Recent content by echobeach

See, that's your problem. You've got to stop smoking that wacky-tabacky.

You almost sound like a fortune cookie, you know that? Go to hell.

I used to own that record on vinyl back in the '80s. I know what it is. I'm not sure why you think I don't know these things. There were bands from all over the place on those compilations. Being signed to Crass Records wasn't necessary to appear on one of them.

I would listen if he actually said something pertinent instead of engaging in covert-aggressive behavior.

Since you bring up chorus, maybe it's something like an Electric Mistress or MXR flanger in "filter matrix" mode. Those pedals would have been common then, and consistent with basement recording budgets, though I'd expect a colder or tinnier sound from them.

Thanks for the music theory lesson but as with all your posts, it doesn't address the question. Of course, if you don't hear anything unusual in how the bass was tracked or mixed, then you wouldn't be able to answer the question anyway. So why are you still posting?

My question was "How to get bass to sound like this?" What's ambiguous about it? Maybe you should stop blaming your reading comprehension problem on others. I don't know if there's a way to block people on this forum but if not I am at the very least going to ignore you from now on. You...

The Crass Bullshit Detectors were notoriously lo-fi. One guy has even written an article calling them "shit-fi": http://shit-fi.com/spotlights/BullshitDetector A lot of the material on those compilations were from people sending in cassettes that were literally recorded on their boomboxes. But...

Hey, finally an answer that's on topic instead of "punk sucks" or arguing about the cost of fretless basses! Yeah, it also seems like the guitar has had a lot of lower frequencies cut and the drums have some modulation effect on them, maybe phaser, which makes the bass more prominent in the...

Excuse me for thinking a subforum called "Mixing Techniques" is related to technical matters. Thanks for the advice, but I'm not about to embark on a wild goose chase. I'm not obsessed, just curious as to what was going on in the mix there.

Have you managed to find the service manual? I downloaded one from here https://www.synthxl.com/fostex-x-26/ but the "service manual" turned out to just be the user manual. Tascam has been pretty good about supplying service manuals and, where possible, parts for its old machines, but Fostex...

For the search spiders, the name of the song under discussion is "Not Yet Ron" by the band Verbal Assault, released in 1984 on Crass Bullshit Detector Vol.3.

Even today fretless basses are more expensive than their fretted counterparts, let alone back in 1984 when there weren't budget lines like Squier and Epiphone: https://www.long-mcquade.com/?page=search&SearchTxt=fretless%20bass

Have they? I don't see what material costs have to do with it. The smaller the market for something, the higher the cost to the consumer, regardless of the materials used. Fretless basses have always been a niche product.

I'm not attributing anything magical to anything. I'm simply using my ears. The bass in that song sounds quantitatively different from the others. I'm trying to determine what those quantities are. Whether you like the song or punk in general is irrelevant. This is a technical forum and my...