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So you only play the music you love, and you're making a living from it, but if you only played the music you love you'd be broke and bandless?!?!

[quote name='blue' timestamp='1460988284' post='3030406'] Really, my love grew for it when I realized I could make a living from it. And I am playing the music I love. [/quote] [quote name='blue' timestamp='1460741820' post='3028429'] If I restricted myself to only the music like, I'd be broke and bandless. [/quote] Don't you think these two statements contradict?

It looks amasing, well done!!!

distortion was probably the first effect? Interesting though, I'd like to read a "history of effects" All the newer effects seem to be variations on existing ideas. Controlling a parameter with playing dynamics, or with a midi pattern or a fancy expression gizmo. Having said that some of the newer pedals from EH seem almost like new effects, and the Korg Miku pedal is definitely a bit new - I couldn't think of how to recreate that sound with "normal" pedals!

[quote name='probablypike' timestamp='1460922773' post='3029864'] Just out of interest, do many people use it as an always on pedal? I've never really been that interested in chorus, really, but I'm starting to see how good it can sound on gentle settings in combination with other things like distortion and octave etc. [/quote] I like it when chorus is just used as a "thickener" where you can't actually tell it's chorus but the whole thing is fatter. That's how I use mine and it's always on

I just realised I never share any Headsticks stuff here. I play drums in this band and recorded both albums. The 2nd one was released just over a month ago and it's going down really well! Any comments/criticism is welcome, especially in terms of production/mix You can hear a few songs and buy the album here [url="http://headsticks.co.uk/listen.html"]http://headsticks.co.uk/listen.html[/url]

boss slicer, but that's total overkill. I can't think of any others off the top of my head

[quote name='KingBollock' timestamp='1458659853' post='3009537'] I built a Ram's Head Muff and a Musket into one box with an order switch. I love it. They both sound very different to each other allowing for a huge variety of sounds. But using them together and being able to change the order adds even more variety and massive amounts of filth. And when you consider all the mods that you can add very easily... My electronics workbench is almost finished being rebuilt and when it is done I shall finish the mods I still have planned for my muffs (I have named the box Dank & Fetid) and finally get around to recording a demo of it. [/quote] This sounds great, I'd buy one!

I don't know about 2 guys in a hedgehog suit but you can clearly tell it's been sped up

Haha, unlucky Jack! [quote name='RhysP' timestamp='1460404838' post='3025493'] All the most petty, childish behaviour I've encountered in my adult life has been while I've been in bands, which is yet another reason why I stopped gigging years ago & I'll never be in another band. [/quote] Obviously I read a lot of this stuff on here, so I know it's true, but I've been in about 8 bands so far and only one had a fall out, and that was very civil. I'm currently in 4 bands and we all get on really well. The only childishness is some of the humour. Sorry you've been so unlucky!

some prickly posts in here!

Just bought a power conditioner from Charlie and it couldn't have gone better. Cheers!

[quote name='Ghost_Bass' timestamp='1460041771' post='3022031'] I agree that we're louder now. I think that the main reason for this is that [u]drum kits have become better and louder[/u] along with the introduction of PA's at an affordable price for pub bands. I would love to play at lower volumes, my time for heavy metal has gone, but the drum kit alone, unamplified, makes me have to turn the volume of my 500W amp to almost half... [/quote] drum kits have got louder?! Any reason you think that?

I use a load of pedals into the behringer BDI21 straight to the desk. I just use monitors, CBA to carry an amp around!

definitely try a thumb pick, it works for me!

it depends how you look at it. Some of my very old recordings have a rubbish mix, which is quite frustrating and makes me want to go back over them. Most of the stuff I've done for the last 10 years sounds great! I play all of the songs differently now, and it'd be nice to record them the way I play now, but I'm not too bothered about that as I see it as capturing a moment in time I've not long finished an album with one of my bands. I think it's great but the rest of the band are already frustrated with it. "Not enough acoustic guitar, too much electric, too fast, too shouty" etc etc. As far as I'm concerned the album is a perfect capture of what we were doing at that time so I really have no problem with it. I would say "maybe the more you record the easier it gets to tolerate" but I guess Lennon had plenty of practise

surely that would play like a knife through butter? I guess a bass that plays like butter would be great as long as it was colder than room temperature

Is the sound you have on your first recording similar to the sound you had when you recorded the parts? Or do you think he played with it a lot in the mixing stage? The mix sounds like a bit of a rush job to be honest, no offence intended, so while the above is all good advice, it may well be that this engineer is going to leave your sound alone in the mix, in which case getting a different sound at source would be a good idea.

[quote name='discreet' timestamp='1459942657' post='3021055'] Can I have sex with a raw badger and eat my parents instead? [/quote]

it's just a bit of fun isn't it? Like "Would you rather eat a raw badger OR watch your parents have sex? You HAVE to choose one"

You know the "I sound like me on every bass" argument? Well I think it's mostly balls. If you mostly play folk on a P with flats into a clean amp, and then I ask you to try slapping on my J with rounds through a distorted amp, it's not going to sound like the same bassist at all. Maybe a lot of us bassists like to just have one sound? In which case, fair enough! But I have loads of sounds. How could I possibly say "it always sounds like me" when actually it always sounds different!?!

I've never played a bass I wouldn't be comfortable playing. The bass I choose to put in the bag is the one I think will sound best for the task at hand, so I guess it's tone over playability for me, but yeh, I've never known an unplayable instrument

[quote name='Truckstop' timestamp='1459793497' post='3019721'] My favourite bass performance is on Aretha Franklin's Border Song. I think it's Chuck Rainey? [/quote] Wow, I'd not heard that before, thanks!!!

This [media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I9eED6Krl14[/media] I think it came from you or one of your threads. I love a lot of bassists but I've yet to find a performance to excite me as much as this