TimR

She was born the year it was released. And she is American.

I don't doubt she's not listened to it before. 

I am in desperate need of an office chair - see other thread...

I've re-read the rules several times and don't think it counts as a musical accessory. Its primary purpose will be an office chair... 👀

13 hours ago, steantval said:

Why do people like your drummer, singer and guitarist bother to be part of bands (very busy lives) there surely has to be a good degree of time commitment to make any band work, especially if you are gigging.

9 hours ago, Bluewine said:

 

I think when bands are auditioning amongst other questions, how much have you gigged in the last few years and tell us a little about your overall gigging experience.  Some of these guys want to be in bands but run when a 2 or 3 gig weekend comes up. My point, some guys don't understand how tough it is to commit to a gigging band 

 

Daryl

The band has been going for longer than when I joined 13 years ago. It's technicaly the drummer and guitarist's band. 

I've filled in with other bands and joined other bands as side projects to make up for a lack of interest in the past.

The singer has had babies in the last 2 years. 

Lives evolve.

I'm not sure I currently have time or energy for another band unless they're gig ready and don't insist on endless rehearsals for no reason. 

I'm down to 1 band from 3 last year. 

I'm not even sure if this band is functional. We played 3 gigs and it was like pulling teeth to get some rehearsals together beforehand. 

Drummer, Singer and Guitarist all leading very busy lives. My life is quite busy but I have Monday blocked out for rehearsals. "I can't do Monday this week, can we do Tuesday instead?"...

On 16/12/2025 at 04:03, Bluewine said:

I know a guy that I think would be good, but I don't really know him. I think he does a lot of depping. We can offer good gigs with good pay.

 

I'm afraid to reach out to him. I keep thinking, what if we bring him in and he turns out to be a " flake ". That would be on me.

Talk to him and talk to the band. 

Your current drummer is already appearing to become a flake. You're not going to lose anything. 

3 hours ago, Burns-bass said:

The band need to look like a band and not a bunch of middle aged blokes who happen to have picked some instruments and the venue where you film should be as undistracting as possible.

3 hours ago, SumOne said:

 

This'll be our biggest challenge! 

This is usually the sticking point for a lot of bands. 

The other is getting the middle aged blokes with instruments to believe in the end product. It's frustrating if the end product is slick, but is let down when the drummer has a scowl on and is thinking his time would be better spent drinking pints of Carling down at the Spoons. 

Personally I would do a dry run. Get a mate to come to an rehearsal room. Get the band to wear what they're planning to wear. Video a 'live' warts and all performance. Mistakes don't matter.

Then watch the resulting car crash back and work out how to improve it. At this point aforementioned drummer will realise how good even a rough video is and get his wife to iron his best shirt. 

There is nothing worse than looking like a bunch of misfits having paid a lot of money for the privilege. 

7 hours ago, Mrbigstuff said:

SBL are very clever in recognising that their target audience aren’t overly proficient - hence need the lessons. Scott and Ian are great at expressing their wonder of each other’s skills for example.
I haven’t watched the video mentioned but doubt the shock was genuine, unless it was due to the speed rather than method. 

I wouldn't have used the word shocked. I would have said surprised. 

A lot of the Artists they have on are not musicians. They play bass in bands.

7 hours ago, Phil Starr said:

I ran sound at free festivals in my 20's. Turnarounds averaged 15mins but were very band dependant. You never knew what you were getting but the pro's were always easiest to work with. Steve Winwood turrned up with Traffic refused to go on stage 1 because of the sound and wandered across to our stage listened to the band I was mixing and asked to come on. Are you kidding me! . A total gentleman, no fuss: "I'll play and you make it sound as good as you can" The easiest band I ever had to mix for. They knew what they were doing, the onstage sound was great and all I really had to do was make it loud out front. They even said "thanks" at the end. Sometimes it isn't the sound guy.

Mostly it isn't the sound guy based on the antics of primadonna (inexperienced) bands that I've seen. 

We played a local pub 'festival' for several years, the last one the local 'famous' band had been relegated to support. 

Speaking to the sound guy (line up organiser), he was less than complimentary about them, their lack of professionalism and level of expectation. He said he'd put us as headliners as we just "got on stage and played". 

It was quite painful listening to band after band "soundcheck" throughout the day. 

We should remember that the sound guy is often the person who will report back to the venue organiser and recommend whether a band comes back and plays a more popular night, or never returns. There are more bands than venues.

I've scrolled quite a few pages. Is the Lekato wifi what a lot of people are using to power their IEMs?  

27 minutes ago, tegs07 said:

For me it’s more of a cultural clash between being a blinged up, revenue driven persona and a more down to earth, less sell your soul kind of ethos.

One is from up north.

One is from across the pond. 

It's probably that simple. 

I'd contact them, as new batteries every 8 weeks seems wrong to me. 

11 minutes ago, Linus27 said:

I thought this was the norm and everyone does it this way but there was nothing impressive or amazing to me what Mohini did in this video. 

Yep. That's the norm.

I'm impressed that you can do it with just one listen through though, without ever hearing the song before. 

Generally I give the song several listens and then pick out the chords while playing along with my bass as reference. Not do it all by ear. 

• Battery drain in passive mode: Some East UK preamps draw power from the battery even in passive mode. This is a design feature to avoid loud thumps when switching between modes, but it means the battery will drain regardless of the selected mode. 
• Make sure the black battery lead terminal has only one wire connected.
• Always remove the jack plug from the instrument when not in use, as inserting the jack activates the battery connection.
• Use a new, high-quality battery for best performance.
• Check that the jack socket is not touching any wiring outside of the preamp circuit, as this can cause unnecessary power drain.

5 minutes ago, kiat said:

try to limit battery drain by removing the instrument cable at every opportunity. 

That's confusing. Do you sometimes leave the bass plugged in for days?

Unplug whenever you have finished playing.

Other than that, check your jack plug isn't shorting and if it's not factory fitted, that it's wired correctly in the first place. 

This was the first I saw of her. She can play! 

10 minutes ago, ezbass said:

Just a quick look at some of those (checked them with obligatory, opening ad paused, so no ‘watched’ registered) and that video has really backfired for her.

People will not have heard of her before. People will have subscribed to her.

There is no such thing as bad publicity. 

10 hours ago, SimonK said:

She does have a good point RE AI being a tool that we need to get used to (and work out the best way to use)

There is a separate thread about AI, probably loads of Rick Beato content.

But she is right, not because it's better, but because it's easy for people to use than spend a lifetime becoming an expert musician. 

It won't matter because pretty soon music tracks will all be 30 seconds long in the same way as songs reduced down to 3 minutes in the 60s. 

And when no one knows how to play instruments we will be worse off.

Demolition Man stops being another dystopian Sci-Fi film.

If it's the same as this you can have 14 and 26 channel mode and/or trigger the differenent built in chases via DMX. 

https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&opi=89978449&url=https://avs.2dimg.com/resources/1738244068_865.pdf&ved=2ahUKEwjI9s6tyrqRAxVTWkEAHdsTK544ChAWegQIUBAB&usg=AOvVaw2IPYtO95mlcMgVXo0YnZT0

3 hours ago, Rosie C said:

they need 50+ DMX channels

Are the 50 channels fixed or can you set each individual lamp to an address.

You could perhaps have every 5th one the same address and then just have '4 fixtures' per bar that just repeat. 

14 hours ago, Beedster said:

I did a pickup gig years ago and the singer without warning shouted ‘bass solo’. So I just carried in playing the exact line I’d been playing albeit with just drums for company…..

 

 

 

…… and the audience loved it. Made me wonder whether us bassists really need s band 😆

Repetition, tension and release. That's all music is. 

Next time; increase and decrease the volume and get the drums to go with you, miss the riff and sit on the root for the same number of bars the riff is. Add a gliss. or an octave.  

They'll lap it up. 

He's obviously not a serious Bass Player, even SD has posted on this forum. Well, in two threads anyway. 🤣

Anyone knkw where I can get these cheaper than £20? One at £20 is fine but think 3 is starting to stretch my budget.

https://amzn.eu/d/5YMSWkE

4way IEC splitter. 

1 hour ago, Al Krow said:

I've always really liked these guys' lighting set up for a 3/4 piece band:

 

 

https://www.instagram.com/reel/DR7JilxjEMB/?utm_source=ig_web_copy_link&igsh=MzRlODBiNWFlZA==

The static wash they use at every gig looks good. 

I mentioned this in the DMX thread.

Although I have 4 par cans that are 4 chanel so I can run all 4 off two pages of faders by setting adresses to 1, 5, 9 and 13.

My mini spots are 5 chanel? Go Figure. To keep the desk simple I program 1, 9, 1, 9. Losing about 12 channels, but I don't have hundreds of fixtures and multiple universes. 

This is where software comes in handy. 

Useful to have a cheat sheet printed referencing each page, fixture and what chanels you're using. In case you want to alter lights on the fly instead of using programmed scenes. Essential when programming anyway.