mrtcat

Unless your fan base is huge then it's really difficult to rely on your own promotional work no matter how hard you try. The problem is many of your followers will genuinely love the band, many will follow on social media because they are friends / family of the band and want to support their mates but many of these people may love lots of bands, may not actually be really into going to gigs, may not live locally, may have plans already and there's probably a fair few of your followers in their own bands so are out gigging already. You can't expect people to turn out week in week out just because they like your band, no matter how good you are. Maybe once a year or every 6 months. Being prepared to travel to venues that really work hard at being a successful venue and therefore draw a decent crowd of live music lovers can lead to far more satisfying gigs. HOWEVER these venues can pick the best bands out there usually and will do so in order to give their customers a great night week in week out and therefore protect their hard earned reputation. So use these bad nights as a chance to work on stage craft. Interact with the 10 people in the crowd, hone your banter and performance so that when you get into the better venues you go down a storm and they want you back.

I totally understand the need to be really easy to set up but I still think a modern digital desk coupled with a camera capable of good image quality is by far the easier option and it gives far far better results than any room mic only process. If you mic everything anyway then recording to a laptop is no more complicated than plugging the laptop into the mixer with a usb cable. If you don't mic everything, then it really isn't that time consuming to put a mic on a guitar cab and a couple of mics on the drums. Ok if you have 3 horns etc it becomes more laborious but even then a pair of condensers will do a great job.

That does play a huge part of it for sure.

In my experience it's not like elixirs to go dead overnight. How did they respond to being soaked in meths? Wouldn't that knacker the coating?

Yeah, we definitely look like we're part of the same group/gang. Especially when we play O'Neills in a city centre on a Saturday night.

The soundtrack to The Lost Boys was pretty much the soundtrack to my early teens. Still love it now. Also love Busy Malone and was lucky enough to do be in the house band for a production of it in theatre a couple of years ago.

It's ok to hate a guitar style / colour or a car or a type of music. It's what makes us all different. Doesn't make it wrong. As long as we all appreciate that it's not wrong for people to like stuff we don't and that we are respectful of others likes and dislikes then all is good.

Just email Adrian like we used to before the configurator existed. He's really easy to work with and I'm sure he'll be able to make it for you. Really like your idea. That would look great and be really unique.

About 18 weeks. It's a reasonable wait but in the world of custom builds that's still very quick.

I don't use mackie but we did a wedding fayre in Jan where there were three bands on. All in different parts of the venue. One band (4 piece - drum, bass gtr and keys with all four members singing) had the dlm 12 inch subs and tops (about £3200 worth) of kit. They were a very talented outfit but I found their sound very harsh. That has been something I've always found with mackie stuff. We were just using two RCF745s with no subs (bass, drums, gtr and vox) and general consensus was we sounded bigger and fuller. That said there's a lot of other variables that could have been at play. Personally I've never really been a mackie fan tho so there may be some bias.

Beautiful. Absolutely classic yet lighter and specced perfectly.

Yeah of course some people are only impressed by the visual and so bands like vt make them go nuts but that's because people are all different. The thing is, for me, the music was very good too. If the music was poor then I'd feel like their performance might be plastering over cracks. Like I mentioned in a previous post - bands that can balance a great musical performance with a good engaging show will always win for me. I absolutely cannot bear seeing a band where members (regardless of what instrument they play) seem disengaged or motionless. Don't get me wrong, that doesn't mean they all need to be bouncing about. They just all need to have a bit of charisma. It's hard to explain, I mean look at Pino Palladino - he doesn't move much but he looks so comfortable in his own skin and relaxed but he's pretty much always looking up and watching the rest of the band or the audience. He's engaged in the show. You can tell he's enjoying it. He's got stage presence without having to move too much. If you're using "bonkers" then you're probably spending too much time on British forums lol.

£1400 ish. Swamp ash body, carbon neck rods, luminlays and Aguilar 60s J pups.

Boom! Sofa shot just in.

Now you see I like that a lot. So much energy and real talent too. Trying too hard?? Maybe / maybe not but if you're on Letterman then you could do a lot worse than milk it for all its worth and be memorable.

Personally I think Este Haim has a great balance of playing and subtle communication with the crowd

It's a balancing act surely. The tipping point is different for different genres. For instance punk or glam rock might be more dependent on stage presence, attitude and style and less dependent on incredible technical ability and theoretical musical understanding than say jazz or classical. I think that 100% of one and 0% of the other would in pretty much all cases end up with a poor viewer / listener experience. To keep to blue's original brief I would suggest that for a rock band on the bar / pub scene a 50/50 balance would be pretty much where you want to be but this may vary depending on the style of music a band plays.

That's a shame. I had my UE900s reshelled by them last year. They're superb now and could never go back to non custom moulds. I'm after a decent wireless setup now as I currently have mine running from my helix via a cable from obmm but the cable is really chunky and has started to crackle so I'm looking to go completely wireless. Reckon I have about £600 to spend. Probably looking at senheiser.

2 x Barefaced FR800s (15kg each),1 x Barefaced LF1400 (24kg), 1 x Behringer XR18. Job done for pubs and clubs. Total weight 57kg (126 lbs). Probably prefer the RCF art 745s to the BF FR800s but it's extremely close. The FR800s will do kick drum very well. That's all well and good but unless you sort your guitarist out then you're wasting your time. No matter what pa you have, it'll be unbearably loud for your customers if he doesn't grow up and stop being a plum.

17 weeks today. Every time my phone pings to tell me I have a new email (approx 20 times a day) I instantly think "this is it" 😁

Yep concur with most of the above. A solid state drive and plenty of ram coupled with i5 or i7 and you'll be set. I use a fairly cheap Dell laptop with a Samsung ssd and 16gb ram plus i5 processor. I use it for exactly what you have described and it also works flawlessly for video production on the move.

That's the best result I think. Yes they've messed you about but you haven't lowered yourself to their level and haven't burnt any bridges. What you have done is learn a bit more about them as a group and you can use that to make informed choices if they ever come back asking you to dep again. Moral high ground and all that.

If you hung one of those on the wall in a music shop with all the other basses it would be like Sally Gunnel mingling with the cast of made in Chelsea.

If you email Adrian he usually replies pretty quickly. I'm certain he'd help any way he could.

That would be really good. Especially if they could build the updater into the hx edit software.