pete.young

Sir Cliff is going to be very upset when he finds out.

Easiest way I found to do this was to get a pair of phono - jack leads and connect the output from the cassette player into my Zoom H4N.

You could do a similer thing with the Focusrite if it has two mic/line inputs, and record / edit it with Audacity.

Me three. I can console mayself that I still have the last fretless bargain that I bought from @Beedster, which seems to be getting a bit more use.

34 minutes ago, EliasMooseblaster said:

 

 

For FoH...where are you playing? Pub or small club, even the kick drum sometimes feels unnecessary! Hammersmith Apollo, you might need a little more PA support.

 

 

 

Sometimes you need to do this if you go for in-ear monitors - good ear buds will block out most of the drums.

Another option might be to keep your Midi keyboard and find a used desktop or rack synth. I have a Korg X5DR which makes reasonable piano, organ , strings and clavinet sounds, they seem to go through ebay for 100 - 200 . There are probably other makes, but it's not something I know very much about.

6 hours ago, Boodang said:

Very much not! And only gives you 2 aux for monitor mixes, but then it's not that expensive. 

 2 aux out? Pathetic, my analog Yamaha does 3 aux out pre-fade and one post-fade which can be pressed into service if necessary.

Loving the idea of a witless set-up , seems abolutely ideal.

I use a Smoothound , reciever goes into a KORG DT10 tuner, an EDB-1 , Thumpinator, compressor, then into the amp. Stuck some loop velcro onto the tailpiece to stop the Smoothound transmitter flapping in the breeze.

To anchor the jack socket on the tailpiece, I use one of these: https://www.bassbags.co.uk/product/double-bass-pickup-jack-mount-kit/

If you have budget, you might be able to stretch to the Bigfoot linked in the other thread:

2 hours ago, TimR said:

 

 

You can vary the speed with the tap button, there's probably a midi switch that you could program to do that. Would need looking at the manual.

 

I have looked at the manual. Both the Obey 40 and Obey 70 don't allow you to midi-switch the tap tempo, sound-to-light, or anything else other than the scenes, the chases, and blackout, according to the MIDI map on page 32.

14 hours ago, binky_bass said:

We did have a 7 hour bare knuckle fight followed by a battle with Rhodesian fighting sticks. But in the end, all was settled!

Must have looked like the Star Wars bar fight scene!

The Obey 40 will allow you to select any of the 6 chases, any of the scenes, and the blackout function through it's Midi interface. It doesn't allow you to switch it to sound-to-light or adjust the brightness.

This guy has a lot of great videos about DMX including one featurning another Morningstar controller so this should give you what you need.

5 hours ago, StingRayBoy42 said:

Boss do a couple of versions that do have recallable sounds - the SY-200 and SY-1000 if memory serves. 
I've never used them, but *if* they're basically an SY-1 with storable presets, I bet they're ace.
 

The SY-200 is. The SY-1000 is a whole different ball game - to get the best out of it you really need a Roland GK3 pickup and it's a lot more expensive, but you can do a hell of a lot of stuff with it.

This any good?   https://www.designacable.com/7-pin-to-5-pin-din-midi-cable-1.html

Not me, I'm holding on for a bb3000ma .

I've used wheresthegig which was great until they started charging lots of money for it, and bandmule which isn't quite as good at gigs but is easy to mark availability/non-availabilty.

Sadly none of these comes with the 400V-to-the-goolies attachment required to make drummers fill their availability in 😞

If you want something that will produce some useable '80s sounds and won't have any issues with tracking you could look at the Boss SY-1. It's a synth emulator not a synth, but I found it much easier to get useable sounds out of than almost anything else I've tried.

As a synth pedal, the BSW is a great octaver.

1 hour ago, Gareth Hughes said:

If you’re happy with the tone for both arco and pizz, I’d suggest something like a Morley Volume-Plus pedal. It can be set so pedal down is 100% of signal for arco and then pedal up at something like 70% for pizz. That way there’s no finding the sweet spot - the pedal is either all the way down or all the way up (makes for quick changes) but the volume ratios are set to what you want.

 

 

I have a Morley Little Alligator volume pedal which works the same way - there's a pot you can twiddle to set the minimum volume. I've used this for a similar application and it works well.

@richardd has a very nice BB800 in the classifieds, just in case you hadn't seen it. I've had mine since 1979 and love it to bits.

I'm grappling with a similar issue. I have a DMX controller which accepts Midi input to change  functions. If yours does the same then a midi foot controller might be a solution. I have an old midi foot controler project which I'm going to try and revive to see if I can get it working.

If I were starting from scratch I'd buy the Bigfoot linked about. That looks like a great piece of kit for minimal programming effort.

2 hours ago, Gasman said:

A: Forever! Put my Bongo bass in my coffin, I’ll be sentenced by St Peter to playing Sweet Home Alabama eternally in the worst pub in Hell - my just desserts for not living the life I should have lived...

Well, the sad day eventually comes and @Gasman ascends the to the pearly gates. St Peter checks his clipboard - "right, Gasman, bass player, would you mind going over there with all the other bass players".

So Gasman is having a fab time shaking hands with Jack Bruce, James Jameson, Ray Brown, when he hears some incredible fretless playing, coming from behind a wall.

"Who's that?" he says.

"Jaco Pastorius" says Jack Bruce

"Why is he behind the wall?"

"He thinks he's the only one here!".

Great colour too. I'm struggling to see what the difference between this and my BB800 is, other than the fancy position markers. Is the fingerboard ebony?

12 hours ago, Bluewine said:

 

Here's the main reason, we no longer play late night bar gigs. I'm not sure why. However, I turned 70 today and I've really played enough bar gigs for my lifetime.  Give me theatres, festivals and special events.

 

 

Happy birthday and many happy returns to you Daryl. You're looking good, must have had an easy paper round 🙂

I've just joined a band where I thought the drummer booked the gigs. Not so - it turns out that we are all expected to take an area and chase up bookings. I'm not thrilled about that, it's not one of my favourite things. But I guess it's not unreasonable.

6 minutes ago, Grahambythesea said:

I wonder which guitars he’s keeping.

I expect the '54 Dakota Red Strat, for a start.

1 hour ago, Cato said:

That auctioneer may be the most charismatic person I've even seen in my life 

 

This new one is even better.

Ruggedised ethernet cables are more robust than standard Cat 5 and provide you with a bit more protection for live use. Something like this: https://www.canford.co.uk/Index/Cat-5e-ruggedised-Ethercon-cables/CANFORD-ETHERCON-CAT5E-SCREENED-CABLES-Using-Cat5E-R-ruggedised-deployable-cable

Roland also make one called the RRC2 cable, which is used to connect a VB99 or VG99 unit to the FC300 foot controller.