AttitudeCastle

[quote name='redstriper' post='1074858' date='Jan 1 2011, 10:55 PM']Have you enabled the VST inputs in cubase and the Alesis is the default sound card ? Does audio from the laptop playback through the multimix ? Is it a firewire or usb connection ? If it's firewire, are you using the mini firewire connector on the laptop ?[/quote] +1, yeah, it could be todo with connections, we use Cubase 5 at school Haha! Yes, i did something similar with my itunes back up disks! Lessons learnt!

Mark e-mailed me back in minutes, and well past usual bed time too! He runs out standing customer service, been meaning to make a trip south next year if i can!

Detuning? To make you bass lower! i often play A-A# (6 string dropped a tone, like Thombassmonkey said) On guitar dropping the E to a D (Drop d, same a D-A-D-G for those who don't get what i mean) Makes sense as you can then play power chords and such like as a barre chord, and i genuinely think drop tuning on bass developed from the guitarists forced to play bass not having to ask and work out the "note" but instead can just see 'oh right, thickest string, fret 5' But it also gives a different tone, like The dropped D to me sounds killer, and nothing like the 3rd fret of the B, On the note of alternate tunings though, why is the like 7 string ERB have a similar range of the cello which has 4 strings? Surely if you tuned a bass in 5ths like a cello the range is the same? haha

I would say it was almost certainly a one off

I've tried one, and i liked it, which is odd considering i don't like Active basses a huge amount of Jazz basses! It was the first Asymetrical neck i've played which i found wierd but thats a personal thing! It doesn't have an Active/Passive switch, and if you ran it passive it may be a bit of a waste of the 18V of electronics, you could put one in which would be easy if you swapped the pre-amp, but then how much of the almost £2000 has fender put on those electronics? You could get a passive J 6 built? Sorry if that has made things worse

[quote name='Chris2112' post='1063422' date='Dec 19 2010, 12:13 PM']Billy and Paul are amazing together. The stuff they do from 04:21 onwards in this video is absolutely incredible...what a tune! [/quote] That is an amazing thing they did, it was great in London! That show changed my life, 100% Mr Big has completely changed my life, and its thanks to them i even play bass! as i loved Lean into it, having heard two tracks off it i decided to buy it! And thanks

Yeah, i saw this when it was first up too, and i agree, Billy and Steve Vai are an amazing team, as are Billy and Paul, Though there is something about Mr. Big for me y'know? But Billy and paul also have amazing solo work

I am a HUGE Mr. Big fan, i missed a week of school to see them in London for my birthday and also in Belgium! People find that odd, considering their hit which reached 3rd? in the charts here in 1992 is three years before i was born! Mr. Big have always meant something to me, the year i "discovered" (as it were) them, they decided to get back together after that, then Billys Attitude 25th edition was annouced the week after i had found out the UK waiting list for the Red ones is 7 months! (But Thanks to Alex at Yamaha Customer support i already knew about them xD) Fantastic band, amazing musicans, nice people and they are back, and i HOPE to stay! The song "Around the world" is on Youtube as well as part of an interview [url="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f1mJw8CBeDo"]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f1mJw8CBeDo[/url] Which has amazing riffage! Haha bit of a Fanboy rant! But thats what i am! Long live Mr. Big!

[quote name='Chris2112' post='1059008' date='Dec 14 2010, 09:16 PM']Seafoam Green is the best colour![/quote] Damn Straight! xD

[quote name='molan' post='1058893' date='Dec 14 2010, 07:46 PM']Billy S casually pulled it out of a case at Bass Player Live in LA a few weeks back. He said he wasn't supposed to show anyone but felt he was among friends - could have been a stunt but it did seem like he was just excited to show it off. I can't really remember that much other than it was light blue and had really heavily angled neck retaining bolts to make the neck/body joint even stronger. I think he may have mentioned playing slightly with pickup positions but not 100% sure about that bit Loads of people took pics and were filming on small cameras so may be some footage out there on YT.[/quote] Is it the long awaited new Yamaha Attitude LTD III? Back in the colour from the LTD I series? which i named "excalibur blue" as i played one and knew nothing would match the tone! (and nothing has!) If ANYONE hears ANYTHING, even rumours, about the Attitude, PLEASE PM with everything you know

I thought the Warwick rockbass corvette $$ was closer to £550 - £650 I've tried one, its not as monsterous as a full on warwick $$ but pretty close!

Juan Alderete (or john Alderete ) is a GREAT guy Met him last year? Love his work with Racer x and The Mars Volta! Will check out Big Sir, i've always liked his playing and he has some 4 string skills!

[quote name='waynepunkdude' post='1057880' date='Dec 13 2010, 09:43 PM']Does anybody actually use the scalloped frets on the Attitude?[/quote] Oh yeah definately! I couldn't live without them, I am saving up to get all my basses scalloped, (and i am going to try scallops along the entire neck on my P-bass! and that includes my 6 string, and doesn't inclue the Attitude! haha) I feel like a thread stomper/hijacker Sorry guys!

[quote name='karlfer' post='1057860' date='Dec 13 2010, 09:33 PM']2 Attitudes. I may have to hunt you down Karl.[/quote] I met a guy in the states with 21 One of every Attitude ever produced! as well as one or three signed unplayed ones, and a few doubles of his favourite year ones, I would do alot for one of the blue ones with the white older Model one, (not perloid) with the pink inlays and capacitor switch, they are KILLER, though i prefer the newer neck, Also love the older sea foam green ones (minus the lead electrics, unlike the new ones, which use silver and like mine!) with the perloid pickup cover, though the new ones are cool, and mine has a fancy logo on it I adore Billys custom one with both pickups perloid, LEDS (i believe? even though i am NOT a fan of Leds in a bass) and a laser thingy in the head stock <3 That was a nice fantasy rant

[quote name='minkey1980' post='1057602' date='Dec 13 2010, 06:17 PM']OK, so was just having discussion with this guitarist nut at work today and he was saying his favourate guitar sig edition of all time was the fender jagstang which got me thinking.... soooo my two would be; billy sheehan yamaha attitude (practical) bootsey collins washburn star thing (outrageous)[/quote] Why do you say the Sheehan is practical? I always found mine a little impractible! AND i have never met anyone else who can get on with them like me haha! They are fab basses, got one of the limited editon annivesary sea foam green ones, [quote name='karlfer' post='1057772' date='Dec 13 2010, 08:26 PM']Sheehan for me. I will get one, I will get one........................... Karl.[/quote] They are worth it! the common description is "a p-bass on 'roids" whichs isn't all that true to behonest! [quote name='andy67' post='1057857' date='Dec 13 2010, 09:28 PM']Here are mine... Fender Classic 50's Precision don't live here anymore though..... [/quote] NOW THAT IS MORE LIKE IT ANDY! haha, My vote goes for the Sheehan! (three years of school boy savings!) And the No longer made Yamaha JM1 and JM2 basses, absoluetly stunning, That really started my thing for yamaha, the Nathan east is fab too, and i WISH they would start selling the James lomenzo haha! Also, Doods one of signature bass? haha is rather awesome too I love signature instruments, not sure why though! loads of signatures i like from people i don't like much or have even heard of! Like, i love the geddy lee jazz (not a rush fan!) and i really like Bill Dickins Conklin custom 7 string! Who i had never heard of, (speaking of conklin the GTBD-7 is awesome, wish i could afford the one on here for sale! and the old Jean Baudin signature is great!)

If that were half the price i'd have bought it by now! IT LOOKS AWESOME Though i'd rip out those EMGs faster than you could say EMG!

[quote name='warwickhunt' post='1055898' date='Dec 12 2010, 12:06 PM']12" speakers to not in themselves have more low (mid/top) than 10" speakers... in fact some 12" speakers don't have as much low (mid/top) as some other 12" speakers! Aside from the spec of the actual speakers/drivers you have to factor in the design of the cabinet that they are fitted into. There is no universal law that the larger the speaker the more bottom end you get from it as there are a multitude of other factors to consider and unfortunately 'common sense' doesn't enter into the equation. Drawing from personal experience, I've owned 2x10 cabs that produce as much bottom end as 2x15 cabs and on numerous occasions over the last couple of years I've been in close confines of a massive array of cabs with all sorts of driver sizes that have reinforced that you can't make assumptions based on driver size; thinking in particular of an old 2x15 cab (no horn or tweeter) with (IIRC) EV drivers that reproduced more top end than any 2/4/8 x10 I've ever heard! <edit> [url="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2QTRhgg1FEs"]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2QTRhgg1FEs[/url] In NO WAY scientific but this was a little gtt with 5" 10" 12" speakers involved. It doesn't serve as any way of demonstrating the merits of one speaker against another (especially as the sound is from a little digital camera on video mode and there is a different amp being used in each case; all be it with EQ flat) but standing in the room doing that little clip, you wouldn't say that the PJB 'lacked' low end or that the 4x10 had more top and the x2 1x12 had more mids etc.[/quote] So at the end its all just down to how everything adds up? THANKS As always, always best to get out and try things, and ask about

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