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[quote name='deaver' post='581893' date='Aug 26 2009, 09:09 PM']Just spotted this[/quote] was it you?!

both are nice, i played both without modding for a little while. the active two pickup ones are undoubtedly a hell of a lot nicer, a completely different league, but the passive models would be fine as a back up bass or something.

i'm so confused.

wasn't me! saturday i was at a party.

with my 4 piece its fairly equal except the rythm guitarist, but tbh thats cos he's easily outclassed as a guitarist by both myself and the lead guitarist, and he doesn't really know what he's doing. it probably doesnt help that he's 13 when the rest of us are 15 and 16, either. he never seems to come up with any suggestions or anything, and he'll just play what we ask him to. obviously if he wanted to play something different to how we said we'd let him, but he never does, so its just me and the lead guitarist telling him how to play his parts. and the drummer just sits and bashs stuff

[quote name='Fraktal' post='580216' date='Aug 25 2009, 01:58 PM']Assuming you are using a computer to record, you should really try IK Multimedia's Amplitube software. I couldnt live without it. By these days, unless I meet a perfect guitarist with a perfect valve amp and a perfect guitar inside a perfect studio room, and unless I have loads of time to experiment with different mics and zillions of mic placement/combinations/permutations I refuse to use anything else than Amplitube. 95% of the time it sounds better than anything else and saves lots of time and headaches.[/quote] problem is, that amplutube costs way too much for my liking. it looks like excellent software, but i just don't have the cash for it. i'm just going to have to work on getting a good sound with my guitarist. my dad's also told me that he's got a pedal with decent speaker modelling on it, so i'll give that a go, see how that works, too.

[quote name='bh2' post='579801' date='Aug 25 2009, 07:31 AM']It's Teal Green Metallic AFAIK... looks blue/grey sometimes.[/quote] its a nice colour.

[quote name='Stylon Pilson' post='579875' date='Aug 25 2009, 09:33 AM']I'd be interested in having a crash course in doing setups. S.P.[/quote] +1 i'd be there.

bh2, what colour is that?

Pretty Sugar Franklin :S

jake, you're a lot younger than i thought you would be. i always imagined you as a baulding middle aged man.

summer of 69.

[quote]Indeed. Not the second one - it's out of focus![/quote] so was the photo of paul simonon on the london calling album cover yeah, i guess you're right. it'll stay the first one for now, until i get a decent new one. we've got a gig coming up, i'll get someone to take one then.

[quote name='BOD2' post='579144' date='Aug 24 2009, 03:12 PM']As has been said before, the Line Out (or DI out) from a guitar amp seldom sounds good for distorted sounds. A lot of the warm tone you hear in a distorted guitar comes from the speaker and the Line Out bypasses the speaker so you end up with something completely different. Mic'ing up the speaker is the best option if you can play loud enough in the studio space to get a good sound. Experiment with "close mic'ing" with the mic a few inches from the speaker cone, then move the mic to different locations relative to the speaker and listen to the effect that has on the tone (i.e. in front of the centre of the speaker, then off to one side). It's also common to use two mics at the same time into independent channels then mix these two signals to get the guitar sound - one close mic and another several feet away, or even at the rear of an open cabinet. With a Line 6 amp (and maybe the guuitarist;'s new FX uinit) you can use the same techniques but you should also be able to take a "Line Out" that has "speaker cabinet modelling" applied to it. This simlates the effect of the speaker on the Line out signal and can sometimes be useful, especially if you have to record at lower volumes or can't use a mic in front of the cab for some reason. Finally, if it's a "classic rock" type sound you're looking for (rather than a death metal sound) then try reducing the amount of distortion on the amp and bring up the middle. Those original AC/DC-type sounds are often not as dirty as you might think, and reducing the distortion allows the tone of the guitar through.[/quote] i'm thinking that's my biggest problem, i've been DIing. i'll experiment with both types of mic'ing and then experiment with mixing them, see what sounds best. this speaker cabinet modelling, i dont think my dad's line 6 has got that on it, but if my guitarist's FX unit has, how would i go about using it? do i line out with cabinet modelling, or do i still mic up the cabinet? i keep telling my guitarist to turn down the gain and turn up the volume to get a nicer tone, but he's always reluctant. i keep drilling it into him next recording session. and jonny lad, i'll definatly only need to mic up one of the speakers? they're the same size so i would have thought so, but my amp only has 1 speaker so i can't mess around with a 2 speaker amp and i don't want to end up getting to recording my guitarist and only mic'ing up one speaker to find it sounds horrible, so i just want to check before hand

[quote name='arabassist' post='579106' date='Aug 24 2009, 02:36 PM']hmm i guess so, i used to be obsessed with the ibanez sound before i got my jazz...now im just lovin the jaco-esque bridge picking sound Do any G&L's mimic the jazz sound? i've only played the tribute L2000 (i think it was that one)[/quote] i expect [url="http://www.glguitars.com/instruments/USA/basses/JB/index.asp"]this[/url] would be pretty accurate

[quote name='mike257' post='578968' date='Aug 24 2009, 12:40 PM']All good advice above! I'm not too familiar with the amp you're using, but I've always found that 'just breaking up nice' overdrive sound is really hard to acheive with solid-state amps. I'd work as hard as you can on the guitar sound itself before you come to recording it. Fresh strings was a cracking shout, makes a world of difference. I see that amp is a digital modelling jobbie, so try a few of the different models out, or listen to some samples of the real things and see which is closest to the sound you want. A mic on the cab will (IMO) always sound better than a line out for recording a driven guitar sound. Guitar speakers have a natural roll-off of high frequencies, so you don't hear some of the nastiness in the extra harmonics. A line-out signal won't give you this, and you'll get a lot more harsh and fuzzy top end from it. Experiment with micing the centre or the outside of the cone, as different mic positions will make a huge difference to your tone. In a perfect world, you'd go out and buy a valve amp, but with a bit of experimenting, you can get good results by making the best of what you've got! Have fun [/quote] the line 6 is a digital modelling jobbie, the fender isn't (although i've just realised the link i posted was to the wrong amp, so the one in the link might have been). we've got a lovely sound sorted live, but we're going to work on it. pretty much everyone i've spoken to has said for recording overdriven guitar you want to put the mic on the cab, so we'll rerecord like that, see how it sounds. so i'm going to experiment with it over the next few weeks and stuff, see how we do. although i'll be experimenting with my dad's line 6, which only has 1 speaker, whereas my guitarist's fender has 2, where would you put the mic on a cab with 2 speakers? would you use 2 mics into 2 inputs? would you just mic up 1 speaker? would you record each speaker seperately? a basschatter has kindly offered to see if he can get us some recording time in his college's recording studio in september/october, he says he'll engineer a few songs for us and show us how he'd do it all. so hopefully i'll learn a lot from that and we'll come out with some good quality recordings.

the white jazz gets my vote. EDIT: although i wouldn't worry about coming across looking like a mark hoppus wannabe with the blue one unless you plan on wearing a t-shirt with three quarters and jump around the stage and stuff like mark hoppus does. also, people picture him more with the pink bass. the blue would be my number 2 vote, but that white jazz is tasty! EDIT 2: i've changed my mind, i'm liking the blue one more and more.

[quote name='Mikey R' post='563011' date='Aug 7 2009, 07:17 PM']You will need to remember that you are responsible for the instrument you are building, Jon and Rob will tell you what you need to do and offer guidance, but its down to you to get the tasks done. If you just want a top quality, perfect custom bass, commision Jon to build one for you. But if you want your own, thats got your own wrinkles, (and you really will know where every wrinkle is, believe me!) then this will be the best week you ever spent.[/quote] +1 speaking as someone who has done this course (well, i did the one to one course), i have to agree with every word of that. you'll also love it more than any other bass you'll ever play, i promise!

not really tbh, i have a sound in my head that i try to get. i don't know if i heard that sound in a particular song or if its based on anyone's sound, but if it is i don't really know who's sound or what song or anything.

ooh this is a good place to sort a dispute between me and the guitarist in my band. we're trying to decide what picture to use of me on the homepage, they all got a photo from a couple of gigs ago, but there weren't any good ones of just me from that gig, so my guitarist decided to use a really old one. this - [attachment=31425:pictureofme.jpg] i don't like it much, its really old, it was a picture of me with an old band, not the current band, and i just don't like it. i like this picture from our last gig - [attachment=31426:pictureofme2.jpg] but he prefers the first one and i don't have the password to the myspace, so i can't sneak on and change it and hope he doesn't notice. what do you think, the first one or the second one?

[quote name='RichB' post='577924' date='Aug 22 2009, 10:59 PM']Two of my best friends were learning to play guitar. Then we all decided to form a band and I was left with either drums or bass (I don't sing, on principle). So it was bass for two reasons 1. I didn't have anywhere to put a drum kit. 2. I wanted to be a musician! (how pretentious).[/quote] thats kind of how it happened with me tbh. i played guitar for a few years in primary school, then at secondary school me and 2 other friends (one who played guitar and one who played drums) decided to form a band. we could've got a bass player i guess, but i was already wanting to play bass a bit because my dad (simon1964) plays bass as well as guitar (hence the joke earlier in the thread that simon1964 made me play bass, its kind of true), and also i was the only one out of the 3 of us who had a bass to use not long after it was my birthday and my dad bought me a squier bronco, which i always class as my first bass although i guess you could say my dads old mexican precision was cos thats what i played for the first few weeks with my first band.

[quote name='Protium' post='574739' date='Aug 19 2009, 09:04 PM']Black would look good and fit in with the decal too[/quote] +1 for the black if you're changing pickguards. although tbh, i don't see the need, it looks awesome already.