LayDownThaFunk

Business men are better paid than musicians, what can I say?

Never heard the words Fender and bargain in the same sentence before...

Nothing less classy than the jug - go and busk if you want tips or up your fee in the first place.

Dial 111.

Ah, I see this has turned into another covers band thread.

[quote name='sunburstjazz1967' timestamp='1453629056' post='2961087'] I can see a time where the big names start endorsing iem systems and di boxes rather than cabs. The younger players are embracing technology and they are the next batch of purchasers, the dinosaurs won't be here for ever deafening themselves. Silent gigs are alright out there where the audience all where head phones, imagine a group of kids that could wear head phones plugged into their phone with an app that mixes them all together via wifi including fx etc and recording capability compared to setting up a lad of expensive heavy kit their parents have to drive around! [/quote] On your own/On your own.

The fact of the matter is the sound coming out FOH isn't the sound you hear on stage from your rig. Even if you mic it, it's still going through their FOH so will sound different.

[quote name='neepheid' timestamp='1453488616' post='2960033'] I presume this is yet another cover band only discussion? [/quote] What else? No one here can write a decent riff! *ducks*

Lol, Blue can wind people up better than me. I come to my rehearsals via rocket belt.

Didn't some plonker on here say a while back, if you can't treat a bass right then you shouldn't look after children!

Have you explained that to him?

If you don't feel confident enough in your ability then you shouldn't go to the audition. Practice until you are confident enough for the audition, then go and nail it. Nothing worse than being the best player in a bad group.

D'Addario - how do these differ from normal XLs?

[quote name='Nicko' timestamp='1453120347' post='2956457'] This will be the first time I changed the strings so they are the original fit Fender 105-45 nickel round unless the shop set the guitar up with something else which is unlikely. I have no specific problems with them other than the G string lacking a bit of oomph. [/quote] Get the 50-105 7250s then.

Do whatever you want. Or a search.

Who cares where it's made or how much it costs? Tone and playability over everything else.

What strings have you got on currently? Do you like them?

Get it delivered to work!

[quote name='EBS_freak' timestamp='1452793947' post='2953596'] Funnily enough, I was reading through the Fodera artists page earlier... ...and was staggered to find I hardly knew any of the names. And so I clicked through/googled some of the names and where there were active websites, found that quite a few of these artists weren't pictured with Foderas. (not so much the first page but the others... I think Fodera is like a mystical coveted item... you know, you've made it into a certain private members club if you have one... and nobody is really committed to saying how good they really are... or aren't. I certainly wasn't impressed with the sanding marks I found on the couple I played at the Epifani stand in Frankfurt. [/quote] Burn! Pun intended.

[quote name='linear' timestamp='1452792554' post='2953584'] This reminds me of the time I was on the bus when some nutter randomly starts talking to me, then gets off at my stop, and follows me back to my parents house. I tried to explain that there was a wake on for my great-uncle, who had sadly departed, but he was having none of it. He marches straight into the front room, plonks himself down on the settee next to my widowed aunt, and sits motionless, staring fixedly at a blank wall. I stammered to my assembled relations that he was the barman from my uncle's local, and it seemed like I might get away with this, but as my mother brought through a cheese board and cutlery for the assembled guests, he whips off my great aunt's false leg and begins flailing away on it like a demon, insisting that my mother 'drum along'. My aunt is, naturally, distraught and bursts into tears. I pass her some tissues, which this guy snatches from her hands and starts scrawling on them intelligibly with the pen from the condolences book. By this point, the place is in uproar and I have to hold my brother back lest he murder the fellow, who has, by this point, returned to sitting motionless and staring at the blank wall. It's pretty clear there's no salvaging this, so I go through to the hallway to call the police. When I return I am informed that the guy has run off, pausing only to steal a vase of daffodils and one of a pair of carved wooden deer that sat on the side table. [/quote] Surely that can't be true?!

I think Flea's contribution is the Stingray. You really have to be on your game to know he played a Wal on Blood Sugar and only select tracks where everything else was done on a Stingray 5. At no other time has he used a Wal bass - I don't think he has used one live. Common knowledge this!!

Grolsch straplocks!

My first bass strings starting out were D'Addarios and I cannot rate the EXP line and Chromes highly enough. I would be interested in the 45-100 gauge for 4 string.

Start an originals band - no one is at your gigs!

Not a signature bass or amp but gear that has become that players signature without them meaning to. The Timmy C sound. The Chris Wolstenholme sound. The Flea sound (pre Modulus). Actually Flea is a good point - he put Modulus on the map that's for sure.