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[quote name='Dubs' post='830399' date='May 7 2010, 09:53 AM']I think I'd struggle to honestly say that I'll ever be GAS free, and that is in regards to all bass gear - amps, cabs, basses, effects, etc... I even had GAS for a gig bag once!! [/quote] My bass-related GAS if for gigs. I'd really like to find a "big stage, big audience" band that stretches me musically but which fits with my tricky time and other life constraints... Meanwhile I do have GAS for other musical things. The GAS potential for harmonica gear is huge

[quote name='Conan' post='830303' date='May 7 2010, 08:16 AM']Yeah. My Cort Curbow has a "slap switch" which does the same. [b]Why is it that all manufacturers assume that if you want to play slap you also want to be inaudible?![/b] [/quote] ha ha Oh that is such an open goal

Stick! Gas Free here too.

[quote name='daz' post='830055' date='May 6 2010, 09:18 PM']Now thats just being cheeky infering I'd fall for the old PMPO trick. Thats for people who buy there HiFi from Toys R Us. At the end of the day output Watts are irrelevant really. Decibels are what really counts.[/quote] Cue Alex on Spl at 3.7 inches, cab efficiency, Relative colour of tone, smell of the cone paper etc For me it's all about how the whole package sounds and works in context. In my 40+ years of playing I've used Peavey 1x15 combos of many kinds for many years (and other stuff) and they all sound louder in a band situation than their published wattage might suggest.

[quote name='daz' post='829832' date='May 6 2010, 05:16 PM']Its 135 Watts. It sounds almost as loud as my 450 Watt Behringer though, go figure? Maybe old Watts from 1979 are worth more than new 2009 Watts ? [/quote] Thanks Yeah, I've noticed Peavey watts seem louder than other people's . There seems to be something magical about the Black Widow too

[quote name='Pete Academy' post='829911' date='May 6 2010, 06:50 PM']I've always boosted my mids to the max. It's the way to cut throught the mix. I know someone who sets his graphic EQ in a smile with mids totally cut. No definition whatsoever. If you want to hear the notes, the mids are essential.[/quote] Well I blame Mark King and Trace Elliot for that.

[quote name='GreeneKing' post='829870' date='May 6 2010, 05:59 PM']Preaching to the converted here [/quote] +1 Once, many years ago after a particularly terribly sounding gig for me the sound man approached and gave me a lesson on how to twiddle the knobs. His first point was "don't unless you really need to". Then "cut, don't boost". We then discussed the bass sounds I admired and he recommend some eq settings that would help me achieve what I wanted. Out with the standard MarkieKing / Tracy Elliot smiley face thing, (and the Ashdown rig, actually), then set everything flat but down a tad from the notch except for the upper mids. That did the job.

[quote name='tauzero' post='829805' date='May 6 2010, 04:48 PM']He has now said that he's been told it's a copy so he's setting the start price at Squier levels. As for oiling and fret cleaning - he hasn't said he doesn't know about guitars, he's said he doesn't know about bass guitars. Subtle difference.[/quote] Oh, all right then

[quote name='EdwardHimself' post='829769' date='May 6 2010, 04:24 PM']as i say i'm not greedy but i think that i would be able to learn what was required of me, so long as it's nothing ridiculously complex, but then again [b]if it's a covers band why would it be?[/b][/quote] Ha ha ha ha ha Well let's see... because covers bands play stuff that's hard as well as Mustang Sally? Oh and you'll probably need to learn 50 or 60 tunes from the last 60 years in a short amount of time to keep up with your average covers band that's been around for a while...

Sting solo Englishman in New York, Danny Thompson with John Martyn

Mick Karn (Japan)

[quote name='xgsjx' post='829373' date='May 6 2010, 10:04 AM']I work with a girl (I play g***ar, she sings) & she knows very little about music. If she can't sing the key it's in she always gets the direction backwards, eg: if she wants me to go down a key she asks me to go up & knows ziltch about theory in any form whatsoever. But she's got a good voice & is a nice girl so I usually just ask her to sing & then I find her key (which 8 times out of 10 is Eb).[/quote] I bet you play in E though I have to agree. Many singers I've encountered don't know the first thing about musical theory, or keys or modes or scales or how to hold a mic or where to plug it it. Sure thy can doh-ray-me and arpeggiate in several keys but they don't know what they are doing. However it seldom matters as they have great voices, have natural timing and ability and can remember the words. They learn where to come in and when and they do a great job. Most of us have been trained in singing since we were babies and that works for a lot of people. The opposite is a piano player I jam with occasionally who is studying Jazz at college and can waffle on about this and that technique, modes, scales, jazz classics, the note choices of Duke Ellington, Charlie Parker and Miles Davis and how they colour the tune etc etc etc. He can't jam a twelve bar in C, or keep to a metronome and bass beat .... Of course assembling and running a band is a totally different matter.

[quote name='Doddy' post='829240' date='May 6 2010, 01:20 AM']So,I finished teaching tonight and before I left I helped a girl set the PA up in the rehearsal room,because she obviously didn't have a clue even though she was only using a mic and a CD player.(Her mum was there too,who was a bit of a no nothing,know it all-despite the girl being in her mid 20's). Anyway,we were talking and she was telling me how she has been a pro singer for a few years and that she was looking for a pro band,so I asked her what kind of thing she was looking to do(always after work y'know). She tells me that she want's to do a pop band and that she wants guitar,drums and keys."What about Bass?" I asked,only to be told that she didn't want bass guitar because "It's too low for my voice,so I only want a normal guitar" So,she's a pro singer who doesn't know how to turn a PA on,and has no idea about what a bass does. She was indeed an idiot.[/quote] Actually it sounds like an opportunity to offer some classes in "basic PA setting up for mothers and daughters" and " the fundimentals of a band"

[quote name='Jean-Luc Pickguard' post='829256' date='May 6 2010, 06:57 AM']I blame Simon Cowell[/quote] +2 and top of the pops miming and karaoke-kroakie

[quote name='wotnwhy' post='828811' date='May 5 2010, 06:55 PM']looks like i have! are they all down the bay??[/quote] No Mate, they are all over my side in Roath/Splott oh and Whitchurch If you are looking for venues to pester have a look here: [url="http://www.theminiaturemusicpress.com/#/gigs-may/4540522696"]http://www.theminiaturemusicpress.com/#/gigs-may/4540522696[/url]

[quote name='MB1' post='828738' date='May 5 2010, 05:55 PM']MB1. ...And the frets cleaned!....Suspicious! [/quote] Very Perhaps he is an uncle and has a loft!

[quote name='wotnwhy' post='828362' date='May 5 2010, 12:52 PM']managed to get our first gig in the point a couple of months before it was closed. amazing venue and the only good thing down that end of cardiff. now no-one bothers going there who actually lives in cardiff. shame[/quote] Well actually .... We have loads of good venues around this area. Each good in their own ways. The Gate, Milgi, Claude, 147 Club, Plasnewdd club, Gower, Earl Haigh, Varsity, bar YK ... I guess you've been Way Out West too long

and he knows little about basses but is planning to get the neck oiled? How many civilians know about neck oiling? Avoid ..

[quote name='Pkomor' post='828045' date='May 4 2010, 11:40 PM']whoops! Silly me! Yeah, it is funktion! Thanks alot, Pete.[/quote] Sorry Pete Posts crossing in the post here. Plase see my edits above, Ta

[quote name='Pkomor' post='828019' date='May 4 2010, 11:06 PM']Hi, I know your probably busy, but if you have time it would be great if you could skim your eye over the website I just made for my jazz band! Our aim is get more party/wedding sort of gigs, but the website is mainly for people who have heard of us by word of mouth, and just want to take a closer look, however more google traffic would be great! [/quote] Sure. I'll need a link though ... Edit: is it [url="http://www.funktion-jazz.co.uk/"]FunKtion?[/url] If it is then there's loads of tips and points in this thread already that you'll benefit from. Have a read right through then we can start from a long way in and talk specifics for your site rather than the general stuff already covered .. OK?

[quote name='yorks5stringer' post='822356' date='Apr 28 2010, 07:39 PM']"Desperate to get this months as the cousin of my Wood & Tronics Ergon is in it... I know it got 4/5 (ha ha of course) but I'm still interested in what they said about it. " The review's is a bit ambivalent, talks about a "few glaring omissions" in one breath then proceeds to say " these minor gripes aside" (both in reference to the same issues!). Don't know if the sub editor got at it?[/quote] Yeah It's a bit luke warm .. Shame as that's a really nice bass. But then I'm biased and I've already come to terms with the odd shape of the W&T's I agree the basses should have a seperate battery cover. Not fussed about a hard case though. The gig bag is great and stylish. Seemed like they were looking for something - anything, almost - to dock that last star. Oh well. get round to BassDirect and try it yourself

[quote name='crez5150' post='827418' date='May 4 2010, 01:37 PM']I think it depends on how many mixes you need really.... also how many sends/Aux you have on your desk to handle the mixes. The funk band I play with have now moved over to rehearsing with IEMS completely..... it's fantastic as the drummer can use his Roland kit and we all get an overall mix. sound quality is fab and we can rehearse in my studio at the back of my house till into the early hours without disturbing anyone[/quote] More than we have and more PA ooomph than we have too

[quote name='Shire' post='827420' date='May 4 2010, 01:39 PM']I just got back from the post office after sending a bass to Denmark for a member on here. I hope it gets there ok... On my receipt, it says [b]suitcases and musical instrument cases are excluded from compensation[/b] so you might have got lucky [/quote] Wow that's a new development. I guess the message is getting through. The Op wasn't claiming on a muscal instrument, just the case. If you want to use the post office then use Royal Mail Special Delivery 24. Musical instruments are covered by that (though you have to watch the weight and volumetric limits)

I think for your average weekend warrior trying to get FoH for bass and IEM's to work for all venues and all members of the band is hard. Our drummer is talking about using IEM's for monitoring rather than his wedge. Problem is there's no bass in the monitors we don't all want the same mix in our wedges that he wants in his IEM's. It just seems very complicated. Plus I want the bass sound I hear to be under my control.

[quote name='Prime_BASS' post='827164' date='May 4 2010, 09:59 AM']First time I bothered with slapping was learning 'ban the tube top' by Reel Big Fish, the slap part in the chorus was easy enough for me to do, thenjust went from there.[/quote] The horns on the intro sound like an Asda advert