I really like older Glassjaw. Everything You Ever... etc. Damn good album.

Yeah, Daryl stopped being an angry little bitch after EYEWTKAS and the music suffered. Awesome album though. One of my favourites. His vocal performance is outstanding, and the the bass tone is perfect for heavy music IMO.

Really like the track that's been streaming off Glassjaw.com for a few months though

Wish they would hurry up and release that album that's been in the works for years now.

And yeah EWEWTKAS is definitely in my Top Ten.

[quote=fatbandit;17398814]Dear Hunter and Portugal are both bands I've listened to but never really fallen madly in love with. For Glassjaw, you really need to check out something like Lovebites and Razorlines (and check the tone in that bass break ^_^) or Hotel of the While Locust. That first album is some seminal post-hardcore right there.

Also just found out what gear their bass player was using for that recording session, so I'm going to go have a fiddle with my pedals and amp and see how close I can get :p[/quote]

Out of curiosity, what's he use?

Also, I broke down and bought a onespot last night. I now have all 5 pedals connected, but it's going to take a lot of fiddling around to get something I like. I notice also that the power supply doesn't fit into the Wasabi very well. Did you have that problem too?

Morley Vol -> Aphex Bass Xciter -> Boss Bass Overdrive -> Digitech Grunge -> Wasabi Echo/Delay -> Boss Chorus -> Amp.

God, this place is so dead.

saw the ugly truth the other day.

besides the obvious chick-flick moments, i actually enjoyed it.

but every time it showed a closeup of gerard butler i kept waiting for "THIS. IS. SPARTA!" and for him to kick someone.

[quote=burtonbassist_101;17403670]saw the ugly truth the other day.

besides the obvious chick-flick moments, i actually enjoyed it.

but every time it showed a closeup of gerard butler i kept waiting for "THIS. IS. SPARTA!" and for him to kick someone.[/quote]

It'd be epic if he did that to Catherine Heigl when she's up close to him and teasing/seducing him. :lol:

[QUOTE=FunkMetalBass;17403680]It'd be epic if he did that to Catherine Heigl when she's up close to him and teasing/seducing him. :lol:[/QUOTE]

rofl. yeah, that would've been PERFECT.

but sadly, was not meant to be. :(

[quote=FunkMetalBass;17400741]Out of curiosity, what's he use?[/quote]
He's used a few different setups. I found a blog on his Myspace about it. I'll dig up the link.

http://blogs.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=blog.view&friendId=227430&blogId=240411801

Looks like he was doing the clean DI signal and distorted amp signal - pretty much what I did on our last recordings. So I was along the right lines (Y)

[quote]Also, I broke down and bought a onespot last night. I now have all 5 pedals connected, but it's going to take a lot of fiddling around to get something I like. I notice also that the power supply doesn't fit into the Wasabi very well. Did you have that problem too?

Morley Vol -> Aphex Bass Xciter -> Boss Bass Overdrive -> Digitech Grunge -> Wasabi Echo/Delay -> Boss Chorus -> Amp.[/quote]

Yeah, I did find that it wasn't quite long enough, and kept coming out. I got Dave at OBBM (bassic-bits.co.uk) to make me up a connector with a different adapter tip which goes further into the pedal, and it worked fine.

Personally, I'd run that chain as ODB-3 -> Grunge -> CEB-3 -> volume pedal -> Xciter -> Wasabi. But that's my take on it. Ask 5 people for their signal chain, and you'll get 5 different answers.

I'm playing a show tonight, woo. On the way I'm stopping at cashies to look at a second hand trace elliot 4x10.

Nice. Not planning on using it on its lonesome are you?

Well no I can't just use a cab, I need amplification!

And probably, yeah a 410 is enough for me.

I wouldn't trust a 410 to provide the full range of sound you'll want if you're not gonna have anything else with it. Unless it's an Acme or a Schroeder or something like that. If it's a company that builds their 410s to be paired with a 15/18 in another box, you could have problems. If you want a one cab set up with the best of both worlds I'd recommend a 212.

Yeah, I'm not a huge 12 fan, but I was going to try and find a 212 I liked. And I'd probably just get 2 410s or something rather than a 15. I don't like 15s.

Either way, better than what I use now haha.

You should try them out man, I was never an advocate of them until I'd tried them, now I love them.

Back in my misguided youth I would sit around drawing an Ampeg full stack that I was dreaming of getting, 4x10, 1x18, some stupid Ampeg head. Would have cost easily over $10,000 and would have only been Ampeg at the end of the day, not to mention heavy and hard to transport. Then I ended up with an Aguilar head and this Epifani cab and I can literally carry my whole rig with me, comfortably one trip between the car and the venue every time (bass bag back-pack style, head slung over one shoulder, both hands free for the cab, though it's a cab you can comfortable carry one handed too). It's so sweet.

Post you freaking dandies.

I need a van so I can have a devastatingly massive rig.

Haha yeah I was trying to sort out what car I'd get with the main feature of it being it would transport my rig then I just tthought, what the hell am I doing, I've urinated away more than enough money on music already before bringing motor vehicles into it.

General rule = motorvehicles, if present, exacerbate any situation to which they are not essential.

IE:

"This door is stuck!"
"Hold on, I'll get my ute..."

vs

"Hey, let's drive a long way."
"Hold on, I'll get my ute!"

Bored.

I have two bandmates who drive. Needless to say, my stuff goes in their cars ;)

So really, I want one of them to buy a van so I can have a devastatingly massive rig.

Haha man, you've just gotta think in your head "I'm his girlfriend, and I want a van".

"Wouldn't it be cool if you got a van dude, think of how great it would be. You could spend more time in it with the people you like the most, and have room for all their nice things. I really think we need to buy a van."
"We need to buy a van?"
"Yes you need to buy a van."
"I need to buy a van."
"I love you."
"...what?"

By a quirk of spatial dynamics, the cars I have access too tend to fit my exact rig and nothing else. I've managed to fit an extra guitar amp / guitar / guitarist once but that was it.

It's so hard to say "no sorry, my car only has room for exactly my gear and nothing more" without coming across like you're trying to be a jerk. Especially when part of you really wants to come across like you're being a jerk.

Haha - I think our guitarist already wants the van, but he's poor. To be honest, I'd be happy to put towards it and just have everyone pitch in for a band van.

I am really good with loading cars though. We had two cars which were full of gear, and then I bought a second cab. Nobody believed it would fit until I rearranged it all ;p I have a job getting all my pedals into my pedalboard when I rearrange it though :(

Haha yeah I enjoy the whole Tetris process too.

Can be rough pitching in for a band van when it comes to what happens to it should the band ever disperse. I think the fair thing to do would be just draw up an agreement whereby if the band breaks up, someone can just buy out the other guys' share of the van or whatever.

That's exactly what I liken it to ;p When we've got the van, I'm thinking we also need a driver ^_^

Did you ever download our EP dude?

Do you ever have the dream where you stack all the gear perfectly, and it disappears into the floor?

'Cause honestly I don't but I'd really proud of my subconscious if I did.

Are you Mae's Lost Empire?

There's a reason to stack gear badly if ever I heard one :/

Yeah, that's us D:

Tetris is such a quintessentially Russian game. There is no way to win, but you can prolong your inevitable demise through incredible difficulty.

So where does that band name come from?

mknxzciuhvbja izxcufbhn az\figbz\sdighoiux cb

That's as good a story as any :p.

You could have ended up being called Emily, haha.

I think I might float that name change as a proposal at our next practice.

O hai gice

Is it just me or if you go to the Bass Player magazine website (bassplayer.com) and click Subscribe to try and subscribe, that page doesn't work?

I don't know nor am I going to try. Gig went OFF last night man.

I wanna hear all about it right after you check that site thing for me :lol:.

Please :chug:.

Fine... I guess.

While I don't like being coerced, in this case I shall make an exception.

The subscription form boots up fine for me. However I'm not putting in my details and potentially subscribing just to try it out.

Oh I didn't want you to try to subscribe or anything.

I don't get a form :(. Now tell me of your sweet gig champ.

Haha, get a new browser.

Man it went off, wasn't expecting that good of a turn out, nearly to capacity I'd say. So we'll definitely make some moolah as well. But hell, even if we didn't it was just a great venue, 8x5m stage, great sound guy and good lighting. Just went off without a hitch, everyone getting into it, calling for more songs, was just a great night for all involved.

I have Opera I shouldn't need a new one :angry:.

Nice man, how many people do you estimate? Do you guys have physical copies of your music to sell?

We were supposed to have them ready but they got delayed a week, we should have them this week now. Well I know over 100 because there were that many people before we even started playing (we were headlining). And capacity was 300 I think, I'd say around 200 which was good considering the notice and the fact we haven't played a show in a long time.

That's heaps awesome dude. Feel free to hit me up if you ever need short runs of something done and packaged, jewel cases or snazzy digipack style things, stuff like that. I do stuff for local bands around here but some interstate action would be pretty awesome. I'll send you a copy of my old band's EP when it's done so you can check out the work.