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@lee650 could be worth a punt.

Digging your scene. Blow monkeys

Dummkopf..! You've posted the Feb Pdf, not the May one..!

Not going to join the debate other than to say I feel we've passed that point and are already in free fall. It's just too damn exciting to computer people and to much fun for punters.

Soundchecks are more important for singers than anyone else. It's been a few years since I was regularly doing sound, but for me sound check was for the band and especially the singers to get their stage levels right as this was not something I could do for them. I would only get the FOH approximate because as soon as the punters came in the FOH mix changed, but I could adapt pretty quickly during the first couple songs. Thus said, I did quite like to set my overall EQ using a squeak test (ideally with grey noise) to get some more headroom, but almost never had time to do it properly (the quick version was getting someone to cup their hand over a mic as I cranked the gain)! There was a Behringer unit that used to try to do it automatically but it never seemed to work so well. But for me ALWAYS a quick soundcheck after the linecheck.

just got this new compressor from Sonicake, supposedly a 1176 in a 1590a box. just had a quick test and its on the subtle side, but good enough for most (of my own) application. no low end loss even with the Blend completely off, LED color changes with the amount of compression applied (a bit slow to react tho) Overall it will not replace my Cali76TXPL, but will keep this one for my cheap 1590a setup. IMO best bass compressor below £40 new.

You can buy it from Thomann brand new delivered for £130 but I have seen other places where they are £180+.

As soon as i posted i knew this would happen 😂

Definitely worth trying an offer or two, especially if they've been up for sale for a while. The worst that can happen is that they say no.

No, not ideal at all. We do place a mic on his cab, but now he insists on using a Telecaster which is constantly feeding back, so no way im putting him in FOH. He. Use one sounded and 14 pedals, constantly playing with them, always looking down at his pedals or looking at his amp. Doesn’t help that he isnt the rhythm guitarist, so noodles through the songs until his solo’s come along. Even plays lead lines over mine. Always the last off stage after soundcheck, as he has to keep noodling over the music we put on etc un till we tell him to get off stage

Special request. This is the Stanley Clarke part for 'Blues For Mingus' from the 1979 album, 'I Wanna Play For You'. As I understand it, it was a p***-take following Mingus's scathing attacks on Clarke in the music press - 'he can't play a Blues'. IT sounds like a p***-take to me anyway! https://bilbosbassbites.co.uk/blues-for-mingus-stanley-clarke/

Option 2. With the proviso that, as mentioned above, if you can do the soundcheck before the punters arrive then that is far better. I had this ongoing argument with our guitarist/singer who didn't think any band needed a soundcheck as he knew how to get a great sound. He didn't, of course, but couldn't admit it. His guitar sound was almost as bassy as my bass. Later, after I'd left, I went to see him play. His guitar was still far too bassy and the vocals were very indistinct. If the soundcheck is brief and done in a professional manner, perhaps even announcing it to the punters and/or making light of it ("Thank you very much and goodnight" after 30 seconds of a song) then no one can complain and it's far better than hoping its ok.

Don't knock it. He sounds ideal. Many of us would love to have a guitar player with that attitude in our bands. Just place a mic' in front of his cab and put some of him in the PA

I've been looking at Spector Dimension 5 basses and used ones are barely any cheaper than new. I'm starting to think I may as well buy new

This might all be well and fun, and perceived as innocent, but it is the start of a slippery slope. I personally believe that people that use these AI services that blatantly, and with no apology, rip off IP from multiple trademarked platforms, have absolutely no right to complain when their IP, job, industry they work in etc. becomes impacted by this form of AI. What this AI is doing, and by virtue what people using it are doing is theft, it's that straight forward. AI in the not-so-intelligent form that it exists in, and is being used in, today is not a positive thing. In my humble opinion, something as blatant and obvious as this shouldn't be infecting this forum and I suspect it probably could leave BassChat open to legal ramifications.

see... that's interesting... thats the thing where it's building on something new and you can have a reasonable assumption that it's not going to end up not being developed on

Digging The Grave - Faith No More

Perfect I'll get them fitted tomorrow. 👍

Brace of Spades - Molarhead

Dig Up Her Bones - Misfits

Likewise Michael, it’s undermining quality and creativity in so many professions at present, not just the arts, we should be pushing back at every opportunity 👍