Recent content by LoudBadBass

Just incredibly sad news. He was such a talent. Don't know when we will see the likes of Cynic's rhythm section again.

Much thrashier than I expected for a band named Blood of Odin. Nothing Scandinavian about that sound. Much more NWoTM sounding.

His, like mine, is in his avatar.

Does it have to be in standard tuning? ;)

Well what do you know?:

It does not matter which one you get as long as the particular instrument you get is well made and has no major problems. The best bass is the one that makes you enjoy playing bass.

Not so much a grain of salt the size of Jupiter, (my fault for introducing the singular in the first place), as many grains of salt spread out over an elliptical orbit with a combined mass approximating Jupiter. For more fun science stuff that might or might not shake one's faith in one's...

Quick and dirty version of computer vs neural net, (full of generalizations, approximations and likely inaccuracies): Basically, most computers work by having central processing units that process information with yes/no answers. All operations line up in queues to be solved one answer at a...

...unless, of course, that computer happens to be a massive neural net.

Some thoughts about using a capo from my blog post about Bass Guitar Scale Length, String Gauge, and Tuning: Before we settle into the topic of scale, however, we need to consider that scale only measures the maximum speaking length of the string. Fretting a string creates a new speaking...

Both analog and digital media can handle a dynamic range of at least 60 decibels with old fashioned recording studio tape coming in at around 70 db and digital boards at around 90 db of dynamic range. That's a lot of range with which to play. Take a fairly dynamic, high quality, well mixed CD...

Talking about digital vs analog with respect to the loudness wars misses the source of the problem entirely. Both formats are capable of reproducing sound with much greater dynamic range. The dynamic limit is not inherent in the medium being used to reproduce the sound. It's not even an inherent...

No new wood cut down for the Lotus. No fossil fuels expended to ship it to you, and since you have it there you don't have to worry that you will have to send it back, doubling the shipping miles. The wood is already as aged as it will ever be and it is already adjusted to your local...

Opeth - Pale Communion Mastodon - Once More 'Round the Sun Sólstafir - Otta Wardruna - Yggdrasil

Morgan Ågren (Mats/Morgan Band, Zappa, Fredrik Thordendal's Special Defects). Gary Husband (first heard him on The Un-Merry-Go-Round on Allan Holdsworth's Metal Fatigue). The videos on their respective Drummerworld pages linked above are pretty jaw-dropping.