Maude

The mainstream festivals are just too big now I feel. I used to go to Monsters of Rock every year, and through the changes when it was Ozfest (including the Milton Keynes one) and then became Download. I haven't been for years now. I used to love it though. Today's festivals are massively sanitised compared to my first festival experience, at sixteen we went to Treworgey Tree Festival (if any of the 80s travellers are on here then you'll know the one, pretty legendary) and holy sh!t did it open my eyes, amazing and scarey as f*ck at the same time. Anything after that is tame and corporate.

My rig has nothing but 5" speakers in it 😉

I have the dimmer switch issue at home sometimes with certain basses. The little desk with my music stuff on where I practice has the only dimmer switch in the entire house just to my side. Why not move the desk to a different location I hear you ask? That's where Mrs. Maude chose to put the desk and a slight buzz from a bass is far preferable to the consistent whine she emits

Mefgames' post has brought my attention to the fact I never updated this thread. The sound is now bang on, wiring the two PU's in series has given it some serious punch, and still have the option of parallel for mellower tones. I'll get some pictures of the finish, it's in our rehearsal room at the moment, but just to prove it's now most definitely worthy, here it is being used when we supported The Chords.

PM'd 🙂

Surely it's based on context at that moment in time. Most, if not all the others, were about heterosexual acts which weren't out of keeping with thoughts at that period, 70s and 80s TV were fine with hinting at underage sex at the time but Relax was blatantly about promiscuous homosexual sex at a time when the establishment couldn't handle it, not in public anyway. They wanted a reaction and they got one.

Well if you can't play then you'll have to dance for the whole set then, see ya next Saturday 😁

By rights, yes you should use a plastic primer but in reality you won't need to. Degrease it first to get rid of any residue that will stop adhesion, as Goblin said above, light coats is key but you don't really want any build at all, just enough of a coating to be visible if you know what I mean. I heavy build is when it starts flaking/chipping off as it's less flexible and more likely to crack if hit or flexed . Aim more for 'heavy overspray' rather than 'deep gloss' and it'll be fine.

I quite agree, I wouldn't want to do nothing for most of a set, and I wouldn't expect anyone else to. 🙂

We don't do that there funk.

Personally the the first alarm bell rang when you mentioned a keyboard player. We could do with some Hammond on about 15% of our set but we all know we'd never shut one up for the remainder.

Cannot agree enough with this. I probably do effects wrong but if I get the sound I want then it's right for me. Since I bought a Line 6 X3 I've found the answer to avoid mud/mush is the ability to run two signal paths together, one with your disired effects and the other clean and punchy. No matter how dirty the effected channel gets the low mid punch is always there, unless of course you don't want it to be. The other I do, which relates to the quoted post above, is when creating an effect at home with the Line 6 is to copy that tone to a whole bank or two on the pedal with little tweaks to the amount of effect and EQ, then at rehearsal with the band at volume I can just tap through the patches to find the best one, it really helps to be able to a/b like this, then copy the best patch and make minimal tweaks to that copy to fine tune, you still then have the original 'best patch' to a/b with. Good sound doesn't have cost the earth.

I wonder how nasty a well played string would look under magnification? 🤔

I've never really thought about it but when are the strings coated? Is it before they're wound, in which case crud will still get into the windings, or is it after they're wound, which surely would inhibit the strings ability to vibrate freely? BTW, there's a bunch of old guys locally playing classic rock and metal called 'Metal Fatigue'.

There's a little bit towards the end. We do Mod/Ska/Northern Soul, tailored to the age group that were into that whole late 70s early 80s Specials, Jam, Clash Ska and Mod revival scene, so also do the 60s stuff that inspired that movement. We try to tailor the sets to the audience, hence no Northern Soul in that last vid.

Haven't heard them but I'll look them up in a bit.

This is a whole compressed to 20 mins which includes about five of our own songs. It was a while ago and a very quiet night but the bass came out nicely (Yamaha Bex4) so I like it 😁

A curveball medley, that I managed to get lost on at the beginning, ha. https://m.facebook.com/story.php?story_fbid=10156358000234359&id=25549984358

https://m.facebook.com/story.php?story_fbid=2779441705429728&id=100000917761449

Go on then, terribly quality phone footage coming up 😁 Mostly off of facebook posts so someone will have to let me know if they're viewable by them please. https://m.facebook.com/story.php?story_fbid=746951822153611&id=580855958763199

Ah didn't see this one sneaked in at the end, possibly my favourite SLAG track.

I really like this one 👍

Too true! I've looked and it's gone, it was one of those 'facebook live' videos, maybe they only last for so long. I really must make a proper effort to get a camera set up and get some footage, it's usually the terrible stuff people record on their phones.