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My HB Acoustic Fretless 5 wears D'Addario Black Nylons. They Feel and sound great to me.

I saw this from Danny Vaughn last week. Doesn't sound good.

Exactly what I wanted to hear... Many thanks!

Apologies for the thread resurrection, and the deviation from the topic, but I've been trawling the forum for info on the UR22. I currently have the UR12 running into Cubase AI9, which is great for my purposes. Recording the drummer's electronic kit individually through the interface is fine, ditto my bass, but we also like to play together and record to capture ideas. We both go into a little powered mixer which we then output into the interface. It works fine, but obviously this way we go onto one track in Cubase. Am I right in thinking (hoping) that with the UR22 we could both go direct into the interface, and then fairly easily assign drums to one track and bass to another track while still playing simultaneously? Thanks in Advance!

A Dutch friend turned me on to Kurban while I was staying with him. I find most lyrics a bit daft anyway, so it didn't matter that I didn't get the words.

BBC 4.

I enjoyed it. Not the usual suspects, and not the approach I'd expected.

So 2 Fridays ago Stewart Copeland did his drum thing on the telly, obviously there was a heads-up thread earlier that week. Last Friday Tina Weymouth did the Bass episode... Naturally there was a thread. Guitars tonight... Nothing! 🤣 *edit* Until now I guess.

I'm Trying! I've always done BVs, but this is the first time I've attempted lead vocals, and it's tough. If I'm honest I've never had any desire to front a band, but my desire to go through the process of finding a singer (based on previous experiences) is even less. We want to keep it small so the idea is that everyone needs to sing, and I reckon we can handle it between ourselves. I'm not prepared to dumb down the bass for the vocals, or dumb down the vocals for the bass, so I write the parts independently. I've found what works for me is to record a rough version in Cubase, then to learn it as if it was a cover.

Good Call! All those guys owe him at least a small percentage of their royalties!🤣

Out of the whole Seattle thing, Nirvana were probably the least interesting for me despite being held up as the flagship. I wasn't paying much attention to popular music, so they kinda passed me by at the beginning, but I was being dragged around a really chic, cliquey hipster store by a girlfriend when I was about 18, feeling totally uncomfortable as I always do in that kind of place, but there was this amazing heavy, grinding riff coming out of the store's speakers, slowly increasing in tempo. Inevitably an assistant (with far too much make-up) asked if she could help.... I asked if she could tell me what the music was. She nipped upstairs and came back with a scrap of paper that said 'Louder Than Love - Soundgarden'... Next stop was EGS Records, just around the corner, who ordered it for me. That was it for the next 5 years... Soundgarden, Pearl Jam, AiC, Mudhoney, Mother Love Bone, Temple of the Dog. It's all great stuff, I listen less to it now, but on the occasions I do I still find something in it. I think it's permanently in my playing too, no matter what I'm playing some of that era bleeds in.

Alice in Chains - Dirt. That's just perfect to me. Ben Shepherds's bass on Soundgarden's Badmotorfinger, Superunknown and Down on the Upside is all great, fantastic tone and interesting choices, also Hiro Yamamoto's lines on Loud Love. Any of Jeff Ament's stuff with Pearl Jam, fretless awesomeness!

Nice selection! Pretty sure that Sei is the Flamboyant though, not the Original as labeled.

Just plugs... Thankfully!

You live and learn I guess. I naturally assumed that, being at a music show they'd know all the inscand outs and advise accordingly.

The discussion around filter strength being conducted while the impression was being taken.

And ends with 'ercury', yes! Discussed it for a while, ins and outs, etc. Something I knew nothing about, and honestly, having always used expandable plugs, the changing shape of the ear canal never occurred to me. We told them what our respective roles were, but the idea of an open-bite impression never came up. I've messaged via their website but had no reply as yet. Must chase it up, not that there's really much point I guess.

I fell foul of this. Enquired at the drum show when attending with my drummer, negotiated a deal for both of us so we went for it. Obviously we were completely ignorant and relying on their experience. Don't get me wrong, they fit beautifully and really do the job... until I sing, then things get messy.

I always, as far back as I can remember, wanted a Warwick Corvette 5. I wish I'd left it as a fantasy. It was a beautiful piece of Ash, but appeared to have a lead core, or at least iron. Also (and I should have guessed from the shape) it was an awful thing to play on a strap, sat down it would have been fine were it not so gutless. Previously I'd panic bought a Chinese Streamer (Stleamer?) 5 when I suffered an electrical meltdown on my only fiver at the time and needed a cheap bass to get me out of a spot, and that seemed to me a much better bass, in both playability and sound compared to the genuine article.

I hung back on this, having bought it towards the end of 2018, but a number of rehearsals in now and I can't imagine being without my Tech21 dUg pedal.... Not with my current band anyway. I don't think I really need the dUg/Mix option, bit the core section with a little drive engaged and a bit of compression is perfect. It took me 10 minutes to find exactly how I want to sound

I bought a Steingberg U12 which came bundled with a version of Cubase, just because that's what I used to use on my Atari when I was a young 'un. It keeps offering me a 50 Euro (approx £50 nowadays🤣) upgrade, but for my purposes (Rough Drum/Bass/Guitar tracks for the band to develop) the free version that came with the interface is plenty. It pretty much sets itself up when I switch it on, so is dead simple to work with. I also ended up buying a cheap midi controller keyboard to just for ease of using the VSTs, drumkits, whatever, that came with it.