Bare Knuckle Pickups Forum
Forum Ringside => Guitars, Amps and Effects => Topic started by: _tom_ on September 06, 2012, 02:19:27 PM
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New bass day :D Bought this just for recording really. It's my first bass and I didn't really know what I was looking for in one, so just went with a classic P-Bass design. It's a Squier Vintage Modified P and to my untrained ear/hands it seems awesome. It feels as good to me as the Fenders I played in a few shops, and I do love how it looks :) The first thing I noticed was how resonant it is, even unplugged when I play it I can feel it shaking through my body haha
Unfortunately I'm only playing through Amplitube 3 at the minute, would love a proper amp but can't justify it just for recording. Also I'm sort of "cheating" and playing with a pick at the minute, just feels better coming from a guitar and I actually prefer the sound of it. Now, time to crack out the Rancid CD and learn Maxwell Murder :) Bass is so much fun!
(http://img.photobucket.com/albums/1003/tomr61/IMG_7654.jpg)
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Congrats, love the look of it. The strap is cool too.
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Nice, now pop a Badass II bridge on it! :P
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Very cool - a classic!
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And a new smartphone to go with it!
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haha I've had that for ages, the box just hasn't moved off my chair for months :\
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Nice looking bass. It defenitely has a vintage vibe going on. If you record Maxwell Murder please link to the song :D Matt Freeman is one of my favourite bass players and Rancid wouldn't be the same without him. And by the way Rancid kicks arse!
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very nice :)
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Now comes the painful process of re-recording everything I've ever done and replacing the octaved guitar with a real bass :lol: Quite liking Amplitube 3's Gallien Krueger patches, through my monitors up loud I'm still shaking the room! Finding it hard to get a good mix with the real bass, seems quite easy to get either too boomy yet bright, or lost in the mix.
Here's a quick clip - https://dl.dropbox.com/u/15027660/Intro.mp3
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Nice one Tom.
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Nice one dude! I got myself the Squier Jaguar Bass a few months back for recording, and I still love it! £190 goes a long way in the Squier range, heh!
Congrats on joining the club. ^_^
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A good Squier is a splendid thing indeed.
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Gratz. Nice guitar. I went for an Ibanez when I got a cheap bass. Wish I'd gone for a squier really.
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Looks great, congrats!
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Nice one... just been catching up and saw the Epi had shifted, and here's the result!
And playing with a pick is not cheating, just different :lol:
And I reckon you're gonna love playing bass... :D
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Been playing with the Ampeg VST and it's awesome! Slowly getting GAS for an Ampeg bass combo now :lol: heres a quick clip http://soundcloud.com/shotgunroyale/intro
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Done a couple more tracks and really enjoying this - http://soundcloud.com/shotgunroyale (this is a band me and my mate are trying to get going!)
Not so much enjoying the latency I'm getting though, meaning I have to record without amp modeling on, not quite as fun! Shredding through my normal tortex .88s quite quickly though, need some new ones that last a bit longer! Also getting very tempted to put an Ampeg BA115 on the credit card :lol: