Recent content by Dethlateer

See I get it, I get that people like Alex have 20+ years of clean chops under their belt and one must assume it'll take 20+ years to achieve the same level of consistent cleanliness, but part of me doesn't think that's true; it probably would take around a year or two of consistent hour-a-day...

See this is another thing that confuses me though, unless I'm mixing it up with something. So an A is 440hz, right? So hz can be the note that is being played, but hz is also something involved with tone and not notes themselves?

I've never considered the concept of changing my tone in between or even during songs, it doesn't happen as often in my genre as it does in others. In mine people tend to find a tone they dig and record an entire album with it, try something new nextalbum, and so on, not often song by song or...

So I just set my combo amp (rig is at bandmate's still and he's next town over, I'll get it back home this weekend but I was beat after our show and didn't feel like unloading it at 2AM when I got home so I left it in his garage which is where we practice) and bass all flat and just had the...

I played a show with a similar setup sunday night, probably less gain and my mids were at 10. It sounded great, I blended in perfectly and melded everything extremely well, but I didn't stick out as much as I'd hoped. Friend of mine recommended putting the mid frequency at 4-5 and giving myself...

The They didn't x.x

As in take the rig back for the refund and demand brand new poopie? I'm assuming they would normally have done so but it was probably the only ones they had there at the time. Its just a guitar center in vegas, they typically are spread thin in my experience when it comes to the better gear in the...

I didn't, nothing with the cab either. I expected them to go get me boxed brand new poopie but they just gave me the floor model. Oh well. Thanks.

I know more speakers move more air but I just don't know how that can be used. I've heard more speakers = cleaner mid-high end (assuming its because all the frequencies have double the speakers to go to which is less work than cramming them through 4 speakers), and probably also allows for...

I would put a TL;DR at the end but I'm not sure how to summarize this accurately. Sorry. I have just about as much grasp on gear and what it all means and how it contributes to tone as a beginner who's googled the vaguest of questions for a week and I've been playing for nearly 3 years. For...

Happy 20th birthday to me! I basically wanted to make a thread to ask some questions so I don't screw this stuff up; I want to be able to use it safely. For example, I was playing it for a couple minutes with my active bass without pressing the -15db switch and experienced a bit of rumble (and...

Nah, it really doesn't, and I'm sort of coming to understand that as time goes on. I'm just getting frustrated with how much harder it is to play the bass than it is to play guitar in regards to consistency and clarity. Another example, bandmate wrote a riff that revolves around gallops but...

I'm loling at the "poopie" censorship :laugh::laugh::laugh:

Its not so much that its an endurance issue; I know how to do it without straining myself and I don't over exert myself in my attack, I just struggle with consistent attack. Then I start thinking about trying to make each finger move in the exact same way, then its just like overfocusing or...

My state of thought as of now is that I want to improve in the areas that I'm going to immediately apply (and already apply/attempt to apply) to my playing before others. For me, for where I'm at right now, that's developing my technique and precision and consistency in actually playing vs...