SpondonBassed

[quote name='Mcgiver69' timestamp='1482540615' post='3201417'] Goodness with double 3 band EQ and no one told him how to turn the bloody bass knob? All I hear is clickety clickety clack... Frequencies below 1K? more like all frequencies below 16K [/quote] Nobody plays the frets as well as our Mark. Heeheehee. I like Mark's playing but I agree. Sometimes the actual bass frequencies come across as lightweight where you might feel you want a nicely rounded bottom to get a hold of (oooer), so to speak. Old analogue Bowie releases tended to be like that for me too. It didn't spoil my appreciation however. Now that I am all growed up like, I know you can't get much oomph from lightweight strings but then the heavier ones are not so compliant.

[quote name='Pinball' timestamp='1482536640' post='3201394'] I'm feeling strangley gas free this Christmas... [/quote] Ahaaaa, You clearly haven't had the brussel sprout course yet. That or you've not started fracking yet. Excuse me, I have someone on the other line....... [long pause whilst listening to caller] Oh. THAT GAS. Well done, carry on.

That Leslie was right clever wasn't she. Didn't she present on Blue Peter too? end quip

[quote name='fleabag' timestamp='1482425520' post='3200512'] I've never had an engine in a spondon frame , hence me posting i used to yearn for one but never had the sheckles [/quote] Sorry I think you misread my question "what would you have had?" This is now a topic of its own at the link location I posted above. Let's not hijack this one any further.

[quote name='Grangur' timestamp='1482315590' post='3199420'] This is about it. The whole thing is shown in the Circle of Fifths As you can see here CMaj and Aminor have no flats or sharps - so there aren't any in these scales. Then as you go round the circle, each step the Key gains a sharp. Interestingly, the order that this happens is the same order as the order of strings on your bass, or the order that the notes are above/below each other on each fret. Edit: Don't get thrown by the fact that on a treble-clef stave the sharps and flats are on a different line to those on a bass clef stave. They are simply on the line that is for that note. So in the case of DMajor, there are 2 sharps. These are F# and C#. Actually the list is this: C - nothing G - F# D - F# C# A - F# C# G# E - F# C# G# D# B - F# C# G# A# F# - F# C# G# A# E# (Yes, there is an E# - played as F, but you won't come across this one often) [/quote] For those with normal sight who have difficulty understanding why some folk reject score, try reading this graphic with petroleum jelly smeared across one eye and you might have more sympathy for tab users. That graphic makes my eyes freak out. It's just the same with staves with dots and little tails and cryptic ancient symbols and small words in foreign language and and and [b]argh[/b]! Takes me an age to read and by then I've forgotten where the sharps and flats are supposed to be [i]anyway[/i]. Sorry Grangur, take that with a pinch of salt mate, I'm just feeling a little sorry for myself. I have no chance of sight reading now even with lens replacement.

[quote name='blue' timestamp='1482378196' post='3200040'] I'm impressed with this talented English woman. Great chops, tone solid playing and funky. And she can sing. How come you guys have never mentioned her? My kind of drummer too, he's killing that hi-hat with 16ths under the key board solo. Rebecca Johnson [url="https://youtu.be/dVnJk_cgFRc"]https://youtu.be/dVnJk_cgFRc[/url] Blue [/quote] I hadn't really noticed her before Blue. Thanks for the tip. Rebecca's a cracker as we sometimes say. Brave too, covering a McDonald vocal as well as underpinning the band with her playing. I'm impressed.

Yes, quite agree. The lads have excellent form with work other than C&D too.

[quote name='fleabag' timestamp='1482361458' post='3199984'] You're very welcome mr Spondon. I used to yearn for a spondon frame when i was a lot younger, but never had the sheckles [/quote] That sounds very like the start of a new topic. Care to join me and tell me what engine you'd have had in a Spondon frame? http://basschat.co.uk/topic/297316-custom-framed-motorcycles/

@ Fleabag, it seems that Univibe is more appropriate since there is a proprietory effect that does all of what we're talking about. Excellent yooboob clips thanks. @ Beer of the Bass, I can accept that there is a pitch change which although barely perceptible, would have a noticeable effect. Sort of like low level "wow-and flutter" as we called it in days of vinyl and affordable turntables.

[quote name='fleabag' timestamp='1482336624' post='3199700'] I believe that to be the Rotary effect as the spinning trumpets threw the sound around like a rag doll. Robin Trower used an effect pedal to do that very thing ... cant remember the pedal Maybe a Uni-Vibe ? [/quote] With the Leslie speaker and ignoring minute pitch changes due to the Doppler effect I thought it'd be a really slow Tremolo, no?

Okay then. Moving on a bit, what is the effect that you get from Leslie speakers called?

[quote name='juliusmonk' timestamp='1482323102' post='3199534'] It's vibrato. [/quote] Thanks Juliusmonk. It's dealt with here now; http://basschat.co.uk/topic/297271-are-tremolo-and-vibrato-not-the-same-thing-then/

So... I have had it "arse about face" all of the time, broadly speaking. @ MoonBassAlpha, thanks. In my case what you said is probably true. When trying to make the distinction I have thought to myself; "The Tremolo arm (God bless Hank Marvin) causes pitch change so the other one (Vibrato) must be amplitude variation". Tsk, silly me. @ TrevorR; I stand corrected and I apologise for calling you out on another post. Sorry Cheers chaps.

I thought I knew this. Turns out I had the slightest idea about them. I tend to think of Tremolo being a modulation of pitch and Vibrato a modulation of amplitude. Internet definitions are making me think twice so I'll throw it out here for discussion. BTW I don't [i]really[/i] believe that they are the same thing, heeheehee.

[quote name='TrevorR' timestamp='1482003990' post='3196960'] I think what you were trying to say was "...beautifully expressive vibrato...", Jack [/quote] I think you mean tremolo. There is a "slight" difference in that vibrato is a modulation of amplitude, not pitch. Call me a pedant, I deserve it. Edit. Er... I just looked the two terms up and it seems I am wrong, or at least... not correct. The definitions coming up are varied but I think it is fair to say that this could be a new topic. Look out for a new post entitled; "Are Tremolo and Vibrato not the same thing then?"

Cheers SH73. I wish you the same. @ Yank, what adjective would you use for "Xmas" just out of curiosity? Abreviated Xmas maybe...? (Pulling your leg like it was a Christmas cracker mate, heeheehee.) [i][b][size=8]Happy Christmas Everyone![/size][/b][/i]

[quote name='rushbo' timestamp='1481579504' post='3193501'] I still get a bit nostalgic for my old Fostex X15 now and then... [/quote] I still have mine.

[quote name='blue' timestamp='1480543329' post='3185360'] And what type of physical condition your in also matters.If a guy is sporting a huge arse there's going to be some limitations. Blue [/quote] But if all else failed he'd be good at twerking.

[quote name='darkandrew' timestamp='1480287640' post='3183162'] I'd always thought, maybe wrongly in that case, that ukele tuning was non incremental. I guess that's why I don't play a ukele! [/quote] GCEA is the standard tuning for a ukulele with the G being in the octave above the rest. The note run on the open strings IS sequential if you ignore the fact that the fourth string is an octave higher in pitch than you'd perhaps expect. When the instrument is strummed you get that undefinable tonal quality that only a uke in standard tuning has. For the OP, this would perhaps be of interest. My mate prefers to use a low G on his latest build, a baritone uke. It now sounds like a really mellow classical guitar.

It's very nice to have the opportunity to consider becoming professional. I can't offer any advice but I wish you every success. Also, I hope you have a great time doing it.

[quote name='Les' timestamp='1480261264' post='3182862'] Goes without saying [/quote] Ahh warmth and fuzziness. Lovely.

[quote name='Les' timestamp='1480018348' post='3181120'] Anyway the upshot of that long winded reply is that if you want to hear it/try it you're in Cheshire and the jam night is in Ashton In Makerfield so you'd be more than welcome to have a play with it or indeed try it in anger with the band. Les [/quote] Does he get an invite to the kebab house after though?

Nate Watts on Stevie Wonder's "I wish". I heard him say he liked a slack string with a high action. He seems to get the slackness from tuning to Eb.

[quote name='T-Bay' timestamp='1480250920' post='3182765'] Makes sense! So I guess it's just that way but doesn't really matter more than what you get used to. (From your user name, are you from Spondon by any chance? I grew up in Spondon and still have a lot of family in the area) [/quote] Yes.

[quote name='T-Bay' timestamp='1480179123' post='3182311'] Just a thought but why are the strings on basses/ guitars ordered top low- bottom high. Why not bottom low - top high? Would sort of make more sense. Is it because of how commonly each of the strings is used? (but doesn't that vary person to person as well?) [/quote] I can't tell you why but many players have the strings reversed in the manner you mention. Having started myself with a left handed friend's instrument I had to relearn on my first proper bass. I don't recall it being a problem relearning. I hadn't a great deal of experience anyway so I followed convention for convenience. I don't think I could play a lefty in the same way now though.