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[quote name='ShergoldSnickers' post='1303163' date='Jul 14 2011, 07:24 AM']Disturbing.... but in a way that encourages you to press the reset button and throw away any preconceptions. The sound track is well crafted and knits with the video. I'll take a look at the others you've done on the same page.[/quote] +1. (Jase: I'd maybe add a note to the OP to say it may be NSFW, depending on your workplace's attitude to swearing and general disturbingness. Being self-employed, I can watch what the hell I want, of course. Bring on the dwarf pr0n! )

[quote name='silddx' post='1302812' date='Jul 13 2011, 08:17 PM']It is not, in any way, a piss-take.[/quote] Absolutely. It's a gem. For those who don't know, it's one of Zappa's experiments with what he called "xenochronicity": elements of music taken from different places and points in time, and layered together to create a new construction. In this case, the drums and bass were recorded on completely separate occasions, for utterly different purposes. Zappa happened to try playing them together, and it worked. By 'eck, it really worked.

If only I had a picture of my dad from 20 years ago.

Just throwing in here to say that I read [i]Bounce[/i] last month, and it was fascinating. The stories of László Polgár (who raised his three girls as a psychological/sociological experiment to be some of the greatest chess grandmasters the world has seen) and Richard Williams (father of Venus and Serena Williams, who decided to raise tennis champions -- and he had no real idea about tennis -- after seeing a tennis player receiving a hefty winnings cheque on TV) were at that crossroads between amazing and terrifying. A really recommended read. While reading it, I realised that my 10,000 hours have probably been spent playing, listening to and mentally analysing music, rather than physically practising any one particular instrument. That's why, as a general rule, if I've heard a pop/rock song a couple of times, I can generally sit down at any one of three or four instruments and play it for you. I'm not that great (by any stretch of the imagination) on any instrument, but I've got music [b]in[/b] me.

[quote name='Austin7' post='1301065' date='Jul 12 2011, 02:22 PM']"Owt" is a word in British English?[/quote] Oh aye. "Have ya had owt to eat, hinny?" That sort of thing. Just means "anything".

[quote name='pantherairsoft' post='1300327' date='Jul 11 2011, 09:31 PM']Agree'd - I'll sell mine too and we'll go down the shared ownership route! [/quote] So... Nottingham... Northumberland... we'll stick it in storage somewhere around Northallerton then? BTW, for those who are interested, an idea of the scale of the System 700... Yep, it uses full 1/4" jacks for patching. Beast.

[quote name='xgsjx' post='1300263' date='Jul 11 2011, 08:20 PM']I think the old Roland System 700 was less complex than your board(s). [/quote] I'd sell my grandmother for one of those. She's probably not worth enough to cover it, mind.

Tune using the 12th-fret harmonic! That's the easiest way to get a tuner to respond to low strings, and it's generally more accurate than using the open strings anyway (more cycles per second in the signal).

[quote name='wateroftyne' post='1294646' date='Jul 6 2011, 12:46 PM']On the off-chance, you're welcome to give the Promethean a shot too, just in case that rings your bell...[/quote] I smell another mini-bash in the making here...

I don't have experience of those two in particular, but if you're after a taste of the PJB 5"-driver flavour, you're welcome to try out my Super Flightcase. I'm in the Corbridge/Hexham area, and I'm over Newcastle-way a fair bit. One thing to be very aware of with the PJB stuff is that the speakers aren't very sensitive at all. The 250W of the Super Flightcase doesn't [i]feel[/i] like the sort of 250W you'd be used to. It can just about cope against a sensible drummer if you feed it with a hot signal. Tonally, though... lovely. Sweet, no harshness, full, natural... can't think of a bad word to say about the tone.

You can't beat a bit of JM. And a gorgeous bit of electrickery/tape-delaytastic loveliness:

[quote name='Lfalex v1.1' post='1293741' date='Jul 5 2011, 06:47 PM']I don't think many people would readily diss a 'Rays tonal quality.[/quote] This is a web forum. There are plenty of people who'll diss just about anything. Not me though. Love that Ray sound.

[quote name='51m0n' post='1293310' date='Jul 5 2011, 12:53 PM']Personally I find the videos fine to watch, but I forget what I've seen too easily - it is a completely in your face blast of information you see. You need to take notes on the videos![/quote] Yeah, I'd agree with this, although there tends to be a fair bit of repetition in videos like that, so some stuff just gets hammered home anyway. Personally, I lament the passing of the printed manual. I understand that it keeps costs and material waste down, but I'd never have learned how to use Finale at the age of 12 without the huge ring-bound monstrosity that came with it. Not so easy to read a PDF on the pooper (not without a germy iPad anyway ).

[quote name='Ou7shined' post='1292481' date='Jul 4 2011, 05:44 PM']RTFM is a bit of a stickler for me, I have a pain in the ass reading disorder - so stuff like that is a fecking nightmare and that's even before taking into account male obstinacy with manuals. [/quote] What about tutorial videos? I believe there are a bunch of Reaper ones out there on the web for nowt, or you could [url="http://www.groove3.com/str/reaper-explained.html"]pay $30 for 4h40m of this[/url]. (Watch the previews first though. You might not get on with Kenny Gioia's voice; he talks really quickly with a strong Long Island accent.)

[quote name='silddx' post='1293124' date='Jul 5 2011, 10:02 AM']I think he means, "Kim Deal - who the f*** are you to tell me my business?!".[/quote] I know, it's just some early-morning sarcasm. I don't get on with that sort of attitude. Besides which, I don't recall her telling anyone what to do. In the video that Conan posted, she merely seemed to be pointing out (in a fairly self-deprecating manner, I feel I should point out) that "real" bass players tend to add things that she doesn't.

[quote name='Chris2112' post='1292693' date='Jul 4 2011, 08:50 PM']Who the f*** is Kim Deal?[/quote] What an extraordinarily aggressive way to ask a simple question. I can only assume that Google and Wikipedia were having a rare simultaneous outage at the time of your post, so here you go: [url="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kim_Deal"]Kim Deal on Wikipedia[/url].

[quote name='Conan' post='1287620' date='Jun 30 2011, 01:06 PM']He is obviously extremely intelligent, and he is a phenomenal bass player - but a lot of his stuff leaves me cold. If he played that material but with a guitar round his neck, would he be so well regarded here? I doubt it.[/quote] I've been dipping in and out of Squarepusher's music for years, but without really knowing anything about him or his methods, so it was only a couple of years ago that I discovered he was even a bass player. I just thought he was an awesome composer and programmer... and he is.

[quote name='burno70' post='1287427' date='Jun 30 2011, 10:40 AM']Thats the thing - you can see the difference - but can you really hear it?[/quote] Isn't the idea that you [b]can't[/b] really hear it? It's getting rid of the rumble you can't hear in the first place, so your speakers can work more efficiently, no?

[quote name='Oscar South' post='1285310' date='Jun 28 2011, 02:36 PM']One from a recent radio session.. the contrast really brought out my expression well! [url="http://www.bearbeatsband.com"][/url][/quote]

[quote name='mcgraham' post='1285150' date='Jun 28 2011, 12:05 PM']Probably 0.105? There's a number of factors going into play here. If you downtune a standard 34" scale to C#, the third fret would be about 28.5" scale and so the tension along the length of the string would be the same as what you'd expect on the 28.5" scale length. Now, although that string could seem quite floppy when plugging away on the open C# at 34", imagine that the string was securely clamped at the 3rd fret, i.e. put a nut at the third fret. The amount of absolute 'side-to-side' give of the string will therefore be reduced (relative to the full length of the string) in response to a pluck of a given energy. So actually its not going to [i]feel [/i]as bad as it might initially seem. Also, an easy way to increase the absolute tension is to increase the string gauge. Obviously its not going to sound exactly the same as a standard bass, but Hunter's bass sound on the Novax guitars is stupendous, so I have no worries about it sounding good.[/quote] Ah, good man; you remind me of me. I have spreadsheets full of tension calculations for various scale lengths, gauges and tunings. I'm [b]really[/b] looking forward to hearing this beast.

[quote name='charic' post='1285145' date='Jun 28 2011, 12:02 PM']What's wrong with noodles? Are you a noodlist?[/quote] I'm allergic to wheat.

[quote name='mcgraham' post='1285119' date='Jun 28 2011, 11:41 AM']Unfortunately for this project I need [i]totally [/i]custom strings: 8 strings, fanned fret from 28.5" scale bass strings fanning through incrementally to 25.5" scale guitar strings, tuned EAD on the bass with tapewound, and ADGBE on the guitar side with nickel plated steel roundwounds...[/quote] Just out of interest, what sort of gauge are you looking at for the bass side of things? At that scale length, they'll have to be pretty heavy to come to pitch without flapping about like noodles, surely?

[quote name='Pete Academy' post='1283953' date='Jun 27 2011, 12:22 PM']Brian Wilson? Who's he? [/quote] If I do make it down, I'll be sure to wear a Burberry cap so you can pick me out of the crowd.

Arise, ancient thread! I got the Sage brochure through the post the other day. Flicking through... suddenly, BAM. Pete's grinning up at me from the bottom of the page. Nearly Dan, Saturday 10th September, Hall Two. Hope I might be able to make it along this year. Shame you're up against Brian Wilson in Hall One on the same night though.