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Got it off eBay, it doesn't sound bad enough to suggest it's broken, there's just less volume available than I usually like, I always like to have more than I need, where as the Oxide has just barely enough. I've had a quick poke around with a multimeter and everything seems to be in order. It's not just the volume though, the sound just isn't really for me, the gated synthy side is just too pinched. I've seen Taylor around TB and I've no doubt he's very helpful, but to me it's just not worth shipping a pedal I'm not too crazy about to America for mods or modding it myself when I can sell it on to someone who'll enjoy it more and get a pedal I know does what I want.

Not all active basses have active/passive switches, mine certainly doesn't. That's pretty much it.

Now I'm enjoying gainful employment, i'm building my board back up from it's "austerity barebones" state: [attachment=143790:20130914_203537.jpg] Got a Prometheus DLX and an Oxide. I do like the Prometehus but I'm thinking about moving it on, it just does way more than I need, I'm not going to get any real use out of the step functions, and it could be a little "quackier". Probably going to try and get a Wonderlove, as I loved my Groove Regulator. I am however, very disappointed with the Oxide. I'm not sure what I was expecting, but for me there's two useable sounds in it, and even those aren't very useful because the thing is so damn quiet, with fuzz and drive maxed I've had to boost the gain on the LS-2 to bring it up to unity. Why would you build a quiet fuzz pedal? Maybe I'm missing something, it is an early 1'st edition (#6 in fact) so he may have fixed it on later runs, but it's definitely not for me. Going to go back to the lovely loud mastotron.

It's become quite popular to complain about later.., but it's still the only show I know of on mainstream TV where you can watch a woman with 4 synths and a third eye painted on her head sing dream pop over programmed drum loops, and then watch a bluesgrass orchestra play a traditional American folk song. There's still loads of small slightly off-kilter acts on, they just don't advertise them in the press releases because, well, why would they? They had a poet on last series for christ sakes, how much more unusual do you want for a music show? Maybe he'll have a mime on this series.

So annoyed I couldn't make it, hopefully the line up next year is even better.

Depends entirely on the music, I'm getting a band together with me on guitar and I know already that the type of stuff we want to play needs two guitars minimum. Unfortunately I think it does come down to an ego issue, and even when you do get two guitarists they often have to rank themselves with "lead" and "rhythm". I'm actually struggling to think of a band I like that only ever uses one guitar live.

Mine's a Japanese Octaver, 245500, November 1982.

New toy, Adam Black Apollo, been after one for ages, thru-neck with Grover tuners for under £200, couple of small dings but otherwise great. Sure it's not a custom shop les Paul, but it's an incredibly playable guitar. Pics from the previous owner: http://s58.photobucket.com/user/martynscott/media/ebay2013/P1011199_zps22f93ee5.jpg.html http://s58.photobucket.com/user/martynscott/media/ebay2013/P1011203_zps3e248568.jpg.html

[quote name='JapanAxe' timestamp='1376610550' post='2176959'] What they all said. If you EQ in more bass before the RAT you'll just generate a more congested mid-range at the output; if you EQ after it, there probably won't be much bottom end left to boost. For a clean/dirty mix I would recommend TheGigRig's [url="http://www.thegigrig.com/cgi-bin/sh000007.pl?WD=wet&PN=WetBox-401%2ehtml#SID=13"]Wet Box[/url] - although it is described as letting you add delayed/chorused/whatever signal to your clean signal, it will work just as well mixing dirty with clean. [/quote] This, EQ won't really help you, you need a clean blend or a bass mod done to the rat. A Turbo RAT blended in an LS-2 was my main dirt sound for quite a while, always sounded great, I only sold it to upgrade to a Fuzzrocious Rat Tail.

White basses - in fact anything white on a bass at all. Exposed poles - I have slightly softened on the issue, i can tolerate them in some contexts, but usually no. Gold hardware - just looks tacky. Singlecuts - I quite like a few single cut guitars, LP's, Tele's, but basses just no.

I find the audacity eq quite useful for learning stuff, isolate about 50-160hz depending on the register of the bassline. It's hardly a magic wand but it really helps define the rhythm. Personally I've never found pitch shifting that helpful, I find if it sounds muddy in the original octave it sounds like mud in any octave.

Okay, so I've sketched my out initial idea for the structure, 46 time sig changes and 13 different time sigs. My head hurts already

Interesting idea, personally I'd prefer the 12 minute version, 24 would probably be most comfortable, but if you ask for 6 ye shall receive. Just to be clear, are we allowed to reuse parts of our entries for each month in the appropriate section? I'm not talking about just copying and pasting, but maybe revisiting a melody or riff in a new way.

I can appreciate the technicality, but compositional beauty and feeling? Not for my money I'm afraid, but what's life without disagreement? For me, this is the pinnacle of musicality and compositional beauty in guitar music, and pretty much all music: [media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fC1Ts8LHnKU[/media]

I'm out unfortunately, I've been working on putting bass to some potential band demos so I'm in a big riffy post-metal frame of mind, which doesn't fit the picture and is pretty much what I did last month.

Surely he's a musician and a songwriter first? Can't say I'm familiar enough with Bowie to comment but I see no reason why an instrumental couldn't be a high point of any musicians career.

[quote name='discreet' timestamp='1373654728' post='2140327'] It's hot, isn't it? ...I'm typing this whilst wearing one of the current mrs discreet's dresses. Very cool and liberating! Hey, I've just thought - d'you think there might be any YouTube videos of a man wearing a dress and playing the bass guitar? Just wondering... [/quote] I seriously doubt there's a market for that, I mean what next, a flamboyant drummer who looks like he's turned up to the wrong gig? People aren't [i]that[/i] easily amused...

[quote name='The Dark Lord' timestamp='1373645682' post='2140178'] I'm not interested in your rants or protestations mate. I've just blocked you from my content. Say what you like to everyone else. [/quote] Is this the internet equivalent of sticking your fingers in your ears and going "lalalala I'm not listening!"? I fail to see what this deliberate embrace of ignorance accomplishes.

What exactly is this thread about? Musically... meh, they're not terrible but I've heard it before, done much better. Aesthetically... well that's something of a minefield, they're attractive women sure (even the drummer, personally), but does, and should that matter? Watching that video, and other stuff I've seen of them, it seems undeniable that they're being sold on their sex appeal and gender, but is that a problem? I haven't a clue, there's a[i] lot [/i]of bands with attractive female members that are obscure because the music has limited appeal, so it's hardly an instant ticket to fame, case in point: [media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=63guoWW5Y3E[/media] Gender attitudes in music is hardly and issue we're going to settle on our quaint little forum, is it even an issue? Who knows, I'm going to go listen to some Rolo Tomassi, Wye Oak, Future of the Left, Bo Ningen, Deerhoof, Joy Formidable, St Vincent, and other excellent bands with female members. Is that positive sexism? I don't know, quit asking.

Well I've done a complete 180°, spent a lot of time making intricate glitchy beats and then I picked up a guitar and blasted out a riff that is pretty much perfect, so I might still marry the two together but I'm definitely aiming at more of a post-hardcore feel. I haven't listened to any of the very early entries yet either, I don't want to colour my own idea, plus I prefer to know how much better everyone else's is after I've finished mine.

[quote name='steve-soar' timestamp='1372961547' post='2132227'] Mine would be to get rid of the BBC and all the corporate bullshit that promotes the mediocre music. [/quote] While I hate to disagree with someone who puts Cardiacs, Swans, Godflesh and Cocteau Twins on any sort of list, the BBC introducing stage has put some great bands on and given them some decent exposure.

I'm also going, there's a couple of other BC'ers on the bill too with Castrovalva and ANTA.

[quote name='the boy' timestamp='1372891817' post='2131437'] I like it Milty. No one has any lyrics in their pieces. Can there be lyrics? Are there rules? What's the deal? I have a chorus in my head for this picture. [/quote] There can definitely be lyrics/vocals, it's just most of us can't sing so we tend to get more instrumentals, we had quite a few with vocals last month though. Got an idea in motion, I'm getting my Aphex Twin on, dark glitchy electronic vibes going on, although I've been listening to a lot of Cardiacs today, so that might sneak in there a bit, which would be interesting.

[quote name='Stephen Houghton' timestamp='1372811988' post='2130350'] Does anyone know what city is in the picture? Stumped for an idea this month at the moment, but it ain't over till the fat lady sings, que the wife Only kidding, she cant sing [/quote] New York, from the top of the Empire State Building by the look of it.

Does anyone know a VST sampler that's as good as Impulse in Ableton? I use Impulse for all my glirchy drum stuff and it's ace, but I do all my other stuff in Reaper so it would be nice to not work on the glitchy drum stuff in isolation but all the sampler plug-ins i've seen aren't as good as Impulse, I need the level of control over each sample you get with Impulse.