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

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

Did my wedding dep gig last night. Beautiful location in Wiltshire with views of the rolling hills of somewhere or other outside the open sided marquee. It was the one with monitoring replaced by earphones and a click track. Playing wise I got away with it. 40 odd songs, most of which I didn't know, so happy with that. Playing without proper monitoring is never going to be my bag. No one can hear anything anyone says so the band retreat into their shells and don't communicate with one another. The click was buried in the mix so I basically didn't use it. Didn't have time to learn the app so couldn't adjust it myself. Still, nice people to work with and they seemed happy with what I did. The unscripted, unexpected version of Bohemian Rhapsody at the end of the evening is probably best forgotten. Not a song to busk.

And the thread trajectory is complete!

This is what I'll be doing. It's a definite help to a short notice dep.

Sorry I gave that impression. I actually posted positives as well as negatives and merely wanted to start a conversation on the subject.

Cool, thanks man. I'm absolutely fine working with the click tracks provided as I believe it will be helpful to me depping as I am at short notice. I simply thought it might provide interesting meat for a BC discussion.

No idea

Interesting. I don't know if they employ such tactics or not. I was referring more to the way a metronome sucks life from individual playing and how the set structures of the songs can't be varied on the fly to suit the audience. In other words if they're all up dancing you can't just keep the song rolling. You lose the improvised moments of magic that elevate a performance.

It's a wedding set. With some medleys. Pretty standard fare but just not all stuff I'm familiar with