Jakester

Had this happen again this weekend, and i think in hindsight it is down to a change in temp - amp came out of ‘mancave’ into car and pressed straight into service and started cutting out. Cranked it up and suddenly came back to life, deafening everyone around me! Turned off and on again, and worked fine thereafter. Looks like a call to the distributor... 😭

I can’t stop looking at this bass. It really is probably the most lovely thing I’ve seen in years. Absolutely stunning.

So you’re complaining because a new product cost more than a used one? 🤔

Well, they did it...

Our local guitar shop ran a promotion like this - £5 a ticket, limited to ‘X’ tickets, on a fairly middling PRS guitar. I think it was 150/200 tickets, though I may be wrong. If you add that up, they’re making more than the retail price of that particular guitar if they sell all the tickets. Not sure what actually happened, mind, as I think the deadline got extended and then it went from the window. From the shops point of view, a good way to make a profit on slow moving stock!

Yeah, I could do, but it’s a single string so not a massive issue.

Just to update this, Unfortunately BD weren’t able to help, and although DR were really quick in forwarding my query to the UK distributor, the latter never bothered to reply, which is disappointing. Ended up buying a 4-string set of ‘normal’ nickel strings and the buying a random top c string off EBay - a different brand but doesn’t seem to make any difference at this stage!

Probably quite a lot less ‘editable’ than the others, but perhaps a) more cost effective and b) preset with more useable sounds, this might be worth a look: https://www.ehx.com/products/bass-mono-synth

Cable? Amp output?

I’d be a little wary of anything suggesting it’s ‘dripping’ with someone’s DNA...😳 🤮

This is very interesting as I was using my 121P yesterday and suddenly had a huge drop in volume. I’d assumed it was the battery in my bass, so replaced that in the break and then it cut out as I’d upped the gain to compensate for the much lower passive signal. Turned off and on and with the gain reduced it was then fine for the rest of the gig. No discernible change in temperature though - there was first thing but it lasted a good hour and a half of playing before it went. I’ll keep an eye on it now!

That’ll be baffles for adjusting frequencies, but won’t do anything to attenuate the volume - I suspect they’ll be basic ‘room in rooms’.

"Relatively" inexpensive is battening the inner walls and ceiling, adding resilient bars, and then doubling up with acoustic plasterboard sheets. Seal up any gaps with caulk and at least you've got more mass which is at least partially decoupled. By no means perfect, but a relatively easy solution which would reduce the sound transmission to outside the room.

I mentioned above we just got one - I had one of these off Paul: Probably an easy way to dip your toe in without blowing the budget, plus he was a pleasure to deal with!

I’m not expert by any means, but in anticipation of getting ours, I did some reading on placement and the stuff I did read suggested that placement of two subs below the tops (as is the norm) is suboptimal as it can affect the bass through the venue through interference waves: https://www.google.co.uk/amp/s/www.soundonsound.com/techniques/bass-place%3famp Could that be an issue?

Just bought a sub off here; we used either Alto 15’s or Mackie Thump 12’s (with the latter being used as monitors at the bigger gigs). Now intending to use the 12’s with the sub and put vocs bass, keys (possibly) and drums through it, with a view to possibly adding the guitars too if needed. Both guitarists use valve combos so sadly DIing is out, and they need a certain level of volume to get their drive.

If anyone is interested, this was spot on - but instead of buying one I found some vids on YouTube and just sampled the bits I needed. There’s a sort of rising sub-bass ‘wobble’ so I nicked a dubstep sample off YouTube and added filter and flange effects for that. The only sound still outstanding is a sort of ‘honk’ in the main riff but I’m not sure I can be bothered to track that one down...

In the bands I’ve been in down here, we’ve always approached the venues direct. If they use a promoter/manager (some do IME) they’ll just direct you to them.

Thanks - I have the technical side covered - it’s the actual sounds I’m struggling to identify!

No, not the main figure, but sound effects in the background - there’s a sort of ray gun effect, and various other ‘squidgy and wobby’ sounds. We’re not going all out for authenticity but I did notice on a first run through it can get a little repetitive so it’d be nice to break it up a little.

Not sure if this is the right place, so sorry if not! We're playing Paul Weller's Changing Man in my band at the moment, and there's loads of bleepy sound effects in the background. I wondered if anyone's band had ever had a stab at replicating them and if so, how you went about doing it?