Recent content by Power Dreamer

You forgot the Blame Shifter pedal. That's the most important one.

You have good taste in gear. There's one little known secret about the new Source Audio One series pedals though. They all contain programmable 4 band parametric EQs! Thats right. You can replace your Darkglass and your EQ pedal with one AfterShock Pedal and do all of that... in stereo. Then you...

Looks matter. If you show up to a sunday worship gig with one of these you'll get booted and not invited back (unless its the Church of Satan). Its not only about the tone. Music is entertainment and as an entertainer you have to look the part. Looks matter. BTW: this is on Reverb now...

It’s the kimono.

In prog metal there is no “try”. There is shred, or shred not... young Skywalker.

I wonder how the people who think a downtuned bass sounds too low dont feel the same way about a piano, that plays a whole step lower than even a 5 string. The organist in a blues band cant play anything lower than an E1? Bullsheeeit! Nothing sounds as palpable as the formidable Sledgehammer...

Jaco played an innocuous looking bass... but he was freaking Jaco! If you want the spotlight play the everlivin' hell out of anything even a 2x4.

There was a flush of bands using unicode characters in their band names, rendering them unpronounceable. Bands like ℑ⊇◊⊆ℜ, †‡†, Gr†ll Gr†ll, GL▲SS †33†H, /\/\/\Y/\, etc (yes, these are all real bands). If youre not then you probably shouldn't do that.

Unless you name your band "And The". That would be funny, although entirely ungoogleable. ...which brings up something that people rarely consider when coming up with a name. What comes up when people type your name into a web search?

Fishman Platinum Pro EQ. Parametric EQ, Compressor, Tuner, Boost, and DI all in one pedal!

IMO, the price point of the instrument is correlated to the LIKELIHOOD that it will sound and play well. You can find cheap basses that sound and play very well. But you are much more likely to find a Fodera that does so. If you are willing to try a lot of cheap basses until you find that one...

One of those just sold on Reverb for $2500. Spalt Instruments Magma 401 Hybrid 4 String Bass

I started on flute and viola before settling on cello at age 10. It's still my main instrument after 40 years (and whistling). I switched to bass for about a decade because I mostly listen to prog rock and true fusion. Now its mostly cello again. Everyone in my immediate family played or sang...

Fretless Pedulla mwaaah!

An upright acoustic five string, a fretless flatwound 4 string with mwaaaah (Wal, Pedulla, etc), and a fretted 6 string multiscale acoustic bass guitar with lightwave pickups. Why? Because everyone and their brother already has Fender P&J basses. Why provide basses that everyone already has so...