Gaolee
Official leathers tester and crash dummy
No controls. Just jacks. I like it!
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Gaolee
Official leathers tester and crash dummy
And three of us ask whats a clock?885 of us say counterclockwise
Same. I love the Loxx. I already replaced the Dunlops on the RNR with Loxx before I even brought it to the luthier. Only downside to them is if you forget your strap. Because of that, I have a strap that stays in my gig bag and another that stays at home. Problem solved.
No matter what I dial on any of my basses and cabinets it still just sounds like me, unfortunately it that isn't a particularly good thing. I have tried playing along with Rio and I have to say I am no John Taylor. I am not even Sid Vicious. Bollocks.To be sure, I love my single pick up Lull and the Greco TB II. The new SWR cabinet just responds quite different from my older GKs and it was pretty cool to dial in something very John Taylor.
I'm just this guy. You know?
Isn't that Zaphod?
Gaolee
Official leathers tester and crash dummy
Um, no. Night follows day.
Gaolee
Official leathers tester and crash dummy
Kinda. I am on the road again and came upon a roll over crash. Add first responder, phone division, to my credentials. Everyone was ok. No blood. Good thing. I might have passed out. There is precedent.
Gaolee
Official leathers tester and crash dummy
Plagiarism is basic to all culture. I steal from everybody.
- Pete Seager
Gaolee
Official leathers tester and crash dummy
My brother says it always sounds like me, no matter if I am playing bass, drums, guitar, kazoo...
It may or may not be a good thing.
Gaolee
Official leathers tester and crash dummy
And to explain all the typos, I am in New Mexico, attempting to be coherent on a cell phone with big, fat, prehistoric thumbs.
Actually, most recently, Barry Comden followed Day.
And don't forget, in the beginning, light came after the darkness.
Each of my basses has its own dedicated strap which I don't remove-as seen in all the pix.
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I hope you got an instruction manual with that head.(not that we'd actually read the damn thing)Pretty much the same here. My amp has infinitely more tone shaping capability than my basses but I have a tendency to take a "set it and forget it" stance with my amp (exception being adjustments during sound check to compensate for room dynamics). My passive on board settings normally heavily favor the neck and largely turn the tone knob way down, then I dial in the bridge pup to add clarity and bump the tone knob one way or the other to get the level of crispness I need.
All that said, I could probably dime my on board bass controls and pups then fidget with my amp controls to get the sound I want but with all the knobs and choices and options on the face of the amp...
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...it would take me ten times longer to get there. (Screen shot of the same amp I use, not my actual amp, I take no responsibility for the settings on the amp in the picture). It is a fantastic amp and based on the old Gibson GB-440, which I think was based on an Acoustic brand amp. Kicks butt with the TBirds.
That's Anti-intuitive.
Not sure if I counted right, but I think I counted seven, including the mic in the kick drum on the right. Should sound great either way.
Don't you find it difficult to step on the buttons like that?
Hmm. Possibly. There was still a lotta non-PC in it but ya hadda read lips.
I thought night followed Hasselhoff.
