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This is my oldie. Fender flat wounds on an ancient Emperador Bass (late 60's). I used to play this right at the bridge bacuse the band all played at full tilt & being heard was all about loud & cutting. This with a little felt under the strings beneath the bridge cover may be a 1st step. The Epi...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jLOTAJQF0Fo Scott Walker's Montague Terrace (In Blue) is the above example but the bass tone is similar in his classic 4 albums. I doubt he plays the bass on these (though he was Scott Bros bassist) but I love the tone. NOT, I avow, a tone I'd use on most of my...

Hello Folks, A couple of years ago I acquired some Mellotron files: (someone out THERE had recorded each tape from each mellotron bank so it's several sets each with a mono 8sec wav file for each key on the board of a standard 'Tron). I've used some in a few songs but by importing and cutting...

I had a few details wrong - Guitar magazine, Home Recording suppliment and it would have been the very late 90's as I stopped buying it when I no longer walked by a newsagent on the way to work. The Digitech Vocalist Performer and the Roland VS-880 Xpanded were advertised in the suppliment so...

rayc thumb rider mux This is a quicky mix I did in about an hour on headphones - sorry. I concentrated on the bass & drums then main vox, then guitars then the other bits. I need to fine tune some vocla bit where they come in a little low at the beginning of lines etc and I want to fiddle...

streamer http://www.soundclick.com/bands/default.cfm?bandid=469622&content=music download https://dl.dropbox.com/u/26003421/Alicechuggabass.mp3 The links take you to Alice with a drum track added by FlatFeet (thanks mate) and a new bass line to try to take advantage of that. Steps are being...

Having played bass since 1974 it may shock you to discover taht I've only recently learnt the difference between speaker cable & instrument cable. Having learnt it I've now replaced all cables joinging amps to cabs with new SPEAKER cables. It took a while but I learnt the lesson.

Hello Folks, I've managed to tweak & sort around my Kustom Defender 5w head & Marshall VS 4x12 cab to get some decent enough, (for me), sounds. The last thing I needed was a comparison for mic selection. In the end I didn't quite go the logocal route but set up a Shure 57 of axis...

The link goes to a 2012 recording of a song that Eric & I wrote in 1976. Eric supplied the 12 string, electric lead lines and vocals whilst I did the other guitars and bass. The vocals aren't strong and will need to be retracked and the drums are my old mid 80's Roland drum machine and could...

https://dl.dropbox.com/u/26003421/Kustom%20Defender%205H%20%26%20etone%20box%20test.mp3 The above link SHOULD take you to an MP3 of a test of a Kustom Defender 5H into an ETONE 200W 4Ohm box (1 single huge speaker) the 1st set is with my usual Royal Artist & the 2nd set is with the humbucker...

https://dl.dropbox.com/u/26003421/Kustom%20Defender%205H%20test.mp3 I took the opportunity to test my xmas gift. I'll have to put it back in the box but needed to ensure it wasn't DOA (as if anyone is likely to believe it but it is, at least, a pragmatic confection). I used my usual rig: Bruno...

Hello Folks, I recently bought a Brownie Classic (GFSdelivered to Australia at less than AUS$69) because I can't Overdrive my valve bass amp. I hope to find an acceptable substitute for a real od'd amp in this pedal. have a listen & let me know what you think sounds best. I'm using my preferred...

I LOVE Ido1957's songs & was excited to have a play with a mix. I didn't do too much - dirtied up the guitars to give them some cut through and that's about it from the usual sprinkle of comp & verb where I felt inclined. Here it is anyway - could suss out where to put it - Mods please shift it...

I recently bought a Vox AmPlug AC30 because it was on special & VERY cheap. I did this as I was driving my wife nuts playing guitar in the living room. It's a bit noisey & the gain has to be up for any sound to pass through. The tone gets very hissy as the treble goes up & it does get loud. I...

https://dl.dropbox.com/u/26003421/MARSHALL%20SB100MKII%20-%20MARSHALL%204X12%20%26%20SHURE%2057%20TEST%202z.mp3 Part 2 indeed. I took heed of suggestions & re-recorded my guitar-amp-cab combo with the volume on 9. The chain - Bruno Royal Artist semi acoustic bridge pickup & fang plectrum ->...

https://dl.dropbox.com/u/26003421/MARSHALL%20SB100MKII%20-%20MARSHALL%204X12%20%26%20SHURE%2057%20TEST%20%282%29.mp3 Hello Folks, The above link will get you an MP3 file of a test run of my newly repaired Marshall Superbass MkII into my recently acquired Marshall 4 x 12 cabinet using a Shure 57...

I was treating some problems with a mix & exported a mix track as a .wav to a diff program to apply a few different strategies. There was some unwanted stuff happening below 20hz so I decided to run the file through a high pass filter set at 20Hz. I did this & the visual image displayed areas of...

Here is the original plan, (orientation top is south, left is east), modified to reflect the changes:

Here's a rough set of shots of the rearranged room. the computer monitor is the mixing station facing east (lovely view but too much light this morning); The shelving units with TV on the southern wall; The bookshelves/gear shelves on the western wall and The door, CD racks and speaker cabs...

The need for some punked up psychobilly cage rattling. Oh, that's right our resident psychobilly punk isn't allowed to rattle cages at present. Maybe he could just shake the carton - from the inside. He's had time to think outside the box. Might the powers that be arrange a "playdate"?