BigBeefChief

Played it for the second time on Friday night. They've still got the 60watt Behringer, still badly run, and still no sound check. Their usual stunt is to tell you that your playing with 2 other bands. You get there and your 1 of 9! It's just a money making scam.

[quote name='OldGit' post='395527' date='Jan 30 2009, 04:30 PM']Steve Swallow (allegedly)[/quote] I bet he does.

[quote name='Riot_Basscabs' post='395140' date='Jan 30 2009, 07:37 AM']Wow thanks thats some hardcore questions. 1) I have made a prototype( I said so in my original post) 2) Nope i dont know alot about tone construction but the box i've built sounds amazing and is based on other cabs i've seen. 3) As for speakers i said in my post im still unsure as to exactly the right one but Neo's are def an option.As i said before i have some great techy friends to help me with tech stuff. 4) If your after all the bells and whisles of todays modern amps then this is not for you.Its plug and play as i said. 5)Will the grills effect the sound? Maybe a tiny bit but lets face it...It looks cool! 6) It will be very light.Its 10mm ply and the speakers are gonna be the lightest and most powerfull i can find. 7) Ive read Alex's thread...The guys amazing! and yes i've already took a few tips. 8) Nope im not putting in two imputs for active and passive.Its plug and play.Ive tested a 4 string jazz,An active overwater and an 8 string tapper and they all sound good through the ruff prototype. 9)Come on guys lets have some fun with this.Forget all the techs for a minute and go with pure feeling! I know this will work but dont take my word for it.Just wait for the clips. 10)If it sounds sh*t noones gonna buy it! If you try it and it sounds sh*t your not gonna buy it,If i build iut and it sound sh*t im not gonna sell it!!!! Lets all relax and see what happens! Cheers again guys for all the ideas.I understand i will get some negatives but its all good.Tone over Tech! lol Cheers[/quote] This is exactly the type of thing I love! I'm a plug and play kinda guy and I hate fiddling with eq's. I also love the mentality behind the construction. Maths, technical drawings, science - its all boring! I love the concept of just making something and seeing what happens. If it sounds good, I don't care if it was a fluke! It's how I want to buld myself a bass one day. I think there's room for the scientific approach (a la Mr Claber) AND the eccentric approach in this world. We need more of this kind of stuff.

[quote name='teej' post='394943' date='Jan 29 2009, 09:06 PM']Me'Shell, all the way "If That's Your Boyfriend He Wasn't Last Night' is probably my favourite bit of electric bass-playing from anyone[/quote] Weird. I had her down as a lezza.

Bass Lead Tuner (usually)

A bird playing the bass?? Pffft! You must be f***in' joking!

I'm all about the pussy. Crack open a beer, maybe a bit of topless darts? Just me, a cowboy hat and my trusty .44 Magnum.

Perverts.

[quote name='ped' post='393764' date='Jan 28 2009, 03:41 PM']That was a classic conversation. Quite impressed he replied, unlike the others! ped[/quote] I got a few replies in the end - including some offers!

I emailed Ken Smith directly asking for him to endorse me. Had some quite comical emails from him! He's a grumpy f***er!

[quote name='mrcrow' post='393020' date='Jan 27 2009, 06:22 PM']have your heard the theme from death in venice it was written by a trained musician gustav mahler[/quote] I'd probably enjoy half these things if I could get over the fact that deep down I see them as a being a pretentious, middle class pursuit!

[quote name='mrcrow' post='393003' date='Jan 27 2009, 06:10 PM']well you asked but didnt say a trained musician under the age of 18 [/quote] I don't mind old musicians (I usually prefer them) I just always assumed it was only coffin-dodgers and train-spotters that listened to film scores. I just watch the film. The Score is usually included.

[quote name='bilbo230763' post='392878' date='Jan 27 2009, 04:30 PM']Have you heard the Theme from Schindler's List? If that isn't great music, what is? There is a version of it on YouTube with Itzhal Perlman playing the solo. 4.14 of you life to see another way of moving people. Go on, you know you want to.....[/quote] I'll check it out this evening. Never seen the film. I'm more of a Seagal man.

[quote name='mrcrow' post='392861' date='Jan 27 2009, 04:10 PM']john williams...its a big world out there old chap.. [/quote] The film score dude? I'm afraid I'm not at the age where I'm gonna start creeping round the film score aisle of HMV trying not to piss my pants.

[quote name='Galilee' post='392736' date='Jan 27 2009, 02:00 PM'][url="http://kent.gumtree.com/kent/17/33869717.html"]Here [/url]you go then. She even does extras. Amazing what you stumble across when you're innocently looking for a band to join...[/quote] email sent.

[quote name='Galilee' post='392717' date='Jan 27 2009, 01:40 PM']Is this studio planned as a commercial venture, or purely for personal use?[/quote] It'd be a good location for a porno shoot.

Looking forward to coming round and trying this out. Tombboy says I'm welcome anytime providing I bring a couple of grams of Charlie and a Vietnamese hooker or 3.

[quote name='BigBeefChief' post='391927' date='Jan 26 2009, 05:08 PM']That's cool if you like playing those types of gigs. A lot of us don't. Your description of the (dreadful) gig in question hardly motivates me to learn to read![/quote] .........although, f*** it, I'll give it a go! Anyone know of any good, cheap/free resources for beginners like me? Don't recommend anything Jazz based as a smack in the mouth often offends.

[quote name='nobody's prefect' post='391917' date='Jan 26 2009, 05:01 PM']I challenge anyone to doing that by ear.[/quote] That's cool if you like playing those types of gigs. A lot of us don't. Your description of the (dreadful) gig in question hardly motivates me to learn to read!

[quote name='jakesbass' post='391790' date='Jan 26 2009, 02:19 PM']PS. Not answering the OP as it's been said before[/quote] By me obviously.

[quote name='mcgraham' post='391747' date='Jan 26 2009, 01:50 PM']I totally hear you. Same opinion here. But I think that we are part of the minority.[/quote] The problem with a lot of musicians is that that they tend to like music that only musicians like. I don't consider myself a musician, so I see my tastes as being reasonably "normal". I haven't heard of half the bands you guys go on about, and when I dig them out, they're usually pretentious horse-sh*t. Music without lyrics - christ, its got to be one hell of a tune to get away with that. People like to sing along in the car or into their hair brush. I think the truth is, if the masses started liking Jazz, Jazz fans would start hating it and move onto something even more obscure and pointless. Keep music dumb I say.

[quote name='bilbo230763' post='391730' date='Jan 26 2009, 01:39 PM']'Simple', thuggish music (in the broadest sense) started boring me about 28 years ago. 'Pub rock' is to music what Eastenders is to drama, American Pie is to cinema or Mills and Boon to Literature. Superficial, predicatable, uninspiring and little more than fodder designed to take money off the great unwashed.[/quote] Do you think views like this go some way to perpetuate the idea that Jazz is pretentious? Admittedly, they mirror my views towards jazz, but no one expects a reasoned argument from me. They do of you Bilbo!

[quote name='Rich' post='391720' date='Jan 26 2009, 01:31 PM']Or more accurately, any genre that you don't like. [/quote] Its the same thing. If I like it = good music If I don't = crap music, and you're only pretending to like it to impress a girl/your middle class friends/other Games Workshop fans.

[quote name='Rich' post='391705' date='Jan 26 2009, 01:20 PM']Ah excellent, the old "jazz is crap" thing again. Just what we need. I was starting to miss it.[/quote] Not just Jazz. I'm also including Muzak-stle funk, Progressive Metal and Radiohead. Basically any genre that people pretend to like.

[quote name='AM1' post='391631' date='Jan 26 2009, 12:23 PM']Yes, deeply sad, as is the attitude that people who like jazz and are trained are "playing w*nky music". Those persons liking a certain genre of music and learn to read/theory in order to play their chosen style doesn't make them any less of a musician or person than a guy who plays root notes in a pub.[/quote] I agree. It doesn't make them crap musicians. It makes them musicians who play crap.