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"If you can't draw a crowd, draw dicks on the wall" - Ben Folds Five - Draw A Crowd Never a truer word said.

Unlikely, but nice! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qtwr40kVnnc (around 1m30 when he starts playing octaves) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jgghjx2Ghqk

[quote name='Meddle' timestamp='1396550572' post='2415053'] Maybe not what you are after but... from memory the OC-2 is an analogue 'flip flop' divider circuit. It produces a sine wave (or some other simple wave), then filters it to make it sound less synthy. If you check out synth mods for the pedal it actually sounds pretty wild. [/quote] I've got a synth-modded unit (and two other OC-2s, all three on my board!) and unfiltered it sounds to me somewhere between a square and a sawtooth. It's a bit too gnarly to be a regular square. The only problem with cutting the filters out of the circuit is you have to play much cleaner to make it usable. I tend to filter it with a treadle and just let it peak out for fills and legato stuff.

I'm not in any rush to go back to gigging with the two bands I'm doing at the moment, and I don't think the other players are either. I still do play gigs with other people, backing up singer/songwriters on the upright, but in terms of my own originals I won't be gigging them just for the sake of it. If we get offered gigs that look good no doubt we'll do them but the toilet circuit thing is just too time-consuming. I confess I do feel right at home on the toilet circuit and there's a certain comforting feeling I get from doing those gigs but I'd rather concentrate on writing and recording now.

That guy is a great player isn't he. Great sideman generally with the vocals too. I try to do all that but I'm not as good as he is.

I certainly don't know them all. I started practising scales regularly when I started learning the double bass (so I suppose I went 15+ years without practising them at all) but to be honest I get more familiar with them while I'm playing with other people. Especially with crap guitarists - I recommend everybody join a band with a crap guitarist so you'll be forced to make the entertaining stuff happen. Necessity is the mother of invention and all that.

Incidentally that skit is flanked by these tracks: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yfeLN2C8DAM http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w78HHkHXwug Great record.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=96d4pIUkMcI

Bear in mind you will probably end up singing bad arrangements of pop songs you've never liked.

That's Pino on bass on that De La Soul joint by the way.

Big fan of De La, Beasties and PE. Also if you like old-school beats check out Jazzy Jeff's album from a few years ago 'Return Of The Magnificent', there's even a couple of covers on there!

Couple of really great old-school albums that nobody apparently knows about: The Goats - Tricks Of The Shade Terminator X - And The Valley Of The Jeep Beats

Set your bass up as low as it will go. Now set it a bit lower. Ok now convince yourself you can live with the rattle noise. Done.

I use reverb a lot but I'm happy with what's on my M9. I only really use it for synth sounds.

Yeah I thought it was only fair to show what I'd done with peoples' bits. The whole thing is a bit neck heavy, not helped by the body being a slightly downsized Warmoth J shape, it could probably benefit from lighter tuners (these are massive) but I wouldn't want to drill more holes in it. It doesn't dive much really but it doesn't balance the same way as a normal Jazz.

I got a body, a neck and some pickups from these here forums and made them into this: [attachment=158930:j1.jpg] It could do with some heavier strings (all I had to hand was a set of 95-40 slinkies) but it's turned out to be a really nice bass. Loads of sustain, can't find any dead spots. I put a .1uF tone cap on it so I can roll loads of treble off for reggae stuff and a push/pull tone pot to switch the pickups into series. It goes pretty beefy! Just noticed what a terrible job my phone did of downscaling the photo. :/ Fixed.

I just bought a pair of Fender Noiseless J pups from Kim, he posted them the next day and they arrived well packaged and in excellent condition. Would definitely deal with him again.

I bought Ryan's Moses J neck, he was very diligent about packing it well and got it in the post very promptly, arrived safe and sound. V. happy.

[quote name='Zenitram' timestamp='1396032795' post='2409323'] [url="http://www.redbullmusicacademy.com/lectures/trevor-horn--buggles-in-the-bassbin-2?template=RBMA_Lecture%2Ftranscript"]http://www.redbullmu...re%2Ftranscript[/url][/quote] The bass line was Norman Watt-Roy's idea?!?

[quote name='bubinga5' timestamp='1396061765' post='2409621']oh come on Chuck D would be admiring this.[/quote] You can imagine Chuck D admiring a conservative? I don't understand how anybody who grew up listening to PE could end up in the tory party.

[quote name='JapanAxe' timestamp='1395963815' post='2408570'] Too right! Look what happened to my password when they sent it back to me: [/quote] That's like when those terrorists were using improvised explosive devices made from tins of alphabetti spaghetti. If one of them had detonated it could've spelled disaster.

I've got two bands on the go at the moment and both might benefit from me having a MIDI setup, which is all the excuse I need, frankly. I've used a Roland GK3B and GR20 in the past and was surprised at how good it was, but the GR20 annoyed me because I didn't really want the converter and the sound module on the floor, I'd rather rack all that and just have a 'dumb' foot controller. I'd also rather have just a pitch-to-MIDI converter without its own sound module, so I can rack it with whatever I want. So… What's on the market apart from the Roland stuff? I've seen the Axon AX100 but they seem to be pretty rare. Is anything else currently in production? Pickup wise I was happy with the GK3B so I'm not looking at piezos or whatever. I'm more concerned with what's going to happen downstream of the pickup.