Setting It Up and Ukelele Bass Porn
It may require your email address in exchange, but Jerzy Drozd is offering a fairly comprehensive PDF on how to set up a bass guitar, complete with cut-out templates and great illustrations showing exactly how you should set everything up. This type of maintenance work can baffle a lot of new and intermediate players, so it's a good idea to get as familiar with your instrument as possible. It's no replacement for a good, solid, qualified tech, but it can certainly help you save some money and get exactly what you want from your bass under normal conditions.
Not sure if it'll help with Kala's Ukelele Bass, though. I like the idea of the small travel bass, and I'm wondering if it sounds anything like a Ashbory bass. Really, though, what bass can capture the charm of silicone strings?
New IMN Podcast and WOXY
The new IMN Podcast is up - download it or listen at the site or on WFYI HD2, Thursdays at 4pm. And maybe 10pm, depending on WFYI's programming needs.
Unfortunately, WOXY doesn't seem to be faring as well, and that's a damn shame. Now that the Internet has made just about every kind of music available at a moment's notice, the people with valid, well-researched opinions and knowledge that help guide listeners are more important than ever. WOXY earned their name because of the dedication and passion the DJs and programmers put behind the station, from when it was a terrestrial station that hosted album giveaways on the Party Patio (with breakfast burritos!) to a groundbreaking Internet radio station that deserved a lot better than it got. They've been up and down financially since their went 'net-only a few years back, but here's hoping they come back stronger than before. As far as the music and the knowledge behind it, they've been a class operation the entire time.
Electric Upright Bass Porn
I'm mostly writing this so I don't forget about the name of the manufacturer soon - a bass-playing friend of mine mentioned buying and enjoying one, sent me the website, and I promptly forgot about it. So, once it's up here, I'll have a reference point. The sound samples posted on the Ergo Instruments sites intrigued me - it's not as round and boomy as a full upright (nature of the beast), but I'm still liking the way it sounds. And the builder puts in some interesting configurations - corsed and uncorsed 8-string electric uprights? That's just fun to think about. Toss in budget-friendly prices, and it's almost enough to lure me back into the upright world.
Almost. The pain of playing an upright with dead strings back in college for a year and having to wrestle an audible tone out of the thing still lives fresh in my mind. But these things have to fade into the past at some point.
New IMN Podcast and Austin Bass Porn
The new IMN podcast is up. Download it or listen at the site or on WFYI H2, Thursdays at 4pm.
The Gibson Thunderbird in the image comes from an Austin pawn shop that regularly rolls out the good stuff when the SXSW folks come into town. It's a great-looking instrument, and I certainly hope that's not where they're keeping it on display. Common decency, people, please. I beg of you. And a quick reminder to whoever buys it - these things are meant to be played, not stored for a connection. Do the right thing.
New IMN Podcast and Some New Software
The new IMN podcast is up - download it or listen at the site or on WFYI HD2, Thursdays at 4pm.
The laptop may not be making as many appearances onstage as it used to with the Psychonauts, but I'm intrigued by this Mobius looping software. Super easy to install and set up, and it's free to boot. Between it and the new patches Peff provided for Reason+Record, I've got a ton of options for live performances from the bass and the laptop. Now I just have to find a place to work it in.
This Is Just Depressing
And it goes beyond the gratuitous use of clip art in the source article.
40% of UK folks surveyed can't name a legal music download site. The tagline about only knowing about Amazon and iTunes doesn't bother me too much - people have resources to get on those services with little effort, so your recordings can be in the same store as the big boys. But almost have of the surveyed can't even get that far?
If they can't name it, they aren't using it. And that doesn't translate into purchased physical copies, either. Change is inevitable, I suppose, but would a little haste be such a bad thing?
The fans can connect directly with artists now - hell, how hard would it be to just ASK where the music is available for purchase? I'm sure they'd be more than happy to let the fans know?
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