PaulWarning

this is true, all I said was that it was worth trying, our singer can hear ok without an ambient mic, whether that's leakage past his earphones or what the other mics are picking up or both I don't know, but why add to the hassle (and expense) of setting up if you don't need too

worth remembering (and trying first) other mics like the singer's, backing vocal mics and even the drummers also pick up the ambient noise, it could be enough without an addition ambient mic

yes sanding down the bridge bar is how you usually lower the action on an acoustic but it won't effect neck relief, if it's still bowed with the truss rod fully tightened there's youtube video's where a bowed neck can be straightened, worth a go

our singer has used the gear4music own brand quite happily for a number of years, he did have to buy better earphones though https://www.gear4music.com/PA-DJ-and-Lighting/Wireless-In-Ear-Monitor-System-by-Gear4music/OUE if you haven't got your own monitor mix we've started using one of these recently, with good results https://www.gear4music.com/PA-DJ-and-Lighting/Behringer-MA400-Monitor-Headphone-Amplifier/GX7 edit, we also only have vocals going through the PA, the singer says he can hear well enough what's going on

yes, I'm nothing against pedals, I use a zoom B1on myself, all the time, mostly to give me a bit of overdrive, subtle though, I've left it in tuner mode several times and not noticed 🤣 I guess the point I was trying to make is that for 90% of bassists for 90% of the time it's perfectly possible to get by without any pedals, and not used properly can mess up your sound. Unlike guitarists , pedals don't make a huge difference to a bassist's sound (exceptions do apply), I see bass players at gigs stomping on various pedals, can't notice any difference most of the time When I've been trying something different, a different bass or setting on my pedal I ask my partner if it sounded ok her reply? "it's a bass none noticed"😂

no, because I've seen the band before and was less than impressed with the bass sound, I tend to think it's the classic, "the bass sounds great on my own so it must be good with the band", he's probably sucking all the mids out with his pedals

was watching a band a few weeks ago, the bass player had about 8 pedals in front of him, his sound was not good, just the occasional low end thump, about half way through the second half one of his leads packs up, he quickly went straight into his amp, bingo, the bass was suddenly cutting though the mix beautifully. Now, I'd had a few beers so at the end of the gig I went and told him, he looked at me like something you'd scrap of the bottom of your shoe. On that basis, I'd take Ace of Spades out of the set and plug straight into the amp and save £300 for something that the band really needed

here's the vid

me neither, I do find it irritating when people, or documents, use relatively obscure acronyms or initialisms, with out explaining them (if that's what it is)

I think all the stuff they had hanging around was put out on the Anthology series

yes those were my thoughts, I think it's better than Free as a bird

just listening to it on Spotify, not as bad as I thought it would be

waste of time for the east midlands, is there an alternative?

the Undertones are my favourite and to be fair they're all the originals (the drummer was temporarily missing the last time I saw them) except for Fergal, and Paul the new(ish) singer does a good job, SLF still have Jake Burns and Ali McMordie as originals, but I can't take Jake Burns seriously, he's put that much weight on and wears ridiculous shirts, shaved his head now, I did used to wonder whether he wore a wig. Seeing the Buzzcocks at the Scarborough Punk Fest next year, not sure about that one tbh, no Pete Shelley is hard to imagine, the Ruts are good value, are they still Ruts DC? seen the Stranglers a few times I sometimes think they're just going through the motions, just one original now, wouldn't pay to see them unless they're on at a Festival I'm going to anyway. And that's the rub, the Undertones are the only ones I'd pay to see at a stand alone gig, the others just happen to be on at a festival I'm attending.

I get the impression that the artists that some BCers think ought to pack it in are the artists the never liked much when they were at their peak

I suppose I'll keep going till I physically can't do it anymore, although I'm less keen, at one time if we didn't have a gig at the weekend I'd be "we haven't got a gig this weekend😒 now its "we haven't got a gig this weekend😀"

yep my thoughts exactly, carry on as long as they want too, one of the problems with social media and youtube etc, is, while people will enjoy a performance live, when looking at a video of the gig in the cold light of day it can sound awful

funnily enough I was listening to an old recording of a gig I did back in 2005, about a year after I took up bass, I was surprised how good we sounded (as a band) I always thought I'd (we'd) got better over the years, maybe I haven't, well not a lot anyway

I wasn't saying a HPF is not worth having, I use one myself, the Zoom B1on has one, just referring to the above post

whenever I've had booming it's not the very low end but around the 100Hz range, I thought, maybe mistakenly, that anything below about 30 Hz is inaudible to the human hearing, well it is to mine anyway

I like to think I'm adequate, but like @Phil StarrI've got an awful ear, takes me ages to figure out a bass line in a song, I usually get there with the help of Googling tabs (some of them are awful too) and Audacity (slowing down and moving up an octave). Our guitarist makes me sick, he figures out a song by just listening to the record a few times and knows instantly when I've got it wrong 😡. I'm trying to learn Blister in the Sun at the moment and really struggling with the phrasing and speed edit, oh yeah, the thought of jamming along fills me with dread

I'm just learning this, our drummer wants to do it, definitely hypnotic

yes

classic pop in ads is great, classic tracks that most 'normal' people don't know are suddenly well received at our gigs