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I would play with the odb-3 until you can get a good sound. Turn the gain down and the bass up!

I like to go and "jam" with my girlfriend, but I wouldn't want to be in a band that takes gigs and money etc seriously. It'd stress me out.

If you have more amp volume, you may feel like you have to play less hard, and that makes it easier to play - fair enough. However, I don't understand why people claim that this will yeild better tone, and is better technique in general. I like to play through overdrive which means that when I really dig in, I get rewarded by more dirt. Isn't this good technique? I like the sound of hard playing.

[quote name='ahpook' post='200657' date='May 16 2008, 07:13 PM']i'm tired of hearing cooling fans !! my soundtech power amp has noisy fans, i admit it...but they're not noticeable when you're playing live, but at home they drive me mad after about 30 mins. so at the moment i'm running my pre-amp into the effects return of my trace elliot head, as it's quieter... [b]but it's still driving me mad[/b] i'm actually thinking of getting a cheap low-wattage power amp that uses passive cooling at home just for some peace and quiet. anyone else feel like this ? sorry for ranting ![/quote] You should be able to put a switch in to turn off the fan for home practice. I doubt this would do much damage, but i'm no expert!

[quote name='Mottlefeeder' post='204050' date='May 22 2008, 08:21 AM']Some people think that old school looks are the only look for their kind of band. Others don't like the old school look, and prefer natural wood, no scratchplate, small tuner heads etc. It's cheaper to think and then buy than to buy and then think.[/quote] Some people don't give a sh*t what their bass looks like. I bought a 4 string bass because it's what I thought I was supposed to do. I got bored really quickly and bought a 6 string. Admittedly I had been playing guitar for 8 years, but I found that the 6 string was much more of a challenege and interesting to play etc.

I have the same kind of thing - I went to see some osteopaths for a bit but they didn't acheive much other than educating me. I think it's my whole right side, I always have pain running from my head down through my shoulder, and my right wrist and hand also get really painful and occasionally cramp up/go numb. EDIT: It wasn't supposed to be a whinge - does anyone know who I should see in the stoke/staffs area?

Well, I have been popping my blisters from drumming, and they all seem to form callouses. When I don't pop them, I get a big callous that "rips" off in less than a week.

I can't find a for sale thread for your T-max. PM me?

[quote name='BOD2' post='202973' date='May 20 2008, 04:27 PM']Of course everyone else on stage thought the bass was too loud....[/quote] Idiots!!!

I love the sound of my rig on a big hollow wooden stage - drums too!

I think you should make it clear to the organisers who/what you are - if they still want you, then you're the band they're looking for, and you should go and play for them! (IMHO)

Hah, I can't beleive your name's Rog! I spose I would have noticed had I looked at your sig. Congrats on a fiendish name Queeny! Welcome to your lady friend. His feedback looks OK to me, but I don't buy much on Ebay. I would go ahead, but then I tend to make rash decisions. Umm, or Ahhh.

You can find some good circuits on the net. You can also get beginner kits to build your own pedals without the design hassle. I thought you had decided distortion pedals weren't for you? You could build one of DHA's kits?

[quote name='3V17C' post='199574' date='May 15 2008, 01:47 PM']well...i'm finally getting back into doing a bit of home recording and fired up cubase for the first time in ages the other day. it didn't all come flooding back, more of a trickle, but i did get done what i wanted to. just wondering though if theres any good books, forums, websites, resources that i should know about, particularly regarding EQing and mixing to get that 'full' polished kinda sound rather than slightly weedy home studio sound.... thanks in advance c[/quote] sound on sound has good tips. The best thing IMHO is to just play around and listen. You should get a good selection of plug-ins to play with. That "polished" sound often comes in the mastering stage - are you happy with your mixes but they just don't stand up to other CDs? Get some raw data, upload it and post in the "free track mixing" thread in off topic. Then we (or just me :-/ ) can mess with it, and when you like what we've done, can explain it all to you!

The jazz deluxe looks a like the body has been squashed in the vertical slightly. I really like it. Is this a trick of the eye/camera/monitor or can I buy a jazz that looks like this?

[quote name='DHA' post='198716' date='May 14 2008, 01:41 PM']White and Red sounds good.[/quote] I knew the colour of my pedals was affecting my tone!

[quote name='BassManKev' post='198649' date='May 14 2008, 12:13 PM']an active eq, brilliant, very interested in the drive one[/quote] +1 If only I could control my money! I can't wait for a review so I can get all depressed about not being able to afford one.

I will give you my opinions when I have read it. I'm too feckin' busy at the moment :-/

When i'm on stage playing bass I never get mad at anything, and when I come off stage no matter how many mistakes I or anyone else has made, I always feel great. It's all the crap before and after that winds me up. I'm doing some gigs as a drummer now wih my new band, which is loads of fun. However, I like to share a drum kit so I can get wasted, and this means I feel like I can't mess about with the settings too much so sometimes i'm uncomfortable, and that's annoying. At our last gig, we were told to arrive at 6.30 to load, soundcheck at 7, doors at 8.30. We were unloaded by 6.30 and then the sound man f*cked off somewhere for an hour at least, so we went home for drinks. The other bands had to wait around outside the venue, until 7.45 when he turned up again. Then, he took until 9 O clock to soundcheck the other 2 bands, kept on shouting obnoxiously at them and generally trying to come accross as though he knew what he was doing. The doors opened at 8.30 but he didn't stop, and he didn't think "f*ck the 2nd band, it'll be ok, the doors are open and this looks sh*t" he thought "the doors are open! it's my audience come to watch me soundcheck!" so he started shouting louder nad more obnoxiously until he was done with the middle band, which left us to walk on stage and play without any sort of check at all. The worst thing about this gig? The bar didn't open until 9!!!

[quote name='tayste_2000' post='197771' date='May 13 2008, 10:13 AM']The piece of cardboard is a placeholder for 2 eb jr volume pedals that will go there. Still waiting for a modded dod grunge and will be buying Subdecay Prometheus and Mojo Hand Sugar Baby. So not as empty as you would think, also would love to get this down to 1 board but we'll see.[/quote] Heh, yeh, I did realise you were leaving space for something specific. I just thought i'd get my jibe in while I could before you post the finished pic

It's looking a bit empty there Tayste.

does the pod have some sort of interface connectivity i.e usb? You've used it to record bass already? I would make a dry patch with a limiter on it, and plug your mic into the input. I'm pretty sure it wont do any damage.

I play bass in a band that I would like to think has a lot of "musical integrity" in that we take a long time and put a lot of effort into writing our songs, and then practice until we're tight. Sometimes it's quite technical stuff, and it's basically getting us nowhere, but musicians seem to appreciate us, and when we play together I get this amazing feeling of satisfaction that is comparable to a great orgasm. This band just got totally stressed with our lack of progress and now our drummer is hardly ever in the country I play drums in a band that I think has basically no musical integrity. Listening to it, you might be fooled, but we write songs in under 10 minutes with absolutely no thought of creating a beautiful and/or clever peice of music, we don't practice much etc. However, it's loads of fun! So, having "musical integrity" gives me more of a "deep" relationship to the stuff i'm playing, which can feel amazing, but it will also get me down where nothing's happening (all the time). Having no "musical integrity" gives me more of a care-free attitude to what i'm doing, which makes it more fun, but much less of an intense musical experience. Interesting thread!