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[quote name='SICbass' timestamp='1474811888' post='3140680']
Popped his gig cherry, yayyyyy! Well done matey. It's amazing how much, by the way of clangers dropped, punters (and for that matter bandmates) don't notice, isn't it ?
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What do you mean, we're always note perfect! Yeah, we had a couple of interesting ones, but nobody seemed to bat an eyelid.

Thanks all! I can certainly see how it could be addictive.

[quote name='SpondonBassed' timestamp='1474799170' post='3140539']
Well done! Sounds like a good start. Has your band got any clips to download yet?
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Nothing yet, though we're hoping that the drummer's mate got some video with reasonable audio on his iPhone - if so I'll post some.

Played my first ever gig last night, at The Plough in Aberdare as part of the Cwmaman music festival. Debut gig for the whole band (we've been going since early this year), stepping in to fill the last slot after a band pulled out a couple of weeks ago. So it may be stretching the point a bit, but we're claiming our debut gig was the Saturday night headline slot on a stage at a music festival...

I say stage, but there was no stage - precious little room at all, but we are a six piece (drums, bass, 2 x guitar, keys and vocals) and the keys player has a full width 88 key keyboard. No sound check, just set up and go. I was stood immediately in front of my cab, and couldn't so much hear it as feel it - now I know what people mean by trouser flapping. Our singer is very energetic, and how he missed jumping on my pedalboard I don't know.

Didn't make any howling mistakes, other than one technical one - I used my new VT Bass Deluxe, which I set up the same way as I've always had my BDDI programmable - 1 for thump, 2 for clank and 3 for grind. Now, the VT bass has a fourth switch, which gets you to presets 4, 5 and 6. The factory setting for 6, which is what you get when your great big feet accidentally hit the two end switches at the same time, is "Fuzzed Out". Took me a few seconds to work out what I'd done, and those few seconds were the fist time I've had feedback from a bass...

Interesting crowd. Quite a lot of alcohol had been consumed by quite a few. Had a few people dancing, one request to "play something we know - Stereophonics - don't you know where you are?" (we play 60s and 70s R&B and rockier soul stuff, so it wasn't going to happen), and one slightly worrying episode where a lass grabbed one of the guitarists' strat from it's stand mid song to pose for a few photos. Oh, and we did have to stop between songs at one point while a fight was stopped. Rock and Roll!

All in all a pretty good night, rounded off with a very welcome (and free!) pint. Now I just need to prize my share of the fee out of our drummer, which will cover about half the cost of the equipment insurance I decided at the last moment might be a clever thing to have...

Could this just be another name change? Wasn't it the "American Standard" for a while, then "American Series", then back to "American Standard"?

John bought my VT Bass pedal.

Good communication, paid quickly, responded to all my update messages and let me know as soon as he'd received it. What more can you ask! I'd happily do business with him again.

There are always bands and musicians at all levels of ability looking for each other, so I think it pays for both sides to try and be fairly honest and objective about what level they're at to minimise the chance of people (on both sides of the search) wasting their time.

That said I did once use the phrase "I'm no Pino Palladino" when responding to an ad placed by a drummer, and the response I got was "Good, last time I looked I wasn't John Bonham either". Made me smile!

As the big-kid-at-heart owner of a (full size) candy apple red, rosewood board, precision, all I can say is WAAAANT!

Bump and a price reduction.

Laptop, audio interface and amp modeller - I use Amplitube, which I got relatively cheaply when they were doing one of their frequent sales, but there are alternatives. The biggest advantage for me is the ability to play along to tracks on iTunes (or whatever media player you choose) which has all my music and backing tracks, without having to worry about plugging some form of physical media player into another physical device. It's also great if you want to check out stuff on YouTube, etc., while playing. I'd also guess that you probably already have a laptop and may well have an audio interface already too, in which case the additional outlay for an amp modeller is relatively small.

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Bump and a price reduction - now £100 posted, £95 collected.

Something I found out recently when I asked for suggestions for a similar purpose (splitting up a single MP3 file of a rehearsal into individual songs) is that you can label a bunch of selections in Audacity (just click and drag to select a portion of the file and then Ctrl-B, or Cmd-B on a Mac, and type in a label) and then do a batch export of them using File - Export Multiple, with each file named according to the label.

You can definitely adjust the overall volume and do a fade out, but I can't remember off the top of my head how you do that - Google will tell you pretty quickly.

I may be wrong but I think the issue with MP3 encoders being bundled with software is that there's a licence fee to be paid for the encoder. If you're buying software then the provider is paying a small amount on to whoever holds the rights for the MP3 technology. If you're going for free or open source then, assuming the provider wants to stay on the right side of the law, they can't bundle the encoder.

Told-the-wife-this-would-sell-in-days-when-justifying-VT-Bass-Deluxe-purchase type bump...

Midweek bump

[quote name='Ghost Rider' timestamp='1471964423' post='3117294']



[font=arial, helvetica, sans-serif][size=4]Thanks for all that info, its really appreciated. Does the PF50t come with any kind of case or is it meant to go into the cab? Reason I ask is that after looking at the two portaflex 15 cabs, one being the [/size][/font][font="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"][color="#000000"]PF-115LF & the other being the PF-115HE the only main difference I can see is 50 watts of power & the fliptop is 50 quid more. I'm thinking would the sealed cab be better that the fliptop cab? [/color][/font]

[font="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"][color="#000000"]Cheers[/color][/font]

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Probably giving you the benefit of my O level in the bleedin' obvious here, but the 115HE has a horn, so covers a little more ground if you want some highs. Having said that, I have one and have the horn turned off all the time, so I could understand if you didn't think you'd need it.

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For sale is my excellent Tech 21 VT Bass v2 pedal, which is in great condition with only a few minor scratches on one of the sides and some tiny scuffing on the bottom front edge - all visible in the photos below (the yellow mark on the bottom left was pen and has been removed). Comes complete with tin and instructions. Has velcro (easily removed) on the underside, and includes the original rubber feet which could be stuck back on. Full disclosure - the adhesive on one of the rubber feet has completely gone, but a dab of glue would hold it in place should you wish to put the feet back on.

Most people know this pedal by reputation, and I really do love it - the only reason I'm selling is because I've bought the VT Bass Deluxe.

Price: [s]£100 collected, £110 posted[/s] now £90 collected, £95 posted with a fully tracked service. I'm based in the north west part of Cardiff, and can deliver locally within reason.

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Beyma have responded to my email, stating: "[font=arial, sans-serif][size=3]The latest update of the SM212 data sheet was in December 2014[/size][/font]", so it seems it was a while ago and I'm pretty sure my two drivers will be identical. I'll have a look at them both when I get the chance, but that'll be a while away yet.

I've dropped emails to Beyma and Blue Aran to see if they can help. I'll not have a chance to take a look for serial numbers for a while, though, so I'll wait and see what sort of response I get first.

I think I did a model in WIn ISD as well, so I'll check what parameters I used for that. To be honest the 8.25mm xmax rings a bell, so I'm wondering if the specs changed quite a few months ago.

Hmm... Two questions spring to mind:

(1) Will I be able to tell if my two drivers, one bought in late April and the other earlier this month, are different specs?
(2) If they are, will that have any impact on how the cabs sound as a pair?

[quote name='Stylon Pilson' timestamp='1469627426' post='3099843']
I know how you'd do this in Audacity - after snipping out the between-song-guff, you place a label on the timeline at the start of each track, with the label title being the name of the track. You then use the "Export Multiple" menu item.

[url="http://manual.audacityteam.org/man/export_multiple.html"]http://manual.audaci...t_multiple.html[/url]

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Just finished using this method - works like a charm!

Thanks for all the input.

Being less flippant, yes, I've been using MP3.

I'll give mp3splt a go sometime, but tonight I'm on my usually rock solid MacBook, on which Logic has just crashed losing me about half an hour of editing, so I'm a tad hacked off. My fault for not saving at the start of the session.

Back to the beginning...

[quote name='dannybuoy' timestamp='1469820259' post='3101358']
Are your source files in MP3 format? If so, use mp3splt as it can do the task without affecting audio quality. Every other method mentioned will probably decode/re-encode the MP3 file, which you definitely don't want to do if audio quality is of concern.
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Hahahahahahahahaaaa!!! Audio quality! You've not heard my band...