police squad

In my 80s duo, no. If I break a string I can normally change it during the next song

 I just pick a song with no guitar

In my 80s band, always have a spare. Exactly the same. All Brian May guitars, modded the same

1 hour ago, Cato said:

I was a bit nonplussed by the upside Explorer thing when I first saw these a few years back,  but that looks cracking.

I thought it looked ridiculous when I first saw one. Never thought Id play in a U2 tribute. It's all fallen into my lap. The bass was only a 2 hour drive away

39 minutes ago, OliverBlackman said:

I did wonder if this would find its way into your hands. It was a good price too!

Yes it was a cracking price I think.

Im pleased it came up when it did as I still havent built the sparkly gold p bass

2 hours ago, Doctor J said:

You might say you found what you were looking for?

Very droll Terrance🤣

As some of you may remember I have joined a U2 tribute band

A big shout out to @AndyTravis and @warwickhunt for the heads-up 

It's immaculate and plays and sounds good. Very precision like

my '73 P bass, mine since 1990

and my QSC PA system , 2 x K12 and 2 X Ksub. owned for over 10 years now

Thanks to @warwickhunt and @AndyTravis 

Warwick Reverso incoming

sounds like 'Pete' is a complete tool. It's such a shame when people behave like this

21 hours ago, EBS_freak said:

Careful of this trap- mixing off the headphone jack doesn't allow for the impact of the room. The likelihood of mixing this way is your vocals will be too low in the mix where the punters are. You know when you hear desk recordings and the vocals always seem too high...? (They aren't when you account for the room)

what I mean is, when it's it's my desk. My keys player usually does the sound but if it is me, I do go out front and listen, then I monitor thru my IEM. It usually works a treat.

I recently noticed a lack of guitar at a gig (there were 3 of them). Had I not had my IEM I wouldn't have noticed because they all had amps on stage. When he did a solo I couldnt hear him at all. Needed a new mic lead

15 hours ago, EBS_freak said:

Id argue you can control the dynamics better because you aren't thumping seven shades out of your instrument to hear it because if you are standing on top of you amp and all the sound waves are travelling past your knee caps as opposed to your ear drums. The mixer is the one that is generally in control of the balance of the channels in the mix as opposed to the mixing... unless they are completely fking about with some offboard/DSP.

I agree with this. My bass playing is much better with IEM

Also I try to get the FOH sound in my ears (when I'm doing the sound, I just use the headphone socket on the desk) I cant always get that if someone else is doing the whole PA, so i try and get as balanced a sound as I can

best thing I've ever done. I followed the advice on the bible. KZ ZS10 and KZ ZARs. I cant tell which I prefer. 

Luckily all my bands use IEM now so it's super easy

I won't play without them now, even on a dep gig

I have a northwest neck on a bitsa, its very good, I also have a cheap chinese fretless neck that's good and a fretted one that looks ok but I havent fitted it yet

great gig yesterday. Played 2 x 50 minute sets then 1 x 70 min

Home by 7.15, awesome

happy new year everyone

This happened to the full band version of my 80s duo.

With the drummer, at least half of the set was totally live and a few songs have so much backing vocals, we did cheat and use a very stripped down backing track.

Then the drummer didn't want to do pub gigs any more, so we just added the drums to the already used tracks and downloaded the drum bits for the other songs.

It's all 80s stuff and we dont miss the drummer at all (and we get more money each, set up, pack down all easier too)

we're all used to BT so it doesnt cause any grief

5 hours ago, Downunderwonder said:

Anyone is welcome to wrap my leads but almost nobody does because as soon as they start rolling them I have to teach them how to wrap them and that almost never sinks in.

I used to play with the Victory/Cornford amp designer. He always told me off for tying my leads in  a knot

I coil them now, like he did, with the velcro tag to hold them together

It stops my mic leads dying so soon

my 80s duo is called Miami Vice. Top 80s cop show but some people still ask what kind of stuff do we play.

'Just 80s' i tell them

playing my favourite pub gig NYE. 3pm till 6pm. Duo 80s gig

It will be an absolute hoot, it always is in there and I've not seen them since March

I'll be home by 7

merry christmas to you all, here's to 2025

I'll see you in the bar somewhere

I work in a family engineering business.

30 years ago our top cnc machinist announced he was leaving.

Oh no, what will we do without Dereck, he's sort of irreplaceable.

Now up steps my brother with a degree in Mechanical engineering, (who was pretty good on the lathes side of things)

he went and did some serious reading about milling and cnc milling

The upshot, we realised that no one is irreplaceable and actuallly Dereck wasn't that good.

So, from a playing perspective, there is always someone that could do it and do it well

if you're the BL then that's a whole new game

roll on 2025

I used a hartke transporter 4x10 for many years. It sounded good

statii forum seems to be back now

My first bass hero. Watching the TV show Marc.

A jazz bass should have dual concentric pots because of Herbie's

that was a good watch, thank you Ruby

1 hour ago, Beedster said:

I’m expecting something special bass-wise at Dover 👍😆 

it's still a few months away!! Still time!!

2 hours ago, Beedster said:

 

Ha ha, it got under your skin after all  

 

Sometimes, you just gotta go on stage and make a statement, my old blue sparkle Modulus Flea being a great example, not a bass for all gigs, but at the right gig there's nothing like pulling out something special 👍

I totally agree with you

If I could get a reverso for the right money, I would