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[quote name='The Funk' post='425285' date='Mar 4 2009, 04:54 PM'] How does the old saying go: a picture is worth a thousand words?[/quote] They make such a cute couple. Well done, Cilla.

Tunes like Barbary Coast and The Chicken are good places to start. All Jaco's common "licks" are in those tunes and they're easy and fun to play.

[quote name='cheddatom' post='425771' date='Mar 5 2009, 08:53 AM']Wouldn't it be good if there was sort of two button controller to flip through the modes on the LS2 with your foot![/quote] Cheeky. There's no mode on the LS-2 to put the loops in series, A -> B. There's also no mode to switch between one channel and both in parallel. I'd really need both of those things and I figured it'd be cheaper to just buy another OC-2.

I get a new contact once a month or so through the band websites I'm registered on. Most are gigs I'm not interested in doing (wedding bands, straight-ahead rock bands, folk bands) but I've taken two on over the last year. I bet drummers get a lot more offers.

[quote name='silddx' post='425477' date='Mar 4 2009, 07:52 PM']I can't stand this obsession so many bassists have with SEEING THE WOOD! Don't get me wrong, I love the look of wood - but only as furniture or on those wimpy guitar things, of which I have a few with natural finishes. So many high end basses have hideous natural finishes with highly figured woods, laminates, bindings, inlays. They look so horribly MUSICIANLY. I would be embarrassed going on stage with one because they look so uncool. I probably have emotional issues you can help me deal with.[/quote] I feel the same way. I do have one natural-finish bass but it's my Thumb, small body, the wood doesn't have an obvious grain, it's not lacquered, black hardware, no markers on the fingerboard, it's not a brash-looking bass at all. When I see people with highly figured tops, especially stained green or blue and with gold hardware I just think... I look too scruffy to wear something like that. I'd have to put a suit on and maybe get gold teeth or something. I think when people spend a lot of money on a bass, they usually want it to look like they spent a lot of money on it. It's all a bit Essex.

I like it, reminds me of Bakithi Kumalo a bit. That Wal sounds awesome BTW.

[quote name='burno70' post='424648' date='Mar 3 2009, 11:13 PM']I also blend in my OC2 into a fuzzed signal but to me it sounds fantastic?[/quote] Yeah sorry I meant with the OC-2 isolated in one side of the LS-2, where it can track well, and then mixing in a fuzz at the other side of the LS-2 is one of my favourite ways to use it. I also like OC-2 into fuzz though. I'm thinking about having two OC-2s on my board so I can have another one before the LS-2. Can't think of any other way to wangle it, unless I get a custom looper than can run the two loops either in parallel or series.

That finger "roll" thing is something I do probably too much, and it's a habit I'm trying to get out of. When doing a lot of gigs I found my skin would sometimes split where I'd been fretting with the knuckle (I suppose it can't callous the same way a finger tip does because it's a joint) and it's painful when you forget there's a split and you stick a bass string in there, believe me!

[quote name='mcgraham' post='419351' date='Feb 25 2009, 03:38 PM']Re: Gary Willis technique, I can see the order and logic, but I personally think that it's overly complicated that gets stupidly involved past a certain point. The concept is great, always having a finger ready to ascend. But there are a number of flaws I see in it, and if you put the same amount of time into standard fingerstyle as it would take to do his three finger, I believe your standard two finger technique would be formidable.[/quote] I've never seen how Gary Willis picks before, but I just watched a couple of his videos and I think it could be really useful to me. I taught myself to play and I pick primarily with fingers 1 and 3, and use finger 2 to move up strings; I think I got into the habit because my 1 and 3 fingers are about the same length but #2 is way longer, and I didn't want to be bending my wrist double to get 1 and 2 on the same string. But it's a bit scruffy really and can trip me up on tunes with a lot of mixed up- and down-beat accents ("Everybody Dance" for example). I think if I had the patience to learn to pick how he picks, it'd work out just great for me.

[quote name='pete.young' post='424615' date='Mar 3 2009, 10:31 PM']Well, not really. I need a 5 but don't particularly want one, so I need to find one that I really REALLY want to play. If that makes sense. Step away from the beer whilst posting to basschat![/quote] I'm in the same boat. I'm 100% happy with my old Thumb, but I need a 5, so it would have to be an early year Thumb 5, and I'd have to shift my current Thumb to fund it, and I don't wanna! I'm going to keep playing anything that involves the low notes with an OC-2 and pretend I didn't hear anyone who tells me I should get a 5.

I suppose as a percussion instrument it might be useful, if you like that rattly string-fret sound.

I've read this interview before. The world needs more people like Scott Thunes.

[quote name='dannybuoy' post='424335' date='Mar 3 2009, 05:27 PM']Maybe not all OC-2s are created equal... or my Mammoth clone is slightly different to a proper Mammoth![/quote] How dare you insinuate that I have a substandard OC-2! I must fight you to defend its honour. Although I nominate my friend Matt to fight as my proxy because I am a pathetic weakling and also too pretty to get hurt. I've tried loads of different pedals before my OC-2. Big Muffs, my old Pulse Synth, currently the Octavius Squeezer is before it and it copes OK with some sounds (particularly the osc sounds) but not others (the fuzz circuit). Let's swap OC-2s for comparison purposes...

[quote name='dannybuoy' post='423900' date='Mar 3 2009, 09:38 AM']It's marginally worse on some really low notes, but it tracks really well, especially on sustained notes due to the sustain added by the fuzz. I've tried it with a Supercollider and Wolly Mammoth, both work well before the OC-2.[/quote] Weird. I've tried my Woolly Mammoth before my OC-2 and it wasn't practical at all.

I love it. The effects are pretty decent too. Total win. Is it heavy?

[quote name='dannybuoy' post='422795' date='Mar 1 2009, 11:28 PM']I think the Boss OC-2 sounds better after fuzz (results in a clean synthesized octave down blended with the fuzz)[/quote] But doesn't that make your OC-2 spit and splutter as it fails to track properly? I like the octave down blended with other effects too, so I had the OC-2 on one side of an LS-2 for a while, so it had a clean signal to track. I've tried it after other effects like fuzzes and dynamic filters and it just doesn't work very well.

[quote name='YouMa' post='422024' date='Feb 28 2009, 10:13 PM']pete docherty came into a taxi office when me and one of my female friends were trying to get a cab from camden.I really am not exagerating the guy was a real mess he stunk of body cheese and piss i was nearly sick,he comes across in interviews as an alright sort of bloke but he will certainly not be coming round to mine for tea after that.[/quote] And [url="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EqPAuotjkM4"]you would be well in order, Frank[/url].

Since when did PBS accept commercial sponsorship? The Pepsi Cola Company??!?! Paul Simon doing If It's Magic is a bit special.

That's what pop stars are for. I think Pete Doherty's great value entertainment, personally. I wouldn't want him on my pub quiz team or as my climbing buddy or whatever, but as a pop star he's just right. I don't understand why people get so angry with him. It's like getting angry at the animals in the zoo.

[quote name='sshorepunk' post='420392' date='Feb 26 2009, 08:49 PM']Meatball - nice filter, mucho versatility, same applies to the clones that are around such as the previously mentioned meatwad, loads of ££ Got a 442 coming, had one before, not recent though, so will add that once it's been played[/quote] I bought a BYOC 440 clone after I'd had my Meatwad for a while, partly because I was planning to ship my Meatwad out for more mods, and I wanted a cheap pedal I could plug my exp. pedal into while the 'wad was being fettled. In the end that fell through when the pound crashed, but the 440 I found was too subtle anyway. I've been A/B-ing my Meatwad with the Agent 00Funk circuit in the Octavius Squeezer tonight and, while the Squeezer circuit is more flexible (potential ADSR envelope if you want it, precise top and bottom ranges you can set) and better for synth tones, the Meatwad still totally creams it in the funk stakes. Nearly a year on and nothing's bettered my Meatball clone. It's a winner.

[quote name='dlloyd' post='420653' date='Feb 27 2009, 09:55 AM']Rocco's lines [i]sound[/i] simple... It's amazing how difficult they sound when other people play them.[/quote] I think TOP are maybe the best example of the drummer being more important than the bass player. Garibaldi is such a steam train groover.