dave_bass5

Not at the moment, only at home when recording. I was preparing to go back to bass as i knew most of the songs, but that would have left us without a keys player. We were lucky that we found someone who knew a lot of our songs already, as we have gigs very soon but only 4 rehearsals (max) to get ready for them. I do miss it, but the band would miss keys more. The needs of the many outweigh the needs of the few lol.

Makes me wish i still played bass in a band now 😃

I used to get sick of everyone mucking around at sound check and then complaining once we start playing. Quite often the drummer tells me after the gig that he was struggling to hear his vocals. He mostly sets his kit up and bangs always until we have finished. Never once will he get up and move a monitor or make sure he can hear himself clearly. He has his own monitor but expects me and the singer to sort it all out.

My old singer used to complain he couldn't hear himself a lot of the time. I showed him what the knobs do on the desk and told him to get on with it. I dont mind getting the sound right at sound check, or at least trying, but i told him once on stage im just the bass player and if he needs something changing he can bloody well do it. He soon stopped complaing and just got on with singing. From where i was standing his monitor was always loud enough so i know it was just him being picky.

Some of the isolated bass tracks ive heard over the years have been just as poor as most of the tabs out there. Ok, they weren’t advertised as the originals, but when you see the phase ‘isolated bass’ you would think its going to be the original. Still very useful to get a grip on how a song goes though.

Arent these just like those Top of the Pops albums we used to get. Not the original artist's, so not always spot on? Ive heard a few isolated tracks and know 100% they aren't as played on the original recordings.

During the first lockdown last year i started playing around with a demo of a program called Spectrlayers. I have the cut down version now, but the full version has presets for extracting different instruments from a mix (drums/guitars/bass/vocals etc). Its very clever and can even keep effects like reverb intact with vocals etc. I used it to get bass lines from songs i couldn't quite hear clearly. I could then listen to them in isolation, or boost the level to bring them out of the mix (or lower the rest of the mix). Quite clever and for a laugh i took Paul Weller’s vocals off his recording of Town Called Malice and put it on our recording of it.

Almost every block will have its own volume/level control, you need to keep these in check. Each patch also has an output block where you can adjust the final output level for each patch. This is probably the easiest way to level them up as it means you aren't messing with the gain stages along the path, and so the sound wont change if you turn the patch up or down. Again, best done in a band environment to really hear whats going on, but at least you can get a head start

Yeah. I use Native when im recording bass and guitars, and its just so nice to be able to see everything, but i know from experience when i was gigging with a Stomp id had to make changes etc and normally on the fly, so i got to know the box inside out.

Iove just brought a new ipad as im getting more and more in to using soft synths.. its amazing how things have come on since the old days. Quality is right up there with hardware synths now. A cheap midi keyboard and an iPad is more than usable as a gigging rig if needed. Got 3 gigs in Nov. This will be my first time on keys since around 1993. Ironically the last time was with a Yamaha keyboard, and this time will also be with one.

For this reason alone its worth getting to know the box and where everything is. Being able to make adjustments when playing with the band, without wasting time looking through menus etc is not to be under estimated.

You might notice some of those videos are about using the presets 😎

Wow, that synth is sooooo 80’s, and sooooo me 😁. Top of the list for my next keyboard. Ive been using Prophet sounds quite a lot recently, but only samples of them in my MODX. I also use iProphet on my ipad, triggered from the MODX, but its a work around to not having the real thing.

Nah, that song needs black and white 😂. I do prefer that one visually. Could easily be part of the Isle of Wight broadcast from the weekend on BBC. You seem to be getting more screen time than the drummer though lol. Good work as usual 👍

Don’t worry about me. You seem happy so thats great. For what its worth, part of my job (or was) is design, so im well aware of type faces and the way they work. If you look at the title of this thread, its worded as a question. I have my answer, and we have already discussed my reason for asking it.

You could set the Global EQ flat and just use EQ blocks on each signal path.

Im shocked no one has commented on this. Thats what i call living on the edge lol. I really cant get my head around this. Stomp aside, with new wiring etc it seems really odd not to at least check you have a signal at the end of the chain. Not having a go, just shocked. Glad you got through the gig anyway. I used to use a pretty similar Stomp patch to you as my always on. Just didn't bother with the high cut filter. I had this as my alway on, with a low drive, and then on a foot switch i had the Stomp up the gain and lower the volume on the same block to keep the level even when more drive is added.

I wonder if you would be able to use a send block on one path to send one signal out of the FX loop send. Not sure if that can be configured differently to the main outs, but it might be an option.

Ok.

Why do we need a compromise ? Its never been like this before, and isnt like this on all the websites ive visited. If other fonts dont do it, why not use that as the default? Ive not come across a website that insists on changing what i type.

Yep. We discovered changing the font works. Shouldn’t need to though.

Same. Im going back and forth between the two shows but NG is, well, being himself. Not a fan of this brother.

Got bored, now watching the old grey whistle test on BBC4. Gary Numan sounding playing a nice heavy version of Are Friends electric. His daughter has a great voice as well.

Nice MB rig. Two amps as well. I guess he doesn't have confidence in the brand lol,

HPF’s are all over the place. Amps can often have them built in, and many pedals have them as part of their circuitry. In all my years of playing ive never had my drivers jump around like that, and dont know anyone that has. its not a gimmick, but not a necessity either, at least for most of us.