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Bass was my main thing until our drummer left. I've played drums ever since and now it's my main gig IMO every musician should have a go at drumming in a band, even if it's just a jam. It brings home the importance of listening to every other instrument, opens your mind in terms of rhythm, and makes locking in with a drummer when you're next on bass (or whatever other instrument) so much easier EDIT: I also love how physical it is. You're basically dancing with sticks in your hand. When you're playing a gig, everyone is dancing to you. Quite often around here people will say things like "if the bass stops, people stop dancing"? Well that's just not the case, sorry. Also it's so much easier to jam with new people. You don't have to know the chords or even the key. All you need to know is if there are any stops, and if you miss one just chuck a fill in and look like you meant it

If the buzzing goes away when you touch the strings, that'd normally be a grounding issue on the bass wouldn't it? I guess it's always there, but when using your pedals, or just turned up to gig volume, it becomes particularly noticeable.

I play acoustic guitar and sing at home but I can't do it in front of people. I practised for months thinking I'd get up at my local acoustic night but I just couldn't do it. I've played gigs on lead guitar, and I generally do well, but I find it very nerve wracking, and when it gets to a solo I find myself blushing, I've seen footage and it looks/sounds great, but I feel so far out of my comfort zone Bass and drums feel easy in comparison, in terms of actually performing in front of people, 'cos I know I'm not the centre of attention I suppose.

Eh Up Mi Duck festival up near Doncaster on Saturday night. It's a small festival but the revellers were plenty rowdy! Absolutely crazy mosh pit, loads of singing along and dancing, good pay, and beers in the van for the way home

I've not had much time online lately but last weekend was a good one for this thread Friday night, Northern Kin Festival, massive stage in a big top tent, great crowd, super pro sound crew and system. I got to set up my drums on a riser while the previous act finished, then they just wheeled me on stage Sunday night, mayday festival of solidarity in Barnsley. It's a nice venue, but very small stage, and I'm forced to use the house drum kit which gradually falls to bits as I play. It was a packed room and a fun gig, but what a crash back down to earth after playing at being a rock star on the Friday night!

Ashdown ABM 600. I connect a DI with phantom to one in the studio all the time as my current mixer will only switch the phantom in banks of 8 channels. It's always been fine but this thread got me wondering, I just checked the manual... "unaffected by Phantom Powering on the Microphone input." https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/2397/1117/files/abm600.pdf?10890871767480766198

Yussef did an album with Tom Misch, I think Rocco is on a few tracks, highly recommended

Ace gig at Katie Fitzgerald's in Stourbridge last night. I don't think we played our best, but the energy in the room more than made up for that. I think the fact I'd decided to record the set might have put us on edge a little I was photographing my cymbals and remote recording setup but our (excellent) bassist decided to spice up the photo a bit

You boost the bass more for the jazz than you do the P? But it still lacks bass? Maybe try a cut in the upper mids?

If there's not enough bass in your sound, wouldn't you just turn the bass up on your amp?

Wow, OK, we're very different!

@Grimalkin This is funky right?

What about his playing though?

cool

I saw Ralph had joined but thought one of you would be on guitar. 2 bass is ace! Hopefully we'll be there in time to see it

The Old Cold Store in Nottingham supporting the Star Botherer's album launch. No sound check but everyone was on top form and the 50 minute set flew by. Loads of compliments afterwards, and then I tucked into the excellent beer selection at the bar. Ace night

The vets we use have a pretty cool chilled out trip-hop style instrumental thing, which would be great, except for some reason it's so loud it's constantly clipping. I have to turn the phone right down, and then back up again when they answer

Did you try calling them?

Fantastic! I'm a big Louis Cole fan but hadn't seen this before, thanks!

The article says "Notice how no one’s posting pictures of the crowd? If they did it would be empty." I follow quite a few acts on Facebook that are gigging, and they are posting pictures of packed out venues. I guess these sold out gigs with 40% no-shows have fair weather fans?

I bet there's at least one bass chatter who writes hold music? I'm on hold to Eon now. There's a fairly nice piece that starts with what sounds like harmonic diads played on bass. It then layers up with some guitar and a bit of percussion. It sounds like something someone would do at an open mic with a looper, except it just goes round and round and there's no vocal. One section in particular had me thinking - do these companies ask the composer to deliberately attempt to get the caller to put the phone down? I'd be interested to know what sort of brief you get There's a slightly out of tune guitar just running down the major scale, over and over again and it feels like it's screaming at me JUST HANG UP

I'm not an expert on choirs but I think they're generally split by vocal range - bass, tenor, alto, soprano etc.

JP says a lot, it's often totally unintelligible. Even his writing that's been edited doesn't make a lot of sense. Anyway, I don't think anyone is saying that there's no difference between women and men. The differences are obvious. That's not what the progression in language is about. I'm sure I don't need to explain this to you but "Hit like a girl" could mean girls are less likely to feel they could be a successful boxer, or drummer "Throw like a girl", "run like a girl" etc "Bass is a manly instrument" There's a prevailing attitude that this language fuels the inequality we see between men and women Of course JP would have you believe there's no such inequality Like I said, I don't think anyone's offended by ACs remarks, it's just that some of us think that language is outdated and we should move on

Clearly there are a lot of people who want to hear what JP keeps pointing out, yourself included

I thought he was still out in the cold on Benzos but a quick google seems he's back at it