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Another name I think of re Bi-Amping is Gallien-Krueger, who do amps with low power horn drive stages e.g. the 1001RB has 700W + 50W amps. I just looked it up and they're still making it, it seems. That, and the 2001RB, which has 2x540W + 2x50W = quad-amping!

[quote name='Machines' post='241731' date='Jul 17 2008, 01:32 PM']If you can't play Mr Pink perfectly within a day or two you should just give up.[/quote] Ha! If you can play [url="http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=2vV_L7OQtU0"]Owner of a Lonely Heart[/url] in a week - the verses & chorus, not the bridge - you're on to a winner. ([i]90125[/i] was my "bass primer", after the review in Bass Player mag called it that as a compliment. I dunno what the modern equivalent would be - Foo Fighters, Arcade Fire or Radiohead?

I thought about getting one of their Professional range a few years ago, possibly to assuage my long-term GASsing for an 8-string. However, they don't seem to make an 8-er any more, and their [url="http://www.saein.co.kr/2007/basses.php"]current catalogue[/url] isn't as interesting as it used to be. Oh well.

[quote name='chris_b' post='241011' date='Jul 16 2008, 04:10 PM']Isn't Iain Ballamy in the Archers?[/quote] I know he was in Earthworks with Django Bates, not sure what he's up to these days. Anyone mentioned [i]All Of Me[/i] yet? [i]Take The A Train[/i], or [i]The Lady Is A Tramp[/i]? I still like [i]Linus and Lucy[/i], [i]Goodbye Pork Pie Hat[/i] and [i]Take Five[/i], but I can imagine some people getting tired of them.

[quote name='warwickhunt' post='240558' date='Jul 16 2008, 07:27 AM']That is a bit naughty. You do have to wonder if he genuinely thinks that it is a Status! I remember these models and I'm trying to recall if it had Washburn marked on the bass somewhere... the pups were Status hyperactives IIRC and as you say the bridge cover has the legend Status but did it have the Washburn logo somewhere that he is genuinely hiding/not declaring?[/quote] They had a huge logo right above the pickups, as in the pic below. The image on the eBay ad is poor quality, so it's hard to tell it it's been doctored, but after zooming in I don't think it has been. Refinished?

Have you thought about the strings - gauge, Lo B vs Hi C, etc? It may take a bit of looking to find the right 5-string acoustic set for you (I imagine).

In his book, [i]Beyond The Bass Clef[/i], Tony Levin explicitly advises bassists to practice with a setup as close to the gig setup as possible at all times. He gives roughly the same reasons you do: so that you can hear everything, down to the quietest string noise, and work on getting a good gig sound. I think Tony's right, but he lives on a farm in upstate New York, with no neighbours to offend!

The Bass, because you have to get to know it properly. These days you can get a decent sound without an amp, using an amp simulator like my little Korg or a SansAmp etc. You can always rent a good amp and get good results, with far less hassle than trying to play a rented bass.

[quote name='Muppet' post='238414' date='Jul 13 2008, 11:34 AM']no I don't think so. Got a laptop with some stuff on it (including Reason and stuff) but without a click I'd have no idea about how to get everything in time![/quote] I didn't mean that at all - I meant playing [i]without[/i] a click (to keep the live feel), then triggering the samples manually at the correct point in the song. Reason could certainly do the job, but there's the problem of how to trigger the samples while playing. The guys from Rush use drum triggers and bass pedals in addition to a keyboard, but that's expensive and takes practice, so maybe I'm thinking too far ahead here - never mind. If you're thinking of using a laptop with Reason, how about doing it in conjunction with a decent sound card or USB box? You could route the click out the standard audio port in to the monitor, and the proper audio out the good sound card to the PA.

[quote name='thisnameistaken' post='238301' date='Jul 13 2008, 02:23 AM']The big downside of course is that it means the structure of all your tunes becomes very rigid.[/quote] If you want to avoid that, you might want to look at a Rush-style solution: no overall click track, triggering sampled parts on the fly. Do you have access to a sampler of any sort?

Get your Biscuits In the Oven (and your Buns in the Bed) - Kinky Friedman 21st Century Schizoid Man - King Crimson D.I.V.O.R.C.E - Tammy Wynette and this:

[quote name='beerdragon' post='238214' date='Jul 12 2008, 09:43 PM']No. he's serious. [url="http://www.australiancouture.com/"]http://www.australiancouture.com/[/url][/quote] Does that have anything to do with the seller? That site looks like no more than expensive instrument listings scraped from eBay, without adding any new information. The seller's [url="http://search.ebay.com/_W0QQsassZsnbar"]other items[/url] are nowhere near as interesting.

[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)