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    Fender Roscoe beck pole pieces

    Looking after some pics of the bass pole pieces aré black or metálic.mine aré black.what does that means?
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    Floating thumb technique, wrist angle while descending

    Tv crimes black sabbath cover. At 2:18 while descending the strings I notice not ideal posture while plucking... geezer butler also pluck across the body of his bass. It is a bad posture? Can you watch the video and give some advice of the posture. I am doing floating thumb but with the wirst a...
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    Stu hamm bass transcriptions. Outbound and beyond

    Hi, i am working on this recording and dr gradus. I remember this book was availiable in Argentina some time ago. In Amazon is out of stock. Do you know another store where I can order it??Some songs are not so easy to transcribe. Please. thanks
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    Nota sensible. Traduccion

    How it is called the seventh grade of a major scale in english. In spanish they called it sensible. it related to the v mode as it is the 3d and where the tension occurs. it is very common for modulation from a c and then the c becomes a lydian chord. thanks
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    Big pedals pedalboard

    I want to put together in a pedalboard Big ones Boss gt—1b Digitech whammy dt Vt bass dlx Mid sized Sadowsky preamp Xotix xblender Small ones Boss ceb3 bass chorus That are all the pedals i own besides my dbx160a compressor. What do you recomend? Thanks
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    Boss LS-2 or Xotic x Blender for using two preamps at the same time??

    Only in case of using my Fender RBV passive bass, I love how the tone smooths and gets more clanky with my Sadowsky outboard preamp. It serves for getting the bass from passive to a sadowsky active tone. Moreover, I want to use for recording my sansamp vt bass dlx for ampeg svt emulation and...
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    Xotic X-blender vs. SFX X&M

    Benefit of the Xotic is the ability to flip the phase of the loop signal in order to reduce the loss of low end that can sometimes result from phase cancellation. The SFX also has a built in blender with phase correction. This products do the same??? Any other blend pedals you can recomend...
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    Power metal tone

    How can I get close to his tone is the bassist of stratovarius. I will record the kiss of judas next week. Its all distortion and thats all? A lot of compression at the lows??? studio version https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k2uLSvT0ERM&noredirect=1 Live with Kainu...
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    Home recording to share!

    Here is a recording tribute to Rata Blanca a legendary band from Argentina. This forum great advices helped us to make something that sounds nice for a home recording, I think this place is a great source of information. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JKBUrr2k-bE We are a real band from...
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    TECH 21 VT BASS DLX OVERDRIVE IN ONLY SOME FRECUENCIES

    I am getting good studio results recording with the sansamp, I use it fot the mids and highs, for full distorted tone and parallel output for clean lows recording a clean signal. Can I do this when playing live, I don´t wont my lows to be overdriven live. Some pedals have this feature like...
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    Is it a Gibson Tobias or an old one?

    What do you think? Thanks!
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    Is this a Tobias Growler??????

    It´s pedro aznar, legendary musician multiinstrumentalist from argentina (with bass as main instrument). He played with Pat metheny in the 80s. It is a Tobias growler he is playing? tobias Gibson??
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    How I connect my VT bass dlx to my GK 1001RBll

    Can anybody give me a tutorial about how to connect the sansamp??? I think effects loop is not the corredct way (I read that at another thread) 1)So I use imput and Outputs... a-I use output or parallel out??? b-xlr output is for the console??? 2)Sansamp has 3 tiny switches: phantom/ground...
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    New song I want to share

    Here is my band from Argentina! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GCv60CUDitM We are finishing our first album..some of our influences are Soda Stereo, Divididos, Rata Blanca, Bon Jovi, Iron Maiden, Dream Theater, Symphony x, red hot chilli peppers. The result is some hard rock and metal...
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    How many plugins in each track without affecting the signal?

    There is a general consensus between some engeners that to using to many plugins simultniously will damage the signal. However, there are others that use them a lot like this guy in youtube (Eric Tarr)....I think he is great... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OXmO49pZiZQ For bass he uses amp...
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    Muse New Born effects

    Which effects does Chris uses, I need especally the INTRO and VERSE effects Thanks
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    What is hip no mutting??

    It seems most of the song is play in a normal way just like Come on Come on over. Most people think it involves mutting, but I think the only part that is played with a mutting with the left hand is the E string at the 7th fret of the intro and verse. What do you think?
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    Advice from you tube bass players......

    Or any bass players that record over a recorded song. I want to make some videos playing along some songs. It would be better if I turn down the lows of the original recording, I turn them down a tad or I leave ir as the original. Thanks
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    How would a Stingray sound for What is hip???

    Do you think it is a suitable bass for this song??? Thanks I have a fender roscoe beck but I love to play funk with my Stingray
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    Hartke in recordings-

    Are hartke cabs capable of good recording??? Did David Ellefson for example recorded any Megadeth album with Hartke cabs.. Any more pros that use Hartke cabs as a choice for recordings??
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    Is this a Synth bass????

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5leCPQJY8ZM Dragon Ball Z-Chala Head chala
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    Is this a Synth bass????

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5leCPQJY8ZM Dragon Ball Z-Chala Head chala
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    Taking advantage of Youtube possibilities.

    We are in 2013 with youtube and all the media posibilities, I think videos are more important than publishing a CD. Its an era where art can be spread not only by the music of the bands but also with the images and the visual aspects of Art, even with a low budget. I am looking after bands...
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    Cliipping....

    I use Nuendo, I am a little bit confuse where to set the level. The peaks on the recorded track never pass the grey area, but the clipping level turns red. If the peaks never passthe grey area it is not clippin...I am right??
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    Progressive Metal Version of the last of us (game) theme

    We are a Rock band from Argentina doing a progressive version of Santaolalla composition. Please give some feedback!
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    How do you process your bass tone??

    Do you use VSTS, miking amp and cab, or Preamps?? Digital compressor or Real compressor???
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    Nobody likes Stingray Series tone?

    It seems everyone choose Parallel instead of Series. I use both: Most of the time in Series for a more agressive tone (I use the bass to play Progressive rock songs) I think it gets me closer to the tone Myung uses with his Bongo, more modern.. I use Parallel mode for tapping and solos, for...
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    Slap with Musican Singray.

    Do you prefer Series or Parallel??? Why???
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    David Coverdale clone????

    Hi I listened a song in the radio... I dont remember the lyrics, only part I remember was it said no tomorrow and tonight...(anfd I think everything, I am not sure9 It began with a very good piano similar to bon jovi runaway8 but better, not so simple) The singer sang like David Coverdale ( I...
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    MODELING BASS TONE STEP BY STEP

    I am particulary new about modeling AFTER recording. So I have a few questions. I made what is recomendable. Recording the simple way, bass to my saffire pro 14 and I use Nuendo as my DAW. I have a reamp box, but I think it would make things more difficult for a novice like me, so I am...
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    39 minutes album is too short???

    It will have 8 songs that we are finishing recording. Our style is hard rock with some progressive, pop and metal influences. It is our first LP.... Some of our influences are Bon Jovi, Iron Maiden, Soda Stereo, Deep Purple, some funk and some neoclassical bands. Do you think it is too...
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    It is Ok how I played some parts ahead of the beat???

    [Invalid or Expired Link Removed] I think this song has a strong sence of push and foward motion so when I recorded some parts I tried to drive the song playing ahead of the beat... For example listen to the intro and the guitar solo at 2:20 But most of the song is in the middle... It...
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    Cheapest Headphone Practicing Setup

    This is my current setup Sadowsky Outboard Preamp. Sansamp VT Bass DLX. The Reamp Box by Magic Eye Technologies. Boss Ceb-3 Chorus. Focusrite Saffire Pro 14. But I miss my Saffire 6 for practice purposes when I travel with only my netbook. Which would we the cheapest method for me...
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    Sansamp VT Bass Deluxe for a solo?

    How to achieve an smooth tone for a solo in the style of Jimmy haslip without a fretless bass??? Do you think the preamp may help???Or wich effect?
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    Musicman Question

    Something is loose inside my bass, when I move the bass back and forth. The bass is functioning ok but I don´t know if this can become worse and damage my bass. What may be happening??? Do you recomend taking the bass to a luthier??
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    Does decreasing volume of some recorded parts affect quality??

    I want to decrease volume of some fragments I recorded with nuendo and straight into the audio interface. That will decrease sound quality of that parts???
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    Are my Fender Roscoe Beck knobs original???

    In all the pictures I´ve seen at the web, the knobs are rounded and metallic colour or black saying fender. Mine are similar to the metallic ones but they are black. Are mines original??? Here are some pics of the knobs..
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    Memory issues while learning very advanced songs

    2 Weeks ago I finished learning Sexually Active by Stu Hamm...All the song...I could play it at 80% of the tempo. I took 10 days off the bass because I had an injured finger. Some tapping part I had to relearn it...it was very frustating. I am not an exelente tapper... Any advices?? Is this...
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    Is this Double thumb???

    Does anybody knows how to make the technique he does at min 3:43???? I had the chance 3 years ago to take some classes with him and he told me the technique was THUMB WITH OPEN STRING , LEFT FINGER PRESS THE NOTE, AND THEN POPPING IN THE SAME NOTE PRESSED. However, it seems he plays more...
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    Dominant seventh used on notes other than the dominant, such as the subdominant???

    Is this a common approach for the subdominant (IV not ll)??? I want to make a modulation using A as a pivot for modulating from Bm to C#m (minor supertonic modulation). Instead of A I use A7... Can a subdominant become dominant??? A7 is Vll of Bm and Vl of C#m...I am experimenting with the...