Jo.gwillim

I've got the same amp. It always seems to me that it's got more knobs that it really needs!

2 gigs this weekend, Friday night was the 50th anniversary of the Aberdyfi mountain rescue team and Saturday was a 50th birthday party held in Aberystwyth museum which is splendid old music hall complete with stage and footlights. Both gigs were fine but people didn't come for the music they came to talk to their mates. Fair enough but hard work for the band. We seem to get a lot of bookings of the "wouldn't it be nice if we had a band" variety. Not complaining, 2 paid nights out with my best mates and access to 2 very good buffets!

Ps still using your barefaced 210, best gigging cab for me.

Hard to relax with feedback on the prowl isn't it? I hate being the sound guy and bass player. Either job is fine but both together arrgh. We have at least 6 mics onstage and feedback was an awful problem, moved over to IEMs, but they didn't gel except for the main singer who loves them as she could never hear herself and kept on asking for more stage monitor volume. Feedback probs gone now! Happy daze.

Glad I'm not the only one!

Yep definitely great sometimes but totally not needed others. Cured a terrible boomy room a couple of gigs ago without thinning the bottom end too much.

Great gig yesterday at the castle hotel Aberystwyth 5 till 8. Llinos the landlady had live bands on every week and there's always a good pub turnout who come for just that. They're always very appreciative. Our drummer has covid so we had a brilliant stand-in who's only played with us once before but if you mumble the first line to him before starting her gets the feel and the groove straight away. Hats off to David Spivek!

Lots of bad memories there, big screens big games and our band never seem to mix well.

That's so annoying when someone in the audience does that, even worse when it's a band member who really should know better.

That's a complete nightmare. Sorry mate. An old friend used to quote Love many Trust few Always paddle your own canoe. Works when it comes to house sound systems!

It's heart in mouth time when you realise you've forgotten and amp isn't it. I drove from West Wales to Northumberland to find if left mine at home once. Luckily a GK mb200 always lurks in my gig bag and although it's DI is noisy it's good enough to get me through the PA. I like the blurred pic, for those gigs we have where no-one is dancing a bit of camera movement compensates. Not saying in your case but certainly with my band sometimes!

I read "non functional fans" wrongly for a while. Got there in the end!

Yes i remember now, it was posh. Rummers has a lot of undercover outdoor seating, which of course on a hot sweaty night is the place to be so the audience was mainly outside, i hope enjoying the ambience we were providing inside. But as the night went on people drifted in and by midnight we had a bar full of hot sweaty bodies dancing and calling for "one more song". For me doubling up on sound it was great i have bought a backup xr18 mixer as my original one has been struggling on but getting sicker and sicker. The new one made all the difference, i wasn't struggling to find channels that still worked. Our main singer has taken to a wired iem and we mike up the guitar amp so the stage sound is a lot quieter and so less prone to feedback which was always an issue with 4 mics up front. So all in all we came away happy!

We're in Rummers, back in the 80s i think it was called Baccus. The angel is still going, but i think we may be a bit tame for there. Gig going great, i breath a sign of relief when the sounds right and i get on with playing. The final hour coming up after I've had a pee.

Probably the wrong thread as the gig hasn't happened yet, but we're playing at the hottest sweatiest pub in Aberystwyth tonight, I'm playing bass and doing sound, I'll leave home at 6.30 and get to bed about 2 all for fifty quid. Would i give it up? Not a chance!

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!

A night to remember, lovely images, especially your missus giving you bicklies!

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!

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

Quite agree, i was using the DI amp output so a nice line level.

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.