I just signed up for an account, so I can't make a new thread. BUT this might be interesting news to some:

TRAVIS RICHTER QUITS THE HUMAN ABSTRACT

I just got this email from Brett, their drummer.

Brett Powell to me

show details Jul 14 (1 day ago)


Hey man travs a deuche he pretty much quit the band cuz he's scared jade will cheat on him if he goes on tour.. I had nothing to do with that isanyoneup crap dude, you've done a good job tormenting trav, I told him he should never mess with jade to begin with cuz he knew u and that's fucked up but he's obviously insecure and doesn't care about biting hands that feed him.

U fucked withme tho when u said a bunch of shit to alexis for no reason, so fuck off dude don't waste my time with your long pathetic emails.






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Don't pay attention to the last thing he says, he has since sent me an email apologizing for saying that...now that I've blasted this news all over the internet. You guys can hate on me all you want for posting this here, I honestly do not care.


http://isanyoneup.org/TravisRichterQuitsTheHumanAbstract.png

Hmm. I think I'll see how it looks when it arrives. I like the idea, but it seems like a lot of effort! Plus I can't really afford the bass - I can't spend what I paid for it again on new hardware and paint etc :(

I also think it may be time to sell my Matamp. I'm getting awesome sounds from my Pod. I was surprisingly disappointed when I plugged my Matamp back in after a month or so of using the Pod :/

[quote=fatbandit;18582876]I also think it may be time to sell my Matamp. I'm getting awesome sounds from my Pod. I was surprisingly disappointed when I plugged my Matamp back in after a month or so of using the Pod :/[/quote]

Smaller, lightweight, portable, DI... Definitely sounds like that's the way to go.

I'm putting my EQ, BBE 362 and my 5U Rack Case + Furman power conditioner up for sale this week. I'm still wanting to hold onto the crown power amp, though, because my tat guy trades gear for tat work and I'm wanting to get more of my back done before the end of the year.

been a long time, shouldn't left you.

without a dope beat to step to, that is.


hey does sade guy still post on here? He still doing the industrial/horror stuff?

He does, although rarely (it seems) on the bass forums. He posts under Epidemechanical now.

I wrote a new song. First one in a long time. Not worth starting a thread about, so I'll leave it here.

[url]http://soundcloud.com/ben-lesser/dream-thief[/url]

If this place became an image board there'd be far more people visiting. We'll call it "basschan"

hows it going guys?

Lemonley!

Hey guys, how's it going?
First post here... Is this the catchall bass OT thread? <grin>

[quote=BenJammin;18587828]I wrote a new song. First one in a long time. Not worth starting a thread about, so I'll leave it here.

[url]http://soundcloud.com/ben-lesser/dream-thief[/url][/quote]

That song was fun. More electronic than I originally expected, but still fun. Was all of that done on a keyboard?



I attempted to make the circuit board this weekend for that tube OD pedal I want to build, and it is harder than it looks. I'm having a hard time getting the pattern to transfer onto the circuit board. I'm going to try again tonight with the ring modulator pattern and see if I can get that to work. Otherwise, I'm at a loss here and may just have to pay some hobbyist on the pedal forums to etch them for me.

Yeah, that's all keyboard generated. My music is split 50/50 these days between heavily electronic, or traditional cinematic style. I'm working on a few other pieces, too, but it's slow progress. Thanks for checking it out.

Here's another one, just because I'm writing well today.

[url]http://soundcloud.com/ben-lesser/one-thousand-sunsets[/url]

Tried my hand at recording the guitar tracks to a new song last night. What I learned is that I need to play it 5-10 more times to the metronome. I've been playing solo acoustic so long that I never realized how often I drifted out of time.

My dad's moving out tomorrow, so tonight was kind of like the 'last supper'. Bit awkward and really surreal :/

Dude, I'm sorry to hear that. Was it a sudden thing for you, or have you known for a while that your parents have been having troubles?

i found him talking to his girlfriend on skype chat like nearly a year ago though i don't know how long it's been sour. but he's only just saved enough money to move out. you just don't expect it i guess!

I can't imagine what that would feel like. I've been fortunate to have parents who have stayed together. At least you're at an age where the family dynamic has less of a psychological impact.


Did anyone know that T-Pain could rap so well? Where the hell is this skill in his mainstream sh*t?
[url]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=71FYK_4jEz4[/url]

Also, I've been playing around with Adobe Audition's built-in plugins, and the guitar one is pretty useable, although there's just something to be said about creating a tone before recording it.

[QUOTE=FunkMetalBass;18594152]I can't imagine what that would feel like. I've been fortunate to have parents who have stayed together. At least you're at an age where the family dynamic has less of a psychological impact.


Did anyone know that T-Pain could rap so well? Where the hell is this skill in his mainstream sh*t?
[url]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=71FYK_4jEz4[/url]

Also, I've been playing around with Adobe Audition's built-in plugins, and the guitar one is pretty useable, although there's just something to be said about creating a tone before recording it.[/QUOTE]

I can barely listen past that annoying auto-tune on the voice that all pop stars seem to use completely past the point of subtlety.

[QUOTE=karmapavementplan;18594546]I can barely listen past that annoying auto-tune on the voice that all pop stars seem to use completely past the point of subtlety.[/QUOTE]

I was talking to a girl I worked with at my last job just before I moved. She was sending me links to this music she liked, I can't remember exactly what it was but some horrible techno-pop stuff with massive auto-tune on the vocals.

The response I got to saying I couldn't stand the vocals was "what's auto-tune? It sounds fine to me..."

She's three years younger than me, is it true the end is only three years behind us? Or is it because we're musicians?

[quote=funkyhoney;18594872]Or is it because we're musicians?[/quote]
speak for yourself!

[quote=karmapavementplan;18594546]I can barely listen past that annoying auto-tune on the voice that all pop stars seem to use completely past the point of subtlety.[/quote]

That's T-Pain's thing. He basically made that popular in the rap/hip-hop community. Normally his stuff is so mainstream and slow, I'm just impressed he can rap.

How are you?

[quote=funkyhoney;18594872]I was talking to a girl I worked with at my last job just before I moved. She was sending me links to this music she liked, I can't remember exactly what it was but some horrible techno-pop stuff with massive auto-tune on the vocals.

The response I got to saying I couldn't stand the vocals was "what's auto-tune? It sounds fine to me..."

She's three years younger than me, is it true the end is only three years behind us? Or is it because we're musicians?[/quote]

Pop music has never been good. It's catchy, and requires nothing resembling musicianship to pull off (Is that ending a sentence with a preposition? Because "pull off" is kind of a compound verb...). I thought the same thing when I heard Attack Attack's "Stick Stickly" song. It's terrible.

Alas, there are musicians who will utilize tools as stylistic options and not to disguise faults in their ability to sing or play. In the case of T-Pain, he's not bad enough to really need the heavy autotune, but it's a style choice. Also, his mainstream music sucks enough that it's the only way to make it sound mediocre at best.

It's not because we're musicians necessarily, it's because we have different tastes and an appreciation for the arts. I personally find myself listening and judging lyrics all the time, even to the point where the music can take a back seat. Lyrics make or break a song for me.

I've actually become increasingly fond of modern mainstream pop/rap music. Probably because I've spent so much of this summer getting fucked up and partying and it's the kind of tunes that are always going. Is it going to win awards for musical complexity, or intellectual lyrics? Hell no. But it's fucking fun stuff to listen to, and a lot of it grooves pretty hard.

I really dug that track, too, Joe.

[QUOTE=FunkMetalBass;18595208]Pop music has never been good. It's catchy, and requires nothing resembling musicianship to pull off (Is that ending a sentence with a preposition? Because "pull off" is kind of a compound verb...). I thought the same thing when I heard Attack Attack's "Stick Stickly" song. It's terrible.

Alas, there are musicians who will utilize tools as stylistic options and not to disguise faults in their ability to sing or play. In the case of T-Pain, he's not bad enough to really need the heavy autotune, but it's a style choice. Also, his mainstream music sucks enough that it's the only way to make it sound mediocre at best.

It's not because we're musicians necessarily, it's because we have different tastes and an appreciation for the arts. I personally find myself listening and judging lyrics all the time, even to the point where the music can take a back seat. Lyrics make or break a song for me.[/QUOTE]

As far as the preposition goes, ask Ben, I never did well in linguistics, I was more a stylistics kinda guy. Having said that, 'off' is in fact a preposition, and 'pull off' is a compound verb, my linguistics lecturer never liked to talk about prepositions. He always used to disown them and say they were basically "anything in a sentence that isn't a subject, object, noun, verb, adjective, or adverb."

... I don't think it's that important if it read well. Like I said, stylistics I find more important as English doesn't really have an agreed set of rules like French for instance.

I can never really put my finger on what exactly it is I hate so much about pop, it's not so much catchy to me as it is almost ambient. You can easily ignore it or pay attention to it. I think it's the lack of instrumentation perhaps. It just doesn't have feel, like most modern hiphop/rap when compared to "classic" hip hop which is more closely related to funk in my opinion.

T-Pain just offends me as a musician, it's painful to hear, that's basically the opposite of what music is supposed to be. I suppose even Christina has used auto-tune though, and she's an amazing vocalist, so it can be used as a tool... I still find it's invention useless. Considering it's original intention was to correct minor flaws, that tells me that some people think that without perfect pitch, music is fundamentally flawed. We should definitely go back and apply autotune to Under the Bridge, I can't stand hearing it with the bad vocals :amaze:

Lyrics are important. I actually don't mind some pop music, the vocals and lyrics almost always ruin it for me though. I'd much rather hear Dave Grohl or Anthony Kiedis almost incoherently screaming something of substance (alliteration bitch) than hear a perfectly sung line about how much you like boys and cars.

And yes I'm aware of the irony of hating pop while liking The Foo Fighters and RHCP, two of the biggest bands around.

[URL]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DA_c1o5Y95o[/URL]

I wish all pop artists covered good songs.

[quote=funkyhoney;18595395]And yes I'm aware of the irony of hating pop while liking The Foo Fighters and RHCP, two of the biggest bands around.[/quote]

"Pop" is an unfortunate category for music. It's purely popular music, but the general consensus is that pop music is soul-less profiteering, and that's not necessarily true.