51m0n

Well I used to use quite a lot of effects, octaver can certainly help especially if you have a line thats based on the A D & G strings. Envelope filters are [b]the[/b] funk effect thanks to Bootsy, they are rarely up to much in a multi-fx though. These days I only use some compression and leave off all the squelch, I even gave my BP8 to my eldest to get me away from that particular distraction. I foound myself plugging in to practice and then playing with sounds all night I can still do that just with the focusrite if I'm not careful - have to leave it off if I want to practice for real

[quote name='Jon Liebman' post='489086' date='May 15 2009, 05:08 PM']Hey, folks! Just stumbled across this thread and wanted to say thanks. Feel free to contact me anytime with questions, comments, etc. Enjoy! Jon Liebman www.JonLiebman.com[/quote] Hello, lovely to have you on board!

[quote name='alexclaber' post='489065' date='May 15 2009, 04:52 PM']Sadly I don't hold much hope for their writing skills having improved - though you never know, it took the Chilis three or four albums to get the hang of it![/quote] OOOFFFF - Er no mate, gotta disagree with you there, from Freaky Stylee to Blood Sugar are all top IMO. Then it all started going terribly wrong, they never got back to the greatness of Blood Sugar, not even close in fact

[quote name='The Funk' post='489031' date='May 15 2009, 04:25 PM']There was a horrible time when every guitarist's sound was drenched in chorus, when every keyboard player used the weakest synth pad patch they could find, when every drummer had the life sucked out of his kit with abused noise gates - and when every bass player slapped on everything. Slap can be funky - it can also be totally unfunky.[/quote] Wow, that describes Level42 to me perfectly

[quote name='JackLondon' post='489010' date='May 15 2009, 04:01 PM']With regards to slapping I don't like it that much to be honest but my guitarist thinks that slapping=funk.[/quote] Sounds to me like he's the one in need of education, sir!

If you can find them these are all fantastic:- Remember the Titans - Express Yourself 100% Pure Poison - Windy C Aaron Neville - Hercules Ike Turner's Kings Of Rhythm - Funky Mule The Meters - Chicken Strut The Meters - Fire On The Bayou The Meters - Funky Meters' Soul Rhythm Heritage - Theme from S.W.A.T. Dennis Coffey - Scorpio Dennis Coffey - Getting it On Dyke And The Blazers - Funky Walk Part 1 Dyke And the Blazers - Let a Woman Be a Woman Dyke And The Blazers - We Got More Soul James Brown - There Was A Time (I Got Move) James Brown - Talkin' Loud and Sayin' Nothing James Brown - Soul Power James Brown - licking stick James Brown - Pass The Peas Jean Knight - Mr. Big Stuff Tower Of Power - So I've got to groove Tower Of Power - On The Serious Side Tower Of Power - Bump City - live Brothers Johnson - brothers johnson Brothers Johnson - Mista' Cool Tricky - Wonder Woman (f. John Frusciante & Flea) The Vibrettes - Humpty Dump

[quote name='JackLondon' post='488586' date='May 15 2009, 10:04 AM']This list is that short and I know this is a very open question but having listened to likes of 51m0n on this forum I know there's some of you out there who are funk inspired [/quote] Eeeek, I must really bang on about this. Sorry :blush: You've already had the best advice. [b]Listen to it[/b] Where to go? Well you'd do a lot worse than the Craig Charles show. He covers _alot_ of ground. Spotify is good, the Radio channel allows you to select an era and a genre (Funk 70's is good, if often mellow place to start) +1 to James Brown, The Meters, Sly Stone, Parliament and Bootsy +1 to "Leave out slapping for now" - it will take you a while to get there. There is a funk101 Topic over on Talkbass which has links to LOADS of great funk tracks, really get over there and get downloading, a lot of it is not available any other way (not on CD, vinyl out of print etc) In terms of syncopation, that will become natural in the end, I dont even know I'm syncopating any more, really, its just what happens when I play - drives my band up the wall when they want to get all butch and rocky - there I am playing Sly and The Family Stone style grooves

[quote name='BottomEndian' post='488751' date='May 15 2009, 12:13 PM']Hey, that thing looks sexy! And a third of the price of the RE27. Hmmm... FTW indeed![/quote] It is. Properly up to date bit of mic tech that. Frequency plot is ace, would love to have one for vox, never mind bass! If I was setting up a studio right now my current 'reasonable price' mics list is this:- [url="http://www.heilsound.com/pro/products/pr40/"]Heil PR40[/url] [url="http://www.heilsound.com/pro/products/pr30/"]Heil PR30[/url] [url="http://www.cascademicrophones.com/cascade_FAT_HEAD_II_Stereo_PK.html"]Cascade FatHead 2 (stereo pair)[/url] [url="http://www.akg.com/site/products/powerslave,id,885,pid,885,nodeid,2,_language,EN.html"]AKG C 414 B-XL II (stereo pair)[/url] [url="http://www.neumann.com/?lang=en&id=current_microphones&cid=tlm103_description"]Neuman TLM103[/url] [url="http://www.red5audio.com/"]Red5 audio RVK7 Drum kit[/url] microphone set (check their mics out - really, stupidly cheap for what they do, I'd use either the Fatheads or C414's for overheads) Some odds and sods (few 57s and 58s for when I need more) So yeah its a about three grands worth, but back in the day that would get you a vocal mic.... Sorry I'm a bit of a tragic case when it comes to looking for the best bang for the buck wrt mics

[quote name='cheddatom' post='488784' date='May 15 2009, 12:37 PM']That's quite astounding![/quote] To be fair I think at the limit of where we got to the Compact wasn't quite keeping up. The full stack may well have had even more to go, but in any event, we couldnt have gone any ouder in there without knocking basses of the wall (literally). It was a shocking demonstration of the quality of Alex' product. I really wish he had the Big One with him. The Big One would trounce the full stack IMO. It is waaaay louder - or at least seems to be from my recollection. Best bit is this A/B happened in GAK as a demo to Mr GAK-bass, Mark. Certainly made hi eyebrows move North! Oh and to clarify I was only there on the off chance, again not affiliated to Alex' company, just very timely.

[quote name='dood' post='488745' date='May 15 2009, 12:08 PM']Alex's cabs do tick a great deal of boxes. [b]Quite like the idea of a monster 2x15 Big One ;o)[/b][/quote] You will only hurt yourself!

Well I have played Alex's Compact and his Big One. I have A/B'ed his Compact with a Mesa full stack (410 and 115!) and it really easily held its own IMO. Using the Mesa head for both. I preferred the tone of the Compact over the Mesa gear, volume wise there was nothing in it really. Both his current cabs are excellent. But I highly recommend the Big One if you have that cash to spend. It blows the Compact away (really!) I am convinced you will not be in any way disappointed. It will be louder for its weight than anything you have ever heard. And is way smaller than a full stack. You, in all likelihood, will not be able to push it beyond its capabilities with any commercially available bass amp. It sounds excellent. And that was before the latest crossover revision (which makes it even smoother in frequency response). I am not affiliated with Alex in any way, I just happen to live in Brighton like him, I really believe his is the best new cab design I've heard in years. If I was in anyway unhappy about my Bergantino ae410 I know exactly what I would be buying to replace it. Do yourself a favour and take the exchange rate out of the picture!

Heil PR40 FTW!

Well if you hadnt noticed there's been a bit of an economic disaster on all fronts. In our case that has meant the exchange rate has gone to the dogs. We did have the strongest pound/dollar pound/euro rate for a very long time. Now its the worst. That means that if you shop needs to buy more of something from overseas it will cost them a huge amount more. You as the buyer, get to help them out. It's not complicated!

You'll be needing to update your piccy then, its so passe now

[quote name='dannybuoy' post='488090' date='May 14 2009, 05:05 PM']And if so, this is probably the Myspace page: [url="http://www.myspace.com/lovescandalnonego"]http://www.myspace.com/lovescandalnonego[/url] I like the OP's style, making us guess the band and style of music instead of just telling us![/quote] [quote]Mainstream rock/pop[/quote] Hmmm no rock there though is there, and not funky enough for me I'm afraid - not that they'd be interested anyway, too old, too fat and too funky . It is very standard pop stuff to me. Fine if thats your gravy train, not what I'm after anyways, good luck!

[quote name='Crazykiwi' post='487145' date='May 13 2009, 06:57 PM']Hey if we're talking about a gorgeous competition, then I've got bigger breasts than anyone else on this forum and I look good in a swimsuit.[/quote] Yes but your bum is far to flabby, and the cellulite does you very few favours, not to mention the nicotine stained teeth.... I on the other hand am staggering in a bikini - really , you'll not have seen anything like it!

[quote name='The Funk' post='487926' date='May 14 2009, 02:18 PM']I bet the band's called Love Scandal. With skills like this, I could have my own detective show. Set in the '70s. Hmm...[/quote] Blimey Mr TheFunk, I bet you're right too! That was like Clouseau, only not funny

[quote name='niceguyhomer' post='488032' date='May 14 2009, 04:07 PM']How much? [/quote] Didnt have a sticker - and it wasnt Mark in there so really no point asking, cos Mark would have given me a better deal. Mark at BassDirect has them listed at £879 on his site currently.

Just tried the new MB Tube LM800 at GAK (they have the 500 too) Sounds fine, but for the life of me I couldnt really tell much difference between the tube and solid state sides to the preamp. Oh and it is VERY loud. Humungously loud! Like the fact you can effectively plug in two basses and control the gain of each separately - nice!

Yeah, lets not pretend that the mullet never happened (although it thankfully never happened to me )

[quote name='MB1' post='487962' date='May 14 2009, 02:58 PM']MB1. "Fair Enough!....i only hear the bass!" [/quote] You lucky luck lucky b@st....

[quote name='MB1' post='487954' date='May 14 2009, 02:49 PM']MB1. I honestly dont think the Eighties was the best of Musical times!....but theyre was Good Bassists about playing Catchy basslines even if you didnt like the band!.. 51m0n just mentioned 5 star...whose bass player was a young Randy Hope Taylor.....see what i mean?.[/quote] Look he could be the best bass player of all time, I loathed, and still do, everything produced by Five Star, and all their ilk!

[quote name='crez5150' post='487919' date='May 14 2009, 02:14 PM']I'm all for it...... 80's rules![/quote] Err no they didnt. They didnt rule at all!!!! The 80's was largely a torrid pile of fermenting gerbils p155 dressed up in rubbish clothes The pop scene was diabolical IMO (can you say Five Star?) Up until the death of the indie charts there was at least something to listen to, sometimes (Fuzzbox' Bostin Steve Austin was a cracking album!). I consider that death to have been Erasure and Kylie Minogue both getting to no 1 in the Indie charts. The cheek! Mind you, I hate The Smiths with a passion too, and all that New Romantic cobblers. I did like Public Enemy, and The Beastie Boys (esp Paul's Boutique), and quite a lot of the early Electro stuff, but that was a loooongg way from mainstream (ignoring Doug E Fresh - please!) Two Tone was great but that lasted about 5 minutes, and some of the goth stuff was a laugh, but come on Kajagoogoo, get the hell out of here!!! I dont care how good a bassist he was or wasnt, it was an awfulawfulawfulawfulawful band! Thank god for dodgy punk clubs bashing out Stooges tracks, I'd not have survived but for that and early thrash

Kajagoogoo I hated them with a passion and I was only 13. Class!

[quote name='ARGH' post='487719' date='May 14 2009, 11:44 AM']I like a man that admits he's sh*t,gobby and proud.....are we related??[/quote] I thankyewverrmuch......