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3 hours ago, Richard R said:

Holy Thread Revival @stewblack!!

What was the final outcome of all this?

 

I am shortly to embark on a similar exercise to replace the truss rod on a cheap bass and I remembered this from lockdown.

I have just re-read the entire thread - but I now I need to know the ending or I won't sleep properly!

 

The ending...is pending 🤦‍♂️.

The neck snapped, the new truss rod was too long, I lost heart and put it all away.

But...

I soaked the split from the inside with super glue before putting it away so it might be stable enough for me to revisit the whole thing 

Such an amazing pedal. Snap this up.

I gig mine regularly. Never felt any need to change it. Great bass.

Played somewhere in the Cotswolds last night. 

Aren't satnavs great? Started the day in Charmouth and several hours later ended up headlining an event somewhere else. Just bunged in the what three words link and headed off.

Modern gigging. Don't even need to know where you are, where you've been or where you're going 

On 01/07/2023 at 09:19, Chienmortbb said:

I think a certain Essex company copied that design for their amps. 😜. I seem to remember GK cooying the Bugeras too.

Having owned three different Ashdown amps, the only similarity with the Behringer is the meter. 

I've mentioned this one before in a similar thread, but the Behringer BX4500H deserves another nomination.

I gigged mine again on Thursday and was reminded just how solid it is.

Incredibly flexible, every tonal configuration imaginable, loud and clear.

I've been underwhelmed by other Behringer heads, but not by this one. It's easily one of my all time favourites.

I don't have holidays (I'm a musician so obviously I can't afford them) but I stayed with my daughter for a couple of days after giving her a lift to a caravan site. 

Did I miss my bass? No. I took one with me of course.

Like most professional musicians money is the overriding concern 

So I drive the smallest most economical car I can get my gear into

Thank you. He was just curious I'm not messing with it.

10 hours ago, danbowskill said:

Them dreadbox pedals look cool 👌... Never heard of them

 

Absolutely brilliant pedals. Unlike anything else I've tried.

New JHS live show happening now. He's building a pedal from a kit this week.

Do I need to tell you that @ped is a top bloke with whom to conduct a business transaction?

This is, after all, his house we're all in.

Basschat remains the best place to buy and sell and that is largely because it's a reflection of the guy who set it up.

10 hours ago, Obrienp said:

I agree but I don’t want loud, I just want audible. The blues band I play in is too loud; mostly driven by the drummer, who also suffers from tinnitus LoL. I wonder why? I would like a happy medium: audible but not deafening. Anyway, I’ve hijacked the thread. Let’s see how the next gig goes!

Yep. Audible. Is that too much for us to ask? Apparently if you're a singer or keys player then yes it is.

She's one of my favourite bass players. Just so good.

I'm beginning to suspect it isn't supposed to be like that. I shall investigate.

Thank you all 

2 hours ago, ezbass said:

This is only ok if they all played quietly too, which would not appear to be the case. I think I might have told them to stuff their request.

I estimate the bass to have been at a similar volume to one of the rack toms, maybe a bit quieter. It was utterly drowned by the keyboard monitor 

My son in law asked why the sensitivity knob is stiffer to turn than the other two.

I said I don't know but I bet someone does.

Depressing evening yesterday. Virtually empty club and the band insist I play so quietly that I was literally inaudible.

19 minutes ago, JapanAxe said:

I guess we're talking scooping out the mid-range to benefit slappity-poppity shenanigans?

I confess there was much mention of that, but I don't go in for it. I was more interested in the effect it had on the tone. 

I stroke my strings lovingly rather than twanging and bashing them.

Looking for video of my incoming Meridian Funkulator pedal I kept stumbling across this 

It appears to do nothing more than reduce the 800 Hz frequency. I stand to be corrected of course.

So I made one. Cheap graphic with a slider set to control the 800. Pulled it down. Bingo.

And you know what? It makes a big difference.

Wow, that's a whole lot of kit in a very small, pedal board friendly box.

The verbal cues were useful when I could hear them - I'd annotated my scores and chord charts to match them. If I work with the band again I'll be sure to learn the app and get my mix how I want it.

7 hours ago, Muzz said:

I'm not sure I understand the 'extra instrumentation which we had in our ears but the audience didn't hear' thing, tho: what was it?

The click track was punctuated with verbal cues and had keys and such on it as well.

I would happily do it again and if the drummers in my regular bands chose to play to a click it wouldn't bother me. It would spoil some songs which are supposed to gradually speed up but not ruin them so no biggie.

On the night in question the click was virtually buried in my mix so I missed cues which would have been useful, what wasn't useful was the extra instrumentation which we had in our ears but the audience didn't hear - obviously I play as a part of a whole, I play to the music of the band and having instruments which actually weren't there got in the way of that.

The spontaneity missing was the ability to stretch out passages of songs when people were enjoying themselves, everything had to run to the backing track. Also missing were those moments of musical magic which only come from a group of musicians improvising. It's an organic thing. that is what I said and what I meant about robotic. Not that there wasn't any feel. Clearly I never said that.

Anyway it was interesting. Not anything I would implement in my bands, I want those  to be an organic whole, not  separated individuals locked into a predetermined script. Although that has a lot to do with in ear monitors rather than the click track.