Recent content by Ori0n

Thanks McBosler! I've been growing her for a while! Thank you all for the kind words! TB is such a great community! Very supportive and encouraging!

Thanks everybody! I have found a good teacher at the School of Music in Columbia, SC, which is only about an hour drive, so I head up there for an hour once a week. I have picked up The Art of the Bow, and it is really helpful! I do love practicing on her, she is gorgeous!

Absolutely worth the trip! Being 29 i've been a little scared of getting into upright, knowing I've missed, oh 17 years of practice. But i've got alot of knowledge, and its all just technique from here on out :) Having alot of trouble getting bowing right!

Thanks! The Rogeri's were great! But a bit too big for me, as I am not very tall and have short arms. The Wans had a darker sound that just spoke to me though. He pulled out some other very VERY nice basses too.

I've been a long time stalker here in the DB forums, and a poster in the electric bass(have played for 17 years) poster for a while. I have attempted to play double bass for about 10 years, i bought a cheap Palatino student bass from eBay (my dad and I then drove 800 miles to pick it up, didn't...

Worst: Bloody Marshmallow Complex Current: Indifferentblue (love it) previously: Negate Narcissus' Broken Mirror (hard to say properly but loved the imagery with it)

We've dealt with this issue twice now. Was at a rental house for a year with a nice 2 car garage, before we even began practicing there, we did a full on room inside a room construction. standard wall, about 7' tall to not touch the existing ceiling, standard studs, no staggering (mainly for...

I too have this same question. I am an electric bass player, but a lover of music and avid musician, and have wanted to join the symphony orchestra for some time. I have been really lazy about this, as my bass has had this problem for about 10 years (wow doesn't seem that long). My action...

I'll list the last 4 practice spaces, and pics if I have them (in a subsequent post, no pics here at work :( ) 2003-2006 Storage Unit at Public Storage (went through 3 owners by the time we left). 2007-2008 a friends empty bedroom 2009: rented a house with a 2 car garage, built a...

Might as well toss in my $0.02 here as well! Amps: Tech 21 Sansamp RBI SWR Power 750 Cabs: Ampeg SVT-610HLF Other Rack Gear: dbx 266xl compressor X2 Wireless Korg-dt2000 tuner gcx switcher I've found that I much prefer the 610 sound to the 810 sound, there was just...

Thank you all for the great tips, advice and encouragement! Keeping up my practice routine, warming up, and staying hydrated (way more than I usually am) will continue to become more prevalent in my playing and my life! thanks again!!

Lol yeah I figure that has a big deal to do with it, and being a programmer i'm on a keyboard 8+ hours a day too! So yeah. I never really warmed up much before, never really had to when i was "younger" (weird saying that at 28). More water definitely needs to be in my repertoire at shows...

Hey Guys!! I've been playing bass for over 15 years, and just recently I've noticed that during shows my hands begin to cramp up fairly quickly. Like within 4 songs i can't hold the pick properly with my right hand, and a few songs later, my left hand just starts to cramp but its not too bad...

The bass solo in Call of Ktulu is pretty amazing, it's the reason I picked up bass.... kinda hard to hear though

New to Talkbass, but been a bass player for 16 years! My rack consists of the following: 8 Space Gator Rack 1)Monster Power 2500 2)Korg DTR2000 Tuner 3)X2 Wireless 4)Sansamp RBI 5)dbx 266xl 6)empty 7-8)SWR 350x (used as a power amp now thanks to the sansamp) all runs through an...