charic

2 hours ago, Sneakyfish said:

Gweetings,

I am Sneakyfish the Omniscient. I am an explower and wike the others before me, have twavelled far fwom the low-fwequency wumblings of my ancestral home (BC-1, Sol system). They called me cwazy when I told them of my quest, but I wemained twue and stwong against the naysayers!  I seek ultimate knowledge of the gweat vibwating universe thwough open exchange of knowedge. An Ibby RGA8 is serves as my loyal companion. While I wemain in my deepest self a bassist, the gwee'targh is the where I have the most fun impwovising. I enjoy learning Cwassical stuff, Pwogwessive-Metal tunes, Solos and twanscwibing material fwom non-stwinged instwuments. I wish the best of wuck to my fewwow musicains.

Kind gwee'targhs,

Sneakyfish.

Lol!!

You know you didn't have to create a new account for here though right?

28 minutes ago, Sneakyfish said:

Yours is THE funniest handle I've seen all year!! XD XD XD

That's his real name!  How could you be so mean?!

Howdy

21 minutes ago, Noisyjon said:

Thanks Charic, off to read up now! Cheers.

No worries! Not done it myself so its something for me to read up on too!

This guide looks pretty handy

https://ownhammer.com/tutorials/helix/

1 minute ago, Noisyjon said:

Ah jeez, showing my age and ignorance here but how the hell do these work?

I get that they are emulating speakers & cabs via EQ settings but how do you load them in and use them?

Thanks in advance!

What are you loading them into? 

51 minutes ago, kingofthestuntmen said:

 Who has 2 thumbs, and is a guitarist who prefers Basschat to the majority of muso forums..? 

 This guy..! 

 I'm excited by this, and hopeful it'll get me participating again. 

 

 KotS

Welcome!

And welcome back!

3 minutes ago, bingefeller said:

What about Chop Suey by System of a Down?  It's a pretty good rhythm and and timing workout.  

Thats not a bad shout and the mrs likes SOAD so thats a bonus

2 hours ago, bingefeller said:

laziness and bad habits.  

They're my favourites

For guitars and amps individual threads generally work better

For effects people sometimes group them up

1 hour ago, burno70 said:

I'm learning to play guitar (again) but have decided to stick with the acoustic for now. If I were to get into metal guitar again I would certainly look at Black Sabbath - Paranoid, Iron Man etc. Could be wrong, but they sound like they'd be descent learning songs. Then again, they might be well harder than they sound!

Yeah, those tunes are pretty easy from what I remember.  Looking at something with a bit more too it than those though (and more modern to fit my personal tastes ofcourse)

56 minutes ago, Skybone said:

Running a Kemper / Helix / AxeFX / Headrush / or other such Amp Modeler / Pre-amp?

Why not discuss them here?

I'm running an old POD HD500X for both bass & guitar, I've owned various Line6 units for quite some time, from a POD v2.0, to a PODxt, and a PODxt Live. I'd love to get my hands on to a Helix, but I'd need to sell a kidney or something.

What you got?

A Helix AND two kidneys

I'm just curious really, are they as usable on guitar as they are on bass?  I've seen a few floating around but not a great deal.  I'm guessing they could wreak havoc with chord shapes?

Is there as much benefit in fanned frets on guitar (or more?) vs the effect on bass? 

Anything decent to get my teeth into?

Almost like a learning path is what I need haha.  Learn this song, once you've got that one down give this one a shot etc..

I like a bit of killswitch engage, slipknot etc (keeping it purposefully vague)

12 minutes ago, Andrew_S said:

Hi,   I  thought I'd start a thread for discussion and sharing Cab IR's.   Obviously I'm not suggesting we should share anything other than those which are freely available. 

So Cab IR's.  The latest digital witchcraft in helping us chase the holy grail of tone or just another con?  To my ears, there's no doubt at all that changing a Cab IR in a patch on my unit can makee a massive change to the tone and overall sound of the patch.  But..... is it really a  Marshall 1960x/Mesa/Fender/Ampeg can with an SM57/SM58 on/offcentre  - well I have no idea as I've never had  the ability to try all the millions of possibilities and options that now  exist.  To me, if it sounds good, sounds as you want it to, then it's the  right thing to use.  Accuracy of 'modelling' doesn't really matter to me.  Much like the whole  amp modelling debate.    Oh, I use a Mooer GE200 which I think is extraordinarily good value for  money.  It's Amp Sims are as good as I need, it's small and really simple to programe and  it takes Cab IRs.   What's not to like?

Anyway,  here's a  link to a load of Cab IR's I've collected over the years - fill your boots!
https://drive.google.com/open?id=1Vyly3Doh4F3_x2xN4VnpvjnqlRrnR4ms

 

Brilliant! Cheers!  Might have a play with loading these into my Helix

Looks like it's a well shot video, busy right now but I'll try to give it a listen later!

15 minutes ago, EBS_freak said:

They are - but for guitarists, they are kinda overkill because guitars don't need to the low end response and headroom of those cabs. The 712A and 732A is a good match for guitars - you can probably argue that you don't even need the 3" horn too.

But more is... more

Mind you I'm also considering all of this from a multiuse perspective (I play keys too! )

All FRFR cabs are guitar cabs

Theyre also bass cabs, PAs etc. Thats the beauty of them!

The RCF 735/745 are reviewing well at the moment!

Still not working...

Posting here for support to view

7 hours ago, skankdelvar said:

H'mm. Can't embed an image ... yet. 

How odd.

You should be able too via the upload function.

We're waiting for tech support to resolve the embedding of online images, it's because of the move over to HTTPS

Going to be the first to say it, John Petrucci.  Not just for the shredfest type stuff but he really does have some beautiful playing at times too
 

Are there any brands/models worth looking at for wider string spacing?  I've played a few in the past I've felt much more comfortable with but I have no idea what they were anymore!