stewblack
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A VS 4 I believe. The one on sale here (until recently)
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Be joining you next week ladies and gents.
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I was free from bass gas for months and months. Really thought it was over. So why was I even on the Thomann website that day? And why did I ask for help on this forum of all places? Obviously because I thought I could toy with forces greater than myself. Looking back I see now that during the months of freedom from bass gas I was in the midst of quite insane pedal buying and selling. Some I moved on after barely even trying them. Most I never used live even once.
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OK , I've read up on asdr, I get what each thing does, how in interacts with each other thing. But the sound still just turns off abruptly. It doesn't fade to nothing.
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Album title, I call it
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How do I cause a synth sound to fade after being held for a specific length of time? The instrument sound fades naturally of course, and I'm not trying to make them fade together. I'm happy for the synth sound to last longer. Anyone any ideas?
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Ah yes, the missing Trace cap conundrum. Where do they go?
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I will be opening up my RM for the first time on Saturday. I have the combo with the 12" speaker + the 12" extension. Does the job at bedroom levels but when we meet for a socially distant rehearsal I'll be able to try it in a band setting. Of course I also want to try my Trace Elliot Elf but that serves me right for being greedy.
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God, even when I'm not trying. Quick get the London Palladium on the phone
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That's a pain. I had a Peavey used to eat batteries, and it took 2 of them 🤦🏼♂️ Have 2 active HBs don't have this issue, damned unfortunate. Maybe some sparky here can shed light on the possible causes
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As you say let's leave it here, I can't debate with someone who can publicly say something this silly. Unless it's a joke in which case 😂😂😂
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You will be very very happy. Its not that big, it's soo light and it sounds amazing.
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Interesting reading the above how differently we can all see similar things. I still see cheap or modern lightweight stuff denigrated and treated with contempt often by folk who don't actually use it. Yet the last post speaks of Harley Benton hype! I would love these quality, inexpensive instruments to get the recognition they deserve. Price tags don't interest me unless something is astonishingly good or astonishingly poor value for money. Anyway I don't sacrifice anything to get the sound I want, but I have made decisions which take into account weight and size. As a working musician I have no choice but to use the cheapest possible car. So my three cab Trace Elliot stack had to go.
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But of a makeover?? @Al Krow that's a whole different ball game.
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These really are excellent basses, and with the prices for new ones shooting up recently I'm surprised this one is still here. -
I know not. I had the Whammy and that was good too. The Ricochet I very nearly sold but its just too good. My soul band has no guitar (JOY) and if ever we really really felt we needed a couple of chords somewhere I could in theory provide them. Say the intro to me Nutbush for example.
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Best octaves I've used. For a pure octave up which I can use to play chords and sound like a guitar: Digitech Ricochet. For OC2 like synthy stuff: Valeton OC-10 General all round octave up/down : Joyo XVI I've also owned POG, Sub'n'up, EBS, various Zooms.
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I don't doubt it. If I hadn't recycled the book I'd find the exact quote to give context. Disco was indeed a hugely significant musical force
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I will check it out
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I could ... but it's prettey spectacularly unmusical. More of a sound effect. The reason it made me happy is because it's the first time I've set out to create something specific and achieved it. Up until now I've more stumbled on things.
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Little b*tch by the specials is hard right??
stewblack replied to alexa3020's topic in Theory and Technique
Purely out of interest. Those Specials bass lines are, well special, because a lot of them were collaborative efforts between sir H and the legend that is Jerry Dammers. JD would come up with the rootsy ska stuff but Sir H, a lover of disco would add those popping disco climbs. Wish I could remember where I got that nugget. -
I have had a major breakthrough (for me it is anyway), sent a song to learn for saturday's socially distant rehearsal. BL had some kind of weird oscillating digeredoo / broken squueze box being played at the bottom of the sea type sound at the intro to the track. This band is all acoustic instruments bar me and the piano. So I thought, wonder if I can recreate that sound on the FI? And boom, straight there first go. Looking forward to surprising them all.
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I was in a book shop once photographing interesting looking covers on my phone so I could look for them cheaper online. Not proud of it at all, far from it, realised what I was doing and felt like the heel I was. So I don't do it any more. I never had the chance to show the appropriate loyalty to my local instrument shops because people doing the exact same thing I did in the book shop had already helped them go out of business.
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Allotments are cool
