[QUOTE=FlamingCouch;18126074]Jeez, that's a good question.

Modest Mouse, Propagandhi, Matthew Good, Godspeed, Rush, Brian MacMillan, Fugazi, Bell Orchestre, the Hip, I Hate You When You're Pregnant, Holy Fu[SIZE="2"]ck, Fuc[/SIZE]ked Up, Gob, Les Trois Accords, Les Denis Drolet, Thrice, Minibosses, Josh Ritter, Beastie Boys, Joel Plaskett, Minutemen, fIREHOSE, Mastodon, Elton John, Barenaked Ladies, Dan Auerbach, Mike Hale, Metric, Ween, Sam Roberts, Alexisonfire, Husker Du, International Noise Conspiracy, Wide Mouth Mason, Arctic Monkeys, Coldplay, The Blood Brothers, Beck, Shadowy Men on a Shadowy Planet, Tapes 'n Tapes, Arcade Fire, the list goes on forever... definitely feel like I have too many Canadians in there though.

Really though the only things I don't really dig are 90% of top-40 radio and about the same on the rap/hip-hop spectrum. I love jazz music but it's more of a whoever's playing at the time kinda
thing. Classical music is really cool, techno's good... the genres are just not the ones I focus on.

I know what you mean about classifying the band... I hate trying to explain what I play to people. The easiest way to say it would be indie rock I guess, but then you get thinking of the billion-or-so influcences behind the tunes and start throwing shapes... "well, it's really Modest-Mouse influenced kinda indie rock, but there's prog and punk influences with a touch of folk à la Josh Ritter, plus a real Godspeed influence..." and then of course they're all lost.[/QUOTE]

hahaha, yes, lots of Canadian music in that list.
Well, it's good to know that you're not one of those "I only listen to [I]this[/I] genre" guys. I'll definitely hook you up some of the stuff we've done.
I don't really think of bands or try to sound like anyone in particular when I write, but I think about how bands construct their songs and how what I'm writing can fit into the style I'm aiming for.

[QUOTE=FlamingCouch;18126022]'02 Ibanez GSR 200 - dead and gone, more or less. was my main bass forever back in highschool. Electronics died early on and it was forever being fixed, then I played it full-on for two or three years, long-term lent it to a friend of mine and his dad and the electronics died again. last I heard it was in Sudbury, ON in pieces. Too bad, but it had its run. It was a great bass, played real nice, real worn in.[/QUOTE]

Haha, my first bass was a GSR200 too.

[quote=fatbandit;18126356]My amp has one 4 and one 8 ohm tap. Also, it would sound different, as it allows you to reach more overdriven sounds before becoming too loud, as less speakers push less air and volume. It's all a question of if I had £1000 hanging around anyway.

Which I don't.[/quote]

A 4-ohm and 8-ohm switch? That makes a difference as you'll be able to keep your tone nearly identical.

Your 4x12 should be very simply wired. Can you take off a plate and look into the wiring? I suspect it's just four 4-ohm speakers wired in parallel and then paired in series - no added resistors, inductors, or capacitors because there's no crossover. I think it could be achieved with a simple DPDT switch, which is a $2 mod. I'll ponder some more.

Intresting, I left my jazz without strings for a week, just slapped new strings on it, now its got suppppppppppppper nice action and way less buzz.


just when i was thinking about selling it hahah, i cant put it down :P

Having just seen it, an exterminator whistling while he works is a hilarious image.

I think I'd make a good exterminator.

Couldn't an exterminator just as accurately be referred to as a terminator, what necessary modification does the "ex" bring to it?

It makes you think they're killing some sort of small bug or animal... a terminator sounds like a general killer. "You need something dead? No questions asked, I'm there!"

TERMINATOR JOE

HAVE TRIGGERspray WILL TRAVEL

I can see him sticking his spray wand down someone's throat and pulling the trigger until the poison fills their lungs and explodes them in their chest.

Matt, give me your email when you see this and I'll send you some music.

Our album's now on pre-order on Amazon, Play.com and all the other usual suspects. Sweeeeeeeeet ^_^

[quote=Crapdragoon;18127207]Intresting, I left my jazz without strings for a week, just slapped new strings on it, now its got suppppppppppppper nice action and way less buzz.


just when i was thinking about selling it hahah, i cant put it down :P[/quote]

Are the new strings different than the old strings?

It sounds like your jazz just needed a minor truss rod adjustment.

[QUOTE=Spaceman Spiff;18127599]Matt, give me your email when you see this and I'll send you some music.[/QUOTE]

leafs fan underscore forty-two at hotmail dot com.

fo'reals.

Gaslight - my GSR was actually my second bass... but wasn't it just the best forever? Such a solid unit. I literally had two accidents with it and it suffered no ill effects... once I was biking home from school and I had brought the GSR with me for band class, when a school bus leaving the area failed to stop in time. I hit the brakes as the bus was blowing the intersection, bailed off the bike and literally fell on top of the bass, at a high rate of speed... and then very nearly burst into tears. No sooner did I get up and unzip the bag that I found the bass to be absolutely fine - one little bitty dent in the finish, and otherwise just perfect. Still in tune!

Another time the school band was touring schools and centres in the area for a day's worth of sets. We had just finished the last set at the last school at three PM, and because my drummer and guitarist were both in the school band with me, the guitarist's little brother jumps up and starts screaming "MATT! SHAWN! MATT! PLAY SOME JCS SONGS!" so everyone in the audience starts laughing and cheering (we were kind of popular at the time) and the teachers are basically saying no way, because we'd have to keep the bus waiting that much longer. but we all start clapping, myself included... and then the strap literally fell off my bass and I helplessly watched it crash to the floor. But again, not even a dent.

Dammit, now I really miss that bass. heheh.

Yeah man, mine was in the wars too. Fell off the strap twice from a few feet in the air, shattered bits of the plastic finish on both occasions but it still played just fine.

May not have been a fancy bass but it lasted me from high school through to the start of uni when I bought myself a new bass, as a gift not as a necessity. Glad I upgraded because I love my SR500 to bits, but I'm also glad that I got 5 good years of out of my first bass, learnt my first anythings about music on it, did my first gigs on it, all those kinda memories.

[quote=FunkMetalBass;18128023]Are the new strings different than the old strings?

It sounds like your jazz just needed a minor truss rod adjustment.[/quote]


No, same type.


It seems the truss rod screw doesnt turn anymore, like its gone as far as it can or something. The bass is about 25 years old so eh

[quote=Crapdragoon;18128556]No, same type.


It seems the truss rod screw doesnt turn anymore, like its gone as far as it can or something. The bass is about 25 years old so eh[/quote]

Many jazz basses suffer from that condition. If you throw a couple small washers under the nut, you can get a couple more turns out of it.

If I go back to school full time, my spring semester is going to be scary as sh*t.

MAT485 | History of Mathematics | 7:30 – 8:45
MAT445 | Theory of Numbers | 9:00 – 10:15
MAT372 | Advanced Calculus 2 | 12:00 – 13:15
MAT416 | Intro to Graph Theory | 13:30 – 14:45

That's full time?

[QUOTE=gaslight;18133004]That's full time?[/QUOTE]

My degree's "full time".

On average I probably go for about 8 hours a week.

How does that qualify as full time, are they all worth a huge amount of credit points?

When I was doing uni full time here I'm pretty sure it was a minimum of 20 hours class time a week to be counted as full time.

[quote=gaslight;18133416]How does that qualify as full time, are they all worth a huge amount of credit points?

When I was doing uni full time here I'm pretty sure it was a minimum of 20 hours class time a week to be counted as full time.[/quote]

They're all worth 3 credit hours apiece.

12 credit hours is considered full time, at least as far as insurance, loans, and taxes are concerned. You need 15 credit hours weekly to graduate "on time."

That's pretty sweet man, they're a bit less generous about the full time student status here.

[quote=gaslight;18133862]That's pretty sweet man, they're a bit less generous about the full time student status here.[/quote]

How long are your semesters/terms? How many credits do you need to get a degree? I suspect that could be a factor.

I think full-time students here are also expected to hold a job, which is another potential reason.

Different universities all operate to different schedules here.

The main factor of difference here is probably that full time students are not expected to be working, in fact if you're a full time student here you're not supposed to be working (the thinking is, if you've got time to work, then you're not being a full time student).

[quote=Sablate McNuff;18131678]Many jazz basses suffer from that condition. If you throw a couple small washers under the nut, you can get a couple more turns out of it.[/quote]







???

is that only for necks that have the truss rod screw at the top of the neck? Mine has it where it meets the body... have to take off the pickguard its so annoying haha

[quote=Crapdragoon;18134360]???

is that only for necks that have the truss rod screw at the top of the neck? Mine has it where it meets the body... have to take off the pickguard its so annoying haha[/quote]

It should be the case with any adjustable truss rod.

got a presonus audiobox today. recording live is like. amazing. now i need a good program and a bunch of analog effects.

Damn, my Tone Pump Jr preamp crapped out on me and I recently threw out my Brice preamp. Any suggestions as to how to fill the controls for this OLP? It has 4 holes and one switch.

wire direct from pickup to jack, and just have loads of knobs that do nothing. passive ftw.

Just bought one of these:

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[QUOTE=gaslight;18133416]How does that qualify as full time, are they all worth a huge amount of credit points?

When I was doing uni full time here I'm pretty sure it was a minimum of 20 hours class time a week to be counted as full time.[/QUOTE]

Well all the uni's in QLD to qualify as "full time" you have to be attending 4 units, although according to centrelink "75% of a full time workload" also quantifies full time, so technically you can do 3 units. Although 2 units is "standard" part time and 1 is just if you're lazy. At the moment I'm doing 3 and they each have 3 hours contact time (sometimes less); at home I do a bit of work but generally i get a lot of it done in between classes.

So basically I do about one and half days legitimate uni work and a few hours reading throughout the week. After that and working (two jobs currently) and band practice 2-3 nights a week I'm pretty wrecked. If uni was legitimately "full time" i wouldn't be able to do any of the things which I only now barely have time to do.

It's funny it can be that different from state to state hey.

Here there's some New Start allowance thing for people who are studying full time and over a certain age or whatever, seeing as you're not meant to be working. It's something hilarious though like $400 a fortnight.

[QUOTE=gaslight;18135158]It's funny it can be that different from state to state hey.

Here there's some New Start allowance thing for people who are studying full time and over a certain age or whatever, seeing as you're not meant to be working. It's something hilarious though like $400 a fortnight.[/QUOTE]

We have some small business thing where centrelink is basically an investor and give you a stupid amount of money for three years. Newstart here I think is if you're chronically unemployed or have just finished a degree or trade. I think.

Needless to say it's impossible to get the small business grant because so many people jumped on the opportunity for a free $30k or whatever.

So anyway, a serious question. I'm going to the doc's about it but can't get in for a while.

I smashed the slapping joint of my thumb pretty badly last Thursday on something that wasn't a string and couldn't play with it the pain was that bad. Thought it'd be fine by Monday night, nope. Still hurts to play today, think I've done some legitimate damage there. Anyone had a similar thing/know what the hell it is.

I can't imagine it being a fracture as movement etc. is fine, just really sore on the side of the joint. FML.

It's probably just a bruise, on a really thin-skinned area of your hands, which have disgusting amounts of nerve endings and very sensitive bones. Give it another week and see how you feel. I've smacked that part of my thumb on desks when tapping my fingers, and I couldn't slap without pain for well over a week.

If you have insurance and cheap co-pay (or however it works in aussie land), you might go see the doc, but he'll probably just tell you to take it easy until the pain goes away.

Gaslight:

I remember you asking about tour dates for my band - finally have all the dates confirmed, so thought I'd let you know :)

Here's when we're in NSW -

29th October - The Excelsior, Sydney
30th October - Wickham Park Hotel, Newcastle
4th November - Port Macquarie Hotel, Port Macquarie
5th November - Sawtell, Coffs Harbour
6th November - Pacific Hotel, Yamba
7th November - The Rails, Byron Bay

Cool man, which Excelsior, there's one in Surry Hills one in Glebe?

I actually have no idea man :p The dates are about the extent of the info I've gotten so far, will let you know though. The other exciting news is that we got played on Triple J last night, so we're all pretty stoked about that.

EDIT: On second thoughts, I'm guessing it's the Excelsior in Surry Hills, mate.

Cool man, I've played at both and Surry Hills is definitely the better of the two as far as being a venue goes.