steve

bluebursts are sexy :wub:

someones painted spoombungs bass red!

[quote name='lowdown' post='478654' date='May 3 2009, 11:16 PM']Swine flu will proberly go away though. And with less casulties. Garry[/quote]

Very impressive, for me the 2nd one is really nice - I'd love to hear a recorded and mixed version

[quote name='paul h' post='495423' date='May 22 2009, 05:55 PM']I am now doing this purely because I want learn to edit! This one was done in Sony Vegas using some cheap chroma key green screen cloth I got off ebay! The tracks okay too...I like the tuba![/quote] this one's really nice, I know what you mean about the tuba, very uplifting

Very striking, I have to admit the shape isn't my kind of thing, but it looks like a really nice build. How does it feel/play/sound?

good luck with your trip, I hope it all works out ok for you

[quote name='MacDaddy' post='471604' date='Apr 24 2009, 03:20 PM']currently 1 year 6 months [/quote] eek!

I used to have a Trace GP12 SMX 4x10 combo (great amp by the way), and that looks like the complete amplifier section from the front. Mine didn't have all the connectors at the back tho'. That prolly doesn't help that much

[quote name='maxrossell' post='470465' date='Apr 23 2009, 10:48 AM']Lead guitarists are ten a penny. It'll take you a week to find another one.[/quote] Peter, your nemesis definately needs this pointing out to him

[quote name='lowdown' post='469598' date='Apr 22 2009, 01:53 PM']'Things that musicians do that are a waste of time!, We all do it but we shouldn't....' Endless hours of posting on Forums?.... Garry[/quote] nail on the head

I dip into 'Serious Electric Bass' by Joey di Bartolo (sp?) quite a lot, he advocates 5 different patterns based on one note per fret (with a bit of shifting) which covers all strings and all frets up to twelve. It sounds a lot of effort but when you consider each pattern is shifted up (or down) a string every five frets, it becomes fairly intuitative. Not that I'm any good with it tho

I spent many years in an originals band, just playing our own stuff, jamming ideas, doing occasional gigs when we could get them and it was great, we were musical puritans maintaining our credibility and integrity in out own little ivory tower. Gigs were scarce, unless we wanted to do flyer deals on a tuesday night (which wore very thin extremely quickly) so a while ago we decided to switch to about 90% covers in order to get pub gigs, maybe a bit of cash in our back pockets and have a laugh. I found the process of learning batches of other peoples songs an enriching experience, the opportunity to see how some other players might approach a song, how different rhythm sections interact etc etc etc. I do practice scales, hanon etc, and I still practice bach, but playing other peoples basslines is also a rewarding part of playing that you can learn from.

beautiful, really like the fretboard binding too

I think you need to ask yourself if you're enjoying it at the moment, and are you likely to enjoy it in it's current state if nothing changes. I would suspect that not much is going to change so if the band hierachy and song choices don't suit you now, they're not likely to in the future. Find yourself a good guitarist or two who don't need their egos constantly massaging (they do exist - two in my band for eg) and get a set list together sharpish, then try and nick the current bands drummer

fascinating stuff

[quote name='Spoombung' post='466787' date='Apr 19 2009, 03:46 PM']It went over my head too. Who the feck is Sterling Ball?[/quote] son of ernie (NOT the fastest milkman in the west MB1)

If you can afford it, have one built and be patient

[quote name='Adrenochrome' post='354278' date='Dec 14 2008, 04:18 PM']So I use a Zoom multi FX with compression and noisegate on all the time. This also has a handy muted tuner. Out of about 30 songs we do I use chorus for 1 or 2 songs and distortion for 1. The clean sound with comp still sounds like my bass and really evens things out. A simple set-up that works for me.[/quote] I've recently gone down the same route with a Zoom B2.1u, I need some drive for a couple of covers, and a heavier, fuzzier drive for a couple of others, the rest I play clean. The zoom gets close enough to the effected tones as far as I'm concerned and it's easy to set up and cheap as chips.

Peter, had the band done any gigs prior to you joining?

Matt, some more thoughts, stream-of-conscious styley have you checked your soldering for dry joints? is the bridge earthing wire making proper contact with the bridge itself? have you tried the same setup with a different bass to be certain the problem is the bass and not another piece of kit? have you tried the MM with a different amp? you could try wiggling each wire to see if one is loose? scanning your post again, I wonder whether you have created a ground loop (I think that's what its called), and you have two connections running from the bridge to earth, each taking a different path. You could try disconnecting one.

[quote name='GreeneKing' post='462797' date='Apr 15 2009, 10:43 AM']I see what you mean: [/quote]