TimR

Is there a FX blend or FX level control. Could that be set too low?

The venue should be controlling the volume. There's another thread from a couple of weeks back where people are complaining that venues are being forced to stop playing loud music due to compliants from neighbours, even though the music venues were there first. Just because you were there first, doesnt give you carte blanche to act as you please.

You would think that he or the stage manager would have the power to stop the show on health and safety grounds for the audience.

Yes. The threaded part fits, but the shaft was too big for the knob. The Artec has arrived. Just need to find 5 minutes ( 1/2 a day 🤣) to fit it. I may also buy a new bass just in case - although I'm invested in the "Gear Abstinence" thread at the moment, so really trying to avoid that.

Sounds to me that venue acoustics meant the guitarists couldn't hear themselves, so they all kept turning up. Instead, the band leader should be taking control and telling everyone to turn down. It's not a difficult concept to grasp. I saw a band on Saturday night. They complained about the sound. The guitarist and bass player had amps set on stun, the sound guy had to turn off everything in the PA except vocals. At one point he went up to the stage and told them all to turn down. Which they did, but 2 minutes later, turned back up before the sound guy had a chance to sort it all out properly. I didn't see their soundcheck, but you wonder how they'd got to that point.

Also turned up to a gig where there was a new manager who had 'lost' our contact details. He said they weren't doing our type of band anymore but we could play. The locals loved it and said they didn't like the new manager (who has since gone and the pub is now doing what its been well known for over the last 20+ years). Weird thing was, he said he could see the bands that were playing at the pub, on Lemonrock. Obviously not able to use Facebook or google.

I've played gigs where the manager who booked us hasn't even been there on the night. The locals have quite a large say in whether bands get rebooked, regardless of how many people you bring along. One of my locals was literally held ransom by the locals, it felt uncomfortable for visitors, they had a lot of influence on what beer was on tap, what music was played etc, but there weren't enough of them to keep the pub running. Quite short sighted of the landlord not to get on top of it.

I've seen reference to this several times now. What is a 'painted' neck? It sounds like something from Roger Mellie's Profanisaurus.

Guitarists.

Drummers.

Yes. Scoop? Set the gain as high as you can to eliminate noise. Watch for clipping, unless that's what you want. It also controls sensitivity so will affect your playing dynamics. Too low and it will be all or nothing, too high and every little unevenness will be exposed. Then use the Master to control the overall volume level.

Aren't they foam backed and so damp the strings automatically. Hence - take them off if you don't like the sound.

If you put the screws in the holes, unless you leave them proud, the holes will be made bigger, so when you come to replace covers, the screws will have nothing to screw into. 🤷‍♂️ Put them in a bag with the covers.

I'm very disappointed. 🤣 That was less than 2 hours! I've spent weeks/months on it! Go back and have another go! 🤣

Recievers will attempt to salvage a trading company before declaring compelte bankruptcy by running an insolvent company in administration. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Administration_(law)

Yes. Good luck. I've tried all the usual electronics sites. RV16AF-41 25R 3 B150K is as much of the Alpha Tiwan part number as I can work out. The minimum order is 2000. Finding one will be like finding hens teeth. Ibanez would have ordered them in bulk and don't stock them as spares now.

There's a ton of sheilding paint. The shaft is 25mm long, 8mm dia? and the knob is 6mm dia. 150kohm linear. I've looked everywhere and even thought about putting a short shaft one in and putting flying leads in, but there's not enough space. The one I ordered ended up being 6.5mm dia. It's 25 years old, and it's done its work. These things don't last forever. Cutting my losses for the sake of £30 and a half hour swapping over.

“But it was about the intent of making music as a band, without that digital safety net. It’s a wonderful thing to have limitations in your creative process, because you have to decide, in the moment: ‘Is it played well enough? Do we move on? Do they play it again, or do we cut those pieces together?’ I just think working in analogue is such a beautiful way to make art. It is a romance, because it’s a physical medium. The joy of tape editing is that you’re making something, in the truest sense of the word.”

Sounds like they called Flea and Navarro in and only gave them the vocal stems, and they did a one take hit and run. RHCP track live, and for a reason. They're not going to be spending all day finessing individual bars and timing. https://www.soundonsound.com/techniques/inside-track-red-hot-chili-peppers-black-summer

Piano is a full range solo instrument capable of being the only accompaniment required. My dad has been playing piano for 75 years. When he calls me for backup, he says, its great to have a good bass player who understands chord structure, I can't be doing that driving left hand stuff all night. 🤣

Yes. It's really 'noisy'. They're all 'youngsters' and clearly having fun. I'd say when you have big powerful PA behind you, you can afford not to smash your instruments hard and reign in the passion a little bit. It may be that the arrangements aren't that far off, its the loudness wars and exuberance that may be pushing the envelope. The drummer is also hitting lots of open cymbals. There's a balance between musicality and full out punk. Love the violin, but that also needs to be arranged around so everything else doesn't crowd it out. Make it a feature, everyone else doesnt need to be louder than the violin. Hopefully this is positive criticism. Its about having a mature outlook to what is the feature instrument, or vocal, at any point, and what are backing instruments.

He always sounds like that.

We play this. Can't say I'm ever particular about getting the tone 100%. We only have guitar, bass and drums. No one has ever said to me "Great song, but you need to be playing a jazz with the bridge pickup on full". Play hard. In fact, we get people up and singing along to this without fail.

OK. I've listened to that and in my opinion that song works really well arrangement-wise amd sounds really tight with nothing wrong. So I went in search of more examples and found a live one from a few months ago. Others can search if they're that bothered. 1. The keyboard player has a full size 7 octave stage piano! 😳 In the video I've watched they're really bashing out the same notes as the bass, with double octaves. I think they're used to playing alone and have a bit to learn about ensemble work. In that situation the keys needs to chill, absolutely no need for those notes, and playing like that will clutter up the sound space because they won't be exactly in time, and any 'groove' (playing ahead or behind the beat) from the bass player will be lost. Especially when the drums are joining in. I suspect the video you have posted was recorded with protools and has had all the notes quantized and aligned. So live it probably sounds quite a 'mess', and that's probably more the problem. So yes, get the bass and keys to meet up separately from the rest of the band and have a sensible chat about bottom end arrangements. Is that a 5-string bass there as well?