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Hi all not much going on this topic, yet it seems its something we all use. i have found Reverb for recording and bass abit puzzling and end up just putting in what ever sounds god at the time and what ever i have plugged in at that time. i never really gave it allot of thought, but its no doubt more of a science than one would think once you get into it. some say dont mix reverbs in tracks, some say do bla bla bla and so it goes on if i can just narrow down this whole conversation to two things in the same track 1, vocals 2, Brass ( or for you maybe something else other than vocals) i have as said just use what ever reverb i have at the time for both so some reverb on vocals and then the same reverb on brass but just turned up slightly more. lately i have been doing some testing with different reverbs for vocals and brass so on my mackie D8B i have some nice mackie verbs and some tc reverbs but i also have some outboard gear like... an old quadraverb TC M-one TC Fireworx. so im trying different patches on both vocals and brass, and im now thinking it was worth the effort, the mix i thinks sounds better with the two different ones, more eeerrr dedicated shell we say. so im trying different pre delay values so the brass stab for eg still has the power at the begining of the note with no reverb but then comes in after the inital BAA stab, again tightend up my brass mix no end. Another point, if you are recording in say 24 bit and use old reverbs say from the quadra verb yes it does give you that late 80s early 90s sound as it was used alot then, i can hear it because i know i did it, but is it really that impotent that someone would notice against more modern verbs ? im just throwing this out there to see what others are using and why to get a better understanding on it all. so if you have have any links of just you using a particular type of reverb on something please put them up here for us all to hear and if you have the time go some way to explain what and why, also reading this https://musicproductionnerds.com/best-hardware-reverb some expensive verbs out there, has anyone one got an expensive unit they can do a straight A and B test with it and using something we all would all likely know to get a better idea of what them extra £ sounds like ? cheers all.

yep these are pritty hard to beat for over 3 times the price, i have been using them for years in the studio have about 4 pairs 681 sound great if you want extended bass and a bit sweeter sounding get the 681B ( silver pair) but dont mix your songs with the 681B or your mix will sound bass light compared with what your hearing in the cans,,, and i have noticed AKG have now a budget range that look just the same ,, but with an akg babge,,, you can see thay are made in the same place ! so at £20.. these are killer https://www.thomann.de/gb/superlux_hd681.htm

Daves right, two things going on here, 1 i already do the music i like cus i write it for my funk band, but it does not put steak on the table, sometimes only just about sausages. 2, to pay for this self indulgent passion i need some income, so i play cabaret as well ( covers band) in that, i dont care what i play, its not for me to like its for the people paying me, i will go with whats needed. so, if it pays me i will stick a hoop in my pants ware size 30 boots and a red nose on my face as long as the people are dancing i dont care al play any old sh!te cus im just a music for cash slag. 🙂 sorry i will rephrase that... im just a skint music for cash slag, out come = cash needed for funk.................. and sausages.

Yep, anything you get out of something is directly proportional to what you put into it, only in music its not, its dam hard work to get something out of it, and the pay is definitely not proportional but at least we like doing it. Now.. as said in the comments in the vid, i hear loads of musicians going on about how they are putting music on youtube and not getting anything out of it ! HELLO wake up, its your own fault for putting your tracks on there in the first place. what did you think was going to happen ? people are going to down load it, free, read youtubes agreements to which you agreed to when you put them tracks up, ( now i know this will open a whole new argument, and i also know these statements do not apply to everyone,) the only people that make money from that download, ( im talking joe blogs in his bedroom studio and unknown bands and so on) is youtube and all the people you agreed to let it be used, ie ebay "partners" so ok i get im just shouting out here, but i have said it so many times... there is a better way ! We need to use THEM "youtube" as advertisement for us ONLY and NOT let them use you. How do we do this ? Anyone serious enough about their music will or should have there own site. if not, then get one. Put your songs for sale on your own site as down loads for a fee you think is fair for it. then on youtube just download ( or is it upload) a part of your song with a link to your site where they can down load it for the fee you attached to it and scoot about other songs you have done, maybe they will download the whole cd. anyway this is how i do it. and these are Just my thoughts on just that one aspect. but dont give your songs away for free. UNLESS you want them to be free 🙂

only lightly related, but i love this , do not do dodgy huey covers,,, he will get ya 🙂

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Been a blast looking at some of these bands some great talent overseas a real eye opener some of them, Some of my fave bands are from over seas New cool collective, i love them guys, and so giving, letting me release a cover of one of their songs. been watching a band from Estonia go from strength to strength they really have got their finger on the Pulse well worth checking out. i like his G&L jazz bass as well 🙂 Lexsoul Dancemachine

Indeed loads of great names and most of them very valid bassfinger has gone taters deep with this one so many cheers. maggie thatcher milk snatcher, love that... i remember her stopping milk to primary schools, it was always warm anyway, UUUGGGHH. Thinking back to the 80s it was actually a pritty bleak time miners strike, maggie, Falklands, cruse, unemployment, strikes, the change of NHS, loads of reasons as all decades have i suppose, but then to make it more bleak we had the reminders of it all by great poets and tv series like john cooper clark and boys from the black stuff, bread and little gems like one summer, i think for the younger generation kids leaving school in the 80s, me being one of them in 82, music was a way to get away from it all, or even confront it all. i am sure there is a great theater show in there somewhere waiting to be done and it would be huge, as its a decade we can all relate too, i would go and watch that. the music in the 80 was pretty special too, growing up with it, it seemed to be "ours" a lot of people diss 80s music but a lot of advancements were made in the 80s for pros and us young people that wanted to get into music, the porter studio, how many bands were signed up based on them demo tapes, record company's could hear the potential of the songs/bands just on them raw demos, i always thought tony wilson was great, i think the 80s sound was a british thing, to me then it seemed the usa was mainly hair rock bands with the exception of a few like debbie harry, talking heads and so on, but to me the 80s sound was british, looking at the set list the iconic 80s songs were mainly british, prob because we associate iconic with the most played and we are all listening to british radio, and radio was changing, i use to think that it was all "designed" the gov wanting to get rid of the anarchy of punk in the 70s as it was for them disruptive and wean us all on to something not so threatening, again its how we were thinking at the time, 🙂 so a lot of argument there, ... sorry all just thinking out loud, just my thoughts on it all. A Name ? right i think the rewind is winning at the mo " The Rewind, 80s tribute show" if we add the end bit we might get away with that, we will see, will keep you all posted but the band is sounding great, a lot of effort has been put in, for eg drums, are all triggered to get them 80s sounds, one of the biggest things when looking at an 80s band for me is the drums, they were so varied between songs and to have one kit trying to capture all them sounds which adds allot of dynamics to the songs seems a bit one dimensional, (this is just my thought ) to have them massive drums in say "New sensation" make a massive difference, so we have gone to great lengths to get them sounds, we will see. Thanks so much to everyone with your ideas keep them coming if yall want the more the better im sure 80s bands in the future will all be looking through the names 🙂 cheers once again

OMG... wow thank you all so much, did not expect so many response's loads of great ideas keep them coming if you can, if we had a girl lead singer we could have " Hot Hatch Maggie and the Mullets " an adaptation on two of your great ideas. The Rewind is great as well as said it is being used but if we add a bit on the end, which we would have to anyway and call it The Rewind, Back to the 80s Tribute show ( or band).. would we get away with something like that ? for ref here is the set list of the first 20 1, Gold..................... Spandau, Live version 2, New sensation............ INXS 3, A little respect ........ erasure. 4, Heat is on............... glen fray 5, Reo...................... duran 6, Everybody wants to rule.. tears for fears 7, a new flame.............. simply red 8, Dont you Forget.......... Simple Minds 9, dignity.................. deacon blue. 11, dancing with tears....... ultravox 10, Town called mal.......... jam 12, lets dance............... dave b 13, wont let sun go down..... nick kershaw, live version with band member intros. 14, we close our eyes........ go west 15, Real gone kid............ deacon blue. 16, this one goes out ....... Rem 17, im still standing........ ej 18, dont look down........... go west 19, take on me............... Ah ha 20, running in the family.... L42 we did think about using a name of a song but the best one there is "New Sensation" but that sounds a bit too 70s cabaret 🙂 once again thanks all keep them coming the funny and the witty as well, my chuckle muscle never stopped 🙂

Hi all we are looking for a name for an 80s tribute band playing 95% english pop and iconic 80s tracks for theatre and corp work ( got to earn some money somehow ! funk only buys me a bag of chips now and again !) if you have any good ideas we could nick we would be very greatful, pref one that is not being used already. and something that implies its an 80s band. cheers all,

you can do yes, it seems everyone is going for that hifi scooped sound, thats not what im after after recording it, you can roll it off but its still too "breathy" if thats a word to use, i want to hear the hi tone not a super hi click, and the mid does not get you up there so cant compensate, its just prefs thats all, each to their own and all that. just had a thought.... on saying all that,,, its really down to your bass set up and pickups, the mec golds are super clean, so maybe that has something to do with it ??

i can only agree with all the comments, the guy is on the ball when it comes to back up of his products. i installed a J retro in my jazz but hated the top end glassyness of it as i could not hear the top end tone to the notes only a sort of hi clickyness, so after a discussion with jon he just said no problem bring it back and i will drop down the hi an octave so you can hear it clearer in the notes, which i wanted for recording, so i said i dont mind doing it myself ( im a bit of a tec electronics geek anyway) so he just sent me full instructions of what to do, just a change of a cap for a lower value, so i thought sod it al put the cap on another switch so i can swap between two hi's, what a nice guy, even to someone thats as much as a pain in the crack as me 🙂 and here it is...

Eddie and Hot Rods, now that rick has some history, the bass is now owned by my mate "Clarky" a member on here, im seeing him after as iv just fixed a truss rod for one of his other ricks so taking it round, al get him to post a pic of it 🙂

and it is , i cant really tell ped, could be either dirty ash or light hog, hard to tell, all the little brown flecks in it though, hog does have them, im sure i seen somewhere a method where you could see the wood grain under the paint with a mirror withe the light off and a torch, just try ed to find it, if i see it al post it ...

ahhh right, a good find ! its nice, it just might be a hog then 🙂 "persuaded" now there is a word did you use a jedi mind trick, cash, or build him up psychologically ? i tried the jedi trick and can confirm... it does not work, they just said "why you waving your fingers at me" that yoda is just full of it. 🙂 that leaves "build them up" maybe offering to buy the strap on it first.. as below ? if not that, then good old cash offer is always good when you want to cut to the chase and not have the embarrassment of waving your fingers at him with your eyes closed ! 🙂

MMMMMMM nnniiiice where did you find the series e ? that body where its worn looks like golden maple or ash screaming to come through ! i always wanted an all maple ash series E You know you want to do it 🙂 hehe and why have you got tag strip over one of your E pole pieces on the other ?

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ahh yea nice choice, check out Jerome preston's bcr,, sounds clear as a bell.. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xTfRjihu2rY if we are talking lust here , i only ever really REALLY wanted two basses owned by others, 1 was bluey to me by far the best looking wal ever made, this was built for bill zorn when this came up for auction mike beat me to it i was so gypsy's kissed off, esp when i had sold him 4 of my wals, but... hes a nice guy, but i still want it so bad. the other is Henry thomas's G&L i would love that it was the first G&L i had seen, and it all started righ here

Funny you should say that 🙂 i use to think it began with a C edited...

it will indeed, as Beethoven and Carl orff is played today, music is here to stay in all its forms. in fact one thing i recommend when i am teaching is start to write your own songs as soon as you can, no matter how silly they seem. Its the only thing you can leave here when you are gone, keeping your name alive FOORRRREVVVVEEEERRRRRRR 🙂 some one in the future will deffo look as too where it came from 🙂 untill the earth is sucked into the sun, or the Rothschilds finish us all off first 😞

I just seen mine in another topic and came here to say ... " what a load of crap, get rid" and seen this topic. SO.... what a load of crap, get rid its blocking peoples pic. I cant now see what bass newfoundfreedom has to see if he is worthy of a reply 🙂 Dam.

Roland Dr880. i still have my trusty AKAI z4 sampler with the 8 output card on the back, which is just killer. but for getting tracks down with sounds as good as the Vdrums ( which i have also td12 and for old school td5). ease of programing, with more kits than you can shake a stick at, then my go to for the last 15+ years is the Roland Boss DR880. its up there with the best available today enough worth looking into.

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OWWWWWWWWWW sell it me or im sending the management round with the wilkinsons freshly stropped. 🙂 Joking aside that one is prob the best one iv seen condition wise on the planet at the mo, i was so sick i missed it i even got intouch with the seller and told him to fwd my ebay name incase the buyer ever sold it. ! ahhh well,... you should be right proud of that, is it to be played live or a stay at home bass ?

Hi Dad, i was still using it till recently when i looked into it, it seems to be a widely known problem googling it, i always did wonder why it was never the same. christ i went through all sorts thinking it was the exported track, so i got it explained to me by someone in the know i will have a look at Foobar2000, thanks for that