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Ericadia posted:Looking around, I already found 5 musician groups for my city, good tip! Here's a local bass player doing a solo bass thing at an open mic night. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3_P_o6trAdI
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Stravinsky posted:If the problem is you do not want to play to three people and the sound guy, gently caress you and crawl out of your rear end. Play your loving heart out to those dudes, jump off stage have a beer and hang out because they will be real with you and crowd size (or lack there of) means poo poo its about music. People will come eventually if you make good music anyway.  quote:If I have not sounded like an rear end in a top hat yet, this is probably where I am going to. After about a week, take a good long hard look at that whole band situation and really ask yourself if it was you or the other dudes who were assholes. Like just what you posted seems like they had a dynamic going (everyone works on a song) and you were changing it. It could turn out you were an rear end in a top hat, or they were, or possibly everyone involved because no one understands each other completely or whatever. Its useful because there are times where I hosed poo poo up because your in the moment and making music can be a very personal thing so your judgement is clouded and so you have an idea of what to avoid next time. For example: I hate playing other people's music and I will not learn my parts if I am made to do so. So I avoid bands that do covers or joining bands where I am literally just treated as a replacement for the last dude where the want me to play the exact same thing. No you are correct, I was being unreasonable expecting them to just go along with stuff I had written, stroke my ego etc. And I did collaborate on all of the other songs. We started as a cover band but started doing originals after I brought one of my songs to practice one day. For the record, the argument that led to my quitting the band was over a song we wrote collaboratively. We got all the instrumentals sorted out, and my singer took the reigns and wrote the lyrics all by herself (the first time she'd done this). The lyrics she came up with was just a big "gently caress you" to another musician that we all know, like she literally wrote this entire song out of spite for this one guy. This pissed me off because this guy supported us, came to every single one of our shows and brought friends with him. I mean, the guy was a bit arrogant, but he was a friend, and it felt extremely petty to me. Which is what I told her and then she started laying in to me. Real personal poo poo that cuts to the core. I don't think I deserved any of it.This was just the little push I needed to say enough was enough. The whole band situation had been toxic for a few months leading up to this. But in lighter news, an acquaintance of mine invited me to come and jam with his new band, so we'll see how that goes. And my old drummer from another band started messaging me on Facebook last night, maybe I'll float the idea of starting something with him, because I really enjoyed playing with him way back in the day 
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But was it a good song?
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baka kaba posted:But was it a good song? The bass line was great  no but really, it was a decent song, lovely lyrics aside
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Well I meant the lyrics really! Did she lay down some incredible evocative poetry that made the circumstances all the more bitter? Did you have to choose between principled loyalty and the best song the world will ever hear? Or was it "yo, bro, just so you know, you come to our show but now you gotta go" (nobody steal that, by the way)
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Apr 10, 2014 05:30
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baka kaba posted:Well I meant the lyrics really! Did she lay down some incredible evocative poetry that made the circumstances all the more bitter? Did you have to choose between principled loyalty and the best song the world will ever hear?  that's awesome. A sample from the chorus: "So where are you now? Are you still stuck in some town? Huh where are you now? I'm sitting here with my crown" makes u think
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Ampchat! It's time to get away from my Frankenrig and get something a little better. Right now I'm using a Fender Bassman 150 head that I pulled out of a combo with a hosed speaker, and a Behringer Ultrabass BA115 (BALLS indeed, Behringer). I'm actually not sure if the cab is poo poo or it's just the head. My budget is around $1000 AUD and I'll probably be buying from http://www.basscentre.com.au/ unless any Aussies know a better store. I'm open to just replacing the head, saving/spending a bit more for both or even a combo. I only really jam with mates, practice at home and maybe the occasional small bar gig, so I don't need the biggest and best, I just want to spend my money wisely. I may have a used Little Mark 800 lined up which is ridiculous overkill, but it's like half the price of a new one ($700 vs $1300-1500 AUD) so it'd be a killer deal if I get it.
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Digital Jesus posted:I may have a used Little Mark 800 lined up which is ridiculous overkill, but it's like half the price of a new one ($700 vs $1300-1500 AUD) so it'd be a killer deal if I get it. I've heard one of these in person and its a drat fine choice. It was paired with two 1x10" (or maybe 1x8" , can't remember exactly) cabs and it sounded just great all around, thumped my heart through my chest etc etc
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Yeah that'll be the ideal situation, and I'll just run it with the Behringer until I scrape some more coin and get a decent cabinet (thinking maybe a nice 2x10 and a second one later if needed/wanted).
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Ericadia posted:
Looks like the crown weighs heavy on those who speak THE TRUTH Band drama is the worst, but at least sometimes it makes for some good material and stories. Condolences!
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Ericadia posted:
Y'all just dont get it. It's real deep. I hope its not a metaphorical crown, I hope she actually wears one on stage.
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Apr 10, 2014 18:57
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It sounds pretty likely at this point.
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So having just found this thread, I saw someone complaining a few pages [spoilers]months[/spoilers] back about a Rondo violin bass. Does anyone know if the Douglas violin basses are just particularly crappy, or would the same problems exist with any bass like that? Because they have a fretless and I kind of want it, but if they're poo poo quality I'm not interested. I like all my other Rondo stuff so far but that gave me pause.
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I'm that guy. Both me and a friend of mine bought the exact same bass from Rondo ( http://www.rondomusic.com/wvebblk.html ) and we were both really unimpressed. I have no other experience with any Rondo guitars or basses, so I can't analyze them comparatively. Looks very pretty in the corner of my room, though.
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I bought an 8 string from Rondo and really didn't care for it at all. It had a cracked and "repaired" part near the end of the fretboard but even without that I wouldn't have kept it. There's nothing overly wrong with the company but I would always go for something different unless the price point/instrument needs matched up perfectly.
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Let's say the USA made Fender P-Bass is the default electric bass guitar, would the 'default' violin body style bass be the Hofner still?
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What bass do people buy if they know nothing about basses and want to sound like Paul McCartney? Hofners, or something else?
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Yeah pretty much. But Hofners can feed back pretty badly and get pretty boomy and muddy due to it's body characteristics. McCartney also recorded plenty on a Ric and on Fender basses. Flat wounds and a pick will get you closer than any particular instrument will.
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Macavity posted:I'm that guy. Both me and a friend of mine bought the exact same bass from Rondo ( http://www.rondomusic.com/wvebblk.html ) and we were both really unimpressed. I have no other experience with any Rondo guitars or basses, so I can't analyze them comparatively. Looks very pretty in the corner of my room, though. Any idea how they stand up to a Hofner? From the discussion after you brought it up seemed hard to tell whether Rondo makes a bad v-bass or if v-basses just have some problems. It'll be my fourth bass, so if it's just that the Hofner style bass is weird but Rondo's are decent, I'm 100% OK with that.
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I can't speak for the other Rondo brands, but SX makes bad basses. Do Not Buy An SX Bass.
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Juaguocio posted:I can't speak for the other Rondo brands, but SX makes bad basses. Do Not Buy An SX Bass. The rest of the Rondo brands are decent-to-good (Douglas is who I'm thinking of here)
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Juaguocio posted:I can't speak for the other Rondo brands, but SX makes bad basses. Do Not Buy An SX Bass. Holy poo poo this. A guitar buddy suddenly joined a band as a bassist and he got an SX. What a turd.
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Juaguocio posted:I can't speak for the other Rondo brands, but SX makes bad basses. Do Not Buy An SX Bass. I have an SX Ursa Pro and love it, so now I'm even more confused.  Maybe I'll just go with something else. Edit: Also I heard Douglas sucks too but I have a Douglas baritone scale guitar and it's also pretty awesome. If I hate it, they have a good return policy. We'll see.
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Dewgy posted:I have an SX Ursa Pro and love it, so now I'm even more confused. I've heard both ways. I wouldn't expect MIM Fender quality out of them but I hear people saying they're a good upgrade platform. I had a pretty slick SX Strat I gave to my sister after my parents gifted me a Fender last year, i liked it well enough. I kind of want to grab a P or J knockoff from them to tool around with. Probably a Jazz, since I have a p-pickup equipped flying V coming to me shortly.
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I think you'd be better off with a Squier if you want to go that route. No replacement parts can fix cheap wood and shoddy construction. The neck pocket on my 5 string SX Jazz is so badly shaped that the neck doesn't sit flat or straight, and the body wood is the least resonant I've ever heard on a musical instrument.
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Well specifically I'm debating the merits of this SX bass. Already have this one and like it a lot, and I think 170 isn't a bad price for something that looks fun to play with and is different from anything I already own. (My other fretless is an Ashbory.) Not sure if I have any other reasonable options for a violin bass that won't kill my paycheck. Dewgy fucked around with this message at 02:54 on Apr 14, 2014 |
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Somebody didn't check eBay prices before putting this on craigslist: I've been keeping my eye for one of these for a few years, and was getting close to picking up the guitar Full Drive version and modding it to bass specs, but this showed up last night. I've only got to play with it for a bit, and practice has been cancelled tonight so I won't know for sure, but I may like this a little more than my Darkglass Microtubes B3K. The Mosfet/Standard switch will need to be replaced though, I'm not sure which mode it is in right now. On a side note, the Talkbass redesign is awful.
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DrChu posted:On a side note, the Talkbass redesign is awful. Wow, that's...different. I feel like I'm perusing Kijiji or eBay.
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DrChu posted:Somebody didn't check eBay prices before putting this on craigslist: Bass-Drive aside, have you been happy with your B3K? I'm pretty impressed with what I've heard out of all the Darkglass stuff.
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DrChu posted:
JESUS CHRIST. Edit: It's just facebook for bass dads now. Noise Machine fucked around with this message at 05:03 on Apr 17, 2014 |
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Digital Jesus posted:Bass-Drive aside, have you been happy with your B3K? I'm pretty impressed with what I've heard out of all the Darkglass stuff. Its very good, especially if you want a cutting overdrive tone. I almost always have the Attack setting on boost, blend is probably at 80%+, and Grunt is either on Fat or Raw (who would want to use the Thin setting?). There are some sounds it won't do (warm fuzzy stuff), but I've got different pedals for that. I'm sure my enthusiasm for the Bass-Drive will wear off some, right now its at a "I scored a 'rare' pedal for cheap" peak.
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Nice, sounds quite good. I ended up ordering a Duality instead as fuzz is the sound I want, but it's good to know the B3K is good too.Noise Machine posted:JESUS CHRIST. +1 Like!
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I recently got talked into buying a bass by some musician friends, and it finally came in today. I don't have a bass amp, however, and won't be getting one for a month or two since I just found out my early retirement from the Air Force got approved, and I'm leaving Japan in 3 weeks. Is practicing solely unplugged/through Rocksmith for the meantime going to seriously hamper my progress? I guess I'm worried about picking up bad habits early on. I ended up getting a Schecter Stiletto on sale, since it looks great (to me) and I really like Schecter. So far I like how it sounds, and it is my first experience with active pickups.
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Rocksmith has a pretty robust amp/pedal/cab modeling system. It's much better than playing without an amp at all. Just go into the tone designer to mess with it.
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Noise Machine posted:JESUS CHRIST. Check out the pedalboard thread.  (not my board)
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Actuary X posted:Check out the pedalboard thread. You have been awarded a trophy: Will Never Use These In A Band!
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DrChu posted:Talkbass ... is awful.
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Devorum posted:Is practicing solely unplugged/through Rocksmith for the meantime going to seriously hamper my progress? I guess I'm worried about picking up bad habits early on. I've seen a few guys start on bass with Rocksmith and develop some bad habit with their right hands. No follow through, just anemic little staccato notes for everything (that'll register in the game just fine). If you're practicing unplugged and working to get some sound out of it you're probably going to counteract this.
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