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[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.

Good sale post, except it's in the wrong forum..... PM a mod and they'll be happy to move it for you.

This article obviously has no idea what it's on about. I've listened to all of them and I'm still alive.

Am I going nuts or are those leather side panels?

That ending is a bitch to learn but really satisfying to play

I didn't like 6 to be honest. I may just be really used to 5 but I found it a lot less intuitive/easy to use. It's especially worse for stuff that changes time signature a lot (i.e. most of the stuff i write) as the bar doesn't retain it's time signature when you c+p it like it does in gp5.

I use it to write songs too. For writing you'll want gp5.2 or gp6, the sound banks are really good, and the tab entry makes it really intuitive and easy to work out ideas.

Yep, digital delays eat batteries like I eat pizza. Get a power supply. It'll work out much cheaper, and it's kinder to the environment.

[url="http://wmdevices.com/geiger.php"]http://wmdevices.com/geiger.php[/url] There's also the civillian issue which is cheaper but has less functionality. If you're of a mathematical/science inclination, take a looky at the waveforms. Madness.

Mounring the end of Oceansize with a listening marathon.

Pretty cool song, might have to check out more of their stuff. Sounds like a synth pedal to me, couldn't tell you which one or which settings though. I'd probably do it with an octaver, a LPF (Low Pass Filter) and some mild distortion, might add a phaser in there for good measure.

I need to get some more patch cables, and apparently another daisy chain. Bah.

You're all way overthinking this. It's probably that the first pedals went right to left, just out of the builders random decision. The needed standardisation when people started using multiple pedals, so they all went right to left.

My brass nut came off when I was tuning up. After panicking I found some super glue and glued it back. That was 5 years ago, hasn't budged since.

You can use any pedal with any instrument (or anything you canplug into it for that matter). Whether it sounds good is a different matter. Most guitar distortions will cut the low end out of your signal, there are some that are really good with bass though. You can get a bass specific distortion, or you can get a blend pedal to blend your natural bass sound with a pedal. That way you can use guitar distortion and still retain the low end.