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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.

[quote name='Linus27' post='1010682' date='Nov 3 2010, 01:03 PM']Yes, that is my issue, with the pedal plugged in, it makes the tone of the bass much bassier, despite having no flange effect coming through. Its not a problem with the actual flange effect, just that when the pedal is plugged in, everything goes bassier.[/quote] Is this when it's in bypass? If it's when it's bypass then it's definitely a crappy pedal, you could get a true bypass box if you still like the flanger effect.

It'll just be that flanger, some effects aren't very transparent and have other tone effects when on. Although, depending on the controls, setting everything left might not silence the effect, just set it to a minimum.

Taking an auditroy stroll down Mogwai lane to celebrate the announcement of their new album: "Hardcore will never die, but you will". I think they win best album title ever. Also includes some hilarious track titles: "George square Thatcher death party" and "You're Lionel Ritchie" Been my favourites.

As soon as I have some spare cash I'm buting another one and doing this to it. Awesome.

[quote name='EskimoBassist' post='999164' date='Oct 24 2010, 07:18 PM']The new 65DAYSOFSTATIC EP, "Heavy Sky". Absolutely brilliant, nicely follows on from "We Were Exploding Anyway".[/quote] Did you get your pre-order early, or have you been naughty? I really wish I could have afforded the pre-order, I'll pick it up when i can afford it.

The small bit of stripboard and the battery are just wedged in, a lot of pedals do that, even the very expensive ones, as long as it's done properly it shouldn't be an issue. The big bit of stripboard however is anchored in by a very visible stand off, soldering looks good as well, should be fine.

[quote name='Bidd' post='998442' date='Oct 23 2010, 08:14 PM']I've learnt a lot of Muse songs over the years and I remember when songs like Thoughts of a Dying Atheist and New Born were had to play stamina-wise. I'm currently stuck at Stockholm Syndrome, but my band's music never requires me to play sixteenths at over 120bpm continously for a good minute.[/quote] Stockholm Syndrome's what helped my right hand stamina, Map of the problematique, butterflies and hurricanes and hysteria are good for it too.

Use a pick, i've never seen a punk band with a finger player, it'll give you the tone you need aswell. If you're set on fingers, just play a lot of fast songs, play 2 or 3 everday, and eventually you'll build up your stamina