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Onboard volume generally on full - the only exception, normally, is when I'm using the Tube Screamer, as it does respond very nicely to changes in input level. The Screamer generally only gets used when I'm soloing, however, so I'll be on '10' for the majority of a set. I do, however, find myself rolling off the tone a fair bit, even on the Gibson-type basses. It may just be that our music suits a slightly darker bass sound.

Just a quick update to say the lineup has been updated (it's not Cherry White, Lost Trends, Wildlife and Johnny B. ), we finally have the official poster for the event and, perhaps most importantly: IT'S TONIGHT! [attachment=191499:RoyalPark.jpg]

[quote name='RAY AGAINST THE MACHINE' timestamp='1430999314' post='2766704'] [b]I haven't heard any of their stuff. [/b]Guess I'm just too old, but Scouting for girls really irritates me. It sounds too jimmy saville/ Rolf Harris . Repulsive . Are there any band names you hate , regardless of whether you like them or not? [/quote] You are a very fortunate man. Trust me, if you think the band name's bad, the music is utterly contemptible.

I'll also freely put my hand up as another one who doesn't "get" rap/hip-hop, though it doesn't get up my nose in the same way it used to. To be honest, most things don't get up my nose to the same extent they used to. There's still a number of very popular artists whose music I can't stand (The Beatles and David Bowie being two more controversial examples) but they don't inspire the same burning hatred that I reserve for, e.g., certain politicians! Whilst this suggests I have, generally, mellowed, there are still a few artists and songs who/which bring to the "hurl the radio out the window" level of dislike. Par exemple: Scouting for Girls Snow Patrol [i]Teenage Kicks [/i]by The Undertones I also have it in for The Proclaimers, though it's not necessarily their fault: during a car journey back down south from the Peak District, the first CD the driver put on was [i]Sunshine on Leith: the best of the Proclaimers[/i]. 20-odd songs, and bugger me, every one of them was awful. I can't remember the last time I've been quite so glad to hear someone say, "oh, I think that's the end of that disc..."

I'm sure there are plenty of people who will be able to give you a more informed and detailed response than I can, but a decent mastering job will add that certain "fairy dust" element that can often make your record sound like a "proper" album rather than a demo. Which is odd, given that it mainly seems to involve compressing and EQ'ing certain frequency bands and making sure the overall level doesn't change too much between tracks. They may also ask whether you'd like your record to keep some dynamic range, or whether you'd prefer that it was compressed to buggery to compete in the ongoing "loudness war." I'd be inclined to send your mixed tracks away to somebody else for mastering - mainly because most of the recording engineers we've worked with have recommended the same! I can't remember how many of them offered it as an additional service, but at least one of them stated quite emphatically that he preferred to master tracks he hadn't mixed himself.

[quote name='Happy Jack' timestamp='1430495190' post='2762070'] Rare? Huh! It don't mean a t'ing if it ain't got dat "Vintage". Rare & vintage, rare & vintage, go together like a ... like a ... like something that rhymes with "vintage". [/quote] [quote name='discreet' timestamp='1430495523' post='2762078'] Squinted? Appendage? Inches? [/quote] Rare and vintage, rare and vintage, falling off you like diseased appendage?

*emerges from shed* [Dubious West Count Accent] This week, I have been mostly listening to [i]Soused[/i] by Scott Walker and Sunn O))) [/DWCA] *returns to shed* It's a delightfully unsettling piece of music, and delightfully the most...erm...challenging album I found last year. Has anybody else been enjoying this particular dark edifice? Is anyone else hoping for a follow-up album? And what the hell should I put on to follow that?

[quote name='ahpook' timestamp='1430482337' post='2761842'] Aren't people just seeding the auction title with words that people search for ? A bit like when you see 'not Ampeg, not Trace Elliot, etc ' in the title for a bass amp auction to draw people in who have searched for those makes ? It's sneaky ! [/quote] It's a stroke of marketing genius, quite frankly. I have a bit of furniture to shift; I might seed the listing with "Not a teapot, nor fetish gear, nor a genuine lock of Herman Goerring's hair, nor a biscuit tin full of elephant droppings, nor a live badger in a Pringles tube." The possibilities for reaching out to niche demographics are almost limitless.

Presumably "rare" within the boundaries of his own home...

You might struggle to get one new under £500 (could you stretch to £600?), but the Schecter Diamond Series includes some excellent takes on the Precision design. I will probably continue to bang on about how much I love my Model T right up until the day I finally own a MIA Fender: https://thecrowfrombelow.wordpress.com/2013/10/25/gear-review-2-schecter-model-t/

I'm sure I wasn't the only one who clicked this link expecting to see a pair of earplugs!

[quote name='throwoff' timestamp='1430300566' post='2759924'] That is lovely. WANT. [/quote] +1. Is this possibly an attempt to compete with the new line of Jazz-type basses from Sire? Either, way, it's a beauty. If my own Schecter is anything to go by, this will be an excellent instrument!

"[color=#333333]and the pic of god from life of brian film on the back"[/color] [size=4][color=#333333]For crying out loud, man, that image is from [/color][i]The Holy Grail![/i][/size] [size=4]And that's before I get started on what he's done to the instrument...Jesus wept, I've lusted after one of those since they came out, and this lunatic actually allowed Raygun near it? [/size]

Hi all, I know we have a fair few BCers around West Yorkshire way - can I interest any of you in Cherry White's first appearance in Leeds? We'll be playing at the Royal Park, and are going out on a limb slightly, having never played this far north before! (That, and our gig in Derby the following night has just been cancelled, which will make the journey back a bit more of a pain...) Tickets are available from http://www.leedsmayhem.co.uk/buy-tickets/4588028868 and we're supporting Lost Trends and Indianic - I shall pop up a few more helpful links when I'm not constrained by work internet! Cheers, EMB

[quote name='Funky Dunky' timestamp='1430126945' post='2758107'] [url="http://www.theguardian.com/music/2015/apr/22/jay-zs-tidal-app-falls-out-of-iphone-top-700-chart"]http://www.theguardi...e-top-700-chart[/url] [/quote] "Meanwhile, Kanye West, another Tidal backer, has reassured people that the service is not part of the shadowy world-governing organisation known as the Illuminati. Which certainly clears things up. " Bravo, Kanye. Because, of course, that's exactly what we were all thinking...

Have you noticed that any pieces written in a harmonic minor scale usually (always?) use the key signature of the natural minor (Aeolian mode), and simply sharpen the 7th whenever it crops up on the stave? My guess would be, if you're in a mode of A harmonic minor, you'd use the natural/Aeolian key signature and just sharpen what is now the 3rd when you encounter it. Which will probably be more frequent than the 7th, admittedly, but I guess that's the price we pay for dabbling in strange scales and modes!

As another aside, the listing did link out to this particular specimen and now I wish I had three grand to spare http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Celebrity-Owned-2008-Fender-Masterbuilt-Custom-Shop-Jazz-Precision-Bass-May-p-x/181709596672?_trksid=p2047675.c100005.m1851&_trkparms=aid%3D222007%26algo%3DSIC.MBE%26ao%3D1%26asc%3D30110%26meid%3D281e02c80a724b7eb429fbc2909efd4e%26pid%3D100005%26rk%3D2%26rkt%3D6%26sd%3D291427705595&rt=nc

[quote name='leschirons' timestamp='1429890738' post='2756096'] As an aside, do you think it would be any good for metal? [/quote] You might be able to flog it to a young, naive, "nu" metal guitarist and tell him it's the next big thing after 7-string guitars, and is perfect for drop-F# tuning, or something like that...

[quote name='ead' timestamp='1340279008' post='1702121'] Also check out Joanne Shaw Taylor. She's a Brummie but you'd never know it from the voice. Also for heavier blues Paul Lamb. [/quote] Good call - whoever's playing bass on her most recent album (The Dirty Truth) does a really good job.

Afraid so, yes - sorry, I should have put a note on here to say the position has been filled, last I heard. Thanks all the same for your interest!

As a lifelong fan of The Who, my usual routine for demoing guitars is to swing them round my head by the strap before smashing them against whichever amplifier the shop assistant has provided, and in larger music shops I also like to blow up the nearest drumkit for good measure, before handing the splintered bits of wood back to them and saying, "yeah, it's quite nice, but I'm not sure I get on that well with the neck..."

[attachment=189782:grapes18AprPoster.jpg] It's tonight! Anyone at a loose end in Cambridge this evening?

[quote name='Lozz196' timestamp='1429285875' post='2750075'] For what it`s worth, when I had Precisions with both maple and roseood boards, from the same series so only the fretboard material was different, I could tell the difference at home rehearsal volumes. But there is no way I could walk into a venue and hear a bass being played and identify as to maple or rosewood, nor in the mix on a recording. Only found it possible with basses I was familiar with, and with me playing them. [/quote] One example which always blocked up my rational thought on the matter is arguably the best example of "bass you can hear in the mix," and that's the contrast between The Who [i]Live at Leeds [/i]and [i]Live at the Isle of Wight 1970. [/i]Judging by photos and footage, Entwistle was playing a maple Precision on the former, and a rosewood Precision on the latter. The bass tone is unmistakably Ox on both of them, but it's a much brighter tone on [i]Leeds - [/i]in fact, I think I slightly prefer the darker tone he has on [i]IoW.[/i] For the longest time I let myself this was down the wood of the fingerboard - after all, it was the same player, who would have slapped on a fresh set of Rotos and plugged into the same amp...but eventually logic took over and pointed out that his amp settings could have been completely different between those two days!

If you're in the MK/Bucks/Beds/whatever-Milton-Keynes-technically-comes-under area then I can recommend Togfest at Bradwell Abbey in June. A definite positive bias as my only experience was last summer, when I played there with Cherry White and we seemed to go down astonishingly well. (Unfortunately they appear to have a policy of not booking the same bands in consecutive years (which I can understand), but I'll be putting in an application for 2016 as soon as the tents have been taken down.) It's openly and unashamedly family-friendly, but the bar had some decent ales and ciders on, and the music is well-selected and well-run. By having two stages not far from each other, people can shuffle over to watch the first stage while they set another band up on the second. Unusual, but it keeps the music flowing! This year, at the possibly-getting-a-bit-old-for-this-sort-of-thing age of 29, I'll be paying my first visit to a festival that involves camping (all the ones I've been to previously have been one-day festivals). Ramblin' Man Fair in Maidstone has got Camel and Joanne Shaw Taylor on consecutive days, not to mention bands like The Scorpions, Blue Oyster Cult, Pendragon and Haken, whose stuff I don't know that well, but who I'd be interested to see live.

[quote name='iamtheelvy' timestamp='1429273179' post='2749903'] Mull of Kintyre - The song with the most false endings ever... Seriously, catches me every time. Think it's over, but nope... [/quote] It's like a form of sonic torture, isn't it? Just when you think it's about to end, he switches the car battery back on...