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Turned up at the venue, which is a great place, ace room, nice beer etc. but no soundman! "He's in Scotland on holiday". I had a look around and found a mic and a crap PA with two speakers and a powered monitor. I absolutely hate doing live sound, and especially for this band as I was on drums so it was all just a total guess. Anyway, I think it worked out. I couldn't tell if the landlord was nodding his head along in quarter time or just trying to stay awake after what looked like a full day of indulgence. Anyway, we went down well and sold a bunch of merch, which seems to be the same for every gig at the moment. Something must be right!

I used to slap on the guitar before I knew what slapping was. My teacher saw me do it and told me to buy a bass. So, yeh, I doubt it's possible to know who the first one to slap was

I've always wanted a stereo rig. I'd have all my lows through a mono bass amp, and then everything above say 400Hz going through my effects pedals into two guitar rigs, or a stereo PA or something. It'd be ace! I've used stereo delay on recordings quite a bit ...but yeh, you want the low end in mono really

If someone picks up my bass and starts fret-w***ing, I smirk a cocky smirk of self satisfaction knowing that I would never do something so tasteless.

yeh, most times these days, if I realise that a certain section is slower or faster, we either abandon the click or draw in an automated tempo track, as that's how it feels right

[quote name='Mykesbass' timestamp='1463004071' post='3047836'] Any drummers on here tried on of these?http://www.luglock.com/beat_bug.htm [/quote] interesting! Not seen them before. I would have thought you could get an app to do the same on your phone these days. It'd be good for pointing out where you're slowing down or speeding up. I often won't notice that I play a particular section of a song slightly faster until we come to record it to a click

the setup/layout of the kit is still driving me mad, and I've been doing it 8 or 9 years now. The heights of the snare and stool are the most important IMO and I'm still not sure I've got it right. A good tip might be to make the kit sound good - a bad sounding kit might be demotivating. There are loads of good tuning tutorials on youtube

[quote name='blue' timestamp='1462903073' post='3046858'] Hey, it's not your fault you were born in the right time period and right place. Blue [/quote]

The only gear I own that I don't use is cheap pedals that might come in useful one day. I think I'd rather give an unused instrument away to an enthusiastic beginner or something like that

I'd never judge a brand as a whole, always take each product on it's own merits. The BDI21 is ace and I regularly record with it for actual releases being played on radio etc. I also gig it fairly regularly. Clearly it depends on what you want, but for a large portion of my bass tone needs, the BDI21 is actually "the best sound quality possible"

I wouldn't shut up about the growing up in the 60s and how amasing the beatles were

I'm a drummer but I don't know how I did it, sorry! There are loads of videos on youtube it might be worth watching. I do like a lot of Benny Greb's stuff but I don't know if that's relevant I was playing drums in a band before I could really play, so that helped a load. I guess the next best thing is to play along to some "drumless" backing tracks, which I've seen advertised online

Not bad at all! How are you recording it? Do you have a mic on the kick drum? The best tip I can pass on is to get the drummer to take it easy on the cymbals

To my ears, they're pretty much identical. The only difference I can notice is that the bass is slightly louder in the 2nd version, which I liked, so I voted for that

I quite like the burned look but the gaffa tape is really not for me. Also, when you start using it, if you play with a pick you'll muck up the tape and it'll become very sticky and nasty

very interesting, thanks!

put another player on my bass through my rig and they will sound like they never have before. Obviously they will sound different to me, but it's not ALL in the fingers Anyway, I practise acoustically, and I find this lets me hear the true sound before I even get to an amp. I can get as much or as little "fret clank" as I want without messing with EQ. I can get the punchy middle sound of playing right next to the bridge, or the thick woolly sound playing up next to the neck. After practising acoustically it's just second nature. If you're not happy with the sounds your techniques are producing, I'd highly recommend practising un-plugged.

It could be too low at the nut so check that as well as the bridge

[quote name='JapanAxe' timestamp='1461317582' post='3033585'] Exploiting quantum uncertainty [i]in the time domain[/i] raise the possibility of negative delay, where the delayed signal occurs fractionally before the played signal. At present the theoretical maximum for a negative delay stage is in the picoseconds, but by chaining many stages in a chip (much as bucket brigade chips chain multiple stages), it could be possible to generate negative delays long enough for us to hear. Imagine hearing your echo signal just before you play it! I think it will be a few years yet before the costs come down though - I would expect the first units to be expensive high-end studio rack units. [/quote] I know nothing about quantum computing. Is there a simple way you can explain negative delays? Obviously a computer won't be able to tell which note I'm going to play before I play it, so how does it work?

On the video it sounds like the E string is "choking" and the only times I've had this problem have been because the action is too low, or the tuning too low for the string gauge.

nice one!

this is ace! Thanks very much! I'm normally tempted to critique the sound/production but this is pretty much perfect Great rhythm section too, playing about with timing in a groovy but interesting way. Right up my street!

I'd never heard of this mega cone, is it worth getting?

it does sound like the action is too low on the E string

they look yellow to me?