Clatter

[Jean-Luc Pickguard]

Theres a great new Clatter video on youtube for
[url="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y6hhMmpqlhY"]House of Touble[/url]

Amy & Joe replied to a msg I posted - They're planning a European tour for March next year.

Edited November 21, 2007 by Jean-Luc Pickguard

[Jean-Luc Pickguard]

Am I the only one looking forward to seeing Clatter?

Oh well...

[Paul Cooke]

well I am now having seen the video... and to make matters worse... I now want a Ric...

[BigRedX]

Nottingham please...

[queenofthedepths]

That's really cool! I want a bass clef uniform thingy...

[NancyJohnson]

Amy also uses a Waterstone Tom Petersson 12-string bass...I've one of those babies. Monster tone.
P

[Rayman]

That'd be great, however, she told me recently that they had no plans to come here, as much as they'd like to.

[theosd]

[quote name='NancyJohnson' post='92436' date='Nov 21 2007, 11:08 PM']Amy also uses a Waterstone Tom Petersson 12-string bass...I've one of those babies. Monster tone.
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Sounds like muddy sh*te on the youtube videos I watched of her demonstrating it. I much prefer the Rick tone. Proof that it works in a duo is in the band Death From Above 1969. Good stuff that.

[bremen]

[quote name='Jean-Luc Pickguard' post='91976' date='Nov 21 2007, 08:03 AM']Theres a great new Clatter video on youtube for
[url="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y6hhMmpqlhY"]House of Touble[/url]

Amy & Joe replied to a msg I posted - They're planning a European tour for March next year. [/quote]

I'd never heard of them til now, but this is the sh1t! I'm there!

[Jean-Luc Pickguard]

[quote name='theosd' post='93544' date='Nov 23 2007, 09:33 PM']Sounds like muddy sh*te on the youtube videos I watched of her demonstrating it. I much prefer the Rick tone. Proof that it works in a duo is in the band Death From Above 1969. Good stuff that.[/quote]
*cough* surely 1979?

[queenofthedepths]

[quote name='Jean-Luc Pickguard' post='93570' date='Nov 23 2007, 10:49 PM']*cough* surely 1979?[/quote]

I used to keep thinking of them as DFA1987... very very easy to get confused

[SJA]

[quote name='theosd' post='93544' date='Nov 23 2007, 09:33 PM']Sounds like muddy sh*te on the youtube videos I watched of her demonstrating it. I much prefer the Rick tone.[/quote]


agree on that- the live clip of them covering Rush's Limelight is pretty awful- the tuning sounds out and flubbed notes aplenty.

her playing on the Rick is great, but not so sure about her voice-

she sounds just like the singer of Fiery furnaces-
[url="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ERSf4aAcimo"]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ERSf4aAcimo[/url]

and it sounds a bit weak over the heavy instruments.

[theosd]

Whatever really, their original name was just death from above anyway so I don't know for sure...

[Buzz]

I concur with the comments on the 12 string, either youtube is robbing it (probably half the reason) otherwise it just sounds like mush to me.
I'll put it down to the distortion, as it sounds alright clean.

[Weird War]

Never heard of them before either... sounds like Undertow-era Tool to me.

[SJA]

[url="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h0oZ8PQNC00"]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h0oZ8PQNC00[/url]

funny how the bit at 6.11 where she shows the same riff on the 4 and 12 actually shows the 4 to sound so much better-

definition and grind.
I think the fundamentals of the octave strings mask the harmonics of the regular strings, and adding distortion just muddies it up further.

Doug Pinnick used a crossover to split the highs to go through guitar amps for distortion,
and John Paul Jones had stereo outputs on his doubled-string Manson basses, sending the bridge pickup through distortion,
so i think the signal on doubled/tripled-stringers needs extra separation, esp. when using distortion.

Edited November 24, 2007 by SJA