dave_bass5

A very rare shot of us all smiling. Had a good gig last Friday. Might be the last (for a while) with our dep singer, who has such a similar voice to our normal singer that it's like we dont have a dep. As REM say, that's me in the corner (not on bass).

Pretty sure this has been out for ages, still in an unfinished format though.

I started to use the headphone out for my IEM’s (stereo) when i got my XR18, as it was an easy option. Just a lightweight stereo cable from the XR18 to my P2. No adapters or a pair of cables like i do now using the XLR. It was more convenient, plus i coudl if needed use that output for other things. It also gave me easier access to adjusting the output level by having the knob.

Do you have an audio interface? Some of those have MIDI ports. If not, and you are thinking of getting one, just get one with midi on the back.

Yep, mine has a car full of the buggers

My old band encountered with licence type years ago. Quite a few of the pubs we used to play went over to this. We then started getting offered gigs at these places for duo or trio money. Never went back.

My Fender Sandblasted P bass. Ive brought other basses since getting it, but all have bene sold and I still have the Fender. That bass will never leave me.

Ah yeas, Arrive Alive. I had that as well. That was a long, long time ago, but snippets from that album live on in my synth playing for some reason.

It went really well thanks. Highlight for me was playing Auld Lang Syne. I programmed a really cool bagpipe ensemble sound and everyone was really impressed with it. It the small things in life that make it worthwhile lol. Even getting back want as bad as we thought. We took our time and got back in to central london around d 3:30 am. Was surprised at how little traffic we saw on the way home. Managed to blag our way through all the road blocks to get home as well.

Cheers, I’ll give it a listen.

Id have loved to had seen them back in the day. I only know of the Sentinel, but i played it constantly when i had it on tape. Think im due another listen (digital obviously). Loved Magnum as well, and do still listen to their stuff occasionally.

Yeah, i could see quite healthy signals in all the mic channels, even when no one was singing. Ive recently started to tun off two of the backing vocal channels so they only go to the monitors. We dont need these mics live for the whole gig, and they are hardly used. No one will miss the odd word here and there, but it does keep the FOH a bit cleaner. Of course i haven’t told the relevant singers 😇

At our NYE gig, when soudchecking, I was out front and got what I thought was a nice balanced mix. Drums and backline providing FOH as it was quite a small room. Vocals nicely balanced with them. Then I noticed the PA main faders were down/off. I dont set the monitors up as I use IEM's so I leave it to the others. The two stage monitors were so loud that the vocals could be heard right across the room. Crazy!!!.

I've got one of the 'original' CV Jazz basses. IIR it came out in 2006 or around about that time. I gigged it for a good 2-3 years when I first got it. Its outlasted a few Fender/Lakland jazz basses. The neck itself has been on quite a few P basses ive had in that time as well. one of the nicest necks ive ever played. I have replaced the PUPs and bridge, but the rest of it needs no replacing. Never gone out of tune when playing. It's a bass not worth much but not one id ever part with.

That's a cool synth. Over Christ I treated myself to the Korg Triton/Triton Extreme VST. Ive never really paid any attention to the Triton range before, but ive been knocked out with how it sounds. Its replaced a lot of my JP8/OBx sounds. I know its sounds very 90's, but it sound nice and thick. I almost got the M1 YST first, but after trying this, I had to have it.

We have decided to give Rush Hour by Jane Wiedlin a go. No matter how many time is listen to it I can't get 'Tarrant in the Rush hour" out of my head.

I was looking at those. What put me off, or rather sold me more on the Gravity’s, was the metal joints where the wheels are. I’ve replaced so many over the years when they have cracked. Hopefully these will last much longer.

We can get 2 mic stands in that bag as well. We've had those thin bags in the past and they have never lasted long. After the gig one of my guitarists took it out to the car, only to then walk back with. He had forgotten to put the stands in it, thinking someone else had. It was quite funny watching him open the bag to find they were in there.

If my lot can find another keyboard player who also owns the PA and has the contacts for gigs, knows how all the songs go and can put up with imbeciles then yeah, I can be replaced. 😇

Thanks but no, i don’t want another browser. Its not something do everyday, but i do prefer Safari on my phone.

Ive never really got on with those sort of apps. Seems like a lot of wasted space on screen. Saying that, its been a few years so ill have a look. Cheers.

Thanks Ped. I remember we had a discussion year ago where it was the other way around, where mobile wasnt as popular. Yeah, it’s the holding space bar down, and even trying to click at the end of a post that i cant get working. Curser jumps around but never to where it needs to be. Posting is fine, its really just trying to edit afterwards.

I can’t count how many times ive had to abandon trying to edit a post on my iphone 15 pro and go to a computer or ipad. No way to get the typing curser anywhere close to where i need it to be. Not every time, so for those that say ‘i have no issue’, sometimes i dont either, but most of the time i do. Im using Safari which is of course built in to iOS. I know iOS isnt a priority, but even so….. Really, really frustrating and very poor user experience.

Good gig at a retirement village tonight in Bedford. Not sure what time we will get home though.