YellowLedBetterBass

Actual rosewood fretboard too I think. They're going to be hard to resist at that sort of money.

Fantastic rehearsal last night. Sounding as good with the new lineup as we ever did with the old lineup, which is really good considering this current lineup has only been together about 8 weeks.

I put this massive board together out of all of the bits I actually use during an average rehearsal. Covers everything I need.

I've got it set up so in A/B mode it swaps between a slightly driven SVT and a very distorted SVT. Then for stomp box mode I've got it loaded with a Darkglass Microtubes capture and a Sansamp Bass Driver capture, and I'll test those two captures out and go with whatever I prefer on the day.

My setup doesn't need to be any more complex than that.

Rewatching some of the sets yesterday and today. I think my favourites have been Inhaler (that P Bass tone was incredible) and Biffy Clyro. Both bands I liked sort of but was never a massive fan as such, but I will definitely make an effort to see both of them again.

Are there any short scale P Basses that actually sound like a P Bass out there? After Glasto this weekend and seeing so many people using them (especially Inhalers bassist who sounded fantastic with that Ampeg behind him), I really fancy a P bass.

Got the mixer in yesterday afternoon. It wasn't supposed to arrive until Wednesday, but sure enough, Gear4Music somehow managed to get it to me less than 36 hours after I bought it online.

Tried the Behringer X Air app on android, absolute crap. Tried MX Mix, marginally better. Tried Mixing Station, and now won't be going back to either of the other two apps.

Just been able to plug some guitars, a mic and my bass in so far, trying to hash out the input gain levels for our band by using the same gear as will be used by them. So far, a lot easier to use than people seemed to suggest. 

I've just put Maccabees on. Good to see them back together.

They were one of the first bands I ever saw live in my early teens, and have always been one of my favourites. Was gutted when they split up.

4 minutes ago, Misdee said:

The Libertines are looking (and sounding) a bit fat and middle-aged aren't they? They need to go to the gym or, probably more likely, get back on the gear.

 

 

Doherty did an interview not long ago - he's moved to the South of France and, his words, replaced his heroin addiction with a cheese addiction.

33 minutes ago, ricksterphil said:

Pulp were excellent. Jarvis is a great frontman.

He's the sort of bloke who I think would be brilliant to have a pint with but by the time you've stuck around for a third or fourth he'd probably start getting on your nerves. And I mean that in the sincerest, nicest way possible.

Catching up with Inhalers set now. My favourite bass tone of the festival so far - I really need to get a p bass.

Edit - he's now pulled out the gold Jack Casady which also sounds fantastic and is making me think maybe it's actually the Ampeg behind him that I want.

27 minutes ago, pete.young said:

 

Ironic, given he only seemed to be playing 4 notes. Dullest act by miles, landfill indie personified.

Don't call the Script an Indie band. They're CD-player-in-middle-aged-womans-car-music at best.

16 minutes ago, Beedster said:

Think NY’s bassist is on his fourth bass 🤔

That's nothing, Simon Neil of Biffy Clyro got through half a dozen strats and a 335 yesterday.

Just now, dave_bass5 said:

Just catching up with the Gary Numan set. Worst bass tone ive ever heard, but largest kick drum ive ever seen 😂

Not a huge fan of the grungy Numan band, but enjoyed the set after the first two songs were out of the way. 

My dad was a massive Gary Numan fan back in the day. He's text me to say "are you watching Glastonbury Festival H? Gary Numan one of my favourites he don't half look strange now"

22 minutes ago, Wombat said:

John Fogerty looks like my grandad! And I’m 60! 😂

In fairness, he's doing a lot better than some of the dinosaurs still trying to play these sorts of shows over the past few years. That GnR set from a couple of years ago still makes me cringe just thinking about it - such was the "quality" of Axl Rose's "singing".

14 minutes ago, chriswareham said:

Mixed feelings about Kneecap playing. I listen to a lot of anarcho-punk that can have some pretty muddled up politics, but a band that seem predicated entirely on IRA cosplay rubs me up the wrong way. Perhaps it's just because I was minutes away from being blown up by an IRA bomb in London back in the 90s, but a band that openly celebrate an organisation that deliberately targeted civilians and are now just an organised crime syndicate sickens me.

Same band that also openly praise Hamas and Hezbollah at their gigs, and tell their audiences things like "the only good Tory is a dead Tory, kill your local MP". Only to then be called out on it in light of things like the murders of Jo Cox and David Amess, and issue a half arsed apology that just screams "we're not sorry for what we did, only sorry we got caught".

No, I'm not a fan. They seem like they all need a slap.

Fiscal irresponsibility means I need to balance my finances, so I'll take £120 if someone comes and picks the guitar up within the next week.

I haven't watched the English Teacher set but if the consensus from people who have seen it is anything to go by, I think it'll be the first thing I put on when I'm back home later today. Also going to try and find the Fratellis and Ash sets from yesterday if I can.

Very much looking forward to watching Maccabees tomorrow night too.

As a show of hands from the people complaining, is your taste in music:

A: purely music over 30 years old and firmly placed in the classic rock camp (IE- Guns n Roses, AC/DC, any of a number of other bands still touring but sounding like shite because they're clearly too old to still be doing it)

Or

B: never been particularly popular, like some of this assemblage-of-words-and-throw-"core"-on-the-end that only real nerds of the genre have heard of (looking at you, "post-folkcore").

1 minute ago, funkydoug said:

As much as I want to enjoy and respect music, most of these Glasto performances have been dire. To the point where it almost feels like a giant windup. Listening to the intro glowing BBC intro then being confronted by the performances is a curious test of sanity, and gullibility.

 

Hope others are enjoying it more than me!

There's been some good acts on today - Supergrass, Franz Ferdinand, Alanis Morisette, Biffy Clyro and now 1975 and Fratellis. I get it might not be everyone's cup of tea, but they are mine, and these are all bands/artists that are either currently popular or have been at some point in the past 30 years.

I've gone ahead and whacked it on Klarna. Couldn't resist.

Can anyone recommend which (preferably free) apps they use?

I'm incredibly tempted by an XR18 to replace our ageing and slowly dying Xenyx mixer. I think the XR18 will solve a lot of needs - we're planning on going over to IEMs to reduce the volume of gear (both in terms of noise volume and physical volume), and I was looking at getting an 8-channel interface and an adat extension to do recordings with anyway. It looks like it'll do everything I want/need.

Someone talk me into/out of buying it.

Musically, pretty solid.

What worries me is my bandmates gear - or lack thereof.

Our guitarist especially isn't equipped to gig, his pedals are just "every knob turned all the way up" and in a bizarre order, and powered by a daisy chain that feeds back terrible. We run silent stage with in ears and it means he blows out our ears when he stomps on his distortion, the whirring hum sound of it is unbearable.

The drummer has 2 cracked cymbals and given how hard he hits them I am worried that the rip he has in one will get bigger and bigger until a shard of metal comes loose and flies at my head.

And none of them own their own mic, then complain that the house mics at the rehearsal room aren't the best. Easy solution to that problem folks!

There are a couple of basses I have my eye on so make me a lowball offer and I might just accept.

"we are a guitar factory in China"

Authentic? No. Scam? Also no.

Just don't expect high quality with it.

Selling off my Jet Tele-style guitar.

As far as I know, this is completely stock. These come from the factory with Alnico V pickups, through body stringing and locking tuners - all upgrades over the stock JT-300.

One small but somewhat insignificant defect with it is that the control plate doesn't quite line up with the routing underneath, creating a small gap which is about half a millimetre wide. I personally didn't notice it until it was pointed out to me.

Otherwise this is a fantastic guitar, with a really comfortable roasted maple neck and good sounding pickups, and I have happily gifted it two or three times.

Only selling as I am no longer playing guitar in this band, and have half a dozen other guitars (including some other Telecasters), and want to cut down on gear before an upcoming house move.

Collection only from Birmingham/Solihull (Near Brum airport) or can meet nearby.

Would entertain trades involving a P-style Bass coming my way, and some cash going either way.

It's on Reverb for £165 but for folk of this parish I will say £150.

Any questions, please drop me a message

Pictures are here: https://imgur.com/a/jet-jt-350-fs-e1o8R9Y