The Last Bass Outpost
Main Forums => The Bass Zone => Topic started by: morrow on April 20, 2022, 08:08:38 AM
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Trying to navigate the process of posting videos .
So a quick test , I’m definitely going to work on the presentation skills , but goofing around in Dm for a minute , going to get the little amp closer to the iPad next time .
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jPl8G2tUvkg
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Nice chops just the volume issue.
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Thank you , I love to sit on one chord and noodle for a while . Originally the iPad was beside my little speaker , levels were good , but it was just legs and bass on the screen , so I moved the iPod further away , and should have moved the speaker .
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You'll get there, dad! 8)
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I use a Yamaha Pocketrak CX (which is now an old but still decent digital recorder) for capturing practices acoustically. If the room isn't too boomy it works very well.
When Dick Dale played his last gig in Denver in 2018, I had a seat on the balcony just above the stage and used the Yamaha to record the gig. I just laid a napkin on the table in front of me and let 'er rip. I got a very listenable recording that captured all three instruments well.
(https://www.hifiengine.com/images/model/yamaha_pocketrak_w24_pocket_digital_recorder.jpg)
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You bootlegger! :mrgreen:
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You bootlegger! :mrgreen:
Hey! I don't wear boots! (They hurt my feet.)
Want a copy? ;D
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More noodling
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iU8a-Uo-Egk
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Nice sounding bass. Great noodling! I like it
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Still needs haircut .
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nV6Bx0zIIZE
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A bass solo in a major key, now that is rare! Those Junior Tributes sound inherently nice, I used mine for recording a few weeks ago and it sounded great.
But who is the guy with all the medals?
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My wife’s uncle , died in Italy serving with the 1st Special Service Force , a mixed US/Canadian commando group.
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I'm sorry to hear. And obviously a hero.
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That generation. My father was a Jr officer on loan to the British Army, he went to a Scottish regiment that had been through North Africa. 20 years old , landing in Normandy. Black Watch.
Hard to imagine.
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Indeed. You're darn lucky you even exist.
One-fifth of the casualties came from just one battalion: the Black Watch (Royal Highland Regiment) of Canada, who lost 300 of 320 men carrying out Simonds’s instructions to rush the ridge in broad daylight. The flood of casualty telegrams made clear that Canada’s most storied regiment (equivalent in Canadian terms to the American 101st and 82nd Airborne, the Big Red One or the 1st Marine Division) had suffered 94 percent casualties in fewer than four hours of fighting.
https://www.nationalww2museum.org/war/articles/black-watch-verrieres-ridge-july-1944
(https://www.nationalww2museum.org/sites/default/files/2020-06/16%20-%20Edward%20Lengel.jpg)
And I'm happy for it! :-*
My granduncle Willi was in Normandy in 1944. It was for him, as he always said, "a good ending of the war" as he became a POW with the Brits, which back then with the Wehrmacht was the luckiest draw you could get. His brother Karl (my grandfather on the mother's side) wasn't quite as lucky, Soviet captivity from 1944 onwards (until 1949, having NSDAP membership stamped in his Soldatenausweis didn't help), but he survived as well. Willi picked up some skills with the Brits and became an electrician after the war. As nearly all German POWs held by the Brits, he was released early on (and returned better fed than his loved ones at home) - I don't recall him being a party member either, he was always the smarter one of the two brothers. He never stopped to consider himself lucky.
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CanLoan was a program where Canada loaned Britain Jr officers , so Dad was in the British Gordon Highlanders , (sorry , I thought it was the Black Watch). He was wounded several times , and was in the ill fated air drop on Arnhem.
https://www.junobeach.org/farewell-charles-scot-brown-1923-2021/
He never spoke of the war until after visiting Holland. I was with him to Normandy for the 75 th Anniversary , and managed to get a pic of him standing with some German infantry in Normandy for a ceremony.
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Ouch, A Bridge Too Far and (more than) a couple of Königstiger (fresh from the factory) and, of course, Hardy Krüger too near. Mental note: Listen to what Dutch Resistance tells you even if you are hell-bent for a major victory to show the Yanks where it's at.
(https://img.welt.de/img/geschichte/zweiter-weltkrieg/mobile129869641/9251625837-ci23x11-w1136/Propagadaaufnahme-mit-Koenigstigern-2.jpg)
(https://www.filmfutter.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/01/HardyKruegertot-1280x720.jpg)
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And I got that right: Charles Scot-Brown was your dad then? Impressive.
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My father’s father survived the trenches of the first War only to be killed by a random bomb in an English train station in WW2.
I’m the first Scot-Brown not to see service in generations , and my father approved. I went through a cadet camp one summer and that was enough.
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That is stuff for a movie.
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He arrived in Normandy about four hours after the initial landing, the area had not been “cleaned” so it was pretty gruesome. They formed up and headed off , a little while later they heard shots , and they were underway. I think it was the second or third day when they discovered an SS Panzer Division had moved in overnight and it was like hitting a brick wall. He was twenty.
Hard to imagine…
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More noodling, still at the in-laws where I have a little nook to practice in. Dialed a little delay and reverb into that mini Darkglass amp and mini PJ speaker. Audio is just the mic in the tablet.
That little Jr is still a favourite bass, and I still keep rounds on it. I’m generally a flatwound guy.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rLE7pWCzwQM
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That sounds great with rounds.
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Those little Jrs are great little basses! And I’ve got a great little practice rig at the in-law’s. So it’s a comfortable place to noodle.
(https://i.postimg.cc/tJGdz3wT/IMG-7215.jpg) (https://postimages.org/)