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[quote name='nottswarwick' timestamp='1316972424' post='1385047'] Might try a reset, but everything else on my phone is fine... Edit - it is only posting and messaging that is slow. Browsing is ok[/quote] It's all fine for me. Have you cleared the cache since the site upgrade etc? I did that under general settings > safari and it seemed to sort mine out.

It's working perfect on my iPhone now. At least as quick as my MacBook. Woop!

It's the spec not the brand/make/model that becomes important. Make sure you check out the requirements of any stuff you want to run on it. I'm a Mac user, and so I'd push you towards a MacBook... But if you're set on a Laptop, I'll let others chip in. Give 51m0n a shout - He's the man for home recording etc.

It was a Big Twin T. I want too... You may see my EBS Neo212, Neo110 & spare HD350 going to fund that beast. Yes - pics please!!!!!!!

[quote name='xgsjx' timestamp='1316910569' post='1384392'] Yeah I saw that same homemade LFO the other day when I was trying to find just a simple CV LFO. [/quote] Yeah I've seen it a few times. Looks interesting. I know I've said it a million times, but keep eyes open for a 2nd hand MP-201 (now it's been discontinued!) - Even just as an LFO generator its the best in the World! I've seen them go 2nd hard for £200 on eBay - I bet the pedal in the vid would cost you over £100. [quote name='phil.i.stein' timestamp='1316943382' post='1384507'] quick clip of me messing with the source audio bef pro with an expression pedal (somewhat over-judiciously ) i'm still getting to grips with it, but hopefully you get the idea. the portamento/fuzz sound comes from the octavius squeezer (trapezoid wave). i had to be gentle with the o.s. as it is prone to glitching. [url="http://soundcloud.com/si-resinator/clip1-2"]http://soundcloud.co...sinator/clip1-2[/url] [/quote] Thats sounds amazing dude - Really really good. Get Karizma to drop a vocal on that loop and you got a Dubstep single!

[quote name='Oakbear' timestamp='1316892855' post='1384230'] I'll make it if i can. I might even check the intonation before coming this time! [/quote] Yeah course you will!

I don't have the separate tracks at the mo, but when I do I'll happily send them to you. If you have any examples of the sounds your talking about I'd be interested to hear them. If we had decided to release the track as the instrumental version I certainly would of done more with it - But obviously the vocals have become the focal point for the release.

Too many bassists with taste in the same place!

Just home to Nottingham. Long day. Longer day for Mark who was driving Great to put so many faces outside of Nottingham to names. Was well worth the trip. Awesome to put faces to Hamster & Sibob after so much chat in the mod area. I'd say the same abou ped, but his ugly mug is all over the forum already Enjoyed all the talks. Glad 51m0n didn't ask for my take on recording bass amps in phase as that would of gone so off topic! Some lovely basses I had chance to tinker with... Thankfully nothing I'm left with GAS for. Left me with a lust to sort out my current cab setup. Most frustrating was how good Sibobs Dubstep set up sounds with 4 pedals, when I go out gigging this stuff with a pedalboard over 6ft wide! I'm doing something wrong lol Thanks to everyone involved in setting the day up. Roll on the next one. Shep

[quote name='bassist_lewis' timestamp='1316726308' post='1382115']I'm talking mainly about covers and general pop music (where the money is). [/quote] Despite my lengthy reply above, the answer to this statement is probably not. But if you can fit them in I don't think it's going to hurt - just don't expect the average gig-go'er to notice them a great deal.

Yours is my fav'! Bang on.

[quote name='BottomE' timestamp='1316800526' post='1383220'] One thing i don't understand is spending a small fortune on a bass and then putting it through a chain of effects so that it sounds nothing like its meant to. [/quote] I couldn't disagree more. The sound you 'start' with makes a MASSIVE difference - depending on what you are trying to achieve of course. If you are a covers band and just want a generic fuzz sound for the average non-musican punter to hear in a pub, then 'maybe' your point above stands. If you make electronic music (I don't use a clean tone anywhere!) then having a an instrument with strong response to certain frequencies and a truely 'even tone' across all strings is an absolute vital part of it. I've been doing what I do for a while, and can honestly say that until I had my Roscoes I suffered triggering issues with complex effects, Octave sounds that would only trigger at certain points of the fretboard where a mid-hump was present, fuzz that lacked in definition and synth tones with little top end bite. Having a £3000 bass that was built to exploit specific frequencies and carry the same tonal properties from the B string to the C (which many fretless basses do not - many have a low-mid 'hump' on the E and A strings) has changed what I can do as a musician. [quote name='xgsjx' timestamp='1316809000' post='1383337'] I think it really depends on what type of music you're playing. If it's general rock/pop then you could probably gig away without any effects, but if you're playing DnB, Dubstep or Breakbeat then effects are a part of the sound. [/quote] Not part of the sound - all of the sound! [quote name='xgsjx' timestamp='1316809000' post='1383337'] Have a listen to Pantherairsoft's band Our Helical Mind (or go listen to some Miloopa or Nerve) & tell me it's not worth putting a good bass through an effects chain. If you start with a crappy bass sound as a base then all your effects are gonna sound crappy (canny polish a jobby). [/quote] What do you mean - I hate effects on bass! Oh... wait a minute.

Really looking forward to this and to finally meeting plenty of folk!

Yeah, Max @ SFX could likely build you one easy. The other one that comes to mind is the old Guyatone VT-3 Tremolo in the little enclosures, pretty rare now but crop up on eBay now and then

Yeah, I'm not sure there is much - MidiMurf is the way. The Murf & BassMurf were fundamentally flawed without midi anyway - after all they are a sequencer/sequencer add-on at heart.

The 1st EP was done different to the 2nd. On Subscapes we played the tracks over and over, then selected the best sections for the final cut. So you had certain bits with a 'verse' from one take and a 'chorus' from another. Also, due to the effect changes between sections, to keep it tight it was not possible to go straight from A to B, where as I can get away with it live. This time we wanted to do it like you hear it - we played through it once to get a structural guide track, then Tom played the track over and over until we got a single track that he's happy with start to finish, without the need to cut out sections etc. Then, this time I did the same with bass until we get a take we like. It's hard work doing it without drop-ins, but as there are only 2 of us we use the time you'd do guitar and vocal takes to really hammer it live. The drums took a while, but getting a single, solid take feels more natural and ultimately just sounds better. I spend LOTS of time leading up to recording in my studio tweaking sounds and EQ's so my tones are very complex and sound 'full' as a single track of bass, then record that. Therefore, with the analogftw recording, what you are hearing is a single track of bass, recorded in one take per track - the sounds can be reproduced exactly the same live. Fuzz, Harmonics, Sub - all done together. The way we 'beef' up the complexity of the recorded sound is to use 3 mics on the cab (2 at different distances from the speaker and one on the tweeter) and a DI on the amp, then use a blend of all 4 for the final result. Each mic has slightly different characteristics so the texture works well, but they are all recording the same sound. I prefer this method, and sound, to having a clean take recorded, an octave take etc etc then blending them together at the mix stage. Shep

Glad you like it dude, and thanks for the nod regarding the venue! As for the bass sound and 'fatness', I agree and disagree. The bassist in me thinks the fatter the better - and when we play live I tend to beef up the OD a little more. It's quite hard to accurately reproduce what you hear live in a studio though as every amp and pair of speakers sound very different, so I tend to stick to a 'good' sounding medium. I like to keep my 'fatness' as a clean octave sound and my fuzzy/distortion tones quite high. More importantly though, where the recording is concerned I'm trying to NOT sound like a fat live bass, rather a synthesised bass-sound. After all we are trying to make programmed music - made live. A few tracks step out of this mould, but as a rule I try and keep the distorted/fuzz tones to be more biting/synthesised/bit crushy etc etc. If you ever get to see us live you'll see I use much more ZVEX Mastotron and less FreqBox though. That said, I am looking to pick up a fat overdrive to beef up a few sections for when we don't have an MC with us, and to be honest, for what I'm doing the old Boss ODB-3 seems and sounds most suitable due to the massive amount of bass you can add.

Yeah cool The Slicer thing is easy. Just any other modulation effect. The sounds at the start of Neon Tangerine are a little more difficult (and a little bit different everytime). That's all the fun though

[quote name='waynepunkdude' timestamp='1316717544' post='1381974']My good lady is coming with me if that's OK?[/quote] As long as she's not a guitarist

Just realised I don't actually know what song your asking about! Lol. My answer above is for Barcode Babble, the other track that has whistles (and whale noises) is 'Neon Tangerine' - for that one I'm controlling the resonance of my LPF with a triangle wave as I open the cutoff, then pulling back quick. The delay catches the notes and creates some interesting noises. ALL the bass is live. All tue drums are live other than reverb added to the intro of 'Get Money!', sample applied to the Bass Drum on the 'jungle' section of 'Face 4 Radio' and 2 snare strikes in 'BigDug' have delay applied. That's it.