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bonzodog

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  1. Daft question but have you checked its not the tuning peg buzzing. I remember having a G string buzz and found out the tuning peg was loose and buzzing when I played it. Just grip it tight and play the string to see if it stops

  2. I play vintage basses and although can't advise on the fretless you refer to do I do have the Tony butler precision bass and the jazz reissued series.
    They are fantastic basses for the money with great Wilkinson pickups. I would say they are easily on a par with squiers.
    Heard lots of good reports on the fretless too.

  3. [quote name='colgraff' timestamp='1457032918' post='2994714']

    I used to worry about that. If you buy super expensive ear buds then I suspect it will, but I use relatively cheap ones and don't push them in too far so background noise gets in a bit too.
    [/quote]

    As a trial and also plus the fact I stand next to the mixer when playing I have even thought about plugging some cheap earphones into the headphone socket of the mixer to see how it sounds when playing

  4. We are a 3 piece. Drummer and me and guitarist and we both share vocals. We currently use wedges but was thinking going iem.
    Thing is we only play pubs so only use backline and just put vocals through PA. If we went iem just so we could hear the vocals and therefore sing better, would having the ear pieces in block out too much of the guitars and drums?

  5. [quote name='seashell' timestamp='1456515419' post='2989984']
    I totally get that, Truck stop. Sometimes you just have to bung on a track full blast and get all the frustration out of your system. My favourite track for this is Misty Mountain Hop by Led Zep.
    [/quote]

    Good choice. Sounds amazing loud. Closely followed by immigrant song

  6. I actually thought she did well. Immense pressure to do that gig and if she had tried too hard to wow people she would have been criticised. She did the right thing and did it subtlety.
    Band were awesome though I agree.

  7. Went to Ikea recently and bought my daughter two very cheap table lamps. You put a white LED bulb in and a coloured plastic cover lamp shade shaped goes over the top and they are about 6 inches high. They were £2.50 each and I bought her a red and a blue one. Total cost with LED bulbs £12.00

    I got home and put them either side of her bedroom and they looked really effective with the red and blue mixing well. It then got me thinking. Her bedroom is roughly the size of most spaces we get at pub gigs where currently we use LED par cans that cost £250.
    I don't really like lights flashing too much so if we used these table lamps on constant I think they would look effective. We could always place them behind speakers if having table lamps on stage looked odd.

    May give it a try at gig tonight

  8. Jammed a new cover last night which we have decided to put in the set - The Beatles Come together. We share vocals and I've volunteered to sing this one.
    Can't belive how odd the lyrics are!!
    I normally use visual pictures in my head to remember words to songs but I've no chance on this one...they are really off the wall.

    May have to get the music stand out :)

  9. I play my P bass with volume and tone up full and never touch them. I then play around with my amps Eq to a alter the tone I want.
    Whilst noodling around yesterday I played about with the basses own tone pot and was surprised in the amount of different sounds I got from only a slight movement especially switching between pick and fingers.
    As I play roughly 50/50 between fingers and pick I can now use my tone control to balance it out more.
    Just feel a bit daft not playing about with it before.

  10. Yes but point 2 is the hard bit.
    When I was looking for an amp for pubs gigs in a rock band I looked at a lot of 200 amps and read conflicting reviews where some said they were loud enough and others not. Even sales people in various music shops had opposing views and trying it in a shop does not give you any basis of how it would sound at a gig.
    I ended up buying a 500 amp to cover all bases hence my original post

  11. The amp you suggest a Hartke LH500 is perfect for this. It's my main amp and I liked it that much I bought another as a backup. It's very simplistic so whilst it generates a decent enough sound on its own it's perfect to put pedals in front of to dial in a tone.
    I use a b10n in front of it and have several patches set for various songs we do. Amp remains flat

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