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S/D-85: Tasty clippings from Corey's Box
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That sounds above my pay grade. Lol I'm thinking of getting a controller but would rather just find loops I can drop in and re tempo to my liking. Which is kinda what I'm doing now. If I remember I'll put a link to the track I did at my earliest attempt at a song.
They lived up to and exceeded. Kind of sucks they didn't have amps on stage (not sure if they had cabs in the back), but the sound was excellent. You could hear every note on the bass with perfect clarity. Even super fast low notes on the B string were audible. I suppose it is really down to the band and the engineer whether the ampless stage setup works because I have now seen some bands who sound great doing it and some that bore me to tears.
As far as the band themselves go it was amazing. The lead singer is this giant viking but he walks around grinning and pointing at people in the audience and is then super polite between songs, yet they play some of the most brutal music. I haven't been to a show where the crowd was this into it in awhile. The place was packed and everyone was going nuts. It was like being at a teenage punk show everyone was going so crazy.
In all honesty, Amon Amarth may now be the best purely metal band I have ever seen.
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Russian Circles are amazing live, I haven't seen them in a minute, but I definitely intend to check them out next time they come through.
I've really liked their last 2 releases.
I've really liked their last 2 releases.
Just the name sounds like a boring place...
Hey if you see Hartley, you should ask him if he remembers making my Vulcan. And pick it up from the tech on your way home, its in Missouri, thanks!
Hey if you see Hartley, you should ask him if he remembers making my Vulcan. And pick it up from the tech on your way home, its in Missouri, thanks!
Yeah, the Wikipedia page is not convincing me to visit.
It might be interesting, I'm sure they'd feed us well. Other than that it would just be two days of product training.
Whether or not Superior Drummer 2.0 is within your budget is another issue, but it comes with what are essentially "loops", their midi packs. They're pre recorded beats played on e-drum kits by real drummers, but it's just the captured midi, you can play it back with any set of drum samples you want from the program instead of being locked in to a recorded loop. You can also go in and edit the midi yourself, like I do. They have a pretty good assortment of midi packs, I think they're usually about $30 each. The program comes with some, you can also use midi packs by other developers, but personally I've found Toontrack's themselves to be the best ones. They have metal specific packs, tons of rock stuff. I have about 4 or 5 of them, a couple for blastbeats and "death metal" type beats (which I mostly use for the d-beats) and a couple different rock/songwriter packs that have basic 4/4 and 6/8 style beats that I use and modify a lot. There's a few more basic rock type packs I've been meaning to pick up.
Usually what I do is find something that's close to what I want, then go in and edit it a bit to suit. That way I don't have to spend an hour adjusting the velocity and placement of all the beats to make them seem more natural. Typically I'm doing a mix of that and some stuff I've sequenced from scratch anyway. It's also really good for natural sounding fills, even if I'm moving them from snare to toms or the other way around.
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I'm really bad with drum machines, and programming beats. Every time I've gotten one or tried, I ended up giving up with nothing to show.
For being part of the rythmn section, I have a very bad grasp on how the other half works.
I ordered one of these though....
Beat Buddy
Seems like it'll be up my alley considering I won't have to program it, and it'll give me a selection of changeable drum beats to practice with.
They aren't shipping till April...but I feel like it could be cool for home use.
For being part of the rythmn section, I have a very bad grasp on how the other half works.
I ordered one of these though....
Beat Buddy
Seems like it'll be up my alley considering I won't have to program it, and it'll give me a selection of changeable drum beats to practice with.
They aren't shipping till April...but I feel like it could be cool for home use.
One of the best live 3pc I've ever seen.
Brian Cook is one of my favorite bassist.
I wouldn't miss this show.
It's worth noting I already know how to play drums and have lots of experience with sequencing midi though. I already knew standard notation and played percussion in high school. So I've always paid attention in bands to how the drums played the beats and had good communication with them for songwriting and playing my parts. Plus when I started recording seriously I bought a kit and took lessons. So I already know about constructing beats and the subtleties of playing and just translate that to midi sequencing. So what works for me is probably far off from entry level stuff. Same way as I've been doing woodworking most of my life, so there's a lot of stuff that's rudimentary to me that I wouldn't necessarily say "oh yeah, it's easy!" to a beginner. If you already know about constructing beats and sequencing midi, the stuff I use is a great tool. Compared to how I used to have to sequence stuff with ACTUAL midi sounds when songwriting 10+ years ago and it sounded terrible.
Lol those diagrams are for me, I bought the bass cab and he was trying to help me make it better, but I sold it off for a profit instead, because I didn't have a deal on new speakers like you did.
Never met Will, but sold him some stuff via my parents and talk cabs anytime I'm in a pickle, he's a standup guy in my book.
Same here, although I'm starting to sit down on my drummers set and randomly flail. And my concept of drummer is starting to increase. I can tell its already helping in syncing with drums.
I think having experience playing drums in a band situation definitely helps when playing bass. It's been a long time since I've played drums regularly, but I've done it enough to get fairly good, though it was a lot of work and a LOT of practice to get to a spot where I was comfortable performing in front of people.
I still can't program drums for ****, but the experience has definitely made me a better bass player.
I still can't program drums for ****, but the experience has definitely made me a better bass player.
Having a neighbor/drummer as a band mate was kick ass. He had a big gretsch kit and would bring it to my house or We'd go to his place to take advantage of my neighborhoods large yards and lack of volume constraints. Usually practices had me bringing in baselines and playing them until the drummer formed a beat so there was a good several minutes between me locking in what I did and the drums forming the beat around me before the guitarist came in so I could hear the beats develop around me and that really helped.
It also helped I switched back and forth to guitar the entire time and ended practices by shooing the guitarist out and getting 1-1 time with the drummer to learn on his kit and watch him play alone as he explained his style and how he got the tone he did.
It also helped I switched back and forth to guitar the entire time and ended practices by shooing the guitarist out and getting 1-1 time with the drummer to learn on his kit and watch him play alone as he explained his style and how he got the tone he did.
I'm pretty intrigued to see his rig tonight after watching the Rig Rundown episode they did.
