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[quote name='PaulWarning' timestamp='1365503686' post='2040345'] pre but I always put my Zoom 506II in the chain first which is set up so my amp is flat, so I suppose that counts as post, confusing eh, and if the PA guy is using a DI box you ain't got a lot of choice, they always seem to plug your bass straight into them, but again I always make sure my effects is in between my bass and the DI box [/quote] [quote name='BigRedX' timestamp='1365504690' post='2040357'] And of course the pre-/post- argument is essentially invalid if you have any active tone shaping circuitry in the signal chain before the DI insertion point. [/quote] Cheers BigRedX you said it in half the number of words I used

pre but I always put my Zoom 506II in the chain first which is set up so my amp is flat, so I suppose that counts as post, confusing eh, and if the PA guy is using a DI box you ain't got a lot of choice, they always seem to plug your bass straight into them, but again I always make sure my effects is in between my bass and the DI box

I thought 2008ish onwards were considered good, QC was improved

marshall mb 450, really? I've got a mb 4210 combo, same amp section, really like it, I've heard critisism of the build quality and reliability, but never the sound it puts out.

[quote name='bertbass' timestamp='1364337429' post='2025223'] It's because of the hand that you lead with when doing a roll round the drums. Leading with the left hand on a right handed kit means that you can't follow onto the next drum. I know that 'cause my drummer told me, about the only intelligent thing he's ever said though. [/quote] I once had a go at playing drums, having gone through the trouble of getting left handed guitars and basses, I thought I learn the drums right handed, using the logic that from scratch it wouldn't make any difference, wrong, couldn't do the bass drum with my right foot with any sort of power of accuracy, I did learn to play the drums, sort of, but got bored and sold the kit. To the people who say anybody lefty can learn right handed from scratch because they know someone who has, I say to them how do we know if they would have been better players if they'd learnt there natural way? I doubt if Hendrix would have been as good if he'd learnt right handed, or Macca for that matter or how many cack handers have given up beacause they couldn't play the wrong way round

[quote name='Happy Jack' timestamp='1363618950' post='2014810'] Helluva gig. Even if the bass drum was over-mic'd to hell & back. [/quote] Same at Wolverhampton, why do they do it?

why do we gig? because most Humans crave being liked and what better way then have a room full of people having a good time because of something you're doing? As for payment, I don't do it for the money but it's a pleasant bonus, agree a fee first even if it's a low one then everybody is happy. Look what money Premiership Footballers on on, but if they weren't good enough they would play on the local park for nothing, it's the same with bands

[quote name='garry71' timestamp='1363544472' post='2013916'] My favourite Lancaster bassline is the one on Living On An Island. Dead simple and cliched, but it really works well. [/quote] Did he actually play on this, it's well known he couldn't stand the song, is this the one where he got substituted with a card board cut out on TOTPs? could have been Margarita time though. Both songs did a lot to turn me off Status Quo for a good many years

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[quote name='DorsetBlue' timestamp='1363089084' post='2008134'] Me lol - see the 'A Lefty Lament...' thread. [/quote] [quote name='Spike Vincent' timestamp='1363093981' post='2008263'] Me. [/quote] Yes I thought there might be, but why? and if it's because naturally held it left handed, do you do other stuff left handed

[quote name='DorsetBlue' timestamp='1363079387' post='2007879'] Funnily enough, I queried Joel over the recent absence of the 'Lefty Available?' line in some recent reviews. [/quote] part of the problem is that althought 13% of the population are lefty's I would say at least half of them learn right handed because right handed guitars are more readily available, a vicious circle I suppose I'm always a bit mystified as to why we play the way we do given that whatever handedness we are, in our case the left hand is the one with most dexterity, logic would dictate that would be the hand we use for the fingering of the fret board. Wonder if there's any right handed people that play left handed?

how come Fender make lefty MIM J's but not P's?

went to the Wolverhampton gig last night, great atmosphere in a relatively small venue, did a lot of less obvious stuff with Lancaster on vocals, no Caroline or Rocking All Over the World, no keyboards, thankfully, and a bit of Bob Young on harmonica, well worth going

[quote name='Lozz196' timestamp='1362652967' post='2002695'] I`m the same, I`m not a mids fan at all, but I`ve come to accept defeat, and now have concluded that if I have a scratchy/middy sound on-stage, out front they hear what I want to hear. But, if I have the sound on-stage I want hear, the audience just get a load of "wumph" out front. [/quote] just as a matter of interest when the term boost your mids is used what frequency is being talked about, mids is a pretty wide frequency range, I boost mine at about 400 Hz, how about everybody else?

If you want a phater sound maybe you should consider using a P. On stage sound doesn't matter as long as you can hear what you're playing, as somebody else said get a long lead, or go wireless and go FOH during the sound check, even if you're just using the back line with nothing going through the PA it can sound totally different when you get 30 feet or so away from your rig

[quote name='KevB' timestamp='1362432872' post='1999814'] Never played there but a spin off duo from one of my past bands played it a few years back so I went to watch. If they had you setting up down the end in front of the fireplace bit I'm amazed you actually fitted in, I recall it was a tiny playing area! [/quote] yeah it is a tight squeeze, without much ventillation either

Poet and Castle in Codnor Derbyshire, I've just fixed the smoke machine so the Drummer decided to give it a good testing, how we didn't set the smoke alarms off I'll never know.

maybe I'm being thick here, but why do you have to alter your bass to odd tuning just because the guitard does? if you really want to tune down to Bb (can't see it cutting through much that low tbh) why don't you tune all your strings that low i.e. Bb, Eb, Ab, Db?, or I'm I missing something

I'm no theory wizard either, but if you're tuning a tone down, i.e.the E string to D just move everything up 2 frets, that is the G scale starts on the 5th fret instead of the 3rd fret

I haven't had any email notifications for about 18 months. I do get notifications at the top of the page when I log on so it's not too bad

seems to me a lot of these people that duck out of auditions at the last minute have just got cold feet, it's a really nerve racking experience putting yourself up for auditions not knowing the people involved or their level of expertise. On the other hand it's better to find out they're not committed before you spend weeks teaching them the songs

here's a conundrum, I want to put some of my vinyl onto my mp3 player, which means transfering it in real time onto my computer, splitting and naming all the track,a right pain in the arse, so I download the said album to save loads of hassle, illegal yes, but morally wrong when I've already paid for the recording?

[quote name='neepheid' timestamp='1361533709' post='1987032'] Is this right, or is this a simple version? [media]http://www.ifb.co.uk/~matthew/mp3/sgz%20soundclips/01_neck_series_tone10.mp3[/media] I'm probably still a bit slow... McCartney I ain't. [/quote] sounds right, if you want to make it a bit easier stay on the B for 2 notes instead of going back to the E on the 6th note of the riff, which is what Macca may do

[quote name='leadubblebass' timestamp='1361490225' post='1986655'] Rumour has it saw her standing there b line taken from Chuck Berrys Thinkin "bout you. To play that and sing at the same time -no mean feat [/quote] is that the right title? can't find it anywhere Edit: I think it might be I'm Talking About You