PaulWarning

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

Did a gig last night using the XLR out on the Shure base unit, everything was fine. Can recommend the the Behringer MA400 for anyone with a similar problem. Thanks for everyone's suggestions, they've been invaluable

my Fender V2 cabs have a tweeter rocker switch to select off, full or -6db, I have them off, sometimes they get moved accidently, I never notice till I actually look at them, tweeters on bass cabs seem counter intuitive to me. I never/can't/ don't want to, play slap and use DR neon strings which are quite bright

Don't know about anybody else but I find it impossible to test an amp (or anything else) in a music shop (unless you take the whole band with you and do a gig) gear4music, for instance, have a 30 day returns policy, so you can try them out properly before deciding

Not saying this was the case, but sometimes bands sound like an inaudible mess because they are 😆

I read an interview with Macca a few years ago where he said he'd always had trouble with the G note being slightly out of tune on his Hofner but his luthier had done a lot of work on it and sorted it out, if my memory is correct and I didn't dream it 😊

yes that's the problem 😀

I play with a pick, I think a pick players nearly always cut through better live

we played the Butlins introductory stage a few years ago, the bands before us had a loud bass drum and a bassy floor tom, before we went on I politely said to the soundman, we're old school can you go easy on the bass drum for us? we had a great sound as various phone footage confirmed, funnily enough all the bands after us sounded good too

has Hail Hail Rock 'n' Roll with Keith Richards been shown anywhere recently?

had a look tonight, there is an XLR socket in the back, when I asked why he didn't use it he said "Well it works from the other one so I never bothered" told you he was a technophobe, I'll try it at our next gig

I've not actually looked at the shure base unit carefully, the singer says it's not got a an XLR out, but he is a technophobe, if he's using the instrument out it could explain the high output, we're feeding the PA from the MA400 via the thru connector. I found out you could reduce the output of the mic by 10db by holding down the channel button that improved matters

I once bought a lefty electro acoustic off them, sent the first one back, ridiculously high action, second one was just the same, gave up and got my money back, good returns system though

tried the Behringer MA400 at a gig last night, wasn't without it's problems, bit of buzzing through the PA speakers and the singer said his voice sounded like a Dalek until I turned the mic volume right down on the MA400. Most bizarrely of all the singer said the rest of the band were just as loud through his IEM except my backing vocals, but that wasn't the case the week before when he had his own channel through an in house mixing desk. The only thing I can think his his wireless mic (Shure SM 58 wireless) impedance is not compatible with the Behringer, making it super sensitive, the mic is high output when going straight into the PA his volume is about 50% less than no wireless mics

over, Behringer BDI21, I know it's as cheap as chips but the drive control either does nothing or gives a horrible fuzz tone. Under, Zoom B1on, also as cheap as chips but seems to be one of the less popular Zoom multi effects pedals but, for me, gives just the right amount of overdrive and sounds better than the B1 four

I've ordered the Behringer MA400 , looks like it's just what we're looking for, and cheap. A couple of reviews on Amazon said the output wasn't very loud, our singer has a mic with a high output so hopefully it won't be a problem Good point about the line through, hadn't thought of that, but like I said I couldn't power it up without my laptop, I've googled it and some others haven't got round that problem either

I thought that as well, SOS is a far better lyric

no, there's no direct out from his channel, unfortunately, the Behringer looks a good option, the only snag is our singer uses a wireless mic that doesn't have an XLR connector just a standard jack. We did use an in house PA at the weekend and he was happy enough just to have all his mic signal though his IEM, he could hear enough of the band, we only use the PA for vocals