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Let's spread some musical misinformation
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Just pick up an inexpensive solar powered one locally.
You shouldn't need an amp. Basses are much louder in the dark.
Only "dark-sounding" basses are louder in the dark; generally they're boosted in the low-low mids.
Pops, what you want to do is put a set of bright strings on your dark-sounding bass so you (and the audience) can see what you're playing — it's like having subtitles in a foreign-language movie; then you won't need an amp 'cause everyone can just read your "subtonals".
Pops, what you want to do is put a set of bright strings on your dark-sounding bass so you (and the audience) can see what you're playing — it's like having subtitles in a foreign-language movie; then you won't need an amp 'cause everyone can just read your "subtonals".
It is always best to scoop your bass frequencies by boosting both your low lows and your high lows but cutting your mid lows. With mids, you want to boost your mid mids but cut your low mids and high mids. The treble end of course if flat. Unless you mix your cabs in which case you need to do the opposite.
I knew I was doing something wrong, I've been doing all that, but I tried to get my bass to cut through by boosting the mid-highs just a smidge with broken glass, but I still wasn't cutting through. I'll try the flat treble boost with crushed ceramics instead...
Ceramic pickups? Never mind, my advice was aimed at ALNICO. EQ for ceramic is completely different.
Feed your bass through your car stereo. Whatever you play, don't play Total Eclipse by Iron Maiden, because the sun will never return.
"Total Eclipse of the Heart" was written based on the time Heart (early in their career and relatively unknown) was delayed at the Peace Arch Crossing border and totally missed their time-slot at the Commodore Ballroom in Vancouver — damn Canadian Customs agents thought Howard Leese's custom-made Flanger was an IED of some kind...
After that infarction, Heart had to play Vancouver many more times than they ever intended because of contractual obligations from missing that one little beat. Mild-cardinal infractions aside, the subsequent repeated appearances in Vancouver solidified the band's Canadian fanbase palpitations.
After that infarction, Heart had to play Vancouver many more times than they ever intended because of contractual obligations from missing that one little beat. Mild-cardinal infractions aside, the subsequent repeated appearances in Vancouver solidified the band's Canadian fanbase palpitations.
Big Hoss
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I believe you misread that report, it was an IUD of some kind, not an IED.
So.... guitarists could tell bassists to turn it down even further?
On the plus side, these can be used to fire the drummer considerable distance.
These concerns might just balance out.
Yup! By generating an exact copy in anti-phase and feeding this into a dark matter cab, driven from a dark energy powered amp.
Darn! I was expecting some nice slo-mo HE experimentation.
This was terribly tame, Impala. 
Oh, well, its Wednesday. Tomorrow might be better. Then again, maybe not. drool
Dubstep:
In early 1969, while tripping total balls, the band Steppenwolf created a brand new style of music, the likes of which had never been heard before. It was a tightly coiled production with overwhelming bass lines and reverberant drum patterns, clipped samples, and occasional vocals. Once they had come down from their trip, the band realised this new musical style was something that could never see the light of day. Also, they had no idea what to call this new style, so decided to keep it under wraps.
However, a time-travelling Spaniard from the year 1730, happened upon Steppenwolf discussing this new music they had created and offered to buy it from them. The time-travelling Spaniard paid the band in gold doubloons, thanked them, and continued his time-travels.
Once they had recovered from their all-too-understandable shock (they all thought they were having a mass-flashback) the band decided to name the music they had sold to the time-travelling Spaniard; as they had been paid in doubloons and the band name was ‘Steppenwolf’, they decided to call it ‘DoubStepp’.
The time-travelling Spaniard (remember him?) time-traveled to Britain, arriving in the late 1990’s where he was beaten up and horribly murdered by a gang of ‘yoofs’ who then stole ‘DoubStepp’ from him.
Because they were unemployed, illiterate ‘yoofs’, they incorrectly spelled it ‘Dubstep’.
And that is how Dubstep was born.
In early 1969, while tripping total balls, the band Steppenwolf created a brand new style of music, the likes of which had never been heard before. It was a tightly coiled production with overwhelming bass lines and reverberant drum patterns, clipped samples, and occasional vocals. Once they had come down from their trip, the band realised this new musical style was something that could never see the light of day. Also, they had no idea what to call this new style, so decided to keep it under wraps.
However, a time-travelling Spaniard from the year 1730, happened upon Steppenwolf discussing this new music they had created and offered to buy it from them. The time-travelling Spaniard paid the band in gold doubloons, thanked them, and continued his time-travels.
Once they had recovered from their all-too-understandable shock (they all thought they were having a mass-flashback) the band decided to name the music they had sold to the time-travelling Spaniard; as they had been paid in doubloons and the band name was ‘Steppenwolf’, they decided to call it ‘DoubStepp’.
The time-travelling Spaniard (remember him?) time-traveled to Britain, arriving in the late 1990’s where he was beaten up and horribly murdered by a gang of ‘yoofs’ who then stole ‘DoubStepp’ from him.
Because they were unemployed, illiterate ‘yoofs’, they incorrectly spelled it ‘Dubstep’.
And that is how Dubstep was born.
