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[quote name='Dom in Somerset' timestamp='1327751979' post='1516181'] "the CD of the new recordings that you burnt for me doesn't work" Time passes. " "Oh , it does work, I'd put it in the player the wrong way up." [/quote] hah, I gave a CD to a band mate once and he managed to slide it over his CD deck in the car, so it dissapeared, but wasn't in the actual CD slot. I didn't see it happen so was well freaked out, and when he managed to put "another" CD in the slot and play it, it was as though something mystical had happened. 2 weeks later he'd fished it out and didn't seem to find it as hilarious as I did! (this was a bassist by the way )

[quote name='cheddatom' timestamp='1320323550' post='1425264'] I love my peavey TNT although I do pair it with a guitar amp. If anyone wants to hear the rig mic'd it's on myspace.com/nologorock [/quote] Just returning to this thread and I wonder if any of the peavey haters had a listen to the above? 'cos this is back when I used to mic my peavey rig for recording.

you're the bassist. Your rhythm will be the best to follow I'm sure you're totally right, I don't have a lot of experience in the genre

he doesn't mind shaking hands with pork either!

I've been recording a couple of folky people recently and they've asked me to put bass on. With the lack of bass drum, I was really trying to get the bass to replace that and take up the rhythm role. Unfortunately I was asked to put bass on after the tracks were almost done, so I had to play in time to speeding up and slowing down, but yeh, my main point is that if there's no kick drum - try and be the kick drum?

I always have the bottom slider on my EQ all the way down, which I think is 40Hz, and I play plenty of low B flats which sound nice and fat.

I have a long term goal of understanding how compressors work at the circuit board level. Are there some simple circuits I can try and play about with? I have a breadboard thingy for testing and swapping components so just need a simple circuit and a trip to maplins...

they probably do but it's probably insignificant and pointless at a live gig.

I miss that kind of gig

cool, maybe get him to take a feed from the desk at the next one? It looks like a sh*t load of fun though, a proper crowded "messy" gig

How do you find out tour dates? There's nothing on Myspace

Flea's a great bassist and I love his stuff with Mars Volta. He's just a bassist though isn't he? Les is something else IMO.

[quote name='pantherairsoft' timestamp='1327598415' post='1514037'] Cool. Lemme know what ya' think. [/quote] What did you use to record it? The compression is way over the top so I can hardly hear vocals or drums. Some great bass sounds though!! I have a Zoom Q2 camera and the audio on that is ace. It auto-levels itself - rather than just squashing everything above a certain level, it brings down the gain and maintains that level for the whole set, rather than jumping up during "breakdowns" or the like.

just get an EQ pedal or pre-amp to match the thunderbird to the active bass you like the sound of

Just bought an SFX Loop Logic from Al. Not only did he very kindly hold the item for 2 weeks while I waited for my monies, he then got it to me within 48 hours of payment! Excellent

[quote name='thisnameistaken' timestamp='1327590552' post='1513865'] And I'd add that on bass guitar in particular - more often than not - technically difficult music sounds bloody awful. [/quote] Only if you've got one of those Limited Range Basses with only 4 strings.

[quote name='peteb' timestamp='1327585907' post='1513762'] Can we just challenge this idea that non-musicians do not appreciate technical ability! Punters are generally very impressed by displays of musical virtuosity as long as it is presented in an entertaining way and they are not constantly beaten over the head with it! [/quote] yes, but it's the "tasteful" playing they won't appeciate I played a gig with an amazing drummer recently, and we kept on reminding him to absolutely let loose at the gig, really almost over-play. He totally did and i've never heard so many positive comments from non musicians about a drummer.

ooooh, cool, will give it a blast through the mixing-rig at home (I have a nice sub).

My best acheivement in terms of bass playing is a bassline I wrote a couple of months ago - one note played in a slightly unusual rythm. This is a perfect example I think. I've tried explaining why I love this bassline so much to non-musicians and they just don't get it. Several people have even said they can't hear the bassline! Bassists would deffinitely get it, and hopefully appreciate the "taste" of it, even though it demonstrates no technical ability what so ever and will never stand out to non-musicians.

I really need to get to one of these gigs to see it in action

I record and mix a lot of music. In the process I generally found that I would use different bass tones for different sections of songs, and so I bought pedals to re-create this live. Also on occasion where there is "room" for it, I like to add extra creative bits - phaser, envelope filter, wah, delay, whammy. It's all just to add to the texture of the band. If your band has only 2 dynamics: verse and chorus, then you're not going to find room for much other than a few different tones. Some people change their tone using the tone and volume pots, but personally I don't find that easy to do consistently, or dramatic enough for the contrasts i'm after.

If anything which alters "the envelope" (not sure what you mean there?) confused the rhythm, then no funk bands would use envelope filters? Why would pitch effects work on guitar not bass? (thinking of chorus specifically). Have you ever used a delay pedal and set it to be in time with the peice you're playing?

I'm not sure what you mean about the switching method. I'd guess it's the same as the XP300 in your sig (very very jealous!!) - one switch to bypass, the other to scroll through 6 presets. Personally, if I want polyphonic harmonies with perfect tracking and tone... i'd rather play the chords. I play 6 strings so maybe that's easier for me. I use the whammy for octave down and up, pitch bend, and the low pass filter/wah which is very funky.

I have the XP-100 and prefer it to the WH-4 in terms of tone, but the tracking is basically the same. I've not tried the pitchfactor - sounds ace!