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[quote name='BottomE' post='1276966' date='Jun 21 2011, 12:51 PM']Yes, they have techs - but they aint the ones playing the guitars on stage. At this level you want to be sure you're in tune don't you? Tune your own instruments or have some kind of tuner running whilst playing. I manage to do this playing at the Dog and Duck for 30 punters. Amazingly i can check my tuning whilst playing. Ingenious.[/quote] Of course, it's the same for her as it is for you at the Twat & Buttplug. Have you never had some sh*t happen to you or another band member on stage? Have you always given a perfect performance?

I grew up on dub, reggae and prog rock and I still love it all! Hope you have a nice time here mate, quite a few reggae players on BC. What do you reckon to this? The keys player is in a band with another Basschat member. I love it!

[quote name='dc2009' post='1276943' date='Jun 21 2011, 12:33 PM']Yeah there are many parties at fault here. Also, I could only hear the guitar in Don't Stop Believing, looked like she was air playing before then, and then in Don't Stop Believing, it seemed like she was feckin awful to boot? As for the bass, I agree with Silddx, if she did spot check the tuning at the start, she'd have known it was out. [b]To my ears some strings sounded more out than others,[/b] if that's the case, avoid the worst strings, change how you're playing (I think we've all had to do that mid song, especially if you break one string). Sound tech should've cut her entire channel and told her to go get a new bass IMO. She was rocking out and in front of the monitors at some point, don't go and stand there if you can't hear yourself already. If you can't hear yourself, surely you point at your bass and point up to the sound guy, who puts your level up, or go and make use of that wall of ampeg behind you! And at the end of the day, tight for time or not, it takes 30s to tune a bass if you have a decent tuner, max. Well worth spending the time on, any tour manager/roadie should know that. OT but it's a lovely setting for a show![/quote] When I was listening to it I thought it was the A that was out of whack.

[quote name='SteveK' post='1276938' date='Jun 21 2011, 12:29 PM']"No time to check exact tuning"?? Give me a break...how long does it take to tune a bass?[/quote] About a minute. What if you can't hear much? Or see your tuner readings with bright sunlight on it? Or you trusted your tech to have tuned it for you, as should be the case with a gig like that. Regina is a highly experienced musician by all accounts, you think she doesn't care if she's in tune? I think this was a very rare thing with circumstances beyond the band's control.

I think it's usual for people to look at the clip and go "WOW, she should be hung from a gibbet!". But I reckon a lot of these people never get out their bedrooms.

"Yesterday we posted the Coachella performance of Cee-Lo Greens’ “f*** You” performance where Cee-Lo and Co. were very upset “Cee-Lo Gives Coachella the Bird” about the Festival making them cut their set short . From the video posted (above) a flood of comments came not only about Cee-Lo’s pissed demeanor but Cee-Lo bass player, Regina Zernay, really awful performance on stage. Today Regina posted on our YouTube Channel, just what the hell happened yesterday at one of the biggest outdoor US festivals. See below: I’m the bass player & you guys deserve an explanation. With the late start, we had to get on stage & start playing right away. No time to check exact tuning, you just have to trust your crew & play blind. Couldn’t hear much of anything, bad sound problems. No rescue, onstage no one else could hear what was going on either. By the time I could do something about it, it was our last song. f***ed up. Sorry to everyone who’s mad about it, trust me, I’m pissed too. Will be sorting it out accordingly. – Regina Zernay We reviewed the clip after the comments on the bass as we were more focused on the pissed off ness of Cee Lo and we couldn’t even hear the bass??? We noticed that on some stages, the bands had very little if any time to tune or warm up (for example Warpaint) where they came on and it looked as if they only has a few moments almost as the intro to the first song to tune. Coachella has gone Nazi on the timekeeping hey?? Zernay just added: Started w/bad sound problems. First 3 songs couldn’t hear the bass clearly, took about that long for tuning problem to be audible from where I was. Already 20min late starting. Ran up, grabbed bass, trusted it was tuned properly & just spot checked the tuning. But if u can’t hear it in the first place u don’t know you’re spot checking to the wrong note. And you know LED displays are sh*t during daytime shows"

[quote name='LLOYDWT' post='1276859' date='Jun 21 2011, 11:43 AM']Bass player released this statement.[/quote] Totally cool explanation. I think most of us have had something like this happen at some point, I have. More from Regina [url="https://www.facebook.com/note.php?note_id=10150239157726425"]https://www.facebook.com/note.php?note_id=10150239157726425[/url]

Does anyone have ONLY bass in their monitor? I just have a decent band mix.

Eep. nasty, maybe not completely her fault, she tried to tune it at some point I think. Tech and monitor mixer should both have been on that sh*t like flies. Handed her a tuned bass, they should have picked it up very quickly that it was not in tune. Shocking lack of support for the performer, BUT she should have been on the case too.

[quote name='ThomBassmonkey' post='1276550' date='Jun 21 2011, 12:02 AM']PAs aren't rare, decent PAs are. Quite a few of the gigs we do only have vocal PAs, they struggle with the low frequencies and fuzz about if you put any more than just vocals through them (especially bass and kick drum). My band plays all over the place from large dedicated venues to festivals to small pubs. Our drummer is very loud, so if I were relying on a PA to compete with him, it'd have to consistently be up to a standard. I'd say roughly 50% of our gigs I wouldn't like to chance not having an amp for. There's maybe 10% that I'm sure wouldn't handle my bass as well as everything else at gigging volume. Having an amp on stage doesn't mean that the sound out front's going to be bad. Turn the amp down a bit (they do all have volume controls, even though you wouldn't think it from some people ) and it'll still give you the advantage of a dedicated bass monitor on stage but shouldn't interfere with the sound out front and the sound man will still have as much control. While I understand the need to keep things compact (especially on public transport and I'm a recent convert to neodynium and class D heads myself), I always prefer having my own monitor that I can set up how I like (before sound check, obviously) and I have control over. While I like the silent stage concept (everything through modelling soft/hardware, electric drums or in a sound booth and using IEMs, no monitoring at all on stage), I don't think it'd ever work for me, I like to feel the music as well as hear it.[/quote] Ahh I get you. Fair enough. Things must be different out there Even the small pub venues we play usually have full PA and quite often a house backline including a basic drum set (without breakables). This isn't unusual in London as far as I know. I always try to find out what the venue has beforehand anyway. PAs are usually perfectly able to handle bass so I'm never concerned about my contributions not being heard. But I do understand the need for an amp and cab in the situations you describe

[quote name='ThomBassmonkey' post='1276461' date='Jun 20 2011, 10:17 PM']silddx, do you gig a lot and [b]know[/b] that there's going to be a good PA at every venue (i.e. you take your own or don't play venues that don't have a good PA)? If you don't have your own transport, I can understand the need to be as lightweight as possible, I'd panic before every gig though. You didn't even mention IEMs in your list of things you take to a gig, that says you're relying TOTALLY on the PA including for monitoring. That'd be sonic suicide for most people. If it does work for you, that's great. There's NO way it'd work for 99% of gigging amateur musicians though, venues simply don't put enough money into their PA and bands put their money into their own gear instead of a PA because most venues at least have one for vocals and changing entire PAs between sets is far from practical. It comes down to this for me: What can YOU do to make ensure that YOU can play that gig. As a bassist, I can take my own amp. That way, my bass won't be the problem. I usually take 2 basses, 2 cabs and ideally 2 heads (only one atm but I'm planning on getting another ASAP), enough cables and spares. I like to think I'm covered for any eventuality, including if the PA isn't substantial enough to support bass at gig volumes.[/quote] OK interesting, I think you're being way too paranoid I may be lucky in that I play most of my small gigs in London, maybe PAs are rare in the regions I've been caught out once where a very small venue had only one monitor so I had to rely on knowing the songs, playing with the acoustic drums and vocal for timing, and only getting an echoey impression of what I was playing - I still played well and had a good time. All other times we've had at least enough monitoring so that I could hear myself fairly clearly. TBH I'm actually feeling the songs and performing, so the trouser flap thing isn't something I need in order to enjoy a gig. I get it once in a while when we get loud monitoring, it's nice, I get it in rehearsals too. On stage I like a controlled sound space and even shithouse monitors make that easier than having amps around. I grew up playing guitar to the hifi, My live rig is kind of similar to that, I still get a massive kick out of a good gig. What the audience gets is the most important thing, I don't trip out on tone when I'm playing live, it's not really important and I know my POD tones are good enough. Giving an energised show is what the audience wants, I get that energy from the music and the band and the audience, not my bass tone or some trouser flapping business. Plus, my back is in good shape and I can drive an MX-5 instead of some vile Peugeot hatchback or summat

Get it dead smooth with the grades you're using up to 2000, then use T Cut (Autosol should be fine too). You want to WET SAND. Soak your wet and dry in water and sand wet, rinse and keep going. Sand gently so you don't cut through the finish to the undercoat or wood. When you have got it flat and shiny with the 2000, then T cut it. Then polish with a soft cloth. Should be very flat and almost mirror-like.

[quote name='waynepunkdude' post='1275913' date='Jun 20 2011, 02:13 PM']My rig is the lightest of all, I just need to run a lead from my house to the venue, they'll hear it.[/quote]

I've gone even lighter over the last month. I have a soft case with my POD X3L, cables and small stuff in, and a headless Hohner B2ADB boat paddle in a soft case which looks like I'm carrying a shot gun. The whole rig's as light as a feather but sounds as big as an earthquake if needs be.

[quote name='endorka' post='1275891' date='Jun 20 2011, 01:58 PM']I hire a car when possible for gigs, but if the gig is nearby or the pay does not justify the car hire cost, then I either walk or use public transport, and usually take a 1x10 combo on a trolley. I sometimes use the Glasgow underground while carrying the aforementioned amp, double bass, and rucksack with a foldable stool in it. [b]It is not an experience I enjoy.[/b] Jennifer[/quote] I'm not surprised!

A question for those who get to gigs on public transport and have to take an amp and cab of some sort. How do you do it? Use a trolley of some sort?

[quote name='dave_bass5' post='1275803' date='Jun 20 2011, 12:38 PM']Ive had 5 Skylines and none had any issues. I also had 3 MIA Fender Jazz basses last year that were miss aligned in some way. Both my Squiers are spot on.[/quote] I think that's just the way things are. One wonders about the competency of whoever does the final quality inspection checks though.

[quote name='Musicman20' post='1274287' date='Jun 19 2011, 12:16 AM']That G is way too far into the board. 100%.[/quote] Yep. Damn sloppy work. I can't believe some of the sh*t I see on instruments costing over a grand. You can also see the A and D clearly don't line up over the inlays too.

[quote name='Conan' post='1275702' date='Jun 20 2011, 11:23 AM']They make your bass sound louder. [/quote] No, PAs do that

[quote name='risingson' post='1273828' date='Jun 18 2011, 03:29 PM']I've seen these but I don't like them, at all in fact, they look cheap IMO at least. Also I didn't think of them as the natural successor to the DJ, but I suppose there was a large market for afterstock preamps in the DJ's so I guess that's what they're doing.[/quote] It looks all wrong to me. The warped bell plate is particularly horrible. The pups would look good on a different shape bass, but not on this one. Ugly.

[quote name='gjones' post='1275619' date='Jun 20 2011, 10:20 AM']Time to eat my words methinks....you let me down Geddy, I'm very disappointed in you [/quote] It's only the amps he uses, no cabs.

[quote name='dave_bass5' post='1275643' date='Jun 20 2011, 10:37 AM']Not for my bands. See my post above. No PA support most of the time.[/quote] Ah, that would be a problem with my solution then

[quote name='dave_bass5' post='1275622' date='Jun 20 2011, 10:23 AM']Well i dont think my band would appreciate me turning without a rig.[/quote] Sansamp and monitors?

Can't really see the point of bass amps and cabs, they are a pain in the arse getting them to gigs and in and out the van, people want to borrow them at gigs, rehearsal rooms usually provide backline anyway, they are almost never miced on stage, and they are very expensive.

[quote name='BigRedX' post='1205154' date='Apr 19 2011, 08:21 PM']A couple of recent photos of Dick Venom & The Terrortones [/quote] Great pics!