Akio Dāku

Oh I like this one! It's already given me some cool lyric Ideas; "I've got 9 lives, 9 chances to die, 8 to waste and 1 to say goodbye." that might have to be the chorus hook but I'm not sure... I also quite like; "Look out in the blackout, chaos is order when mapped out, full bore call it flat out, so breath deep before you lash out." not sure though, I'll get on it this weekend and see what happens.

I have kinda shared this in another post but I thought I'd share it here and go into a bit more detail: So this is my pedal board/Rig in a box, the general idea behind it is I play solo, electronic drums off backing tracks, so to gig I take this box and my bass, that's it. The bass signal is split in two, a dry chain and a wet chain: Dry chain; Boss TU -> AROMA ABL-5 Mini Bass Limiter -> Behringer Xenyx Mixer Wet Chain; Boss TU-> Digitech Bass Whammy -> Morley Bass Wah -> Palmer Depressor (Hidden under the shelf) -> Big Muff Pi Nano -> TC Ditto (this changes in and out, just here for fun/practice at the mo, I'm going to have a nice envelope filter here at some point) -> NUX Time Core -> ISP Decimator (again under the shelf) -> Donner Volume Pedal -> DHA-VT1 Bass Driver D.I. -> Behringer Xenyx Mixer Then there's my TC Helicon Create XT for my vocal processing and my lenovo tab 7 that's running my backing/click tracks. I have live mix-downs of my tracks where the drums are panned hard left and the click hard right, so I send the left out to the mixer and the click to my in-ear monitor amp (the little black box behind the mixer). I send a mono full mix to the front of house that they treat like they're playing a CD through the PA (I send it at mic level -20 dB peak so I can run through a D.I., the stage box or whatever they're working with without clipping anything). My in-ears are hard wired and I get a full mix plus click, no amp, no fuss, set up in 1 min flat. I'm very happy with/proud of it.

I think you've got this @Mornats, I bid you a preemptive congratulations, it's very much deserved.

@xgsjx owns one, he did his entry for the comp challenge with it.

I have to say I'm a lover of synth bass, groups like "Infected Mushroom" and "kalya scintilla" really speak to me because of the heavy neuro bass. Some of the sounds you can achieve with software like Native Instruments' Massive and Image-line's Harmor are out of this world! Like Dolby sub tests meets Michael Bay transformer noises!

I've done a lot of car Tetris in my time... Got a full backline, drum kit and band in a old Nissan Micra before now... Back seats down, drummer and guitarist buried under everything, 2nd and 4th gears unusable because everything was so tightly wedge and the boot held vagly down with one bungee cord. I remember praying we didn't get pulled over a good few times in that band. 😂

Yeah just for the attack, whatever sound I'm after will dictate the technique. Sounds like a plan, always good to know more Bassists living locally. I'll fire you a DM so we can figure something out. 🙌

I'm guna be that guy because I play originals and say one of my own tunes called Rush. Not the hardest in my set but still challenging enough and one of two tunes I play with a plectrum. So for that reason it just feels more rocky to play.

Very nicely done @SH73 I've liked and followed you on SoundCloud regardless. @Skol303 any chance we can get the poll amended? Personally I think it'd be a shame not to.

+1 for the Whammy, tracks great and I use it on just about everything.

I perform solo bass/vocals with drums on backing tracks and I use compression... I ticked "in a band" but I don't feel that's exactly accurate...

I run two parallel signal chains split into low/high frequencies. On the low-end and I run an Aroma ABL-5 and on the highs I run a Palmer Deepressor

Yo! I'm afraid stuff like this is normally a bulk by thing if you want to do it the cheapest way, so if your buying just a few it's always going to be a touch more pricey. Personally I tend to get everything like this off either https://www.allparts.uk.com or Ebay. Allparts do bulk bags (50 pieces) of most screws/springs for £15 to £20 depending on the specifics of the hardware. Its worth just getting a bag of whatever you need then you always have spares knocking about. https://www.allparts.uk.com/products/pickup-mounting-screws-for-bass £3 for 8 of the screws your after.

Great topic idea and I totally agree with @Al Krow with regards to it being I think with covers your inevitably chasing a multi-functional sonic palette and finding the elusive "Swiss Army Tone" is a nightmare and as previously touched on the gateway to a serious case of G.A.S.. Personally like most I started off aspiring to sound like my early heroes; Alex Katunich of Incubus and Stuart Zender of Jamiroquai. I chased the "Super Jazz" Warwick Streamer sound for many years but always being rather broke I've never managed to actually own one. I was about 16-17 when I discovered a through neck ,Korean, Spector 5 string at a local music shop which I snapped up for £450 quid (To this day the most I've every spent on anything other than a car). That bass has been the foundation of my tone ever since but now it exists in a heavily modded state. After the "Super Jazz" obsession I went through a Hardcore Punk phase and sought the Music Man Stingray Punk tone of Players like Jason Sinclair of Belvedere. So naturally instead of forking out for a new bass I just got a MM pickup and squeezed it in-between the two soap-bars already in my Spector. At this point I disconnected the Bridge pickup to wire in the MM pick-up to the Spector "Tone Pump" circuit and used my bass like that for a long time. After the Punk phase I discovered Progressive Metal and just wanted to sound like Justin Chancellor of Tool so I got a decent pre-amp pedal (a Dave Hall Amps-VT1) and of course a Digitech Whammy. In my mid to 20's I became disillusioned with bands and started writing solo material, I didn't want to spend more money on gear but I wanted a wider tonal palette to play with so I re-wired my bass in passive so I could get my bridge pick-up running again, I figured I have my pre-amp pedal so why do I need one in my bass? So that about brings me to just before where I am now, except I should probably mention that along the way, because of financial issues I'd sold my Amp/Cabs. So I'm writing solo stuff I still want to gig it but I'm broke AF, that's when I spent the last two years creating this solution; My no amp solo rig in a box, its two parallel bass chains and a vocal chain with click and backing tracks coming in from the tablet, all monitoring through hard wired in-ear's and I send a single mono line out to the front of house and that's my sound. So really I came to know the sound I wanted, through years of seeking to sound like other people and I ended up finding "My Sound" through combining them all and trying to solve a problem within the financial constants I had to work with. Oh and here's a few pics of my Bass; If anyone's interested I'm running 1 meg CTS Log pots for both volume and tone and a 47uF paper in oil cap.

Just cast my votes, good luck everyone!

I don't know... Maybe I'm just a bit of an derrière but I just found his use of hyperbole and subjective terms really frustrating... It's like listening to a postmodernist trying to critique a pragmatist. Saying that reading my last post back this morning I could be over reacting... Maybe I'm the douche!

I didn't even know who the hell this guy was until just now... After reading the article I can comfortably say he's a total douche. For the record, I've never been a fan of Satriani but I'd put my neck on the line and say he plays with more "heart" that this piece of sh*t.

Infact strike that, just found some Dunlop's for cheaper. Please can a kind mod delete this thread. 🙏

Alright chaps/chappets, normally I'm a D'Addario/Dunlop guy but I'm thinking of getting some Elites, sheerly for budget reasons. Just wondering what the ball-end to taper measurement on them is? I need a minimum of 94cm/37" because I'm on a 35" scale length. Cheers in advance. 🙏

Teenage Kicks by the Undertones... It's totally trauma inducing for me, I have to leave the room if I'm in ear shot. 😲

Ah I see... In all seriousness, I think pay is still a big deal in my eyes because I only play my own material, so fundamentally it's validation of my artistic value. I could be playing to an empty room but if I'm making a few hundred quid then I'm delighted and it most definitely falls into my "great gig" file.

Why so? Is it more about the shear experience of the gig then? I guess I'm a touch more militant in that respect.

One where I get paid. 😜

Nicely done Bilbo, love the tone of the Wal. 🙌

Not my band obviously but I wanted to share this classic shot from the Manchester venue "Band on The Wall" that takes its name from the noval stage design it had back in the day.