Oscar South

When I got my first active bass it stopped making any sound and made a high pitched hissing noise. Took it to the music shop, plugged it in to show em. "Batteries dead" was the instant answer, pretty embarressing as it was quite busy. They gave me a free battery though.

I put em in the oven for 5 mins

Sometimes I send a clean line through the PA if I don't want to take a big amp, also it lets you go a bit more over the top on effects if you want to. Its not really bi-amping but its half way there.

Cheers, my only regrets with these really is not using a popguard on the piano ballad one, and using midi bass on the jazz standard. Ideally I'd have recorded it live, but for the purposes of the assignment I had to do it like it is here and didn't have time to record a proper bass part for it; in fact if anyone wants to reocord bass for it I can send you the OMF or cubase files, I'll probably do it myself in the end but I'm not really that great at jazz bass, I'd need a lot of cut ins. Lead sheet is attached for anyones interrest.

A good prank is to tune a lead singers/rhythm guitarists guitar up by a semitone then everyone else play up by one semitone as well, and watch them try to hit the high notes.

I lose interrest when I find that I have no specific goal to work towards; if you don't know where you're going, why would you feel any excitement about how you're going to get there? Just find something worthwhile to work towards and your entheusiam will come back.

[url="http://www.myspace.com/oscarsouth"]http://www.myspace.com/oscarsouth[/url] Not perfect but I quite like em, not a lot of bass playing in there as I mainly kept away from bass heavy compositions; my tutors already know I can play bass. Enjoy.

[quote name='The Funk' post='427380' date='Mar 6 2009, 05:25 PM']The song's so simple you can do whatever you like for your solo. There's nothing really to worry about. Just solo in your style.[/quote] Soloing isn't really my style . Thanks for the advice everyone, I'm going to have a good look at all this tonight.

Guitar Pro is good for programming drums, though its limited dynamically.

See if you can find an independant luthier, they'll do a much better job then 90% of guitar shops. Just look in the Yellow Pages, online classifieds etc.

Who says Sith Lords can't shred.

I'd have no prob doing it in Bb but the band knows it in B already. My personal favourate recorded version is The Stanley Clarke one that I've attached.

Hey, I'm playing this in a gig coming up and am playing a solo in it, I've got the song down and what I've been playing for the solo so far sounds alright (generally just playing around the mid range of my bass, messing with rhythms and accents and a few Bm blues scale runs) but I'd like to work a few different ideas into it. Has any one played this or other stylistically similar songs? The song is pretty much based around a Bm blues for the whole thing, what scales, chords, ideas etc. would you work into it? Here are a few videos of the track: [url="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v13P7e2EsRQ"]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v13P7e2EsRQ[/url] [url="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8ae3l12PM2c"]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8ae3l12PM2c[/url] [url="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mL2J0XOVJWY"]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mL2J0XOVJWY[/url] and here is some mostly accurate sheet music: [url="http://dl.getdropbox.com/u/134504/stratus%20score.pdf"]http://dl.getdropbox.com/u/134504/stratus%20score.pdf[/url] Thanks, Oscar.

I've got some live recordings back today and we're going to use them as a demo, the tracks we have are a stage overhead and 4 vocal mics, the drums, bass and guitar come through pretty well on the overhead though. Mixing is obvious of course, just balance levels etc., but can anyone give me any advice of what I should do to it get the best sound for being played out of generic PC and Hi-Fi speakers? I like the sound I get from the flat mix but I just want to make it come over better through most soundsystems, I'm using Cubase SX3 for the job. Thanks, Oscar

I've tried every major branded multi effects pedal, they're all pretty decent generally but they'll never come close to even decent quality mass produced stomp box effects. Oh and Zoom pedals have a horrible interface, yeah they get the job done but they need to take a page from Line6 or Boss's book. [quote name='alexclaber' post='375448' date='Jan 9 2009, 05:40 PM']Proper musician's earplugs. The best £150 you can ever spend on tone. Alex[/quote] £150 for ear plugs? Wha? As well with the £40 lead, why? a Pirahana lead (or any decent quality brand) will do exactly the same. Boutique leads are a massive marketing scam, and you can get perfectly fine musician earplugs for a tenner.

That actually makes perfect sense. Fair enough.

Normally your posts are about as good as it gets on this forum, well thought out and great points. Some of the stuff you wrote in the solo bass thread especially was really interresting to read recently, and although I'm a solo bass fan I couldn't help but agree with you. This however, is ignorant tripe.

Piranha. Reasonable price, great quality. Can't go wrong.

[quote name='slapmonsta' post='373669' date='Jan 7 2009, 11:24 PM']Yep.Warps,bows,dead spots...love 'em. [/quote] Yeah, I love the dead spot on my fretless P, right on 7th fret G string, and the neck being most likely older than I am is a little uneven, so you can't get the action ultra low like a graphite bass. However, the tone is unique and incredible, I could pick it out of a blind lineup of 100, it looks absolutely amazing, its got the nicest feel of any bass I've played and you can get a really low tension with a medium action and no buzz anywhere, plus a little vibrato on the dead spot and you can barely tell it's there at all. Oh and I agree with ARGH's points about ERBs and active EQs.

Graphite basses, I like that every wooden bass has a subtly unique tone; to hell with carbon copy instruments... takes the fun and mystery out of the craft.

Doesn't matter, still sounds good and is enjoyable; isn't that the entire point of it in the first place?

I like it, lots of other people like it, some people don't like it. Fun to play live too. I don't see how theres any more to the argument than this?

I took the capacitor from an old bass to put into the circuit of a newer one, I don't see any markings on it or any circuit diagram to indicate polarity, does it not matter which way round its attached? Cheers, Oscar.

No contest, Tom Jenkinson.