TimR

[quote name='he man812' timestamp='1352673981' post='1866058'] ... Ignoring bad music has to be encouraged otherwise it will remain big forever. ... [/quote] I grew up in the 70s and 80s. The 80s in particular were notable for the complete sh*te that was being produced. The sh*te is now pretty much considered quality music.

[quote name='arthurhenry' timestamp='1352665428' post='1865905'] I promise not to, so long as, when I've come to be communicated with and moved by feelings expressed, you still entertain me. [/quote] It's a deal, I can cry and everything. Kind of my point, there should always be an element of entertainment.

[quote name='arthurhenry' timestamp='1352664998' post='1865894'] Music is entertainment and expression and communication. Sometimes all at once, sometimes not. [/quote] Well, if you want to communicate with me and express yourself, please don't do it to me when I've come to be entertained.

[quote name='Blademan_98' timestamp='1352661450' post='1865808'] I have not watched the show myself but my daughters have. It is aimed at the young - it gives them the feel good factor. The hope that fame and fortune can come to the ordinary person. That is what entertainment has been about since the war years. Opium for the masses I like making my own music. Playing in a band. Listening to blues, rock and even jazz lol. If you don't like it don't listen and agree with your other half, yes you do take music very seriously!!!! [/quote] You are a very wise person. Music is entertainment. If it entertains someone, it has done it's job. There are many people out there in original bands trying very hard to write good music but missing the Entertainment side. I've sat and listened to some very musically good singers and players but left after the first set because I was bored to tears. I've stayed all night watching some great entertaining bands who've struggled to get to the end of intros together.

[quote name='Subbeh' timestamp='1352656133' post='1865700'] What bugs me is that so many of the entrants go on about how music is their life, all they've ever wanted to do was perform. Do they go out and find a band? go to open mic nights or do anything to further their dreams? no they wait for a 'talent' show to turn up on their door steps before they'll do anything. Obviously this isn't true for all of them but seems to be the case for the majority, I can't work out how they really want to do this but have never got off their arses and tried. [/quote] I know lots of people who have auditioned from our local stage school. All very talented singers, dancers and actors. Most of them perform regularly to large audiences, many of them have gone on to have main roles in West End Shows and parts on TV. The X-factor are not looking for people who are good, they're looking for a back story that gets the phones ringing.

[quote name='bubinga5' timestamp='1352651332' post='1865592'] ... because everyone enjoys music on different levels.. ... [/quote] It's not a singing or music competition, they're looking for someone with the X-factor. Just remember that and the fact that no one knows what the X-factor is....

[quote name='BassBus' timestamp='1352649111' post='1865554'] Exactly. The death still goes on to this day in the name of freedom. I like to go along to our village War Memorial for the short service each year. It always annoy's me that those in their cars do not give a little respect and stop for that five or ten minutes. No, they don't have time for that. They have to get to wherever they are going. To enjoy themselves, to do what they want to do. There are many hundreds and thousands who cannot do that. Rant over. [/quote] I was out running today a 11:00. I ran past our memorial at 11:10 as people were dispersing. Just because I was running doesn't mean I'm not thinking. In fact it gave me more freedom to think than listening to someone's speech. Driving past a memorial is, however, a bit crass, but hopefully those passing did do some thinking at some point. I don't know anyone who thinks badly of Remembrance Sunday.

.... and are still doing.

This is the exact problem I had with my old band, at least my current band are up front and aren't fussed about gigging so I know where I stand. We had endless 'way forward' meetings called by the drummer where we discussed 'openly' where we all wanted to be. Unfortunately what they said they wanted to do was completely different to what they actually wanted to do. I don't think they lied, I just think they didn't actually know what they could commit to. Alternatively they were just paying you lip service and if you had continued pushing you'd end up leaving or getting asked to leave anyway.

I think that the whole band should have an agreement on what happens in such a situation before you start gigging. The last thing you want is the drummer wading in before anyone's had an opportunity to diffuse the situation. The first thing to do is for the whole band to stop playing. You can't do anything while the rest of the band are carrying on regardless and you're trying to get someone off stage, or gear. Everyband needs a stagemanager. A person who calls the shots when on stage, who decides whether you do an encore, skip tunes, what tunes to play next, stop for a break etc. Usually it's the singer, but it's down to them to deal with the situation and call in staff if it looks like it's going to get nasty.

Once you have managed to get "Everything louder than everything else." turn the whole lot down. Most bands are now far to loud due to low cost powerful gear. More watts mean more headroom, not more volume. If your punters are standing along the back wall, or not dancing down the front with the band, then it is too loud.

Sounds like your main issue is the volume war between keys and guitar. Until both of them understand that they will need to cut some frequencies and have a 'band' sound instead of 'their' sound, you are completely wasting your time. Regards bass drum. You just need definition. If you have no subs no amount if bass boost will make any difference. Try boosting around 120-300hz. You're also going to havevto be careful you don't get bleed into the mic from bass guitar. In addition SISO you can't make the bass drum sound better, or radically different to how it sounds at source. Tuning the bass drum is key.

I've a Marantz PM350 and some Mission 7xx (might be 761s) speakers that I bought in the 90's and were still going strong until I moved house in February. Now sitting in a box in the garage and I can't bring myself to sell them.

[quote name='silddx' timestamp='1351859397' post='1856237'] I'm sorry, it sounds like he read a popular psychology book, then made a video. It seems clumsy and not well thought out to me. [/quote] Well he is American. I kind of liked it until he got to the room bit. I'm comfortable with the bits I need to know, I know there are bits I should, would like to, but don't really need to know. Know what I mean?

How broke is it. Maybe someone in the DIY FX thread could salvage it?

You should hear me playing the pips!

Nice. I think it would be worth it if we were getting well paid gigs once a month.

What do you hang them from? I bought a plain black photographic backdrop, but struggled to find any way if fixing up. Had some stands but far too flimsy.

It has very little to do with cold surfaces. Warm air holds more moisture. As the warm air cools, the water literally 'falls' out of the air and lands on anything, regardless of it's temperature. Cold surfaces will make the air cold which is why you get condensation on your beer can. Anything kept outside will get damp regardless of its temperature to start with. Strangely it's more a problem in the summer when the temperature drops in the evening and not such a problem in the winter when the ambient humidity doesn't change much. Try playing a tuba at a summer evening concert! Leave a cardboard box with some nails in it out in your garage and see the state it and the nails gets into, then think of your cones and amplifier. Taking a cold object into a warm room will make the air around the metal cold and water will condense out of the air onto the metal. That shouldn't be a problem as pretty soon the water will evaporate as the metal becomes the same temperature as the room. The converse shouldn't be a problem either, taking a warm object out into the cold as nothing will condense anywhere. The big problem is the damp getting into capacitors. They go bang! Houses tend to stay damp free because they stay above 12'C which is around the dew point at sea level, or the point that the water tends to fall out of the air.

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That'll be those damn Fletcher-Munson curves.

Because mechanical coupling is only bad in certain situations. In most situations it's more important for your cab to sit flat on the floor and be stable without sliding about or scratching it.

[quote name='Blademan_98' timestamp='1351714913' post='1854620'] Most missed the question I was asking when you personally think you are a bass player. Doesn't matter what others think. Just how you feel. [/quote] Ah right. I see. 28 years ago when I was playing root notes in a rock band with a bunch of other 15 year olds. However I still find myself playing the same notes to the same tunes now, all be it with a bunch of 50 year olds Hmmmmm.

I love these questions that have no answer. It's all about competence. If you are 15 and play roots to blues tune in a band of 15 year olds you are a bass player. If you then audition for a band of 50 year olds who gig 100s of tunes twice a week, you still audition as a bass player, you don't get the gig, they won't say you're not a bass player, you're just not a good enough bass player for them. Taken to extremes: Are you only a bass player when you stop failing auditions due to your ability and start failing due to your image?

Wasn't Gary Moore a guitarist. Never met one yet that understood fully when told "Don't play in this bit." Particularly when 'this bit' is when no one else is playing.