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[quote name='daz' post='1030099' date='Nov 20 2010, 03:38 AM']My combo has a built in Octaver, does that count No seriously i never use it, dont see the attraction really. How many times is an octaver used per gig.?[/quote] In the stuff I'm working on with my drummer housemate at moment, the oc-2's on maybe 75% of the time. It's the cornerstone of my synth sound, which I use a lot of the time, and it's also very very useful for filling out the sound when it's just you and a drummer. It's amazing how easily a guitarist is replaced by an octave pedal and a distortion.

My housemates got an electric kit, an Alesis DM6 (I think). He's finding the snare isn't responsive enough, it doesn't really register very light or very fast hits. Anyone know of any very responsive electric snares? His drums connect by 1/4" jacks which I assume is the standard, so any brand should do. Ideally as close to a real snare as possible would be awesome.

I loved my LM250, they do actually deliver on their promise of completely colourless amplification. With the eq set flat, it's just your bass sound but louder. If you like your bass sound then it's great, but I think a lot of people are used to their sound been coloured by the amp and have never actually heard their pure bass sound before. The VLE and VPF controls need to be used very carefully too, someone played through my LM250 and didn't get that the VLE and VPF aren't eq controls, they go from off to max. He set everything to noon and hated the sound, while he was berating me i turned the VLE and VPF off and he loved it. If you don't like them then fair enough, but as someone else said it may be down more to your bass than the amp, I found the eq ws very powerful too and required quite judicious usage, I don't think I ever set anything to full.

[quote name='matski' post='1026815' date='Nov 17 2010, 12:53 PM']I'm surprised to see that the Digitech Whammy is fairly popular - are people actually using them in a live situation or just pissing about with at rehearsals?[/quote] Used to use mine in my old band all the time. At the end of the day, a bass guitar is just a piece of wood with some metal wires and some magnets on it. I'm always surpised by the people who say you shouldn't (or even worse can't) use effects or do anything outside of the norm. In one of our old songs me and the guitarist used to put on really high gain distortions, get our phones out, he'd ring me and then we put the phones near the pickups, then we both used whammy's to get a mlody out of the cascade of noise. It was a thing to behold.

That looks sextacular

I'm considering getting a second one. Just because I can.

[quote name='Jacqueslemac' post='1024927' date='Nov 15 2010, 05:50 PM']Agree with that. It's a hackneyed description, but "sonic soundscapes" fits his playing! Third album on its way, you say? Excellent! (I'm almost 50 and was introduced to Amplifier by our 19 year old drummer. Who's a girl. Good music knows no ageism.)[/quote] Third and fourth in fact, double album called The Octopus. No firm release date yet but the preorders have sold. They promised it this year so I think they'll pull out all the stops to get it out this year.

[quote name='Jerry_B' post='1024901' date='Nov 15 2010, 05:34 PM']Brian Gibson, from Lightning Bolt. Can't think of another two off the top of my head.[/quote] First album was '99, not what I'd call new. Although I agree, he's massively underrated. Crown Of Storms is the most tasteful use of bass tapping ever committed to record.

Steven Hodson of Oceansize, according to their lead singer "he s***s music". I'd call that pretty decent praise. Neil Mahoney of Amplifier if he count's, they've been around a fair old while but still only on their 2'nd full length (although the third is on the way). err, that's all I can think of ATM, to be honest I'm getting progressively less impressed by bassists in new bands. Evereyone seems to be playing a P/Jazz/Occasionaly warwick into an SVT and 8x10, which must magically transform any signal into the same bassline.

...And So I Watch You From Afar's new single "Straight Through The Sun" My head is overloaded with awesome

I've spent last 3 hours tabbing this out, I must have listened to it about 30 times on repeat. I've now finished tabbing it out, it came on on shuffle and I didn't turn it off, one of the best songs ever written:

Good luck man, I've been thinking about having a sell of actually, my pedalboard is ace but I'm not in a band atm so it's only getting bedroom and occasional jam use. That's over £1k of pedals to cater to my lust for woo-woo noises. I'm seriously considering selling off everything but a tuner, a Turbo Rat, an OC-2, and swapping my dd-20 for a dd-3/6.

Chris Wolstenholme Steven Hodson And then it's a tie between Cliff Burton and Nick Oliveri Burton because I tend to play a lot of guitaresque lead bits, but whenever I pick up a pick I just turn into Oliveri, the man is fearless.

Circuit diagrams can be tricky to translate into strip/perf board, for a first project i'd definitley suggest using a verified stripboard layout or a pcb, that way if it doesnt work you know you've cocked up in building it and the problem is usually fixable.

It's not too hard to be honest, circuit design is a completely different matter, but just assembling isn't too bad if you know the basics. A GGG kit would be easiest, literally just solder where the diagram says, very little thinking involved, adding a gate could be interesting though.

How big a mistake are we talking? A couple of wrong notes, a completely wrong few bars, or messed up an entire section? To be honest it's all forgiveabble, unless you make a habbit of massive cockups like playing an entirely wrong riff in an enitrely different key or something. I used to play quite complicated stuff (odd time sigs, half step key changes and different tempos everywhere) which if you mess it up is like falling off a moving roundabout. If i messed up or lost my place i'd just stop for a few seconds, find the beat, and start back in at the start of a bar.

1 gig is like 10 reherasals. If you can remember and play them, then put them in the set, playing them live will tighten them up very quickily and you may even change bits of them that you realize don't work.

[quote name='steverickwood' post='1014571' date='Nov 6 2010, 05:58 PM']You know what - I can't even find MY transcription!! I am however planning to orchestrate it for a 4-piece bass orchestra for some of my uni students in 2011, if I ever get round to it, I'll send you a sibelius file?[/quote] Sweet, cheers.

[quote name='Lfalex v1.1' post='1014414' date='Nov 6 2010, 04:04 PM']Reeder is the better bassist for Kyuss, but Olivieri suited the early QOTSA "robot rock" style perfectly. Who's drumming? Brant Bjork or Alfredo Hernandez?[/quote] Bjork thankfully, Hernandez was good, but Bjork and Homme were the main songwriters and Bjork sort of held everything together. Without Bjork they'd have even more trouble calling it a Kyuss reunion.

Sweet, that's my kind of crazy. Any chance of the transcrition? I'd love to arrange it for a 4-piece rock band.

I'm going to the london show but remaining healthily skeptical. What I keep coming back to is that this is 3 quarters of my 2'nd favourite line up. I know Oliveri is more popular and famous, but Reeder was by far the better bassist for their sound.

3Leaf Audio Groove Regulator - 2 Aguilar Agro - 1 Aguilar Octamizer - 1 Akai Unibass - 1 AMT Slap Bass -1 Ashdown Chorus - 1 Ashdown Drive Plus - 1 Asdown dual band compressor - 2 Ashdown sub octave plus - 1 Barge Concepts VFB-2 - 1 Behringer chorus - 1 Boss CE-2 - 1 Boss DD-20 - 1 Boss LS-2 - 2 Boss ODB-3 - 1 Boss TU2 - 2 Boss TU-12H - 1 Boss OC2- 3 Boxx chorus ensemble - 1 Devi Ever Hyperion - 1 Devi Ever Cherry Pop - 1 Digitech Whammy - 2 Dunlop Bass Cry Baby - 3 DHA VT2 - 2 EBS Multicomp - 1 EHX Bass Micro Synth - 2 EHX Big Muff Pi (Black Russian) - 1 EHX POG2 - 1 EHX Qtron+ - 2 Ernie Ball VP-Jr - 1 Guyatone MD-3 delay - 1 HBE Psilocybe -1 Korg DT-10 - 1 Korg Pitchblack - 2 Line 6 M9 - 1 Marshall Jackhammer - 1 Maxon CP9+ - 1 Mojo Hand Cream Pie - 1 Moog MF-101 - 1 Moog MF-105b - 1 MXR Blowtorch - 1 MXR M-80 DI+ - 1 ProCo Tubro Rat - 1 Sansamp Bddi - 4 SFX Micro Fuzz - 1 SFX S&M - 1 Subdecay Noise Box - 1 Way huge swollen pickle - 1 Z.Vex Woolly Mammoth - 1 Z.Vex Mastotron - 1 OC-2, LS-2 or TU-2 is gonna win, and thsi thread is gonna get very long.

Oh yes

Pretty much my main bass idol, he knows how to play, and can do some pretty complicated stuff, but shuts up and sticks to the root when that's what's needed, he drives their songs, which is what good bassits should do most of the time.

Very effective in "post-rock", the guitars are generally noodling around in a highish register, bass chords can really help thicken out the tone. Best use of Bass Chords i can think of ATM: Bass Chords enter at 3:48, when they do it live it makes one of them jump.