Recent content by thunderbolt

I was playing a friend's classical guitar yesterday (you know, the spanish/flamenco nylon string type with the wide string spacing) and, being a bass player, I did what all bass players do when they pick up a guitar. I plucked a few mingus lines on the bottom four strings and WOW. The tone of...

pretty sure Tobacco is all synth. He's one guy and records almost everything himself.

I've seen/heard a lot of hubbub about using cabs with two speakers set up to where they are lined up vertically instead of side by side. For instance, a 212 speaker cab that is designed to be set flat on the ground with the two speakers at floor level are turned on their side so that one 12 is...

Can do, mon capitan. Maybe I'm just a big ole pussbag for not being able to handle rounds, but at the end of the day I don't even really care for how they sound anyways so theres no point in getting used to them. They're fine for the jaco "blippity burp" crowd, but I'm more of a jamerson...

only on one of them JK LOL OMG BBQ but seriously, i play guitar quite a bit as well so I have some callouses, they just weren't prepared for the all-out sawtooth nature of bass rounds.

apparently Sunbeams ARE compression wound, according to the package. I figured they would be a little easier on my fingers for the same reason, but they seem particularly bad in terms of roughness compared to whatever comes stock on the fenders and squires at GC (my only point of reference for...

I don't play hard, I just have sensitive digits. Thats why I hardly ever play basses at GC, it just hurts because they are all set up with rounds. They feel terrible and they sound terrible. I gots me some TI jazz flats in the mail as we speak.:hyper:

the blisters are on my fretting hand. too much sliding methinks.

When I first bought my bass 2 years ago, I took it home and played the hell out of it and got blisters on my fingers. Even though the beatles may have made this ailment sound cool in helter skelter, I had to wait almost a week for my fingers to heal so I could play again. A friend suggested I...

I never really cared for jazz very much in the past, but it seems like lately I keep "discovering" really interesting jazz players that have changed my mind. Django Reinhardt, Brad Mehldau, and most recently *drumroll* Charles Mingus. I love his basslines (even though they are barely audible)...

definately behringer

hmmm... if by one paragraph one time you mean a new thread every week, then maybe. I like jeff's playing for sure, but I sure wouldn't want to hang out with him.

I can feel the sarcasm from your post, but I can't really tell why. Both of those videos sounded great to me. No fretbuzz, no clank. Care to enlighten me?

:hiding: I understand where you are coming from. Different courses for different horses, as they say. I want MY notes to be "jamerson pure" because thats my sound (or rather, what I want my sound to be). Entwistle wanted clank because that was his sound, so in his case clank wasn't a flaw...

I'm not talking about maturity in terms of personality. I guess I should have picked a clearer adjective, but something tells me that the comedians are going to do their thing no matter what.