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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.

I can't see you bilbo! Did we already have quite a big thread in general bass for gig pics?

I thought 2 guitars at 5 would be louder than one, but I suppose I am wrong. I'll have to try it. Certainly two guitar amps are louder than one guitar amp, so two guitars are louder than one, so unless the mixer has some sort of automatic levelling.....? I realise now that it's a different concept, yeh. Yours is actually a better idea. If my drummer hadn't fecked off you'd have inspired me to try something very similar!

[quote name='tayste_2000' post='232002' date='Jul 3 2008, 01:50 PM']Your logic is flawed so if I split my signal with an active splitter (passive causes problems) when it's summed its more of a case of 1+1=1 instead 1+1=2 it's wierd I think while you expect it to do a 2 in theory in practice it does a 1. The soundclip is the best explanation of this I've never come across one, the closest is a Barge VFB-X which allows you to control the blend level between clean and effected but only 1 chain of effected You do misunderstand me here as I'm talking about fading volume and controlling saturation which isn't really effecting volume (well not effecting max volume) when you hear it working it sounds like an overdrive you are turning the gain up on for example so it's getting louder and taking over more of the signal. only this works on many effects. Best example is in the clip near the beginning I'm using delay on one chain and clean in another and I basically swell repeats in, it doesn't swell the delay but I can play for chords and have repeats on 2 and 4 without having to turn the pedal on and off loads during each bar.[/quote] Well, now i'm looking for it I can't find the blender. I understand your 1+1=1 analogy, I just don't understand why your 1+1=1. Do you have the volume pedals at the beginning of each chain as opposed to the end? And some sort of dirt/compression on each channel? This would explain it. Otherwise I don't understand because i'm pretty sure that on a mixer for example, 1+1=2. I know that if you split your signal, it can be a case of 0.5 + 0.5=1, but then when you have one of the loops down to 0 it will total 0.5. I will have a listen 'cos obviously it works in practice but I don't understand the theory (like most technology!). EDIT: I had a breif flashback and thought that maybe the blender pedal was a gig-fx thing, but I can't find it on their site. Maybe it was earnie ball but I don't have time to look atm. Oh, and I understand why you want 2 volume pedals now, as opposed to a blender, because sometimes you will want to be full on with one sound, and keep fading in and out another, which wouldn't work very well with a blender type pedal.

Can you explain why there is no volume drop? Or is my logic flawed? You know what I mean right: If I route two copies of a mono signal into a mixer (phase issues aside) then the output will be louder than when I fade down one channel and leave the other one up. I'm not sure I meant a "stereo volume pedal" there is a "blend pedal" or something where you plug in two loops and use the exp pedal to blend between the two, meaning at the middle position it's both loops at equal level, and at either end it's one loop or the other, and everything in between. "The problem with you idea of the stereo pedal is you can't effect either chain you can only do both or the one that is selected and not have say a clean side you can fade out and a noise side on full pelt all the way through." I don't really understand this. If you had one loop clean, and one loop effected, you could fade from the middle position to just the effected version. I think I am misinterpreting you? I will have a listen to the sample when I get chance (at work at the mo') - I really can't wait!