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[quote name='Roland Rock' timestamp='1498211198' post='3323119'] Bass ID please. P type? [/quote] It's a black one.

[quote name='bazztard' timestamp='1498193231' post='3323016']...BUT I also pack a spare backup CAR with an amp, cab and backup backup bass... [/quote] ... as does your backup dep, whose been booked just in case you've an accident before or during the gig. He, too, has a suppliant; [color=#282828][font=helvetica, arial, sans-serif]you can never be too careful[/font][/color]

[quote name='Earbrass' timestamp='1498151464' post='3322844']...trying to think of hedge-related puns... [/quote] U2..?

[quote name='stingrayPete1977' timestamp='1498123239' post='3322608'] I'm no expert but those are not inverted commas, you didn't say you were "tipsy", you were 'tipsy'? Take it away Douglas [/quote] [url="http://universitywriting.shu.ac.uk/punct/advice/s_double.htm"]Writing For University Courses - Punctuation ...[/url] [Quote]...[color=#000000][font=Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif][size=3]Double ("...") and single ('...') quotation marks or inverted commas (you can use either term) can be used in the same ways. Whether you use double or single is up to you...[/size][/font][/color][/quote]

[quote name='Raymondo' timestamp='1498118317' post='3322567']...I must apologise for misspelling their ... [/quote] Misspelling their [i]what[/i]..? That's the usefulness of inverted commas, to denote that it's a quote from the original post, and so... ...I must apologise for misspelling 'their'. ...

[quote name='SICbass' timestamp='1498062502' post='3322313'] What, the kind that get a laurel laughs? [/quote] Oh, yes..! Excellent..! Holly good, sir..!

As I wrote above ^^, I'm more towards the 'deaf' end of the scale, but have, and never have had, any problems hearing the bass drum I'm playing (pretty standard 22", full drum heads both sides, Camco 5-piece kit...). There must be quite a racket going on all around to drown out a bass drum, even when playing more lightly, except (again, as stated above...) on large open-air stages, where [i]all [/i]the sounds seem to dissipate (into thin air..? ). Maybe it's just me, though, although I doubt that; t'would be a 'first'..!

[quote name='cheddatom' timestamp='1497961584' post='3321624'] hmmm, I'm a drummer and I used to like to mic up the kick drum... [/quote] It's all a bit 'genre-dependant', of course. In my vein of predilection, it's the hi-hat that is most important to me; the bass drum is used mostly simply as punctuation, not the 'big beat'. Old-school swing style. Of course, things change a little when 'Daddy Cool' is in the repertoire, or 'Highway To Hell'..!

[quote name='Tony p' timestamp='1497953370' post='3321520'] Has anyone else here just played the set twice when they've used up all their material.... ? [/quote] Yes, depending on context. If the audience has changed since start of gig, no great problem; not really recommended if they're the same folks, I'd suggest.

[quote name='Monkey Steve' timestamp='1497953878' post='3321527']......however, I was thinking about bass drum volume the other day (triggered by the Download thread mentioning bass drums being too loud in the mix) and specifically my experience of drummers who will insist on having their bass drums mic'd up. I wonder if it's the drummers version of the "amp pointing at the knee" thing, that it's the one drum they can't hear because it's not pointing at them so they assume that nobody can hear it. I've never understood why the ones that insist on it do so when everybody else is constantly telling them that everybody in the studio/pub can hear the bass drum just fine... [/quote] This ^^ makes no sense to me. assuming you're meaning 'at live gigs', and not rehearsal (there's really no need to mic up a kit for rehearsals..!), then surely it's a call for the sound engi to make as to whether to have the drums miced, and how, and maybe (just maybe..?) feed some back to the drummer's foldback if he/she needs it..? I can't imagine how or why a drummer would want to dictate what the FOH gets; even less the monitors for the others..! Maybe I'm unusual, but when I've been playing my drums, in any formation over a long career, it's never once occurred to me to amplify what I can already hear very well indeed (and I'm now rather deaf, due to ageing..!). Very rarely, usually on open-air 'festival' type stages, I've wanted a touch of BD in my foldback, but even then only a tad. Is this common amongst drummers, then..? What have I been missing all these decades..?

[quote name='mikel' timestamp='1497949731' post='3321479'] We tend to set the PA vocal volumes at a very comfortable level and the instruments have to sit under that level so the vocals can be heard easily... [/quote] This ^^, drums included. You know it makes sense.

Jazz tone knobs are smaller than volume knobs.

[quote name='mcnach' timestamp='1497946176' post='3321444'] if I found them in 1/4" shaft format they would work... [/quote] [url="https://www.ebay.com/p/Allparts-Black-Knob-Set-for-USA-Jazz-Bass/1401321059?iid=222549816188"]Jazz bass knobs, Ebay ...[/url] There are others...

[quote name='WILD FROG SHOT' timestamp='1497944228' post='3321420'] I managed to turn my already very warm music room into a sauna recording the guitar for this... [/quote] Echoes of 'Genesis play Pink Floyd' in there. Good Stuff; will do well.

Ah, proud, eh..? Can't help you there, then. I [i]was [/i]going to suggest tone knobs from a Jazz bass.

A 1/4" slice of wide heat-shrink tubing, your choice of colour, shrunk onto the existing knobs would give 'em a distinctive look, maybe..?

[quote name='CTO' timestamp='1497911985' post='3321340']...[color=#191919][font=Verdana, Arial, sans-serif]let me know what you think...[/font][/color] [/quote] Good evening, Theo... For what it's worth, I think it's very good; no, rather very good indeed. A nice mix in general; slightly heavy on the bass drum, but not by much. Yes, the bass is discreet, but in context that's no bad thing; its role is amply fulfilled. One slight irritation: the 'Shadows' guitar at around the half-way mark. It comes across as weak compared to the rich tapestry woven up to then. Its 'in your face' timbre would prevent me from playing the track again. It could (in my view...) be either replaced with something a bit more subtle, or dispensed with entirely; there's quite enough going on, anyway. What 'genre'..? Shoe-gaze..? Modern ethnic/world music..? Advanced retro update..? Dunno; I'm not strong on categories. Good Stuff, then, with that slight reservation mentioned. Well done; your work is eminently listenable (take that as the compliment that was intended...). Thanks for sharing.

[quote name='Skinnyman' timestamp='1497909534' post='3321319'] More of a privet joke really [/quote] (Face palm...)

[quote name='Skinnyman' timestamp='1497906036' post='3321277'] No. That's the Hedge [/quote] Boxing clever, eh..?

Stuff from the catalogue of U2..?

[quote name='gjones' timestamp='1497855824' post='3320823']... She only needs the sheet music when she plays piano... [/quote] That's because she has learned 'songs', and not 'music'. It's like reciting a poem and writing poetry; quite different activities. Both respectable, but different.