[QUOTE=FunkMetalBass;18747206]Mmmmmmmm. I keep hoping to win the lottery so that I can afford another custom (or two).[/QUOTE]

I'm torn between a huge ERB for composing, or a Charlie Hunter-style guitar for writing, but also for live use.

When he finishes it, I'm going to have to sell something. I've got my 7 I want to keep, the new 7, my JJ Burnel sig P, and my Hoppus sig I want to pimp out.

Don't really want to let go of any of them.

I don't think I've played bass in like 4/5 months though :/

Can't remember if I linked this before, but idc, so...

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

i'm gonna listen the shit out of that shit on my way to work tomorrow dude. just because i never listen to stuff you post up, and that makes me a bad person, i just know it.

going to bed now though. hate working early on saturdays :(

or working at all on saturdays :(

or working at all :(

Although for some reason I've become curious about how you guys all sound.

I think we should come up with a sample piece of text that we should all record ourselves reading out loud. I wants to hear your accents!

Haha. Much appreciated if you check my stuff out, Chris. I'm kind of stuck between 2 genres right now, but it is what it is.

Lol accents. It has to be something that picks up on a lot of common discrepancies between accents. Like, even within Canada there are some different accents, and I'm from the east coast, where apparently we overstress our 'r's.

[quote=BenJammin;18747274]Can't remember if I linked this before, but idc, so...

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

I saw it on Facebook, but I just now listened to it. It took a really weird, dark turn halfway through, but I really liked what you did with it.

[quote=fatbandit;18747278]Although for some reason I've become curious about how you guys all sound.

I think we should come up with a sample piece of text that we should all record ourselves reading out loud. I wants to hear your accents![/quote]

I'm in America; there's nothing particularly interesting about the way we sound (especially in Phoenix, which is like the most accent-less place in the US).

But I can still record something if you'd like.

I'm actually considering getting together with my recording/mixing buddy and recording two of my acoustic songs, so you may have to endure more than just my speaking voice.

I don't know, people (especially Americans actually) just assume there is one British accent (or sometimes 3 - Cockney, Queen's English, and Liverpool) when Britain is made up of 4 different countries, each of which has several regional dialects of their own. So if somewhere as small as England has dozens of different accents, I bet America and Canada must have so many too seeing as they're huge! Even if you think you're accent-less.

[QUOTE=FunkMetalBass;18747296]I saw it on Facebook, but I just now listened to it. It took a really weird, dark turn halfway through, but I really liked what you did with it.[/QUOTE]

Haha, thanks. That was the point. I found myself falling into a trap of a lot of my songs going:

Intro - A Part - B Part - Quiet Interlude - ABINTERLUDEMASHEDTOGETHER

It's not that it's bad, but I'm actively trying to change my songwriting process a little bit.

Probably going to put out an EP early in the new year with some new stuff.

[quote=fatbandit;18747307]I don't know, people (especially Americans actually) just assume there is one British accent (or sometimes 3 - Cockney, Queen's English, and Liverpool) when Britain is made up of 4 different countries, each of which has several regional dialects of their own. So if somewhere as small as England has dozens of different accents, I bet America and Canada must have so many too seeing as they're huge! Even if you think you're accent-less.[/quote]

There definitely are. To generalize, there are probably four or five main accents. You have your typical southwestern movie/cowboy thing. You have the southeastern, backwoods, cajun accent. You've got the midwest, which are relatively calm, but have weird tendencies (they pronounce their oo's as in "good" and not "you", so "root" sounds like "rut"). Then you've got the New England accent, who like to replace the sound of an r with "ah".

I love Boston accents.

[quote=fatbandit;18747324]I love Boston accents.[/quote]

They're so angry!

Para-medic in metal gear solid 3 has the sweetest accent. The character is supposedly from Boston but I don't know if she truly has a Boston accent or not. A band came over from Boston once though and we played part of their tour with them. They had sweet ass accents too!

Wasn't Gav from Boston?

[QUOTE=fatbandit;18747221]Hoppus sig[/QUOTE]

will buy, ten grand, right now

in other news, I'm honestly not much of an accent man so I like being in Canada where our accents are fairly strange and (what I feel to be) non-existant. Though I do agree with Ben, Eastern Canadians have very different and unique accents. Like Pikeys in Snatch.

We [B]do[/B] have differing ways of saying things though - Lots of Canadians can't figure out whether or not to say Cal-guh-ree or Cal Gaaaaaaaaareeeeeeeee. Of course I'm overstressing it, but I absolutely hate when people say Cal Gary.

And when people say cai yoat instead of cai yo tee. boy do I hate that.

Then again, I'm Canadian and I say Zee, which I know irks like 90% of Canadians. Oh well, it was zee when I was a kid and then out of nowhere everyone had a rampant fetish for zed. I learned from Sesame Street and Snuffy and the gang are never wrong.

Suffice to say everybody's different and pobody's nerfect.

Also I agree with a let's hear your voices forum. I think we should have a post your recordings forum too, because with a few exceptions I haven't heard almost any audio from in here because I'm on a locked computer at work. And I'll be getting a laptop at Christmas, so I can download oodles and oodles of everyone's musical adventures! YEAH!

I can't do an accent video 'cause I don't have an accent, it's all the rest of you mob who have accents.

[quote=FlamingCouch;18747352]will buy, ten grand, right now

in other news, I'm honestly not much of an accent man so I like being in Canada where our accents are fairly strange and (what I feel to be) non-existant. Though I do agree with Ben, Eastern Canadians have very different and unique accents. Like Pikeys in Snatch.

We [B]do[/B] have differing ways of saying things though - Lots of Canadians can't figure out whether or not to say Cal-guh-ree or Cal Gaaaaaaaaareeeeeeeee. Of course I'm overstressing it, but I absolutely hate when people say Cal Gary.

And when people say cai yoat instead of cai yo tee. boy do I hate that.

Then again, I'm Canadian and I say Zee, which I know irks like 90% of Canadians. Oh well, it was zee when I was a kid and then out of nowhere everyone had a rampant fetish for zed. I learned from Sesame Street and Snuffy and the gang are never wrong.

Suffice to say everybody's different and pobody's nerfect.[/quote]
I'm from NZ and I say Zee. It's Zee for Zeebra, not Zed for Zedbra.

Although ironically, as my ladyfriend just pointed out, you can't say zee when abreviating New Zealand to NZ. It's En Zed, not En Zee. Goddamnit my life has no meaning anymore.

I've never said NZ out loud. I've always seen it as like a concept, that needs no pronunciation. Like an image or something.

That made more sense in my head.

Ay, Bee, Sea, Dee, Eee, Eff, Jee, Aitch, Eye, Jay, Kay, El, Em, En, Oh, Pea, Queue, Are, Ess, Tea, You, Vee, Double-You, Ex, Why, Zee

My old professor said Zed instead of Zee. I didn't mind it so much. The pronunciation of the Greek letter Beta through me off though (I say "bait-uh", he says "beat-uh").

It's Cal-Guh-Ree.

In Arizona, we have a city called Prescott. For some reason, Arizonans say "press-kit" instead of "press-cot," which makes absolutely no sense to me because I can't come up with a single example in the English language in which a similar pronunciation occurs. In any case, I don't do it. I say "press-cot" and take the verbal lashing.

English language is full of one offs and stupid rules.

Definitely zed by the way.

You don't say zedbra, but you also don't say "doubleyouell hello there!", so I call shenanigans on that excuse :p

English place pronunciations can be extra weird too. There's an area here in Sheffield called Beauchief. It's pronounced beesheef.

There's also a village somewhere called Wooldardisworthy. It's pronounced wulzi.

wat.

[quote=fatbandit;18748052]English place pronunciations can be extra weird too. There's an area here in Sheffield called Beauchief. It's pronounced beesheef.

There's also a village somewhere called Wooldardisworthy. It's pronounced wulzi.

wat.[/quote]

Reminds me of Worcestershire sauce.

wuh stuh. what's wrong with that? haha

[quote=fatbandit;18748226]wuh stuh. what's wrong with that? haha[/quote]

Is that legitimately how you pronounce it? Here, I typically heard it pronounced "war-sh-turr-sure", as if you are completely ignoring all vowels.

Anyone want to talk about some bass? Weirdly enough, I enjoy bass-related conversations.

[QUOTE=Convectuoso;18747938]I'm from NZ and I say Zee. It's Zee for Zeebra, not Zed for Zedbra.

Although ironically, as my ladyfriend just pointed out, you can't say zee when abreviating New Zealand to NZ. It's En Zed, not En Zee. Goddamnit my life has no meaning anymore.[/QUOTE]

meh. as long as it's zeeeeeebra(h), I'm good.

sorry Chris, I can't take my cues from a countryman who spells tire with a Y. :P

cultural differences are fun.

It's zee because that rhymes with vee better.

Ay, bee, see, dee, eee, eff, jee, haitch, eye, jay, kay, ell, em, en, oh, pee, queue, arr, ess, tee, you, vee, double you, ex, why, zee.

Yeah we can talk about about bass, what's a good pedalboard making company? Preferably one that do roadcases for stuff too.

And tyre with a "Y" is fair dinkum mate, I like how it's different from like, "I tire of this".

Worchestire sauce here is "Wish-ter-sheer".

The shire on the end is kinda clumsy when spoken. You'll hear it dropped to Worcester sauce quite a lot. Laziness ftw!

I heard an American call red Leicester cheese 'red lye-chester' once though D:

really?? I always did War-shasher

and now I'm thinking of (new)Batman trying to say this...

My 4 FX loop pedal is up and working. Stupid me had the 3PDT switches oriented incorrectly. I'm going to attempt to etch the PCBs for the tube OD pedal and the ring mod pedal tomorrow. If it fails, I'm just going to pay some guy online to do it for me. I really want to get at least one of them done before the next semester.

I also went to put the pickups back into my Brice and they don't fit anymore. :confused: Very strange. I'm wondering if it has to do with wood expansion or something. I really don't want to have to try to router 1mm on each side of the pickup cavity, but I may not have a choice. Ugh