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My 2nd gig playing drums with a backing track. A lot fewer technical issues this time!! I think I need to sort out some sort of ambient mic to get a better sound in my ears but it was really good, loads of fun

One of the best posts I've ever read on Basschat, thank you!

There are two sound guys and the other one is fine. This one is just really hard work. Our singer has a vocal effects pedal. He's a loud singer so I keep the input gain right down on it. The soundman cranked up the input gain on the pedal to the point of distortion, so I shouted "that's distorting, I'll turn it down" and did. He came back to the stage and rather angrily told us to stop messing with his settings, and put the gain back up. I was on drums and it was time to get the set going so I couldn't do anything else. Our frontman kept begging him to put more vocals in the monitor but either he realised that he'd got so much distortion that it would just feed back, or more likely just decided that we were an annoying band, either way he just sat there on his phone ignoring us

Yeh, I was telling Paul, once the headline band had an inaudible bass. Our guitarist asked the soundman to turn it up and he shouted F OFF at him

On Thursday we played at The Sugarmill which is a fairly big club in Stoke. It was rammed, about 300 in there. Our set was shorter than expected (supporting a bigger band) and I had to set up my drum kit to the side so it was all a bit cramped. We played some new songs and there were some mistakes. Honestly I thought we were crap, in particular me. The next day I watched some footage back and I couldn't spot any mistakes at all, and it looked great! Weird On Friday we played at The Maze in Nottingham. I got very annoyed with the soundman who wouldn't listen to me resulting in quiet and distorted lead vocals. Despite that it was loads of fun and we played really well. The other bands were great too! I met @PaulWarning who's got a brilliant sound for Verbal Warning!

I have a LOT of pedals, and I really like using them, but to record anything other than very weird music I just DI the bass dry and add a bit of compression and/or dirt and EQ using VST plugins I like Blockfish as a compressor and Quadrafuzz is an awesome filter/distortion/fuzz plugin

If the technophobe is the band leader than you're fighting a losing battle It looks great though, I'm sure you'll do well

This looks brilliant, very impressive... unfortunately I'd never get the one or two technophobes I play with to actually use it

I play in a heavy/noisey band doing weird instrumental metal. I have a Behringer BDI21 at the end of my pedal chain and just DI that and tell them to turn it up in the monitors. We're not playing little pubs though

I played a tiny little pub, local to me in rural staffordshire. It's was pretty full, but the area they put us in was tiny. I was on lead guitar backing an amazing singer doing her original songs with a few covers thrown in. I'm mainly jamming this as I can't seem to remember the songs. All in all I thought it was going to be rubbish - a set of originals to a tiny pub that could hardly see us around the corner. It turned out to be a LOT of fun. The singer ventured out from our tiny area quite a few times to entertain the packed pub, and I only played a couple of bum notes. I love making weird noises and on this gig I get to use my Digitech SpaceStation which always makes me grin. If anyone's interested here's a video of us at a slightly bigger venue - Some of you might recognise Paul who's a monster on bass

very impressive!

this is ace!

I did two gigs on Saturday night. First was an all day festival thing. I love the sound of the drums in this room, it's a big semi-hollow stage, quite high up, and a big room with high ceiling. Unfortunately the sound has always been rubbish once the PA is going and Saturday was no exception. The bass guitarist might as well have just let all his open strings ring, that's what it sounded like from the behind the kit anyway. Impossible to lock into! The 2nd gig was a 50th birthday party. It's a bit weird playing originals at a birthday party but it seemed to go down well. The PA was tiny so I really had to hold back, but that was fine. It was a lot more fun than the first gig anyway. I could hear the bass guitar for a start!

Brilliant! Thanks for that, I'd not heard of them

This is awesome! Beautiful looking and sounding work!

two sets of in-ears would look OK wouldn't they? Otherwise studio monitors would be fine and probably a lot better than a small PA

Brilliant!

I'm running windows 10 offline, no notifications, no updates, just playing tracks off the media player. I've made tracks with a click on one side and all sorts of stuff on the other which I can send to the sound guy. It seemed to work OK except for the USB cable coming out

I'm very interested as I tried this for the first time on Saturday ( as a drummer) and the USB cable worked it's way out of the back of the audio interface. I couldn't permanently flight-case my laptop as I use it for work. I was thinking about using a tablet instead

It was my first ever gig playing to a backing track on Saturday night. I was really nervous about the technology going wrong. I'd got myself a bit worked up even though all the rehearsals had gone fine. I'd forgotten the right files so had to race back to the studio in the snow. It turns out I'm rubbish at driving in the snow - or at least I am when I'm panicking about getting back to the gig in time. Anyway, I got the tracks and set it all up and it seemed like everything was OK. Unfortunately the USB lead waggled its way out of the audio interface during the first rack. It took until the 3rd song before I realised and fixed it. To make matters worse I'd left my snare turned off for the first song of the set. All this put me off massively and I played the rest of the set with a bright red face It turns out that no-one even noticed these monumental pink torpedo-ups and we went down really well! So thank flip for ignorant punters

how do you clean up a distorted bass sound? I might sound a bit thick here, especially as I do a lot of recording (as an engineer) but I've never been able to remove distortion from a recording, only add it.

I'm feeling a bit embarrassed reading through this thread. I play drums in a few bands, and while I find playing to a metronome easy, when I'm playing without I often speed up as the track progresses. I also count some songs in too fast or too slow. I really need to work on it

Already got my tickets for Manchester but didn't know Joe Dart would be there - great news!

Hah, happy to help if I can