Richard R

Welcome aboard! Nice basses. Stay away from the marketplace, or you'll suddenly have a herd.. 😁

Hope it goes well.

It sounds like you want to grow the scene and are prepared to be more flexible for the long term benefits, whereas the rest of the band all have more of a "this is us" mindset which works in an established scene. Could you maybe thrash out in advance a set of Terms and Conditions that you can all agree to, and then say that if the gig meets these conditions then you will play it?

My kind of congregation!

Here's the story of the last week: We are blessed with a large church which is lively and growing, worship bands who care, and a tech team who know their stuff, test and prepare thoroughly. You know where this is going... 😄 Up on Tuesday to run some tests on livestream & sound, and prep for Maunday Thursday - all good. Maunday Thursday- no sound from the desk main outputs at all, just crackles. 🤔 Fortunately it was a Taize-style service, mainly a capella. 👍 Testing after the service confirmed the final DACs on the desk are dead. (A&H Qu32). ☹️ Up on Good Friday to figure out the work-round. Eveything works! Which means we have an intermittent fault, which is worse.😠 Test everything else in the meantime and thankfully the main DACs fail again! We have a digital stage-box, so we decide to route the LR over the digital link to two outputs there, use the DACs there to covert to analogue then run back to the amps over the old analogue lines. Happy days! 😀 This morning the VDP computer which handles Easy Worship, playing videos and also the baptim- only camera, decides that it will crash as soon as we try to play a video through EW. 🙄 Phone call to another of the team who has EW on his laptop so he brings that over. A few minutes configuring that as a backup, finish just in time for the service and off we go! 20 mins in, first video plays, main PC crashes as expected but flipping to the backup works. Reboot the main PC while that video is on, and we're back in time for the baptisms. 🥳 Today was one of The Best Services Ever! Almost 2 hours, with four baptisms, great testimonies, fantastic singing and superb playing (not me). And no amount of glitches, technical problems, random stuff or gremlins was going to stop it.

I recently read the Sound On Sound review of the Erica Synths Bullfrog. https://bullfrog.ericasynths.lv/ It's a straightforward subtractive synth, but with an educational focus to teach how synthesis work, as well as being capable of some decent sounds. I really want one, but I don't need one. I will go out of next year's challenge - when they start appearing on eBay.

HAPPY EASTER EVERYONE!

5/4, with a couple of bars of 3/4! Either way, it's easiest to play if you don't bother counting!

I was intrigued enough to visit the software company's site: https://www.opusapeiro.com/ They seem to be focused on software to collect costs from subcontractors and suppliers. Taking out the BS about data driven analytics etc, then they appear to offer a SaaS based service for companies to control supplier costs by getting suppliers and contractors to submit invoices directly on this system. Not inherently a bad thing, and I think the C247 (Contractors 24/7 maybe) site holds the forms tailored for that. It reminds be a bit of Green King (I think it was), who use their Concurr employee expenses system as invoice remittance for bands. Concurr is bloody awful for employees and should never be foisted on suppliers. This looks like a better attempt to solve the same problem - but the company does need to get its act together on the communication and legal side, no matter how good the software is. So should whoever is asking you to use this actually, as it is the pub/club/ whatever who are asking you to fill in the form and therefore are legally the data processor with OpusAperio being another processor on their behalf.

Well that was a very pleasant way to start the weekend. Thanks 😎

How deep is at 1hr 30min 29s.

It's in 5/4, not alternating 6/4 and 4/4, except for a few bars of 3/4 in the turn round. If you have a CCLI subscription then download the lead lines rather than the chord sheet, as it has proper sheet music a dots. It's actually pretty easy to play. It's a reflecive song so you're not trying to groove, you can put the bass notes on the stressed syllables of the lyric and just go by feel - don't get hung up on counting.

An impressive line up, and an excellent rendition of Going Home for the Teenage Cancer Trust. But the original is the one I'll have played at my funeral.

There is only one song I really loath: "Imagine", by John Lennon. It really, really gets my goat! Of the rest - I can see why people dislike them, and often it seems to be over exposure that causes the problem. And the Grateful Dead used to do a mean version of "Dancing In The Street" 😎

Welcome aboard! I can't help directly with the question, but I recommend you try posting this in the Bass Guitars thread (under Gear). More people read that than the introductions, so you may get more suggestions. If you add that you're in WA you might get recommendations for Aussie suppliers too. Beat of luck 👍

There's enough space behind the bridge for another matching decal if you wanted.

That's going to look neat, as do all your builds. I'm still looking forward to the denim bass though. Blue jans, white shirt, denim waistcoat, cowboy hat & boots, and a denim bass. The perfect look for a church worship band 😄

How's the double denim bass coming on?

I had never even heard of mandocellos until last week. I shall be interested to see how this goes, and even more interested to hear how it sounds.

It is a Ric, and one which is of particular significance in the worship life of Shirley Baptist Church. It's an early 70s 4000s, single pickup UK spec. It belonged to a guy called Kev Whitehouse, who was a member of the congregation and stalwart of multiple worship bands for many years. He was one of the nicest guys you could ever know and a great musician. Bass, lead guitar, rhythm guitar, mandolin and drums. Occasionally three out of four in the same song. He started teaching me bass in about March 2018, but died unexpectedly in that July (Much to everyone's shock but his, though that's another story). The bass now belongs to a family friend, but she’s not playing at the moment due to wrist problems. I was helping her out with something else and asked if I could borrow it. The first time it has been back on stage at SBC and I was honoured to play it. It was definitely noticed by the musicians in church. It is also the best sounding Ric I have ever played! Full, round, no clank, and just so easy to play. Shame she will probably never let it go.

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A still from the livestream of the last time I played. I must have enjoyed it as I had crept into view! Note the "OEM" over-ear monitor necessitated by the complete lack of bass response in my crappy IEMs, and the puzzled look at the fretboard due to me playing a 4 string bass for the first time in about three years. 😆