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    Bass sounds crap in my front room

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    imo you are most likely getting a standing wave problem due to the dimensions and shape of your new room, emphasised by the materials - concrete floor, lack of furnishings. the dimensions will decide the resonant frequencies, the shape is probably square or rectangular parallel walls reinforcing the frequencies. the concrete floor is not helping, its probably making things worse as it bounces the waves straight back, again making the standing waves more fierce. if you move around the room while playing you'll probably find some places emphasise frequencies more than others, and in other places the frequencies dip.

    in your other room the bass frequencies would pass through the floor which i expect reduced a great deal of the problem, and your double bed is acting like a giant bass trap nicely taming the low frequencies rebounding around the room. perhaps also the spare room has better dimensions, but i bet its mostly the bed and the floor.

    even though the problems in the new room are in the bass end, the frequencies multiply (i think) so the problem is audible in the mids and upper end. i'm not an expert on this by any means, but i have exactly this problem in my studio which also has a concrete floor and not a lot in it to soak up the bass frequencies - so i have been reading up on it and taking advice.

    carpet on the walls won't do anything really, even if you could do it. to tame those bass frequencies you need BIG things like beds and sofas - in other words bass traps. bass traps need to be substantial, so you're not really going to be able to do much aside from finding a different listening position and maybe trying a smaller speaker that doesn't produce so much bass?

    by far the easiest solution is to practice in the spare room where it sounded good originally! :)

    Early 70s jazz/funk/fusion! - recommendations?

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    [quote name='Zenitram' timestamp='1359550948' post='1956413']
    I really like this blog for interesting jazzy funky stuff:

    [url="http://neverenoughrhodes.blogspot.co.uk/"]http://neverenoughrh...blogspot.co.uk/[/url]

    No idea if that fits in with what you want, but there's lots of lovely stuff. Particularly, er, if you like Rhodes.
    [/quote]

    Who couldn't love a Rhodes! i took a piano lesson once and the guy had a Rhodes. I couldn't concentrate at all as i was just listening to any note on it and thinking 'I must get one of these'...

    Early 70s jazz/funk/fusion! - recommendations?

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    Posted · Edited by tedmanzie

    [quote name='soul deluxe' timestamp='1359548947' post='1956349']
    you seem to have your reccomendations down already.. and seem to very very specific on what your after...not sure about British early 70's jazz funk, not sure it had made the jump over the atlantic at that point.. you could try some very early Incognito... beggar and co. light of the world...as for american 70's jazz funk Billy Cobham does it for me.. [media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bN9Vaml0dZE[/media]
    [/quote]

    thanks, good tip. gotta love JS's Basil Fawlty 70s moustache too!

    sorry to be too specifc in what i'm after! just describing my findings.
    any recommendations gratefully received :)

    Early 70s jazz/funk/fusion! - recommendations?

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    Posted · Edited by tedmanzie

    Following on from a 1970/71 James Brown phase, I've been having a 70s jazz/fusion/funk phase for the last few months. I've picked up lots of LPs, mostly vinyl. Some of this stuff is really amazing. I particularly enjoy the stuff that keeps an element of the funk rhythm section about it, and if it has mini moogs (etc) on then its a bonus point :)

    Personally I'm not really liking later 70s fusion that gets too rocky or too tricksy/prog, also when it gets too funk/disco I don't find it so interesting, and the same for stuff that goes too free and loses the rhythm.[i] But any recommendations welcome[/i]!

    I would also be interested to find out if there are any British jazz classics from this era?

    So here are some of my current top favourites. I'm still searching around in this jazz world so please post any recommendations or top tips:

    Nathan Davis - If
    George Duke - Faces In Reflection / Feel
    Miles Davis - Bitches Brew / Live Evil
    Eddie Henderson - Realization / Inside Out
    Herbie Hancock - Headhunters / Thrust / Sextant / Mwandishi / Crossings
    Norman Connors - Dance of Magic / Dark of Light / Slewfoot
    Larry Young's Fuel
    Lonnie Liston Smith - Visions Of A New World
    Johnny Hammond - Gambler's Life
    Harvey Mason - Marching In The Street

    Why do some people refer to their bass as 'she'?!

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    [quote name='bobbass4k' timestamp='1359225993' post='1951940']


    I'd appreciate access to this absolutely correct weird craziness meter you have, it would help settle a few arguments.

    Different people do different things, if you start writing off entire groups of people for minor idiosyncrasies, then I think you'll find yourself quite lonely.

    My advice is to gradate "weird craziness" and act accordingly, here's a couple of examples to get you going:

    Example: A man refers to his bass guitar by a female name.
    Action: No action required.

    Example: A man murders a passing transient, peels his skin, wears it like a suit, and runs around screaming about garlic.
    Action: Inform the police, hide any garlic you have on your person.
    [/quote]

    Ok I'll let you in on my weird crazy meter...
    Your reply is pretty weird!
    So maybe you are crazy.
    And what is a passing transient?

    Why do some people refer to their bass as 'she'?!

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    [quote name='bobbass4k' timestamp='1359223043' post='1951890']
    So really it's just a form of sentimentality, obviously I know my basses don't ACTUALLY have independent personalities, but projecting emotions and personalities onto things that don't necessarily have them is hardly the exclusive realm of the psychopath. Ever have a teddy bear? A pet? Ever get slightly misty eyed when moving out of a house you've lived in for a while? If not then fine, you're just not a sentimental person, but hat doesn't make those of us who are weird or crazy.
    [/quote]

    Someone on the Sales Forum just bought an envelope pedal, and posted "I'll take good care of her!"...
    Her? A stomp box? This is not sentimentality... This [i]is[/i] weird craziness...!

    Why do some people refer to their bass as 'she'?!

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    [quote name='Lord Sausage' timestamp='1359205742' post='1951519']
    Is it me or is there a lot of meanness on BC this yr? Since the start of the year there has been a few 'Most hateful threads (quotes, songs etc). Criticising people for Youtube vids, other critical threads. Now this, criticising for terminology and use of words..f*** me this is sad. I'm sure BC not always been this bad!
    [/quote]

    Basschat is great and I would not do anything to be offensive or disrespectful to the members here.
    Sorry if the original post came over that way - to be clear, it's not intended to be mean or hateful at all, its difficult to get the appropriate tone in emails/forums, when it would be obvious if we were talking face to face that this is a tongue in cheek question, along the lines of "Why do people eat margarine? its disgusting?!" (which is true by the way...)
    :)

    Why do some people refer to their bass as 'she'?!

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    [quote name='Coilte' timestamp='1359212743' post='1951658']
    +1. OP, if this is all you have on your mind, consider yourself very lucky. :P
    [/quote]

    I have to find a new burrow to live in as a fox has trashed it and nicked my carrots...

    Anyway, no offence intended in my lighthearted original post, i'm surprised to see it's kicked off a maelstrom of terrible fury! :)


    It doesn't 'matter to me' as such, and I'm not 'worrying about it', but we can talk about any old rubbish can't we?!

    I do genuinely find the term 'she' for a bass quite annoying but I'm not going to petition the government for a ruling just yet... I'm not sure I can justify my squirming much beyond I think it sounds daft and it gets on my wick, although I think it does possibly have an element of sexist language about it? This is a question rather than an admonishment, so don't attack me please!

    Why do some people refer to their bass as 'she'?!

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    You know the sort of the thing.. "I've had her for ten years now but I've got my eye on a new bass so she's got to go, a lovely neck with great fat sound, she's a real players bass"...

    etc.

    Yuk.
    When people refer to their basses / cars / boats etc as 'she' it makes me squirm.
    If I wanted to refer to inanimate things as 'she' (or 'he') I'd move to France, Italy or Spain where they do it properly.
    So can you stop it please, or I'm leaving the country.

    Compressor Pedals with *blend* control - Who has one?

    in Effects

    Posted · Edited by tedmanzie

    I've got a Barber Tone Press which has a dry/wet blend knob for parallel compression.

    Onilab review here > [url="http://www.ovnilab.com/reviews/barber.shtml"]http://www.ovnilab.c...ws/barber.shtml[/url]

    It was bought for my guitar but I use it interchangeably between bass and guitar.
    I use it pretty sparingly but I do like what it does.
    You can't vary the attack or the ratio so the blend knob is useful for tweaking the sound.
    I usually have it at 50%, with a small touch of compression.

    I have been considering an MXR M87 as i would like the ability to control all the parameters and get visual feedback on how much compression is going on.

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