Guitar players hate playing the guitar parts I write because they never want to use my exact voicings, and if they won't do that, then I don't really want them playing it. So it ends up that it has to be me doing it if I want it to be how I wrote it.

Couch, what other pedals do you have? Are you a big collector?

Also, here's us doing Turnover: [url]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mnzqtzAUpvo[/url]

Oh, and here's me and my Tele. It's beautiful, I know. :D
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Exactly - it's like that with a lot of my basslines. because I play my bass like a guitar, most people don't feel it really meshes with what I'm trying to do. Then I just think of Geddy Lee and laugh at those people in my head.

On the entirely different spectrum, I play my guitar with bass just about maxed out so it's a pretty heavy chunky kinda sound. I use a Jazz Chorus and have a digital delay that's my absolute main-stay and is always on too, so it always makes a beautiful mess. :D

Unfortunately, I can't watch the videos... or see the picture. :( The work computer has websense on it so you know it's (not) good.

I'll make up a list of the gear in a minute or two. One of these days I want to buy a domain again and get everything I've got on it with pictures. People are usually taken aback when they see how much music junk one guy has managed to accumulate, hahah.

and hey, for what it's worth you can call me Matt if you like.

The bassist in my band plays interestingly. A lot of chords, a lot of melody, and also a lot of normal bass playing. It helps fill out the sound a lot because it's just one guitar, one bass, and drums. Vocals, too, but you know what I mean.

Yeah, I know exactly what you mean about it being cool to be able to step up and add a little more from the bass when you've only got guitar and drums with you. The vast majority of original bands I've been in have required that kind of extra contribution from the bass, and doing that kind of thing is probably what has given me the most fun, and shaped my playing the most over the years.

[QUOTE=FlamingCouch;18125995]Unfortunately, I can't watch the videos... or see the picture. :( The work computer has websense on it so you know it's (not) good.

I'll make up a list of the gear in a minute or two. One of these days I want to buy a domain again and get everything I've got on it with pictures. People are usually taken aback when they see how much music junk one guy has managed to accumulate, hahah.

and hey, for what it's worth you can call me Matt if you like.[/QUOTE]

Alright. Well, check them out when you get home if you like. And you can call me Zack if you want, or Spiff, I don't really care.

Also, if you're interested, I can hook you up some of our earlier stuff. The fact that you like Fugazi tells me that you probably, at least a bit, come from a similar musical background as us, and people that do are always more receptive to our style.

I wonder where Liam is lately.

It's been strangely positive around here.

Probably playing Starcraft 2. It's his new WoW.

Haha.

Too right.

I almost miss hearing how much he hates all of our music and thoughts on music and approaches to music.

I wouldn't go that far. :lol:

Hey so a million years later I'm back with that gear list.

guitars:
Peavey acoustic (Dad bought me this one and it's one of my most cherished instruments)
Challenger classical acoustic (nothing special, my jr. high was tossing a bunch of them out back in '03 and I took three and built one with the best parts)
'08 Fender acoustic (OK guitar, I bought it when my friends and I went to Coachella in '08 so I wouldn't wreck a guitar that had any sentimental value)
Squier Stratacoustic (the electric/acoustic. purchased on the cheaps for open mic gigs.)
'08 Fender Jazzmaster (my prize. my favorite guitar because it's just an absolute Champion to play.)
'06 Fender Highway 1 Stratocaster (bought in '06 specifically to play a guitar solo that came to my head, so I wouldn't forget it. I had returned to Fort St. John for a winter's work thinking "yeah, I won't need an instrument. I'll be busy all the time." ... yeah, right.

basses:
'06 Fender American Jazz (60th Anniversary) my main bass. I love it to pieces. the pickguard is pulled so it looks a bit like a Jaco right now.
'96 Fender Mexi. Jazz - the project bass I've talked about on here before; haven't done anything with it as I don't want to start 'til I have all the parts. of course it plays like an absolute dream and sounds as good as the USA Jazz so I feel guilty about tearing it apart... dammit.
'03/04 Spector Professional - real nice bass. It was my main before I bought the Jazz, but now I never play it anymore and it just sits there looking pretty and bumming me out, haha. It's up for sale right now, actually.
'Mach 2' Jazz copy - my first bass, and the absolute ultimate power Champion. if it wasn't for that thing I wouldn't be the man I am today, at a desk in a Beatrice milk T-shirt. Oh yeah.

'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.

amps:
TubeWorks 300W bass amp - never actually heard of these cats nor have I really researched, but it's a great amp. bought used for 300 bucks - another one of my great amp steals.
Ampeg B115 - bought used from Shreveport, Louisiana just before Hurricane Katrina. It shipped up with my Spector, actually. it was a bit of a package. great, great amp. Simon's playing out of it at this time.
Roland Jazz Chorus (50W) - my main guitar amp, and hopefully the only amp I'll ever need. bought this used for 300 as well, shortly after I bought the highway 1 strat. this amp was my greatest coup for gear so far.

pedals:
Jim Dunlop Crybaby wah with Fasel shifter
Boss DD-3 digital delay
Boss BF-3 flanger
the foot-switch for the Jazz Chorus, haha. I mostly use the chorus & vibrato.
Danelectro french toast octave distortion
hmmm... I'm trying to think of what else... a Boss acoustic simulator, but I don't use it in the board.
Currently I've also got a long-term loan in Simon's 'Chicken' pedal - a custom-build of the Soviet Big Muff. it sounds absolutely manly and is probably the best overdrive pedal I've ever played.
and of course a power-all system to keep everything running full-time.

I think that's it for the moment with the pedals, 'til I get that Phase Shifter. Also I'm thinking about picking up a T-Rex Alberta overdrive, partly because it sounds pretty bright and crunchy with the right settings and partly because the gang and I have a huge in-joke to do with Alberta and it would be good for so many laughs.

other gear - Pearl Export drum kit with Zildjian cymbals - bought off my pal Anthony, who was in a band I played in back in the day called Club Sandwich. the cymbals are pretty junky (the ZXTs) save for the one crash I replaced, I believe it's a ZBT. still have the crash I swapped it with, it's getting pretty bagged but it's fun to thrash out on or to use as a cymbal that fades quickly. a bunch of cases, stands, whatever, they don't count. ha. Two PA's - a Toa and a Realistic... lots of speaker sets for both. The Realistic came with some bad-ace custom Traynors... I think they have Cerwin speakers in them now.

That's all I can really think of at the moment.

Damn. That is quite the collection of gear.

How's that Danelectro pedal? They're really cheap, but I've heard some decent things come out of them.

It's really not too shabby. A friend who used to play gave it to me when he found out I was looking for a distortion pedal. I don't use it a whole hell of a lot to be honest... the music we play doesn't really call for [I]too[/I] much distortion, and I usually just use the overdrive. But for what I use it for it works.

[QUOTE=Spaceman Spiff;18126004]Alright. Well, check them out [B]when you get home[/B] if you like. And you can call me Zack if you want, or Spiff, I don't really care.

Also, [B]if you're interested, I can hook you up some of our earlier stuff[/B]. The fact that you like [B]Fugazi[/B] tells me that you probably, at least a bit, come from a similar musical background as us, and people that do are always more receptive to our style.[/QUOTE]

1 - low-tech over here. no TV, phone or internets at home. but as soon as I end up at a friend's place or the Safeway parking lot leeching on their wi-fi, I'm there.

2 - yes please.

3 - Fugazi are/were the man/men. Arpeggiator is one of my favorite tunes - one of those can always cheer me up songs.

Alright, will do.
What music do you listen to? List some bands, I guess?

Our music has grown a lot over the last two and a half years. It started out pretty straight-forward punk, each album took it to a new level. The new stuff isn't quite as punky on the whole, but it's still a key influence.

My favorite bands are stuff like The Mars Volta, Primus, Mr. Bungle, Brainiac, Dead Kennedys... I'm not really sure what comes out in our sound, though. I never know who to compare us to... we've gotten Mogwai a few times.

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=fatbandit;18125604]Yes, it has a Gain and a Master. But they kind of work together. They both produce different kinds of drive really. It isn't a clean amp.

I also don't think it's that pointless. When you think about it, it has a tilt bar and wheels, so providing there's no stairs (which it has skids for), it's a single one hand trip to a venue with it. With 2 2x12s, that's two two hand trips. Or even one two handed lift for a single 2x12.

So it would look better, stand closer to my ears, be more convenient to move, look better and have some versatility ;)

I think I've just convinced myself to be honest :p[/quote]

I'm just saying that switching to the top two speakers alone wont sound any different than running all four together and using your volume knob to quiet it down. There's also no easy way to calculate how much of a volume drop you can expect to have by cutting it this way. Is your amp 8 ohm stable?

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.

My wireless unit also stopped working today. What the hell? It won't switch on. That's something else I can't afford to replace. Poup :(

[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.