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I suppose this "small ball end" thing will become apparent when I actually get to buy some? They don't have any links to UK dealers on the fender website! How crap.

The yamaha says my guitar is 26.25" scale, and the fender site says "Fits most 27" to 29" scale length baritone guitars". Do you think that'd be allright? I can't find anything about small ball ended strings.

£90 off ebay! It's got a few scratches, that's a stock pic up there. If no-one reckons I should drill them, I will try the fender brand strings, but I would have thought the tuners on a fender VI would have been special?

I have a Yamaha AES820-D6 that I want to tune very low. The strings that were on it when I got it were too thin for my liking, but when I tried to put thicker baritone guitar strings on, they wouldn't fit through the hole in the tuning head! I had to get a bass string 'cos they're thin at the end, and tie it behin the body because it was too long! This is working for now, but i'd like to have flexibility. Can I just drill the holes to make them bigger? The back of the headstock showing the weird tuning heads: The beautiful looking guitar:

[quote name='Sarah5string' post='235081' date='Jul 8 2008, 04:45 PM']How exactly do you not think about what you're playing though?[/quote] If you know something "off by heart" then it's stored in your subconscious somewhere. You can start off playing, and then not "think" about what you're playing. For example, lots of people play infront of the TV, and don't actually listen to what they're playing, but still play perfectly. To what extent this is acheivable is something i'm not aware of, and I'd say I am naturally skeptical about things like this. Another more common example, is where someone cannot remember a bass line that they know. However, when they start playing the song, it "comes back to them" and they play it perfectly. Whether or not they're actually thinking about what they're doing......... It's pretty pointless to play without listening to yourself IMHO. It's just i've seen the phrase "finger memory" around quite a bit, and I don't like the way people misinterpret it (if it has a real meaning?). I'm no expert.

Being able to play something without thinking about it is not the same as your fingers being able to remember something (which just doesn't happen).

[quote name='Jamesemt' post='235006' date='Jul 8 2008, 02:52 PM']Thanks for all the replies. I've got it sorted - if you right click on each part of the kit in Hydrogen you can solo that one part (ie snare, kick etc), then just export the song. Sounds like a faffing around, but only took me about five minutes to export the full kit onto seperate wavs...[/quote] That's fair enough, but it means that you can't change anything in the drum part now (unless you fancy cutting and swapping bits about). Maybe you should seek a better solution in the future that enables you to constantly change the drum part, as well as your other audio tracks.

A stool would be better I think, but get one with a back! I practice on the settee at home. For some reason if I play acoustic guitar/bass here, I get very bad cramp in my left hand. If I stand up - no problem. If I play electric (thinner) sitting down on the settee, again no problem. Weird!

The problem for him with this approach is that he may have no decent drum sounds in his soundcard. The midi data is there, and is useful, but you need some decent drum sounds to drive using the midi file, and AFAIK most soundcards come with sh*t drum sounds and/or you just get your standard crappy windows ones.

[quote name='paul h' post='234326' date='Jul 7 2008, 05:39 PM']Inspiring someone to take up music and search for some originality = positive. Spawning an endless number of clones = negative. Paul.[/quote] I think this sums it up quite well. To build on that, a well known artist who goes out of their way to help "clones" could have a negative effect on modern bass. Nuno Bettencourt (a very technical guitarist) doesn't do tutorial DVDs (apparently) because he thinks that if people want to learn his songs, they should learn them by ear and put their own spin on them. How many technical bassists do you know with that attitude? I haven't watched them, so I wouldn't know, but does Victor Wooten for example, teach you how to play exactly like him in his videos? Or does he teach you to play the bass?

the beaty of reason is that you can program in cubase and "rewire" it to reason, and both programs are synchronised.

[quote name='bennifer' post='234448' date='Jul 7 2008, 08:00 PM']I wouldn't bother with getting reason though, the sound in it are so cheap and nasty![/quote] There's a massive selection of drum sounds, and obviously you can download different ones if you like, and you can control the sounds as much as you like etc. I like it anyway.

I give the soundman a DI for my "lot of bottom and very compressed" sound. Then I get him to mic up my guitar amp for the top end. The combination makes me sound like I do at practice. Maybe more sound guys should mic cabs? Maybe more bassists should be particular about what they want? Maybe the sound guy was crap.

I found several ideal bass tones for my band. The main one I love, which is pretty standard for me is: schecter bass with bass boosted and highs cut and bridge p/u half way down -> LS-2 blending B2.1U with low gain OD and Ibanez CP5 with slow attack (as in lots of punch!) -> LMB-3 -> Peavey 1 x 15" combo and Johnson 2 x 12" guitar amp bi-amped, crossover at around 800hz. This sounds so punchy, cuts through so much, but still has loads of that "I'm playing on a huge wooden stage" boom to it. There's lots of EQ on the amps as well. I suppose it sounds a bit overkill, but this is almost my "clean" tone.

[quote name='stingrayfan' post='234281' date='Jul 7 2008, 04:46 PM']I thought it was 'coming soon'.[/quote] "sooner than you think".... obviously. Or are you on about the album title? We used that title for our "album sampler" i.e the album is coming soon, here is a taster (and it's salty).

Don't get angry when they don't practice. It looks unproffessional and makes you feel bad! I think teaching beginners can be quite easy but quite frustrating.

I think that if you like the sounds in hydrogen, then the easiest thing to do is simply export the audio, or record it into cubase - like what Ped suggested. I think if you wanted to combine the two and be able to mix the drums and keep editing them etc then you'd be better off writing the drum parts in cubase, and then either importing the midi file from cubase into hydrogen to bounce down, or getting Reason which will run from midi data in cubase, and outputs audio channels which can be routed into the cubase mixer. I don't know how expensive reason is, but if it's un-affordable you could always PM me.

Bu dum tshhhhhh They're coming thick and fast now!

[quote name='bremen' post='234193' date='Jul 7 2008, 02:50 PM']Just listened to the stuff on the Myspace and it's *disgraceful*. Won't somebody think of the children?[/quote] Don't worry, we're thinking of them for you

The Premature Ejaculators are a rock band that play all kinds of music with provocative and hilarious lyrics, as well as some mean riffs and some nice jazzy numbers. I played the drums, recorded, mixed, mastered, put together the art work for this album and I thought some of you guys might like it. It's £4 + 0.99 P&P. You can find the paypal link on our [url="http://myspace.com/theprematureejaculatorscomingsoon"]myspace[/url] page to pay. It should take 3 working days to receive your copy unless you hear otherwise. We sold 15 at our last gig! I hope someone likes it! EDIT: I thought I would add some pics:

[quote name='Oscar South' post='233857' date='Jul 6 2008, 11:27 PM']Edited the link but I think that people make a ridiculous fuss over electronic piracy, its an inevitable fact of modern life and many organizations are now taking advantage and cashing in on this new avenue of culture. As far as this one example goes, most people who would have bought the book anyway would still buy it (like I did), perhaps some would be more likely to buy it after seeing inside it. Anyone who wouldn't have bought the book still wont, but they might now read it.. as an author having more people read my work is something I would want to happen. All it takes is a google search to find anything anyway.[/quote] I agree 100% but you are putting BC at risk by breaking the law. If I want to offer or help people find illegal material, I will do so in a discreet and private nature so as to avoid any potential complications. You are right in principle, but this is not the place IMHO.