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    Do you ever get mental block when playing live? How do you deal with it

    in General Discussion

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    3 hours ago, ubit said:

    I used to hate when my mate, the guitarist, would glare at me or mouth “ that’s wrong” it used to annoy me because no one would have noticed until he did that. Plus, he was terrible for hitting bum notes himself or playing a Les Dawson solo! 

    Jimmy Hendrix never played the same riff twice, so why do I have to play a song the same way every time? 🤣

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    Use of image

    in General Discussion

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    Don't let it eat you.

    As long as they aren't trying to mis-represent who is appearing at the event, it's perfectly reasonable to use a random picture of the previous year.  A festival is a 'public event' and unless there are explicit conditions/rules on who can take photos, the rights will be with the photographer.

    It's no different from using a picture of runners from last year's Great North Run to promote the 2019 event... Perhaps you should be flattered they found your band the most photogenic.

    Do you ever get mental block when playing live? How do you deal with it

    in General Discussion

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    On 07/02/2019 at 12:44, 4000 said:

    One of the singers in the band used to actually announce over the mic when someone had made a mistake mid-song. Unfortunately he's one of those people who opens his mouth as soon as a thought enters his head, so it never occurred how unprofessional he was being. After it had happened one too many times I've gave him a bollocking and he's not done it since.

    That's almost the worst possible thing you can do. The worst is when the singer apologises in advance for a song 😞

    The bands that do best are the ones with a singer who keeps telling the crowd how much they (the crowd) are enjoying themselves.

    Show Us Your 'Old' Set Lists

    in Gigs

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    Somewhere, hidden in the depths of a mouldy gig-bag is one of your first set lists! Dig it out and share the embarrassment!

    I found a photo of a set list for a covers band I was in from 1987 - 89 (Drastic Action). It's an 'interesting' selection!

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    Show us your rig!

    in Gear Gallery

    Posted · Edited by Stub Mandrel

    imageproxy.php?img=&key=4b3806f48250f55aMy stack 🙂

    The amp is a Laney pro Bass (apparently as used by Krist Novoselick on Bleach). The cabs are unusual. I used to have a huge 1x18" that was like moving a washing machine around. My youngest brother gave me the Phoenix which is a PH-2 from British Strings Limited, it's loaded with a pair of 12" Celestions.

    The top cab I made myself using a pair of McKenzie 12" speakers from a mate. The tweeter cab is surprisingly effective and uses two high power horn tweeters from Maplin. Set up like this the feet of the top cab 'lock' in the handle of the bottom one.

    I don't know for sure if the head is 100W or 150W but it doesn't take any prisoners...

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    Edit! This is my original rig - at my first gig, up on a chair. It's a Sound City, supposedly 30 or 50 watts. I turned it into a separate head and monitor wedge, but it got knicked. There's a guitar version that belongs top one of my brothers in my dad's loft.

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    Laney Pro-Bass - schematic?

    in Amps and Cabs

    Posted · Edited by Stub Mandrel

    Has anyone got a schematic or manual for a Laney Pro-Bass head?

    The switch to take out the graphic isn't working, I recall I used to get a nice sound just using the parametric EQ and pre-shape. I've tried reflowing the solder joints and the path to before the EQ seems to be OK so I need a schematic to trace the signal back but i can't find one on the web.

    Mine is the early version before they produced it in several different power ratings. The power rating isn't marked on it but from the way it sounds and the transformer fills all the space available I guess it is a 150W version.

    Here it is in 'practice amp' configuration with a 63W 16R Marshall 'mini-cab' (not ideal for a 5-string!)

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    TIA 🙂

     

    Bass Player wanting to jam/gig/take over the world

    in Bassists Available

    Posted · Edited by Stub Mandrel

    Bassist, mid 50s, looking for like-minded guys looking to jam less-well-known covers or write our own songs. Having fun more important than exceptional musicianship! No qualms about gigging if that's where it ends up, but ideally pubs/clubs that want rock.  Don't want to go back to churning out standards for wedding parties or clubs full of people who would rather not have to listen to live music...

    I can get to most of the Staffordshire/Derby/Nottingham Area

    A few solo efforts with me doing all parts (except the drum machine) recorded at home:

     

     

    What's your secret instrument?

    in Other Instruments

    Posted · Edited by Stub Mandrel

    Back in the early 90s I found a no-name neck in a skip.

    I bought loads of cheap bits my brother gave me his cheap Floyd Rose knock off. I made a super-heavy rough as a badgers bum 'explorer-ish' body from two layers of 3/4" play.

    Fast forward to this year, got a cheap unfinished strat body off ebay (probably made from balsa wood), got a jack plate and a sheet of scratchplate material.

    Body came up nice with a sprayed on satin finish, but it was so soft i had to paint with 'diamond hard' varnish so it's a 'deep grain' finish -ah well!

    Definitely not durable enough to gig but those cheap 80s 'buckers growl! Learnt a lot and might have a go at making a decent guitar or bass one day.

    What's the dark secret in your collection 🙂

    Original body on right of first pic, other pics the 'new' version....

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

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    Who are you seeing live next?

    in General Discussion

    Posted · Edited by Stub Mandrel

    2 hours ago, casapete said:

    Got tickets for Little Steven and the Disciples of Soul in Leeds (May), and also Nick Lowe in Hull in June. Really looking forward to 'em both.

    Woo hoo!

    I saw Little Stevie and his Disciples in 1983! Reading IIRC, same years as Stevie Ray Vaughan on his first UK tour.

    (He was quite a bit smaller then 🙂 )

    Determine port size for a 1x12 cab

    in Amps and Cabs

    Posted

    Find a decent thickness cardboard tube, say out of the middle of a roll of carpet. Make a hole to suit and experiment with different lengths until you get the sound you like best.

    Front and back ports sound different. Back port is good for a bedroom blaster played near a wall or corner. Test it where you will play it most.

    Works every time.

    Thoughts on short scale basses?

    in General Discussion

    Posted

    14 hours ago, bazzbass said:

    good suggestion. I have a set of LaBella Hofner Flats to replace the stock rounds that it came with which will get me pretty close :)

    I am trying to remember the correct way to wind strings onto a spindle with the hole halfway up it, wrap once over the string to lock it ?

    Hmm. I never have done that, on my guitars I always wind neatly below so tension pulls the winds up to help 'lock' the bit that goes through the middle. Never had a wound string slip, but only had flats once (came with the bass and I took them off ASAP)

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