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Jo.gwillim

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  1. Yep, in the back of my mind I'm thinking have all the eq I'll ever need on the bass then i can use any old amp/cab or go straight into the FOH mixer or both. Never works out as well as i imagine!
  2. A night to remember, lovely images, especially your missus giving you bicklies!
  3. I've fitted an East preamp to a jazz, it's too versatile for me, i end up fiddling about rather than playing. That's not too say it's not good i think it is, i just spend too long tinkering, especially with the mid and mid frequency. I can't easily see where the knobs are set, I'm better off leaving all the tweaks on the amp. Good piece of kit, but bad for a constant tweaker!
  4. Played at the big tribute festy on Saturday. We were on first in the afternoon, but there was a good appreciative crowd. Still kicking myself misreading the set list and launching into the wrong song on the second number. Should have been playing on Bb instead of F# so really didn't fit
  5. Quite agree, i was using the DI amp output so a nice line level.
  6. it's not too hard though there's probably freebie software out there that will do exactly the same thing. Set up 2 reaper tracks. track 1 has the white noise FX, output that on the master bus. track 2 has a slightly modified JS: Frequency Spectrum Analyser FX. the while noise output goes into your amp input jack and the DI output goes to the track 2 input. That pretty much works out of the box. You can change the amp EQ and see what happens. the only problem is the Freq spec analyser FX graph is rather noisy and I had to edit the FX to give a longer integration time to make it more useable. It currently goes to 10,000ms and I had to increase that to 50,000. I have quite a few amps kicking around at the moment and it's been fascinating to see the (far from) "flat" response of the amps before the EQ is applied. I'll write it all up in a day or two and post with the modded FX.
  7. I bought one a while ago but it's sat on the shelf and never been gigged. It sounded great at home but it has too many options for me to get confused with for live. Not a fault of the amp, more a fault with me. I'm gonna dig it out today as i spent yesterday figuring out how to get Reaper to give amp frequency response plots, so I'm interested to see what they look like. I suspect it'll be up for sale here in a wee while.
  8. My Sandberg is an active VM. The humbucker is not very useful tbh, i don't even blend it with the p very much. I wasn't sure whether it was the pickup or preamp i didn't like, so just changed the pickup as a first port of call. Turns out the the preamp wasn't the problem. It always seemed to me the the Sandberg pickup had good lows and good highs but the bit in between seemed dead. The fralins are much better balanced throughout the range and make the on board EQ a lot more useful. I can't say they work too well with the humbucker but that's not a worry for me. I might take it out and save a bit of weight. I'm not very experienced with other pickups, i bought a bass with fralins in and changed them for norstrands which are great, but wish i hadn't so I'm glad to have the fralins back in use again. Happy experimenting!
  9. Which is the new one? I've just this minute put fralin p's on my Sandberg, can't believe how much more i like it..... Until i change my mind if course! Hope you find a bright spark in the crowd, only takes one or two to make the world of difference.
  10. Totally wonderful, they say i smile from ear to ear!
  11. Yep it doesn't worry me i can just enjoy playing with my mates but our singer is the one that banters with the audience and makes the connection and she can get despondent.
  12. Yes I'm sure that makes a difference. I'm not sure that digital mixers (behringer and soundcraft both cut out) can be switched to 5Ghz to keep them clear of the u4, but it's worth a look, thx for the suggestion.
  13. That's nice to hear thank you. Was your cousin punning on the slight return?
  14. Thanks Greg, i shall digest what you've said. I think there's some nuggets of usefulness there. Many thanks
  15. How are you getting on with the xvive? We find they either interfere with wifi based mixers or we get poor reception in about half the venues? Give over to wired p2 more now
  16. My daughter knew she was dying and specified what she wanted. Bless her she asked for bob Marley's 3 little birds. In our grief the "don't worry about a thing cos every little things going to be alright" was a lovely message to us all.
  17. Great gig at the bank vaults Aberystwyth last night. We're a 5 piece band and the stage is very small so i was overspilling into the main path to the toilets. It sounds rough but it's a lovely little bar where the punters go for the music and really listen. we had a great time. Our regular drummer couldn't make it but the stand in did great after just 2 rehearsals and kept us all on our toes with his radically different approach to each song.
  18. That wooly e string annoys me all the time. I play p basses. I've just gotten used to moving my right hand much closer to the bridge if it sounds muddy
  19. I'd go along with the last post. Our covers band i think it's tight and well rehearsed and there's a lot of banter with each other and the audience. We go down well and get repeat bookings. The only thing we don't do is play stuff that's well known as covers band material or play stuff we don't like. I think if we weren't tight and fun it wouldn't work, but we are and it does!
  20. Two thoughts Have you tried plugging the guitar into the bass amp and vice versa, that should tell you whether it's the guitar or amp. Second thought if it is a single coil guitar pickup if there's more than one switching them both on with a selector switch/blend knob could create a sort of humbucker. My jazz was picking up horrendous buzz from the stage lightning until i turned both pickups up. Sorry if these points have been covered already haven't read the entire thread.
  21. Never more than one pint until the last song is over. If i make a mistake, and there are many, i laugh at myself rather than frown. Looks better and i get over it faster. I always take a backup bass cables and amp. Hardly ever need them but you never know!
  22. Just bought some strings from Paolo, arrived next day, great comms and great deal, many thanks!
  23. Just bought a lovely cable and set of flats. Thanks for the super fast helpful purchase Etienne. Best wishes
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