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05-05-2010, 09:20 PM
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Don't you just hate it when a guy doing an effects demo on Youtube spends the first three minutes talking, and then demos the effect by noodling around in the upper registers instead of just playing a simple, everyday bassline to give a basic idea of what the effects actually sounds like in the real world?
Makes me want to reach out and smack someone!!
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05-05-2010, 09:21 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Apr 2004 Location: self banned from talkbass.... | | I agree. I don't talk in demos. But I play what ever I feel like at the time  actually I have a hard time not making demos into art... |
05-05-2010, 09:29 PM
|  | Registered User | | Join Date: Jul 2009 Location: Choudrant, LA | | | Another annoying trait of those videos is when they actually start the demo, a lot of them dial in some extreme setting on the pedal, to show what it can do "at it's max". Those setting are rarely useful, but I guess they think it sounds cool when they're wailing the solo to Whole Lotta Love on the upper registers of their BASS!!!
I also hate that there is surprisingly few BASS overdrive/distortion/fuzz clips on youtube or anywhere else for that matter, save for Buzz.com.
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05-06-2010, 05:52 AM
|  | Registered User | | Join Date: Oct 2006 Location: Rhode Island, USA | | | Well, I DO talk in my demos. Because to me, a demo of someone just noodling for 5 minutes is damn boring and impossible to follow. So I explain what settings I have it on, what kind of sound it reminds me of, then I play a couple licks. Then I move on to a different setting. Oh well. |
05-06-2010, 06:04 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Mar 2010 Location: Melbourne, Australia | | | i don't think there is anything wrong with talking. i agree with with bigchiefbc, its easier to follow with some explanation of whats going on in the video.
what i do hate is the whole upper register thing and the inconsistency of what pople play with setting to setting. JUST PLAY THE SAME BASIC RIFF THE WHOLE TIME!
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05-06-2010, 06:20 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Aug 2009 Location: perth | | | When demo-ing an effect, before playing any riffs, a few big open notes should be played, especially with fuzz / OD etc
if i'm trying out a bass (or guitar) in a music shop i spend at least 5 minutes just hitting open strings and fretted notes, letting them ring out, so i can hear what the bass sounds like.
If it doesn't impress me with single notes, then there is no point even playing a riff on it.
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05-06-2010, 06:47 AM
| | | Exactly what I do. First thing, in fact, is to check intonation on twelfth fret. If that's off, the bass goes back on the wall. Quote:
Originally Posted by fractiouslowend  When demo-ing an effect, before playing any riffs, a few big open notes should be played, especially with fuzz / OD etc
if i'm trying out a bass (or guitar) in a music shop i spend at least 5 minutes just hitting open strings and fretted notes, letting them ring out, so i can hear what the bass sounds like.
If it doesn't impress me with single notes, then there is no point even playing a riff on it. | |
05-06-2010, 08:13 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Apr 2004 Location: self banned from talkbass.... | | Quote:
Originally Posted by fractiouslowend When demo-ing an effect, before playing any riffs, a few big open notes should be played, especially with fuzz / OD etc | This is why when I do clips I always end up playing Doom riffs.
One thing I like is when people really take you on a trip through the sounds, I don't care what settings you use really, you don't need to tell me, just do your stuff, I want to hear all the extremes and the in-be-tween-s of the effect. |
05-06-2010, 11:54 AM
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Endorsing Artist: Lyt Pedalboards Beta tester: Source Audio Moderator | | Join Date: May 2002 Location: Connecticut | | | Why would I get mad about someone volunteering their time for me and possibly save me a few hundred dollars, just because they don't play or demo exactly how I would? |
05-06-2010, 03:41 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Apr 2004 Location: self banned from talkbass.... | | Quote:
Originally Posted by Bryan R. Tyler Why would I get mad about someone volunteering their time for me and possibly save me a few hundred dollars, just because they don't play or demo exactly how I would? | Because  |
05-06-2010, 03:42 PM
| | TalkBass: Usurping My Practice Time Since 2002
Endorsing Artist: Lyt Pedalboards Beta tester: Source Audio Moderator | | Join Date: May 2002 Location: Connecticut | | Well, so long as you have a good reason.....  |
05-06-2010, 03:51 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Apr 2004 Location: self banned from talkbass.... | | Quote:
Originally Posted by Bryan R. Tyler Well, so long as you have a good reason..... | This be the internets, thar' is no reason |
05-06-2010, 05:28 PM
|  | Supporting Member | | Join Date: Nov 2009 Location: San Antonio, TX | | Quote:
Originally Posted by jhan Exactly what I do. First thing, in fact, is to check intonation on twelfth fret. If that's off, the bass goes back on the wall. |
So when you're hanging out at GC, you actually never get to demo a pedal, right?  |
05-06-2010, 05:44 PM
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Originally Posted by mikeddd So when you're hanging out at GC, you actually never get to demo a pedal, right? | Last time I tried to there the "dude" got lost three times getting me a cord  |
05-06-2010, 05:59 PM
|  | Total Hyper-Elite Member | | Join Date: May 2000 Location: Groom Lake, NV | | | I don't talk in demos. I don't play in demos. In fact, I don't even do demos.
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05-06-2010, 06:14 PM
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Originally Posted by Munjibunga I don't talk in demos. I don't play in demos. In fact, I don't even do demos. | Well, that's good- they'd be pretty boring demos if you didn't talk or play in them. |
05-06-2010, 06:23 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Dec 2009 Location: Seattle, WA. U.S.A | | | I quit doing them because, when I listened back, I realized I suck and should take some lessons.
That being said, I am glad I tried because now my plan is to take some lessons.
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05-06-2010, 06:53 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Apr 2004 Location: self banned from talkbass.... | | | Really you shouldn't worry about that. Really you don't have to play anything. Just set your bass to feed back and twiddle knobs on the pedal. I would watch that! Might even make me buy the pedal. |
05-06-2010, 07:17 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Oct 2006 Location: Rhode Island, USA | | | Well, Mud, you're gonna hate the two demos I'm uploading tonight. |
05-06-2010, 08:13 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Apr 2004 Location: self banned from talkbass.... | | Quote:
Originally Posted by bigchiefbc Well, Mud, you're gonna hate the two demos I'm uploading tonight. | 1. Dude! you are actually taking anything I am saying seriously... I thought you knew me better then that
2.... one minute... ok found it..  Alright I'm already now! | | Thread Tools | Search this Thread | | | | 
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