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21 minutes ago, tauzero said:

"Dimed". Just say "full" or "maximum", we're British [1], not bloody Yanks.

 

[1] Most of us, anyway

Mike Starr tone thread? Im with you on this one. Absolutely unacceptable. 

Would? Is one of those really simple but extremely effective bass parts. Really fun to play with a band.

2 minutes ago, christhammer666 said:

slaughter to prevail at brixton.

they was ok but i really went to see Dying fetus who albeit having terrible sound, were very good

Slaughter To Prevail confuse me just because everyone refers to them as STP and for anyone of my age, STP will always be Stone Temple Pilots. 

I have seen Dying Fetus in Bristol years ago and they were excellent. The mosh pit was pretty much the entire room!

9 hours ago, ead said:

 

Is that with the string pressed down at the highest fret or unfretted?  If the latter it's probs too close.  If the former then that's about right.

That was unfretted. Ill try it fretted and see where it is

Beaten to it

Hi everyone. Ive had my BB1100 for a little while and it plays really nicely but I can't seem to get pickup height right. I do tend to dig in quite hard whether playing with a pick or fingers and im getting pops and cracks as if the strings are touching the pickup poles. Is it normal to need to set the pickups quite low? Ive got about 3mm between strings and pickups at the moment.

3 minutes ago, Matt_gtr76 said:

I’ve heard of Gnome and most definitely heard of Nomad Lizard as I mixed them at a metal night in Taunton back in November i think. They had a serious groove about them 🤘🏻

 

They're a good bunch of lads. Their songs suggest they have a keen interest in wild mushrooms commonly found on the Quantock hills (so i hear). Are you in a local metal band as well. 

1 hour ago, Misdee said:

Neds Atomic Dustbin! I'm having an early '90's flashback!  At the time I used to share a house with a girl who was one of their friends from Stourbridge. So I got more than my fair share of Neds Atomic Dustbin.

 

Two bass players, one with a Rickenbacker playing the high parts, one with a Stingray holding it down. On paper a really interesting idea, but unfortunately in reality it just sounded like the typical indie-dirge-by-numbers that was so prevalent in those days.

 

I can't remember any of the songs nowadays but I do remember they sold an awful lot of t shirts to students.

I quite like Neds. They had some great songs. Grey Cells Green was a classic. My daughter played a gig recently and the bassist of the support band was the daughter of Neds drummer. She played really well and her band were great. Her dad was in the audience and was recognised by a few people and seemed like a friendly bloke. Neds are still very active touring regularly 

2 minutes ago, Geek99 said:

Very wide influences for young folk there 

 

I was in Lidl and sometimes talk to the young lad on the till. Pleasant young man (for a guitard) so obviously I have to speak more slowly and not use big words. he’s a bright guitard because he can actually use a till. 

He says he’s joined a band doing 80s funk. Seriously his mum must have been a toddler when that stuff first came out 

 

I did resist the urge to ask if his guitar was any good for metal. 

Young musicians seem to quite commonly have an interest in music from long before they were born. 80's funk an disco is making a comeback and 90's grunge, shoegaze and electronica are huge. Nu metal is making a comeback as well but hopefully that won't last.

17 minutes ago, pete.young said:

That's very enjoyable Steve. Something of the early Pretenders vibe about them.

Thanks. I think this song is mostly influenced by My Chemical Romance,  Ash and Jimmy Eat World. It doesn't really show up in this song but their biggest influence by far is Muse. Im sure they've listened to Pretenders as well. They have quite a broad range of musical tastes between them from classical and jazz to Queen and Muse to progressive death metal. 

Next up for me is Belgian stoner metal band, Gnome. 

Heavy riffs and pointy hats. Local band Nomad Lizard are supporting, Ive seen them before and they've got serious groove and songs about wizards with mushrooms. 

Holy thread resurrection!

I started this back in 2021 when I was looking for songs me and my daughter could play together. She's now at uni studying music and one of her bands is an alt rock band with two basses. The two bassists alternate leads and play stuff well beyond my pathetic skill level. They get some pretty decent audiences in Bristol and Bath.

New video by my young'uns band. 

Another single coming in a couple weeks and loads of gigs booked. 

You'll struggle to match the tone but you'll get reasonably near. You have PJ pickups so you're part way there. A little drive and just a hint of chorus. Both pickups on full and boost the mids a bit. Something like a Sansamp will get you the right sort of over drive to emulate Mike's Ampeg SVT amp.

Mike Starr played a Spector bass and they have a really distinctive tone with quite a growl to it. Spector make a budget range which you can find for around £300 used and they're not all that far off. They're not as punchy or big sounding but not bad.

6 hours ago, Lozz196 said:

I bet that was a great gig!

It always is. We're lucky that Airbourne always play our local as a warmup when they tour the UK. Ive seen them several times. 

I don't really listen to their records much but theyre such a great live band. 

Airbourne in Frome tonight. An hour and a half of big dumb riffs and rock & roll stupidity and a really great crowd. Even Thatcher couldn't shut down that pit! Im battered. 

Superb

I was listening to the What Makes This Song Stink (Lenny Kravitz special episode) podcast yesterday. It included a spoof advert for bandcamp which used the slogan "...because three of your friends have to listen to half of one of your songs somewhere" seems accurate to me.

I think AI needs to be regulated for the benefit of everyone. If it replaces all the skilled workers then thats millions of people losing their jobs, countries losing vast amounts of disposable income within the population and ultimately, no one has the money to buy whatever it is that AI is manufacturing. 

17 minutes ago, dave_bass5 said:

It’s not replacing anything, it’s changing how you go about doing something. Speeding up the process. 

Its definitely replacing a skill.

22 minutes ago, dave_bass5 said:

Today’s Logic Pro update has a cool new feature that lets you drag midi or audio to a chord track and it gives you the chords over the track. 
To me that’s going to be a huge time saver when working out songs. I can imagine it’s not going to be totally accurate, but a good starting block. Another + for AI in my book. 

I don't think thats technically AI. Its just an analysis tool in the software. 

A lot of things are getting called AI in the marketing nonsense when they're not.

Have fun and good luck. 

Something I do enjoy that AI couldn't replicate is when musicians try something weird. Like a band I saw at the weekend with a funk metal song about being a fish farmer or everything Igorrr has ever done.

My favourite one, when I was in a sludge metal band was someone committing on a video that we should switch to playing popular covers to make us more popular 

Thanks for that career advice. I always thought disgusting, soul crushing metal that appeals to weirdos was the route to fame and wealth. Id expected to be the new Taylor Swift by now.

Rex Browns grinding, growling tone with Pantera. The most perfect metal bass tone. No effects pedals, just a Spector NS2 in to his GK amp

1 minute ago, chris_b said:

I'd like to see anyone use AI to copy how I play. Good luck to them.

Maybe thats the way to sabotage AI, expose it to the out of tune noodling of the average BC member. I could probably break it myself.