TimR

Have you thought of getting a real bass player that plays with fingers instead of a failed guitarist?

I had to read that three times!

Some people just carry generic spares for themselves. You won't remember all the times the others have spares and quietly swap batteries, leads, or have pens and gaffa tape. You'll just remember when they didn't. An odd one for me the other week. Battery in the bass died at a practice so I stopped and went to my bag to get the spare along with my screwdriver but the guitarist insisted I used his, and was surprised that I'd got spares. 🤷‍♂️

They all use different compression and EQ at the broadcast stage.

Yes. One of the guitar players I play with often comments on my tone. He laughs at me when I say I need to cut my nails or that I've just cut my nails. He notices the difference but doesn't believe it's the nails. Go figure. Always keep clippers in my car (I'm not as fastidious as @Doctor J)

And Vice Versa. Its a communication thing. The first thing I look for when auditioning. Is the drummer looking at their hi-hat or are they looking at you?

Isn't it all about attack and compression? Some amps and speaker combinations will sound 'better' than others, and then add in playing style.

100% do it. Pro pit players that play the same tune night after night for weeks on end are bound to end up filling the time with something else. With an amateur group, in my experience, the music will be known months in advance as the actors like to rehearse as much as some cover bands do! You may only have 3 or 4 actual performances. The majority of the ones I have done, the MD will rehearse the singers and you'll come in for the technical and dress rehearsals, but there will be nothing to stop you going to the other rehearsals. If the MD is any good you'll get chord charts as well as a score, and the bass line (if there is one written) may not be that important. It all depends what they're doing.

Thanks. I can see how the ACS Custom 17s are first and then experiment with in-ears later if I need to. Sounds great.

Have you got a link for the in-ear buds?

It is/was down south on the club circuit too. 45 mins - Bingo - 45 mins - fish and chips - 1 hour.

I'm still lost. Did you not read any of my previous posts on the subject?

I am completely lost now. The vast majority of gigs are 2x45mins or 2x45 plus 60mins. Just because that's not what you do, doesn't make the above not true. At no point did I say that no one has ever played gigs that are different lengths. 🤣 And I am the one accused of being black and white? 🙄 I really do not have time to put "in my experience", "the average", "is approximately" and "this is obviously not always the case", on very post I write. It's really down to the reader to use some common sense. Even @Dad3353 seems to be unable to recognise that having more than one singer will obviously enable you to extend set lengths and most bands have one singer. Whether you should is another matter. Agree a set length with whoever is going to pay you and then agree a price. Adjust set length and price accordingly until you come to an agreement. Time is money... I'm not playing 3 hours for £80. Sorry.

Indeed. Those things are happing all the time I just happen not to have witnessed any of them.

Quite the opposite. It seems that a large number of readers take things I post far too rigidly.

In 40 years of playing and watching bands I've never played in or seen a pub band play for 3 hours.

I think most of these posters are talking about pub gigs. 45-60 mins a set. 2 sets. If you're doing a function 3 hours is usual. 2x45 + 60. With 15min breaks. If you're playing well, you need a break or your singers voice will be shot.

The list of equipment for his insurance cover must be pages long. There must come a point when you realise that you're paying a lot of money for a bunch of stuff you don't need or really want.

So what he is actually saying is there are no bands getting number 1 hits. All the big hits are now being created by solo artists. How many of the solo artists write as solo artists and how many have massive teams of writers is another discussion. He's conviently forgotten the endless parade of solo 80s artists from Stock, Aitken and Waterman.

All you do is arrange for them to "turn up at the door" after the first person was due, depending where they're travelling from will depend how much later. Give enough leeway time so you can call them before they leave home. The problem is you don't know if either of them will actually show up. In the world of mobile phones it's not hard to let people know it's been sold and not to leave home.

Carrier bags are 50p now! Probably worth more than the apples.

Except The Bass of Doom...

That's your problem right there. The band needs to be rehearsed and tight before you go anywhere near the studio or everyone is wasting time and money. Multiple takes and 'dropping in' shouldn't be necessary. We recently recorded 3 songs - 3 takes each song and selected the best take of each one. I was done in 2 hours and went home (dropping yeh drummer off on the way), leaving the singer to do the final vocals, and guitarist to double track his guitar and do the backing vocals. Realistically, if they're doing an album, they should be doing one or two tracks a day, then come back a few weeks later and do the next couple and so on. It doesn't sound like you were the problem here.

AI is not intelligent. That's a misnomer. It literally just copies stuff. It's down to the human intelligence to then check it. AI cannot become intelligent until humans understand where intelligence and the conscious comes from and work out some way of recreating it.

It's not the laws, it's the lack of HMRC manpower to dig through accounts. Maybe with the introduction of AI a lot of these companies will come unstuck. Although maybe a lot of us will as well. My friend already had enquires from the bank when his daughter started paying housekeeping and put 'Rent' as the label on her electronic payment, it flagged as a regular payment somewhere. Careful how you distribute gig money.