Dad3353

Maybe a little difficult to 'sell', but would singing coaching from an experienced vocal tutor be an option..? Most vocal 'loudness' issues can be addressed with breath control etc, whatever the vocal range. Just an idea... As a pedal option, how about a compressor, set to reduce the more powerful upper register, allowing the PA to bring up the quieter lower range..?

... or put a drop of clear nail varnish over the screw head to stop it from turning..?

Mmm... Tea...

Do you mean 'how to cook cheap cuts of beef'..?

Cheap and lightweight... PVC Tubing Backdrop Stands... Put the uprights at the wall end, so that the bar is flush to the wall, not 30cm forward. Incorporate telescopic tubing, if that's useful. Easy and light to pack up, and cheap to make. Hope this helps.

Recognise the key and tempo being played, and get stuck in. What could possibly go wrong..? Timid, me..? Nah...

Offenbach's 'Galop Infernal' from his operetta 'Orphée aux Enfer' (most often used for the French 'Can-can' dance...). Not heard a great deal else from him that I like either, but that's the utter pits, for me.

Whatever's on the headstock.

Here is my contribution to the July 2023 Basschat Composition Challenge, illustrated with a picture chosen by AndyTravis. A stroke of luck, a lucky strike... One-take guitar track using my newly-acquired s/h Blackstar ID:Core 10 again. Guitar is my trusty black sparkle Xavière again, too. Bass is my Hofner Verithin into my Sonuus MIDI converter, to drive a simple bass Vst (4Front Bass Module...). Drums..? Played 'live' with my Millenium 850 MIDI e-drums into Superior Drummer 3. A fair bit of MIDI editing to tidy it all up, then the usual Cockos EQ and NY Bus compression (and some light Fx for the drums...). Thanks for listening, if you already have; if you're about to, enjoy.

Mmm ... Tea..!

Quite certainly overkill for pub gigs; there are very few equipped in such a way, I'd say. Concert halls, theatre stages and festivals, certainly, but not much elsewhere.

Amps will have a sticker or plate on the back, somewhere, indicating the power draw from the venue. It's not the same as the rated 'watts' of the amp. No calculation required; simply add up all the wattage from all those stickers and plates. Tell the venue what that wattage is. Dividing by 220 will give the amperage needed; should be below 10A, ideally.

You'll have to list all of your backline amps, and what LED projectors you have, to get a reasonable answer. Best guess from me would be 'less than 10kW', if you're not using valve amps and only LED PARs. The venue want to know if their power sockets and fuse boxes can support your equipment safely. In days of yore, with Genie tower lighting rigs and multi-head guitar and bass stacks, special power outlets were required. If you're below 10kW you should be OK using domestic power outlets. Hope this helps. Disclaimer : subject to completion, correction and/or contradiction from others.

Free, but for the Hornet, it means inscribing, then installing yet another Downloader programme, which sends the download to the wrong place (as usual...). No big deal, but with so many otfits doing the same stuff, it becomes tiresome for a 'one-off'. Melda don't do this, it's a straightforward download, once inscribed (I already am, soooooo...). Just sayin'. Hmm... Melda seem to have joined the club, too, with an Installer. A bit fiddly, but I got it to work, after a fashion. Very clunky, though.

No need for any artifices here; I'm just glad to still be breathing and able to play. S'not true of every day, though.

Bass directly into Tascam US-4x4HR interface, s'all, with Reaper as DAW. Simple, me..? Yup.

I've heard much, much worse at concerts and festivals over the decades. Nothing to criticise, just keep going in that vein and enjoy producing your stuff. I give it Five.

I can't remember if he was the Cornish smuggler in Blyton's 'The Famous Five on Holiday', or one of Ratty's friends in 'The Wind in the Willows'.

I'll embed a new one here, just as a test... https://soundcloud.com/dad3353/kill-bass-9?si=77b9713301fb43d3915e3b7951f694f6&utm_source=clipboard&utm_medium=text&utm_campaign=social_sharing ... and I get this message... 'The link could not be embedded because soundcloud.com does not allow embedding of that video.' Some mighty oddness is afoot...

Not only, but also... The previous months are no longer there, either..! Spooky..! My individual tracks are still there in Soundcloud, but there are no longer any Soundcloud files embedded in the Challenge topics. Unexpected result of a recent Forum update, maybe..? Any Admin thoughts..?

Phonetically I'd guess 'jiu jitsu'.

Eddy Currents..? Eldest son of Ocean Currents..? Isn't he in the Scrubs for short-changing the electricity company with a doctored meter..?

Variax guitars and basses take their signal from individual piezo transducers under the bridge saddles. Any instrument with this same configuration would do, I should think. There is no use made of the 'normal' magnetic p/u. Retro-fitting a Variax bridge to another guitar or bass would probably be the simplest route, I'd suggest. Hope this helps...

It may be illustrated by an extreme, perhaps. It's difficult, without 'modelling', to have a nylon-strung classical guitar sound like a solid-body electric. A folk guitar..? Similar, but maybe closer. A 335..? It won't sound like a Strat. A Strat won't sound like a nylon-strung classical guitar, either. I play mostly arch-top guitars and basses; my vintage Verithin will never sound like our Cort 5-string, nor will my 335 copy sound like my thinline Xavière, etc. No problem; they all sound good, but different.