Bass - technique from YouTube

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rayc wrote: Thu Jan 04, 2018 1:27 am I've watched a few of that bloke's vid before - he didn't hold my interest for long - same with the long haired metal head. Mind you the metal head is far too genre specific and worried about the way his hair falls to hold my attention for 5 mins.
I'm also becoming fed up with youtube vid makes using the Torpedo cab sim stuff. I know it's easier, more manageable etc but it tells me that what I'm hear filtered through youtube production wasn't entirely real to begin with.
A lot of vloggers get flack for that jumpy, hyper-edited form of video where all the dead air is removed between sentences; takes are spliced together so that there's no pauses; the subject teleports around mid-sentence; etc. But I much prefer that technique to the 10 minutes of unedited video with all the umms and ahhs left in!
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vomitHatSteve wrote: Thu Jan 04, 2018 12:22 pm ...I much prefer that technique to the 10 minutes of unedited video with all the umms and ahhs left in!
Sped-up playback is the greatest youtube feature ever:
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(BTW, this is the video where I grabbed that screenshot - it's pretty interesting in and of itself, the guy re-arranged the controls on his tele, and demonstrates how he can use those to do volume swells, etc. Pretty cool...)
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awesome youtube comment of the day
Lol it's still less satanic than whatever rituals Katie Perry and Taylor Swift do in their performances. 😂
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I do use the speed control all the time. Not great for tone demos tho! :D
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Oh the comments in this thread. Fucking priceless. :lollers2: :lollers2: :lollers2: :lollers2: :like: :happytrees:
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"our bassist quit, and the other guitarist is better than me"
"It has fewer strings; seemed simpler."
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Hah! Someone answered "Because someone asked me to", which is the most stereotypical bassist answer!
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Farview wrote: Thu Jan 04, 2018 11:57 am It was always an answer to a problem that should have never existed in the first place.
Sorry I took so long to find this but, some time along, YES.
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