[QUOTE=BenJammin;17161936]Yeah, I'm going to get a 1/4" to 1/8" cable so I can hook my laptop into my looper and use Reason to loop with.[/QUOTE]

What do you use for a MIDI controller? I've used a keyboard but it's obviously not hands-free. I'd like to experiment with a MIDI foot controller.

[quote=Sablate McNuff;17161925]In other news, I just pieced together this old hookah, and it's rather ghetto at the moment. I've decided to give it to my sister for he 18th birthday, but I want to re-color it. I'm not going to buy a new bowl, so I'll have the one currently on there, which is the orange bowl in the back:

[IMG]http://www.hookahkings.com/images/uploads/COLOREDBOWLS_L.jpg[/IMG]

The color is actually a little closer to this:
[IMG]http://i6.photobucket.com/albums/y225/funkmetalbass/bowlcolor.jpg[/IMG]

I'm going to stain both the glass base and the metal stem. Any suggestions on a color scheme that would work well with that? I'm kind of thinking that a nice Blue/Silver combo with a hose to match the bowl might look kind of nice.[/quote]

Help?

[QUOTE=EADGCF;17162897]What do you use for a MIDI controller? I've used a keyboard but it's obviously not hands-free. I'd like to experiment with a MIDI foot controller.[/QUOTE]

All I've got is a Korg K49 keyboard. Pretty basic stuff.

[QUOTE=BenJammin;17163006]All I've got is a Korg K49 keyboard. Pretty basic stuff.[/QUOTE]

I'm thinking of getting a MicroKorg. Ideally, I'd want a Moog of some sort (I want a synth with a vocoder), but any Moog will be at least $1500. The MicroKorg I can get for $300-350 if I go used.

Also, would you be interested in checking out a live video of my band from Friday? We played this new song, not flawlessly, but we played it quite well. It's a really hard song we've been working on for a while, and will appear on the next album.

Here's the video: [url]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a7eOufcwJE0[/url]

Yeah, I'll check it out.

[QUOTE=BenJammin;17163047]Yeah, I'll check it out.[/QUOTE]

I think you (you in particular) will like it more than our other earlier stuff... can't guarantee, but I think it'll appeal to you more.

You know what happens when you assume, Spiff. :)

[QUOTE=BenJammin;17163072]You know what happens when you assume, Spiff. :)[/QUOTE]

:lol:

Oh well.

lol@what just happened

It really doesn't bother me that you guys don't like the music I make. I know some people like us and some people don't, that's how it goes with anything. I'm perfectly willing to engage in conversation with either type of person about it, though.

I'd definitely like to show you guys the album when it's recorded. I can't say if you'll like it or not, but it's music I definitely like listening to. That said, I'm notorious for having ridiculous taste in music.

I think I'm going to quit MX. Constant server problems, nobody can help me with my hookah color issues...

TB, here I come.

Just got back from TB.

I like MX better.

Spiff, I'll check out your stuff tomorrow. I just feel too shitty to try to listen to anything and review it.

get black dude.

so, this really respected bass player/music teacher in my town has heard about me (he's been playing in a band with my mom, who also plays bass) and wants to meet up with me this week.

i'm really excited. this guy is amazing, and he wants to see what i've got.

[QUOTE=burtonbassist_101;17163504]so, this really respected bass player/music teacher in my town has heard about me (he's been playing in a band with my mom, who also plays bass) and wants to meet up with me this week.

i'm really excited. this guy is amazing, and he wants to see what i've got.[/QUOTE]

He's already seen what your mom's got. :naughty:

Peavey Classic 50 vs Fender Hot Rod Deville



Go!

[QUOTE=BenJammin;17163006]All I've got is a Korg K49 keyboard. Pretty basic stuff.[/QUOTE]

I meant to use as a foot controller for a looper, unless you are really accurate with those toes.

[QUOTE=EADGCF;17163531]I meant to use as a foot controller for a looper, unless you are really accurate with those toes.[/QUOTE]

I don't have a foot controller yet.

[QUOTE=Mr. Pickle;17163518]Peavey Classic 50 vs Fender Hot Rod Deville



Go![/QUOTE]

I would have to say Fender

why?

[QUOTE=burtonbassist_101;17163504]my mom, who also plays bass[/QUOTE]

can we get pics of your mom?

[QUOTE=Jimbobntnr;17164019]can we get pics of your mom?[/QUOTE]

you know just how to read me

[QUOTE=Mr. Pickle;17163737]why?[/QUOTE]

tried one out at a guitar shop-simple, straightforward clean and dirty channels and it sounded pretty sweet too.

of course I was playing a lovely PRS so that might have helped a little bit too:p

[quote=Sablate McNuff;17163302]Just got back from TB.

I like MX better.

Spiff, I'll check out your stuff tomorrow. I just feel too poopty to try to listen to anything and review it.[/quote]
Try RIT for the base and I dunno, acrylic paint for the stem?


Super super super concentrated RIT though. They're, like, 49 cents a package at walmart in the craft section. Follow the directions, but either put more in at the beginning or boil it down further.

guitars are like basses for queers

[quote=PaulSimonon;17164195]Try RIT for the base and I dunno, acrylic paint for the stem?


Super super super concentrated RIT though. They're, like, 49 cents a package at walmart in the craft section. Follow the directions, but either put more in at the beginning or boil it down further.[/quote]

I'm going to use glass stain for both.

I need a color scheme though.

Hah... I picked up and played my bass for the first time in well over a year, probably closer to two, and it was kind of depressing.

I used to be pretty good. Not nearly as good as the best on here, but I was serviceable. Now, there's really nothing left from what I used to be able to do. Its true: use it or lose it.

[QUOTE=ThePatient;17164307]Hah... I picked up and played my bass for the first time in well over a year, probably closer to two, and it was kind of depressing.

I used to be pretty good. Not nearly as good as the best on here, but I was [B]serviceable[/B]. Now, there's really nothing left from what I used to be able to do. Its true: [B]use it or lose it[/B].[/QUOTE]

:naughty:

Sorry, I don't commute to Canada.

I agree. I notice the same thing with my playing. I keep my chops up a little, but I just can't do what I used to, and it's really starting to hinder my writing and recording.

Masturbating hinders your eyesight.

So, last week it was like 16C/60F then, all of a sudden it starts f[size=2]u[/size]cking blizzarding today with f[size=2]u[/size]cking ice pellets and shi[size=2]t[/size].

F[size=2]u[/size]ck this country.

lol it's been 65-73 for the past week

[QUOTE=BenJammin]He's already seen what your mom's got. [/QUOTE]

i should've seen that one coming...

mixing bass guitar in metal is both tedious and rewarding

[quote=Mr. Pickle;17164490]Masturbating hinders your eyesight.[/quote]
Turning Japanese, I think I'm turning Japanese, I think I think so

Oh my god. My phone contract is SO stupid.

They made me pay for an upgrade on it that I didn't want for 3 months, and now they've repaid me they're charging me for going over my allowance of text messages. When I have an unlimited text messages upgrade for my phone. So now I'm out of pocket by £34. I'm going to kill someone.

**hides behind rock**

Cell phone companies are out to screw you.

Give it 10 years, though, and I bet all cell phones are unlimited talk, picture, text, internet, and whetever other features they have these days.

[QUOTE=FunkMetalBass;17166252]**hides behind rock**

Cell phone companies are out to screw you.

Give it 10 years, though, and I bet all cell phones are unlimited talk, picture, text, internet, and whetever other features they have these days.[/QUOTE]

Yep.

Speaking from someone who works in the telecommunications business, as of now, it's a huge rip-off.

To be honest, at least here in Canada, it's partly our governements fault. Right now, we have three big companies that pretty much monopolize the entire market. Each also own a sister company that don't charge system fees or sign-up fees, ext, but all the money ends up going to the same place.

Our plans, compared to the rest of the world are total garbage. I had a couple from England come into my store the other day and trying to explain to them that we had fees for call display, or that you didn't get unlimited calling or texts or whatever was embarrassing.

Then everyone here complains that the big three are monopolizing the market - which they are - but the CRTC (the body which governs radio and telecommunications) won't let companies from the U.S. (Sprint, At&T, Verizon, ext) come and enter our market.

I mean, at the same time, the city of Chicago represents all of Canada's cellphone users, so the market has something to do with it, but its still crap.

Anyone here? I'm at work.