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  1. Baloney Balderdash
    Sorry, but I don't know how to possibly have a constructive conversation with someone who straight out ignores all my arguments/points. As I already stated in my first response to you I am not opposing that music theory indeed can be very helpful when playing and composing music, I am however opposing your patronizing statements of it being a requirement to be considered a "real" musician and to make "real" music, and, as I also think I actually already pointed out pretty clearly, I am pretty certain that I have music history, at least the more modern one, on my side in that argument. I don't need music theory to recognize and know what sounds great, and I don't need music theory to know, or at least be able to find out, how to make that sound happen. Neither do I need music theory to tell everyone else how to play, cause I trust they got ears too.
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    So what you are saying is my music is crap, and it is supposedly because I don't know enough theory? And I don't need to have a great insight in music theory to know what music theory means. Just like I don't need you to point out your insults to know them for what they are.
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    Plenty of highly skilled, acclaimed professional "amateurs" by your definition then, and I struggle to see how that is not supposed to be seen as an insult. And you still totally ignore my point that you can still make amazing music without basically knowing any music theory, just by practice and actually using your ears. The only thing you really need is having a great pair of ears and training them to be better, might be easier if you learn some theory too, but not in any way necessary/a requirement to make just as amazing great music as one who learned the names of they sounds they make. Art doesn't need to be explained to be understood, and that is exactly the beauty of it. Also as I already said H.C Andersen was a dyslexic and Einstein struggled with mathematics in school. Plenty of great visual artists as well who never had any formal schooling, even some of THE greatest in history, though I am sure some smug academic, in a patronizing tone of voice, would tell you why they are not really to be considered so, and how they are better than those themself.
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    I was basically replying to you strongly insinuating that you couldn't be a real musician without learning music theory, but seems you missed that, even if I think I made it pretty clear, by actually starting out with only quoting the bold underlined sentence of yours here: And now doing it again, apparently completely choosing to disregard my response:
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    I don't agree... I don't think knowing musical theory is a requirement to be a "real" musician. Not at all. I composed and created this without any deep knowledge of music theory : And plenty of examples of great music that has been made by very real and acknowledged musicians without deep knowledge of music theory. You don't really need descriptive theory to understand music. All it really requires is you using your ears (and eyes). And I also think you are kind of missing some of the main points of that video. I think one of the points of the video is that what we call music theory, THE Music Theory, is just one way to look at and understand music, and if you don't realize that it will be limiting and constraining, while I don't think it in any way suggests that it is useless, and I, and for certain Adam Neely, would still absolutely call it very useful, as it absolutely does make it easier to communicate musical ideas. But just as knowing a different language than your native one expands your ability to communicate and offers different options, not only in number of people you are able to communicate with, but also actually changes and expands your idea of language as such, allowing you to express concepts and ideas in a somewhat different way in one language over another. Looking and understanding the world through the filter of different languages simply changes your whole perspective of the world slightly. Also H.C Andersen was a dyslexic and Einstein struggled with mathematics in school.
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    I disagree! Applying a HPF at the right frequency, eventual boosting the right low frequency and then applying a HPF at the right frequency, can really tighten up the low end of your signal and make it punchier.
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    Yes there is at the bottom right corner of the upside down V his legs form. A lot of bands who still uses amps, especially if they use several different amps, have them placed at the back in a rack to be switched between and/or combined depending on the songs. He might have swapped the speaker units of the cabs. How about some jazz then? :
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    By far most basses won't sound good going directly to the desk, would need some kind of cab sim, or at very least a LPF, and a lot of soundmen doesn't know how to treat bass, add to that that there might be impedance issues. I personally use this setup: Buffer -> Tube preamp/subtle compression -> Subtle reverb -> Preamp with amp emulation and cab sim -> Tube preamp + DI with build in HPF
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    Or sand the grip part of the pick with coarse sandpaper.
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    Which music theory exactly are you referring to? :
  11. Baloney Balderdash
    Youth Culture Killed My Dog - They Might Be Giants
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    If weight is not an issue then hands down and old used Trace Elliot amp, as suggested above. They can be had quite cheap used, sounds no short of astonishing, play really loud compared to the rated Wattage, and are build like tanks. However they do weight about a ton.
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    Makes perfectly sense to me, even if I personally am not exactly too fond of headless basses, but I am sure it helps immensely to counter the neck dive otherwise bound to be a thing with that short upper horn.
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    Yet another rendition:
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    *Doh!* Double post...
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    Yeah, looks great, hella neck dive though I would suspect. Also personally I prefer the O-Bass in the orange finish and with the back pickguard (white or black pickguard for orange finish, white or tortoise pickguard for black finish).
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    Seriously, while I do like current Ibanez, they really ought to re-release some of their old classics, like for instance the Musician Bass.
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    "No picture, no bass" - Mob Barley -
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    Tension seems quite normal to me (image from OP): Fairly similar to that of regular D'Addario XL bass strings.
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    How about this one: An actual serious act. And the scary part is that even though it is way off my usual musical taste I actually genuinely love this!
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    Well, worked for me. And the pots I sprayed were really bad, but now works flawlessly and have done so for years since I sprayed them. I fail to remember the name of the product though, but it was made specifically to clean circuit boards.
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    Shameless self promotion: Hail Satan - Fjernsind
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    I decided to string my Ibanez Mikro Bass with Elixir Nanoweb guitar strings, threaded through cut off ball ends of old bass strings to not fall through the bridge string mounting holes, of the gauges .068 - .052 - .038 - .028, and tuned to tenor bass, A standard, tuning, that is as the 4 upper strings of a 6 string bass in regular B standard tuning, which as said Stanley Clarke, for one, makes widely use of. And I love it! Obviously useless for filling out a traditional bass role in a band context, but as solo and/or melodic instrument, that is also viable for playing chords, but while actually still sounding good playing regular bass lines on, it is pretty amazing.
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    As The World Dies, The Eyes Of God Grow Bigger - Sebadoh
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