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[quote name='budget bassist' post='238083' date='Jul 12 2008, 05:27 PM']I actually got a pretty decent sound out of it that way, but that's probably down to my MM preamp, it always sounded rubbish with my old passive basses.[/quote] Spot on: [b]Line In[/b] ports are low impedance, meaning that they will overload passive pickups and suck the life out of the signal. A signal going to Line In must be electrically buffered somehow: through a preamp or FX pedal ought to be enough, or use the output from a multi-FX or amp simulator. [b]Mic[/b] ports on the other hand are high impedance, but can sound awful because they go to the opposite extreme: too much gain. You might get that to work if you turn the Mic gain down. +1 for [url="http://audacity.sourceforge.net/"]Audacity[/url] too - does the job nicely at the price.

[quote]This is a rare piece and I will increase the Buy It Now Price by $10,000 after each listing it does not sell.[/quote] Knock yourself out, dude. He's following through on this "threat", and now he [url="http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=120282638386"]wants $88,000[/url]. OK, it's old, and it's rare, and... that's it. I imagine he is hoping to snag some wealthy private museum owner, since that's all that thing is good for. If he thinks he has a Stradivarius there, he's forgetting that a Stradivarius is still an excellent violin, if it's looked after.

[quote name='ARGH' post='237497' date='Jul 11 2008, 06:09 PM']'Apollo' soundtrack by Eno and Bladerunner...if only for Demis Russos's vocal.[/quote] I have the Apollo soundtrack - wonderful stuff. I have s soft spot for the Eno & U2 Passengers, album, [i]Original Soundtracks[/i]. It was supposed to be music for imaginary films, but one was actually used in a soundtrack, coincidentally, the film I mentioned earlier: [i]Ghost In The Shell[/i]. Odd fact about Demis Roussos: he's a bassist too, and played in his first band Aphrodite's Child.

If you record the MIDI from the DTX to a MIDI track, you're not recording the actual sound, of course, just the "instructions". They'd end up in the same MIDI track, but that's not necessarily a problem, because different note numbers refer to different drum sounds. You can fix mistakes & timing if required. What you do with it after that is up to you: add a little "swing", use a VST drum plugin to produce sound, or even send the MIDI back out to the DTX "brain" & record the results. if you split the MIDI track by note, you can do things like record and treat the Snare separately.

[quote name='Faithless' post='237329' date='Jul 11 2008, 02:24 PM'][i][b]Once[/b][/i] ... Glen Hansard and The Frames; Marketa Irglova ...[/quote] Haven't seen that, but I have seen the part where they play the song [i]Falling Slowly[/i] in the music shop. That was filmed in Walton's on South George St. in Dublin, about the only place you can get SX basses in Europe.

[quote name='RIM Basses' post='128752' date='Jan 27 2008, 05:09 PM']My feeling is the paper will come away from the Aluminium over time, best of both worlds? More like jack of trades master of None? I think Stu hamm will leave Hartke next year, those hydrives sound bad on the youtube clips.[/quote] I found this thread by searching for info on the new Kilo 1000 amp. I looked at that YouTube video, and it's the same one as on the [url="http://www.whyhydrive.com/"]official site[/url], but the sound must have gotten trashed in the conversion to YouTube format. The original video has stereo sound and more high end. I'm looking at the 2x10, but I'm a little disappointed in the FX loop: just mono send & return, no blend control. The simple footswitch facility looks useful, though. They're actually on sale in the UK now, e.g. [url="http://www.dv247.com/invt/49119/"]DV247[/url] has the 2x10 for £499. The weight is a huge turnoff, however: 62lbs!

I don't buy many actual soundtrack albums, but one was for the 1995 movie [url="http://www.metacritic.com/video/titles/heat"]Heat[/url], which is pretty avant-garde stuff. The original soundtrack pieces are by Elliot Goldenthal and the "Dead Elk Guitar Orchestra", plus it has tracks by the likes of Terje Rypdal, Moby, and Michael Brook. One I didn't buy, but was impressed by, was Trevor Rabin's soundtrack to the thriller [url="http://www.metacritic.com/video/titles/sixthday"]The 6th Day[/url]. Unlike most of Trevor's soundtrack work (Armageddon, Con Air, etc.), it actually sounds like him, and you can tell the film makers liked it: the DVD has a soundtrack-only channel. For sheer mind-blowing power, I have to mention the soundtrack to [url="http://uk.imdb.com/title/tt0113568/"]Ghost In The Shell[/url]: mostly original pieces by Kenji Kawai. The opening credits has a vocal piece in an ancient Japanese dialect, that sounds like nothing I've ever heard before. The animation may be slightly NSFW:

Well, I live in the capital city of Ireland, which has about 5 music shops in total, and none of them carry anything but standard 4- and 5-string sets. No 6-string sets, and definitely no double-ball sets. Two of my three basses are headless. While I have tried bodging one of them to use standard strings, it's better for me to order strings from the UK, so I know I can get what I want. I might try that XL2XL site: it looks like I can put together a 5-string High C set of round core Nickel Signatures for about £23.50, though that is a bit more expensive than a Status Graphite custom SS hex core set (£19.56).

[quote name='bremen' post='236516' date='Jul 10 2008, 01:45 PM']Where from?[/quote] Sorry - I meant to put a link in.

I used the Elites before on my B2V (5-string): they were OK, but the life was not great. More recently I've been using Status Graphite strings on my Hohners, because I wanted a custom High-C 5-string set, and they seem to me to last longer. They want £ 13.57 + VAT for the set you're after, which might not be the absolute cheapest, but still good value IMHO.

You don't happen to work for the BBC. do you? Don't get me started on glasses... any 2-for-1 special offers seem to evaporate when they see me coming. I think they have to tool up specially to make these lenses (-10L -8R)

Hmmm. Will there be any kind of truss rod, for stiffening? I doubt that a thin slab of Ash can handle the tension on its own.

[quote name='Zach' post='235882' date='Jul 9 2008, 04:57 PM']I dont bother with proper bass magazines, I do read www.bass-musician-magazine.com though[/quote] Why haven't I heard of this before? Their list of writers and contributors is jaw-dropping.

My favourite Level 42 album is Running In The Family, which features some of MK's least flashy and most musical playing. There are some tracks with little or no slapping, such as [i]Children Say[/i] and [i]The Sleepwalkers[/i]. So I'm not inclined to dismiss MK as a slapper..!

I just did an export of a Hydrogen pattern, and it did what I expected: one big General MIDI file, channel 10, standard assignments e.g. BD on note 36. Note that you probably don't need to consider putting each drum on its own track - it would just make for more work. You can make things easier by grouping e.g. putting all the toms on one track, cymbals on another, etc. I think the Cubase command you're after is MIDI > Dissolve Part.

One reason I bought a Chapman Stick, back in 2000, was the tone. If any of you have heard Dream Theater's New Millennium, you'll have an idea of what I'm on about. I also dabble with synth bass at times (Kawai K5000S and Novation XioSynth). Whatever the technology, I want a strong fundamental tone before all else, so if I look at another 5-er, or even a 6-er, I'll want a 35" scale. Maybe even a Dingwall Fanned Fret job. Plus the amp & speakers to faithfully project that tone. I'm a long way from that goal: in fact, I don't even own an amp of any sort, since I have no way to transport it (can't drive), nowhere to put it (small rented flat), and I would not be able to turn it up at any time of day or night (neighbours).

I think I'll wait a while before splashing out...

At the risk of re-opening of an old debate: Carol Kaye claims she played on this, and she was known for doubling bass parts with a Danelectro. (Carol was a session guitarist before taking up the bass too, and becoming more famous for that.)

I looked at this on Friday, and came away thinking "no, no", but couldn't quite fathom why. Now I think about it, I would definitely want to hear it before I could think of buying it. With a weight of just 11lbs, I expect that the stainless steel bars are not solid, but are hollow tubes. If so, this has me thinking that there's a potential for some awkward resonances, uneven frequency response, and feedback. They'd be thinner, so they could be more likely to resonate physically, and then there would be the resonance of the hollow chamber with air in it. The bars have a tapered outside diameter, but I don't know anything about the internal shape of the tubes. I've been thinking about metal bass construction for a while, so this kind of detail intrigues me. :wacko:

[quote name='spog' post='233401' date='Jul 5 2008, 11:54 PM']Agreed. To me, double-thumbing is about as useful as tapping, what is the deal with this chapman stick thing? [/quote] To be fair, the Chapman Stick was designed by a guitarist, and not specifically for bassists. I used to have one, thinking it would let me be "more than a bassist", but I came away thinking that the bass side was an afterthought. When you see a bassist like John Myung or Tony Levin using one they are, strictly speaking, using an incorrect Stick technique: what they're doing can be compared to a pianist playing a bassline on a piano with both hands. Who do we blame for the rash of bad fretless playing in the early 80s? Mick Karn, Pino Palladino, or Paul Webb?

Drama Queen!

Even if you could fix the pots, you probably couldn't trust them again, so it would be far better to replace them. They aren't that expensive, though paying someone to fit them would be a bit more.

[quote name='BigRedX' post='233241' date='Jul 5 2008, 05:04 PM']I really like the original 1976 US Spector SB1! That's really unusual.[/quote] Spector says that about 100 were made, though it's not quite as rare as the 2-pickup SB-2 (< 20 made). This is a bit more GAS than I know how to deal with... I need a drink, or a good cry, or both.