Woodinblack

Pretty up close and personal! Last night of a local pub, and they had invited us earlier this year based on the strength of a previous performance. Couldnt move in the pub and considering how cold it was inside, this was one of the warmest gigs! Went pretty well all in all!

Can't say I am surprised - it was one of those sort of buildings that looked put up in a hurry. I used to like the browse and occasional buy - it was convenient in that when shopping in bristol, my wife could go to the other shops so i got a time for a proper look. There is nothing else where they are so she would be with me and bored.

It was late, it turned up on friday. It has a european power supply but otherwise all is good, seems a great thing, havent had time to play around with it yet.

I presume that PMT bristol moved for costs, they used to be near the town centre, but now they are by the train station. Don't know what the new place is like, its not an area I go so I can't really pop in anymore like I used to when it was down town.

No servicing needed, but check the screws haven't got loose sometimes - my DI socket got a bit loose.

Glad it is sorted - obviously something on the back of those screws! How heavy are you talking? I like the look of the C4, but not keen on additional weight

I do that but the drummer joins in. Although at the last gig I did put a part of that riff in all right now. I don't think it really fits, but noone noticed the main riff of Pneuma is also a good for that!

In the bristol store they stopped putting prices on at one point - something to do with price matching. Either way it stopped me buying my reface DX when it was actually a good price as it wasn't labeled. But I always found if you say it is a price on the site that is the price you pay.

After saying I wasn't going for it, I did. It was £16 shipping and it is due on thursday

Nothing is going to be quite the same as GB, but remember Cakewalk has had over a decade to change, so I doubt it is the same. But it is free so easy to try. I would mention I haven't used it, I use logic and garageband, but I watched the 'first 10 minutes with cakewalk' video and it doesn't seem that tricky, compared to my memory of getting used to reaper (that I have used). But as people say reaper is free to try (although not actually free) and if you can get into it people who use it seem to like it And yes, although you can use your input jack, chance are its not going to be great so something with decent inputs (with actual levels and jacks / XLRs) will save you a lot of hassle.

That wouldn't dislodge the lightweight 5g ones i have, unless your jack socket had a problem.

We are being asked for it, so yes and no.

Hmm.. maybe but I don't really want the rest of the band to be insured through me!

There is such a thing as an 'easy to pick up' DAW, but as Dad says, there is a learning curve with any software. GarageBands ease of use when starting up is one of it is major advantages and the fact the curve is pushed back quite a way, not many offer quite that level of ease of use. Cakewalk is probably the closest, especially now it is free (used to be quite expensive), user friendly, runs everything. Reaper is a very good and comprehensive DAW, but doesn't have the beginner ease of use vibe that GB has. As people say, pick something and obviously they can all do the job, and all involve some effort learning what you can do but the resources are out there with youtube and the documentation

There is not and never will be a GarageBand for windows, but there are quite a few other DAWs that are sort of similar if you look around, depending on what you want. Don't download anything that tells you it is GarageBand for windows!

I just look at the VU meter to make sure it is moving, that is about it.

One of the places we play has just contacted us to say that all bands playing there need to have Public Liability insurance. Now I personally have public liability insurance though new moon as part of my instrument insurance, but that obviously doesn't cover the rest of the band (the PA and everything is mine though). In the previous 7 years of this band noone has ever asked before, and we have never done anything about it. Now I look it seems to vary between £30 and upwards for a band, but what constitutes a band legally - we are not any specific entity, have no accounts or anything. Whereas I suppose the simple answer would be not to play this one venue, if it is only in the £30 region then it would be a no brainer thing to have anyway, not that we have ever needed it.

A place we have played quite often, easy load in, friendly crowd. Seemed a bit emptier than normal when we got there but fair enough. Wired everything up, did a sound check, all good, the place has carpets all through and soft seats on the wall, with backing, so you can turn it as loud as you want without feedback. Very little sound, turns out I have to pull the cable out of the dwarf a little bit to get sound, need to replace that cable or check it. Go to start, turn the bass on - weird distorted sound, not really bass.. drummer says 'oh you have your synth on' - no, its not even on the pedalboard. Bypass the dwarf go straight into the ashdown, same noise, replace wireless with cable, all fine, rewire for that (although cheap, never had trouble with that before). start fine, no sound to iem. In middle of the next song pull the iem cable a bit and turn it (in the mixer), bursts into life - wtf, what is going on. Continue, do first songs ok. But the bass is really quiet after that, on my iems I have to turn the volume right up to hear it, and this is the bongo. Look at the VU meter on the ashdown, it isn't moving, input led on the dwarf is going into the red. output is certainly yellow. Fiddle with the cable, all springs back to life, almost getting deafened. After break swap to my acrylic bass, as I mostly do these days, the first few songs the guitarist is telling me to turn up, which is a first in 7 years, checking the cables, everything is fine, looking at the vu, its moving, then it occurs to me, the acrylic bass is just way quieter than the bongo, so whack the input up and everything is fine. The gig in general was good, a couple of minor mistakes that noone noticed, crowd was big and into it from almost the start and at the end when we left (stopped a bit earlier than maybe we wanted to, due to the guitarist wanting to rush off), they were still shouting for more. So missed enjoying a few songs as I was worried too much, but it was ok in the end. I also found, that there is one song I sing and play bass to (feel it still), that used to cause me issues, but I realised it wasn't singing and playing I had trouble with, it was singing, playing and reading the lyrics as I wasn't sure. Turns out it is better to risk getting some words wrong that noone will notice, than to worry about it, and then the singing is better!

Indeed, that is what I find. I always found Chris Squires bass lines very easy to do, because it is what I would do in the same situation, however there are some other bass lines that are arguably way simpler that cause me problems because it is just non intuitive to me. Once you have got into the swing of how someone plays something, playing something they did is a lot easier, some tracks are trickier as you get into the swing of their bass, then you go to do another and it turns out they used a different bassist so it doesn't make as much sense, steely dan is a bit like that.

Why you have no problems taking things apart? Take that panel out and make sure that the sockets aren't loose inside or something, should be easy and will let you see if there is anything else loose in there.

I would assume that a covers band that went a year without a gig had already folded.

I saw that and was very impressed. Then I did a big 'whats the difference between the sy300 and 200' and in the end couldn't justify the extra space on my board. Still seems like a good deal though

I am assuming some combustions are better than others. Having had one, I wouldn't actually buy another dingwall unplayed. Never had a more dissapointing bass. I would be prepared to believe that the canadian ones were better, but once bitten and all..

Just split it and listened - it does pretty well what you think it does RnRbass.mp3