Lets pretend that your walking down a street, at like 2am. Your walking, minding your besiness. Then out of no where, this thing comes out of the bushes and cross's your path. You freak out. To your surprise, it was a cat. You shake it off, and your on your way. Now, what if that thing that cross's your path was something unknown? You would run, scream, fight it, do whatever you can to protect yourself or get away. Why do we do that? I believe that this has something to do with human instinct. Now take a hard look at the world around us. Think about how "unknowns" that have/are being shunned, discriminated, beaten to death, or just treated poorly. I think thats its about time that we all take a good look at our own community and try to make a differance.
So, I just came back from the movie theaters. I have to say that it was the worst public bathroom experiance EVER.
Like most guys near the end of a movie, your kinda freaking cause you really need to take a leak. Credits roll, you jump out of your seat (abonding your girl) and race to the bathrooms. You get in, and its a mess. Theres about 10 guys using 8 urinals, so you take a stall. You look on the floor and you see about a 10cm radius pool of piss. You carefully take your junk out and let loose. I looked at the floor in the stall beside me and notice the guy in there miss's a lot, slashing into my stall. You kick open your stall, wash your hands, and then dry them off using one of those dryers that takes FOREVER to clean your hands.
The idle public bathroom would be one that you dont have to touch ANYTHING. There would be no door to get in, its simply a set of well placed walls. You do in, piss, wave your hand over a sensor to flush. Go over to the fosit, and wave it to start. Have another sensor that squirts out soap. Finish doing that. Have a huge ass blow dryer dry your hands. Bam! Besiness done without touching anything.
Ive seen a lot on the forums and heard from people in real life that bass is not important. I want to address this right now and clarify what exactly the bass's role is in a band.
If im not mistaken, the bass is part of the rythem section in any musical group/piece. Now to define it even more, its the time keeper. If someone is off time, its the bassist job to allow room for whoever lost time to jump back in. Some would argue that the drummer is. I would disagree. The drummer sets the tempo, the timing is based on what others are playing. Bass guitar is to timing as Slut is to Paris Hilton.
Some fellow bassist might notice when they get a new pedal that their "Low End" bottems out, thus resulting in knob adjucting or refund of that preticular product. If others have not noticed the "Low End" you will if you dont have a bassist in the band. Its a tone and pitch that a guitar can not provide. Its like asking a women for a sperm sample. The "Low End" is exclusive to bass.
You know that thump you get in your chest at a concert or at any music event/gig? Thats the bass. Its what gets the girls to take there shirts off, dance around and just make an awesome atmophere. I dont think the guitar or any other instrument will be able to do that.
Bass Guitar is a nessesity to your band/musical group! You will be leaving a lot behind by not having it support your low end.
I went to the stop today to get a Big to small adapter. So I went home, plugged in the mic to the laptop and sadly is sounded like shit when it was just bass I tried going bass > pod > amp > laptop but that didn't work very well because the bass sounded WAY to loud, even if I turned it down.
So now im thinking, what the fuck am I going to do? I ended up finding out that I could use a webcams audio to record. Its decient enough to work.
Now im recording, but fuck, that webcam mic picks up EVERYTHING. I had to connect a couple cords, and leave the room/close the door so you couldn't hear me hit my strings (I hit them quite loud).
Overall, I'm pretty excited about this recording stuff. I got a couple other licks that I would like to post up here (if there are any songs, Ill post them on my bands profile (sigma)).
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harl91's blogs, last updated : September 15, 2007
I tried going bass > pod > amp > laptop but that didn't work very well because the bass sounded WAY to loud, even if I turned it down. 
