dave_bass5

I felt exactly like this during lockdown. Brought a keyboard and found happiness again.

Pretty sure my drummer tried doing it with his hand and it made no difference. We were on a stage those and there was a lot of energy being transmitted through it.

Not sure. If he is sitting there not playing, but there is a loud buzzing come from between his legs, id assume he would be aware of it. Judging by the other replies, drummers can hear this sort of thing on a quieter stage.

Hearing it out front when we sound checked on Sat was what prompted me to speak up. It's also quite prominent at rehearsals. That may not really matter, but it's a noise that shouldn't be there, so, like feedback and excessive hiss, it should be addressed asap as it's just not very proffessional. I dont even mind between songs, it's if someone is playing.

This is what I first suggested to him. I thought it would be easy to do that.

We tend to play smaller clubs, where nothing other than keys and Vox go through the Paso its getting quite noticeable, especially on stage.

Not even when playing Stand by me? 😂

I can’t ever remember having to ask a drummer in all the years I’ve been playing. Maybe it’s not been much of an issue and I’ve not noticed, or they were turning them off when needed. Either way, we now need this to happen in my current band and i expect it will be an uphill struggle, but i won’t let it go. I just wasn’t sure it was a thing with drummers. Thanks for the replies and confirmation.

Im not sure he does much of that. He seems to make a lot of mistakes. He is a good drummer but doesn't quite get the songs right these days. Nice bloke though and I would never want to argue with him, but things have to be said if they need to. He did ask me to remind him at the next rehearsal, which I took exception to and told him maybe he should make a list of the songs that need this. I wipe enough asses already.

I’m pretty sure none of my other drummers over the years didn’t do this when possible. I mentioned an E kit to him, as he does have one, but got an odd look lol. im just dumbfounded that none of my band have never mentioned it before, although I’m not really surprised considering the other issues they never hear or mention.

Glad it’s not just me. I’ve let it go for a couple of years, admittedly it’s not been a big deal with our old set, but we now have a few songs where its very noticable. I dont play bass in this band, but to do what you suggest above id have to teach my bass player how to tune his bass first……😂

I was surprised he had never even considered it, but with my band I seem to be the only one that picks up on these things. I guess he was put on the spot and so I can understand he wasn't prepared for this, but im hoping it will be sorted going forward. Or do bands not bother with this sort of thing and im just being anal?

Over the past few rehearsals and gigs, ive noticed my drummer's snare wires are vibrating over most of the intros where he doesn't play, but me or the bass player start the song, and over one where he uses rim shot most of the time. I know there is a lever to mute/pull these back. I asked him at the gig on Sat about one song and he said it was tricky doing this. I appreciate it can be, but isn't it something he should be doing anyway? I think it sounds very unprofessional having extra noise's over intros. Im the only one that has brought this up. Am I being unreasonable telling him to get this sorted?

And over keyboard parts.

Ive used stereo since day one (more or less). When we got our XR18 I was setting up the singer's IEM, she uses the XVive one, and was shocked at how flat and lifeless the mix sounded in mono. She still uses it but when one of my guitarists wanted to go IEM I got him to get the Legato one, as I had already have that as a back up system to my main one.