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What the hell does "In the pocket" mean anyway? I know what people mean when they say it, but I don't see the relevance.

Christ, that Sykes fella must be rich, the band ain't bad but I've heard better metalcore singers in bands of angry 15 year olds. They've got lots of very nice gear, so they've got some money behind them, and they're on an indie label, so yep, he's rich.

If you can find a Johnny Shredfreak that's my wholehearted suggestion. They're basically Diago Powerstations (I read somewhere that they actually are the Diagos just without the badge, but that's not confirmed) but they cost £12 new. Unfortunately the Johnny Shredfreak site has an intermittent supply of them, you could try eBay or the classifieds here. The shredfreak puts out 1.5A with no problems at all, it will go to 3A but you're liable to get hum. The pitchblack doesn't draw 600mA, my DD-20 is basically a mini-computer with an LCD display and that only draws 200mA. 1.5A will power 50 average pedals easily.

[quote name='Who's Who' timestamp='1332498634' post='1589072'] Why anyone would want that as their first dance song is beyond me! [/quote] I went to a wedding where the first dance was Cowboys from Hell.....

My favourite trick, if you're playing in a drop tuning, and have a big long ringing open low note, make it into a three octave chord (play the open, then 5th fret on the next string, open on the next and 7'th on the last). Your heaviness quotient has just increased by a factor of 40. Also depending on how loud it is one or more speaker cones may have blown. We all make sacrifices.

The current paltry 10-pedal board: [IMG]http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v502/bobbass4k/2012-03-02_20-47-13_179_York.jpg[/IMG] I sold my Groove Regulator because I wasn't using it, now it looks like I'm starting a band where a filter would be very useful. D'oh. I don't wanna get one I've had before though, so I'm thinking of importing a xenograph.

'bout time: [media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fmugPhISwtw[/media] This too: [media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UifrckJBjS0[/media]

I saw a band of 14 yeard olds do song 2 at a BOtBs 5 years ago, it was better than that.

Not for enjoying themselves (that's a little cynical even for me) but I used to be in a weird instrumental band, there were no other bands like us around so we never fit in on any bills, so no one really got what we were doing. Plus most of the time the audiences were mostly the other bands and their friends After a while we stopped trying to get people to like us and we got quite dour. We usually ended with the traditional "We are Tangent, and you are a f***ing terrible audience. Good night."

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QuzfOvIGKPg http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gdFv3j1yRjw

Wounded paw does a range of blenders, they do a simple 4 channel mixer in stompbox format up to really complicated parrallel loopers with phase options and all sorts.

A teeny-tiny band from royal canadia: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2OLZsbmg16w It's an amazing EP in it's own right, but for a first release from a young band it's astonishing. I really look forward to their future releases.

This works suprisingly well: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=738vzVs63cA&feature=related

Both kinds. Country AND Western.

Jam this up your musicholes: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5OB8oKLxS5c Probaby the greatest song of last year.

Lateralus and 10,000 days both took 5 years so they'll only be a year late, I think they're writing/recording it now so it's probably aimed for a 2012 release. Knowing them it'll probably be themed around the Mesoamerican apocalypse. It's coming, be patient.

[quote name='daz' timestamp='1324623811' post='1476323'] maybe it was played on a fretless bass or a double bass ? [/quote] Maybe but it sounds in tune with the song, they might have all tuned to an off tuned piano, or it might have been rerecorded at a slightly lower speed, apparently that was quite common with in the old days of tape.

It'ss tricky cos it's really flat, tuned to well below 440 (at least to my ears), this sounds pretty decent to me: G:-----------6-4---------: D:-----------------6-4---: A:-4-444-4-----------7-: E:-------------------------: That's tuned about 40 cents flat, tune about as low as your tuner will go and still be the same note and it should sound more or less right.

Like most problems in life the answer is the Boss LS-2. It's got two loops with independent volume controls, the two "returns" can be used as inputs and the two "sends" can be used as outputs. For your problem if you wanted volume control over both basses you could connect them to the A and B returns, and then use the regular output. In A+B mix mode you could blend the two signals at whatever volume you wanted. The problem with this is thatin this mode the footswitch only switches between the blended signal and bypass, so with nothing connected to the main input it would effectively be a mute switch. If you only wanted volume control over one bass though then this wouldn't be a problem though. With the other modes you could switch between just them, switch between them and a mute, or switch between them and a third bass, it really is a swiss army knife pedal. The only downside is it can't do the blending and switching at the same time, you'd need to switch modes with the knob.

[quote name='Jacqueslemac' timestamp='1323814035' post='1467508'] Yes I did. Lovely friendly chap. After the gig the whole band came out and sat on stage taking questions. My drummer was there too and she took quite a few pics. When I get copies I'll post one of his board. [/quote] Nice, we didn't get that at Islington unfortunately, there was a strict curfew cos of a club night (or as Sel put it "a school disco"). How was the turnout at Colchester? I know York was really undersold (I couldn't make it unfortunately) and I heard Colchester was too, they seemed really happy and grateful that Islington was near capacity. It's a shame such a good band can't take decent turnout for granted.......

[quote name='Jacqueslemac' timestamp='1323422536' post='1463073'] I saw Amplifier last night at Colchester Arts Centre. Brilliant gig and a very friendly, approachable band. When they were setting up, it two two people to carry each of the three pedalboards on stage! I counted 22 pedals on Neil Mahony's (bass player) board, and one of those was a multi-effects pedal. [/quote] Did you talk to him? At the islington gig I went to get a picture of his board and he talked to me about it for 5 solid minutes, unfortunately i then forgot to take a picture of it. Nice fella, and they did a brilliant show.

I have ongoing back/shoulder troubles which impede bass playing a fair bit, I can't play standing up for too long (probably my fault for having an 11lb spector) and the shoulder causes bloodflow and nerve problems in my picking arm, I have to keep my upper arm fairly still otherwise my hand can get numb, and it occasionaly gets numb on it's own anyway.

While pondering what a great year it's been for albums, I realised what a terrible year it's been for the basslines on those albums, 3 of my favourite albums of the year don't even feature a bass. So have there been any basslines that have jumped out this year as been potential classics? This would be my choice: [media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rfdo56CafP4[/media] Bassline kicks in at 1:20ish. A good bulk of the song is only 3 notes, but they're the[i] perfect [/i]3 notes and a perfect example of less is more. His style is usally a lot busier and more complicated, but simplcity is what the song needed so that's what he did, to fantastic effect. So what are yours?