Richard R

@Richard R : Brawley 4 and 5 string, EBS session 60 amp, cheap Aeon sustainer, scales to weight basses with, cake @petecarlton Shuker Nuclear Device Jean-Jacques Burnel Signature Lite P-bass, Mayones Cali 4 Triskelion travel bass, Bugera Veryron BV 1001M Mosfet head, Ashdown Studio 210 combo, bits and pieces - and cake @Machines : Dingwall D-Roc 5, Dingwall NG-3, Warwick Gnome 280w + Ashdown RM210 (probably) @Andyjr1515 : SWAAPATWTBWADS Bubinga Fretless, probably Pete's Swift lightweight piccolo build and maybe also his (not lightweight) EB-3 tribute @Ander87 Some of the gear in his signature - Rickenbacker 4003, MM Stingray Special 4HH, Fender AO Precision 60s, a few pedals on a Nano + Ampeg SVT 2 Pro Premiere + Barefaced Six10 @Frank Blank Jabba short scale fretted, Jabba short scale fretless, Nordstrand Acinonyx, QSC K12.2, whichever preamp I'm using at the time. @NickA couple of Wals and a Dolphin. You've all seen and played the mk1 fretless, and the dolphin, but I got a mk2 5er just before the prices went silly. Some PJB stuff too. Might bring the double bass .. how big is the room? @PTB MTD 535, Limelight Pino replica, possibly a MusicMan, MarkBass combo, HX XL & extension leads 😎 Darran: Nice Ibanez and the Aria Sinsonido silent bass. Ashdown amp if there's space in the car. @floFC, curiosity @Oldman contemplating bringing my custom Fretless 5! I’ll bring my GR CAB and EVO 1 Head.

Anyone welcome, with or without gear, and you're very welcome to rock up, talk rubbish and play bass. Put yourself down as bringing "Curiosity" 😃

@Richard R : Brawley 4 and 5 string, EBS session 60 amp, cheap Aeon sustainer, scales to weight basses with, cake @petecarlton: Shuker Nuclear Device Jean-Jacques Burnel Signature Lite P-bass, Mayones Cali 4 Triskelion travel bass, Bugera Veryron BV 1001M Mosfet head, Ashdown Studio 210 combo, bits and pieces - and cake @Machines: Dingwall D-Roc 5, Dingwall NG-3, Warwick Gnome 280w + Ashdown RM210 (probably) @Andyjr1515 : SWAAPATWTBWADS Bubinga Fretless, probably Pete's Swift lightweight piccolo build and maybe also his (not lightweight) EB-3 tribute @Ander87 Some of the gear in his signature - Rickenbacker 4003, MM Stingray Special 4HH, Fender AO Precision 60s, a few pedals on a Nano + Ampeg SVT 2 Pro Premiere + Barefaced Six10 @Frank Blank: Jabba short scale fretted, Jabba short scale fretless, Nordstrand Acinonyx, QSC K12.2, whichever preamp I'm using at the time. @NickA couple of Wals and a Dolphin. You've all seen and played the mk1 fretless, and the dolphin, but I got a mk2 5er just before the prices went silly. Some PJB stuff too. Might bring the double bass .. how big is the room? @PTB: MTD 535, Limelight Pino replica, possibly a MusicMan, MarkBass combo, HX XL & extension leads 😎 Richard's mate Darran: Nice Ibanez and the Aria Sinsonido silent bass. Ashdown amp if there's space in the car. A dozen confirmed would be good, let's see who else we can rustle up 🤠

What does it sound like?

Any chance you can come down to the Midlands Bass Bash in April and show it off? It's not far from you this time.

I quite liked the blue - what are you going to replace it with?

We have the same mixer - mainly because I saw yours 😄 What we've done is to set the desk so that the post-fade mixes which go to L/R also feed individually to Group 7/8. What this means is the following: If you switch to Group 7/8 and set all the faders to 0db then Gp 7/8 will exactly track whatever changes you make to the main L/R mix. However, if you push the fader corresponding to (ooo, let's say the BASS!) up to +10db on the Gp7/8 mix, then it's increased by 10db relative to whatever it's set to on the FOH. FOH is the same, but on YT it's now higher in the mix to compensate for the tiny speakers. The FOH remains the master mix, but the recording/livestream/YT mix comes from the Gp 7/8 outputs. We also include the congregation microphones on Gp7/8, but not on L/R., and some compression and limiting so as not to overload the OBS input. All credit to Jamie on our team who sorted this out and has put the time in to make it work. My original version was much simpler, and I intended to refine it and use the desk properly. Then someone on the other side of the world ate a dodgy bat and I got distracted. (Note for non Qu32 users. There are lots of mixes and groups on the desk. Four mono mixes Mx1-4, three stereo mixes MX 5/6, 7/8, & 9/10, plus four Groups that can either be groups or mixes. We have them all set as Mixes, and use them as foldback except for 7/8 as above. It is a fabulous desk) .

We now do this, one of the other FOH guys finally had the time to sort it out, and then to make it simple. It's a vast improvement for the YT. If anyone wants details I'll start another thread as it's a major derail. One thig we do find though - when we compare a local recording of the sound sent to YT with the actual YT sound there is a definite difference. YT does some strange stuff. If we ever have the time we want to actually analyse what they do and figure out how to compensate. It's good enough now, the rest is just intellectual curiosity.

Paging @knicknack - are you still looking?

So I lose my bet that you would keep it long enough to brung it to the Midlands Bass Bash 🥲

£80 - that's a very good deal. What was the damage that made it B-stock?

Welcome aboard!

Now that is an excellent video. Thanks for posting. 👍

Oh that's excellent! Great music to work to. And to walk to - if you're prepared to do that 1970' slight swagger!

We practiced with a click in Friday. It's a very odd sensation.

Our service this morning took a left turn during the semon; a lot of folks then came up for prayer during the subsequent hymn and a very reflective and prayerful feeling settled acoss the whole church. Our planned final song ("Come set your rule and reign ") would have been completely inappropriate, so the WL quickly picked another. Unfortunately but the only thing most of us in the band picked up from his hurried whispers was that we were doing something in A. We each quietly joined in as and when we cottoned on or found the music, but our frantic faces must have been completely at odds with the mood in the church.

I only play 5 string basses, not well!!

I am nothing if not predictable. 😑

We had a full practice last night for tomorrow, which is great. Unfortunately I was so tired I was almost asleep between songs so I have no idea what I'm doing tomorrow. We play stuff in Eb and randomly change keys. I cheat by using a 5 string and getting the chord charts with Nashville numbers. This makes me a bad person.

Absolutely this. ^^^

Good advice in general. However in this case the point is not about ability but intent, and doesn't rest on my proficiency, experience, or otherwise. Regardless of ability the band is there primarily to serve the congregation. My response was to the suggestion that we should not focus on playing correctly but on our personal worship. Which I maintain is a flawed view as it has the priority in the wrong place. Happy to have a further debate, but it is independent of ability.