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[quote name='PaulWarning' timestamp='1473090580' post='3126807'] actually I've just thought of a band that's doing very well without a record deal and some older looking members, Ferocious Dogs, the first unsigned band to sell out Rock City, wonder how they did it? nothing too original, bit like the Levellors [/quote] Indeed! We played the after show party at that gig and do a lot on that scene, it's really thriving! FD have put the work in to build up a fiercely loyal fan base, which takes time and a lot of hard work. I wonder how many would turn up if they played The Shed? Probably a few!

[quote name='PaulWarning' timestamp='1473087219' post='3126754'] ... you've been gigging all over the place for 6 years, putting loads of hard work in, and fair play to you, but do you really think you are going to progress any further?.. [/quote] Maybe not but it's a lot better than playing to an empty room at the shed in Leicester. I think the OP's point was "We played to an empty room, why should we bother playing at all?" and the obvious counter to that is to play to full rooms (as opposed to get a top 10 hit)

Nailed it again BRX. It can be done!

I've done a few 1000+, I think the biggest one was supporting status quo at an outdoor festival, probably about 2000 there when we played

Great gig at The Maze in Nottingham on Friday night. It was an ace crowd, nothing to do with us. I think they were there to see "Days 'n' Daze" who are an american acoustic punk type act, pretty good. Then on Saturday I played with two different bands at the same festival but I was below par. I've managed to trigger off the problem I used to get in my right hand and it's starting to cramp up like it used to. I've learned to cope with this on bass but I'm just not used to it on drums so I dropped a few

I've played the Shed 3 times and it's always been dead. The last time I was there they were charging £3.50 for a can of red stripe. There's an off licence round the corner and they happened to have red stripe 4 for £3.50. How can they justify this? Yeh it's a nice room and stage etc. but you're more likely to get a decent atmosphere in a venue with decent prices and a regular crowd

The SFX "split 'n' mix" would do the first two, but not the last. I guess you'd need a proper fancy digital switching/mixing system

3 band EQ (parametric mids would be great) and a decent gate with threshold control

I really wish I'd not just watched that. Now I need to learn this too

I read that he practised a lot to a drum machine. I download a drum loop app which is great, so I've been playing along to that a lot. It's cool because I never used to play bass at home at all, maybe once a month or so. The rest of the music at home would be guitar or piano, but since getting into vulfpeck I've been keeping the bass out of it's bag and going funk-nuts in the kitchen! It's ace

I had to cut the nails right down on my right hand to get the muted notes to sound right. It's those muted percussive notes in between the actual notes that seem to make the whole bassline make sense

does anyone else get nervous when the OP goes quiet for a couple of days?

Will do! We're still finding our feet. I really need a keys player but haven't found anyone yet, just got drums, guitar and sax.

I've been working on a new funk band and one tune we're trying to cover at the moment is Beastly. The main bass line sounds so simple but as soon as I started playing it I was stumped by the timing. I think I've got it now, but it's really made me pay attention to his timing. It's just so perfect! I was trying to find other players to inspire me, but I find them all inferior compared to Joe Dart. Am I in love? Is there anyone who can compare?

It depends on the image you're going for. Some band-images work with big ages differences, others don't

[quote name='Cosmo Valdemar' timestamp='1472216657' post='3119544'] Sure, if you want to sound nothing like Korn... [/quote] For that you just mic up a tambourine and put it through a Dod Meatbox

It's just so accepted in a lot of pubs and venues for the sound to be too loud. This is doing permanent damage to the hearing of everyone there not wearing ear plugs. We don't take this issue seriously enough IMO

I bought Viking pickups for my 6 string jazz I'd never heard of them but they were the only ones that'd fit easily (that I could afford). They sound fantastic

"punch" for me, would be transient attack, rather than frequency specific [quote name='blue' timestamp='1472179462' post='3119193'] ...Some songs are better suited with a clean Jameson sound... [/quote] Did he ever have a clean sound? I'm sure most of what I've heard has been heavily compressed and pretty driven

[quote name='scalpy' timestamp='1472160855' post='3119077'] So true. We eq for the room, drummers need to tune for the band. For me personally, cymbals are often the biggest volume problem too, washy ride cymbals and over hit crashes drilling through everyone's hearing. [/quote] Yes, definitely. Getting used to playing the drums quieter was fairly straightforward for me, although it took a lot of practise. Getting used to playing the crash cymbal quieter was very, very difficult. Smaller and thinner crashes help, as you can get more response without whacking it

muse, totally lost track of what they're up to now

I saw it on the suggestions on youtube, and I'm a massive Claypool fan* so I checked it out. I only lasted about 10 minutes. Maybe I should have given it longer? I really did not enjoy it at all *I saw him on his solo tour and it was one of my favourite gigs ever, and I've watched my Primus live DVDs several times etc.

I did used to do this as a kid for playing games on my PC, with a 1 x 15" peavey combo. Every time I shot a gun (in the game) the entire house shook ...but yeh, it wasn't exactly Hi-Fi

basically, yeh, he just needs to play to the overall mix, there should be no need for hot-rods ...but like I say it did take me a long time to feel confident playing quieter

no worries! To be honest for that sort of stuff you're probably better off programming the drums, otherwise you can spend hours and hours editing to get them "super tight" and then still end up using triggers. You should get a gig at The Rigger up this way!