caitlin

so if you have the head plugged into a cab, you plug your ipad into the head using that red cable, and it plays fine, audio from the ipad and the signal from your bass, but if you unplug that red cable from the ipad and instead use it to connect your headphones then it sounds wonky in one of the headphone speakers?

That cable looks really short for headphones

what does the tip of the headphone wire look like? you've posted the cable from the ipad to the amp, right?

Best: A few lessons to get me comfortably started on bass. A couple of books from trinity with good tunes to learn and backing tracks. A REALLY nice DSL strap which makes my neck heavy bass a joy to play.

Worst: NOT buying a 5 string.

The business is dead mate, but that means the 'business' is YOURS. There's never been greater access to the means of production, but also music has never been so ubiquitous and devalued.

The thing that's for sale now is scarcity, which means 'your thing'. Build a following for what you do and get it to finance you, and write as much stuff as you can for the sync industry because there's loads of money in residuals from that. Recording is advertising, live shows are again the scarcity because they're limited availability.

Connections are connections, they're built over a lifetime, but have to start somewhere. The kids from my year are spread across the world now. Meeting people kick starts things and then the meeting people hopefully won't ever stop. But having people to call on, collaborate with or who will throw opportunities your way is invaluable.

Reputations are built and there's equal parts effort, luck and talent in success. Good luck what ever you do.

I flipping hated music school, but on the other hand I'm a weird character and I learned a complete BUCKETLOAD and I have zero regrets about going. The networking is invaluable, or just increasing your chances of being in the right place at the right time and whatnot.

Learn the BUSINESS as much as if not more than your instrument, as many aspects of it as you can.

I work in IT obviously, just because it's so much lazier work than working for a living like what musicians have to.

Hopefully you're minted and have family to fall back on because I only had to pay for one year, 4 makes me feel a little sweaty

I'm too far away (and too stinky poo) but best of luck. I've done the all girl London band thing and the crowds that come are certainly something

I will delete this later to avoid bible bloat, this is not the gospel according to caitlin, but what do we do about limiting? I don't want feedback blowing my already ragged ears out. I've never been able to find any info about anything in the pack driving the iems having any actual protection in them.

Do you have any film or audio of the band? I'd love to hear just how out of whack this drummer is.

metronome as a parting gift?

10 minutes ago, Graham said:

If you're in Edinburgh, then possibly 😀

I'm actually in the central belt, but it's only a short motorway away.

4 hours ago, Graham said:

He's one of the best guitarists I've played with and perfect for covers bands - can nail both Slash/Van Halen solos and Nile Rodgers rhythm parts (and actually play the Nile Rodgers riffs like they're meant to be). He also really thinks about arrangements and works out parts that fit in a 3/4 piece band ), particularly the modern pop songs that are less guitar orientated.

To top that, he's one of our best friends and will both sorely missed and hard to replace.

Please can I have him? I don't have a gig at the moment and am really not a terrible drummer at all.

I wonder how the gig's going.

Turn up, best gear, best polish, play the best you possibly can, rock your face off and take the drummer's partner home with you and hopefully get a gig off one of the other acts on the night.

it's going to end up being like sucking the poison out of a bite isn't it? ynom nyom nyom.

The electronics are permanently in there right? my ACS plugs filters pop out for a good sluicing but i expect this isnt an option.

What does the manual say? would light warming melt the grot out?

What's the history of the fault? did it stop working whilst being played?

Has it been dropped?

Is this a cold start issue?

When was it last used successfully?

Fault doesn't care when your gig is, it's just using physics to annoy you.

If the fuse has gone for any reason other than violence then there's probably a fault that could end your show half way through even if replacing it makes it work for a bit. If it does get it working take a pocketfull on saturday.

DO NOT BYPASS THE FUSE you will kill yourself and everyone else at the show.

14 minutes ago, Stub Mandrel said:

Never seen those before. I've passed it on as an idea for isolating workshop machinery!

Madness, the last thing you need is a lathe floating around the workshop maiming everything in its path.

Everything needs to be bolted to the slab, the SLAB can be isolated

Isolating drums is a fools errand, embrace you inner animal and deal with for the short time before the drummist is flipping knackered

18 minutes ago, Stub Mandrel said:

there are collectors of these things...

I very very nearly went all out on the earth vs the wildhearts tour smiley kit when it was up on ebay, still kind of regret passing it up.

I have had yamaha rubber kits (they bend if you hit them hard) and currently rock a Roland TD30K

I would definitely say go mesh if you possibly can, but anything name brand is better than import stuff.

I'd concur with second user over new, you'll get SO SO much more for your money. Consider fewer objects to hit if you can get better quality objects, drum kits are infinitely upgradable over time.

As skidder652003 says, resale value is something to consider because nicer instruments are nicer and you can't have as many drum kits as you can guitars. I've topped out at one electric and one accoustic drum kit, but i've got 3 guitars and I can't play any of *them* 😛

Also bad luck if she keeps up with it, I have lost more money and time and backache to drums than I ever want to think back on

Oh don't forget the extra junk, drum sticks, seat, bass drum pedal, hihat stand, HEADPHONES, often times those things aren't included.

Loads of cool photos in this thread!

This is the pic of me I can most stand to look at, midway through something we nicked off Motley Crue at the 100 club:

Gert Lush! Sax is the one instrument I'm BANNED from taking up. Oddly enough I'm even allowed a banjo if I could ever dare afford one, but sax? NON!

48 minutes ago, mangotango said:

How do you "accidentally" get a bass?

That's not criticism, quite the opposite in fact; it's  a serious enquiry so that I can do that myself sometime.....

I got mine by accident, I was one of those groady reselling stuff people sold for the rent money shops and I was certainly NOT looking for any kind of musical instrument, but it was on the wall and it was blue and then it was mine. I'm still surprised that it happened because I couldn't afford it, but I'm quite happy.

oof, imagine if someone headed off a bit quick on 'one week' by the BNL?

I don't know why so many humans find this so hard. Last time I was in the studio the drums were done in single takes.

Dunno how I'm so good at it tbh. Anyone need a drummer who's not rubbish? unimaginative, like. But not rubbish.

The only thing I can't do is accurately predict when the electric toothbrush wants me to change quadrants before it buzzes IF I'm playing rock music whilst cleaning my teeth.

It's gradually coming together. I need to glue the top down, I think I want to glue rather than screw because screws show a bit too much.

Just need to get the 5U of rack suspended under the mixer and it's dooooooone. (for now)

14 hours ago, Stub Mandrel said:

I've practiced with a bass player on drums who counted in 1 2 3 4 but then proceeded to play (correctly) in 3/4!

There's a lot of interest in hybrid time signatures at present fashions, eh?

half tempo to full speed is a nice gimmick though, loads of songs do that, right? some of greenday maybe?