Dad3353

38 minutes ago, warriorbass05 said:

...Any thoughts??

Do you have a technical rider, listing your needs (backline, FOH, mics, lighting, colour of Smarties etc...)..? It would help to know what you require. How many musicians, for instance..? Where in the UK will you be based, and for how long..? Hope this helps... 

A return flight UK-USA can be £300-500. Could that be made to work..? 

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Some of us are talented; others less so...

Envelope follower..? 

38 minutes ago, Bluewine said:

Here's something I don't understand.  When a sound guy is checking the monitor volume on stage. They check it from the house. Of course I can hear my vocals and bass when nobody else is playing.

 

Why wouldn't they check monitor volume when the band is playing on stage. That would be the real test for me.

 

Daryl

Most that I've worked with pop up onto the stage whilst the band is playing a 'test' number, to check exactly that. It's more or less routine, towards the end of the sound check. 

I can see both of the 'dl=1' images, not the other two. Hope this helps. 

44 minutes ago, cheddatom said:

... Out came a particularly off-beat fill (I'm sure any drummers would appreciate it...

Yes, I'm prone to doing this, too; luckily our singer (and the rest of the band...) know how to keep the 'beat' in their heads, and don't rely on the drums to bring themselves in. I could fold up inanimate, they'd all come back in on time..! 

34 minutes ago, itsmedunc said:

The trouble is they know nothing about PA’s but insist in being in charge of the sound. If the level of the guitars remained a constant then the gain could but each gig the guitar levels are up and down, something I don’t think there’s any need for with in ears. They even turn their amps up sometimes if they need some more guitar in their monitor 😂

There should be no feedback but the singer/guitarist has his guitar way too loud onstage and won’t turn down (or does the pretend to turn the dial). It makes no difference to him as he’s playing rhythm and is on IEM’s anyway. Take just that into account and everything becomes too loud onstage, hence the feedback. Too loud on stage and the PA isn’t doing enough work I think. 

Best, then, to quit and join a decent band. They won't be getting return gigs anyway, if that's how they go about things. Some folk never learn, as they think they already know it all. 

There's a £45 Squier Affinity bass on Gumtree, Edinburgh at the moment. Is that inexpensive enough..?

Gumtree, Edinburgh : Squier bass ...

21 minutes ago, itsmedunc said:

Far too late 😂 They use an XR18. I’ve been using one for 10 years and when I mentioned we should be using the gains, the reaction was that we should get an engineer in to set it all up. Now I’m very capable of doing that but I think they believe it only needs doing once and then it can be left like that forever. Maybe they’ve misunderstood using ‘scenes’? I’ve even took mine into rehearsals and set it all up, sorted all the in ears etc but they won’t use that desk because they know their desk gets a good sound? It’s a very odd situation. Voodoo almost 😂

I'm used to the traditional analogue desks, so an XR18 may do things differently, but, for me, once the gain has been set for any particular input (usually a mic...), it won't need touching, as long as the same input is used each time. I don't see how you're getting feedback if everyone is using IEM; if it's from the FOH, can the XR18 output not be reduced, instead of touching the active cabs..? There's something rotten in the state of Denmark not quite right, somewhere. 

If the levels for the vocals have been set first, with the guitars, and there's no feedback, it would appear to be the addition of the drums that set it off. If that's the case, can't the drums then be backed off a little..? Are the drums leaking into the vocal mics, fully exposed if there's no singer in front of 'em..? Which individual mic(s...) are feeding back..? They are what needs addressing, not the FOH cabs. Do any of the group know what 'ringing out' is, and how to do it..? Inviting a decent sound person along for a gig or two to sort it all out would be beneficial, I'd suggest, and/or a course in PA set-up. 

1 minute ago, Woodinblack said:

 

I guess you use a different method than me then, I just typed 'what is gaslighting' in google, the AI thing at the top described it, the top link was wikipedia that covered both lighting with  gas and the gaslighting in question, the second was the national domestic violence hotline, the third another medical thing and the following 10 links were about gaslighting as an abuse. Maybe time to update your search method?

 

I suppose we all have different levels of curiosity, but I do find it odd that someone would find a term they didn't understand and then not look it up using the vast and almost instantaneous access to information that no previous generation has had such easy access to.

Maybe I should have typed 'gaslighting', and not 'Gas Lighting'..? 

12 minutes ago, Woodinblack said:

Well, I do as if I find a term that I don't understand I use the internet to find out what it means. 

I tried that, but got flooded with quotes for outdoor lampposts ...

6 minutes ago, Dood said:

...## Origins of the Term ...

Thanks, especially for this^^, which brings sense to the use of the term. 

Do all that use the term know and understand from where it derives..? 

I've read attempts at explanations, with examples, so it must be me, but I still don't really understand what 'gaslighting' is. One of the (many...) words and phrases in modern parlance that I look up, but fail to assimilate (others would be, for example 'woke', 'ghosting' or 'cheugy'; there are others...). English seems to be becoming a foreign language; maybe I should change my reading material. 

Is white paint not an option..? 

Rather odd that there is no mention of the salary that such a position justifies. One may 'call the shots' when one is signing large cheques. 

4 minutes ago, Dan Dare said:

... If it bears an endorsee's name, you're going to pay more.

Sue Ryder..? 

It will certainly scare the birds alright..! 

1 hour ago, Wombat said:

I’ve got an Aston Element ...

That's a small diaphragm..? 

I'm fully satisfied with our Superlux HI10 mic (£30 or so from Thomann...), used as part of our drum mic set-up (for hi-hat, mostly...), but also for picking out detail from acoustic guitars. There are doubtless better ones for top-end studios or rich purists, but we find them to be excellent, despite their low cost. Worth a look..?

Superlux HI10, Thomann...

24 minutes ago, Buddster said:

...  I'd love to stand in front of them with a set of wire cutters. 

Anecdote : It was a concert for the launch of the first Kiemsa CD. The local hall was packed; the whole evening went off splendidly. Come the final number, Our Eldest, on guitar, had imagined a novel way of playing his solo spot, at the end of the song. At high volume, his Laney amp screeching, he took a pair of wire cutters and proceeded to cut each guitar string in turn, to the stupefaction, and cheers, of all present. End of the last song (or so it had been planned...). The acclamation for an encore became too pressing, so they had to return to the stage, but Our Eldest had to remain silent, with a red face, whilst the others played out the occasion. One had to be there; it was a great evening. 

2 minutes ago, cheddatom said:

 

I have a pearl throw off on both of my main snares. You have to lift the whole thing up to take up the slack before you can pull the level up to fix it on. You can kind of do it one handed but it's not the easiest thing. If it was ever a problem I'd probably find a better throwoff mechanism and fit that to both, but as it is, for 99% of our gigs, no-one can hear it

 

Odd. I have that same system on one of my Pearl snares, and have not had any issues, once it's strung up and adjusted by turning the knob. Just lucky..? Probably. My Camco snare has a very basic trigger, which could be sensitive to throwing itself 'off' if not correctly tensioned. I don't use my metal Tama snares much, but they are all easy and reliable.
But I digress; an e-kit solves this and many other issues..!