Dad3353

Or Baroque, Big Band, Folk, Free Jazz, Gospel and more. All of these, whether covers, 'standards' or original have distinct differences in the approach needed. The Venue World is not as 'black or white' as you seem to often imply.

We (The Daub'z...) are quite definitely not a wedding band; we play nothing to dance to (RATM, Muse, Space Oddity, Wish you were here, Radiohead and more...). We have a buddy with an events company; he often supplied the PA and did the sound for our concerts, with heavy use of subs, from his Disco days. He badly wanted us to play at his own wedding, despite our protesting its unsuitability. The day came, we were set up on the gravel track beside the main reception building/hall (so outside, using our own more modest PA...) When the time came, mid-afternoon, we were signalled to start up; after about ten minutes, the groom (our buddy...) came out to ask us to turn it down..! No, we were not loud (that's not our style, and we were playing outdoors...). We played a couple more songs and decided, together, that it would be kinder to everyone to knock it on the head, packed up and left, leaving the happy couple and guests to their revelries inside. We remained buddies, but got no more offers of 'function' gigs, to our relief. :-|

This correct, and Standard Procedure for tracking down and rubbing out all the traces and debris left behind. CCleaner helps with these chores, but chores they remain. Some considerable precious time spent trying to profit from the offer, and almost as much precious time ridding one of the consequences. There are other culprits, so these measures becomes routine, after a while. My IT career gave me enough knowledge to survive these installations, but not enough to get the Vst on offer..! :-)

Thanks for the 'heads up', but Failure on all counts. Download needs a 'sign in', which requires filling in a daft tiny questionnaire. Once that's done, a Connect 'downloader' has to be downloaded and installed. This does an un-announced PC reboot (luckily I don't have several tasks ongoing, but they don't know that...). The 'Connect' software brings in iLok, again unannounced, which wants to tie in with UA. OK, why not; this is becoming ridiculous. I finally get to the plug-in Download page, which doesn't download the plug-in, it installs it. Where..? Default is to the 'C' drive (where nothing is installed; I 'change' to my 'J' drive, where all my Vst's are, but this applied change does nothing, it still says 'C' drive). All this for an amp sim (I have real Fender amps, but... Whatever...). I think I'm going to have to forgo this one, and spend half the evening ripping out the stuff that has been installed, everything but the Vst amp asked for. Oh well, it was a Good Idea, but... :-(

I'd be very pleased to see my own 71-year old legs again. ... I'm 75. :-|

You are @stewblack and I claim my £5. (no 'Smilie' for fear of transgressing Gummint guidelines protecting innocent children...)

Maybe half-cut..?

Have you tried looking for a drummer, and maybe a singer/guitarist, and starting your own band..?

You are Doctor Who and I claim my £5. ...

Maybe Gregory Peck (The Wooden Actor...)..? ...

You'd be less tired if you used your Hofner bass a bit more. ...

That's more likely to be a 'photoflame', which is a lot easier to predict.

It sounds as if you need both an Imperial and a Metric set of Allen keys, as Fenders (and other basses/guitars...) could be either. Luckily, these are not expensive, and, if buying decent quality ones, will last a lifetime. Any help..?

Can only a Danish prince play 'Hamlet'..?

When did the 'one rack unit' requirement come in..? The original brief was for a pedal, no..? A mini-mixer comes close to that, and it just as simple to set up and use, I think.

Similar functionality from the Behringer Xenyx 802S, £63 + postage from Thomann. An Xlr feed from the desk into one channel, bass into a second channel. Send the bass back to the console from the Fx Send, and listen to the mix you want from the headphone socket. Job done.

Maybe I'm just lucky; the sound I hear (I can(t know what each audience member hears...) suits me just fine, either when playing bass or drums. I'm just not that 'precious' about it. It sounds good, that's all I need.

So is the room I'm playing in, and the atmospheric pressure of the day, and whether I play towards the bridge or the neck, or my mood, or ... whatever.

I've never really understood, nor 'bought into', this idea of 'tone shaping'. I plug the bass into an amp/DI/console/whatever and play bass. Too simple..? Probably, with the disclaimer that I'm a drummer. (And 'No, I don't 'tone shape' drums, either. I just play them. Tone is in the fingers.')

The drummer on the original recording was Tony Allen. Anyway, the question has come up before, with...

There are so many compositions that have real meaning ('If I Had A Hammer', 'Blowing In The Wind', 'Sunday, Bloody Sunday' and hundreds more...). Personally, I'd much rather play stuff with real meaning than innocuous, bland, 'filler' stuff, whatever culture it's originally from. To me, human is human; the rest is simply coincidence of birth time and place. I see no problem here. Peace.

Human morphology has not evolved much since 1950.

If you're amp-less, how are you planning to hear your own bass..? From the rehearsal/gig stage monitors (if existant and capable...)..? With ear-phones, fed from the pedal..? Wired, or wireless..? How will the other players and (if relevant...) the FOH for the audience, hear the bass..? Standard practice for FOH is a feed from a DI box, which the bass plugs into. Is that all that you require, even for rehearsal..? The question needs fleshing out a little, I think.