly picked off the top of my head, insert your top fave amps here ). It would almost certainly fly off the shelf.

[quote name='Mr. Foxen' timestamp='1334405334' post='1615734'] Microphones is a whole other tone thing, Another transducer with accompanying limitations, which you work with, hence recording engineers having a collection of mics, the more you can use the limitations to your advantage when recording, the less post recording manipulation you have to do, which is the boring and expensive bit. Mostly "better" = more suited to the situation, which flat response may not be. [/quote] I meant "better" without taking into account the sound source. Probably should have clarified that. Plus you touched on the thesis of the dissertation I did at uni which eventually I will finish the research for to a degree that I can take it to the appropriate companies (although finding them in the UK is proving difficult)

[quote name='ThomBassmonkey' timestamp='1334404521' post='1615722'] CD players re-create a sound, not manipulate it (they do to some extent of course, but the general idea is a re-creation rather than alteration). I don't see them as the same thing at all. I'm not saying all digital effects are bad either, there's plenty of great effects out there that aren't possible without some kind of digital processing. I'm not saying "digital processing sounds crap." I'm saying that in my experience and opinion, they don't sound as good. I don't like Ashdown amps either, it's just my opinion based on what I've heard. There's no basis in fact for what I'm saying, it's my opinion and experience that live, modelling doesn't fit into the mix (especially on distorted sounds) as a standard amp. The same as scooped tones and transistor guitar amps for distortion. I'm definitely not attacking DACs, if DAC wasn't up to the task, we wouldn't be using digital recordings. If engineers have problems with people maxing their amps, that's a problem with the people, not the amps. I very rarely get told to alter the volume on my amp and when I do it's as often up as down. It does pain me when I bother posting my opinion in a thread like this then people start jumping on each other calling posts "nonsense" and the like. It's all opinion, this is a forum for art. There's facts involved but whether or not someone likes the sound of something is pure opinion and it's absurd to have people calling each other wrong. I'm sure Silddx and others get great tones from their modelling "rigs", but it's just not for me. Likewise, I'm sure some people don't like Musicman basses and Gallien amps, I wouldn't be afraid to post my opinion, but I'd never tell them they were wrong just because I disagree. [/quote] So would you go as far to admit that rather than say modelling amps don't sound as good instead say that you havn't heard one that has convinced you yet? Lets introduce a shade of grey into this black and white discussion