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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.

lower the pickups and try that.

Your bass has active volume and eq controls yeh? Turn them down to a quarter up and try it.

Very nice! Do you not use the TB loop?

I spose if you're sitting down it'd be pointless. If you're gigging, then you could have one master volume pedal at the end to fade up both chains! Not that you have space I've just counted, and I gig with more pedals than you! I would never have thought it from looking at the pornographic pics.

Tayste - I haven't listened yet, but I figured out what I was thinking about: a split before two effects chains, and an EB stereo pan pedal at the end of the two chains. I had another idea - with your pedals it would be quite hard to fade one down, and fade the other up at the same time (unless you're sitting down?) you could wire one of them the opposite way round so that with your foot on both at the same time it would act as a blender type thing.

Yeh, like I said, you can get digital dictaphones with mic input and USB output - olympus do one. It'll sound allright if you get a decent mic. I would get a stereo condensor mic with battery inside ('cos you wont have phantom power) and plug that into a digital dictaphone. Or you could just get a Zoom H2 or the Tascam thing. If you read a few threads in the recording section here you'll find lots of questions the same as yours, with lots of answers!

As far as gear goes - i've always been content! Yes, I have constantly been building up a collection of pedals but I don't think that's indicative of discontentment. I only bought what I could afford, and I only bought what I knew I would use for the band. Now our drummer has gone home i'm stuck with this amazing rig and pedal board and I don't know whether to sell it or what! So to be content I suppose I need enough gear to gig, and enough gigs to justify the gear.

Do you have a laptop? You can get digital dictaphones with mic input and USB output.