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Tremolo? A man can dream, assuming they've fixed the bypass.

Started on trumpet and violin in school, but then I got into rock and wanted to play that. There were no bassists at my school just dozens of guitarists and i've always liked been the odd one out, so I took up bass. I actually wanted to take up drums too but as soon as I said the word drums to my mum she just said no. So bass it was and 8 years later I'm still loving, I play guitar and drums now too but bass will always be first.

I never got the slap fixation, it's just one of many ways to play bass, fingerstyle, pick, tapping are all equally as important and valid, and a good player should be well versed in them all.

Mark Heron (Oceansize) - Drums Josh Homme (Kyuss/QOTSA/TCV et. al) - Guitar Mike Vennart (Oceansize) - Vocals/Guitar Barry Burns (Mogwai) - Keys/Piano/Guitar And if I wasn't going to play bass it'd be Chris Wolstenholme or Neil Mahoney (Amplifier)

Nice to see people branching out into odd time sigs, you don't really get a lot of 7/8 outside of prog, probably my favourite time signature.

And if you discount the actual intro: Simple but so very effective And about a hundred others, but that's the one most people don't know and should

I've been trying to get a new set of DR DDT's for about a week, strings direct are out of stock, and I've tried every other online guitar shop I can find. Does anyone know anywhere online that has/is likely to have them? I bought some from sound unlimited but they never shipped and the guy didn't know why, which didn't fill me with confidence so I cancelled the order.

Boss LS-2 would be a good investment, they average about £40-£50 2'nd hand but it does exactly what you want and more so it might be worth the extra money. If you fancy building your own though I thnik there's some schematics knocking around here somewhere. Aha, here you go: [url="http://basschat.co.uk/index.php?showtopic=40389"]http://basschat.co.uk/index.php?showtopic=40389[/url] As for the LED's, it's impossible as far as I'm aware, you just can't get enough current to it without a battery or PSU.

The geiger counter does some suprisingly nice fuzz sounds, I was thinking of moving it on after I'd had my dirty fun with it's weird noises, but I might keep it on as a fuzz.

I have terrible ears, I can't really think of any, I guess always assumed that recordings were perfect and anything that sounded a bit odd was intentional....

[quote name='stingrayPete1977' post='1214939' date='Apr 29 2011, 02:37 PM']I do apologise Jake I have just re read it and missed the [i]I think[/i] which does change that part but its still [b]massively offensive [/b]to Golchen (who I dont know BTW). TNIT to Golchen "I thought you were a christian? You're supposed to be one of our society's moral leaders, not advocating vigilante justice on the terraces. See this is why I think religion is a bag of sh*t. "[/quote] I get the point he was making and to be honest I agree with him. I'm not going to clarify point because that'll just kick up a further hoohah. But just out of interest if he'd said "This is why I think religion is defunct and irrelevent" would that have been less offesnive?

I enjoy reading and discussing opinions and beliefs outside of my own tiny bubble of values. What's wrong with been offended? I find Hollyoaks offensive, but my head doesn't explode everytime I accidently watch the start of it. If an off-hand comment on an internet duscissuion forum can cause such offense and indignance, maybe the problem isn't entirely with them? Just sayin'

[quote name='GarethFlatlands' post='1209131' date='Apr 23 2011, 12:51 PM']Continuing the Oceansize theme, I auditioned for them when their old bassist left and had to learn 'Women Who Love Men Who Love Drugs', 'Charm Offensive' and 'Homage to A Shame.' The first 2 were pretty straightforward apart from a few oddly timed sections but 'Homage to A Shame' was a killer to learn. Lots of off-time bit and a ton of separate sections to get to grips with. My plan of impressing them and learning a couple more tracks was well and truly scuppered after that one took up all the time I had available. Still fluffed it during the audition too.[/quote] Cool man, I wanted to audition but I was 15 at the time...... Yea, Homage was an absolute bugger to figure out, Charm Offensive is one of my favourite songs to play, and it used to impress my guitarist cos 11/8 confused him. They have some really really inventive basslines. They're not technically the most demanding (although some of them can be a bit tricky), the time sigs and rhythms take some effort to get your head around.

Not sure to be honest, I don't consider any of the stuff I can play hard because I can play it.... I spose this requires a bit of thought: The riff at 3:05 is a bugger, that extra 5/8 bar trips me up occasionally.

(Should I tell him it's actually two stars? Or be a bit cunning and get two stars for the price of one?) How much hydrogen left? Is the fusion PP chain or CNO cycle dominated? Spectral Type? Luminosity? This is information we shouldn't have to ask for to be honest.

I want to make big analog synth sounds. My bass can't make big analog synth sounds on it's own, so I need some pedals. I want to be able to jump up and down octaves really fast in the middle of a line. I'm not an octopus so I need a whammy pedal. I want my sound to be big and nastily distorted. It can't do that on it's own so I need a distortion pedal. That's really all there is to it. If you want the sounds buy the pedals. If you don't want the sounds, don't bother, but please don't assume those of us who use pedals are just compensating for bad technique. In fact a lot of pedals require very good technique, make a mistake with a delay pedal and you've actually made 4 or 5 mistakes, most fuzzes require very even attack or they sound like crap. Analog octavers are fussy bastards, you have to play in a very precise way.

[quote name='Soliloquy' post='1163523' date='Mar 15 2011, 07:07 PM']I don't see how you can play without knowing what the notes on the fretboard are. If you go to play with someone, and they give you a chord progression of C/Eb/F/G for example, what do you do ?[/quote] Don't play with people who know more music theory than you has always worked for me. I do know what every note is now but I didn't know it off by heart for a while after i started playing.

"To the unlearned, these may seem like two silly over-priced pieces of plastic, but to those in-the-know or in need of them...they're well worth it." No, to anyone with a modicum of rationality they're over-priced. I'm not an expert in vintage guitars, but I recall a '57 goldtop going for around £25k. I'm pretty sure a 3'rd of the price wasn't the pickup surrounds.